This Woman's Work Anthology 1978 - 1990 [Box set] [Import]

Product Description
All six studio albums she cut for EMI and two CDs with 29 rarities from this time period, including mixes, B-sides & live tracks. 96 tracks total. Also contains a 28 page full color CD sized photo booklet. Each disc comes in a standard jewel case & each stores nicely in an individual slot within the sturdy 5 x 6 x 8in black cardboard box. Includes the CD albums 'The Kick Inside', 'Lionheart', 'Never For Ever', 'The Dreaming', 'Hounds Of Love' & 'The Sensual World' (released on Columbia in the U.S.). The rarities comps are titled 'This Woman's Work I & II'. 1990 EMI release.

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This Woman's Work Anthology 1978 - 1990 [Box set] [Import]

Average customer rating: LIKE BATHING IN CHOCOLATE? Everyone should be so lucky... Hot Damn!! Some truly amazing music. A treasure for KB fans.

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Tracks:

1. Empty Bullring
2. Ran Tan Waltz
3. Passing Through Air
4. December Will Be Magic Again
5. Warm and Soothing
6. Lord of the Reedy River
7. Ne T'En Fui Pas
8. Basier d'Enfant
9. Under the Ivy
10. Burning Bridge
11. My Lagan Love
12. Handsome Cabin Boy
13. Not This Time
14. Walk Straight Down the Middle
15. Be Kind to My Mistakes

Tracks:

1. Wuthering Heights
2. James and the Cold Gun
3. I'm Still Waiting
4. Ken
5. One Last Look Around the House Before We Go...
6. Wuthering Heights
7. Experiment IV
8. Them Heavy People - Kate Bush, John Kelly
9. Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbreak - Kate Bush, John Kelly
10. James and the Gold Gun - Kate Bush, John Kelly
11. Amour Looks Something Like You - Kate Bush, John Kelly
12. Running up That Hill
13. Cloudbursting [The Organon Mix]
14. Hounds of Love [Alternative]
15. Big Sky [Meteorological Mix]
16. Experiment IV [12" Mix]

Tracks:

1. Symphony in Blue
2. In Search of Peter Pan
3. Wow
4. Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbreak
5. Oh England My Lionheart
6. Fullhouse
7. In the Warm Room
8. Kashka from Baghdad
9. Coffee Homeground
10. Hammer Horror

Tracks:

1. Sat in Your Lap
2. There Goes a Tenner
3. Pull Out the Pin
4. Suspended in Gaffa
5. Leave It Open
6. Dreaming
7. Night of the Swallow
8. All the Love
9. Houdini
10. Get Out of My House

Tracks:

1. Wuthering Heights
2. James and the Cold Gun
3. Moving
4. Saxophone Song
5. Strange Phenomena
6. Kite
7. Man With the Child in His Eyes
8. Wuthering Heights
9. James and the Gold Gun
10. Feel It
11. Oh to Be in Love
12. Amour Looks Something Like You
13. Them Heavy People
14. Room for the Life
15. Kick Inside

Tracks:

1. Sensual World
2. Love and Anger
3. Fog
4. Reaching Out
5. Heads We're Dancing
6. Deeper Understanding
7. Between a Man and a Woman
8. Never Be Mine
9. Rocket's Tail
10. This Woman's Work
11. Walk Straight Down the Middle

Tracks:

1. Running up That Hill (A Deal With God)
2. Hounds of Love
3. Big Sky
4. Mother Stands for Comfort
5. Cloudbusting
6. And Dream of Sleep
7. Under Ice
8. Waking the Witch
9. Watching You Without Me
10. Jig of Life
11. Hello Earth
12. Morning Fog

Tracks:

1. Babooshka
2. Delius (Song of Summer)
3. Blow Away (For Bill)
4. All We Ever Look For
5. Egypt
6. Wedding List
7. Violin
8. Infant Kiss
9. Night Scented Stock
10. Army Dreamers
11. Breathing

Album Description

All six studio albums she cut for EMI and two CDs with 29 rarities from this time period, including mixes, B-sides & live tracks. 96 tracks total. Also contains a 28 page full color CD sized photo booklet. Each disc comes in a standard jewel case & each stores nicely in an individual slot within the sturdy 5 x 6 x 8in black cardboard box. Includes the CD albums 'The Kick Inside', 'Lionheart', 'Never For Ever', 'The Dreaming', 'Hounds Of Love' & 'The Sensual World' (released on Columbia in the U.S.). The rarities comps are titled 'This Woman's Work I & II'. 1990 EMI release.

