Kate Bush: The Dreaming

I had a tape of this in 1982 when it came out. I can't remember where I got it from or who I taped it off. It got me interested in Kate Bush again (having first fallen for The Kick Inside when I was 12). At the time I remember it sounded like an experimental, transitional album. It felt like it pointed the way to even better albums to come. Though if they have come, then I haven't heard them (but then, I haven't heard any of Kate Bush's albums from the last 20 years — all three of them…)

I've got lots of favourites on this album; and hardly any songs I don't like. It's just the voices and sound effects, which seem to express a lack of confidence in the music to hold attention on its own, that get on my nerves occasionally.

Here's a clip of Kate Bush being interviewed about The Dreaming by Mark Ellen and David Hepworth in classic good-cop/good-cop style.

The tape went astray a decade or two ago. I bought the CD for £4.99 from Impulse on Liverpool Street Station, late in 2003.

MusicBrainz entry for this album

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[mym]

"I haven't heard any of Kate Bush's albums from the last 20 years"

I'm not saying that if you listen to one of them you've heard all of them. but if you listen to all of them you'll only have heard one...