Communiqué
by Dire Straits
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Dire Straits bestography
Communiqué is ranked 5th 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 220 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 7,168.
(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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Communiqué track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Communiqué ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 01/19/2026 07:15 | brent13 | 1,841 | 69/100 |
| ! | 01/11/2026 07:18 | CrazyDiamond84 | 64 | 61/100 |
| ! | 12/09/2025 14:20 | rubens | 819 | 71/100 |
| ! | 12/09/2025 00:11 | Exist-en-ciel | 7,416 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/13/2025 00:09 | NYAndreas | 1,433 | 44/100 |
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(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.0/100, a mean average of 74.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.6.
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Squonk007 01/10/2025 20:48 | #306897
I think this is my favourite album of their's. Follow Me Home is my top track.
Jboy56 11/08/2023 13:54 | #299868
I like this
Second track is the best on the album ?
Solid enough album with the Once Upon A Time In the West and Portobello Belle the standout for me
Underrated masterpiece. My favourite studio album of Dire Straits
A masterful album, some exquisite touches, cool cruisey rhythms, good hooks and sublime sounds. I bought this on cassette tape in my penultimate year of high school, was one of my high rotate albums that year, most enjoyed very late Sunday evening as wind down/chillax, head phones on! Tape got mangled a long time ago, so listening again over 40 years later on Spotify and thanks to BEA for getting me to rethink what ARE great albums and redisco er again old treasures. This album is not as raw or perhaps quite as exciting as the debut album, nor as popular with big hits as later albums, but this album is consistently good, very high quality and perhaps a bridge between 1st and later. Probably a good reason Knopfler and Pickett were invited to play on Dylan's A Slow Train Coming later that year
Probably my favourite Dire Straits album - certainly the one I play the most. I could never understand why it was less revered than their other offerings.
To me, their best album. Captures them at the turning point between raw and a product.
Graeme2 03/21/2020 22:04 | #248969
Some shite written about this one on here. Anyways, I never thought I thought I'd get back into listening to these. This and the debut are sounding fantastic to me at the moment. Got both on recent repress vinyl and wonderful jobs have been made with both. You can't can't beat sitting back late at night with a drink and this or the debut bon the rekid player. Not fussed about anything else they did nowadays but they'd already nailed it with those two anyways.
rockinsteve 11/11/2018 04:59 | #224282
Nice, mostly mellow second album by Mark Knopfler and the boys. Great album to relax to. Mr. Knopfler's guitar work is extraordinary on this one. Pick this one up if you're a fan of Dire Straits or Mark's wonderful playing.
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