You haven't heard anything if you haven't heard "Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush. Eccentric, different, melodic - the song plies its trade on its weirdness and simultaneous brilliance. And the music videos (there are several versions) can all testify to this. Having played it so many times now, I feel that now is the time to see what everything else on The Kick Inside, the album from which the song is taken from, is like by comparison. And yet, I find not just more of these idiosyncratic ditties, but also just how damn good they are. The album opens well with "More", and just as well with "The Kick Inside." There's plenty of goodies in between these two as well - "Kite", "Strange Phenomena", "James and the Cold Gun" and of course, "Wuthering Heights" are the best songs here, making up roughly half of the album, and "The Saxophone Song" and "Room for the Life" are pretty good too. Everything else is OK. Not stellar, but not really bad either - "The Man With the Child in His Eyes" is the weakest song for me, but that being said, its theatrical style and form isn't quite to my liking. In spite of the recurring eccentric style of the album there's enough musical diversity here that will hopefully stop you from becoming bored. I'll be back for more listening, that's for certain. A-
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