This Woman's Work (box set)

Infobox Album |
Name = This Woman's Work
Type = Box set
Artist = 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
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:smazefbkhgfj link] |
Last album = "The Sensual World"
(1989)
This album = "This Woman's Work"
(1990)
Next album = "The Red Shoes"
(1993)

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

"This Woman's Work" is 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.

Track listing

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.

Disc one

See "The Kick Inside".

Disc two

See "Lionheart".

Disc three

See "Never for Ever".

Disc four

See "The Dreaming".

Disc five

See "Hounds of Love".

Disc six

See "The Sensual World".

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

#"The Empty Bullring" – 2:16
#*"Breathing" 7"-1980
#"Ran Tan Waltz" – 2:40
#*"Babooshka" 7"-1980
#"Passing through Air" – 2:03
#*"Army Dreamers" 7"-1980
#"December Will Be Magic Again" – 3:11
#*"December Will Be Magic Again" 7"-1980
#"Warm and Soothing" – 2:43
#*"December Will Be Magic Again" 7"-1980
#"Lord of the Reedy River" – 2:42
#*"Sat in Your Lap" 7"-1981
#"Ne T'En Fui Pas" – 2:321
#*"There Goes a Tenner" 7"-1982 / "Suspended In Gaffa" 7"-1982 / "Ne T'enfuis Pas" 7"-1983
#"Un Baiser d'Enfant" – 3:002
#*"Ne T'enfuis Pas" 7" / "Kate Bush" EP-1983
#"Under the Ivy" – 2:10
#*"Running Up That Hill" 7"-1985
#"Burning Bridge" – 4:39
#*"Cloudbusting" 7"-1985
#"My Lagan Love" – 2:30
#*"Cloudbusting" 7"-1985
#"The Handsome Cabin Boy" – 3:11
#*"Hounds of Love" 7"-1986
#"Not This Time" – 3:40
#*"The Big Sky" 7"-1986
#"Walk Straight Down the Middle" – 3:50
#*"The Sensual World" 7"-1989
#"Be Kind to My Mistakes" – 3:03
#*"This Woman's Work" 7" / "Aspects Of The Sensual World" EP-1989

"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".

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

#"I'm Still Waiting" – 4:28
#*"Aspects Of The Sensual World" EP
#"Ken" – 3:48
#*"Love And Anger" 7" / "Aspects Of The Sensual World" EP-1989
#"One Last Look Around the House Before We Go..." – 1:03
#*"Love And Anger" 7"-1989
#"Wuthering Heights" (new vocal) – 4:57
#*"The Whole Story" / "Experiment IV" 7"-1986
#"Experiment IV" – 4:21
#*"The Whole Story" / "Experiment IV" 7"-1986
#"Them Heavy People" (live) – 4:08
#*"On Stage" EP-1979
#"Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake" (live) – 3:39
#*"On Stage" EP-1979
#"James and the Cold Gun" (live) – 6:25
#*"On Stage" EP-1979 / "Kate Bush" EP-1983
#"L'Amour Looks Something Like You" (live) – 2:43
#*"On Stage" EP-1979
#"Running Up That Hill" (maxi) – 5:46
#"Cloudbusting" (The Organon Mix) – 6:32
#"Hounds of Love" (Alternative) – 3:47
#"The Big Sky" (Meteorological Mix) – 7:44
#"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."

Personnel

*Stewart Arnold: vocals (bckgr)
*Jimmy Bain: Bass
*Ian Bairnson: Guitar, Vocals (bckgr)
*John Barrett: Assistant Engineer
*Brian Bath: Guitar
*Haydn Bendall: Engineer
*Michael Berkeley: Arranger
*Andrew Boland: Engineer
*Stoyanka Boneva: Vocals
*Kate Bush: Piano, Vocals, Producer, Fairlight, Harmony
*Paddy Bush: Mandolin, Stick, Harmony Vocals, Slide Guitar, Mandocello, Pan Pipes
*George Chambers: Assistant Engineer
*Nick Cook: Assistant Engineer
*Danny Dawson: Assistant Engineer
*Barry DeSouza: drums
*Geoffrey Downes: Trumpet
*Pearse Dunne: Assistant Engineer
*Percy Edwards: Vocals
*Stuart Elliot: Percussion, Drums
*Larry Fast: Prophet 5
*Eva Georgieva: Vocals
*John Giblin: Bass, Fretless Bass
*David Gilmour: Guitar, Vocals (bckgr)
*Paul Gomazel: Engineer
*Howard Gray: Assistant Engineer,
*James Guthrie: Engineer
*Roy Harper: Vocals (bckgr)
*Preston Heyman: Drums, Stick
*Gary Hurst: Vocals (bckgr)
*Patrick Jaunead: Assistant Engineer
*Michael Kamen: Arranger
*Mick Karn: Bass
*David Katz: Orchestra Contractor
*Nigel Kennedy: Viola
*Paul Keogh: Guitar
*Kevin Killen: Engineer, Mixing
*Nick Launay: Engineer
*Dave Lawson: Arranger, Synclavier
*Tom Leader: Engineer
*Dónal Lunny: Bouzouki
*Bruce Lynch: Bass
*Duncan Mackay: Synthesizer, Fender Rhodes
*Kevin McAlea: Synthesizer Programming
*Medici Sextet: strings
*Max Middleton: Fender Rhodes
*Francis Monkman: Hammond Organ
*Mike Moran: Prophet 5
*Alan Murphy: Guitar
*Liam O'Flynn: Penny Whistle, Uilleann Pipes
*Hugh Padgham: Engineer
*Del Palmer: Bass, Engineer, Linn
*David Paton: Bass
*Morris Pert: Percussion
*Adam Skeaping: Viol, String Arrangements
*Jo Skeaping: String Arrangements
*John Sheahan: Fiddle, Whistle (Instrument)
*Bill Somerville-Large: Engineer
*Davy Spillane: Whistle (Instrument), Uillean Pipes
*Alan Stivell: Celtic Harp
*Brian Tench: Engineer, Mixing
*Trio Bulgarka: Vocals
*Nigel Walker: Engineer, Assistant Engineer, Mixing Engineer
*Eberhard Weber: Bass
*Bill Whelan: Arranger
*Jonathan Williams: Cello
*Peter Woolliscroft: Digital Editing