Mine is Brothers in Arms.

Self Titled.

Money for Nothing

Henry...you probably have the record for making it to 1000 post the quickest. It's all that youthful energy.

Glad you're listening to some good tunes too. My favorite is their first self titled album.

I have a Dire Straits Live at the BBC and another live one with just one song. Don't remember it at the moment.

I think I'll stop here for awhile.
Carl

Brothers in Arms. BTW: The SACD of this is amazingly good sounding. :thmbsp:

Henry...you probably have the record for making it to 1000 post the quickest. It's all that youthful energy. I think I'll stop here for awhile.

Glad you're listening to some good tunes too. My favorite is their first self titled album.

Cheers
Carl
Im not sure if I told you, but Im the only person I know outside of AK that is into audio stuff. My first 2 months here I went nutz and was posting like crazy, because it was the first time I could ever talk audio. Now baseball season's coming up:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: so I wont be here as much in the next months. Thanks to all of you here for talking audio with me lately. I started here in october and held my VERY 1st CONVERSATION ABOUT AUDIO.:yes:

Regards,

For me its Making Movies. Best album of a bunch of great albums. The sadness of heartbreak in Romeo & Juliet or the trippy, yet warm nostalgia of Tunnel of Love. I remember when it was released. I was in high school and played it a lot then and in college. Coincidentally, I threw it on the turntable this weekend after a long haitus. Its as fantatic as ever.

Runner up would be Love Over Gold.

Id have to second Making Movies.I had just graduated from high school,and had seen Bruce Sprinsteen live about a month before,so I was excited to see Roy Bittan playing on the album.I just love the sound of the album,and the story songs.
Jimmy

Goint to have to say Brothers in Arms due to One World being one of their best tunes that didn't get air time.

My two favorite songs from them are "money for nothing" and "your latest trick".:yes: :music:

Love Over Gold. Check out the avatar, of course. Telegraph Road is as good as it gets for emotional heartfelt art. Then Making Movies (Tunnel of Love, Romeo and Juliet) next.

On Every Street, listen to it and let it grow on you. It is an incredible album. Even the cassette has an incredible audio quality, and the music is soul filling.

...Id have to second Making Movies.I had just graduated from high school,and had seen Bruce Sprinsteen live about a month before,so I was excited to see Roy Bittan playing on the album.I just love the sound of the album,and the story songs.Jimmy

And I'll third that: Making Movies for me, too.

Money for nothing, even though it sounds like a self fulfilling prophecy, really was all that.. I thad all brothers in arms had to offer and a soulful bit more. Even though it is not represented in thid poll..:sigh:

I'm playing a lot of vinyl right now and a friend recently gave his collection. One of the albums was Alchemy Dire Straits Live. I'd never heard it before. Had it playing for the first time while I was doing some work on the computer in the next room. It's a double album and the last song on the first record is Sultans of Swing. Remember this is a live album. Knopfler starts doing this long impromptu rift that made me stop dead what I was doing. I went into the living room and started the song over. I have never heard anything with the energy and precision he put into that piece. I'm not a big fan of live albums, but this one is the exception. The crowd went wild when he was done and I was right there with them. I've since found a second album at a used record store for $5 and bought it and the CD version. I must say the vinyl really does sound better than the digital version if you can find it. Has anyone else heard this album?

I remember the first time I ever heard Dire Straits on the radio. Sultans of Swing. Bought the single(remember those). Then the album,been a fan every since.

Gotta love BIA. Not a bad cut on it.

The first album is my favorite but that has a lot to do with it being my first DS LP. Brothers in Arms is great as well.

What do you guys think of Communique? That's the one I'm thinking of picking up next as I really like the song Once Upon a Time in the West.

I have the first one on vinyl also. Great sound!:smoke:

Love Over Gold. Check out the avatar, of course. Telegraph Road is as good as it gets for emotional heartfelt art. Then Making Movies (Tunnel of Love, Romeo and Juliet) next.

I totally agree. The college station up in Boulder played Telegraph Road the other day and made me late for work! (I hold them completely responsible, of course!) Private Investigations off the same album is a great one too.

The DJ mentioned that the song was about a road by that name in the Detroit area. I used to travel Detroit's Telegraph Road quite frequently in the Pontiac area when I lived there for about 5 years. "So deep and so wide" indeed. It's a huge, overcrowded mass of humanity.

I haven't heard all of Dire Straits' stuff, but all of their albums I have heard are exceptional. My second would be Brothers in Arms. Very touching. Almost makes a grown man want to cry. All very well recorded, too.

I think D.S. should be my next "retro" music target. I just don't have enough from that band.

Since we had to pick one, I went with Making Movies over Bros. in Arms,
but I love "Telegraph Road" about as much as any dire straits song.

I'm with Badger on this one. I got the vinyl when it was released around 1984 or so and I reckon this version of Sultans is the only one worth listening to now.

