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Dire Straits - Dire Straits (1978) (1996 Remaster Edit)
By the mid-'80s Dire Straits were a platinum band dismissed in their native England as safe, yuppie rockers, yet the original quartet's lean, guitar-driven music struggled to find a label home when first recorded in 1978. Mark Knopfler offers craggy vocals, literate blues-based songs, and sinuous, virtuosic guitar work. He melds keening solo lines and rapidly picked fills and dodges the synth washes and postpunk power chords of then-competing new wavers; he relies on atmosphere, character, and pure musicianship intead of heavy irony or pop fashion. "Sultans of Swing," codifies this stance, a galloping paean to aging jazz musicians playing for the sheer love of the music. This became a major hit and has endured as a radio classic. The album itself has proven equally sturdy thanks to cinematic imagery and the tightly wound arrangements of "Down to the Waterline," "Six Blade Knife," and "Water of Love." ...S. Sutherland
Dire Straits' minimalist interpretation of pub rock had already crystallized by the time they released their eponymous debut. Driven by Mark Knopfler's spare, tasteful guitar lines and his husky warbling, the album is a set of bluesy rockers. And while the bar band mentality of pub-rock is at the core of Dire Straits — even the group's breakthrough single, "Sultans of Swing," offered a lament for a neglected pub rock band — their music is already beyond the simple boogies and shuffles of their forefathers, occasionally dipping into jazz and country. Knopfler also shows an inclinationmore… toward Dylanesque imagery, which enhances the smoky, low-key atmosphere of the album. While a few of the songs fall flat, the album is remarkably accomplished for a debut, and Dire Straits had difficulty surpassing it throughout their career...R. Hoffnung
Codec: mp3
Bitrate: 320 kB/s
Size ca.: 95 MB
Genre : Rock
Cover: Front
Tracklist:
01. Down To The Waterline (4:01)
02. Water Of Love (5:24)
03. Setting Me Up (3:20)
04. Six Blade Knife (4:11)
05. Southbound Again (2:59)
06. Sultans Of Swing (5:36)
07. In The Gallery (6:16)
08. Wild West End (4:44)
09. Lions (4:54)
Post je objavljen 28.09.2009. u 17:08 sati.