Skateaway (track)
by Dire Straits

• Summary
• Buy
• Ratings
• Favourites
• Comments
• Your feedback

Skateaway by Dire Straits
Year: 1980
From the album Making Movies (track #3)

Average Rating: 

83/100 (from 142 votes)

     

Listen on Spotify SPOTIFY

Skateaway appears on the following album(s) by Dire Straits:

• Making Movies (track #3) (this album) (1980)
• The Best Of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler: Private Investigations (track #6) (compilation) (2005)
• The Studio Albums 1978–1991 (track #21) (compilation) (2013)

Product Details

Availability

  Price

eBay

Dire Straits, Skateaway/Solid Rock. 45 Vinyl Record VG
Condition: Used

$8.95


Go to store

eBay

Dire Straits Skateaway / Solid Rock 45 1980 Warner Bros EX [Mark Knopfler Rock]
Condition: Used

$14.00


Go to store

eBay

Dire Straits Making Movies Tunnel Of Love Skateaway Hand In Hand Les Boys CD#72
Condition: Very Good

$14.94


Go to store

This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on the linked website at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.  See full search results on eBay

  My favourite store: Amazon Amazon Music eBay iTunes  

Listen to Skateaway on YouTube

Skateaway ratings

Showing latest 5 ratings for this track.  | Show all 142 ratings for this track.

Sort by

• Rating
• Date updated
• Member

Rating	Date updated	Member	Track ratings	Avg. track rating
75/100	03/13/2026 17:53	Exist-en-ciel	92,666	71/100
75/100	02/22/2026 16:36	markl73	6,569	78/100
70/100	02/15/2026 18:19	dukeboxkool	7,605	75/100
60/100	05/13/2025 10:34	doombringer	13,811	74/100
85/100	01/23/2025 10:21	luigybetis	13,249	89/100

Rating metrics: Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. The mean average rating would be 50. However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation).
(*In practice, some tracks can have several thousand ratings)
This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 83.3/100, a mean average of 82.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.8/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.9.

• Related links:
• Top tracks by Dire Straits
• Top tracks of the 1980s
• Top tracks of 1980

Skateaway favourites

Showing all 7 members who have added this track as a favourite

Squonk007

matterhornrider

Logend1

bnst1101

Nightprowler

Mauce

WayneP

Skateaway comments

Showing all 3 comments |
Most Helpful First | Newest First | Positive Sentiment First | Longest Comments First
(Only showing comments with -2 votes or higher. You can alter this threshold from your profile page. Manage Profile)

Rating:  

100/100

From Squonk007 01/18/2024 16:40 | #301299

This is their best song along with Telegraph Road. I love its delivery, the drums are superb.

Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Rating:  

100/100

From u2lord23 02/20/2023 12:06 | #294247

Great song !

Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Rating:  

90/100

From Fischman 12/07/2018 21:53 | #226471

This is Knopfler's wry delivery at its very best. My second favorite Dire Straits song after Telegraph Road.

Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Your feedback for Skateaway

Let us know what you think of this track by adding a comment or assigning a rating below!

Buy track