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    Posted: August 23 2006 at 11:02
What's your favourite?
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Love Over Gold >>> hands down, no sweat, no brainer and look ma, no hands!!Big smile
 
 
Debut tied with Brothers for second.


Edited by Sean Trane - August 23 2006 at 11:42
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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.
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Love over gold, followed by Making movies
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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.   



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Their debut, followed by "Making Movies". In their heyday, they were really an amazing band!
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Love Over Gold. Easily.
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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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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
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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.
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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"
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  Love Over Gold.
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Communique, by far.
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Their proggiest....Love Over Gold!
I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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Love Over Gold just for Telegraph Road.
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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.
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I only have the best of Dire Straits, its good.
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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.
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Can't I vote for Sultans of Swing - The Very Best of the Dire Straits ???
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