Down To The Waterline (track)
by Dire Straits
Year: 1978
From the album Dire Straits (track #1)
Down To The Waterline appears on the following album(s) by Dire Straits:
- Dire Straits (track #1) (this album) (1978)
- Money For Nothing (track #2) (compilation) (1988)
- Live At The BBC (track #1) (1995)
- The Studio Albums 1978–1991 (track #1) (compilation) (2013)
- Dire Straits (1981) (track #1) (compilation) (1981)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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80/100  | 10/06/2025 10:12 | markl73 | | 79/100 |
20/100 | 10/02/2025 17:18 | gmessian | | 55/100 |
80/100 | 09/04/2025 21:28 | Jonboy | | 79/100 |
85/100 | 05/21/2025 10:42 |  djrodo | | 80/100 |
80/100 | 05/13/2025 10:29 |  doombringer | | 75/100 |
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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 85.9/100, a mean average of 86.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.4/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.5.
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This track should receive more recognition. I hadn't heard about it till I listened to this album while I knew other tracks from Dire Straits which aren't as great as this one, maybe it's because it was shadowed by the extraordinary "Sultans of Swing".
Romanelli 01/25/2012 00:11
This excellent track should be rated higher than the 14th best Dire Straits song. It really should.
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