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Points: 32559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 25 2011 at 22:40
To me, the closest they got to prog was not "Telegraph Road," but "Love Over Gold."
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Points: 3449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 25 2011 at 22:52
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

To me, the closest they got to prog was not "Telegraph Road," but "Love Over Gold."

I like Telegraph Road well enough, but it always struck me as a sort of too influenced by Springsteen somehow. For me, Industrial Disease is the best song on that album; though it's decidedly not prog, it's funny as it gets.
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Points: 2601 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 05:43
Always thought Telegraph Road was the song Bruce Springsteen had always wanted to write. I this vein one would have to include Hurricane by Bob Dylan. Private Investigations' guitar theme was a nick from something I heard but cannot recall (years and years ago...)

If Straits got in to being a prog band (obviously not) Twisting By The Pool wouldn then become the worst / most hated (and that's just me and me being nice) prog song of all time...

A good way of figuring the answer is which Genesis albums would a Dire Straits fan own...
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Points: 34086 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 06:44
this is very progressive i think




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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 07:28
Originally posted by uduwudu uduwudu wrote:

If Straits got in to being a prog band (obviously not) Twisting By The Pool wouldn then become the worst / most hated (and that's just me and me being nice) prog song of all time...


Nah - Walk Of Life +++shudder+++

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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 07:29
Originally posted by uduwudu uduwudu wrote:

A good way of figuring the answer is which Genesis albums would a Dire Straits fan own...


In my case - everything up to 'Abacab'

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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 07:40
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by uduwudu uduwudu wrote:

If Straits got in to being a prog band (obviously not) Twisting By The Pool wouldn then become the worst / most hated (and that's just me and me being nice) prog song of all time...


Nah - Walk Of Life +++shudder+++

I agree with you soooooooo much Jim. Hateful.
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 08:10
All together now - you all know the riff...

Deee de. De de de de de deeeeeeee de.

De de deeeee de.

De de de de de deeeeeeeee

AAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!

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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 08:11
That riff's in your head now, isn't it

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Points: 13382 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 08:21
^ DAMN YOU!!! 

Oh well, there are worse songs out there. 
New album!
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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 11:28
Dire Straits did some great tracks like Private Investigations and Calling Elvis.

But I find Walk Of Life one of the most horrible tracks made by a well known band. Twisting By The Pool is also a song that I actively hate.

The riff is in my head too Angry

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Points: 34086 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 11:35
always liked this fantastic song, most iconic sax line after Carless Wispers
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Points: 3449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 15:34
Oh man, I had forgotten about Walk of Life. Though really, I give Knopfler a pass on those fails. He's not the first nor last to have recorded various piles of sh*t. I submit Jeff Beck's Truth as evidence. We just will not mention (well actually we will) Beck Bogart and Appice.
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Lincoln County Road or Armageddon.
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