KATE BUSH Hounds of Love 1985 1st Press EMI ST-17171 in Shrink NM w/Inner +Promo

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KATE BUSH
THE HOUNDS OF LOVE
(+Promotional in-Store Display Flat)
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EMI AMERICA Records ST-17171
Original 1985 issue Stereo LP
FIRST USA PRESSING
In original factory Shrink wrap

VINYL is NEAR MINT
Full gloss Vinyl is exceptionally clean; appears rarely if ever played - with virtually blemish free grooves, viewed under hard bright light. Superb sound throughout.
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COVER is NEAR MINT
Still in the original factory Shrink wrap, keeping it super clean with no wear, creases, writing or soil. Sharp corners and straight edges all around. Seams and spine 100% intact with no wear or splits. Crisp, sharp, completely legible spine titles.

*Please excuse any 'grainy' look to pictures (...from low-light photos).

STRICT CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE GRADING
NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG

Included is a rare 1985 HOUNDS OF LOVE promotional In-Store Display Flat. Printed both sides (See LAST TWO Photos).

...also includes the original LYRICS / PHOTO Inner sleeve - in superb condition with no creases or splits. (See PHOTOS 4 & 5)
*Vinyl kept in an additional anti-static inner sleeve to protect both the Vinyl and the original inner.
...HOUNDS OF LOVE includes the hit song "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)" which was featured in the Netflix series Stranger Things.
Original 1985 US Jacksonville pressing Mastered by Capitol ℗ 1985 EMI America Records, a division of Capitol Records, Inc.
© 1985 Novecia Ltd.
© 1985 by Screen Gems-EMI Music, Inc. (BMI)
All Songs Published by Screen Gems - EMI Music Inc. BMI

Recorded in England
Many thanks to all at Abbey Road Studios
A big woof to Bonnie & Clyde


SUPERB SOUND on this super-clean Original 1985 1st PRESS
GREAT for any fan, follower or collector of KATE BUSH.

Vinyl inside anti-static lined inner sleeve
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Even though still in the original Shrink Wrap
Album kept in additional protective, poly outer-sleeve

Please see my other listings for more First Press KATE BUSH
and other Rare Vintage Collectible 1980's, NEW WAVE, PUNK, POST-PUNK and related LPs.

In 2020 Rolling Stone magazine listed HOUNDS OF LOVE at number 68 on their list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. .
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”.

HOUNDS abounds in memorable melodies and arrangements, interweaving musical elements from orchestrated progressive pop to high-wattage traditional folk; and at the center of it all is 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 they're eavesdropping at moments during "Running Up That Hill."

Hounds of Love is actually a two-part album (the two sides of the original Vinyl LP release being the natural dividing line), consisting of the suites "Hounds of Love" and "The Ninth Wave". Side One (HOUNDS… suite) is steeped in lyrical and sonic sensuality that tends to wash over and through the listener, while Side 2 (…WAVE suite) 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 out or at all overdone.

In some respects, this was also Bush's first fully realized 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 deeply ornamented with layered instrumentation, makes this record wonderfully powerful as a piece of brilliant pop music.

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From an utterly vast and deep record collection, from my life-long best friend
who was a DJ at the Radio Station I co-founded in the 1970's - and who worked for me at my California record store in the '70s and '80s. . Sadly he has now left this mortal coil, bequeathing me his deep Vinyl Mine.
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Many PROMOS, IMPORTS and 1st PRESSINGS are included
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