History Music / KateBush

Bush has since passed the torch on to people like Music/ToriAmos, Music/{{Bjork}}, Music/LadyGaga, and Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine, ensuring that the world will always have creative, eccentric musicians. In 2002, her songwriting ability was recognised with an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. She was also one of the first musicians to develop a following on the internet through the rec.music.gaffa newsgroup on UsefulNotes/{{Usenet}}.

* VanillaEdition: The EMI Manhattan and EMI USA [=CDs=] of Bush's first five albums in the US and Canada are fairly barebones compared to other editions on the format (including Creator/EMIAmericaRecords' earlier CD releases), removing most of the liner notes in favor of just the tracklists and a standard blurb about the UsefulNotes/CompactDisc format.

+ Music/AllieX, Music/ToriAmos, Music/FionaApple, Music/{{Aurora|Singer}}, Music/{{Bjork}}, Music/CharliXCX, Music/ChristineAndTheQueens, Music/{{Coldplay}}, Music/MarinaDiamandis, Music/TheDivineComedy, Music/FKATwigs, Music/{{Foxes}}, Music/OrlaGartland, Music/OutKast, Music/OwenPallett, Music/WildBeasts, Music/StevenWilson, Music/PatrickWolf, Music/{{Yelle}}

+ Music/AllieX, Music/FionaApple, Music/{{Aurora|Singer}}, Music/{{Bjork}}, Music/CharliXCX, Music/ChristineAndTheQueens, Music/{{Coldplay}}, Music/MarinaDiamandis, Music/TheDivineComedy, Music/FKATwigs, Music/{{Foxes}}, Music/OrlaGartland, Music/OutKast, Music/OwenPallett, Music/WildBeasts, Music/StevenWilson, Music/PatrickWolf, Music/{{Yelle}}

+ Music/FionaApple, Music/{{Aurora|Singer}}, Music/{{Bjork}}, Music/CharliXCX, Music/ChristineAndTheQueens, Music/{{Coldplay}}, Music/MarinaDiamandis, Music/TheDivineComedy, Music/FKATwigs, Music/{{Foxes}}, Music/OrlaGartland, Music/OutKast, Music/OwenPallett, Music/WildBeasts, Music/StevenWilson, Music/PatrickWolf, Music/{{Yelle}}

* BrotherSisterIncest: "The Kick Inside"

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* TruerToTheText: ''The Line, The Cross and The Curve'', though ostensibly based on the film ''Film/TheRedShoes'', is actually closer to the original Creator/HansChristianAndersen short story.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: She's often barefoot in photos and on stage.

* ''The Red Shoes'' (1993)

* SopranoAndGravel - Kate Bush used it in 1985 with "Waking The Witch". In this case she provided both voices: one track is her natural voice, the other is a drastically slowed down demonic growl.
** Also to some extent in "Don't Give Up", her duet with Music/PeterGabriel.
* SpokenWordInMusic

** There's a long, eerie instrumental break near the end of "Breathing" with a recording of a man describing the effects of a nuclear bomb.

* VocalEvolution: Kate Bush had a tendency to use the upper range of her voice in her early work, but shifted to a more natural singing style later on. Compare the version of "Wuthering Heights" on her debut to the one on her GreatestHitsAlbum ''The Whole Story''. Her voice is quite low in her more recent recordings, and come the 21st century she would also pick up a slight lisp (both being most noticeable when comparing her ''Director's Cut'' remakes with those from the original albums). Noticably, most likely because of this trope, a majority of the songs she chose for her live show ''Before The Dawn'' were songs that she had made, remade or re-recorded vocals for in the 21st century, leaving Wuthering Heights (and in fact anything before ''Hounds of Love'') out entirely.

* VanillaEdition: The EMI Manhattan and EMI USA [=CDs=] of Bush's first five albums in the US and Canada are fairly barebones compared to other editions on the format, removing most of the liner notes in favor of just the tracklists and a standard blurb about the UsefulNotes/CompactDisc format.

* ShoutOut: "Blow Away (For Bill)" name-checks some dead musicians: Music/MinnieRiperton, [[Music/TheWho Keith Moon]], Music/SidVicious, Music/BuddyHolly and [[Music/FairportConvention Sandy Denny]].

* AtomicHate: "Breathing" is about the moment that follows a nuclear strike. "After the blast, chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung..."
-->''"After the flash a fireball can be seen to rise, sucking up under it the debris, dust and living things around the area of the explosion, and as this ascends, it soon becomes recognisable as the familiar mushroom cloud."''

* RevengeBallad: "The Wedding List" where [[VengefulWidow a pregnant bride]] tracks down and kills the murderers of her husband before committing suicide.

* SurrealMusicVideo: "Running Up That Hill" is mostly a interpretive dance routine, but has an element of surrealism to it, like when Kate and her partner get separated from each other in a sea of people [[UncannyValley wearing masks of their faces.]]

** The second disc of 2005's Aerial "consists of a single piece of music reveling in the experience of outdoor adventures on a single summer day, beginning in the morning and ending twenty-four hours later with the next sunrise." According to Wiki/ThatOtherWiki.

Bush has since passed the torch on to people like Music/ToriAmos, Music/{{Bjork}}, Music/LadyGaga, and Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine, ensuring that the world will always have creative, eccentric musicians. In 2002, her songwriting ability was recognised with an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. She was also one of the first musicians to develop a following on the internet through the rec.music.gaffa newsgroup on Website/{{Usenet}}.

->''"'Running Up That Hill' has been called the greatest pop song ever. Now, the rational part of my brain says ''"Clearly that's rubbish, how can you quantify something like that?"'' Thing is... 'Running Up That Hill' clearly is the greatest pop song ever created. I mean, it just ''is''."''
-->-- '''[[http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/waking-the-witch/ Jack Graham]]'''

* ''50 Words for Snow'' (2011)

* VanillaEdition: The EMI Manhattan America and EMI USA [=CDs=] of Bush's first five albums in the US and Canada are fairly barebones compared to other editions on the format, removing most of the liner notes in favor of just the tracklists and a standard blurb about the UsefulNotes/CompactDisc format.

* VanillaEdition: The EMI Manhattan America and EMI USA [=CDs=] of Bush's first five albums in the US and Canada are fairly barebones compared to other editions on the format, removing most of the liner notes in favor of just the tracklists and a standard blurb about the UsefulNotes/CompactDiscFormat.

* ''Never for Ever'' (1980)

* TwoPersonLoveTriangle - "Babooshka" is this gone very, very wrong.

* VocalEvolution - Kate Bush had a tendency to use the upper range of her voice in her early work, but shifted to a more natural singing style later on. Compare the version of "Wuthering Heights" on her debut to the one on her GreatestHitsAlbum ''The Whole Story''. Her voice is quite low in her more recent recordings, and come the 21st century she would also pick up a slight lisp (both being most noticeable when comparing her ''Director's Cut'' remakes with those from the original albums). Noticably, most likely because of this trope, a majority of the songs she chose for her live show ''Before The Dawn'' were songs that she had made, remade or re-recorded vocals for in the 21st century, leaving Wuthering Heights (and in fact anything before ''Hounds of Love'') out entirely.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Her music sounds so "out there" to most of the general public that only genre that most people can agree that she is the very broad genre of "alternative rock", or "art rock".
** It becomes especially obvious on her album ''The Red Shoes'' with songs like "And So Is Love" "The Song of Solomon" and "Lily" practically sounding like their own genre.