Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980).

by Fangirl Three Wed May 06, 2020 9:04 pm

Dammit what does this remind me of.

by Nightjar Wed May 06, 2020 9:05 pm

Les Boys.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed May 06, 2020 9:06 pm

Guitar solo.

by Nightjar Wed May 06, 2020 9:06 pm

This is proper Lou Reed's Transformer.

Also, some of Elton.

by Nightjar Wed May 06, 2020 9:06 pm

"Goodnight Ladies"...

by Nightjar Wed May 06, 2020 9:07 pm

I like this.

It shows some humour and intelligence.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed May 06, 2020 9:08 pm

Voices other than Kmopfler's are heard.

by Nightjar Wed May 06, 2020 9:08 pm

It's a bold CODA!

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed May 06, 2020 9:10 pm

It is over.

I do feel its first half is noticeably stronger than its second, the first three tracks of the album being stone-cold classics. The second half is, in places, clearly less inspired. Because of that, I shall rank it slightly below Love Over Gold and give it four stars.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everyone else made of it. Excited

by Fangirl Three Wed May 06, 2020 9:13 pm

Fangirl Three wrote:Dammit what does this remind me of.

It's the middle bit of Maxwell's Silver Hammer.

I really liked Les Boys.

by Nightjar Wed May 06, 2020 9:15 pm

That was really like "Goodnight Ladies" from Transformer.

Not only theme-wise but that it was the final track.

A decadent and languidly dissolute CODA to a beforewitnessed study of technically astute and not entirely un-soulful Bluesy-pub-rock aesthetic raised to the nth power.

It was also good because it showed - possibly conspicuously so - that they were from London.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed May 06, 2020 9:20 pm

Nightjar wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:It's made especially poignant by the knowledge that the girl in the video for it died young.

Jayzik Azikiwe was a Gambian singer who died of cancer in her 40s.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed May 06, 2020 9:37 pm

Fangirl Three wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:National Guitar being used as such things were meant to be used.

Does that mean the line in Graceland, about how the 'Mississippi delta, was shining like a national guitar' isn't a metaphor about America at all, it's just a simile?

I'm sure it was both. yes