Mother Stands For Comfort (track)
by Kate Bush
Year: 1985
From the album Hounds Of Love (track #4)
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Mother Stands For Comfort appears on the following album(s) by Kate Bush:
- Hounds Of Love (track #4) (this album) (1985)
- This Woman's Work: Anthology 1978-1990 (track #81) (compilation) (1990)
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| ! | 02/03/2026 23:13 | Gedster | 349 | 72/100 |
| ! | 01/16/2026 15:53 | philschmil | 427 | 88/100 |
| ! | 01/07/2026 00:31 | shawnd27 | 69 | 74/100 |
| ! | 12/27/2025 03:06 |  LukasAntoine00s | 5,220 | 80/100 |
| ! | 11/10/2025 16:06 | Exist-en-ciel | 76,796 | 70/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 3% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 83.1/100, a mean average of 82.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.3/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.6.
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As conflicted , tortured and discordant as the subject matter…side one’s odd one out.
Beautiful song about a mother who protects her child, even though she / he is a murderer. Nice bass lines. They remind me a bit of Mick Karn (Bass player of the band Japan).
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