Your opinions about Dire Straits?
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Topic: Your opinions about Dire Straits?
Posted By: TexasKing
Subject: Your opinions about Dire Straits?
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 15:08
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Are you a fan of this band? What's your general opinion about their music? Do you have a favorite album by them?
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Posted By: Larkstongue41
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 15:11
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I really like them. Mark Knopfler is an exceptional guitar player. The first album is probably my favourite but Brothers in Arms is quite excellent too. ------------- "Larks' tongues. Wrens' livers. Chaffinch brains. Jaguars' earlobes. Wolf nipple chips. Get 'em while they're hot. They're lovely. Dromedary pretzels, only half a denar." |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 15:16
| debut, Communique and Love Over Gold |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 15:31
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Debut album, Making Movies and Love Over Gold are classics. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 15:37
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Good band, though they usually don't make me resonate. Nevertheless, Love over Gold is a masterpiece, one of my favourite non-prog (?) albums, and Brothers in Arms is another good one.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 15:39
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Love DS... or most of it... not a fan of the poppy stuff like Twisting By The Pool, Solid Pop or Walk Of Life, but I'm a real fan of their more introspective stuff like Private Investigations, the flipside of BIA, etc... At their best, they were proggy In terms of albums, it's Love Over Gold by a mile, than the debut (Gallery, Sultans, Knife, Waterline) and the flipside of Brothers In Arms. Not big on Making Movies, though, but their weakest in their swan song (OES) |
Posted By: doompaul
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 16:07
| Crest of a Knave was solid. |
Posted By: twseel
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 16:13
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Used to be my favorite band for years before I really got into prog, still like them a good bit but not really listening to them actively... ------------- 
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Posted By: Kepler62
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 16:27
| Love Over Gold & Brothers In Arms.I don't keep my albums in any particular order but I always know where those two are. |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 16:28
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One of the mainstream greats. Saw them twice in concert ; Brothers In Arms and On Every Street. Again, kinda moved on from them but my sister has all their vinyls and I listen every so often - Love Over Gold is my pick. |
Posted By: noni
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 17:00
Great band!!
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Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 19:06
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Definitely like them a lot...especially Making Movies and about half of the debut album. When they broke it was cool that Knopfler had such a unique clean sound. "The Man's Too Strong" off Brothers in Arms is a fantastic song... ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 19:39
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Pick (Pique) Withers, originally from the Mellotron-fest band Spring, was the first drummer. Also having Terry Williams from Man, afterwards. Hmmm, some Prog connections right there. |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 23:06
Almost like my words! Except that I prefer Communique over the debut. In fact DS was my first favourite band when I was about 13 years old (1983-4), and 'Telegraph Road' was one of the two songs that introduced me an epic song structure (the other one was 'Animation' by Jon Anderson) to a great effect. But I have always hated some of their songs, those that Sean Trane mentioned. Especially the album Love Over Gold is still dear to me.
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Sean Trane wrote:Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 23:32
Walk of Life and Twisting by the Pool are atrocious 
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: October 06 2017 at 00:37
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Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: October 06 2017 at 00:39
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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. ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 06 2017 at 02:18
I can "see" Dylan (a bit), but Springsteen  ?? ... You probably meant JJ CaleAs for BIA, the flipside is still largely amazing and have LOG-equivalent quality, IMHO |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: October 06 2017 at 02:31
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Sometimes excellent, sometimes 'dire' indeed. Overall I can take or leave them, although Love over Gold was a very good album. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: October 06 2017 at 02:52
The Springsteen influence I see is in the lyrics. A British guy trying to tell American stories and it rings a little false / derivative.
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: October 06 2017 at 04:14
| 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. |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: October 06 2017 at 04:22
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. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: October 06 2017 at 04:44
Best pub rock album ever made 
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: October 06 2017 at 04:51
Nahh it won't come to that - he sleeps with the cat on his stomach these days. Quite the cute scenario especially with those whistling noises emanating from his nostrils ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Quinino
Date Posted: October 06 2017 at 04:53
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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  ) |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: October 06 2017 at 08:29
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Essential Straits Communiqué lately Knopfler solo good good too and I might get lucky now and then ------------- |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: October 06 2017 at 11:21
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I like Dire Straits a lot. Making Movies is one of my favorite albums. |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: October 07 2017 at 07:51
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: October 07 2017 at 08:45
| 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). |
Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: October 09 2017 at 15:26
Knopfler's guitar is wonderful and, I think, a bit underrated these days. I think the first four or five albums are full of good songs, very unique in feeling and great additions to anyone's collection. |
Posted By: FUGAZI86
Date Posted: October 12 2017 at 08:28
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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. |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: October 15 2017 at 16:55
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JJ Cale and Chet Atkins got caught in that transport device from "The Fly" and Mark Knopfler came out on the other side. Grew up with 'em.....Love Over Gold, Making Movies and Communique are the albums that still get the occasional spin. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: October 16 2017 at 00:03
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