There's not much more to be said about this Kate Bush mega-hit from 30 years ago apart from the fact that it was the one which, perhaps even more than Wuthering Heights, made her a star and which people will most probably remember the most.So let's let Kate do all the talking this time, thanks to this Australian TV interview from 1980, and anyway I could sit and listen to her all day and all night if necessary and never tire of her voice. The sort of girl you'd always wanted to marry if you'd been a bit posher, a bit richer and maybe even a musician. Oh well..perhaps next time.
Listen: Kate Bush - Babooshka
Babooshka chart stats
Kate Bush - Never Forever
Just a quick PS about the ensuing album Never Forever which opens with Babooshka and contains the previous and successive hit singles Breathing and Army Dreamers tucked away at the end. I mention the singles becuase they're all just so brilliant and, well for the usual reasons I didn't 'discover' the album until much later. It's a meister-werk of course and in my mind even better than the debut and the commerically successful Hounds of Love of a few years later. I love the relative simplicity of it although Kate is already dabbling in sampling, drum machines and various electronic effects. Quite rightly it went straight into the charts at number one and gained Kate so many 'firsts'. Amaaaazing! Surely due for a remastered deluxe edition?Listen: Kate Bush - All We Ever Look For
Never Forever chart stats
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