On The Night (live album)
by Dire Straits

On The Night by Dire Straits
(Live album)
Year: 1993
Overall rank: 20,243rd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 27 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1993 (322nd)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (3,221st)
Award Best albums of all time (20,243rd)
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Dire Straits bestography

On The Night is ranked 11th best out of 16 albums by Dire Straits on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Dire Straits is Brothers In Arms which is ranked number 222 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 7,239.

Dire Straits album bestography « Higher ranked (19,893rd)
The Best Of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler: Private Investigations
This album (20,243rd)
On The Night
Lower ranked (33,930th) »
Sultans Of Swing: The Very Best Of Dire Straits

(N.B. Bestographies do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 27 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.4/100, a mean average of 69.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.1.

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From 06/20/2015 15:39
Ok performance, not even close to the Alchemy (Live) album. Not a fan of the steel guitar (played by Paul Franklin) which is too prominent on this album (for me). Nice version of Brothers in Arms though.
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