On The Beach
by Chris Rea

On The Beach by Chris Rea
Year: 1986
Overall rank: 15,180th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 46 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1986 (214th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (2,057th)
Award Best albums of all time (15,180th)

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Chris Rea bestography

On The Beach is ranked 2nd best out of 26 albums by Chris Rea on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Chris Rea is The Road To Hell which is ranked number 4647 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 302.

Chris Rea album bestography « Higher ranked (4,647th)
The Road To Hell
This album (15,180th)
On The Beach
Lower ranked (25,237th) »
(Blue Guitars)

(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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On The Beach track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 15,180th | 1980s rank: 2,057th | 1986 rank: 214th

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70/100 (from 46 votes)
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02/05/2026 14:26 Leginlists  Ratings distribution  2,50084/100
 
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12/24/2025 11:03 duelek  Ratings distribution  1,73676/100
 
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11/01/2025 10:39 zsolti  Ratings distribution  66481/100
 
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08/17/2025 13:07 RemainInLight  Ratings distribution  3,21836/100
 
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10/02/2024 12:44 uncaria  Ratings distribution  46183/100

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85/100
From 09/08/2018 17:18 | #220746
This is a superb album by Chris Rea. The title track is one of my all time 'summer feel' songs and immediately takes me to all those wonderful summer sights, sounds and aromas, in fact it sits high in my summer music playlist. Great vocals and musicianship throughout with a really good track to track flow. 'Two Roads' and 'Light of Hope' are other personal favourite, the latter is a beautiful ballad with harp like guitar and subtle electric piano.
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