I,m born in the middle of the 70´s and music has always been a big thing in my family. My mother played The Beatles already when i mostly listened to children records but i liked most of the music and i got my very first record player when i was 9 years old. It was a old philips with the speaker in the lid and it worked best with 45 rpm records because the 33 rpm record were sticking out very much from the platter.
I got Baccaras "Yes sir i can boggie" and Kate Bush "Wuthering Heights" on vinyl singles and some more i cant remember. I played the Baccara and the Kate Bush singles to death because i liked them so much. Some years later i boght Michael Jackson singles; "Beat It", "Thriller" and "Billie Jean". I played these alot.
Then in 1985 i boght a proper stereo that played 33 RPM records perfectly. In the sumemr i heard a catchy tune and it had the title "Running up that hill (a deal with god)". I had no idea on who the woman artist was but i enjoyed the song very much. A little later i heard another song with the same artist and it was called "The Big Sky" and this time i found out it was Kate Bush who sang. Very short later i saw a video on MTV with Kate Bush and that song was called "Cloudbusting" and it feastured Kate bush and Donald Sutherland. I found out that all three songs belonged to an album called "Hounds of Love" and i soon bought the album.
The first side of the vinyl album contained the three songs i mentioned and two more and it enjoyed it very much. The second side was abit odd but i liked most of it. I think the best song was "Hello Earth". I sensed that the second side had a ongoing story through the songs but never thougt much about it.
I remember the first single i had with Kate bush and i liekd it and i started to look for more records with Kate. I bought "The kIck inside" which was her first album and i saw that "Wuthering Heights" was included there so it was great. I also bought the album that came before the new one and it had the title "The dreaming".
So i started to lsten to the two albums and boy, how different they were. The first album had really great tunes and it was mostly ballsds on it. Two of the tracks had whale song in the start and the end of the songs and it sounded quite haunting. The second album that i bought was so strange i turned it off after some songs. I just couldnt take the strangeness that was there. But i did save it in my growing vinyl collection.
Later on in the 90´s when i moved from my parents home i started to sell my Vinyl collection because CD was the thing to use even if i still had the record player and i found the three Kate Bush albums and started to listen to them. This time i could accept the "The dreaming" album even if it was very odd so i decied to keeep it. I also listened more focused on the second side of "Hounds of love" and i realized there was a very moving and haunting story that she told the listener so i saved that album too.
I loaned some other Kate Bush records from the local library and some of them were so good that i bought some of the albums from a record store. When i got Internet connection i found some Kate bUsh fan forums and i become a member there and read what other thought about the albums and found the proper lyrics to some of the songs of side 2 of "Hounds of love". Its not easy to hear them all.
I still have the vinyl albums with Kate Bush but they are pretty worn out so i use Spotify instead when i listen to them.
So, what do you other users think of Kate Bush and her albums? Have you some cool memories to them?
