Telegraph Road (track)
by Dire Straits
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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| ! | 11/18/2025 19:19 | Exist-en-ciel | 77,258 | 70/100 |
| ! | 09/04/2025 21:22 | Jonboy | 284 | 79/100 |
| ! | 06/09/2025 10:09 | TradeShark | 4,948 | 30/100 |
| ! | 05/13/2025 10:36 |  doombringer | 13,385 | 74/100 |
| ! | 02/26/2025 19:28 |  talinhosgameplay | 1,487 | 85/100 |
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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 88.3/100, a mean average of 88.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 13.0.
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Bad parody on Pink Floyd 🤷🏻♂️
This song is always incredible, great storytelling but the unreachable part is the music, perfect composition and blend of piano and guitar
Squonk007 11/09/2023 14:46 | #299888
One of the best songs they did, always a pleasure to listen to.
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.
Fischman 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 track gets 100 of course, but the version on Alchemy is better, more emotion and atmosphere
The best song of Dire Straits. No doubt. It is an amazing song
Epic!
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