![]() "Even the story of this recording session is quite entertaining - if you're interested, read up on the fiasco that was poor Ron Geesin's experience orchestrating for this album. Atom Heart on the other hand was like advanced listening for chamber-pop aficionados. "Again, an obvious choice would have been Dark Side, but that was my intro album to Floyd. I mean, who else would have been writing that sort of music in 1980? Certainly none of her UK post-punk contemporaries." Prev of 11 Next Prev of 11 Next "The undeniable etherealness of Blow Away, the angelic interlude that is Night Scented Stock. "But all praising the artist aside, this album made all the difference between me just growing up with only the neanderthal radio hits on Top of the Pops to inspire me - it made me realize that pop music could be magical enough to transport you into other worlds. Especially one who clearly knew their way around composition, instrument arrangement, harmonic arrangement, and not to mention was probably one of only 10 people at the time who knew how to program a Fairlight sampler (and I'm guessing the only woman among them). "It's a strange and undeniably self-indulgent album, but criticizing a 20-year-old for being self-indulgent is as silly as herding cats. "But for me Never for Ever is that album which, at the impressionable age of eight years old, got me turned onto the weirdness that is and was Kate Bush, at a time when she was merely twenty years old. I mean, who else would have been writing that sort of music in 1980? ![]() Yes, I realize it was her masterpiece and all. "Yeah I know, Hounds of Love, yadda yadda. ![]()
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