Best Dire Straits song
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Topic: Best Dire Straits song
Posted By: RUM26
Subject: Best Dire Straits song
Date Posted: July 15 2005 at 23:58
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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) ------------- SHEP get with the program |
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: July 16 2005 at 00:13
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Lady Writer, Dire's Strait sound was original in 1979, sadly became too predictable with the years. Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: RUM26
Date Posted: July 16 2005 at 00:15
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. ------------- SHEP get with the program |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: July 16 2005 at 01:24
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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. James. -------------   
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Posted By: Paco Fox
Date Posted: July 16 2005 at 02:46
| 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. |
Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: July 16 2005 at 03:43
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1. Private investigations (#7 in my all-time favourites list) Honourable mention (scoring 9/10 on my scale): Sultans of swing A great band, who should have stopped after Brothers in arms. Love over gold is one of the best albums ever made. |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: July 16 2005 at 05:54
| Telegraph road |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 16 2005 at 05:59
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Private Investigaaaaaaaations ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: July 16 2005 at 06:06
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telegraph road, private investegations. I like most of them, but like Ivan said they became very predictable ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: barbs
Date Posted: July 16 2005 at 06:32
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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. ------------- Eternity |
Posted By: DolphinFan
Date Posted: July 16 2005 at 16:21
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no particular order
Curious...has anyone heard Live at the BBC? I'm wondering if this is worth a purchase... |
Posted By: omri
Date Posted: July 16 2005 at 16:43
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dragon phoenix wrote : 1. Private investigations (#7 in my all-time favourites list) 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). ------------- omri |
Posted By: transend
Date Posted: July 16 2005 at 17:04
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Telegraph road, holy crap, what a dumb question..... A FAR 2nd: It never rains & Tunnel of love |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: July 16 2005 at 18:02
| I'm no Dire Straits fan, but still, here's one more vote for Private Investigations. |
Posted By: Maike
Date Posted: July 16 2005 at 18:30
| Brothers in arms - very soft beatiful music |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: July 16 2005 at 20:01
| It's got to be Sultans of Swing, Brothers in Arms, though a good song, sounds like a fifth rate Floyd. |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: July 16 2005 at 20:44
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All songs from Love Over Gold (except Industrial Disease) ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: July 17 2005 at 12:24
At the moment, 179. I have a website ( http://www.lu-art.com/Music - 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 - 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.... |
omri wrote:Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: July 17 2005 at 15:00
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Skate Away
Calling Elvis 
very good 80's band, a rarity! 
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Posted By: laztraz
Date Posted: July 17 2005 at 21:58
| I haven't listened to them in awhile. I think I'' check it out and let you know. |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: July 21 2005 at 08:37
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Actually a group I grew up with so I heard Brothers In Arms album first and worked my way backwards ... Top 10 are: 1) Brothers In Arms 2) Sultans Of Swing 3) Tunnel Of Love 4) Your Latest Trick 5) Ride Across The River 6) Why Worry 7) Romeo And Juliet 8) Hand In Hand 9) Money For Nothing 10) Expresso Love Hmm, I must have been done and dusted with this group by the time I got into prog cos I always found Telegraph Road and Private Investigations boring ... ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: July 21 2005 at 08:59
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I think all of Love Over Gold is in my top 10 DS songs, than all of side 2 of Brothers In Arms as well as Sultan , Gallery and Six Blade Knife from their debut. That probably makes for more than 10, but who cares....... ------------- 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: The Miracle
Date Posted: August 11 2005 at 22:24
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Tunnel Of Love and Romeo And Juliet. Love the whole album
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Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: August 11 2005 at 23:14
Calling Elvis and Skateaway
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Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: August 12 2005 at 01:06
Dire Straits was my first favourite band (just before Marillion) when I was 14-16. Best songs: each one except Industrial Disease on LOVE OVER GOLD, News, Where You Think You're Going, Lady Writer, Single Handed Sailor, Brothers in Arms, Once Upon a Time in the West and Tunnel of Love in ALCHEMY LIVE, .... Christ, I get sentimental and nostalgic now... 
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Posted By: Damen
Date Posted: August 12 2005 at 01:16
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Bah, i'm no Dire Straits fan. ------------- "It's amazing that we've been able to put up with each other for 35 years. Most marriages don't last that long these days." -Chris Squire |