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DIRE STRAITS "love over gold" cd, 1982

album stats.....................#1 UK, #1 AU, #19 US, no chart info for Canada
singles:
"private investigations".....#2 UK, #21 AU
"industrial disease"................................#75 US, #18 CAN

Dire Straits' fourth studio set....
only five tracks on here,partially due to "telegraph road" having a 14 and a half minute running length...
love that one, love the way it builds up and up to a crescendo, love the wordplay and storytelling,love the solo's, just love everything about it.
love the tongue-in-cheek "industrial disease", which was about as heavy and rock sounding as they ever got,
love the two slow tracks "love over gold" and "it never rains" also...the latter could have been a Dylan song...
only one on here i dont love(but still like) is "private investigations", which a spoken word piece over music.
cant for the life of me see how that one was even considered for single release, and cant believe it made it to #2 on the UK charts...
anyway, an absolute classic album with a brilliiant cover also...
this was the second album in their "classic" trilogy....

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

worst track: private investigations
best track: telegraph road"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8sLmx2Oz6Y live version(absolutely sublime IMO)

tracks:

1. telegraph road ***
2. private investigations **
3. industrial disease ***
4. love over gold ***
5. it never rains ***

3s=4
2s=1
1s=0

rating: 2.8