[Poll] Favorite Dire Straits Album

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Making Movies is, easily, my favorite.

 

I own and love them all, but the one that I continue to play often is the sublimely moody On Every Street.

 

Ditto

 

Making Movies, yup. Tunnel Of Love is a genius song. It always seemed to have a "Jungleland" vibe to me.

 

Same here. I think it's their only perfect album. The songs. The pacing. It just works.

 

Love Over Gold, but only by the smallest of margins. S/T, BiA, OES are just barely below it, with MM and Communique ever so slightly lower. I have the Alchemy Bluray, but never got the Album.

Also don't quite understand all of the negative comments on Les Boys. First time I heard it, I thought it was OK, but it got better with every listen thereafter.

Just LOVE all of their stuff as well as MK Solo.

 

Dire Straits 9,5/10 (Dylan+JJ Cale+THAT guitar, magical alchemy)
Communiqué 8,5/10 (similar to the debut, "Angel of Mercy" and "Portobello Belle" aren't that good, slightly less rootsy direction)
Making Movies 7/10 (kind of bland springsteenesque rock, decent songwriting, "Les Boys" could be my favourite track)
Love over Gold 7/10 (kind of eclectic 80's art-rock, interesting in parts)
Brothers in Arms 6/10 (I get bored)
On Every Street 5/10 (I fall asleep)

 

It does have those epic proportions..

 

I have not heard the BBC set yet, but I imagine that it will have no problems with blowing Alchemy away, which despite the wealth of quality material and good playing sounds lifeless and sterile.

I guess the BBC disc is going to please mostly the fans of their first edgy album, while Communiqué supporters should look up a copy of the grey-area Live in Germany recorded on Feb 16, 1979 in Cologne. This intimate club set successfully transmits a laid-back, country-side vibe known from their second LP, with a lot of tasty twin-guitar interplay in a pretty good sound quality.



http://www.discogs.com/Dire-Straits-Sultans-Of-Swing-Live-In-Germany/release/2201884

 

Their debut album remains one of my all time favorite CDs. "Sultans of Swing" is epic. Brothers In Arms is a close second.

 

Me too. I still get goosebumps on most listens.

 

Another vote for Love Over Gold. One of my favorite LP's!

 

Toss up between s/t & Making Movies

 

Dunno if you saw it in Miami Vice? Also got goosebumps hearing it during a pivotal scene..

 

That looks like something I should be trying to find.

And I agree with what you say about Alchemy... when I bought it, I expected to be blown away (it was about a year after BIA was released) but as much as I tried to get into it, I felt it was lacking, somehow. So the Live At The BBC one, is just what I wanted.

 

1. Debut
2. Making Movies
3. Communiqué


4. Brothers In Arms
5. Love Over Gold
6. On Every Street
7. Alchemy

 

I am a little surprised at Making Movies at second over Love Over Gold and Brothers In Arms

 

Because Sultans Of Swing got so much airplay it made me shut down on wanting to listen to anything further by the band. A few years I "discovered" Dire Straits. Better late than never, as the saying goes. I'm sorry the band was so short lived!

 

I pick the debut followed by Brothers in Arms. As others have mentioned, there is strong material on every album (and On Every Street ) but for me, the debut was one of those "came out of nowhere" moments and you can't make a first impression twice.

Brothers in Arms was a reinvention of sorts, and I absolutely love the title track. I saw them on the On Every Street tour and Brothers on Arms was the encore, it was magical.

 

"Love Over Gold". I´m not really a fan, but I think all the four first albums had moments of greatness. Not so sure about "Les Boys", though...

 

I voted for Making Movies.

 

Every single DIRE STRAIT album must be revisited every once a while.
There are nuggets all over the discography.

 

The debut...for sure.

 

Love Over Gold.

Have heard them all, this is the only one I own nowadays.