MoeFOH's Album of the Week... Week #43

[MoeFOH]

MoeFOH's Album of the Week 🎶

Same as the movie thread, each week we're going to spotlight an album... be it a classic, new release, hidden gem, or outright turd... and open it for discussion: i.e. post up your favourite tracks, clips, lyrics, experiences if you saw live, etc... or dive deeper and give us a critique on why you think it's great, overrated, or a complete train wreck... And finally score it for us...  

All contributors go into a monthly prize draw for a 3-cigar sampler! 

PM me with suggestions if there's an album you want to nominate for next week's discussion. 

 

Week #43: Dire Straits

Moe says: Plenty of great reasons to listen to this album, and all of them are The Sultans Of Swing... 

Actually a great album with some other stellar tracks...Down to the Waterline, Water of Love... signature Dire Straits. Thus, a well-named piece. 

It's a 7.5/10 for me.

Dire Straits is the debut studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits released on 9 June 1978 by Vertigo Records, internationally, Warner Bros. Records in the United States and Mercury Records in Canada. The album has the hit single "Sultans of Swing", which reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 8 on the UK Singles Chart. The album reached the top of the album charts in Germany, Australia and France, number 2 in the United States and number 5 in the United Kingdom. Dire Straits was later certified double platinum in both the United States and the United Kingdom.

Over to you...

How do you rate it? 🤔

Thoughts, experiences, memories... post em' up! 

Score it out of 10!  

[MoeFOH]

 

[DOYLE]

Great album! Very underrated. Definitely a 8/10. Several really good tracks and easy to listen to multiple times and not get tired of it.

[Ken Gargett]

47 minutes ago, DOYLE said:

Great album! Very underrated. Definitely a 8/10. Several really good tracks and easy to listen to multiple times and not get tired of it.

interesting you say underrated. when it came out, i was at Uni. it was anything but underrated for us. we all absolutely loved it. it was huge. could not get enough. sultans is still a brilliant track. not sure they ever topped it. 

some years later, i saw eric clapton at the royal albert hall. incredible. even better was that he had mark knopfler as his lead guitarist. the two of them together was magic. 

and for good measure, phil collins on drums. brilliant night. 

[DOYLE]

On 1/16/2023 at 5:54 PM, Ken Gargett said:

interesting you say underrated. when it came out, i was at Uni. it was anything but underrated for us. we all absolutely loved it. it was huge. could not get enough. sultans is still a brilliant track. not sure they ever topped it. 

some years later, i saw eric clapton at the royal albert hall. incredible. even better was that he had mark knopfler as his lead guitarist. the two of them together was magic. 

and for good measure, phil collins on drums. brilliant night. 

That show sounds amazing!

[Ken Gargett]

51 minutes ago, DOYLE said:

That show sounds amazing!

probably the best non-springsteen show i've seen. what made it even better, for reasons too long to go into, i had my own private box at the royal albert hall at the time. so just for friends and myself. and we could just press the button and they would provide drinks all evening. ah, the good old days. 

[Doctorossi]

8/10. You can put it on any time.

[Ford2112]

I was trying to learn a different fingerpicking style on the guitar. Then I watched a Mark Knoppfler video and was disgusted with myself haha! He's phenomenal. 10 stars

 

 

 

 

 

[cnov]

12 hours ago, Ken Gargett said:

probably the best non-springsteen show i've seen. what made it even better, for reasons too long to go into, i had my own private box at the royal albert hall at the time. so just for friends and myself. and we could just press the button and they would provide drinks all evening. ah, the good old days. 

Not like you to leave us hanging, come on do tell, how did you have a box at the Albert Hall?

[bassistheplace]

I still listen to this regularly. It has masterful guitar playing of course. The band is perfect for the material. and even the production holds up decades later. it's a personal fave 10/10