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Private Investigations: The Very Best Of Dire Straits And Mark Knopfler,Dire Straits

- Private Investigations: The Very Best Of Dire Straits And Mark Knopfler
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Dire Straits
Released 2005

Your Latest Trick
06:29
9,333 plays

Love Over Gold
06:16
8,888 plays

Tunnel Of Love
08:10
8,385 plays

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songs

- 1
- Telegraph Road
- 14:20
- 10,355 plays

- 2
- Sultans Of Swing
- 05:49
- 25,048 plays

- 3
- Love Over Gold
- 06:16
- 8,888 plays

- 4
- Romeo And Juliet
- 06:00
- 27,916 plays

- 5
- Tunnel Of Love
- 08:10
- 8,385 plays

- 6
- Skateaway
- 06:35
- 10,161 plays

- 7
- Private Investigations
- 05:58
- 13,171 plays

- 8
- So Far Away
- 05:06
- 20,984 plays

- 9
- Money For Nothing
- 08:24
- 34,420 plays

- 10
- Walk Of Life
- 04:09
- 17,520 plays

- 11
- Your Latest Trick
- 06:29
- 9,333 plays

- 12
- Calling Elvis
- 06:24
- 4,291 plays

- 13
- On Every Street
- 05:04
- 3,980 plays

- 14
- Going Home (Theme From The Local Hero)
- 05:01
- 4,439 plays

- 15
- The Long Road
- 07:17
- 4,125 plays

- 16
- Why Aye Man
- 04:09
- 4,069 plays

- 17
- Sailing To Philadelphia
- 05:53
- 4,581 plays

- 18
- What It Is
- 04:56
- 5,062 plays

- 19
- The Trawlerman's Song
- 05:02
- 3,845 plays

- 20
- Boom, Like That
- 05:48
- 4,885 plays

- 21
- Brothers In Arms
- 06:58
- 5,885 plays

- 22
- All The Roadrunning
- 04:50
- 4,060 plays

- 12
- Calling Elvis
- 06:24
- 1,826 plays

- 13
- On Every Street
- 05:03
- 1,722 plays

- 14
- Going Home (Theme from The Local Hero)
- 05:02
- 2,382 plays

- 15
- The Long Road (Theme from Cal)
- 07:19
- 1,445 plays

- 16
- Why Aye Man
- 04:09
- 2,235 plays

- 17
- Sailing to Philadelphia
- 05:53
- 2,596 plays

- 18
- What It Is
- 04:55
- 1,820 plays

- 19
- The Trawlerman's Song
- 05:02
- 1,715 plays

- 20
- Boom, Like That
- 05:49
- 2,042 plays

- 21
- Brothers in Arms
- 06:59
- 2,456 plays

- 22
- All the Roadrunning
- 04:49
- 2,501 plays

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album review

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. There's the guitar sound that's as much Tony Joe White as it is J.J. Cale and Billy Gibbons, and the elegance of James Burton and Chet Atkins. There is soul, pathos, drama, and a bittersweet memory that Van Morrison first evoked on Astral Weeks and Saint Dominic's Preview. There is a new cut here as well, a duet with Emmylou Harris called "All the Roadrunning," taken from an upcoming collaborative album, and it's nice -- beautiful, in fact -- and keeps the line of continuity and excellence in perspective. 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. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide