KATE BUSH "The Kick Inside" 1978 UK EMI 1st PRESS MINT

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  KATE BUSH "The Kick Inside" 1978 UK EMI 1st PRESS MINT STUNNING UNPLAYED COPY, BEAUTIFUL GLOSSY G&L SLEEVE
KATE BUSH
The Kick Inside


ORIGINAL UK EMI RECORDS (EMC 3223) FIRST PRESSING (February 1978) OF KATE BUSH'S BREATHTAKING DEBUT "The Kick Inside" - IN BEAUTIFUL, POSSIBLY COMPLETELY UNPLAYED CONDITION AND DELIVERING THE FINEST AUDIO REPRODUCTION I HAVE EVER HEARD FOR THIS LP (so often found with excessive clicking and/or surface noise)

PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE EMI LABELS
MATRIX: YAX 5389-3 (etched ‘REMEMBER YOURSELF’) / YAX 5390-3
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL DEEPLY LAMINATED AND BEAUTIFULLY GLOSSY SINGLE SLEEVE WITH PRINTED LYRICS, MADE BY “Garrod & Lofthouse” (DATE CODED ON THE BACK '7802' - 1978, FEBRUARY)

A BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL UK FIRST PRESSING OF KATE BUSH'S FANTASTIC DEBUT IN STUNNING, UNPLAYED CONDITION BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY DELIVERING PRISTINE AUDIO (WITH CLOSE TO CD LIKE SILENCE BETWEEN THE TRACKS) WHICH IS PRACTICALLY UNHEARD OF

Kate Bush's first album, The Kick Inside, released when the singer/songwriter was only 19 years old (but featuring some songs written at 15 and recorded at 16), is her most unabashedly romantic, the sound of an impressionable and highly precocious teenager spreading her wings for the first time. The centrepiece is "Wuthering Heights," which was a hit everywhere except the United States (and propelled the Emily Brontë novel back onto the best-seller lists in England), but there is a lot else here to enjoy: The disturbing "Man with the Child in His Eyes," the catchy rocker "James and the Cold Gun," and "Feel It," an early manifestation of Bush's explorations of sexual experience in song, which would culminate with "Hounds of Love." As those familiar with the latter well know, she would do better work in the future, but this is still a mightily impressive debut.

Track Listing:
Side 1: Moving / The Saxophone Song / Strange Phenomena / Kite / The Man With The Child In His Eyes / Wuthering Heights
Side 2: James And The Cold Gun / Feel It / Oh To Be In Love / L’Amour Looks Something Like You / Them Heavy People / Room For The Life / The Kick Inside

LABELS: CLEAN and BRIGHT with NO wear, NO marks or writing and NO evident spindle traces - in my opinion this copy has never been played
VINYL Visual: The surfaces have their original DEEP, LIKE NEW, GLOSSY SHEEN and are practically UNMARKED (there are a couple of superficial and very light hairlines only but these have absolutely NO audio consequence)
VINYL Audio: CRYSTAL CLEAR, BEAUTIFUL DEEP, RICH SOUND. Played at a loud volume it sounds SENSATIONAL. There are NO scratches, skips or jumps, NO clicks or pops and NO surface noise. Very, very clean pressing, easily the finest one I have heard playing to the highest possible standard with GREAT AUDIO CLARITY, NO groove-wear and NO distortion. Graded MINT for audio. OUTSTANDING COPY AND SURPRISINGLY RARE TO FIND LIKE THIS
SLEEVE: The original laminated and DEEPLY GLOSSY sleeve is CLEAN, SHARP and FRESH with NO edge or spine wear to speak of. Just a small 'bump' to the top corner is the only thing reducing the grading from MINT to MINT(-)

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FANTASTIC COPY OF KATE BUSH'S BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE DEBUT IN STUNNING CONDITION - POSSIBLY NEVER BEEN PLAYED - VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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