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Old 03-01-2012, 11:43
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She has a wild and varied career with the great and the good so what would be your favourite.

Hounds of Love- perfectly encapsulates her talent probably the best album by a British female ever.

The Kick Inside- Wildly romantic and surreal in equal measure

Aerial- The daylight to the night of HOL and more forward thinking than most pop albums in recent years

The Dreaming- Unabashedly crazy and delightful from beginning to end so out there and artistically brilliant its criminal it is not better known

The Sensual World- Just beautifully subtle and no less experimental (the fog in itself )

Never For Ever- Good move in the right direction just not alot there i wish it were more blow away and less all we ever look for

Lionheart- A little More time and it could have been more than a poor follow up that was good not great in places

50 Words For Snow- thre was a time when cKate need not spend 10 minutes on a song to make a point or impact the potency gets lost and the atmosphere dispelled like Aerial in time i may love it.

The Red Shoes- Her most uninspired work to date it has its moment but is not great.

and compilations:
Directors Cut (it is not a studio :P) good reworkings a bit unnecessary but in places improves on lesser moments in her career and like the electronic feel to it.

The whole Story- missed opportunity TBH

And your thoughts ?
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Old 03-01-2012, 12:05
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Aerial- Took me by surprise with its scope and sumptuousness. Also, that it rapidly became - and remains - the KB album I play most.

Hounds of Love- A very close second to Aerial, and for much the same reasons.

The Dreaming- After all these years, I still don't like all of this album, but the more I hear it the more I appreciate the creativity.

The Sensual World- Always underrated by critics, this one flowed beautifully, and carried some KB classics. Still much prefer the title track over the re-recording.

Director's Cut- Expecting not to like KB messing about, I was startled to find that in some cases, she has done the near impossible and improved some of my favourite tracks. More please.
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Old 03-01-2012, 12:36
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Aerial. Very high quality songwriting and production values makes for a superb album. The Coral Room is absolutely beautiful, and the title track with its dreamlike intro, birdsong, giggling and hypnotic rhythm conjures images of some midnight pagan dance deep in the woods. Well, it does to me
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Old 05-01-2012, 11:05
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Gotta Be

1) Hounds Of Love
2) Lionheart (very underrated in my opinion!)
3) Aerial
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Old 05-01-2012, 11:44
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Has to be HOL! Nothing comes close. I'm still on the fence with 50WFS.
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Old 05-01-2012, 11:54
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Never Forever by streets for me - nothing else comes close

Lionheart and The Kick Inside in 2nd and 3rd place
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Old 05-01-2012, 11:57
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Hounds of Love without question.
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Old 05-01-2012, 12:35
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The Dreaming without a doubt ~ Although The Kick Inside & Hounds of Love are both close.
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Old 05-01-2012, 14:07
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this is too difficult!

The Sensual World
The Dreaming
Aerial
Hounds Of Love

In that order, phew!
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Old 05-01-2012, 14:46
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I'm always amazed at the love for both never for ever and lionheart i prefer NFE but it still doesn't quite match her later works and Lionheart perhaps underrated for a reason
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Old 05-01-2012, 14:50
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The Whole Story. One of the best "hits" albums ever.
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Old 05-01-2012, 15:45
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For me
The Kick Inside
Hounds of Love
Never Forever

lastly would be the Dreaming

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Old 05-01-2012, 15:52
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1 - Hounds Of Love! Just timeless! The Ninth Wave alone....astonishing masterpiece...and her immense hits too...Running Up The Hill, The Big Sky, Cloudbusting....just revolutionary!

2 - The Dreaming, Just mad, crazy, eccentric and cool...an to be played LOUD! Amazing album.

3 - Aerial, Alongside Confessions On A Dance Floor and Demon Days, this album defined 2005! And one of the best of the decade.

4 - Never For Ever, Her first album that really reflected a true Kate, fantastic fantsy influences, quite macabre and very deep.

5 - The Sensual World, Has a fantasticly seductive flow, really rather deep and sentimental.

6 - The Kick Inside, One of the few debut albums that hit it off from the get go. It is quite dated but still has a spark about it.

Only just heard 50 Words and dont have Lionheart and Red Shoes.
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Old 05-01-2012, 15:59
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1 - Hounds Of Love! Just timeless! The Ninth Wave alone....astonishing masterpiece...and her immense hits too...Running Up The Hill, The Big Sky, Cloudbusting....just revolutionary!

2 - The Dreaming, Just mad, crazy, eccentric and cool...an to be played LOUD! Amazing album.

3 - Aerial, Alongside Confessions On A Dance Floor and Demon Days, this album defined 2005! And one of the best of the decade.

4 - Never For Ever, Her first album that really reflected a true Kate, fantastic fantsy influences, quite macabre and very deep.

