Reviews (page 16 of 16)
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4/5 there are some amazing songs in this album
I like the sound of this. It's a little quieter than I normally like, so maybe it's the Aussie accents? Who knows, but I think it'll get a 4.
"Southern Rock" has always been hit or miss with me. More misses than hits
- there is not bad song on this - i want my mtv.....
haha you've got to be kidding. Anyway its ok, but come on
Muy desigual. Tiene algunas rolas brutales y otras medio meh y otras vomitivas. De todos modos se me hace mejor que cualquier disco de Steely Da.
I'm not a massive fan but I can tell this album is good
Easy 5.
Deemed this album "boring" when it was first released. Now I realize it has some great mellow tunes.
I dig some Dire Straits. Often a good reminder for me to spin the Cramps.
Remaster cd is excellent sound quality
Tiene buenas canciones pero aun no soy tan mayor como para que me guste la falta de vitalidad de Dire Straits
Love Mark and the first 3 songs. But I do not like the ballads and moody synth trash that follows. The heavy alto sax and pan flute are epitome if bad 80's song. And I love the pan flute! Mark needs to leave the 80's snyth ballads to Sting and Don Henley
I got almost nothing out of this. Granted my brain turned off after the f-slur in track 2
really good rock
few of the best singles of all time. few shite fillers. a bit dated. but, for the anthems alone it gets 7.1/10
Pues agradable pero no es para mi.
Fabulous
Pleasant enough listen but a bit too of its time - last few songs went nowhere
De los primeros vinilos que me compré. Lo escuché infinitas veces.
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A delicious 80s pop record. Every song is a delight. One of best pop records in the 80s.
So Far Away" Released: April 1985 "Money for Nothing" Released: June 1985 "Brothers in Arms" Released: October 1985 "Walk of Life" Released: November 1985 "Your Latest Trick" Released: April 1986
using word faggot in "money for nothing" ... but sentiment of working class to people who get money for nothing... didn't finish
This is really hitting the spot. I like that there are some quieter songs that I like, and then straight into some hit that I didn't realize was dire straits. I'm digging the western sound on "The Man's Too Strong." Actually, on a re listen, their sound is all over the place. It's fun for me since I'm not familiar with any particular genre that they are hitting.
A classic. The video for Money for Nothing is seared into my brain. But the title track is by far my favorite Dire Straits track. It's a perfect anti-war song. It's not a coincidence the song is used in every movie.
Fantastic album, no filler songs at all.
Nothing but bangers to open up. This reminds me of going to the beach as a kid. I think it was on The Fox a lot and Kath had it blasting as I was about to shred some waves with my boogie board. The back half of the album drags until One World. Then it gets hard 80's. Then back to music that makes me think of the sex scene from Top Gun. Gimme the first three tracks and I'm good. The song Brothers in Arms doesn't do it for me.
I started this album knowing the name "Dire Straits", but without any reference to any song, however almost all the songs are very familiar to me, actually. It's the type of album that every song has a kind of "I know this one from 'Guitar Hero'", "I know this one from that movie", etc... So, many songs are very famous but it is something very common, just the simple and old hard rock. It deserves a chance, but the songs are better as the soundtrack for movies and games instead of a complete album.
Great!
Flashbrega muito bom, ouvirei mais vezes. Melhores: So Far Away, Money for Nothing, Walk of Life, Ride Across the River. Pior: Why Worry?
Els Dire Straits, en general, ni fu ni fa. Però aquest disc és or, de dalt a abaix. Gairebé perfecte, ple de temes inoblidables, amb una extenuant "Walk of life" que esdevé la pitjor cançó del disc, per esgotament de tant escoltar-la durant tants anys a festes majors i bars. "Your latest trick" i "Brothers in arms" són les meves preferides, immortals. Encara avui, casi 40 anys després, segueix sonant actual i empatic, aclaparador.
Buen disco. Bastantes canciones lentas.
Nice chilly vibes
A couple of great great songs!
A classic
Some great DS hits on this one like Money for Nothing, Walk of Life, and So Far Away. Knofler just killing it everywhere. A few more mellow/clean tunes too.
Saxophone surprised me. Otherwise, went as expected. Cool throughout, 4.
