Dire Straits - Communique
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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?
- Communiqué
- Lady Writer
- Angel of Mercy
- Portobello Belle
- Single-Handed Sailor
- Follow Me Home
Free Music Notes for Communique
Free Music Review: Worst Reviews - Best Album
Hit: 5 Stars
There's little doubt Communique has received the poorest reviews of any of the six albums, but I like it the best. This and the group's first album portray the heart and soul of Dire Straits. They tell stories running the gamut of life experiences and tell them in a variety of styles . . . ballads, rock, country, R&B. They are not "catchy tune" jingles that immediately grab your attention and then lose your interest after listening to them a few times. Instead, they are substantive songs that you may not even like at first, but grow on you the more you listen to them. What do the critics know?
Tuneful Once Upon a Time in the West has some wicked guitar playing, while Lady Writer adds zest to a mainly melancholic collection. News is an unheralded jewel of a song with mesmerizing lyrics and melody. Portobello Belle and Single-Handed Sailor are beautiful ballads. Angel of Mercy shows that DS can do Nashville and do it well. Although offbeat Communique and mysterious Follow Me Home take some getting used to, your patience will be rewarded. The haunting Where Do You Think You're Going is my all-time favorite DS song, but to gain a full appreciation of the song you should check out the live performances on YouTube, which include a passionate and extended outro. It's frustrating that the recorded version, while excellent, does not include the extended outro, nor does the song appear on any of their live albums.
Some complain that Communique is a re-hash of the first album. I think the songs are unique, although there do appear to be parallels (a sort of kinship)between songs of the two albums which I've listed below(just for fun):
Dire Straits album tracks and Communique album "sister songs"
Down to the Waterline and Single-Handed Sailor (nautical theme)
Water of Love and Communique (choppy tempo)
Setting Me Up and Angel of Mercy (country flavor)
Six Blade Knife and Where Do You Think You're Going (grim, threatening)
Southbound Again and Follow Me Home (heading my way)
Sultans of Swing and Lady Writer (lively, fast-paced)
Wild West End and Portobello Belle (streets of London)
In the Gallery and Once Upon a Time in the West (life's not fair)
Lions and News (angst)
Communique is the most unappreciated album of the most unappreciated band, but both will stand the test of time.
Notes: 1. Lady Writer was released as a single with Where Do You Think You're Going on the flip side. 2. The Money For Nothing "best-of" album includes a very good live rendition of Portobello Belle. The album also has Lady Writer and Where Do You Think You're Going, but for some unfathomable reason uses a different studio version of the latter that is good, but not as good as the Communique version. 3. Lady Writer sounds a lot like What's the Matter Baby, a real rocker co-authored by Mark and David Knopfler that only appears on the Live at the BBC album. 4. At a concert in Germany in 1980 MK dedicated News to the memory of John Lennon.
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Media Type: CD
Artist: DIRE STRAITS
Title: COMMUNIQUE
Street Release Date: 09/19/2000
Genre: ROCK/POP
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