The Dreaming by Kate Bush

Pros: Very creative set of songs based on complex themes.
Cons: Kate Bush's music is an acquired taste for many people.

Credit my sister, Becky, for introducing me to the wonderful, weird world of Kate Bush. Back in 1982, I was 10 years old and Becky had just bought a vinyl copy of The Dreaming which was, at that time, Kate Bush's latest album. Being a ...

Pros: Everything. Music, lyrics, production, everything, everything, everything.
Cons: Some people don't like this! Huh? What? I seriously don't understand them.

(Disclaimer: Those looking for a brief description of the album will find what their looking for in the "Album Overview" section. The section titled "Detailed Track Discussion" is meant only for those who want to read detailed descriptions of ...

Pros: Nothing touches this. Bizarre, dark, literate, and sexy. The pinnacle of a phenomenal career.
Cons: There really aren't any. The title track is slightly below par, but that's it.

Do you like Tori Amos? Familiar with her music? No? Well, let me describe her to you. She's a reasonably pretty red-headed singer, who humps the piano bench while dexterously playing the keys. She's both bitter and witty, and much of her early ...

Pros: Daring, dark and dreamy, great memorable tunes.
Cons: Not one of Kate's most accesible albums, requires a curious, open mind.

When you buy a Kate Bush album, the only thing you can be sure of is that you're in for some sort of a treat. Whether the flavours are bitter or sweet, whether your ears will be massaged with soothing sounds or charmed by hectic vocal acrobatics...

Pros: Creative, complex, intelligent. Densely packed and full of interesting and novel ideas.
Cons: Requires very intense listening. Some of the vocals can be a tad grating.

Whoa. After Kate Bush’s first three albums had demonstrated her unerringly idiosyncratic songwriting, very few listeners could have predicted the course she would have taken on her fourth record, “The Dreaming”. Previous releases had ...

Pros: Dense and exotic soundscapes, oblique and haunting lyrics, dark and forbidding themes...
Cons: May be too cryptic and uncompromising for some listeners.

The Dreaming lives up to its name. Although it could have just as easily been called Welcome to My Nightmare if Alice Cooper hadn’t used the title first. It is, without a doubt, Kate Bush’s most ambitious and...

Pros: beautiful, dreamy, dark
Cons: her most dense record.

This is Kate Bush's fourth record and it was the one where her artistic vision matured and she took full control of the recording process. Bush Abandoned her girlish falsetto-style of singing that she is still most famous and began singing in a more...

Pros: Richly textured songs never get old
Cons: Might be too wierd for some people.

I first heard Kate Bush in 1998. That was 16 years after she recorded The Dreaming and a full 6 years after she had released her latest album.

I say this only to make it clear that I am not some deranged Kate Bush fan who listened to her...

Pros: A major advance on her early albums. One wonderful masterpiece
Cons: Much too uneven to match "Hounds Of Love".

Kate Bush's early albums, dominated by her high-pitched, though at this stage thin, voice and her piano playing, were basically quaint pop that was commericially successful in Australia due to the #1 hit "Wuthering Heights" and the #2 "Babooshka."
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Pros: engaging, fascinating, eerie, kate's most experimental work
Cons: discordant, variable, inaccessible at times

This is an amazing album and chances are, if you are reading this, you already bought it. Commercially did well as Kate has a high profile in the early 80s, but confused many listeners. Has now become the fan's 'favourite' on forums. It seems to get ...

Pros: Great songs - Interesting and experimental arrangements- Ageless - A great album, indeed
Cons: This 1982 cdversion does no justice to the shimmeringly produced songs. Anticipating for the remasters!

This is easily one of the most interesting albums ever been released. Each song is a different story, while beauty and madness co-exist in an indescribable way.
The production and the sound mixing are perfect, whilst there are layers of music and sounds that you may only discover during your 99th listening of this album
Mystical and Dreamy, yet, at the same time, angry and down to earth, The dreaming is sure to keep the listener in a insatiable dream-state for approximately 43 music minutes