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{{Short description|1983 music video compilation by Kate Bush}}
{{Other uses|Single file (disambiguation)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2012}}
'''''The Single File''''' is a video compilation and box set by the English musician [[Kate Bush]]. The video compilation album was released in 1983, and it contains the first twelve videos released by the artist. It was followed by a boxset, '''''The Single File 1978~1983''''' containing thirteen singles on individual vinyl records.

==The Single File – Video==
{{Infobox album
| name = The Single File
| type = video
| artist = [[Kate Bush]]
| cover = Kate Bush - The Single File Video.jpg
| alt =
| released = November 1983<ref>[http://www.katebushencyclopedia.com/single-file-the "Single File (the)"]. Katebushencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 6 March 2017.</ref>
| recorded = 1977–1982
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Art rock]]
| length = 50 minutes
| label = [[EMI Records|EMI]]/[[Picture Music International]]
| director = Brian Wiseman, Keef, Paul Henry
| producer =
| prev_title = [[The Dreaming (album)|The Dreaming]]
| prev_year = 1982
| next_title = [[Hounds of Love]]
| next_year = 1985
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}} [http://www.allmovie.com/work/kate-bush-the-single-file-26984 link]
| rev2 = ''[[Blitz (British magazine)|Blitz]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|2|4}}<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Garish |first=Simon |date=March 1984 |title=A Look at Current Music Video Releases |url=https://www.blitzmagazine.co.uk/img/issues/19/BLITZ19.html |magazine=[[Blitz (British magazine)|Blitz]] |issue=19 |page=8}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Melody Maker]]''
| rev3Score = Positive [http://gaffa.org/reaching/rev_vid.html#mm link]}}

'''''The Single File''''' is a 1983 collection of music videos by Kate Bush. It is the second video release by the artist. It was released on VHS, Beta Max and later on Laserdisc in Japan. It features the UK version of "Wuthering Heights" and the original video of "Wow".

===Track listing===
# "[[Wuthering Heights (song)|Wuthering Heights]]" - 4:30
# "[[The Man with the Child in His Eyes]]" - 2:49
# "[[Hammer Horror (song)|Hammer Horror]]" - 4:11
# "[[Wow (Kate Bush song)|Wow]]" - 3:47
# "[[Them Heavy People]]" - 4:05
# "[[Breathing (Kate Bush song)|Breathing]]" - 4:52
# "[[Babooshka (song)|Babooshka]]" - 3:30
# "[[Army Dreamers]]" - 3:16
# "[[Sat in Your Lap]]" - 3:32
# "[[The Dreaming (song)|The Dreaming]]" - 4:06
# "[[Suspended in Gaffa (song)|Suspended in Gaffa]]" - 4:00
# "[[There Goes a Tenner]]" - 3:23

===Personnel===
* Paul Henry – Director
* Keef – Director
* Brian Wiseman – Director
* Kate Bush – Artistic Concepts, Choreography By
* Chris Achileos – Babooshka Costume Illustration
* Pamela Keats – Babooshka Costume Realization
* Assorted iMaGes – Packaging
* Kindlight – Photography

==The Single File 1978~1983 – Box Set==
{{Infobox album
| name = The Single File 1978~1983
| type = box set
| artist = [[Kate Bush]]
| cover = Kate Bush - The Single File 1978–1983.jpg
| alt =
| released = 23 January 1984
| recorded = 1975–1983
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Art rock]]
| length =
| label = [[EMI Records|EMI]]
| producer = Andrew Powell, John Kelly, Kate Bush
| prev_title = [[Kate Bush (EP)|Kate Bush]]
| prev_year = 1983
| next_title = [[Kate Bush (album)|Kate Bush]]
| next_year = 1985
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Bush, Kate |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music |last=Larkin |first=Colin |author-link=Colin Larkin |publisher=[[Omnibus Press]] |edition=5th concise |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-85712-595-8}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Sutcliffe |first=Phil |date=June 2011 |title=A Magnificent Obsession |magazine=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]] |issue=211 |page=82}}</ref>
}}

'''''The Single File 1978~1983''''' is a [[boxed set]] released on 23 January 1984,<ref>{{cite journal |title=Record News |periodical=[[NME]] |publisher=[[IPC Media]] |location=London, England |page=29 |date=21 January 1984}}</ref> available only on [[Gramophone record|vinyl]]. It contained all [[Kate Bush]]'s 7" singles and their [[A-side and B-side|B-sides]] up until that point, and her live EP ''[[On Stage (EP)|On Stage]]''. The box set primarily included her UK singles. The European single "[[Suspended in Gaffa]]" and the Irish single "[[Night of the Swallow]]" were not included but "[[Ne t'enfuis pas|Ne t'enfuis pas (remix)]]" single was. The boxset also included a lyric book.

"I'm surprised that I've got this amount of material together in five years," Bush remarked. "I'm thrilled, really... I mean, it is a form of 'greatest hits'. It's just put in a box and it's a nicer way of doing it."<ref>[[BBC Radio 1]]: 'Saturday Live', 25 February 1984</ref>

===Track listing===
'''Disc 1 (Wuthering Heights)'''
#"[[Wuthering Heights (song)|Wuthering Heights]]"
#"Kite"

'''Disc 2 (The Man with the Child in His Eyes)'''
#<li value="3">"[[The Man with the Child in His Eyes]]"
#"Moving"

'''Disc 3 (Hammer Horror)'''
#<li value="5">"[[Hammer Horror (song)|Hammer Horror]]"
#"Coffee Homeground"

'''Disc 4 (Wow)'''
#<li value="7">"[[Wow (Kate Bush song)|Wow]]"
#"Fullhouse"

'''Disc 5 (''Kate Bush on Stage'')'''
#<li value="9">"[[Them Heavy People]]"
#"Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake"
#"James and the Cold Gun"
#"L'Amour Looks Something Like You"

'''Disc 6 (Breathing)'''
#<li value="13">"[[Breathing (Kate Bush song)|Breathing]]"
#"The Empty Bullring"

'''Disc 7 (Babooshka)'''
#<li value="15">"[[Babooshka (song)|Babooshka]]"
#"Ran Tan Waltz"

'''Disc 8 (Army Dreamers)'''
#<li value="17">"[[Army Dreamers]]"
#"Delius"
#"Passing Through Air"

'''Disc 9 (December Will Be Magic Again)'''
#<li value="20">"[[December Will Be Magic Again]]"
#"Warm And Soothing"

'''Disc 10 (Sat in Your Lap)'''
#<li value="22">"[[Sat in Your Lap]]"
#"Lord of the Reedy River"

'''Disc 11 (The Dreaming)'''
#<li value="24">"[[The Dreaming (song)|The Dreaming]]"
#"Dreamtime (Instrumental)"

'''Disc 12 (There Goes a Tenner)'''
#<li value="26">"[[There Goes a Tenner]]"
#"Ne t'enfuis pas"

'''Disc 13 (Ne t'enfuis pas)'''
#<li value="28">"[[Ne t'enfuis pas|Ne t'enfuis pas (remix)]]"
#"Un baiser d'enfant"

==References==
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