Stealing Fire (studio album)
by Bruce Cockburn

Stealing Fire by Bruce Cockburn
Year: 1984
Overall rank: 8,163rd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 45 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1984 (124th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,190th)
Award Best albums of all time (8,163rd)

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Stealing Fire is ranked as the best album by Bruce Cockburn.

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Stealing Fire track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 45 votes)
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06/17/2025 16:35 idiotican  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 2,80374/100
 
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04/15/2025 15:29 JamesMowbray  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 5,20570/100
 
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07/15/2024 18:05 MetalMan67  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 5,94971/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.0/100, a mean average of 69.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.4.

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90/100
From 06/12/2016 15:15
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.
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From 09/08/2014 03:24
Got to kick the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight...
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80/100
From 08/13/2012 19:38
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.
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From 06/12/2012 18:44
Pure genius.
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Best Albums of 1984
1. Purple Rain by Prince And The Revolution
2. Ride The Lightning by Metallica
3. The Smiths by The Smiths
4. Born In The U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen
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