Kate Bush The kick inside a masterpiece.

I've loved Kate since the first time I heard her in 1978 (on my college radio station). The Kick Inside is her most amazing achievement, but Lionheart needs to be mentioned since it was released the same year and is also brilliant.

I own 5 of the original Kick Inside LP's plus the picture disk, each with different cover art for the countries where they were made. (US, UK, Canada, Japan, Yugoslavia, but never found the Uruguay version).

I agree that The Red Shoes was the end of her creative brilliance. For me, The Sensual World was her last great album.
According to the British trades, since motherhood, all her writing became too personal and introspective.

In the UK, she is a national treasure and in 2014, sold out a month's worth of concerts at the Hammersmith Apollo. Sadly she never toured the US, only making an appearance on SNL.