Walk Of Life (track)
by Dire Straits
Year: 1985
From the album Brothers In Arms (track #3)
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Walk Of Life appears on the following album(s) by Dire Straits:
- Brothers In Arms (track #3) (this album) (1985)
- Money For Nothing (track #8) (compilation) (1988)
- Sultans Of Swing: The Very Best Of Dire Straits (track #11) (compilation) (1998)
- The Best Of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler: Private Investigations (track #10) (compilation) (2005)
- On The Night (track #2) (1993)
- Sydney 1986 (track #5) (2020)
- The Studio Albums 1978–1991 (track #33) (compilation) (2013)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| 03/19/2026 22:05 | Exist-en-ciel | 97,436 | 71/100 | |
| 02/15/2026 16:16 | dukeboxkool | 7,647 | 75/100 | |
| 09/15/2025 13:08 | ShenBapiro | 6,173 | 77/100 | |
| 08/26/2025 18:13 | machiaj | 9,085 | 74/100 | |
| 06/11/2025 14:08 | SD100852 | 11,589 | 77/100 |
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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 82.9/100, a mean average of 81.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 14.1.
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Squonk007 11/05/2023 16:50 | #299804
Catchy I suppose but it feels like a club/pub band.
I really don't understand the low rating on this song. It's just a fun, catchy tune!
Dire Straits suffer from the same thing as Prefab Sprout and Was not Was - their worst song gets the most airplay.
Catchy song, but unlike most other Knopfler songs, this one does not grow on you.
Jasonconfused 01/31/2013 23:30 | #63533
The keyboards are catchy but I'm not sure how I feel about the rest of the song.
I don't know, I like the keyboards. I've actually heard this song on the radio quite a few times.
Romanelli 05/16/2012 19:26 | #42494
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