Mother stands for comfort (Kate Bush)

About the artist: Kate Bush (1958) is a British singer/songwriter, who in 1978 topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single Wuthering heights. Many hits (singles and albums) followed. She is generally seen as one of the greatest influences on a generation of female pop/rock artists who came after her. Kate Bush currently has seven songs in my list of about 200 best pop/rock songs of all time (and one as a part of a duo).

About the song: the 1985 album Hounds of love is the best pop/rock album of all time in my view. With so many fantastic songs on this album, it is very easy to neglect the beautiful masterpiece which is Mother stands for comfort. It is a slightly mournful ballad telling the tale of a murderer who suspects his mother "knows that I've been doing something wrong", but "she won't mind me lying". In some ways the most conventional track of this unconventional album but a great one nevertheless. Run time 3:08.