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albummaster
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- #1
- Posted: 12/31/2019 21:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#3302): Making Movies by Dire Straits
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Today's album of the day
Making Movies by Dire Straits (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1980.
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Overall rank: 582
Average rating: 78/100 (from 440 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Tunnel Of Love
2. Romeo & Juliet
3. Skateaway
4. Expresso Love
5. Hand In Hand
6. Solid Rock
7. Les Boys
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Fischman
RockMonster, JazzMeister, Bluesboy,ClassicalMaster
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Location: Land of Enchantment 
- #2
- Posted: 12/31/2019 22:02
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Quite an interesting album and probably Dire Straits' most consistent. I've always has a particularly soft spot for Skateaway.
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911Turbo
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Location: Toronto 
- #3
- Posted: 01/02/2020 19:36
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This album is truly fantastic. Everything that Mark Knopfler creates is worth listening to and this album is no exception.
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UofTBlues
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Location: Shores of Georgian Bay
- #4
- Posted: 01/02/2020 19:53
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My favorite Dire Straits album. Mark is an outstanding musician/composer. He's written some great Soundtracks as well.
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- #5
- Posted: 01/05/2020 12:51
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One thing that is not so good about this album is the fact that each song is a little worse than the previous so it gradually deteriorates in quality (with the exception of Hand In Hand which I really like). When said like that you could think that it's not that great of an album, and I generally don't like it when albums have weak closing songs.
However, the flipside is that no other album even competes with this one when it comes to the 1-2 punch of the first two songs. Tunnel of Love and Romeo and Juliet are stone cold masterpieces and both among the best tracks of the 80's. Tunnel of Love is my favourite Dire Straits song and probably in my top 5-10 songs of all time, it's that good.
Skateaway and Hand In Hand are very good DS deep cuts, while the other 3 songs are all decent, even the goofy Les Boys has its charm.
I rank it as the 3rd best Dire Straits (behind Love Over Gold and Brothers In Arms), and it sits in the 80-100 region of all time on my chart
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