Dire Straits..crap/not crap

[southside]

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[southside]

That's what happens when you dont read the whole thread.

 

[southside]

I thought some of their stuff was good, Telegaph Road was excellent.

 

[paolo]

Were you a yuppy?

No, but friends clearly were.

(Not sure we were old enough, to be honest)

 

[futha]

ah man, evan dando. his beauty just breaks my heart

Yep, definitely not dad rock!

 

[futha]

Mark Knopfler plays without a pick which I admire. I am crap without a plectrum.

 

[Meltingpot]

Chris Rea and Dire Straits did a duo, it was called Dire Rea.

I like that one too. I expect both parties have heard it though.

As for the question; the songs are of variable quality IMO but Knopfler's guitar playing always impresses me.

 

[blossie33]

Yes, I loved Sultans of Swing so definitely not crap.

I'm not really familiar with their more recent stuff - are they still going in any form?

 

[Roadkill]

No comment - i.e. yes, they were crap, but also yes, I do like some of their songs.

 

[doddles]

hard to vote for me.

Love Over Gold (Telegraph Road, Private Investigations) = not crap

Money for Nothing, Twisting by the Pool = crap.

There's a few 80s artists who developed crapness as they went after the yuppie market...

^^^ this for me. During and after Brothers in Arms: crap. But before: they did some great pop songs - really well written and performed.

We used to time the drive to my mate's beach house by Telegraph Road. If we started the song as we left Fremantle, just as they sang "people driving home from the factories" we'd be passing Kwinana industrial zone.

 

[Flanflinger]

If they were good enough for Dylan then they're good enough for me.

 

[danny la rouge]

Jesus. 30 said not crap!

CTR.

 

[chazegee]

31, brilliant guitarist.

 

[Crispy]

Not crap, but not cool either

Also, my dad booked them for 40 quid when they'd just written Sultans of Swing and were called Brewers Droop. That's sort of cool.

 

[danny la rouge]

31, brilliant guitarist.

Who?

Really, no. Really.

 

[HobgoblinMan]

Also, my dad booked them for 40 quid when they'd just written Sultans of Swing and were called Brewers Droop. That's sort of cool.

That's not cool.

 

[Roadkill]

Every time someone starts a Dire Straits thread I end up going off and listening to one or other of their albums. Worse still, I find myself enjoying it as well.

 

[DotCommunist]

We are fools to make war on our brothers in arms

 

[Steel Icarus]

I like them. On occasion, brilliant - Sultans of Swing, Telegraph Road, Brothers in Arms (song), the chorus of Skateaway. Yeah. Good on 'em.

I've been doing some 80s reminiscing, is why I've bumped this. Lovely how I'm at the age where I can say I like whatever and not have to give a fuck, really.

 

[gentlegreen]

The first album was a gem. Turned up around the same time as punk / new wave - might listen to a couple of the tracks tonight now that you remind me. Would have liked to have seen them live around that time.



Does that make me a "dad rocker" ? I'm the right age, but I don't own a pair of Clarkson-style jeans, and I have House / D&B on my MP3 player ...

 

[DotCommunist]

I span love over gold for a long delayed revisit the other day and I still rate it, Telegraph Road and Private Investigations. Fuck you.

 

[Blagsta]

I'm listening to Telegraph Road now.

 

[gentlegreen]

Perversely, this has made me want to try some later Pink Floyd ...

 

[Blagsta]

I'm listening to Telegraph Road now.

It's not as good as I remember.

 

[pk]

Knopfler is a sublime guitar man.

But no. They did good then, and do good now by leaving be and refusing to flog a rotting horse.

I like playing Sultans of Swing on the Rock Band/Guitar Hero though.

"way on down south, way on down south London Town"

 

[pk]

Perversely, this has made me want to try some later Pink Floyd ...

When you say "later" I hope you mean The Final Cut. Division Bell was hopelessly overproduced dad rock.

Avoid.

I would wholeheartedly suggest getting a good copy of Roger Waters' "The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking" just for the sax playing alone.

 

[rorymac]

Not Dire Straits tbh but Mark Knopfler defo

 

[gentlegreen]

When you say "later" I hope you mean The Final Cut. Division Bell was hopelessly overproduced dad rock.

Avoid.

I would wholeheartedly suggest getting a good copy of Roger Waters' "The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking" just for the sax playing alone.

Thanks.

They lost me with The Wall - and I found Animals a bit unpleasant to be honest ...

 

[rorymac]

Vinegar strokes

 

[Casually Red]

If you haven't cried while drunk and listening to brothers in arms then you are soulless monster.

wrong . Anyone who bobbles around on stage with their sleeves of their ridiculous baggy yuppie suit rolled up Miami vice style , with no shirt under it , barefoot on a gym mat wearing a luminous fucking head band is by definition a soulless fucking monster who should be impaled on very high stakes . The name of that soulless monster is Dire Straits . The band who put the dire into diahorrea .