Dire Straits - On Every Street
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Free Music Review: The best dire straits album of the early ninties!!
Hit: 5 Stars
In my opinion, this is Dire Straits' best album. I add both Appetite for Destruction, and Sultans of Swing/The Very Best of
Dire Straits in addition to this album. This album came out the
year I was born. Brothers in Arms is also good too but this is
probably better. Let me now review my favorite songs on this album.
1. Calling Elvis-Now this version is 6 minutes and I can listen
to it!! Mark's vocals have a true ring to this one.
2. On Every Street-This version is marginally better since it is
5 minutes. Like i said, calm song to listen to, and then gets up
to Heavy Fuel rock n roll at the end.
3. When It Comes To You-Sort of country type of song, but its still really cool!
5. The Bug-Really a fast song that you could play over n over again. It's creative and fun to listen to.
7. Heavy Fuel-This is the best intro on this whole album. Clocking in at around 5:10, while this version is even better.
Typically heavy metal style song followed up to one of the best
hard rock songs ever did by Dire Straits. Mark Knopfler did his
best on vocals, and drums rule. Marginally this is my favorite song on the whole album, and it's the best on the entire album.
Great cd, get it.
Free Music Review: MY REVIEW FOR """HEAVY FUEL"""
Hit: 5 Stars
This is absolutely the best of Dire Straits. And this is what made Dire Straits the king...in 1991 when Heavy Fuel came out. I was born when Heavy Fuel came out. It has great guitar and great drums, and it really kicks your ASS...the 'Brothers in Arms' fans need to stop whining. You will love it when you listen to it because it is my favorite song. And the lyrics are great. Why don't radios ever play it? All I hear on radios is Sultans Of Swing, & Money For Nothing. I like both versions of this song (the studio and the live version) but the studio ranks to be
the best. I bought this as the very first remastered studio album. I own about 2 copies of it, and man, this is excellent. Whoever said this album was dissapointing made me laugh because it is a really great album. And they are the idiots, not me. Like
I said before, you will love it, please listen to it everyone, over and over and over again. I'll give Heavy Fuel about 100 stars because...it was the best. Don't forget the other songs are good too, Calling Elvis, My Parties, & You and Your Friend.
Think this, don't think Brothers in Arms. You can also get Making
Movies...or Love Over Gold too. They are about as awesome as this. I own lots of great music, but this...highly recommended.
Best purchase ever.
Free Music Review: Underrated
Hit: 5 Stars
The general perception of this album as "failed" in many circles always left me wondering. I can see nothing failed about it, and I feel it is fully as good at the "multiple-platinum" Brothers in Arms. I think it talks to Dire Straits advantage that they did not emidieatly after the huge success of Brothers in Arms shot out 2 or 3 rapid albums to score it big. Instead they waited untill they felt they had something they could vouch for artisticaly, and in the meanwhile doing some sideshows.The album got a very somber and dark mood to it, though it is unlike the moodynes of the early albums. Where the mood on the first albums seemed a somber optimism. On Every Street seem to contain a pessimist tone(which is also apparant on Brothers in Arms). Important issues get touched here on, Iron Hand(war)and My Parties(pollution and ignorance). But off course on a Dire Straits album there is also time for a broken heart(and a vengeful soul) on How Long.
The style on this Dire Straits last "real" album has changed from Brothers in Arms and Knopflers involvement in Notting Hillbilies cannot be ignored. I see the album as the gold watch at the end of a fine career, and not as a "going out of buisness" sign.
Free Music Review: a class act bows out
Hit: 5 Stars
This, apparently the last for the Straits, shows early in which direction Mark Knopfler was headed, and it's a good direction. In a class by itself, this album does not have the melancholy tone of "Brothers In Arms" nor the clinical perfection of that work. Every one of the songs on "On Every Street" transpose well to the concert hall (not that Dire Straits' other stuff doesn't also; I just see this entire album on stage). "Calling Elvis" - which I didn't think I was going to like - is a dancy creation that has become a favourite; also, the title tune (the end run of guitar is hypnotic), the haunting, catchy "When It Comes To You", the dark,yearning-but-relieved "Fade To Black", the waggish snideliness of "My Parties" - I read somewhere that Mark thought this was something of a one-laugh joke, but I find it amusing after a LOT of playing. "Ticket To Heaven" shows his propensity to go out on a limb lyrically. There is a heavy bend towards country here, but a lot more is brought to the genre through the music on this disc. Overall this is my favourite Dire Straits album, 'Brothers In Arms" and "Love Over Gold" notwithstanding.Free Music Review: euphoric
Hit: 5 Stars
Later Dire Straits is unconventional and difficult to label. While their early stuff was essentially rock, On Every Street does not so easily fit that definition. Sure, it has a dosage of rock n roll, but much of the album is comprised of slow, jazzy and bluesy ballads only rock n roll masters could concoct. As always, Knopflers guitar is exhilirating, with steel resonator and electric highlighting most of the tracks. He dabbles some in country, folk, jazz, and heavy rock.
The songwriting is of exceptional caliber; subject matter is always something Knopfler takes seriously when writing, even if some of his songs have silly topics, such as Ticket to Heaven. They sound silly anyway, but they are serious in the message they convey. It and My Parties reveal the hyprocrisy of televangelism and yuppie lifestyles respectively.
On Every Street is the title track for good reason. It is dark, and deals with an elusive romance (or perhaps something else - the lyrics are vague on what is actually being sought). Dark, but beautiful, much like everything else on the album.