Pretty good all around. I didn't know that Walk of Life was theirs. 8/10.
buen album, pero le faltó un poco mas de power. Creo que esta banda tiene discos mejores
Great album
Discazo
Creo que era el único (?) que no conocía nada a Dire Straits, a juzgar por la cantidad de reproducciones que tienen en Spotify. O eso creo. Igual, me gustó mucho, disfruté el eclecticismo: hay ondas medio punk, country, medio instrumentales, tirándole a jazz de pronto, y claro, rock. Sus canciones largas están como muy bien organizadas, aunque de pronto me hubiera gustado que un par duraran menos. Igual, sin skips, a gusto todo, no puse mucha atención a las letras. Mi fav: "Money for Nothing". Un final un tanto melancólico con la canción titular, pero igual, creo que me queda. 9.5/10
VERY 1985. I feel like I'm in an 80s drama. Now we're in smooth jazz? This album feels all over the place. Eh. Not really my jam.
iunno tbh
A beautiful album that brings back a lot of great memories.
My dad had this, on vinyl, back then. Listening now, I'm very impressed by the quality of the recording. I also like the dis on MTV, which they co-opted and ran with. I'd say that this is better than "meh", but not "life-altering".
liked it. good vibes
First three tracks came in like a wrecking ball (shout out Miley). Things slowed down after that. Slight remnants of 80s cheese on the crusts of Your Latest Trick and Why Worry. Not necessarily a bad thing. There's something likeable about this American sounding English band. I like-a the juice.
Veldig mye nydelig spilling på dette albumet. Låtskrivingen var ikke like fenomenal. Tekstene og melodiene på noen av sangene var enten irriterende eller kjedelige. Ikke dårlig album, men ikke nok for meg.
Classic
3.5 | Muy distinto al primer disco de ellos que nos tocó, pero igualmente muy muy agradable. Creo lo que más me sorprende es la temática del disco, nunca lo había escuchado completo y la primer mitad parece hablar de relaciones y descontento social y toda la segunda mitad son canciones sobre la guerra. No se si entiendo el concepto pero las canciones con letras en general buenas y con sentido. Esperaba también que fuera mucho más movido, resulta que las dos canciones que conocía son realmente las únicas dos movidas (Money for Nothing y Walk of Life), y aunque son dos canciones muy buenas y el resto del disco baja muchísimo de tempo y tonalidad, todas esas canciones tranquilas también son bastante buenas. Mucha instrumentación muy variada, obviamente mucho sintetizador, sin quitar el central de la guitarra siempre. Excelente bajo y batería, saxofones, trompetas, sonidos hasta rayando en un caso en el folk (The Man's Too Strong). Muy disfrutable aunque lo que siento lo detiene de ser excelente es que a veces se siente un poquito sobreproducido, indulgente o poco moderado... varias canciones estan en la raya de ser demasiado largas (de hecho SON demasiado largas, es un logro que no se vuelvan TAN molestas), ese intro de sax larguísimo esta de más... detalles de ese tipo que se sienten como si Mark Knopfler no hubiera tenido ningún freno o alguien que le editara un poquito. No lo hace mal disco pero si se siente un poco exagerado a ratos. PD. El mejor descubrimiento Ride Across the River suena perfectamente a soundtrack de Monkey Island y me hace feliz pensar en Guybrush Threepwood.
6 Må være i enhver plate/ strømmeliste.
Not my style
Your latest trick - cool saxophone, remember from somewhere possibly
Really enjoyed The Mans Too Strong. I don't know if I'm a dire straits kind of person, but it was a nice album.
Slowwwww. But could be worse.
Great rock album, solid singles.
Solid album, start to finish. Not my favorite Dire Straits album, but enjoyable to listen to time after time.
It's a little too country for me, but there are a couple of good songs. 2.75
Este disco, pese a tener varias medio conocidas, me costó mucho trabajo. La mezcla de sintetizadores ochenteros con su rock tradicional no siempre fue la mejor. Calificación arribita del promedio lo deja en 3.
unbelievably strong start, but it kinda lost me in the second half. i still loved this album, though.
Ok outside of hits. Very 80s
Great easy-going feel with an easy folksy transition to 80s rock.
Side 1 is perfect. Side 2 is good.
