Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
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Artist: Dire StraitsEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-09-19
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- So Far Away
- Money For Nothing
- Walk of Life
- Your Latest Trick
- Why Worry
- Ride Across The River
- The Man's Too Strong
- One World
- Brothers In Arms
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Free Music Review: 80's Anthem
Hit: 5 Stars
What can I say? This "album" came out when my oldest child was born. I had been on total bedrest for two months at a University Hospital. The baby was still born three months early, but survived. While he was still in the hospital, but I had been released, there was an oldies concert in the town where he was born which we attended. While the crew was setting up the equipment, the music from "Brothers in Arms" was blaring from the loudspeaker. I consider this collection of great eighties music to be my freedom album: freedom from bedrest (even though I did that willingly to have a child,) freedom from infertility and the freedom to still be "cool" at 30, despite the 60's adage: "Never trust anyone over 30!" I was at a dinner party once, and a man said he thought Dire Straits were the Beatles of the 80's. While I wouldn't go that far, I do feel that "Money for Nothing" is the Anthem of the 80's and the first three songs on the CD were among the best of that decade. The later songs are good too; a bit more mellow than the first. Overall, a great collection of songs is found in this (now) small package.
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Propelled by Mark Knopfler's literate songs, gruff vocals, and spidery guitar work, Dire Straits had overcome initial skepticism for their resistance to '70s new wave accents in favor of a rootsy traditionalism. This 1985 album captures the band consolidating a far more epic style than the concise shuffles and ballads that the original scrappy quartet had reeled off, their ambitions fueled by the larger canvas afforded by the CD. One of the first albums to exploit the format's longer playing time, Brothers in Arms was initially released in separate versions for CD/cassette and edited LP, and the band became digital poster boys on a world tour sponsored by CD hardware interests. Critics that had once warmed to the band sniffed at the marketing, but the album remains their best known, noteworthy for the MTV staple "Money for Nothing" and the breezy rock shuffle "Walk of Life," as well as for the wistful "So Far Away," the plot-driven narratives of "Ride Across the River," and the title song. --Sam SutherlandDigitally remastered edition of their 1985 multi-platinum album, their biggest ever. Nine tracks, featuring the #1 smash 'Money For Nothing', plus the top 10 'Walk Of Life' & the top 20 hit 'So Far Away'. 1996 Mercury Records release.
Their Landmark Recording Digitally Remastered. Includes 'money for Nothing'.
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