The Dreaming
by Kate Bush
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Kate Bush bestography
The Dreaming is ranked 2nd best out of 17 albums by Kate Bush on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Kate Bush is Hounds Of Love which is ranked number 53 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 17,903.
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The Dreaming track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 06/06/2026 12:22 | cicadelic | 13,100 | 73/100 |
| ! | 05/11/2026 14:14 | Jakor | 5,434 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/08/2026 11:19 |  CellarDoor | 8,623 | 79/100 |
| ! | 04/16/2026 16:39 | Pavloss | 488 | 50/100 |
| ! | 02/28/2026 17:32 | DaveH68 | 1,363 | 76/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 81.5/100, a mean average of 80.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.4.
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AAL2014 09/16/2024 19:16 | #305308
Seldom ever has such a blatantly weird album been so (relatively) direct in its messaging:
“I LOVE LIFE!”, “Can I have it all?”, “We let the weirdness in.”
Kate is letting the listener know she’s arrived in full force and isn’t going to compromise. She’s doing things on her own terms and we, the listener, are better for that.
CassidyInc 06/17/2024 23:25 | #303991
The pretentious kids think its cool to rate the Dreaming higher than HOL. . .
And they're right to do so.
lleon79 11/20/2023 22:26 | #300080
I get why this album could be a hard listen for many, but I just listened to it for the first time and I loved it. What a magnificent experience.
A challenging album, that rewards the listener for coming back and letting it into your brain. Feel it is finally getting the recognition that has long been overdue. Don't be impulsive and dismiss it first time.
HoldenM 06/25/2023 19:39 | #297791
Kate Bush's first out-and-out masterpiece, and a fantastic bridge to the first part of her career to the next. A haunting, propulsive, all-consuming art pop opus whose intense atmosphere and catchiness meet a near-perfect balance.
There is some decent stuff on here but it is just so inconsistent and nothing really blows me away when I listen to it. I do think Sat In Your Lap and Suspended In Gaffa are fantastic songs and deserve all the praise that they get but the rest of the record feels skippable for me. It can feel over exaggerative at times and almost too theatrical and dramatic. Overall, I might just not be a fan of this style of music as this record doesn't do anything for me and I find it quite disinteresting.
JoaoMoreira 01/01/2023 21:51 | #292388
Way too frito.
The exaggeration actually ruins the final product.
Sounds like a musical about bad trippin’.
This is as crazy and chaotic as it is beautiful. I rarely maintain as engaged in music through whole album as I was while first listen to this record. Risks that are taken here mostly pay off. I don't like vocal effects on Leave It Open, they're ruining otherwise great song for me. My favorites are: Suspended In Gaffa and Night Of The Swallow with honorable mentions to Pull Out The Pin and The Dreaming.
I'm totally OK with the fact that this album got savaged by fans and critics... although it caused KB some grief...it resulted in the "I'll show them!" album of all time.
Great record
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