Love Over Gold
by Dire Straits

Album
Love Over Gold by Dire Straits
Year: 1982
Release date: 1982-09-24
Overall rank: 631st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 554 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 1982 (9th)
Award Top 100 albums of of the 1980s (99th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (631st)

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Dire Straits bestography

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 226 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,877.

Dire Straits album bestography « Higher ranked (226th)
Brothers In Arms This album (631st)
Love Over Gold Lower ranked (635th) »
Making Movies

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Love Over Gold track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Telegraph Road
Average Rating: 88 (198 votes)Comments: View 8
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Private Investigations
Average Rating: 87 (178 votes)Comments: View 2
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Industrial Disease
Average Rating: 79 (124 votes)Comments: View 2
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Love Over Gold
Average Rating: 82 (138 votes)Comments: View 1
5.
It Never Rains
Average Rating: 80 (126 votes)Comments: View 2

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Love Over Gold rankings

Love Over Gold rankings summary
Overall rank: 631st | 1980s rank: 99th | 1982 rank: 9th  Overall chart history
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Love Over Gold ratings

Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 554 votes)
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 !		08/25/2026 10:20 AledJames  Ratings distribution  1,67169/100
 
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 !		07/12/2026 18:33 liquidbottle  Ratings distribution  77582/100
 
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 !		06/15/2026 06:42 ASOARE  Ratings distribution  2,32576/100

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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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From BestEverAlbums 32 hours ago in Chart of the day (#5427): By StreakyNuno
“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by StreakyNuno () 1. by (1973) 2. by (1975) 3. by (1967) 4. by (1972) 5. by by (1967) 7. by (2004) 9. by (1977) 11. (1977) 12. by (1979) 13. by (1966) 14. (1982) 15. (1989) 16. by (1988) 17. (1986) 18. by by (2020) 22. by (1985) 23. by (1997)…”
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“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Graeme2 () 1. (1973) 2. by (1989) 3. by by (1988) 5. (2002) 6. by by by (1972) 9. (1996) 10. by by (2003) 12. (1994) 13. by (1984) 14. by by by (1973) 17. by by (1977) 19. by (1979) 20. by (1970) 21. by (1992) 23. by (1969) 24. by (1993) 25.…”
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From Romanelli 11/19/2025 02:18 in Albums You Added To Your Collection Today
“Another ten album haul... With the addition of the first eight albums, I now have, in my physical collection, all of the top 600 on the BEA overall chart. Next is #601, A Tabua De Esmerelda by Jorge Ben. I now have 821 of the BEA Top 1000 in my collection. Also added these to my collection:”
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From 04/30/2026 12:46 | #314220
It’s just brilliant! (Edited)
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From 05/13/2025 10:41 | #308973
I really tried to like this album , but every time it`s just brutally boring . (Edited)
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From 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. (Edited)
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From 09/25/2022 09:20 | #289948
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.
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From 09/07/2022 01:12 | #289463
Telegraph road is amazing
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Best Albums of  1982
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