2/14/2023 0 Comments Dire straits album making movies![]() ![]() And while I kinda dig the debut and, to a lesser extent, Communique, it's the third one I probably play most often (aside from Live Alchemy I kinda prefer them in a live, jammier environment, where Knopfler's guitar pyrotechnics shine). ![]() Maybe not to Brothers In Arms, which I still can't hear without feeling like an R.E.M.-loving college radio nerd bristling against the album's cultural oversaturation, but certainly to their earlier albums. And whatever grudging enjoyment I derived from some of their music was pretty much eviscerated by the time of 1985's Brothers In Arms, which was so omnipresent during my college years (equaled only by maybe U2's Joshua Tree) that I couldn't help but reject it outright, regardless of its artistic merit.īut like I said, I've come around. It didn't help that their music was competing for my attention with the likes of the Clash and the Talking Heads and Squeeze and the Jam, and that just wasn't a fair fight. ![]() (Which I say with no disrespect intended when you're a middle-aged grown-up, having a variety of decent enough weekend background music is actually kinda crucial.)īack in the 70s and 80s, though - ugh, I just found them hopelessly dull and overly mannered. Here's another band I really hated back in the day, but these days find make for decent enough weekend background music. ![]()
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