Great review Ori

I had a Kate Bush phase when I was younger. This reminded me her music shouldn’t be a phase but a regular part of my life. She’s back in rotation!

Me too. Fanboyed her for a bit. Still sort of do.

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Saxophone Song
Wuthering Heights
Symphony in Blue
Babooshka
Delius
Blow Away
All We Ever Look For
Violin
Army Dreamers
Breathing
Pull Out The Pin
Night of the Swallow
*Hounds of Love whole album*

Some of my favourite Kate songs.

Haven't heard much past HOL but did like Aerial.

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Kate Bush is adorable. So is this album.

Wot, no "The Man With the Child in His Eyes?" :yikes:

Since this was my pick, it's no surprise that I love it to death.

I just love the atmosphere of this record, as well as the inventiveness and variety of these songs. A lot of them just sound so... Kate Bushy. I have yet to find any other artist that really feels anything like "Blow Away", "All We Ever Look For", "Egypt" or "Delius".

There's no bad tracks here. It's just a tightly constructed, nearly perfect journey through exactly the kind of thing Kate does best. I know that this album isn't widely considered her best, but to me, it probably is - although, frankly, most of her early albums are very, very close on my personal ranking.

Kate Bush didn't really **** up until she made her 1993 album, The Red Shoes. Her 2011 album 50 Words for Snow is widely underrated because people didn't really expect her to do anything super vital again so late in her career, but in my eyes, it's a classic that belongs right next to The Hounds of Love and The Sensual World. Anyway, this was about Never for Ever, and that album is very, very , very good.

Favorite songs: "Egypt", "The Wedding List" and "Breathing".

10/10

I don't really like that one tbh. Not sure why.

Breathing is such an incredible song.


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Great album. Quality-wise comparable with Joni Mitchell's late 70's stuff, though her influences are perhaps a bit more eclectic on Never For Ever than, say, Hounds Of Love. This was also the first female singer-songwriter album to top the U.K. charts, so it's notable for that as well.

While most of the singles came from Side 2, my favorite stuff is on Side 1. 'Egypt' in particular is very well put together, going into an almost Camel-esque progressive rock exploration in it's middle section where the synths take center stage.

More of an 8 out of 10 for me, but even if I don't think every track is a winner its still very good.

A lot of these tracks are kind of Fleetwood Mac-y, kind of Joni Mitchell-y, kind of Joanna Newsom-y, all of which are artists I enjoy. But the smarmy 80s instrumentation kills a lot of the emotional depth of this record for me. And it's just connect the dots from this stuff to the uber-smarmy new age crap you hear in elevators. Please just go learn to play some of these actual instruments so it's not Far Side Virtual anymore. But of course, it's thirty-eight years too late for me to be saying that. Some tracks the songwriting comes through more, other tracks the smarminess comes through. Notably the final two tracks were my favorites and Egypt and Night Scented Stock were the smarmiest. Okay I've given enough of my time to this "review". 7/10