

Dire Straits’ whole albums from 1978 to 1991 will be available with the boxset, and all LP’s will come with printed inner sleeves. The CD was a brand new format and the album. The song Money for Nothing was a smash when an animated music video seemed new. The song Money For Nothing, which also featured Sting became one of the most played videos on MTV of all time. Mark Knopfler took the directive to write an MTVable song quite. The co-founding member with his brother David of Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler, has posted a recent video on his official Instagram account today and announced that the 6CD boxset of Dire Straits’ studio albums will be out soon. Clean radio cut of Money for Nothing (Chicks for Free) by Dire Straits. But it’s still a pleasant enough album, with a few cuts (Lady Writer, Where Do You Think You’re Going? and Once Upon a Time in the West, in particular) deserving a lot more praise than they ever came close to getting. Money For Nothing by Dire Straits song meaning, lyric interpretation, video and chart. Dire Straits play well-behaved, rhythm-heavy radio-rock that gets all its personality from Knopflers J.J. Sure, it sounds rushed (which it was, released within just 10 months of their debut), and it’s certainly the easiest of the band’s albums to overlook. Dire Straits are the vehicle for session guitar whiz Mark Knopfler, who first appeared as a member of Bob Dylans band in the mid-1970s. Communique got slated to within an inch of its life, with Jonathan Daümler-Ford of The Birmingham Daily Post saying that “the songs sound like pale imitations, or the cuts which were not good enough for Dire Straits” and All Music saying it “seemed little more than a carbon copy of its predecessor with less compelling material.” With the benefit of hindsight, it’s not nearly as bad as everyone made out. The second album was always going to be compared to the first and unless Dire Straits performed a minor miracle and pulled two seminal albums out of the bag in a row, those comparisons were never going to be kind. Dire Straits lyrics - 62 song lyrics sorted by album, including 'Sultans Of Swing', 'Money For Nothing', 'Romeo And Juliet'.

Dire Straits' fifth album entitled Alchemy : Dire Straits Live was released in February of 1984 on Vertigo/Phonogram in Europe and on Warner Bros here in the United States. After their glorious debut, Communique never really stood a chance. One of the greatest live albums ever recorded Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2014.
