Telegraph Road (track)
by Dire Straits
Year: 1982
From the album Love Over Gold (track #1)
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Telegraph Road appears on the following album(s) by Dire Straits:
- Love Over Gold (track #1) (this album) (1982)
- Alchemy (track #8) (1984)
- The Best Of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler: Private Investigations (track #1) (compilation) (2005)
- The Studio Albums 1978–1991 (track #26) (compilation) (2013)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 09/26/2026 20:48 | timosbuecherei | 3,572 | 60/100 |
| ! | 07/03/2026 14:14 | Siromynian | 20,078 | 71/100 |
| ! | 05/14/2026 15:49 | Pavloss | 2,378 | 60/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 88.2/100, a mean average of 88.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 13.3.
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Fischman TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/07/2018 21:50 | #226469
Far and away Dire Straits' greatest song and one of the greatest ever in any genre. Knopfler proves to be a compositional tour de force here and also provides flawless delivery. A major musical accomplishment!
The best song of Dire Straits. No doubt. It is an amazing song
The track gets 100 of course, but the version on Alchemy is better, more emotion and atmosphere
This is as good as Dire Straits got. I could listen to the final five minutes of this song on repeat for hours and would never get bored.
