Jig Of Life (track)
by Kate Bush
Jig Of Life appears on the following album(s) by Kate Bush:
- Hounds Of Love (track #10) (this album) (1985)
- This Woman's Work: Anthology 1978-1990 (track #87) (compilation) (1990)
- Before The Dawn (track #15) (2016)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 11/10/2025 16:02 | Exist-en-ciel | 51,048 | 71/100 |
| ! | 10/02/2025 11:54 |  Ilolahti | 735 | 79/100 |
| ! | 09/05/2025 13:15 | byuzak | 32,684 | 78/100 |
| ! | 07/27/2025 14:13 | wizardalien | 8,677 | 72/100 |
| ! | 07/15/2025 12:06 |  Igtonumama | 31,393 | 81/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 84.9/100, a mean average of 84.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 85.2/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.4.
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AAL2014 12/06/2023 04:31 | #300308
So unapologetic in it coming out of fucking nowhere but being just as necessarily weird and engaging as the surrounding material.
It sounds a bit like folk rock this one. The beauty of it is that KB pulls it off. The 9th wave won't be judged lightly.
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