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Aerial
Review by Steve Alspach
I'm in year 19 of a 3-year sabbatical from graduate school, so I can't blame Kate Bush for wanting to take a year off and and missing the deadline, so to speak. Kate was feeling a bit burned out after "The Red Shoes" and the accompanying video "The Line, the Cross, and the Curve."
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Hounds of Love
Review by Steve Alspach
Kate Bush found her true ground in 1982's "The Dreaming" which was her first self-produced effort. As inventive and creative as that album was, "Hounds of Love" takes that creativity a giant step further.
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Lionheart
Review by Gary Hill
Kate Bush’s second release, this showed hints of some of the powerful music that would show up in her catalog down the road. It’s a strong disc, but not every track is great.
 

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Never for Ever (vinyl)
Review by Gary Hill
The third studio album from Kate Bush, I tend to feel this was the one where her sound started to move into more dramatic and cinematic territory.

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The Dreaming
Review by Steve Alspach
There were signs of Kate Bush's musical maturity in 1980's "Never For Ever" but not too many people may have been expecting the curveball she threw with 1982's "The Dreaming." Often referred to as the "She's gone mad" album, "The Dreaming" is far removed from "The Kick Inside," the 1978 album that introduced the helium-tinged starry-eyed waif to the world.
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The Kick Inside (vinyl)
Review by Gary Hill
This 1978 release was the debut album from Kate Bush. It established her as an art-rocker and really fits well with the rest of her catalog.

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The Red Shoes
Review by Gary Hill
I remember that when I first tried to listen to this album years ago, I gave up on it fairly quickly. ll.

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The Sensual World (vinyl)
Review by Gary Hill
I had heard Kate Bush before the Hounds of Love album, but it was that disc that made me a fan. I still consider that set to be a masterpiece and her best release.

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The Whole Story
Review by Gary Hill
As is generally the case with compilation discs, this is sort of a mixed bag of tricks.
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DVD Reviews
Kate Bush - A Life Of Surprises DVD
Review by Gary Hill
The problem with unauthorized documentaries is you never really get a lot of real material (be it interview or performance) with the artist.

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Kate Bush - The Hounds Run Up The Hill DVD
Review by Gary Hill
These unauthorized videos are always sort of a roll of the disc. Some of them are very good, while others are lacking.

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Related Articles
Various Artists - Citizens of Hope and Glory. The Story of Progressive Rock written by Stephen Lambe
Review by Scott Montgomery

This is an enjoyable read that saunters through the chronology and culture of progressive rock.


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Various Artists - Mountains Come Out of the Sky. The Illustrated History of Prog Rock – written by Will Romano
Review by Scott Montgomery
Overall, this is a very good and highly recommended overview of the genre and its history. 
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Various Artists - Rockin' the City of Angels written by Douglas Harr
Review by G. W. Hill
This book is something very special. A good tag-line for this would be "come for the pictures, stay for the stories."

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Peter Gabriel - So (vinyl)
Review by Gary Hill
While I prefer the previous Peter Gabriel album to this one, there is plenty to like here.

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