5 - The Sensual World, Has a fantasticly seductive flow, really rather deep and sentimental.

6 - The Kick Inside, One of the few debut albums that hit it off from the get go. It is quite dated but still has a spark about it.

Only just heard 50 Words and dont have Lionheart and Red Shoes.
Great Choices although The Kick Inside will always be second for me just amazing.

Lion heart is very much The more musical theater counterpart to the kick inside not much different but still good.

The Red Shoes soft rock and okay in parts really not that good
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Old 05-01-2012, 16:19
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Only Bowie tops her genius.

An awesome collection of work but, for me, number one has to be The Kick Inside. From start to finish, it's charming, beguiling, ground-breaking, fearless, bold yet vulnerable, spine-tingling, jaw-dropping, original ... and a debut by a female artist that remains unrivalled. Sheer genius - and at that age ...
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Old 05-01-2012, 16:32
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Being a fan of 23, I wasn't around for a lot of her releases, so I obviously have no memories of the reception of the majority of her releases. All of her albums I listen to are on an equal footing,with no kind of bias or nostalgia. Bearing that in mind, my favourite would have to be The Kick Inside. I never feel the need to skip a track, it's that rare album that can be listened to in its entirety.

50 Words For Snow has really impressed me too, although I've only listened to it for a couple of months. Lionheart also, in my opinion, rarely gets the praise it deserves.
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Old 05-01-2012, 16:35
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Being a fan of 23, I wasn't around for a lot of her releases, so I obviously have no memories of the reception of the majority of her releases. All of her albums I listen to are on an equal footing,with no kind of bias or nostalgia. Bearing that in mind, my favourite would have to be The Kick Inside. I never feel the need to skip a track, it's that rare album that can be listened to in its entirety.

50 Words For Snow has really impressed me too, although I've only listened to it for a couple of months. Lionheart also, in my opinion, rarely gets the praise it deserves.
Also a fan of 20 it was a real gift discovering her.

The kick inside is only bettered by hounds of love even now it stands on its own there is nothing like it apart form Lionheart which is good but really all it is a poor musical theater esque follow up that just doesn't resonate
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Old 05-01-2012, 16:42
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Also a fan of 20 it was a real gift discovering her.

The kick inside is only bettered by hounds of love even now it stands on its own there is nothing like it apart form Lionheart which is good but really all it is a poor musical theater esque follow up that just doesn't resonate
I do love Hounds of Love but I find myself returning to The Kick Inside more than any of her albums. I'd not listened to Lionheart for ages after my earlier opinions of it were not favourable. Then I played on Grand Theft Auto Vice City and "Wow" is featured on the soundtrack. Pulled me back to Lionheart. Random but true.
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Old 05-01-2012, 16:47
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I do love Hounds of Love but I find myself returning to The Kick Inside more than any of her albums. I'd not listened to Lionheart for ages after my earlier opinions of it were not favourable. Then I played on Grand Theft Auto Vice City and "Wow" is featured on the soundtrack. Pulled me back to Lionheart. Random but true.
Haha i do listen to both HOL and kick in equal measure i just can't take to lionheart it doesn't quite have the punch and wackyness of kick
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Old 05-01-2012, 16:55
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Haha i do listen to both HOL and kick in equal measure i just can't take to lionheart it doesn't quite have the punch and wackyness of kick
I read in an interview or something that the majority of Lionheart was written and recorded at the same time as The Kick Inside so maybe that explains the disparity between the two in terms of quality.
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Old 05-01-2012, 16:58
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I think it was probably off cuts it was her only album recorded outside Britain (France) less than six months after so she was still in the Kick inside zone i mean two years later and she gave us NFE
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Old 05-01-2012, 17:13
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I know it's the obvious choice, but 'Hounds Of Love' for me, especially second side, the Ninth Wave. Closely followed by The Dreaming. I rate all her albums very highly, though I haven't had enough time to properly get into 50 Words For Snow yet.
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Old 05-01-2012, 17:44
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I'm always amazed at the love for both never for ever and lionheart i prefer NFE but it still doesn't quite match her later works
In my opinion Never Forever is her only consistently good album with strong songs from start to finish. There are albums with a couple of better songs but then these albums also have weaker ones
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Old 05-01-2012, 17:45
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Hounds of Love.
Aerial.
The Dreaming.

I love all of her albums, but they're my favourite three (in no particular order).
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Old 05-01-2012, 18:11
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In my opinion Never Forever is her only consistently good album with strong songs from start to finish. There are albums with a couple of better songs but then these albums also have weaker ones
for me i think it's one of her weakest it tails off for me in the middle and picks up again at the end it's very much a transitional record almost as though it was never fully realised.
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