Dire Straits - On Every Street
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Free Music Review: Another Great Dire Straits CD
Hit: 5 Stars
Perhaps this CD will not please the Dire Straits purists who are expecting more of the same from the early days of Dire Straits - this one has a different feel, different style. It's a little less rock, a little more blues and country rock. Personally, I love it. It shows once again how varied Knopfler can be and how we can find himself in different styles.
Since I'm a sucker for blues, my hands-down favorite song on this album (and perhaps one of my favorite blues songs) is "You and Your Friend". It's an underrated gem. It has mysterious, understated, brief lyrics that leave a lot to your imagination as the instrumental improvisations take over the rest of the song. Knopfler is stellar playing a blues guitar on this track, and Paul Franklin provides a brilliant dialogue-like backing on a steel guitar that has a truly beautiful sound. That's right - a steel guitar. You don't hear a whole lot of it in modern blues without it being too country, and this one is a perfect combination of influences. This song's instrumental part is totally sinful. Solid rhythm and excellent bass make it a well-put together sensuous, melodic song. One reviewer called this song erotic and I agree. This song won't have a mainstream appeal because it's got too much heart and feeling in it, but for people who can really appreciate it, it's truly a great piece. I wish Knopfler and Franklin kept their guitars talking for longer on this song!
Calling Elvis is a great song with a good mainstream appeal. Iron Hand is a nice historic ballad that makes your mind want to travel back in time and picture a Civil War battlefield with rumbling thunder of cannons and smoke floating over the battlefield. New Orleans is another piece of interest. It's a mysterious song that might make one think of driving on a deserted late-night city street under the glow of yellow lights.
Heavy Fuel will no doubt appeal to the Dire Straits purists - it's probably the only truly rock song on this album with flashbacks to the earlier days of Dire Straits. To me, however, it's not one of the favorite tracks on this album because it's not as melodic as some other songs on here.
Pretty much all songs are good here (although My Parties could be stricken from the record). This is a truly great band. I think this CD is definitely worth checking out!
Free Music Review: Dire Straits exit in style
Hit: 5 Stars
Dire Straits have evolved quite a bit during their 13-years-long career. Started with mellow blues-oriented pub-rock, they went through poppy aproach ("Making Movies"), prog-rock approach ("Love Over Gold"), and finally became MTV-darlings after their large commercial success of "Brothers in Arms". Six years of silence after that left everyone wondering about the direction Mark Knopfler would head with "On Every Street". I think, Mark struck everybody off their feet with how un-commercial this album sounds. He seems to throw away any public success considerations he might have had, and recorded 12 songs to his own liking. While this album never reached the super-stardom of its predecessor, I consider it to be perhaps the best thing Dire Straits have ever made.Mark demonstrates solid growth as a songwriter and arranger. And his virtuoso guitar playing needs no introduction. He never shows off his guitar skills, instead inserting very tasteful and moody licks and solos here and there. This album presents very diverse material. From excellent blues tracks "Fade to Black" and "Planet of New Orleans", to calmness of "On Every Street" and "Iron Hand", to rocking "Calling Elvis" and almost hard-rocker "Heavy Fuel", to classic rock-n-roll "The Bug", Dire Straits deliver it all. They also added plenty of new instruments to the songs, like a full brass section in "My Parties", a sax in a couple of tracks, some orchestration, and something that sounds to me like a war horn on "Iron Hand". The pub-rock roots are almost gone, and instead there's a flavour of country-music over this record. This change makes it obvious, that Dire Straits have expressed everything they were about, and there won't ever be another DS record. Mark decided to pursue solo career, that takes off musically exactly where "On Every Street" ends.
This album is an hour of a very high quality and mostly calm material with some impressive performance by the band. Highly recommended!
