Question: Describe to me Dire Straits' place in the Pantheon of Classic Rock

Dire Straits?

  • Dull as paint

  • Cornerstone of classic rock

  • Classic rock's *supposed* to be dull, sillyhead!

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surfsteve said:
I'd say the first 4-5 or so. I've said it before, if you like the debut, listen to JJ Cale's "5" and tell me it wasn't the blueprint for that album.
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Hm, that’s a JJ Cale album I’ve not owned or heard. Guess I have to get it now. :mad:
 
and for all the veterans here:




edit: btw, this song was used in the movie "Behind Enemy Lines", where a navy fighter jet is on a recon mission and strays over an imaginary line during the Bosnia war and gets shot down and is pursued by hostile rebels. this song is running in the background of some of those scenes.
 
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Knopler played on Dylan's "born again" album Slow Train Coming. He also played on the much better Infidels by Dylan, alongside the legendary reggae rhythm section of Sly and Robbie. That was a great album.
 
Mark Knopfler is still creating great music.
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I just installed a NOS AT cartridge for my TT yesterday. Today in my mail is a package with new remasterd LPs. Electric Ladyland, Dark Side of the Moon, LA Woman and.......DIRE STRAITS first album which by the way sounds stellar on vinyl.
 
xStonr said:
I just installed a NOS AT cartridge for my TT yesterday. Today in my mail is a package with new remasterd LPs. Electric Ladyland, Dark Side of the Moon, LA Woman and.......DIRE STRAITS first album which by the way sounds stellar on vinyl.
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Mojo.
 
Breaking! Pitchfork won't touch them for fear of Heartland Rock Cooties, but the edgelords of the Quietus certainly will.
As a writer, Knopfler swiftly showed himself to be one of Britain’s best exponents of what in America is known as “heartland rock”, and to his great credit, he made it feel distinctly of its own home – American in sound, certainly, but British in feeling. When it comes to rock & roll, Britain doesn’t have America’s mythic properties; but if, as I did when I first heard Dire Straits, you live on the equator, London or Newcastle are no less exotic to you than, say, the Rust Belt. There is no implicit cringe in Knopfler’s best songs; no sense that his is an inferior subject. Rightly so.
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(This is baffling but there you go. There's lots more.)
 
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335clone said:
In related news, I just scored tickets to Knopflers 2019 tour next September. I shall enjoy it very much.
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I just found out about it, tix for the show here go on sale next week. Stoked!

I saw DS once but never a Knopfler solo performance.
 
I remember the first time I heard "Sultans of Swing" back in '78. I was coming home from a morning shift at the Bakers Rooms restaurant in Madison, and when I got in, I told my wife (well, not technically until a year from then) "I just heard a new Dylan song with some awesome guitar!" :grin:
 
tiger roach said:
I just found out about it, tix for the show here go on sale next week. Stoked!

I saw DS once but never a Knopfler solo performance.
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I was so disappointed. I had tickets to see him about 10-15 years ago, and he got in a motorcycle accident and had to cancel the tour.
 
That article in the Quietus is probably one of the best examples of Dumb Writer Syndrome I've ever seen.
 
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