Knife
by Aztec Camera
Aztec Camera bestography
Knife is ranked 4th best out of 9 albums by Aztec Camera on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Aztec Camera is High Land, Hard Rain which is ranked number 1830 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 924.
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Knife track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/22/2025 17:05 |  muller72 | 31 | 83/100 |
| ! | 07/16/2024 13:37 | RemainInLight | 3,526 | 36/100 |
| ! | 03/15/2024 13:01 | cicadelic | 13,112 | 73/100 |
| ! | 11/24/2023 20:51 | TonySayers61 | 24,845 | 64/100 |
| ! | 01/06/2023 04:59 | Moondance | 20,547 | 72/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.8/100, a mean average of 67.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.6.
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It may not be the stone cold classic High Land Hard Rain is, but this proves Roddy Frame was no one album wonder. Songs like All I Need is Everything and The Birth of the True are amongst his best. Shame the somnorific cover of Van Halen's Jump wasn't included.
O.T. 01/25/2016 15:12 | #157642
There lives a huge desire in this record, as deep as the melancholy of the cover art and as artificial too. A dream of the USA and if that wouldn't have been difficult enough for a British guitar pop band, they even chose the man from Britain's most american band of that time as a producer. I guess the Knopfler choice was unforgiven by many. They should listen to the album again. It's a brave and playful attempt which fails at perfection. It had to fail, that was the concept. Even at his most dylanesque, in "Birth of the truth" one may imagine Scotland as well, and a young guy, not a wannabe but a fully developed artist at his peak (ok, close to his peak) who obviously struggled for this complex musical tribute to a dream that was known to be just a dream, "just like the USA".
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