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Damen 
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Joined: August 04 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1068 |
 Topic: Best Dire Straits songPosted: August 12 2005 at 01:16 |
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Bah, i'm no Dire Straits fan.
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"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."
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Matti
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Joined: April 15 2005 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 2119 |
Posted: August 12 2005 at 01:06 |
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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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DallasBryan
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Joined: November 23 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3323 |
Posted: August 11 2005 at 23:14 |
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Calling Elvis and Skateaway
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The Miracle
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Joined: May 29 2005 Location: hell Status: Offline Points: 28427 |
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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Sean Trane
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Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 20240 |
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....... |
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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 |
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Trotsky
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 25 2004 Location: Malaysia Status: Offline Points: 2771 |
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 ... |
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laztraz
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Joined: May 22 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 216 |
Posted: July 17 2005 at 21:58 |
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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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DallasBryan
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Joined: November 23 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3323 |
Posted: July 17 2005 at 15:00 |
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Skate Away
Calling Elvis 
very good 80's band, a rarity!  Edited by DallasBryan |
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Dragon Phoenix
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Joined: August 31 2004 Status: Offline Points: 1475 |
Posted: July 17 2005 at 12:24 |
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.... Edited by Dragon Phoenix |
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Bj-1
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 04 2005 Location: No(r)Way Status: Online Points: 31319 |
Posted: July 16 2005 at 20:44 |
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All songs from Love Over Gold (except Industrial Disease)
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Posted: July 16 2005 at 20:01 |
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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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Maike
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Joined: July 06 2005 Location: Portugal Status: Offline Points: 130 |
Posted: July 16 2005 at 18:30 |
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Brothers in arms - very soft beatiful music
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Moogtron III
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Joined: April 26 2005 Location: Belgium Status: Offline Points: 10616 |
Posted: July 16 2005 at 18:02 |
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I'm no Dire Straits fan, but still, here's one more vote for Private Investigations.
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transend
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Joined: May 15 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 876 |
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 |
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omri
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Joined: April 21 2005 Location: Israel Status: Offline Points: 1250 |
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). |
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DolphinFan
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Joined: June 05 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 143 |
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... |
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barbs
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Joined: June 04 2005 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 562 |
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. |
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Eternity
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tuxon
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Joined: September 21 2004 Location: plugged-in Status: Offline Points: 5502 |
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 |
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Snow Dog
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Posted: July 16 2005 at 05:59 |
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Private Investigaaaaaaaations
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: July 16 2005 at 05:54 |
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Telegraph road
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omri wrote:
what a great song!