Never For Ever (studio album) by Kate Bush
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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 53 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 18,715.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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80/100  | 06/09/2025 05:31 | Invader666 | | 67/100 |
90/100 | 04/18/2025 07:01 |  TescoHomeCooking | | 77/100 |
70/100 | 04/10/2025 20:26 | thepardunk | | 70/100 |
85/100 | 03/07/2025 14:56 |  Tamthebam | | 69/100 |
75/100 | 03/01/2025 13:37 | thenat | | 75/100 |
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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 79.0/100, a mean average of 78.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.4.
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Side one is a treat.
The second side, though, opens with the slightly weaker "The Wedding List, followed by what I can only decribe as horrendous "Violin".
After that, my enjoyment picked up again but,overall, the second side pales in comparison.
HoldenM 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.
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.
Here Kate goes more experimental than on The Kick Inside and somtimes the experiments work well and sometimes not.
Favorites: Babooshka, Wedding List, Breathing.
Jboy56 03/04/2022 17:12
Kate, you, my beautiful elf...
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.
Goliath 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.
The whimsy of her first two albums collides with the avaunt guard of the next two and it is just beautiful. Diverse and interesting.
Boltzmann 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.
Her first six albums are all great! I enjoy them all, though this one doesn’t make my top 3.
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