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Kid-A 
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Joined: October 02 2005 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 613 |
 Topic: Favourite Dire Straits album?Posted: August 23 2006 at 11:02 |
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What's your favourite?
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Sean Trane
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Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Online Points: 19621 |
Posted: August 23 2006 at 11:04 |
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Love Over Gold >>> hands down, no sweat, no brainer and look ma, no hands!!
Debut tied with Brothers for second. Edited by Sean Trane - August 23 2006 at 11:42 |
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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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Chicapah
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Joined: February 14 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 8238 |
Posted: August 23 2006 at 11:08 |
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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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"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain
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WaywardSon
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Joined: April 23 2006 Location: Brazil Status: Offline Points: 2537 |
Posted: August 23 2006 at 11:29 |
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Love over gold, followed by Making movies
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Asyte2c00
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Joined: January 15 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2099 |
Posted: August 23 2006 at 11:35 |
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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. Edited by Asyte2c00 - August 23 2006 at 11:36 |
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Raff
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 29 2005 Location: None Status: Offline Points: 24391 |
Posted: August 23 2006 at 11:41 |
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Their debut, followed by "Making Movies". In their heyday, they were really an amazing band!
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Bj-1
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 04 2005 Location: No(r)Way Status: Offline Points: 31157 |
Posted: August 23 2006 at 11:43 |
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Love Over Gold. Easily.
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
EXERIOR Experimental tech/death/progmetal from Norway! |
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Dragon Phoenix
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Joined: August 31 2004 Status: Offline Points: 1475 |
Posted: August 24 2006 at 04:13 |
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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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Blog this:
http://artrock2006.blogspot.com |
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Anthony
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Joined: April 08 2006 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 774 |
Posted: August 24 2006 at 04:25 |
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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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Future prosperity lies in the way you heal the world with love
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lucas
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Posted: August 24 2006 at 06:39 |
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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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"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Certif1ed
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 08 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 7559 |
Posted: August 24 2006 at 10:08 |
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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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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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Cristi
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Crossover / Prog Metal Teams Joined: July 27 2006 Location: wonderland Status: Offline Points: 41343 |
Posted: August 24 2006 at 10:35 |
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Love Over Gold.
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bsurmano
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Joined: July 13 2005 Location: Croatia Status: Offline Points: 448 |
Posted: August 24 2006 at 15:41 |
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Communique, by far.
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'Sundown,yellow moon, I replay the past
I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast..... Either I'm too sensitive or else I'm gettin' soft.' Bob Dylan |
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Intruder
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Joined: May 13 2005 Status: Offline Points: 2091 |
Posted: August 24 2006 at 20:15 |
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Their proggiest....Love Over Gold!
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I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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tdreamer
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Joined: March 03 2006 Location: Scotland Status: Offline Points: 267 |
Posted: August 25 2006 at 18:11 |
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Love Over Gold just for Telegraph Road.
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Nanook
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Joined: March 09 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 105 |
Posted: August 26 2006 at 18:28 |
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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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Bring me my broadsword, and clear understanding.
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Australian
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Joined: June 13 2006 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 3278 |
Posted: August 26 2006 at 18:59 |
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I only have the best of Dire Straits, its good. |
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ClemofNazareth
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Prog Folk Researcher Joined: August 17 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4659 |
Posted: August 26 2006 at 19:01 |
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Making Movies
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"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
Albert Camus |
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NotAProghead
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Errors & Omissions Team Joined: October 22 2005 Location: Russia Status: Offline Points: 7678 |
Posted: August 26 2006 at 20:32 |
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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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Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)
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Melomaniac
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Joined: May 07 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4088 |
Posted: August 30 2006 at 10:28 |
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Can't I vote for Sultans of Swing - The Very Best of the Dire Straits ???
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"One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio
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