Brothers In Arms: Dud... or do you know different?

'your latest trick' wiki info:

The saxophone introduction to the song is widely used when people are trying out saxophones at music shops,[1] just as Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven is widely used when trying out guitars. It was also used in the theme music for the TVB series File of Justice.

I love this album but I always skip over "Money for Nothing" because it sounds like a belch compared to the rest of the album.

wtf is going on with the font on kodanshi's first above?

Yeah I didn't think you could choose your font on here. If you can't, how did he do it?

like an ancient yellowed scroll from the early days of ilx

alright, lets make this a real ILX discussion - when bands cover "Money for Nothing" should they just sing the "see the little faggot" part or just mumble over it, Knopfler-style?

why would you cover money for nothing???

BECAUSE YOU'RE A SHIT COVER BAND PLAYING COUNTY FAIRS!

when bands cover "Money for Nothing" they shouldn't sing any of the lyrics except "what's that? Hawaiian noises?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ihqk7iapM8

Is there a collective noun for rolled up sleeves? Dire Straits seem to be setting some records for it in that Live Aid vid.

crut OTM.

^^^

Whenever I listen to this album, I'm always surprised by how downbeat it is, with the exception of 'Money For Nothing' and 'Walk Of Life' - although I guess 'One World' is musically upbeat, but lyrically not. It's the melancholy tracks that have aged the best, I think. I could easily live without hearing 'Money For Nothing' again, and I have always hated 'Walk Of Life' with a passion. There's something about that keyboard lick that makes me feel like I never want anyone to catch me listening to it.

Also the full versions on the CD > the edited versions on the vinyl edition.

There's something about that keyboard lick that makes me feel like I never want anyone to catch me listening to it.

was always a bit too close to the birdy dance for me

This album really is the gold standard in "million-selling super massive records that nobody really cares about anymore" isn't it?

which is kind of ironic, considering I think all of its predecessors have come back into fashion, to an extent.

This is news to me. Dire Straits seem as uncool as ever at the moment.

See one: War On Drugs, indie band of the moment.

Wild Nothing really aped Dire Straits on the track Nocturne

WTF? I don't hear Dire Straits on that Wild Nothing LP at all!

"Walk of Life' like a lot of other songs from that era sounds like it was meant to be played as commercial bumper music for baseball games circa 1985-1987. "Money For Nothing" is a joke that no one really got, soundwise i guess it's "Paradise City" for the people who spawned the alt-right. the rest of the tracks are a lot better. it's not a bad album, but when people joke about eighties shit they should joke about this, it's such a relic.

video for "walk of life" was a montage of sports bloopers

this album sounds really great, even if the songs are mostly pretty unremarkeable

Building on the initial post in this revive: Dire Straits is possibly the only split-up major 70s-80s band that there is no clamour whatsoever for a reunion.

The Notting Hillbillies on the other hand, now, why won't Knopfler answer my postcards?

I thought this was just great when it came out but fuck if I can listen to it now.

When that War on Drugs album was released in 2014, the incorrect Dire Straits comparisons were hysterial.

Hysterical too

It's in there for sure, along with the Bruce. Incidentally, it's amazing how much the presence of Rot Bittan on the "Making Movies" album really bridges Mark to Bruce.

I still find this endless amusing:

http://www.wolproject.com

fwiw I think the DS influence in WoD can mostly be heard in the melancholy lead guitar noodling and synths, though the latter also seem to be referencing later Springsteen as well.