2007-04-17

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

If you need a thoroughly convincing evidence of Kate Bush's truly unique artistic genius - you couldn't do better than start here. It's been almost ten years since I first heard "Wuthering Heights" and became instantly fascinated by that voice. Until then I was absolutely ignorant of who Kate Bush was and why she's considered a "goddess" by so many devoted fans.
The album (recorded when Kate was only 19 years old) immediately starts off with a masterpiece - a beautiful "Moving" which is a classic pop song, except it sounds like nothing pop music has produced before and ever since. How did this girl come up with these peculiar slightly oriental yet endlessly fascinating melodic moves and idiosyncratic visionary lyrics? As any other Kate Bush's record "The Kick Inside" keeps that balance between unprecedented pop brilliance and revelation.
It's an instant classic which sounds as fresh today as it sounded 30 years ago.

WoW 2006-06-03

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

This album, released way back in 1978, is one of the best debuts ever. In my opinion, Kate only topped this album with The Dreaming and Hounds Of Love. This album includes some of her earliest compositions, some she wrote when still in her early teens. The Man With The Child In His Eyes is one of the most beautiful songs ever; Moving and the title track are way up with the best of the best as well, as far as I am concerned. It even includes some love songs (Oh To Be In Love, L'Amour Looks Something Like You), which are gorgeous. Her lyrical subjects matters are sometimes unexpected and of shock-value to some, but I think hers are so well crafted.... also, the instruments used on this album are unusual in some cases, but to great effect. I don't like every song on this album (Kite and Feel It don't do it for me), but the inclusion of the best pop song EVER makes up for that: Wuthering Heights. I have never heard anything better since. As for her voice: you either like it or you don't. And I love it.....

Mr. Kevin S. Corby 2006-05-30

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

As time passes by inexorably and relentlessly, and I think of the many thousand of songs I've heard, changed in style and sophistication, I come back time and again to The Kick Inside. This album doesn't just stand the test of time - it makes time stand still. At once haunting (The Man With the Child in His Eyes) and feel-good (James and the Cold Gun)there quite simply is not a bad track on the album: in fact, every track is just so effortlessly exceptional. This album defines the term 'classic' - a 'must have' in your collection!

Frederick Baptist 2005-12-09

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

This is a very expensive version of a disc that you can get remastered for a better sound at a much cheaper price unless you really must have the mini-lp sleeve packaging. Admittedly, the album cover is a great work of art though but if you already have the unremastered version of this disc, you are better off getting the cheaper remastered version that's out there. Overall though, this is a good debut for the quirky but very talented female version of Bob Dylan; a modern-day poet disguised as a pop singer. Recommended.