Everything Bush-wise comes together in perfect unison on this one.

Original, eccentric, tasteful, pretty, dark...

Last track - Breathing.

Looney on the Bus alert!

With the previous track the album finishes on a quite a political note.

I think this one's about the threat of a nuclear war.

Crikey! Even this managed to get to 16 in the hit parade.

Talking.

Fretless bass!

Coda.

The Wall style crunching guitars!

Going a bit Pink Floyd.

Mass Roy Harpers on backing vocals!

Is over.

It was a typical Kate Bush album. The singles are great and the other tracks are undisciplined cobblers.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it.

I shall give it 3 stars.

Well, y'know, I think it's an underrated album.

As a whole it has a very closely studied but effective feel and sound.

It's a more ambitious tilt at actual art by KB, but I suppose she's a little embarrassed by some of it ("Babooshka" for sure), but it's a fascinating watershed album, spanning her nascent years and the more 'mature' - but to my mind less entertaining/bit tiresome and angular - phase of her career.

Ultimately:

Babooshka > The Dreaming

No Rolf on the former track neither.

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In 2020, Grazia magazine conducted an interview with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

When asked about the 5 most influential women in his life, Johnson placed Kate Bush at the fifth spot after deliberating between nominating Queen Elizabeth II, Margaret Thatcher, and Bush.