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    Posted: July 15 2005 at 23:58

 my personell favourite would have to be Brothers in arms followed by one world, and my third...probbebly Telagragh road.

 and by the way. don't keep saying its not prog why are you talking about it. its a music lounge you should be able to talk about any music. so if its not about dire straits and you're trying to tell me off (na na na i can't hear you)
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Lady Writer, Dire's Strait sound was original in 1979, sadly became too predictable with the years.

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 thats my favourite song on album communique, that and once apon a time in the west. apart from them two i don't like the album.
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I like _Telegraph Road_, _Private Investigations_ and _On Every Street_.

I've heard a live version of _Romeo and Juliet_ though that is great.

But _Walk of Life_ and _Industrial Disease_ aren't too good.

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Mine is 'Telegraph road', the first epic song I ever listened to. Runner up: 'Going Home' (although it's credited to Mark Knopfler, the best version in on the Alchemy live album.
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1. Private investigations (#7 in my all-time favourites list)
2. Brothers in arms (#27)
3. Telegraph road (#40)
4. Tunnel of love (#110)

Honourable mention (scoring 9/10 on my scale):

Sultans of swing
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A great band, who should have stopped after Brothers in arms. Love over gold is one of the best albums ever made.
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Telegraph road
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Private Investigaaaaaaaations
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telegraph road, private investegations.

I like most of them, but like Ivan said they became very predictable
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Wow, plenty of Private Investigations fans. I'm one of them along with Telegraph Road.

Also like Wild Theme from the Local Hero soundtrack by Mark Knopfler as well.
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no particular order

  • Lady Writer - cool song, and best guitar lead I've ever heard from Knopfler
  • Southbound Again - outstanding boogie-shuffle in the style of Little Feat, maybe better than any Litte Feat?
  • Sultans of Swing - A classic. I think there is a long version out there somewhere as well. Some very tasty drum-work from Pick Withers!
  • In The Gallery - another great groove
  • Heavy Fuel - "it took six hamburgers..."  what a great song!

Curious...has anyone heard Live at the BBC?  I'm wondering if this is worth a purchase...
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dragon phoenix wrote :

1. Private investigations (#7 in my all-time favourites list)
2. Brothers in arms (#27)
3. Telegraph road (#40)
4. Tunnel of love (#110)

Wow ! How many songs rated are in your list ? I never thought of doing that.

To the question : I hesitate between 3 totally different ones

Telegraph road - for it's complexity and being the only DS epic.

News - for it's beautiful melody.

Hand in hand - for it's great lyrics.

none of them will make the top 10 in my list I guess but nice music until brothers in arms that was half rabish (so far away for example).
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Telegraph road, holy crap, what a dumb question.....

A FAR 2nd:

It never rains & Tunnel of love
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I'm no Dire Straits fan, but still, here's one more vote for Private Investigations.
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Brothers in arms - very soft beatiful music
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It's got to be Sultans of Swing, Brothers in Arms, though a good song, sounds like a fifth rate Floyd.
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All songs from Love Over Gold (except Industrial Disease)
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Originally posted by omri omri wrote:

dragon phoenix wrote :

1. Private investigations (#7 in my all-time favourites list)
2. Brothers in arms (#27)
3. Telegraph road (#40)
4. Tunnel of love (#110)

Wow ! How many songs rated are in your list ? I never thought of doing that.

At the moment, 179. I have a website (www.lu-art.com/Music) dedicated to this, it lists all songs that I consider to my own taste the best of the best - out of the thousands of songs that I like, these are the ones that stand out. I have recently gone back to a full ranking rather than a top50, current ranking can be found here: http://www.lu-art.com/Music/Top50songs.html

You will find a - some might say weird - mixture of prog rock, classic rock, pop, and ballads in my list....



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 I haven't listened to them in awhile.  I think I'' check it out and let you know.
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