Street Fighting Years (studio album) by Simple Minds

Street Fighting Years by Simple Minds
Year: 1989
Overall rank: 3,422nd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
68/100 (from 104 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1989 (47th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (526th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,422nd)
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Simple Minds bestography

Street Fighting Years is ranked 4th best out of 25 albums by Simple Minds on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Simple Minds is New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) which is ranked number 825 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,162.

Simple Minds album bestography « Higher ranked (2,750th) This album (3,422nd) Lower ranked (5,157th) »
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Street Fighting Years track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
68/100 (from 104 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 68.4/100, a mean average of 67.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 68.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.7.

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80/100
From 02/06/2022 08:14
This is an often overlooked (I did) album and is underrated, delivering a number of really great songs. This is Your Land and Belfast Child are particular favourites of mine. I am really pleased that I have been able to pick this up on vinyl re-issue, now completing what I believe to be my collection of the classic Simple Minds albums heyday on vinyl.
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Their best album
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From 06/27/2019 01:43
A true gem of an album that is very underrated. From the opening bass of Street Fighting Years to the haunting and magical guitar rifts, creative percussions, atmospheric keyboards and orchestral sounds of all the tracks, this is a great listen. It has strong political, human rights and emotional feelings throughout that his very powerful. This Is Your Land (with a Lou Reed cameo), to Kick It In and the masterful Mandela Day and Belfast Child, it isn amazing album. My first big concert was them featuring this album that will always be that special moment in history for me.
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