Love Over Gold
by Dire Straits
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Love Over Gold is ranked 2nd best out of 16 albums by Dire Straits on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Dire Straits is Brothers In Arms which is ranked number 223 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,973.
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Love Over Gold track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/12/2026 18:33 | liquidbottle | 775 | 82/100 |
| ! | 06/15/2026 06:42 | ASOARE | 2,325 | 76/100 |
| ! | 06/04/2026 22:14 | slimharpo | 1,494 | 69/100 |
| ! | 05/14/2026 15:50 | Pavloss | 488 | 50/100 |
| ! | 05/11/2026 04:23 | emnasut | 153 | 87/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.6/100, a mean average of 77.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.
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It’s just brilliant!
doombringer 05/13/2025 10:41 | #308973
I really tried to like this album , but every time it`s just brutally boring .
Squonk007 11/09/2023 14:50 | #299889
A very good record but not their best. Telegraph Road is one the best pieces of music ever put down by anyone.
This is another excellent Dire Straits record, I prefer debut, but I think this one is more consistent than Making Movies. However all of these albums are incredibly strong, this one is by far the most consistently great.
Telegraph road is amazing
Jboy56 05/05/2022 10:19 | #284965
Best tracks: Telegraph Road, Private Investigations. Industrial Disease is an oddball song from a different style of an album, that breaks the cohesion markedly.
Telegraph Road is absolutely exceptional and everything after that doesn't really live up to that same level. For those 14 minutes you are treated to some of the very best of Dire Straits and it is the reason I have come back to this album so many times. It just captivates me and the performances on that song are just incredible. The Title Track is the next closest in terms of quality and without it I would skip this album and just listen to Telegraph Road. The other 3 tracks just never clicked with me and I feel like they were elongated just for the sake of it. I find this with most of Dire Straits songs as they just seem to want to keep the song going when it had reached its natural end already. Obviously there are glimpses of quality in the other 3 songs and they are still decent but they just miss the mark for me. Overall, an inconsistent album that is saved by the 14 minute epic that might be Dire Straits best ever song.
El cambio que se intuía en los temas más largos de Making Movies se consolida aquí. Un álbum más cercano al rock progresivo, de temas más desarrollados (especialmente en la monumental Telegraph Road). espectacular.
teague 07/01/2021 01:11 | #271195
I think this is what most people hear when they listen to Bruce Springsteen.
Graeme2 05/08/2021 08:21 | #269487 | TOP COMMENT
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Well, I love it now so I guess I'm officially boring. I love all their stuff apart from bits of brothers in arms. Yep, old and boring. Shoot me if I start to dig Phil Collins.
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