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| Subject: Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980).  Wed May 06, 2020 8:44 pm | |
| Opening with hints of Autobahn. _________________  |
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| | Subject: Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980). Wed May 06, 2020 8:45 pm | |
| It's made especially poignant by the knowledge that the girl in the video for it died young.  _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980). Wed May 06, 2020 8:46 pm | |
| - Nightjar wrote:
- Did I already say that I love this song?
Not Skateaway mind. What I have never heard of. Or heard.
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The jibbedy-jabber-jaw jabbing at your funny bone, umm...
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| | Subject: Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980). Wed May 06, 2020 8:46 pm | |
| "She's making movies on location. She don't know what it means." _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980). Wed May 06, 2020 8:47 pm | |
| The background finger-picking on this is a thing of miracle and wonder. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980). Wed May 06, 2020 8:47 pm | |
| This getting quite Lou Reed-ish.
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| | Subject: Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980). Wed May 06, 2020 8:48 pm | |
| Going into the surprisingly restrained guitar solo. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980). Wed May 06, 2020 8:49 pm | |
| This is a track that simply wouldn't have been possible on their previous albums. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980). Wed May 06, 2020 8:50 pm | |
| Track 4 - Expresso Love. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980). Wed May 06, 2020 8:50 pm | |
| Hints of the riff from Leyla. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980). Wed May 06, 2020 8:52 pm | |
| Voice too low in the mix. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980). Wed May 06, 2020 8:52 pm | |
| Hints of Springsteen in the chorus. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980). Wed May 06, 2020 8:52 pm | |
| I'd say this is the least impressive track on the album. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980). Wed May 06, 2020 8:53 pm | |
| Here comes a guitar solo to save it. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980). Wed May 06, 2020 8:53 pm | |
| They're still rocking tight like a proper pub-rock band here.
Less of the slick production sound that made them progressively so awful as the years of success rolled inevitably on...
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| | Subject: Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980). Wed May 06, 2020 8:53 pm | |
| "Sweat on her lips."  _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980). Wed May 06, 2020 8:55 pm | |
| Track 5 - Hand in Hand. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980). Wed May 06, 2020 8:55 pm | |
| Entering gentler realms. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980). Wed May 06, 2020 8:56 pm | |
| I like this one. I appreciate the melancholy. _________________ |
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