Dancing In The Dragon's Jaws
by Bruce Cockburn
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Bruce Cockburn bestography
Dancing In The Dragon's Jaws is ranked 2nd best out of 34 albums by Bruce Cockburn on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Bruce Cockburn is Stealing Fire which is ranked number 8599 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 145.
(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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Dancing In The Dragon's Jaws track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Dancing In The Dragon's Jaws rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 8 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 801-900 | 90/100 | - |
| 2026 |  junodog4 | Top 20 Music Albums of 1979 | 15/20 | 2 |
| 2026 | Romanelli | Top 41 Music Albums of 1979 | 20/41 | 3 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 90 Music Albums of 1979 | 4/90 | 5 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 42/100 | 12 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1979 | 34/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 99 Music Albums of 1979 | 52/99 | 2 |
| 2026 | junodog4 | Best 100 of Canada | 92/100 | - |
| 2025 | TastyandTemptin | Top 34 Music Albums of 1979 | 13/34 | 3 |
| 2025 |  imacgill | Top 89 Music Albums of 1979 | 77/89 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 32 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 108 | |||
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Dancing In The Dragon's Jaws ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/01/2025 09:48 | cicadelic | 14,072 | 73/100 |
| ! | 04/18/2025 21:58 | Vinyl | 536 | 80/100 |
| ! | 01/18/2024 16:34 | JamesMowbray | 5,706 | 69/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 16% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.9/100, a mean average of 74.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.0.
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Dancing In The Dragon's Jaws forum mentions
imacgill 09/29/2022 01:52 in Song Chronicle
neilgee 01/01/2020 19:00 in What album are you listening to right now? Romanelli 04/19/2018 12:43 in The Romanelli Music Diary: When I GoDancing In The Dragon's Jaws comments
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junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/28/2015 03:56 | #132780 | TOP COMMENT
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A big splash by Cockburn... and there's much more to this than Wondering Where the Lions Are. A quality folk-rock album with a concience. (Edited)
Best Track: Wondering Where the Lions Are
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