Dire Straits - Communiqu?
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Artist: Dire StraitsBrand: DIRE STRAITS
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-09-19
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- News
- Where Do You Think You're Going?
- Communiqu?
- Lady Writer
- Angel of Mercy
- Portobello Belle
- Single-Handed Sailor
- Follow Me Home
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Free Music Review: One Great Album
Hit: 5 Stars
This was my first Dire Straits purchase back in 1979. I literally wore out the grooves on it. No release of their's or Marks has taken me like this one did. In fact I rate it as one of my favorites of all time. Every song is exceptional.
I was at the time anti-pop and Sultans of Swing had attracted me to the band because of Mark Knopflers soaring guitar riffs. "Communique" had just been released and "Lady Writer" was getting some airplay (it was released as a single). I was not immediately sold on the album. I liked it, but was buying records at a rather fast pace in those days. Communique grew on me quickly, though.
This record is an excellent example of what album making USED to be all about. It has a great flow to it. The songs seem to be made to follow one another. Add in that marks songwriting was the best of anyone at the time and the overall talent of the group and we have one excellent album.
Make no mistake Mark Knopfler was recognized by a great many musicians at the time. Jerry Garcia, Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton all revealed Dire Straits to be a favorite new band. They were so much so, that Dylan and Clapton covered his songs.
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Media Type: CD
Artist: DIRE STRAITS
Title: COMMUNIQUE
Street Release Date: 09/19/2000
Genre: ROCK/POP
Dire Straits seemed to be a band with no popular context when they recorded this sophomore outing. Their previous album's "Sultans of Swing" still hadn't charted and former schoolteacher Mark Knopfler, whose 30th birthday coincided with this album's release, still had little interest in mirroring the post-punk obsessions of late-'70s London. Oblivious to the changes that would soon take place (brother David leaving the band, compact discs resurrecting older rock consumers, and their own ascension to arena-rock status), the band continued to refine its pub-rock aesthetic on this unpretentious set of melancholy rock tunes. Mark's talent for cynical character sketches is further developed on tracks like "Where Do You Think You're Going" and "News," while the presence of Jerry Wexler at the production helm ensures that the rest of the band keeps the rhythms tight. But the laid-back atmosphere of recording in the Bahamas seems to have had just as much influence, from the reggae lope of the opening "Once upon a Time in the West" to those waves crashing against the beach in the hypnotic album closer, "Follow Me Home." All in all, a solid effort from a band that probably had no idea what was just around the corner. --Bill Forman
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