Yummy! (Love Over Gold - Dire Straits)

Member Name: salgirl

Product:	Love Over Gold - Dire Straits
Date:	16/02/01 (94 review reads)
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Advantages: Moody and atmospheric

Disadvantages: Could have done with a couple more tracks, but then I'm being greedy..

It might only have 5 tracks, but they still make 41 minutes of good music.

"Telegraph Road" is the longest track at 14 minutes, but if a story is worth telling, it's worth telling well. A classic amongst Dire Strait fans, the strident guitar that winds it's way through the song is a compelling sound that makes the minutes fly by. It may start off slow and building only to a gentle rock, but it's a journey worth taking.

"Private Investigations." Again a moody and atmospheric offering that never breaks above a trot in time terms, but it's a far more dramatic setting musically in stark contrast to Knopler's breathy narrative.

(If we're talking LP, then that was side one.)

The third track is boppy and unusually comic in it's lyrics. "Industrial Disease" has some booming guitar and fast paced drumming. The only one of it's kind on this album.

Now the title track, "Love Over Gold" has some really divine guitaring, superb lyrics, and more than a faint echo of a later track of his that he shared with Tina Turner, "Private Dancer".

Finally "It Never Rains" rounds things off nicely as the standard gently toe-tappy number.

This was their fourth album when they were completely at the top of their game. Very professional. Not a hair out of place.

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