Never For Ever (studio album) by Kate Bush

Never For Ever by Kate Bush
Year: 1980
Overall rank: 1,173rd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 355 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1980 (31st)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (188th)
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Kate Bush bestography

Never For Ever is ranked 6th 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 59 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 19,305.

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Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 355 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.8/100, a mean average of 77.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.4.

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85/100
From 06/24/2023 19:08
A return to form after Lionheart. Maybe not as consistently surprising as The Kick Inside, but Never for Ever sees Kate Bush setting aside the baroque textures of her first two albums in favor of the more atmospheric, electronic-friendly sounds she'll go on to perfect. And right away, she has a strong handle on these sounds.
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From 08/27/2022 07:10
Excellent album, worth owning the album just for Babooshka and Army dreamers! Whenever I play this album, I end up singing these two songs for days after.
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From 07/27/2022 14:15
Here Kate goes more experimental than on The Kick Inside and somtimes the experiments work well and sometimes not.
Favorites: Babooshka, Wedding List, Breathing.
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From 03/04/2022 17:12
Kate, you, my beautiful elf...
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From 07/31/2020 22:53
Glad I listened to this one. Maybe it's not as solid as TKI or as amazing as TD or HOL, but this is still a very enjoyable album full of beautiful moments and great songs.
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From 11/21/2018 10:36
Another very worthwhile album from Kate Bush, the best of the first three. Army Dreamers and Babooshka are great tracks, but for me the highlight is Breathing, one of my favourite tracks.
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90/100
From 11/20/2018 04:07
The whimsy of her first two albums collides with the avaunt guard of the next two and it is just beautiful. Diverse and interesting.
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From 11/08/2018 10:12
This is definitely my favorite Kate Bush album, so I was surprised to find it so low. The words “too effiminate” for a moment made me lose all faith in humankind; will there ever be a day where feminine will not mean childish or dumb or... you know the drill. And the dislikes are nice, but I see everyone saying the same thing with their ratings and charts.
But still, I don’t really get why this one is so low; it’s certainly not more feminine than her last two albums. The reason for the albums that followed to be liked by people on this site seems clear, since people here seem to have an indie fetish, and Kate apparently became more and more independent in the course of the ‘80s. I feel like this album is a bit in the middle of that process, which is why I like it so much: the production isn’t as sparse as on the following two albums and the vocals aren’t as clean as on the preceding two albums. This is Kate Bush at her weirdest and at her Kate Bush-est.
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From 02/14/2018 23:54
Her first six albums are all great! I enjoy them all, though this one doesn’t make my top 3.
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From 07/29/2017 20:46
I grew up near the forrest. I was still a kid when listening to this album, overwhelmed, confused also a bit annoyed sometimes, it seemed to be an echo of a world of the past and and outlook into something new. But you know, most important: I grew up near the forrest.
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Best Albums of 1980
1. Remain In Light by Talking Heads
2. Closer by Joy Division
3. Back In Black by AC/DC
4. Scary Monsters... And Super Creeps by David Bowie
5. Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables by Dead Kennedys
6. Peter Gabriel III by Peter Gabriel
7. The River by Bruce Springsteen
8. Permanent Waves by Rush
9. Pretenders by Pretenders
10. Making Movies by Dire Straits
11. Seventeen Seconds by The Cure
12. Crazy Rhythms by The Feelies
13. Sandinista! by The Clash
14. Heaven And Hell by Black Sabbath
15. Ace Of Spades by Motörhead
16. Boy by U2
17. Gaucho by Steely Dan
18. Get Happy!! by Elvis Costello And The Attractions
19. Duke by Genesis
20. Sound Affects by The Jam
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