Dire Straits vs the Police

Dire Straits, but only a matterof personal taste.

Same as Drew above

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Slartibartfast wrote: Hadn't explored Straits much.  Unfortunately, the most prominent thing in my head is their pop stuff, but I I know Knopfler is respected for his musicianship as a guitarist.   The Police however became known and enjoyable enough for me to get their latter albums as well as follow Sting and Summers into their post solo stuff.  Not sure what Copeland went after there.  Most familiar with him coming up from Curved Air and have two of those albums. I do think Straits is a similarly good band, but am totally unfamiliar and not interested in further exploration at the moment.

If I remember correctly, he ended up writing video game music for Spyro the Dragon.

For me, I have two DS albums and was never really able to penetrate them ... haven't listened to them in a while and don't remember anything other than the singles that a bought them for. I bought a few police albums as well, and while they didn't really blow me away as albums, they had a fair number of tracks that wouldn't be on a greatest hits collection I enjoyed (particularly, Canary in a Coalmine and Miss Gradenko). Synchronicity was my favorite album by them so far. So, The Police by a mid-sized margin.

Hadn't explored Straits much.  Unfortunately, the most prominent thing in my head is their pop stuff, but I I know Knopfler is respected for his musicianship as a guitarist. 

The Police however became known and enjoyable enough for me to get their latter albums as well as follow Sting and Summers into their post solo stuff.  Not sure what Copeland went after there.  Most familiar with him coming up from Curved Air and have two of those albums.

I do think Straits is a similarly good band, but am totally unfamiliar and not interested in further exploration at the moment.

Padraic wrote: The Police, easily

Yeah, same here Pat.  The Police were pretty fun.  DS are pretty much a snooze for me, even though I acknowledge they made a nice album or two. 

Raff wrote: I believe I am the first to vote for the 'both' options, since I love both bands, and own quite a few of their recordings. The Eighties may have been a bad decade for prog, but they surely were not for other kinds of music.

I sorta guessed  'both' meant a vote for Money or Nothing

Dire Straits by a fairly large margin. The Police are average at best, and I'm being kind.

Dire Straits, by a wide margin.  Police made a lot of nice reggae-influenced pop rock, nothing more, nothing less. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hJsyF7XDQo

this song is their best song

Epignosis wrote: I like both, but I see I am the only person who voted for Dire Straits as of now.

Yes i forgot to vote until now