Favourite Dire Straits album?
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Topic: Favourite Dire Straits album?
Posted By: Kid-A
Subject: Favourite Dire Straits album?
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 11:02
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What's your favourite? ------------- 
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 11:04
Love Over Gold >>> hands down, no sweat, no brainer and look ma, no hands!!
Debut tied with Brothers for second. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 11:08
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The guitar work and the impeccable engineering on "On Every Street"
still amazes me. I think it might be the most consistent album
they ever put together.
------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: WaywardSon
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 11:29
| Love over gold, followed by Making movies |
Posted By: Asyte2c00
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 11:35
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Selt-Titled DEbut, without a doubt, Its one of the best debuts I have ever heard. "Wild West End" "Water of Love" "In the Gallery" "Sultans of Swing." Its a masterpiece, all else plaes in comparions. I have evry Dire Straits album, but this one gets played most often. Love Over Gold is my second favorite. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 11:41
| Their debut, followed by "Making Movies". In their heyday, they were really an amazing band! |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 11:43
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Love Over Gold. Easily. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: August 24 2006 at 04:13
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Love over gold, then Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms and Making movies.
Absolute pop/rock masterpieces, with the occasional prog leanings
(especially on LoG).
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Posted By: Anthony
Date Posted: August 24 2006 at 04:25
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I guess prog-rockers like "Love over gold" because Telegraph Road is 14 minutes long.
I'll put that one in second place, my fave is Making movies ------------- Future prosperity lies in the way you heal the world with love (Introitus - The hand that feeds you) |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: August 24 2006 at 06:39
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Making movies followed by brothers in arms. I saw Mark Knopfler with Emmylou Harris onstage in Paris recently, and it was really amazing ! They played titles from their collaboration album, from both solo careers and from Dire Straits. BTW, Knopfler's 'sailing to philadelphia' is a very good album. Knopfler's collaboration with Emmylou Harris is not that recent, as he wrote a song for Albert Lee on one of his first two albums (circa 1979), and Emmylou was guesting on this album with the Hot band she used to play with at the time. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: August 24 2006 at 10:08
Making Movies - it's the first Dire Straits album I ever heard, and although "Sultans..." is a greater song than anything on it, and later albums are more progressive, I just love the tightness of the compositions - except "Les Boys"  ------------- The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 24 2006 at 10:35
| Love Over Gold. |
Posted By: bsurmano
Date Posted: August 24 2006 at 15:41
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Communique, by far. ------------- 'Sundown,yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast..... Either I'm too sensitive or else I'm gettin' soft.' Bob Dylan |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: August 24 2006 at 20:15
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Their proggiest....Love Over Gold! ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: tdreamer
Date Posted: August 25 2006 at 18:11
| Love Over Gold just for Telegraph Road. |
Posted By: Nanook
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 18:28
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For me, Brothers in Arms. The title song blows me away even after all these years. Fantastic vidso for it too.
Knopfler is one of those guitarists that has an unmistakable style. ------------- Bring me my broadsword, and clear understanding. |
Posted By: Australian
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 18:59
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I only have the best of Dire Straits, its good. ------------- 
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 19:01
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Making Movies ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 20:32
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Quite unexpected results for me.
"Love Over Gold" wins (10 voices at the moment) - OK, proggers vote for the most progressive album.
But only 3 voices for "Brothers In Arms" (band's best selling and, probably the best, album) and 4 voices for "Making Movies" (usually considered as DS worst effort) seem strange to me.
And no one voted for very good live album "Alchemy" with lots of prog moments. ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |
Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 10:28
Can't I vote for Sultans of Swing - The Very Best of the Dire Straits ???
 ------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |
Posted By: Bupie
Date Posted: September 07 2006 at 05:18
Considered their worst effort by who ? If I had composed songs like "Tunnel of Love", "Romeo & Juliet" or "Skateaway", I would consider myself not a man but an half-god ...
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NotAProghead wrote:Posted By: Anthony
Date Posted: September 08 2006 at 16:38
I don't know where you've found that information, but most fans think the worst DS-album was Communiqué, finding it very boring, and they saw Making movies as a return to form. ------------- Future prosperity lies in the way you heal the world with love (Introitus - The hand that feeds you) |
Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: September 08 2006 at 16:39
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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