Originally Posted by MeMyselfandI (Post 4396310)

Leona has her album November & has never not had #1 - Unlucky Kate Bush

Originally Posted by MeMyselfandI (Post 4396310)

Leona has her album November & has never not had #1 - Unlucky Kate Bush

In 1998, Q magazine readers voted Hounds of Love the 48th greatest album of all time, while in 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 20 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2002, Q Magazine named Hounds of Love the third Greatest Album of All-Time by a Female Artist, and in 2000, the twentieth Greatest British Album of All Time. In 2006, Q magazine placed the album at #4 in its list of "40 Best Albums of the '80s". In January 2006, NME named it the 41st best British album of all time.

In reaching number one, Bush became the first woman to write and perform a UK chart-topper

first British solo female artist to top the UK album charts and the first female artist ever to enter the album chart at No. 1

Bush is not afraid to tackle sensitive and taboo subjects. "The Kick Inside" is based on a traditional English folk song (The Ballad of Lucy Wan) about an incestuous pregnancy and a resulting suicide. "Kashka from Baghdad" is a song about a homosexual male couple; Out magazine listed two of her albums in their Top 100 Greatest Gayest albums list. "The Infant Kiss" is a song about a haunted, unstable woman's almost paedophile infatuation with a young boy in her care (inspired by Jack Clayton's film The Innocents (1961), which had been based on Henry James's famous novella The Turn of the Screw); and "Breathing" explores the results of nuclear fallout from the perspective of an unborn child in the womb. Her lyrics have referenced a wide array of subject matter, often relatively obscure, as in "Cloudbusting", which was inspired by Peter Reich's autobiography, "Book of Dreams", about his relationship with his father, Wilhelm Reich, and G. I. Gurdjieff in "Them Heavy People", while "Deeper Understanding", from The Sensual World, portrays a person who stays indoors, obsessively talking to a computer and shunning human contact.

Bush's music is eclectic, using various styles of music even within the same album. Her songs have spanned genres as diverse as rock, pop, alternative and art rock. Even in her earliest works where the piano was a primary instrument, she wove together many diverse influences, melding classical music, rock, and a wide range of ethnic and folk sources, and this has continued throughout her career.

Paula Cole named Bush as an influence while accepting the Best New Artist Grammy in 1996. Ariel Pink wrote a tribute song for her titled "For Kate I Wait" on the album The Doldrums. The trip-hop artist Tricky has said about Bush, "I don't believe in God, but if I did, her music would be my bible". Punk rocker John Lydon, better known as Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols, declared her work to be "****ing brilliant" and labelled her "a true original". Rotten once wrote a song for her, titled "Bird in Hand" (about exploitation of parrots) that Bush rejected. Rotten theorised that Bush thought the song contained insulting references aimed at her. Marc Almond chose "Moments of Pleasure" as one of his 10 favourite songs on Radio 2 in June 2007, saying that the song had a profound influence on him when he was combating drug addiction in New York in the 1990s. In November 2006, the singer Rufus Wainwright named Bush as one of his top ten gay icons. Outside music, Bush has been an inspiration to several fashion designers, most notably Hussein Chalayan

Originally Posted by Dezzy (Post 4396834)

Kate Bush and The Beatles were trailblazers that have inspired many great acts and continue to do so now.

Originally Posted by Dezzy (Post 4396834)

I'm sorry but you are the most ridiculous creature I've ever had the misfortune of stumbling across. You are obsessed with numbers and maybe one day the idea that sales don't equal quality will somehow sink in.

Adam Sandler's latest sh*tfest could make £10 million at the box office so does that mean we have to give him an Oscar? No because they aren't made to win awards, they're made to fool gullible idiots into spending their money.

Leona Lewis is a painfully derivative 'artist' who has just followed the same path as her predeccsors but with less success. She's done nothing that thousands have already done before her and she will be dropped and forgotten in a few years time when her sales dip even more, because that's all she is, sales. She is the music version of Adam Sandler, she's only famous because she sells well and when she eventually doesn't she'll be forgotten since there's nothing to her but a publicity machine. No artistic merit or ability, just sales and that's why you have to keep going on about them because there's nothing worthy of note about her.

Kate Bush and The Beatles were trailblazers that have inspired many great acts and continue to do so now, you can hardly compare Leona who is nothing but an Asda price version of Mariah Carey to them. But please continue to quote numbers at me, I'll just reply like everyone else does to you, with a lot of laughter.