Waking The Witch (track)
by Kate Bush
Year: 1985
From the album Hounds Of Love (track #8)
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Waking The Witch appears on the following album(s) by Kate Bush:
- Hounds Of Love (track #8) (this album) (1985)
- This Woman's Work: Anthology 1978-1990 (track #85) (compilation) (1990)
- Before The Dawn (track #11) (2016)
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70/100  | 10/02/2025 11:52 |  Ilolahti | | 79/100 |
80/100 | 09/05/2025 13:15 | byuzak | | 78/100 |
40/100 | 07/27/2025 14:13 | wizardalien | | 72/100 |
85/100 | 07/15/2025 12:06 |  Igtonumama | | 81/100 |
30/100 | 07/09/2025 11:29 | timosbuecherei | | 60/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 4% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 81.9/100, a mean average of 81.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 14.8.
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Absolutely beautiful. For me, it's one of the highlights off of the ninth wave suite. Masterly crafted
Idk why, but this and 'And Dream of Sheep' just hit me so hard when listening to The Ninth Wave in it's entirety. Perfectly executed decent into dreaming.
Franz-Aussie 04/27/2017 22:19
this song sounds like a boss battle in art pop form
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