Love them, they were great and still listen to them to this day.........Anyone else like them, Think a few peeps might do :cheer:

 

Here are some true classics from them :dance: :yahoo:

 

:dance:

Money for Nothing

 

:dance:

Walk of Life

 

Absolutley Love this :wub: :heart:

Romeo and Juliet

 

Live.....Superb

Sultans of Swing

 

Absolute classic..Very moving song and My ultimate fave

Brothers in Arms

 

Superb Guitar Playing :wub: 80s were the best for this i think , true classics

Edited January 10, 200817 yr by Haze

sorry haze, i only rated 'sultans of swing', imho they became rather...... dull really. a.o.r. which really wasnt my scene.

thanks for the link Haze. I love some Dire Straits. :cheer:

 

Mark Knoffler is an under-rated guitar player. His style is sublime.

I agree Haze, they are a great band.

I love the Brothers In Arms album.

Never did anything for me - part of that mid 80s corporate rock star c**p along with Collins, Sting et al.

I don't mind a bit of DS! Bought my dad the box set of them a few years ago he only seen it for a day then I pinched it! He has got it back now tho.... Romeo & Juliet is my favourite song.

:cheer: :cheer: Great to see fans of them on here.....

 

 

Never did anything for me - part of that mid 80s corporate rock star c**p along with Collins, Sting et al.

 

Love them, they were great and still listen to them to this day.........Anyone else like them, Think a few peeps might do :cheer:

 

Here are some true classics from them :dance: :yahoo:

 

:dance:

Money for Nothing

 

i saw this video in full for the first time on the hits a few weeks ago and seeing as i have been reading simon reynolds - rip it up and start again ppstpunk 1978-1984 book, just what to cast your mind back a few weeks to the Pogues - radio 1 - f***** controvosity. this record obv uses the word f***** too, in the American (non-tasty meat product sense) and having read the part about British acts on MTV in the early 1980 (and knowing a little bit of the anti-disco feeling as well) - this song with the mtv-esque video bits seems to me as another 'negected/misreprsented' satire on america's ideas (in a way similar to that of born in the usa by bruse springsteen) - as it does seem from reading, that American people thought in the 1980s British pop-bands (whoever - they all seem to be all labeled synth-pop types whether like Duran Duran or the style council?!?!?) were all comprized of make-up loving homosexuals and therefore not a good thing!!!

 

so maybe dire straights were better than some people think - then again they might just be the 1980s Manic Street Preachers (but without a deadbloke/mouthpiece to make them look cool)

 

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I don't mind a bit of DS! Bought my dad the box set of them a few years ago he only seen it for a day then I pinched it! He has got it back now tho.... Romeo & Juliet is my favourite song.

 

yeah my dad a fan as well - got him a mark knopffler solo album (get to kill crimson) for xmas but lost it in the mess that is my room - will be found in time for xmas 2012 i guess :lol: