Dire straits album my parties
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I’m baffled by the level of hatred thrown at Dire Straits. Then there’s the song My Partieswhich should be every bit as good as Ween’s Your Party(were they ripping him off/referencing him do you think?) but ultimately feels both too smug and plausible. And was probably treated pretty much that way. The rest of this album feels like a Knopfler solo album. The ‘deluxe clamshell box’ is a six-CD set and the six albums are: Dire Straits (1978), Communiqué (1979), Making Movies (1980), Love Over Gold (1982), Brothers In Arms (1985) and On Every.
#Dire straits album my parties full
Seven full years after the vinyl edition was released, a CD version of Dire Straits‘ The Studio Albums 1978 1991 is finally coming out. In fact it’s really only Heavy Fuel, The Bug and the other big single, Calling Elvisthat feel like Dire Straits as such. 6CD box set Great value 8LP vinyl set re-pressed. And Fade To Black, Planet Of New Orleansand How Longcertainly all point to where Knopfler was heading as a solo artist. But there is some stuff on here that has aged well. First album to succeed in the CD market, Grammy winning, earner of enough Platinum. And The Bugwas juvenile, tasteless and as annoying as Walk Of Life. Third best-selling album of all time in the UK. Heavy Fuel was the riff-as-song wannabe-rewrite of Money For Nothing. But, it has to be said, there is some awful shit. I’m happy with some of the music on this album still. I’m not embarrassed by this album though – and if you think I should be that says more about you than me.
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And also because I have every other Dire Straits album and much as I try not to be a completist anymore it’s a streak I can’t (quite) shake. I bought this LP recently, partly because I was amazed to see it existed on vinyl.
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I’m not sure that On Every Street was ever a great album but I owned it – on tape. I had the soundtracks, the side-projects, the sessions – everything. And all things Mark Knopflerwas involved in/with. And man I loved it I loved Dire Straits at that point in my life one of my favourite bands. I saw Dire Straitson the tour for this album – the band’s last world tour.