Sailing To Philadelphia
by Mark Knopfler
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Sailing To Philadelphia is ranked as the best album by Mark Knopfler.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 01/01/2026 18:43 | spinout | 3,480 | 81/100 |
| ! | 11/28/2025 08:06 | MarkusN | 933 | 78/100 |
| ! | 06/09/2025 18:23 | Invader666 | 2,622 | 65/100 |
| ! | 04/04/2025 12:12 | Siromynian | 1,627 | 78/100 |
| ! | 03/14/2025 17:09 | dukeboxkool | 2,225 | 72/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.2/100, a mean average of 74.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.9.
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Maybe his best solo album, some great songs here: Speedway to Nazareth, Silvertown blues, What it is, and the title track. Note the listing is for the US version, the international version has "13. One More Matinee" instead of "6. Do America" (Edited)
travelful 06/17/2015 20:39 | #144045 | TOP COMMENT
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Mark Knopfler is my favorite musician of all time. I'm so glad he still makes solo work. A musical legend.
drivebytornado 02/27/2013 13:33 | #66319 | TOP COMMENT
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A fine album made only finer due to contributions from James Taylor and Van Morrison. A bit of a dropoff from my personal favorite Knopfler album, Golden Heart, but still quite good, and better than anything he's done since, in this listener's opinion.
A good one but Kopfler had not really found his perfect solo sound here. The two first tracks are amazing though!
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