Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms (20th Anniversary Edition)
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Artist: Dire StraitsEdition: Music CD
Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD, Import
CD Release Date: 2005-07-26
Music Label: Universal UK
Soundtracks:
- So Far Away
- Money for Nothing
- Walk of Life
- Your Latest Trick
- Why Worry
- Ride Across the River
- The Man's Too Strong
- One World
- Brothers in Arms
Music reviews of Brothers in Arms (20th Anniversary Edition)
Music Review: (1.5 stars) You might as well be flushing your fifteen bucks down the toilet
Rating: 2 Stars
So here comes the overproduction! I'm not impressed with this group by any stretch of the imagination, but they had their strengths in subtlety, subtlety that does not occur at all on this album, which was somehow a masssssssive success on MTV, probably because of the overproduction. But it's not all that good. The previous two albums were spotty, but none of them contained anything as awful as the synth-washed pop song "So Far Away" - I don't think either of those albums even used synthesizers, in fact. Somehow "So Far Away" was a massive hit regardless. An even bigger hit was the endless, boring, trite, homophobic (ironic or not, the entire second verse is simply unacceptable from anyone) anti-MTV rant "Money for Nothing". Now here's some wonderful food for thought: "Money for Nothing", in spite of supposedly being this huge anti-commercial rant, is the most stereotypical '80s pop song you can imagine. It's got the loud, calculated, distorted guitars; the big booming 4/4 beat; more synthesizers than you ever knew what to do with. And I'm being lead to believe this is anti-corporate? HA! So then there's the third of the three big bad hits, and the worst of the bunch: "Walk of Life", modernized, sterilized boogie. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Dire Straits should not boogie. And even when the group touches on what could be something good, like on the jazzy "Your Latest Trick", with that fantastic sax part, they ruin it by contrasting that sax part with hair-metal guitar. Why? It was perfectly fine as a Steely Dan rip-off with neat little bongos. It did not need the stupid metal guitar. It's good compared to the three hits, true, but... eurgh, I hate those three hits. Besides, I love the sax part, as I have said multiple times. And then... well, then you have your token boring Dire Straits songs. Not only are "Your Latest Trick" and "Ride Across the River" impossibly lethargic, they're also impossibly long and overproduced in the process. But then after that you have the one song I do like. "The Man's Too Strong" has a subtle, menacing-sounding folk section and a big booming rock chorus. Now, that song I like. Not for the rock parts at all - it's another one of those '80s heart attacks - but for the quiet acoustic bits. The rock parts are totally useless. And after that, we get to hear Dire Straits' take on generic '80s funk-rock. The insulting song in question is "One World". If I never hear that song again in my life I will be happy. And then you have the third token boring Dire Straits song, the totally uneventful title song. I'm not big on Dire Straits, but sometimes they can good - though I've never heard an impressive album by them, I like random songs of theirs ("Romeo and Juliet"; "Private Investigations"; "Sultans of Swing"; every part non-guitar solo part of "Tunnel of Love"), and they're good when they manage to be subtle without boring me to death - something "Romeo and Juliet" totally succeeds in, I'll add. But this is just plain awful. There are no songs on it that I like entirely. Not even "The Man's Too Strong", because of the hair-metal guitar that should not have been a part of it.
Description of Brothers in Arms (20th Anniversary Edition)
20th anniversary limited edition of Dire Strait's 1985 album in the Hybrid/SACD format - 5.1 Surround Sound, packaged in a standard jewel case. Features the same nine tracks as the original version. Mercury. 2005.Propelled by Mark Knopfler's literate songs, gruff vocals, and spidery guitar work, Dire Straits had overcome initial skepticism for their resistance to '70s new wave accents in favor of a rootsy traditionalism. This 1985 album captures the band consolidating a far more epic style than the concise shuffles and ballads that the original scrappy quartet had reeled off, their ambitions fueled by the larger canvas afforded by the CD. One of the first albums to exploit the format's longer playing time, Brothers in Arms was initially released in separate versions for CD/cassette and edited LP, and the band became digital poster boys on a world tour sponsored by CD hardware interests. Critics that had once warmed to the band sniffed at the marketing, but the album remains their best known, noteworthy for the MTV staple "Money for Nothing" and the breezy rock shuffle "Walk of Life," as well as for the wistful "So Far Away," the plot-driven narratives of "Ride Across the River," and the title song. --Sam Sutherland
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