Pick four songs from any band and you can tell a lot about their sound. This summer, I’m featuring #RockBlocks, four picks from bands across various genres. They might be wildly different from each other, but what binds them together is the fact that they’re all a part of my life soundtrack.

Hounds of Love contains some of my favorite songs of all time. Collectively they represented a vibrant evolution of Kate Bush’s music. It had many parallels to So, the album from her longtime collaborator Peter Gabriel that came out the very same year. What Hounds of Love — and “The Big Sky” in particular — did was beat her peers at their own game. She made pop better and more progressive.

“The Big Sky” is vast, grand and full, riding on the back of that relentless bass slap. It rocked a lot more than much of Kate’s previous catalog, but the vocals and the epic instrumental arrangements were still a nod to her musical past. “The Big Sky” is simultaneously a great introduction to the world of Kate Bush and a great example of her musical versatility.

“They look down at the ground. Missing but I never go in now. I'm looking at the big sky.”