A classic, but I still like the self-titled better. Sting vocals and the outdated lyrics and kind of silly.
There's some real beauty in this album. Noodling doesn't always do it for me, however tracks like 'Why Worry' and 'So Far Away' really surprised me.
i didn't think i would like it this much truthfully
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Walk of life is dope lol
Way better than expected
I couldnt get away with it
Songs too long, album too long. Turns out sometimes production can kill a good song.
Singing sometimes awkward, but great guitar parts
Las únicas 2 canciones que conocía del disco son las únicas movidas, todo lo demás es lento pero escuchando las letras todo tiene sentido. Supongo está en la lista por todo el trasfondo y no solo por walk of life o money for nothing (chiks por free, baby quiero queso roñoso)
No esperaba otro disco de los Dire Straits. Siento que este es mucho menos dinámico que su debut, pero también tiene un par de cosas legendarias. Siento que la primera mitad es muy buena y luego la segunda parte se vuelve un tanto plana. 'Walk of Life' me gusta mucho (y es lo que le gana la tercera estrella). De 'Money for Nothing', pensé que la voz que suena como a Sting era una especie de parodia y hoy descubrí que no, Sting de hecho está en la grabación.
Has some nostalgic impact, but just TOO polished to mean anything.
It surprised me. For an album that is older than I am, it had songs that seeméd pretty modern
Great album, I liked this much better than the first album. Really liked the incorporation of other instruments
Enough crackers to give it a 4.
Listened a few days late. Album is extremely cheesy rock, but the riff on Money for Nothing still slaps, first bench press vibes.
I think my problem with Dire Straits has always been the lack of dynamic or structural variation in their tracks. 'Money For Nothing' takes a good riff and then repeats it on end for 8 minutes with few changes, and that just doesn't make for an interesting or engaging song. Also the whole back half of this album sounds like the soundtrack to a chintzy 80s Tom Cruise romance flick verging on porno territory.
Nice and varied, money for nothing to walk of life is a stellar 1-2
Good album. Not really blown away but it was enjoyable. Two hits I recognized immediately. Really dug the title track.
Fantastic album. One of my all time favorite and with a lot of childhood memories.
Uthørt
Didn’t listen to all of it but I enjoyed it.
Oh hell yes! A classic 80s guitar rock album
Cool. Some of it reminds me of a poppier/more rounded out version of Bob Dylan.
A bit annoying really
boomer rock. dire straits is not for me, and while i am proud of myself for sitting through this, i found it so very very boring i was nearly sent into a rage. love this synths, hate the everything else. 3/10. all points awarded for synth. points deducted for being the soundtrack of a generation that decimated the economy.
This album was already one of my favourite however I have not listened to it for awhile before this. It retains its wonderful combination of soulful guitar mixed with rocky purpose and combines it into a timeless mix.
Money for Nothing is great, but it's eight minutes long for some reason, and nothing else is particularly memorable aside from "Walk of Life", which I never super liked.
Always good
Great album.starts off strong, lots of 80s vibes in there. Gets a little weaker in the middle to the end but still a quality album.
Great album, the simplistic music and the beautiful lyrics just transported me back in time. Much needed to forget 2020. :-p
This album is good
Det finnes ikke nok stjerner å gi.
some bangers
So many classics that I often forget are Dire Straits
Great album that brings back memories of listening to it when I was a little kid.
fuck its good. intsrumental . nice chill.
Great guitar but much more jazzy and soulful than I was expecting.
Cool
Mark Knopfler bae
4/5. Mellow with deep guitar and manly vibes, with some oldie rock bops. Listen while drinking scotch and playing a quiet game of pool.
Also a bit meh. Wasn't anything special music-wise in my opinion.
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Bra grejer ändå, ganska basic men men
A classic!
3
What a masterpiece, genius guitar work, never in your face but always present, great atmosphere
Track 2 and 3 are golden
Shit
I don't get it. I read a lot of reviews, trying to understand it, and the consensus seems to be that this is their best album. For me, it's a million miles away from their self-titled album, and they moved in the wrong direction. Best track: So Far Away
Good album! But man why did he have to use the f*g slur >:( not cool, dude. Ugh 4 stars.
Plodding, dull. How was this ever a phenomenon?