Album Description

All six studio albums she cut for EMI and two CDs with 29 rarities from this time period, including mixes, B-sides & live tracks. 96 tracks total. Also contains a 28 page full color CD sized photo booklet. Each disc comes in a standard jewel case & each stores nicely in an individual slot within the sturdy 5 x 6 x 8in black cardboard box. Includes the CD albums 'The Kick Inside', 'Lionheart', 'Never For Ever', 'The Dreaming', 'Hounds Of Love' & 'The Sensual World' (released on Columbia in the U.S.). The rarities comps are titled 'This Woman's Work I & II'. 1990 EMI release.

Album Details

Gorgeous Eight CD Box Set. Contains her Complete EMI Recordings Including 12" Mixes and Other Rarities.

Customer Reviews:

LIKE BATHING IN CHOCOLATE?.......2006-10-06

Well, whatever clots your pudding. For those interested in the music beyond the personality and its fetishes, this is certainly exhaustive. The good thing is it's Kate and not Tori Amos. This is as fully realized and inclusive a collection you'd have from anybody. Somebody send Neil Young a copy.
The music herein is what earned Bush her reputation as one of the most sonically and theatrically adventurous songwriters working in England in the 80's. From the outset, she had to deal with her face being plastered all over buses in London, her career catapulted by David Gilmour, the attention paid to her body as body instead of her body of music, the attendant silliness of Wicca-types who see mysticism in their idol's burps and farts. It's a miracle she turned in the works that she did. Some of it, most notably "Wuthering Heights" and "Babboshka" are way overwrought, but that excess only underscores the absolute gems she has crafted as well. By the time she got to HOUNDS OF LOVE, she was hitting on all her creative burners and the results were phenomenal.
that said, it's getting 5 stars for the way it presents the course of her ascension. Each tune is something you'lle either like or hate. That there are so many interesting alternates and out-takes (usually a HUGE mistake for any artist taken too seriously by both the punters and themselves), that the live tracks near justify purchasing the whole set (well, at least from a bargain house as I have), enhances the value and appreciation you'll get for how this woman's work was assembled. She would switch record comapnies after this and generate what I believe is truly inspired music, but this is how and where it began, how it hit the point of liftoff. Next up after these recordings was THE SENSUAL WORLD, categorically the best disc of the 90's. In no uncertain terms, by the time these sessions were ending she was as influential on Gilmour, Peter Gabriel, David Sylvian, as they had been on her. She would quickly eclipse them. The sad part is that she also inspired a dreadful wake of imitators, all of whose CDs should be relegated to the role of cocktail coasters. But that's another story.
If you can afford this and have a passion for Kate, this will satisfy repeatedly. Now, on to the important stuff....

Everyone should be so lucky..........2006-03-14

I majorly lucked out when opening my Mother's Day gifts last year to find this gem. This is beautiful, moving, intelligent work by a woman of the same qualities. Masterful...

Hot Damn!!.......2006-01-05

This is all the Kate you need ...

A bit pricey, but damned well worth every penny! The two rarities discs are actually worth the skyward price alone! Have always been a fan of "Cloudbusting (The Organon Mix)" and here it is on "This Woman's Work I" in all its glory right next to an extended mix of "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)." Excellent!!

Do yourselves a favor ... RUN over to your nearest bank and take out a loan to get this collection! You will NOT be disappointed, I promise you this.

Cheers, Kate! You still got it, girl ......

