Love Over Gold
by Dire Straits
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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 231 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,740.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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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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Love Over Gold rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Leonard | Music I listend in 85 | 2/65 | - |
| 2026 | martintho | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 52/100 | 10 |
| 2026 | matterhornrider | Top 72 Music Albums of 1982 | 19/72 | 4 |
| 2026 | steve397 | Top 94 Music Albums of the 1980s | 62/94 | 7 |
| 2026 |  Sandrof1969 | Top 25 Music Albums of 1982 | 22/25 | 1 |
| 2026 | Hyggevinyl | Top 53 Music Albums of 1982 | 10/53 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Graeme2 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 98/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | tim0505 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 37/100 | 13 |
| 2026 |  Squonk007 | Top 31 Music Albums of 1982 | 8/31 | 4 |
| 2026 | stangetzaway | Top 41 Music Albums of 1982 | 18/41 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 403 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 2,679 | |||
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Love Over Gold ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/13/2026 11:46 |  UofTBlues | 3,655 | 71/100 |
| ! | 09/30/2026 13:39 | Siromynian | 1,789 | 74/100 |
| ! | 09/26/2026 20:52 | timosbuecherei | 343 | 75/100 |
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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 78.5/100, a mean average of 77.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.
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Love Over Gold forum mentions
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Love Over Gold comments
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Mark Knopfler goes for the epic on Dire straits fourth album. Love over gold, only consists of five songs, but they are all excellent. Telegraph road, is a stunning opening track, and it's followed by the atmospheric, private investigations. Side gives us the enjoyable, industrial disease, the lovely title track, and, it never rains, which always seems to be the forgotten track. Love over gold, is arguably Dire straits' best album. (Edited)
An ambitious album that you wouldn't expect to get from a band like Dire Straits. Although they don't stick the landing all the time Knopfler and Co made a good album and definitely an underrated one. Shouldn't be glossed over! Telegraph Road and Private Investigations belong to their best material.
90/100
Don't play with me this album is one of the best ever
Graeme2 TOP 100 COMMENTER 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.
Fischman TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/07/2018 21:45 | #226467 | TOP COMMENT
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Easily my favorite Dire Straits album. Telegraph Road is one of the greatest songs of all time, in any genre. Industrial Disease is wonderfully witty, and the rest is worthy as well.
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