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10 songs that feel like Wuthering Heights

Matched to Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush on how the music actually moves — intensity, dynamic swing, texture, tempo — not by genre tag. Here's what makes each one a match.

Wuthering Heights
The song you love
Wuthering Heights
Kate Bush
intense 62/100 intensity 102 BPM
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Caught — Florence + the Machine intense 120 BPM

A 96% feel-match — carries the same emotional pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (64/100).

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Limp — Fiona Apple intense 110 BPM

98% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (63/100). Same layered texture.

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Rafstraumur — Sigur Rós intense 110 BPM

Keeps the same emotional pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (63/100). Measured 98% alike. Nearly the same tempo, too (110 BPM).

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Tonight, Tonight, Tonight — Genesis moderate 102 BPM

Measures 96% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (58/100). Same layered texture.

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Cat People (Putting Out Fire) — David Bowie intense 92 BPM

A 98% feel-match — carries the same emotional pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (61/100).

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Give In to Me — Michael Jackson intense 108 BPM

95% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (63/100). Same layered texture.

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Eosophobia — Jack White intense 90 BPM

Keeps the same emotional pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (61/100). Measured 98% alike.

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Crying — Roy Orbison moderate 98 BPM

Measures 99% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (62/100). Same layered texture.

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Only in Dreams — Weezer intense 90 BPM

A 95% feel-match — carries the same emotional pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (61/100).

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Body to Flame — Lucy Dacus moderate 120 BPM

95% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (60/100). Same layered texture.

…and if you want it calmer

Same feeling, measured gentler — for when Wuthering Heights is more than you want right now.

Tonight, Tonight, Tonight by Genesis
Tonight, Tonight, Tonight — Genesis moderate 102 BPM

Keeps the same feel of the original, but it eases off just enough to take the edge off. Intensity 58/100, down from 62. Nearly the same tempo, too.

Do You Love Me by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Do You Love Me — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds moderate 110 BPM

Its dynamic range stays a gentler 6 where the original climbs to 8, so it lands at 48/100 — the pull without the edge. Nearly the same tempo, too.

Long Time Gone by Crosby, Stills & Nash
Long Time Gone — Crosby, Stills & Nash moderate 92 BPM

If it's the same feel you're after, this delivers it while it measures markedly calmer overall. Reads 50/100. Nearly the same tempo, too.

Hypocritical Kiss by Jack White
Hypocritical Kiss — Jack White moderate 110 BPM

Holds the same feel while it eases off just enough to take the edge off. 59/100, versus the original's 62. Nearly the same tempo, too.

Space Bound by Eminem
Space Bound — Eminem moderate 92 BPM

Keeps the same feel of the original, but it eases off just enough to take the edge off. Intensity 57/100, down from 62. Nearly the same tempo, too.

Do You Love Me? by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Do You Love Me? — Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds moderate 110 BPM

Its dynamic range stays a gentler 6 where the original climbs to 8, so it lands at 48/100 — the pull without the edge. Nearly the same tempo, too.

Nightmares by the Sea by Jeff Buckley
Nightmares by the Sea — Jeff Buckley moderate 112 BPM

If it's the same feel you're after, this delivers it while it measures markedly calmer overall. Reads 52/100. Nearly the same tempo, too.

I Need a Doctor by Dr. Dre
I Need a Doctor — Dr. Dre moderate 90 BPM

Holds the same feel while it eases off just enough to take the edge off. 56/100, versus the original's 62.

Frequently asked

What songs sound like “Wuthering Heights” by Kate Bush?

The closest feel-matches we measure are “Caught” by Florence + the Machine, “Limp” by Fiona Apple, “Rafstraumur” by Sigur Rós — the top match scores 96% alike. Matching is by how the songs actually move (intensity, dynamic range, texture, tempo, predictability, vocal force), not by genre tag or popularity.

What songs are like “Wuthering Heights” but calmer?

“Tonight, Tonight, Tonight” by Genesis, “Do You Love Me” by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, “Long Time Gone” by Crosby, Stills & Nash keep a similar feel while measuring gentler — lower dynamic swing, fewer sudden shifts, or a calmer overall level.

How intense is “Wuthering Heights”?

It measures 62/100 on our intensity scale, computed from a dynamic range of 8/10, layered texture, moderate sudden shifts, and dynamic vocals. Tempo is 102 BPM.

How do you decide which songs are similar?

Every song in our catalog is measured on 8 dimensions — intensity, dynamic range, tempo, sudden changes, texture, predictability, vocal force and fine sound detail. Similarity is the distance between two songs across those measurements, so matches cross genres and eras. Shared mood tags break ties.

By the numbers: how this song compares

Computed from this song’s place among the 19,209 songs we’ve measured.

Where it sits in 19,000 songs

This is one of the more intense things in our library — more energetic than 83% of the 19,209 songs we've measured. Its intensity reading of 62/100 comes from a dynamic range of 8/10, layered texture, moderate shifts, and dynamic vocals. Relatively few songs occupy this exact corner of the spectrum.

What makes it unusual

What stands out most about this song is blazing intensity: more extreme on that axis than 83% of everything we've measured. At the far opposite end of the library sit the songs built on near-total stillness — steady volume, no surprises, a slow and unhurried pulse — the kind of track this one is the counterpoint to.

Feels almost identical to

Closest matches by feel across all 19,209 measured songs — not by genre or artist, by how they actually move.

What it’s good for

Sleep0/10
Focus3/10
Workout4/10
Dinner6/10
Party / hype5/10

Scored from this song’s tempo, intensity, dynamics and texture — not crowd votes.

1978 in context

The 214 songs we’ve measured from 1978 average a dynamic range of 6.1/10. At 8/10, this track is louder and more dynamic than its year.

Mixes smoothly with

Within a few BPM and close in feel — they flow without a jarring transition.

The fingerprint

Intensity62
Dynamics78
Tempo34
Surprise50
Density33
Predictability50
Vocal force75
Trigger load0

The 8-dimension measurement behind every rating on this page.

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