Some truly amazing music........2005-05-24

"This Woman's Work" is a fantastic investment-- containing virtually all of Kate Bush's available recorded output up until 1990, it allows an artist of extraordinary importance and talent to be appreciated in a historical context.

Bush's growth over her first six studio albums is nothing short of stunning. I'll avoid writing full reviews of each album here (I've written them under each album), but take a moment to discuss each.

Her debut, "The Kick Inside", extremely strong and moving, while it shows a bit of insecurity in performance (her voice is somewhat immature and has a tendency, in its upper register, to get a bit harsh) and lyrics that would later be drastically improved upon, Bush is fully realized as an artist-- from her hit "Wuthering Heights", an intriguing and amazing swirling pop song to the albums powerful opener "Moving" to its standout track, the beautiful "The Man With the Child In His Eyes", its amazing that she was as young as she was (some of the material was recorded when she was 16 or 17). The followup, "Lionheart", shows clear signs of being rushed, and isn't the leap one would hope it to be above its predecessor. Still, Bush has grown in confidence as a lyricist exploring a number of different moods and thoughts, including a bold for 1978 song about closeted homosexuality (the stunning "Kashka from Baghdad").

Bush began her real growth as an artist with "Never For Ever", as she began fusing her old sound with a more confident delivery and better arrangements. The result is a far more varied and interesting album, from the tense chaos of "Babooshka" to the psychotic pulsings of "The Wedding List" to the delicate sensuality of "The Infant Kiss". This exposition in mood continued on "The Dreaming", an album of experimentation and mood, largely a dark effort, it is difficult to digest at first, but moments such as the horrific "Pull Out the Pin" and the delicate "Houdini" stand out.

Bush's masterpiece, "Hounds of Love" is next, a two sided album-- the first an exposition in mid-tempo pop, clever arrangements, and fantastic, self-assured vocals-- "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)", the title track, and "Cloudbusting" all stand out with their fantastic arrangement. The second side, a story of a woman drowning and experiencing her life suffers from occasional over-reliance on production techniques and samples, but shines on the pretty "And Dream of Sheep", the haunted "Under Ice" and the simply amazing "Jig of Life". Its followup, "The Sensual world", probably never could have lived up to its level, and suffers from sloppy sound, but it does have what may be Kate Bush's most beautiful piece, the truly breathtaking "This Woman's Work", and other standouts like "Rocket's Tail" and the funky "Heads we're Dancing" make this uneven effort worth a listen.

The bonus discs contain most of the rarities from Bush's back catalog-- b-sides (around a dozen of them), soundtrack pieces (several), two French sung songs, a couple a-sides and re-recordings, four live tracks from the "Onstage" EP, and a handful of remixes. The material is of mixed quality, some of it is pleasant enough but was wisely kept off the albums ("The Empty Bullring", "Under the Ivy", "Burning Bridge"), some of it stands up with Bush's best material (the quirky "Ran Tan Waltz", the lovely "Warm and Soothing", the a capella "My Lagan Love"). The live tracks are interesting to have, and I'm glad to have the remixes, although I really could care less about remixes as a rule. Unlike many folks, I actually prefer the original vocal on "Wuthering Heights", I think the youthful sound in her voice fits the piece better.

If there's a complaint to make, its that this needs a reissue with some remastering (the sound is good but could be better in light of modern remastering) and the material that was recorded after its release. But aside from that, this set is a fantastic value, its worth paying a bit extra for it-- I dug up an Australian copy which was quite a bit cheaper. But regardless of price, the material on here is essential.

A treasure for KB fans........2005-04-10

Of course, we have all of the commercial LP releases. We even have most of the singles. Rarely, is such a definitive package compiled on such an important artist. Here is a package that an Air Force technical school mate spent most of a paycheck on and let me borrow for some overnight taping. That was 1990.....I have finally got my own copy. There's no DRM, as such things were unknown in 1990, and the disks fully conform to RedBook standards. It'll be no trouble to make a car copy and tuck the originals away for safe keeping.

That's A Buy.

Gotta get the re-mastered Hounds of Love at some point....

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