KATE BUSH Never For Ever SEALED CD Remastered

Description: KATE BUSH Never For Ever hails from 2018 and is a SEALED CD (marked UPC). 1980’s Never for Ever proved just how much Kate Bush had captured the zeitgeist in her native United Kingdom. Yielding three top 20 single hits, the album became the first ever original studio album by a female solo artist to reach No. 1 on the albums chart, and the first by any female artist to enter the chart at that coveted spot. Though far from a “confessional” album, its songs and production by Bush and Jon Kelly felt more personal than her first two LPs. It was also the first Bush album to employ synthesizers and drum machines, lending the album a dreamy quality. Bush’s mastery of her malleable voice grew, as did her confidence in unusual melodic forms and arrangements. “Babooshka” went to the top five of the U.K. Singles Chart, its bouncy melody and catchy chorus offset by the story of a paranoid wife testing her husband’s loyalty. “Blow Away,” with its Nyro-esque piano chords, namechecked many of rock’s fallen including Sandy Denny, Sid Vicious, Minnie Riperton, and Buddy Holly in its musical dreamscape – a tribute to Bush’s late lighting director, Bill Duffield. Some of Minnie Riperton’s beguiling sweetness is evoked by the track, too. More cinema references found their way onto Never for Ever. “Delius (Song of Summer)” was reportedly inspired by Ken Russell’s 1968 film Song of Summer about the titular composer; the melodically and vocally shifting “The Wedding List” (one of the tracks to effectively incorporate orchestration) took its dark, violent cues from Truffaut. The horror film The Innocents gave Bush fodder to write “The Infant Kiss,” about a nanny experiencing adult feelings for the infant in her care – who just happens to be possessed by the spirit of a grown man. Clearly, Bush was ready to push the limits with her theatrical and often surreal songwriting as on the slightly naughty ode to “Egypt.” “My Pussy Queen knows all my secrets,” she insinuatingly cooed. A vaguely Eastern sensibility was present on “All We Ever Look For” while Bush rocked out on “Violin.” The pensive waltz “Army Dreamers” with its unflinching portrait of a mother’s child gone to war not destined to return, was perhaps the most unlikely hit off this album (No. 16). Bush returned to the subject of birth on the hypnotic “Breathing,” albeit in a post-apocalyptic world. Despite – or perhaps because of – its piercing lyrical details and striking imagery, it notched her another hit at the same No. 16 position. Bush acknowledged a debt to her old friend Gilmour and Pink Floyd’s The Wall on the track. 1. Babooshka 2. Delius 3. Blow Away 4. All We Ever Look For 5. Egypt 6. The Wedding List 7. Violin 8. The Infant Kiss 9. Night Scented Stock 10. Army Dreamers 11. Breathin

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