Do Dire Straits Count as Prog? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

No

Drew Fisher
https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/

I'll have a Dire Straits Top 7 Songs poll coming up soon, which was inspired by this thread.

I actually like the first two DS albums better than the others. Oh well, I suppose we're all different Smile

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SteveG wrote:

^ You were bored to death by Making Movies?

even the album sleeve is boring as hell Sleepy

And Solid Puke is a total repellent à la Walk Of Life

jamesbaldwin wrote:

The B side of their albums are usually less beatiful than side A.

Not so with BIA Wink

richardh wrote:

No , just a terribly overrated band with annoying vocals (like U2 and many other eighties bands) .

Yeah, I could probably go with this....

My dislike of DS may be marginally less than yours. but alongside U2 they do represent an 1980's, I'd rather forget; the 'cool' kids at school, strutting around in Rattle & Hum, or Brothers in Arms tee shirts, like they'd just discovered the guitar. They needed reminding that two years before they were listening to A-Ha and Go West (both of which I'd also rather listen to than U2 & DS

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Dire Straights, U2, INXS et al = Rock music for people who don't like rock music.

Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!

Thanks to all those who have replied - Wikipedia does classify Love over Gold as prog, but, after listening to some of their other stuff, I don't think they really ever went further into the genre. Mark Knopfler is a great guitarist though.

About as Prog as Elton John - that is ; they dabbled with elements of Prog without fully indulging in the complexities.
Didn’t the last Eagles album feature many longer tracks ??

Sean Trane wrote:

SteveG wrote:

^ You were bored to death by Making Movies?

even the album sleeve is boring as hell Sleepy

Well, at least we agree about the cover!

Tunnel Of Love is their most progressive song and features a melodic and electrifying lead that most guitarists could only dream of playing, but c'est la vie.

Edited by SteveG - July 01 2020 at 05:33

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Blacksword wrote:

richardh wrote:

No , just a terribly overrated band with annoying vocals (like U2 and many other eighties bands) .

Yeah, I could probably go with this....

My dislike of DS may be marginally less than yours. but alongside U2 they do represent an 1980's, I'd rather forget; the 'cool' kids at school, strutting around in Rattle & Hum, or Brothers in Arms tee shirts, like they'd just discovered the guitar. They needed reminding that two years before they were listening to A-Ha and Go West (both of which I'd also rather listen to than U2 & DS

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Dire Straights, U2, INXS et al = Rock music for people who don't like rock music.

The Dire Straits music comes from the tradition of English rockblues, to which is added American roots rock, and some prog ambitions. All with velvety and mainstream production.

U2 has nothing to do with it, they come from the post punk or post new wave scene, and their rock is much more rough and with a nearly seventies sound. The two audiences have little in common. Obviously you may like or not these two groups, but they are among the best of their genre, in that years.

The music of U2 up to Achtung Baby has neither the sound nor the typical production of the eighties.

Inxs, on the contrary, are a three-minute single group with an eighties-style pumped sound, they managed to produce good pop-rock-funky singles but as far as albums are concerned, they are two spans under U2 and Dire Straits.

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SteveG wrote:

^ You were bored to death by Making Movies?

I'm bored to death by pretty much anything I've every heard by them....