KATE BUSH Hounds Of Love 1985 UK EMI 1st PRESS w/MERCHANDISING SHEET MINT
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KATE BUSH Hounds Of Love 1985 UK EMI 1st PRESS w/MERCHANDISING SHEET MINT
KATE BUSHHounds Of Love
UK EMI (KAB 1) FIRST PRESSING (September 1985)
STUNNING COPY - ONCE PLAYED AND DELIVERING EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN SOUND
COMPLETE WITH THE ELUSIVE 1985 MERCHANDISING SHEET
PRESSED WITH CUSTOM WHITE EMI LABELS
MATRICES: EJ 2403841 A-1-1-1-X1 TOWNHOUSE / EJ 2403841 B-6U-1-4-XI TOWNHOUSE
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL MATT SLEEVE WITH GLOSSY INLAYED FRONT PHOTO
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL LYRIC INNER SLEEVE
PLUS MERCHANDISING SHEET "THE KATE BUSH 1985 EXCLUSIVE MERCHANDISE EDITION"
Kate Bush's strongest album to date also marked her breakthrough into the American charts, and yielded a set of dazzling videos as well as an enviable body of hits, spearheaded by "Running Up That Hill," her biggest single since "Wuthering Heights."
Strangely enough, Hounds of Love was no less complicated in its structure, imagery, and extra-musical references (even lifting a line of dialogue from Jacques Tourneur's Curse of the Demon for the intro of the title song) than The Dreaming, which had been roundly criticised for being too ambitious and complex.
But Hounds of Love was more carefully crafted as a pop record, and it abounded in memorable melodies and arrangements, the latter reflecting idioms ranging from orchestrated progressive pop to high-wattage traditional folk; and at the centre of it all was Bush in the best album-length vocal performance of her career, extending her range and also drawing expressiveness from deep inside of herself, so much so that one almost feels as though he's eavesdropping at moments during "Running Up That Hill."
Hounds of Love is actually a two-part album (the two sides of the original LP release being the now-lost natural dividing line), consisting of the suites "Hounds of Love" and "The Ninth Wave."
The former is steeped in lyrical and sonic sensuality that tends to wash over the listener, while the latter is about the experiences of birth and rebirth.
If this sounds like heady stuff, it could be, but Bush never lets the material get too far from its pop trappings and purpose.
In some respects, this was also Bush's first fully realised album, done completely on her own terms, made entirely at her own 48-track home studio, to her schedule and preferences, and delivered whole to EMI as a finished work; that history is important, helping to explain the sheer presence of the album's most striking element -- the spirit of experimentation at every turn, in the little details of the sound.
That vastly divergent grasp, from the minutiae of each song to the broad sweeping arc of the two suites, all heavily ornamented with layered instrumentation, makes this record wonderfully overpowering as a piece of pop music.
Side A: Hounds Of Love
Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
Hounds Of Love
The Big Sky
Mother Stands For Comfort
Cloudbusting
Side B: The Ninth Wave
And Dream Of Sleep
Under Ice
Waking The Witch
Watching You Without Me
Jig Of Life
Hello Earth
The Morning Fog
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, fresh labels with just one light spindle trace per side
VINYL Visual: MINT
Both surfaces are immaculate
VINYL Audio: MINT
Always a difficult record to find playing well this copy is stunning with exceptionally clean sound and my play-check at volume found absolutely nothing to fault - the first copy I have ever graded a full MINT for its sound performance
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Crisp and fresh - just a few tiny light marks to the white - no wear to the edges, corners or spine
INNER SLEEVE: MINT
Like-new - no seam splits, marks or wear
MERCHANDISING SHEET: MINT
Again, as-new - printed on both sides of thin glossy paper
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW INNER SLEEVE WITH ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: FREE (2nd Class Recorded Delivery)
UK: £9.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £14.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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