“Eat The Music” by Kate Bush

"Eat the Music" was Kate Bush's calling card for The Red Shoes, her seventh album, in 1993, at least in America: Columbia made it the lead single there while EMI went with "Rubberband Girl" everywhere else. In Britain a few seven-inch and promo CD singles were pressed and then pulled at the last minute, and it only got a proper release in the Netherlands, Australia and a few other countries in 1994.

That's a shame, because it's a riot of a record. Bush produced and plays keyboards, Justin Vali's valiha ripples and chimes through the whole thing, Stuart Elliott and John Giblin lock down a bouncing groove, and a horn section of Nigel Hitchcock, Neil Sidwell, Steve Sidwell and Paul Spong blows sunlight across it, with Paddy Bush and Vali joining the vocals. It reached 10 on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart, and Tricky later picked it for his Back to Mine mix.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.