This was a tough choice between the self-titled debut album and Brothers in Arms, but in the end I went for the debut: Cool, clean and uncluttered.

Could someone list their albums in chrono-logicl orderr so I could see which ones came out first?:scratch2:

Google "Dire Straits Discography" and you will find what you seek.

I'm playing a lot of vinyl right now and a friend recently gave his collection. One of the albums was Alchemy Dire Straits Live. I'd never heard it before. Had it playing for the first time while I was doing some work on the computer in the next room. It's a double album and the last song on the first record is Sultans of Swing. Remember this is a live album. Knopfler starts doing this long impromptu rift that made me stop dead what I was doing. I went into the living room and started the song over. I have never heard anything with the energy and precision he put into that piece. I'm not a big fan of live albums, but this one is the exception. The crowd went wild when he was done and I was right there with them. I've since found a second album at a used record store for $5 and bought it and the CD version. I must say the vinyl really does sound better than the digital version if you can find it. Has anyone else heard this album?

First song I ever heard on really good HI-FI. I was 14 and it was a high end system, with a LINN TT and OHM-F's. Been hooked ever since.

Brothers in Arms got a little overplayed, but with good reason. I only liked two songs off their first album (the two hits), but I liked every one off Brothers in Arms.

I'm playing a lot of vinyl right now and a friend recently gave his collection. One of the albums was Alchemy Dire Straits Live. I'd never heard it before. Had it playing for the first time while I was doing some work on the computer in the next room. It's a double album and the last song on the first record is Sultans of Swing. Remember this is a live album. Knopfler starts doing this long impromptu rift that made me stop dead what I was doing. I went into the living room and started the song over. I have never heard anything with the energy and precision he put into that piece. I'm not a big fan of live albums, but this one is the exception. The crowd went wild when he was done and I was right there with them. I've since found a second album at a used record store for $5 and bought it and the CD version. I must say the vinyl really does sound better than the digital version if you can find it. Has anyone else heard this album?

I've got a Japanese pressing of that double LP and like you I am not much of a fan of live performances but this one is something special :thmbsp:

Lefty

The first album is my favorite but that has a lot to do with it being my first DS LP. Brothers in Arms is great as well.

What do you guys think of Communique? That's the one I'm thinking of picking up next as I really like the song Once Upon a Time in the West.

Last night I went through my entire old tape collection that I recorded in high school and about 4 years of college, looking for what DS material I had. I THOUGHT I had Making Movies in there somewhere. I know I had ahold of the CD at one point, but I didn't find my copy. But what I DID find that I was not expecting, was a recording of Communique! It's queued up in my deck right now and I will try to re-review it tonight, and let you know what I think. My perspective is different now that I have a much greater appreciation of Knopfler as a Master Guitar Player.

The first album is my favorite but that has a lot to do with it being my first DS LP. Brothers in Arms is great as well.

What do you guys think of Communique? That's the one I'm thinking of picking up next as I really like the song Once Upon a Time in the West.

Communique is a great album. It is in my regular rotation.

Oooh, that's tough. I picked Brothers in Arms, but On Every Street, and Love Over Gold are all fantastic. All their stuff is, really. And his solo stuff is uniformly excellent, too.

Last night I played Communique thru Angel of Mercy, then sat back in the lazyboy by the wood stove with a stiff, straight bourbon and pretty much dozed off through the rest. I will have to play the last few tracks over. That's not a bad indication - the music was just so relaxing. Very cool, very Knopfler. It didn't stand out quite like Love Over Gold or Brothers in Arms so it wouldn't change my vote, but it is a very good album. I have "Lady Writer" running thru my head right now. :music:

Love Over Gold, the consummate Dire Straits album. Brothers In Arms is an excellent album, but it was aimed straight at radio/video.

Tough to choose between Dire Straits and Making Movies.

Love Over Gold, the consummate Dire Straits album. Brothers In Arms is an excellent album, but it was aimed straight at radio/video.

I agree, 'cept I don't think ALL of Brothers In Arms was commercially targeted. But I will concede that a good portion of it probably was.

Many years ago I heard an interview with some rock star - I forget who it was - who stated that you have to kind of "sell your soul to the devil" for at least one song on an album; you make money with that, then you can do whatever you want with the rest. I'd say that's stating it kind of strongly. Not ALL popular music is purely commercial crap, but I definitely see the pattern he's talking about.

It's either Making Movies or Love Over Gold. Tough choice really. Let me a flip a coin......

Love Over Gold

Alchemy wasn't listed and that's an excellent live album.

Love Over Gold, the consummate Dire Straits album. Brothers In Arms is an excellent album, but it was aimed straight at radio/video.

Also have to agree. I think I have them all, but Love Over Gold has a raw edge that is missing in some of the others. But they are all awesome albums.

have fun !