Kate Bush Box Set

Does anyone know if any pressings of This Womans Work (cd) come with the original UK cover art for The Kick Inside? Mine has the cover that looks like its a western album, wich I guess is the US version.

 

My UK copy has the "Kite" cover.

 

They all do.

But the best cover is the original Japan cover.

 

My box set has the cover with the close-up wearing red boots. Kind of annoying... If I were to look at this in a record store without knowing what it was, I'd think it was country music.

I think my copy is canadian.

 

The cover you have is the orignal US LP cover. (BTW, she's wearing red socks not boots in the photo). The orignal Canadian album cover was the "hands on head" pose.

BTW, the Japanese cover mentioned earlier, IIRC, is the pink tank-top/ bosum photo. I think the Canadian cover is actually more sensual.

 

Ugh... why does the US record companies fool around with album covers like that? They did it to the Bee Gees 2nd and 3rd albums too, and the first 2 Yes albums. I always like the UK ones better. Drives me bonkers.

 

I have the Japanese version of the box and it has the tank-top cover.

 

The Kite cover is the "correct" one for me. The others are all nice publicity shots of a very beautiful Kate, but they're not album-cover worthy for The Kick Inside in my opinion. They just look wrong.
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Steve

 

... but not as sensual as your Avatar.

 

Yep, that's the one I have. For full effect, see the booklet in the very limited edition box set package of "Never For Ever".

 

The Canadian cover sucks!You guys have great hockey players,bacon and hot women but this cover?Kate looks like a monster from Hammer Horror on it!That would have been a nice cover for the "Hammer Horror" Single!She has monster-like hands in this pose!The American one is not as good as the UK original BUT the pose is hot,so that excuses that!

 

Mmmmmm... Kate in red stockings...........

 

It's just too bad they put sooooooo much make-up on her face in that red socks shot.

 

For my $$, the original Japan cover is the best of the four different choices:

 

She is lovely in that one, but I'm kinda partial to the artsy kite-Kate version on the EMI.

 

To me the correct cover has always been the kite image even if thats not the first one that I owned (I had the head in hands vinyl...)

The pic on the Japanese release is a great shot no doubt about it but there's no way in my mind that htat's the cover to this album.

 

That was the cover on the original Aussie LP release. It's the one I've always known. I also have the Japanese CD as jsayers showed - that's the best digital sound.

 

I think the "Kite" cover represents the music better than the others. Not just because there is a song called "Kite" but because the cover is just as unique and adventurous than the music contained in it.

 

I bought the US Lp shortly after hearing the HOL album in 1985, and I think the US cover might have prejudiced me against the music. Where I found Hounds to be contemporary, cutting edge, and adventurous, my first impression of The Kick Inside was that it was hippie singer songwriter "granola" music! When I got "Kick" on cd, it was with the kite cover. Whether it was because I had had more exposure to her music by that time (her voice is much different on 'Kick' than on "Hounds"), or that the cover was more in line with my perception of Kate as a unique artist (the US cover,IMO, gives the impression that she should sound like your typical mid '70's female singer/songwriter), I suddenly found myself really liking the album--and still do.

 

I think Kate looks ever so slightly asian on that japanese cover...

 

Besides The Kick Inside, the Japanese version of This Woman's Work also has alternate cover art for Never for Ever, an expanded detail from the lower right corner of the original cover.

 

I'm ashamed to say it, but besides buying the Japanese cd boxed set when it came out, which I still have, I also had the vinyl box. I sold it long ago, but I kept the lp-sized booklet with all those beautiful pictures in all thier full 12" by 12" glory. Who knows how much that complete vinyl set would be worth now....

 

I couldn't find that alternate Never for Ever cover online, so I just cropped down an image of the standard cover. This is pretty much what it looks like. I think it's unique to this box set -- other Japanese LPs and CDs use the usual art -- and I'm not sure why it was done. Maybe someone thought having all those creatures stream out from under Kate's skirt was too indelicate. The altered art is, at least, in keeping with the Japanese title for the album: Ma monogatari, or "Demon Tale."

 

Ugh... why and how can anyone have the nerve to fool around with album covers of good music. What is the purpose?