Free Music Review: The Best Dire Straits CD
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the best CD by Dire Straits. For some stupid reasons, a lot of people do not like this album. I think it is some of Dire Straits' best work and is much better than Brothers In Arms and the self titled debut. It has Calling Elvis which Mark Knopfler does some of his best guitar work, Heavy Fuel which is my favorite song on the CD, it sounds like arena hard rock and the lyrics make me laugh about drugs, it's certainly the best Dire Straits song after Money For Nothing. Then there's the Bug a song about my favorite sport of all time baseball which is one of the best songs on the album. The title track is pretty with a nice ending. It also has some country rockers like When It Comes to You which is great and My Parties is another song that makes me laugh and is a great song for any birthday party. Planet of New Orleans is another excellent song with one of Mark Knopfler's best guitaring. Fade To Black is a good blues song but way too slow and boring (Metallica does a better version of Fade To Black on their Ride The Lightning album). But there are a couple really bad songs on this album, Ticket to Heaven is just a power ballad that makes me cry and not a big fan of Iron Hand either. But overall this is a great album and I would recommend it. I don't have just the Remastered CD of this album, I also own the Cassette, the hard to find LP, and the poster, all made in the USA. The cover art of this album is great! If I would have bought this in 1991 well they had all that stuff Cassette, LP, CD, and poster which I was only a month old baby when this came out. For most rock fans, own this along with Dire Straits' other stuff and albums by Metallica, Pink Floyd, The Clash, Guns N' Roses, Kansas, Foreigner, and Foghat.
Adios Amigos.
Sincerely the kid who wrote this review
-For Whom The Bell Tolls
Free Music Review: Mark Knopfler is very very good.
Hit: 5 Stars
Mark Knopfler is a very good guitar player. People who say that Dire Straits are over rated does not know what good music is about. They slam all the greatest bands that I love like Foreigner, Dire Straits, Green Day who all have very good lead singers.All they like is boring over rated bands like Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, AC/DC, & Rolling Stones. Back to Dire Straits now, On Every Street is music for people with great taste and it has the monster arena hard rock anthem 'Heavy Fuel' which I repeat.
Just listen to this and be suprised to hear 'Heavy Fuel' as that will make you BANG!! Dire Straits are just as great as Foreigner, Green Day, Metallica, Clash, and Tom Petty. Get albums from all those bands while avoiding albums from lousy,overrated,pathetic and boring bands like Pink Floyd who put me to sleep.
Here's my list of best songs.
Waiting for a Girl Like You by Foreigner
Heavy Fuel by Dire Straits
Money For Nothing by Dire Straits
Eye Of The Beholder by Metallica
For Whom The Bell Tolls by Metallica
Enter Sandman by Metallica
American Idiot by Green Day
Holiday by Green Day
Should I Stay Or Should I Go by The Clash
Here's my list of awful songs
Brown Sugar by The Rolling Stones
Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones
Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Back in Black by AC/DC
Us and Them by Pink Floyd
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
We Are the Champions by Queen
Fat Bottomed Girls by Queen
Free Music Review: Spun Gold
Hit: 5 Stars
"It's your face I'm looking for, on every street".
Is it just me or is this one of most poignant lyrics ever written?
For me, On Every Street is a bonafide masterpiece, full of achingly beautiful, transcendent, evocative, lovingly created lyrics and music, all underscored by one of our most amazingly talented and tasteful guitarists. The greatness of a block of these tunes: Calling Elvis, On Every Street, When It Comes To You, Fade to Black, The Bug, You and Your Friend, Heavy Fuel, Iron Hand, Planet of New Orleans, is nonpareil.
Knopfler has never been better than this. These magnificent songs run the gamut of human emotions. An album for the ages, full of laughter, sadness, longing, irony, grace, and spontaneity.
The greatness of Mark Knopfler lies in the humility of his approach: he believes in the subtle power of the silence between the notes, the quiet thought, the murmur. He does not shout, doesn't demand to be heard, but speaks softly, with incredible clarity, skill and eloquence. Thus the impact of his work is magnified. We hear that voice, that guitar, those songs, and we think: this is someone to listen to. This is what has always set him apart: supernatural chops, but he's not about to show off to the point that the music, the song, the feeling, comes second.