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Dire Straits
Released 1984

Sultans Of Swing
10:49
8,661 plays

Once Upon A Time In The West
12:55
6,072 plays

Romeo And Juliet
08:14
5,877 plays

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- 1
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- 12:55
- 6,072 plays

- 2
- Expresso Love
- 05:31
- 4,491 plays

- 3
- Romeo And Juliet
- 08:14
- 5,877 plays

- 4
- Love Over Gold
- 03:27
- 3,568 plays

- 5
- Private Investigations
- 07:31
- 3,904 plays

- 6
- Sultans Of Swing
- 10:49
- 8,661 plays

- 7
- Two Young Lovers
- 04:47
- 3,747 plays

- 8
- Tunnel Of Love
- 14:16
- 4,651 plays

- 9
- Telegraph Road
- 13:35
- 5,255 plays

- 10
- Solid Rock
- 05:58
- 3,691 plays

- 11
- Going Home (Theme From 'Local Hero')
- 06:00
- 4,251 plays

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album review

There is an interesting contrast on this 94-minute double-disc live album (recorded at London's Hammersmith Odeon in July 1983) between the music, much of which is slow and moody, with Mark Knopfler's muttered vocals and large helpings of his fingerpicking on what sounds like an amplified Spanish guitar, and the audience response. The arena-size crowd cheers wildly, and claps and sings along when given half a chance, as though each song were an up-tempo rocker. When they do have a song of even medium speed, such as "Sultans of Swing" or "Solid Rock," they are in ecstasy. That Dire Straits' introspective music loses much of its detail in a live setting matters less than that it gains presence and a sense of anticipation. Alan Clark's keyboards help to fill out the sound and give Knopfler's spare melodies a certain majesty, but Dire Straits remains an overgrown bar band with a Bob Dylan fixation, and that's exactly how the crowd likes it. (The CD version of the album contains one extra track, "Expresso Love," which adds a needed change of pace to the otherwise slow-moving first disc). ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide