Your opinions about Dire Straits?

Guldbamsen wrote: Love the debut to bits My father is probably the single biggest Dire Starits fan in Denmark. I believe he once knitted a life size version of Mark Knopfler wearing a boa.

Um, David - who’s Dire Starits ??

I love them but i get a bit of tired to consider them a real group.
too many changes in the drummers, keyboards, rythm guitars (if any, good-bye David).
i think the main still remain MK and his creative output flow, which touches its highest point in 1982.
That is my favourite album by them, a very progressive album, perhaps Marillion were not the first in the 80's to rejoin the Genre again, but i don't wanna write a Book.
Anyway a superb album with some of the best guitar solos by the man, and long compositions.
very dark and introspective, and just the final Vibrophone of the title track worth all the record.
i like "brothers in arms" too, is the best buy when you don't want get involved in something too much complicated and listen an album simply but lovely done. "why worry" a little gem imho.
"on every streets" is a growing up to me, underrated album, yes his guitar solos skills are getting less reliable but not his compositions, title track "you and your friend" and "planets of new orleans", can be compared to the previous decade. though the album sounds less cohesive i know.
BTW i don't like their first two albums, i find them very "rockabilly" and 70's friendly, in this period i'm aware from that decade, don't remain bad guys, it's very faraway from my current mood.
"making movies" is the crossway, and that is a very good album.

Good band. I assume they aren't on this website though(not that it matters). They did have that one epic song though(Telegraph Road I think it was called). I have some of their stuff and enjoy them a bit. I think the first two are a bit roots rockish and maybe not quite the thing I would typically listen to(especially the first)but are still good. I have to listen to the others more also. Brothers in Arms is a very "relaxing" album that I should probably listen to again(also the first compact disc to go platinum).

I like Dire Straits a lot. Making Movies is one of my favorite albums.

I'm sort of a card out of the deck, guys - as  much as I recognize MK excellence on the guitar, overall their music doesn't resonate much within.
Good for listening in the car with the window down, I guess  (or in the pub )

Guldbamsen wrote: Love the debut to bits

I remember when I saw the tour in support of the BIA album, Dylan made a guest appearance and sung Knocking On Heaven's Door (from very hazy memory - we're talking 31 years ago....I was 14 - it was at the encore, they may have done another song or 2). It was raved about for months afterwards.

Sometimes excellent, sometimes 'dire' indeed.

Overall I can take or leave them, although Love over Gold was a very good album.

I was about 14 when Love Over Gold came out and I thought it was the best album ever made, was obsessed with it. These days if I listen to it the debt to Dylan and Springsteen seems all too painfully obvious and I don't really enjoy it. Brothers In Arms was a huge disappointment at the time - and now strikes me as a passable AOR album, but that's all.

I still think the first album, when Mark Knopfler wasn't trying to be an American and his wonderful guitar playing was allowed to shine in much simpler settings, stands up pretty damn well.


Edited by Mascodagama - October 06 2017 at 00:42

Walk of Life and Twisting by the Pool are atrocious