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Love Over Gold

Dire Straits

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Album Review

Adding a new rhythm guitarist, Dire Straits expands its sounds and ambitions on the sprawling Love Over Gold. In a sense, the album is their prog rock effort, containing only five songs, including the 14-minute opener "Telegraph Road." Since Mark Knopfler is a skilled, tasteful guitarist, he can sustain interest even throughout the languid stretches, but the long, atmospheric, instrumental passages aren't as effective as the group's tight blues-rock, leaving Love Over Gold only a fitfully engaging listen.

Customer Reviews

Goodness Me ! Goodness Me ! Industrial Disease !

Love Over Gold is my favorite Dire Straits CD. Telegraph Road is my fav. song, All 5 tunes are great. Highly recommended. Great place to start.

Love Over Gold

One of my favorite albums of all time. Never get tired of listening to it ever since it was originally released in 1982. Phenomenal melodies, lyrics and arrangements that swell and subside taking you through a journey of emotions. For a more sophisticated palette to be savored and enjoyed year after year, Mark Knopfler really hit the mark on this album.

Their best

I cannot imagine what the main review is talking about, fitful.... This is the best Dire Straits album period. Brothers in Arms was more popular, but way too poppy and silly overall to be best.

Biography

Formed: 1977 in London, England

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s

Dire Straits emerged during the post-punk era of the late '70s, and while their sound was minimalistic and stripped down, they owed little to punk. If anything, the band was a direct outgrowth of the roots revivalism of pub rock, but where pub rock celebrated good times, Dire Straits were melancholy. Led by guitarist/vocalist Mark Knopfler, the group built their sound upon the laid-back blues-rock of J.J. Cale, but they also had jazz and country inflections, occasionally dipping into the epic song...
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