Kate Bush started it in my mind, she was signed when she was 13-14 and was treated as the label's 'baby' for a while... and she has many songs... 400 or something I think. Most of them are on house demo's obviously... which have been released to the public through some fan sites. She also chooses to do as little publicity as possible. Her music is said to be 'ahead of our time' and she has a very expressive 3 octave voice. Her first ALBUM came out in 1978... "The Kick Inside". Wuthering Heights from that album was her first real hit... obviously taken from the novel of the same name. This most recent album, Aerial, is her eigth release which the fans have been waiting for for a very long time... 10 years I believe. She has tackled sensitive and taboo subjects long before it has become fashionable to do so; "Kashka From Baghdad" is a song about a gay male couple; "Breathing" explores the results of nuclear fallout. Her lyrics are highly literate and reference a wide array of subject matter, often relatively obscure, such as Wilhelm Reich in "Cloudbusting", or G. I. Gurdjieff in "Them Heavy People". Bush has been noted as an influence and inspiration by artists as diverse as Kele Okereke, Placebo, Liv Kristine, Jewel, Tori Amos, Björk, Sarah McLachlan, Suede, Paula Cole, Sinéad O'Connor, Pat Benatar, Happy Rhodes, Maxwell (who covered "This Woman's Work"), The Utah Saints, Big Boi of OutKast, The Futureheads (who have covered "Hounds of Love"), Goldfrapp, The Decemberists and others. In fact, in the 1980s and 1990s it became almost standard for individualistic female singer-songwriters to be compared to Bush by the media. (Some info taken from wikipedia.org)
Rare mp3's:
http://www.dongrays.com/kate-bush/mp3/
