DIRE STRAITS: Brothers in Arms LP 1985 UK original. incl. “Money For Nothing”, “Walk Of Life”, So Far Away. Classic Rock. Check videos

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CDs could sound really close to vinyl if they didn’t start the damn loudness wars, a CD back from the 80’s sounds great because of the dynamic range, now CDs sound twice as loud, really flat, no depth at all, if you look at the waveform of a modern CD you’ll see everything is flat and maxed out almost to the point of clipping. It’s not the fact that it’s digital that sounds better or worse it’s the way it’s recorded, that’s why even these Youtube videos of vinyls sound great because they preserve the dynamic range.

Its the less fashionable Knopfler and his intuitive feel for the fret board who comes closer. You needn’t dig too deep to identify the roots of beauties such as “So Far Away” and “Why Worry”. –Peter Paphides

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29 Million copies sold. Third best-selling album of all time in the UK. First album to succeed in the CD market, Grammy winning, earner of enough Platinum to build a house: Brothers In Arms is a phenomenon on every level. Its production raised the bar for all music to come, its songs and videos became household items. It also almost destroyed the band.
By 1984, incessant touring and recording schedules hadn’t dimmed Mark Knopflers enthusiasm for perfection. Having taken over the production duties on previous album Love Over Gold, he now went even further towards a kind of pop-oriented Americana. Brothers has a fine array of chart moments, including, of course, the Sting-assisted video hit Money for Nothing, the moody So far Away and faux bop Walk Of Life. But it gets them out of the way in the manner of mere aperitifs and then massages you with a suite of Knopflers very fine brand of JJ Cale-lite. Along with gruff nods to Dylan and James Burton. Like contemporaries U2 they had the golden touch that made their gold instantly more American and mythical than most acts from the States.

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They toured this album for two years. After that amount of time surely any band would falter. They certainly had a very long hiatus. This album was bigger than them. On that final night of the tour in they must have never wanted to hear a note of this album again. Twenty years on, its still echoing around the world. As inescapable as ever. –Chris Jones

Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms
Label: Vertigo, Phonogram
Catalog#: VERH 25,
Format: Vinyl, LP, (incl. glossy inner with lyrics + info)
Country: UK
Released: 1985
Genre: Rock, Classic Rock
A1 So Far Away
A2 Money For Nothing
A3 Walk Of Life
A4 Your Latest Trick
A5 Why Worry
B1 Ride Across The River
B2 The Mans Too Strong
B3 One World
B4 Brothers In Arms