Stand In The Fire
by Warren Zevon
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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 1363 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,267.
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Stand In The Fire track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Stand In The Fire rankings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/03/2026 16:19 | Pluto11 | 12,260 | 72/100 |
| ! | 11/12/2025 20:43 | NYAndreas | 1,433 | 44/100 |
| ! | 08/03/2025 13:24 | daCritic | 4,584 | 73/100 |
| ! | 07/21/2024 13:00 |  buzzdainer | 3,338 | 79/100 |
| ! | 07/02/2024 17:45 |  spigelwii | 645 | 85/100 |
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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 77.6/100, a mean average of 75.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.6.
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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
UofTBlues 01/07/2020 16:04 | #246521
I use to play this album at my parties in my younger days. Great party record!
Kingturtle 06/23/2017 21:38 | #193130
One of the worst LP covers of a decent musician.
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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