The Kick Inside

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Album Information
  • Artist: Kate Bush (See All Albums by Kate Bush)
  • Date Released: Aug 7, 2006

  • Genre: Rock/Pop, Style: Rock

  • Label: EMI

Total Tracks: 13   Total Length: 44:01

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They Say All Music Guide

Kate Bush’s first album, The Kick Inside, released when the singer/songwriter was only 19 years old (but featuring some songs written at 15 and recorded at 16), is her most unabashedly romantic, the sound of an impressionable and highly precocious teenager spreading her wings for the first time. The centerpiece is “Wuthering Heights,” which was a hit everywhere except the United States (and propelled the Emily Brontë novel back onto the best-seller lists in England), but there is a lot else here to enjoy: The disturbing “Man with the Child in His Eyes,” the catchy rocker “James and the Cold Gun,” and “Feel It,” an early manifestation of Bush’s explorations of sexual experience in song, which would culminate with “Hounds of Love.” As those familiar with the latter well know, she would do better work in the future, but this is still a mightily impressive debut. – Bruce Eder

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  • 05.08.12 Limited number of Lake Tahoe/Among Angels picture discs available on http://t.co/jczCBB1u from tomorrow: http://t.co/eTV7s4pJ #KateBush
  • 05.06.12 Dear @bo_bruce - Saw your performance last night. You were wonderful. Good luck for tonight. With love, Kate Bush x : http://t.co/cUWtHyud
  • 05.02.12 Kate has posted a note about winning the South Bank Sky Arts Award on the Fish People website here: http://t.co/c6EcWKIc - many thanks!
  • 05.01.12 Kate was awarded the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Pop today! More info available here: http://t.co/c6EcWKIc #KateBush
  • 03.16.12 In support of this year's @recordstoreday, Kate will be releasing a vinyl picture disc - full story here: http://t.co/gOzGBigK #KateBush
  • 02.20.12 Thanks to the @ShortList for including The Kick Inside in their list of "The 50 Coolest Albums ever". #KateBush
  • 01.24.12 A short film has been created to accompany the track Lake Tahoe. “Eider Falls at Lake Tahoe” can be viewed here now: http://t.co/jczCBB1u
  • 01.24.12 The 3rd visual piece to accompany "50 Words For Snow" will be announced on http://t.co/jczCBB1u shortly. Stay tuned for further updates.
  • 01.17.12 Kate has been nominated for a 2012 BRIT Award - more information is available here: http://t.co/vSBCmicN #KateBush
  • 12.16.11 50 Words For Snow will feature on @bbcreviewshow, as well as @jowhiley Music Show on @SkyArts tonight. Full Story here: http://t.co/lsFyUm2p
  • 12.07.11 Listen to yesterday's @jamiecullum interview with Kate on @BBCRadio2 for the next 7 days here: http://t.co/AwKqYbnN #50Words #KateBush
  • 11.25.11 If you missed Thurday's interview with Kate you can listen again @BBC6Music here: http://t.co/woScgSMO - big thanks @laurenlaverne #50Words