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Dire Straits - Dire Straits (1978)

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Tracklist:

1. Down To The Waterline (Album Version) 4:02
2. Water Of Love (Album Version) 5:26
3. Setting Me Up (Album Version) 3:19
4. Six Blade Knife (Album Version) 4:13
5. Southbound Again (Album Version) 2:59
6. Sultans Of Swing (Album Version) 5:48
7. In The Gallery (Album Version) 6:16
8. Wild West End (Album Version) 4:41
9. Lions (Album Version) 5:03

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By the mid-'80s Dire Straits were a platinum band dismissed in their native England as safe, yuppie rockers, yet the original quartet's lean, guitar-driven music struggled to find a label home when first recorded in 1978. Mark Knopfler offers craggy vocals, literate blues-based songs, and sinuous, virtuosic guitar work. He melds keening solo lines and rapidly picked fills and dodges the synth washes and postpunk power chords of then-competing new wavers; he relies on atmosphere, character, and pure musicianship intead of heavy irony or pop fashion. "Sultans of Swing," codifies this stance, a galloping paean to aging jazz musicians playing for the sheer love of the music. This became a major hit and has endured as a radio classic. The album itself has proven equally sturdy thanks to cinematic imagery and the tightly wound arrangements of "Down to the Waterline," "Six Blade Knife," and "Water of Love." --Sam Sutherland

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