It doesn’t seem possible that it was that long ago when the unforgettable Wuthering Heights first featured on the airwaves, but it’s not even the best track on this outstanding debut.
Album: The Kick Inside
Artist: Kate Bush
Released: 17th February 1978
Weeks in UK Album Chart: 71
Highest Chart Position: No.3
The first classic album by the UK’s first rock supergroup. Overshadowed by Sgt Peppers initially (what wasn’t at the time?) it actually sounds better 50 years later.
Album: Disraeli Gears
Artist: Cream
Released: 2nd November 1967
Weeks in UK Album Chart: 45
Highest Chart Position: No.5
The classic ‘grower’. It took more than six months to make any impact, and even then not in his native USA but here in the UK after the track below was featured on Old Grey Whistle Test. After that it never left.
Album: Bat Out of Hell
Artist: Meat Loaf
Released: 21st October 1977
Weeks in UK Album Chart: 522
Highest Chart Position: No.9
I suppose the phrase ‘difficult third album’ becomes more applicable if you’d split up after the second. Nothing difficult about listening to this one though. album.
Album: Urban Hymns
Artist: The Verve
Released: 29th September 1997
Weeks in UK Album Chart: 162
Number of Weeks at No.1: 12
Undoubtedly the first classic Reggae album – so many great tracks and still as fresh today as when I first heard it.
Album: Exodus
Artist: Bob Marley & the Wailers
Released: 3rd June 1977
Weeks in UK Album Chart: 58
Highest Chart Position: No.8