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The Kick Inside (Music)
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The Kick Inside, released in 1978 through EMI in the UK and Harvest Records in the US, is the debut studio album by English art pop musician Kate Bush. Having been recruited by EMI at the behest of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, who discovered and took a liking to one of her demo recordings, the album marks the culmination of both a three-year-long effort to bring the child prodigy's work to store shelves and a childhood passion for music and songwriting that started when Bush was just eleven. During the leadup to the album's production and release, Bush took a liking to interpretive dance and its ability to convey stories in ways that music alone was unable to, using her experiences with her dance teacher Lindsey Kemp as a source of inspiration in addition to literary and film influences that had already permeated her amateur songwriting for years. Combined with the Baroque Pop sound that she had crafted in both her early work and on this record, The Kick Inside brought forth a unique take on Progressive Rock that would quickly turn Bush into a leading figure in the art pop scene, with her only further innovating on it with her following albums.While Executive Meddling did succeed in getting Bush to use experienced session musicians for the album in place of the KT Bush Band that she had been performing with for around a year, Bush did manage to have her way with the album's debut single, spurning EMI's choice of "James and the Cold Gun" in favor of "Wuthering Heights". The decision paid off tremendously: released only a month in advance of the album as its lead single, it ended up becoming the very first self-penned song by a female artist to top the UK Singles chart, remaining there for four consecutive weeks and being certified platinum in New Zealand and gold in the UK & Australia.Off the heels of the single's commercial success, the album topped the charts in the Netherlands and Portugal, and peaked at No. 3 on the UK Albums chart, going on to become the 9th best-selling album of 1978 in the United Kingdom. The album would later be certified platinum in the UK, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. Guinness World Records would later recognize this success as making Bush the first female artist in popular music history to write every song on a million-selling debut album. In the US and Canada, meanwhile, the album hugely underperformed despite "The Man in the Child in His Eyes" reaching No. 85 on the Billboard Hot 100, missing the Billboard 200 and Canadian Albums Chart entirely, failing to meet any certifications in the US, and giving EMI cold feet on releasing Bush's next two albums Stateside. While EMI America did release Lionheart stateside, they only repressed it more widely and issued Never for Ever stateside after The Dreaming established a toehold in the country. Despite her lack of stateside success, her videos for "The Man with the Child in His Eyes" and "Wuthering Heights" were among the first to be aired on MTV when the channel launched in 1981. The channel's airing of her videos would help establish a cult following stateside through the decade.The Kick Inside was supported by five singles: "Wuthering Heights", "Moving", "Them Heavy People", "The Man with the Child in His Eyes", and "Strange Phenomena".Tracklist:Side One "Moving" (3:01) "The Saxophone Song" (3:51) "Strange Phenomena" (2:57) "Kite" (2:56) "The Man with the Child in His Eyes" (2:39) "Wuthering Heights" (4:28)Side Two "James and the Cold Gun" (3:34) "Feel It" (3:02) "Oh to Be in Love" (3:18) "L'Amour Looks Something Like You" (2:27) "Them Heavy People" (3:04) "Room for the Life" (4:03) "The Kick Inside" (3:30)They're only lonely for the life that they troped with their old friend: | |
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