Stealing Fire
by Bruce Cockburn
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Bruce Cockburn bestography
Stealing Fire is ranked as the best album by Bruce Cockburn.
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Stealing Fire track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Stealing Fire 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 | cicadelic | Top 100 Music Albums of 1984 | 30/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  junodog4 | Best 100 of Canada | 44/100 | - |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 15/100 | 17 |
| 2026 | junodog4 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 57/100 | 9 |
| 2026 | JamesMowbray | Top 99 Music Albums of 1984 | 75/99 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | Top 40 Music Albums of 1984 | 21/40 | 3 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top 84 Music Albums of 1984 | 27/84 | 3 |
| 2026 | junodog4 | Top 20 Music Albums of 1984 | 8/20 | 3 |
| 2026 | Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 1101-1200 | 42/100 | - |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 1984 | 73/100 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 33 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 145 | |||
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Stealing Fire ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 03/07/2026 19:58 | BoxFL | 2,766 | 51/100 |
| ! | 07/14/2025 03:02 | rfowler | 443 | 85/100 |
| ! | 06/17/2025 16:35 |  idiotican | 2,803 | 74/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.0/100, a mean average of 69.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.3.
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Forum mentions
Romanelli 02/01/2023 21:06 in The Romanelli Music Diary: Fifty Eggs Romanelli 05/15/2020 23:56 in What Song Are You Listening To Right Now?Stealing Fire comments
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Wildly underrated on this site. He is the modern Canadian equivalent of Woody Guthrie or Pete Seeger lyrically - but he is a musical genius and one of the world's greatest guitarists to boot. I can only say that the ratings for him reflect more on the ignorance of Canadian music of the people using this site than on the quality and quantity of Bruce Cockburn's work. (Edited)
Got to kick the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight...
junodog4 08/13/2012 19:38 | #48428 | TOP COMMENT
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Cockburn's best album. He was truly pissed at the crap he'd seen around him in Canada, the US, and especially Latin America. Scathing lyrics without losing the sense of melody. Great.
GoJetsGo 06/12/2012 18:44 | #44308 | TOP COMMENT
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Pure genius.
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