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The Dreaming

Kate Bush | Format: Audio CD
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)

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Kate Bush is one of the most successful and groundbreaking British solo performers of the last 30 years.

Her first single “Wuthering Heights” topped the UK singles chart for 4 weeks in 1978, the same year she released her debut album “The Kick Inside” and its follow-up “Lionheart”.

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  • Audio CD (26 Jan 1987)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: EMI Music UK
  • ASIN: B000006MS3
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 45,475 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1. Sat in Your Lap
2. There Goes a Tenner
3. Pull Out the Pin
4. Suspended in Gaffa
5. Leave It Open
6. The Dreaming
7. Night of the Swallow
8. All the Love
9. Houdini
10. Get Out of My House

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars It's dark, it's dramatic, it's disconcerting 30 Oct 1999
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
Kate's fourth studio album is uniquely intense. It's dark and angry - there's lots of wailing and lyrical gnashing of teeth going on here. This is definitely no picnic.

'The Dreaming' is not a concept album although it sounds like one. It could almost be a prototype of 'The Ninth Wave' - the conceptual piece on Kate's next album, 'Hounds of Love'. However, 'The Dreaming' has always been in the shadow of its more commercially viable successor, which is a shame as it is such a remarkable album in itself.

Standout tracks include 'Get Out of My House' - this is an exquisitely furious and dramatic piece of music. 'All the Love' will leave a lump in your throat, while 'Night of the Swallow' and 'Leave it Open' are just sheer ear candy.

I think Kate is at her musical best when she really lets rip - and there is a lot of that going on in 'The Dreaming'. This is a spellbinding album which treats the listener as an emotional punchbag. It'll leave you feeling shaken and exhilarated. Not one for the fainthearted.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Re-discovered treasure!!! 18 July 2005
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
I bought this CD the other day after not having listened to it for years. I'd forgotten just how strange and beautiful it is, it's everything you want from a classic album. You're taken on a journey through the weird and wonderful, stories of the Vietnam War (Pull Out The Pin), bungled bank heists (There Goes a Tenner), Houdini's wifes part in the illusionists trickery (With A Kiss I'd Pass The Key), Irish jigs (Night of the Swallow) and the most amazing of all is her take on Stephen Kings "The Shining" in "Get Out Of My House" (I read that years ago when she was still writing this album) on which she sounds like a woman possesed, you can't imagine anyone could ever cover this track. I'd also forgotten how beautiful "All the Love" is...why all the 5 stars?? Because even after 20 years it's fresh innovative and bloody amazing!
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars HER BEST AND ONE OF THE 80s BEST! 2 Feb 2004
By Carlos Conceição
Format:Audio CD
The Dreaming is one of those works that stand out of it's time to remain in the records as a "major". This is Kate Bush's masterpiece. It is completely timeless is a way that very, very few music albums are. It's absolutelly actual today as it was in the nineties or when it came out. It was an inspiration for a whole generation of "weird" songwriters like Bjork or Portishead but it's always more genuine, more visceral, more incredible, more unbelievable. Most people say Kate's best album is Hounds Of Love. Maybe that's true. But there is something about the dreaming that really overpasses Hounds. Hounds has a more POP approach to it, with obvious singles popping out, it's more dated, less free of barriers.
The Dreaming fascinated me as soon as I discoverd it after Sensual World came out. I was never the same person again.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Dreaming Of Genius!!!
This is my most utterly & totally favourite Kate Bush album ever! I originally had it on vinyl and completly wore it out, a boyfriend at the time re-bought it for me but that too... Read more
Published on 16 April 2011 by L. D. Campbell
5.0 out of 5 stars Let Yourself In.
This is a difficult album to get round to buying you hear so much about it that eventually you just have to give in and make your own mind up and my is it worth it. Read more
Published on 31 Mar 2011 by Julia Havard
4.0 out of 5 stars Difficult to love at first but Inspiring when you're there
It is initially difficult to love this album. But take the beauty of tracks like "All the Love" and "Night of the Swallow" and hopefully your love will grow, as they are beautiful. Read more
Published on 23 Mar 2011 by Mr. Mark R. Nolan
2.0 out of 5 stars packaging problem
When my order arrived, the CD case was smashed in several places which I presume was damaged during transit, the actual CD was intact, but since it was offered as "very good"... Read more
Published on 8 Mar 2011 by ratty
5.0 out of 5 stars Kate Bush creates her first masterwork
After working with Peter Gabriel and being introduced to a Fairlight keyboard sampler during sessions for Never for Ever, Kate Bush felt she had exactly the right tools and the... Read more
Published on 16 Aug 2010 by M.B.
1.0 out of 5 stars This is the odd one out
After reading all the other reviews, I must be seriously missing something here. I bought all of Kate's other albums and liked them, some more than others. Read more
Published on 31 Jan 2010 by N. KUCA
5.0 out of 5 stars a haunting masterpiece!
I think this is one of kates best albums to date and i think it's a shame it didn't do better at the time of it's release but it's great to see it rarted so highly.
Published on 13 Sep 2009 by FUTURESTARdelux
5.0 out of 5 stars Atmospheric and adventurous
I remember hearing the title track in July of 1982 when it was released as a single and thinking, if there was a soundtrack for Australia in your head, this is it's essence... Read more
Published on 6 Aug 2009 by John Miller
5.0 out of 5 stars Unusual,quirky,stunning Art Rock!
Kate hit a stride with the stunning Never Forever, and here with her 4th album, she delivers a new style of synthesised pop rock with new production and a fresh yet bewildering... Read more
Published on 23 May 2009 by S. J. Pinder
5.0 out of 5 stars By Far the Best and Weirdest of Kate Bush's Albums
An off-the-wall masterpiece that Kate Bush has never surpassed, and probably few others ever will. After a whole year in the studio, fans were expecting something special but it's... Read more
Published on 7 April 2009 by Nobody Famous
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