Didn't even know that I was in possession of a copy, so just wacked it on the stereo....
....aaaand....
...it's not as bad as I thought it would be. Cheesy, yes, but still pretty well written pop-rock songs. You can tell Razorlight were pretty heavily influenced by Knopfler and co, which probably isn't a good thing at all...
But yes, very nice.
"I waaaant my MMMTTTTVVVV".
*Brothers In ARMS
OBV.
Dire Straits=
Kings of Leon
That's quite
an interesting comparison
P.S
Brothers In Arms suxxx
why did you think it
would be bad?
it's great. my mum used to listen to it in the car when i was a kid. i'm comfortable with the fact that dire straits and bruce springsteen were my gateways into good music.
I went to school with knoflers son
he was a cunt
it is an awesome album
bit of a shame that sultans of swing isnt on there. Best track: brothers in arms
the intro to Money For Nothing
was, liek, the most out there, crazy intense music to me when i was about 6
i love dire straits
apart from all the shit ones (yes i'm looking at you 'twisting by the pool' and 'calling elvis'), they have some 'chooons'.
and anyone who doesnt like sultans of swing is wrong.
omg i had no idea that that was sting singing
"i want my mtv"
GOSH!
i dont believe you
although wikipedia agrees with you
and also says that that song was the first video to be broadcast on mtv in the uk.
Yeah, didn't everyone know it was Sting on that track?
The first two Dire Straits albums (Dire Straits and Communiqué) are pretty good.
I don't really have time for the other stuff, though, but the final album (On Every Street?) is half good, from what I remember. I think if you play every other song you skip all the shoddy stuff.
Its good to see
the spirit of Punk-Rock is alive and well on DiS.
I'll spirit your Punk-Rock
money for nothing
obviously written 'in character', but still unusual to be sat watching 'i love the 80s' on TMF or whatever and hear knobfler going on about 'faggots' like he's 50 cent.
g
Awesome album
brings back the memories.
The title track is outstanding.
does the fact that
Royal trux covered 'money for nothing' give the band any creedence whatsoever? RTX were ace.
Money for Nothing > Brothers In Arms
It has the 3 best songs from BIA, but also 'Sultans of Swing', 'Romeo & Juliet' and the live version of 'Telegraph Road'.
It was the first album I ever bought*, along with 'Open Up and Say Aah' by Poison.
.
*In 1987
Jesus
christ.
Any Boston fans here?
Steely Dan?
Journey?
Makes the Reef thread
sound like a Trencher discussion - which it almost was, for a second
Interesting...
on the same day in 1986 I bought my first albums - Brothers In Arms and Nick Kershaw's The Riddle. Both on cassette!
Oh Jan
it appears we are the same person.....
words cannot describe how much i hate this album
:(
I wuld say
that I also rate Love Over Gold and Making Movies.
Brothers In Arms
was once used in an episode of The West Wing, where it demonstrated that the track itself is actually pretty damn good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcA_Lyh9MmQ
Absolutely fantastic TV show also...
Just realised that was the wrong clip
but trust me, the one I was thinking of works really well...
....
And my radio says, tonight it's gonna freeze
People driving home from the factories
Six lanes of traffic, three lanes moving slow.
Any takers
on Private Investigations?