So Far Away (track) by Dire Straits
Year: 1985
From the album Brothers In Arms (track #1)
So Far Away appears on the following album(s) by Dire Straits:
- Brothers In Arms (track #1) (this album) (1985)
- Sultans Of Swing: The Very Best Of Dire Straits (track #8) (compilation) (1998)
- The Best Of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler: Private Investigations (track #8) (compilation) (2005)
- The Studio Albums 1978–1991 (track #31) (compilation) (2013)
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70/100  | 09/16/2025 14:03 | ShenBapiro | | 79/100 |
85/100 | 08/26/2025 18:11 | machiaj | | 74/100 |
60/100 | 06/11/2025 13:56 | SD100852 | | 77/100 |
70/100 | 04/17/2025 10:54 | timosbuecherei | | 60/100 |
75/100 | 03/23/2025 23:31 | BurndenAce | | 79/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 3% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 82.1/100, a mean average of 81.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.4/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.4.
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VictorVale 02/17/2019 20:04
Clássico da Antena 1!
What a dull and boring opener. It's such a dreary track to start an album of with and I actually think it was the first single released from the album. Inexplicable. Poor song.
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Jasonconfused 01/31/2013 22:55
This song transports me into another dimension. So incredibly beautiful.
Quite an estranged song. Nice and soothing. Plus, the song has a sound different from other groups, so I expect no less from the rest of the songs on this album. So Far Away is a cool song, but it gets repetitive at the end.
Romanelli 08/15/2012 21:19
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