The Kick Inside (studio album) by Kate Bush
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The Kick Inside is ranked 3rd 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 54 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 18,530.
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The Kick Inside track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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80/100  | 07/03/2025 02:09 | dsavard | | 77/100 |
70/100 | 07/01/2025 15:10 | thepardunk | | 70/100 |
85/100 | 06/13/2025 02:13 | Fritz | | 77/100 |
80/100 | 06/09/2025 05:31 | Invader666 | | 65/100 |
60/100 | 05/12/2025 12:32 | CharonBri | | 75/100 |
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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 80.3/100, a mean average of 79.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.1.
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This has got 'Wuthering Heights' on it. Better still, it's got 'Man with the Child in his Eyes'. Due to her singing tone which is unlike any other, I've found her albums to be very slow burners for me. But they do grow on you and the appreciation grows with every listen . Her voice and singing style does make her one of a kind. Good old Kate.
71.7 rating
HoldenM 06/24/2023 17:45
A breathtaking debut. Rarely does any artist come so fully formed and so bursting with imagination. And it would be a perfect album if the back half could sustain the quality of the first side, but this is still a masterful collection of songs. Even the cuts I'm not crazy about offer interesting turns and surprises.
Great record
Great debut for a great singer "Wuthering Heights" still sounds incredible to this day and the rest of the album is amazing too.
Although I'm not a big fan of Them Heavy People and Room For The Life, tracks like Moving, Saxophone Song and James And The Cold Gun are perfect.
Superb album, worth owning for 'Wuthering Heights'and 'The Man With the Child in His Eyes'.
Jboy56 01/02/2022 12:16
I love Kate, this album is a masterpiece in skill, mood, and sonics. The stunning combination of singer-songwriting and prog is astonishing.
Every song is great. Really solid album, it maintains it's quality throughout the whole duration.
85/100
Kate Bush making an awesome debit album, vocals on point, excellent musicians on this album such as Ian Bairnson and David Gilmour
Solid material
Boltzmann 11/08/2018 10:41
Some woman singing with an opera-ish, almost - in her most expressive bursts - witch-ish voice with a dense baroque pop production to back it up. People were certainly confused to hear this.
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