“The Kick Inside” is the final track and the song that gives title to Kate Bush’s debut album. This is about a brother and sister who fall desperately in love with each other. When she becomes pregnant by her own brother, she commits suicide. The song itself is the suicide note. She does not want her brother to be hurt or her family to go through the unspeakable shame of incest. The note (or song) is telling her brother not to feel responsible for her death: “I’m giving it all in a moment or two, giving it all in a moment for you. This kicking here inside, makes me leave you behind. No more under the quilt to keep you warm. Your sister I was born, you must lose me like an arrow shot into the killer storm.”

This song was inspired by an old traditional English-Scottish song titled “Lucy Wan”.

“Room For The Life” is the 12th track of Kate Bush’s debut album The Kick Inside. In an interview with Phil Sutcliffe published in the August 30, 1980 issue of Sounds, composer and performer Kate Bush said “Room For The Life” has been mistaken for a feminist song, while it is actually a plea to go “a bit easier on men”.
Running to 4 minutes 3 seconds, it is the second-longest track on Kate’s debut album. (thanks, Alexander Baron – London, England)

“Them Heavy People” is a song written and recorded by Kate Bush, from her debut album The Kick Inside. It was issued as a single in Japan with the title “Rolling the Ball” reaching number 3, its only release worldwide as an A-side.

The song is about religion, and the teachings of Jesus, Gurdjieff, among others. The song expresses an insistent desire to learn as much as possible, while she is still young.

A Seiko logo appears on the insert’s back side, which makes it Bush’s only commercial release featuring any kind of product endorsement.

A live recording of this song was the lead track on the On Stage EP which reached number 10 in the UK singles chart in 1979.[1] In The Netherlands, the EP was listed as Them Heavy People in the Top 40 chart, making it basically an A-side. It peaked at No. 17 in 1979.

Bush performed “Them Heavy People” on several TV programmes including her only appearance on Saturday Night Live in the USA.

This is the lead track from Bush’s Live On Stage EP, a collection of live recordings from a benefit concert at Hammersmith Odeon, London.

This song refers to Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff (1877-1949), a Greek-Armenian mystic and spiritual teacher who used stylized dance to help people to unleash the powers within themselves and develop their full capabilities.

“Feel It” is the 8th song off of Kate Bush’s debut album The Kick Inside .This song is so beautiful and yet so vulnerable. The girl seems young and inexperienced. Maybe this is her first sexual encounter (with this man), and party alcohol has affected her mood. There is nervous laughter; and her preconceived idea of sex seems based on a Religious Class teaching of a glorious union between two people, etc. Of course, she understands that in the hierarchy of sex, there is also a loving union and a lustful, fun encounter. But she doesn’t seem to know what she in for, other than experience. She is abandoning herself to her unbridled pleasure. The ‘See what you’re doing to me’ is such a tender observation, and really makes this a thinking-(wo)man’s love song that lingers in the mind long after the post-coital cigarette!

This is the only track from her debut album to feature piano-only instrumentation (played by Kate).

In an interview with Phil Sutcliffe published in the August 30, 1980 issue of Sounds, composer and performer Kate Bush spoke of her fascination with guns: “Not about what they do, but detach them from their purpose and they’re… fantastic, beautiful.”

At a stretch this song, could be about James Bond, but it was actually inspired by a contemporary thriller, The Day Of The Jackal. Based on the book of the same name by English author Frederick Forsyth, this 1973 release featured Edward Fox in the title role of the nameless would-be assassin of Charles de Gaule, who was President of France from 1959-69. The film is set in 1963, the same year American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

A live version of “James And The Cold Gun” was released on the 12 inch EP Kate Bush Live On Stage. Running to 6 minutes 25 seconds, it was recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon, London on May 13, and released September 3, 1979. (thanks, Alexander Baron – London, England, for all above)

This was also pushed by EMI to be the first single, but Kate insisted “Wuthering Heights” be released instead.

“Strange Phenomena” is a song written and recorded by Kate Bush. It was only released as a single in Brazil in mid-1979 and was the sixth and final single from the album The Kick Inside.

“Strange Phenomena” speaks about déjà vu, synchronicity and how coincidences sometimes cluster together in seemingly meaningful ways. It has been described as “a frank paean to menstruation” by The Guardian.[1]

This, and a number of other early Brazilian singles, were pressed at 33.3 rpm. Brazil is one of few countries that released singles at this speed, along with Argentina.[2]

In an interview with Phil Sutcliffe published in the August 30, 1980 issue of Sounds, composer and performer Kate Bush said this was one of her earliest compositions; she wrote it when she was about fifteen, adding “…I love saxophones so I wanted to write a song about them… The perfect setting was this smokey bar in Berlin with nobody listening except me in the corner…”

Running to 3 minutes 47 seconds, “The Saxophone Song” is the second track on Kate’s debut album. It was recorded at Air Studios in June 1975, produced by Andrew Powell and engineered by Jon Kelly. (thanks, Alexander Baron – London, England, for above 2)