Stand In The Fire (live album)
by Warren Zevon

Stand In The Fire by Warren Zevon
(Live album)
Year: 1980
Overall rank: 15,227th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 46 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1980 (215th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (2,078th)
Award Best albums of all time (15,227th)

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Warren Zevon bestography

Stand In The Fire is ranked 7th best out of 20 albums by Warren Zevon on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Warren Zevon is Excitable Boy which is ranked number 1280 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,345.

Warren Zevon album bestography « Higher ranked (13,542nd)
Life'll Kill Ya
This album (15,227th)
Stand In The Fire
Lower ranked (19,599th) »
Mr. Bad Example

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Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 46 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.7/100, a mean average of 76.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.8.

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From 07/27/2022 00:16
My personal favorite Zevon album (and one of my favorite live albums in general - this is a gold standard in rock performance), all of his songs bring down the house here, the definitive versions of most of these songs can be found on this record. Good looks to David Landau on lead guitar.

Essential picks: Excitable Boy, Werewolves of London, Poor Poor Pitiful Me, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, Play It All Night Long
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From 01/07/2020 16:04
I use to play this album at my parties in my younger days. Great party record!
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From 06/23/2017 21:38
One of the worst LP covers of a decent musician.
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From 07/19/2010 04:55
Maybe adding a live album is not supposed to be done? This is the only reason i can imagine why this rip-snorter of a rock'n'roll classic has never appeared before on this site.
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