DIRE STRAITS & MARK KNOPFLER - THE BEST OF - PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS [2CD], album released November 2005.
Encoded 192Kbps [Lame] mp3. Covers included.
This 22-cut double-disc set finally gets at it. Issuing a single disc of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler would be a silly thing at best and a hopelessly frustrating one at worst. When the band burst on the scene with "Sultans of Swing," there was a lot happening in rock music, but most of it was under the radar and remains forgotten except in the historic annals of music fanatics. Knopfler and his band were full of rock & roll romance and proved it through their first four recordings time and again. They couldn't help but become superstars and mainstays of MTV. But there is another story told on this best-of, which begins with "Telegraph Road." The story-songs Knopfler wrote were always the best anyway, and this set is full of them, from "Sultans" to "Romeo & Juliet," "Skateaway," "So Far Away," "Walk of Life," and [of course] "Brothers in Arms," which made for the most dramatic marriage of the little screen and rock music when it was featured in the closing sequence of an episode of Miami Vice. But there are many other stops along the way, like "Private Investigations," "Sailing to Philadelphia," "Going Home" [from Local Hero], and "The Long Road" [from Cal]. But "On Every Street," "Calling Elvis," and "What It Is" are here, too, making for a wonderfully rounded if argumentative best-of collection that goes the distance and explains sonically what all the fuss was about in the first place. This is not only a fine collection for fans because of its wonderful sequencing, but the best introduction to the man and the band that one could ask for.
CD:1
01 Telegraph Road
02 Sultans Of Swing
03 Love Over Gold
04 Romeo And Juliet
05 Tunnel Of Love
06 Private Investigations
07 So Far Away
08 Money For Nothing
09 Brothers In Arms
10 Walk Of Life
11 Your Latest Trick
CD:2
01 Calling Elvis
02 On Every Street
03 Going Home [Theme From The Local Hero]
04 Darling Pretty
05 The Long Road [Theme From Cal]
06 Why Aye Man
07 Sailing To Philadelphia
08 What It Is
09 The Trawlerman's Song
10 Boom, Like That
11 All The Roadrunning [Duet With Emmylou Harris]
THE VIDEOS [mpeg SkidVid]
TV rip, edited, logos removed and encoded 352 x 288 mpeg.
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms [1984]
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing [1984]
Dire Straits - Walk of Life [1984]
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