Sold Date: January 29, 2021
Start Date: January 28, 2021
Final Price: £39.00 (GBP)
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KATE BUSH The Dreaming 1982 UK EMI 1st PRESS w/INNER MINT KATE BUSH
The Dreaming

1982 UK EMI RECORDS (EMC 3419) FIRST PRESSING
AN OUTSTANDING, BARELY PLAYED ORIGINAL COPY

PRESSED ON WITH THE FIRST ISSUE CUSTOM EMI LABELS
MATRIX: EMC 3419 A-5U-1-3 / EMC 3419 B-6U-1-3
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL SINGLE MATT SLEEVE (no barcode on the back)
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL ROUNDED CORNER LYRIC INNER SLEEVE

Four albums into her burgeoning career, Kate Bush's The Dreaming is a theatrical and abstract piece of work, as well as Bush's first effort in the production seat. She throws herself in head first, incorporating various vocal loops, sometimes campy, but always romantic and inquisitive of emotion. She's angry and pensive throughout the entire album, typically poetic while pushing around the notions of a male-dominated world.
Album opener "Sat in Your Lap" is a frightening slight on individual intellect, with a booming chorus echoing over throbbing percussion and a butchered brass section. "Leave It Open" is goth-like with Bush's dark brooding, which is a suspending scale of vocalic laments, but it's the vivacious and moody "Get Out of My House" that truly brings Bush's many talents for art and music to the forefront. It prances with dripping piano drops and gritty guitar, and the violent rage felt as she screams "Slamming," sparking a fury similar to what Tori Amos later ignited during her inception throughout the '90s. Not one to be in fear of fear, The Dreaming is one of Kate Bush's underrated achievements in depicting her own visions of love, relationships, and role play, not to mention a brilliant predecessor to the charming beauty of 1985's Hounds of Love

Side 1:
Sat In Your Lap
There Goes A Tenner
Pull Out The Pin
Suspended In Gaffa
Leave It Open
Side 2:
The Dreaming
Night Of The Swallow
All The Love
Houdini
Get Out Of My House

LABELS: NEAR MINT
A clean, unmarked set of labels with just one/two spindle traces per side
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT / MINT
Both surfaces shine like new with just a couple of light and harmless brush marks (from manufacture) otherwise flawless
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT / MINT
Plays beautifully with just some light ticks on Side Two (nothing major or continuous) but I did not clean this copy as it looks pristine so these will no doubt disappear after a clean/few spins
SLEEVE: MINT
As crisp, clean, sharp and fresh as the day it was made
INNER SLEEVE: MINT
Again, like-new - no seam splits

POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded Delivery)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £20.00 (International Signed For delivery)
DUE TO THE CURRENT CIRCUMSTANCES I WILL ONLY BE POSTING ONCE A WEEK ON FRIDAY

Combined Post: Additional records £1 (UK) £2 (Europe including Russia) £3 (International)
Guarantee: All records are unconditionally guaranteed (including sealed and/or unplayed) and I will offer a complete, no quibble refund upon return of the item should you not be pleased with it in any  _gsrx_vers_1271 (GS 8.3.4 (1271))