This Woman's Work

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This Woman's Work
This Woman's Work cover
Box set by Kate Bush
Released 1990
Recorded 1978 – 1990
Genre Alternative rock
Length Disc seven: 46:07
Disc eight: 66:14
Label EMI
Producer Kate Bush
Jon Kelly
David Gilmour
Professional reviews
Kate Bush chronology
The Sensual World
(1989)		 This Woman's Work
(1990)		 The Red Shoes
(1993)
For the Kate Bush song of the same name, see This Woman's Work (song).

This Woman's Work is Kate Bush's eighth release.

This Woman's Work was a nine LP, eight cassette or eight CD box set released in 1990 and comprised of her six previous albums together with two bonus albums (three in the case of the LP edition) of B-sides, rarities and remixes. The box set was rereleased, on CD only, in 1998 in different packaging.

The two rarities discs are entitled This Woman's Work, Vol. 1 and This Woman's Work, Vol. 2 (the LP edition also contains a This Woman's Work, Vol. 3). However, they have never been officially released as albums separate from the box set.

Although publicised as a collection of Bush's complete works up to 1990, in fact several tracks are missing from this collection, the missing tracks being: "Dreamtime" (the instrumental b side of "the Dreaming" single), "Running Up That Hill (Instrumental Version)", "the Big Sky (Single Version)", "the Sensual World (Instrumental Version)" and "the Confrontation" from the "Love and Anger" single; the set also omits the many pre-EMI demo recordings that had been circulating on bootlegs.

Contents

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All songs written by Kate Bush (except "Lord of the Reedy River" by Donovan). Only the rarities discs are listed in full here, since each of the other six discs in the collection was one of her prior albums.

[edit] Disc one

See The Kick Inside.

[edit] Disc two

See Lionheart.

[edit] Disc three

See Never for Ever.

[edit] Disc four

See The Dreaming.

[edit] Disc five

See Hounds of Love.

[edit] Disc six

See The Sensual World.

[edit] Disc seven (This Woman's Work, Vol. 1)

  1. "The Empty Bullring" – 2:16
  2. "Ran Tan Waltz" – 2:40
  3. "Passing through Air" – 2:03
    • "Army Dreamers" 7"-1980
  4. "December Will Be Magic Again" – 3:11
  5. "Warm and Soothing" – 2:43
  6. "Lord of the Reedy River" – 2:42
  7. "Ne T'En Fui Pas" – 2:321
  8. "Un Baiser d'Enfant" – 3:002
  9. "Under the Ivy" – 2:10
  10. "Burning Bridge" – 4:39
  11. "My Lagan Love" – 2:30
  12. "The Handsome Cabin Boy" – 3:11
  13. "Not This Time" – 3:40
  14. "Walk Straight Down the Middle" – 3:50
  15. "Be Kind to My Mistakes" – 3:03


Notes

1 "Ne T'En Fui Pas" is misspelt, the correct spelling in French being "Ne t'enfuis pas".

2 "Un Baiser d'Enfant" is a French version of her single "The Infant Kiss", which originally appeared on the 1980 album Never for Ever.

[edit] Disc eight (This Woman's Work, Vol. 2)

  1. "I'm Still Waiting" – 4:28
    • "Aspects Of The Sensual World" EP
  2. "Ken" – 3:48
  3. "One Last Look Around the House Before We Go..." – 1:03
  4. "Wuthering Heights" (new vocal) – 4:57
    • "The Whole Story" / "Experiment IV" 7"-1986
  5. "Experiment IV" – 4:21
    • "The Whole Story" / "Experiment IV" 7"-1986
  6. "Them Heavy People" (live) – 4:08
    • "On Stage" EP-1979
  7. "Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake" (live) – 3:39
    • "On Stage" EP-1979
  8. "James and the Cold Gun" (live) – 6:25
    • "On Stage" EP-1979 / "Kate Bush" EP-1983
  9. "L'Amour Looks Something Like You" (live) – 2:43
    • "On Stage" EP-1979
  10. "Running Up That Hill" (maxi) – 5:46
  11. "Cloudbusting" (The Organon Mix) – 6:32
  12. "Hounds of Love" (Alternative) – 3:47
  13. "The Big Sky" (Meteorological Mix) – 7:44
  14. "Experiment IV" (12" Mix) – 6:37

A revised version of one of the This Woman's Work bonus discs includes her recordings of Elton John's "Rocket Man" and "Candle in the Wind."

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