Here's that "Skateaway" video you remember from MTV!Ħths 70s Obscurities A Girl Called Eddy Action Adrian Belew Aerovons Aguaturbia Aimee Mann Alarm Alastair Riddell Alicia Witt Alvvays Amazing Ambient Ambulance LTD America American Dream Americana Amps Amy Rigby Andy Summers Anna Burch Anthony Phillips Any Trouble Apple Apples In Stereo Archies Area Arms of Someone New Asteroid #4 B-52's Bad Moves Bad Religion Badfinger Band of Horses Bangles Barbara Manning Baroque Pop Bats Be-Bop Deluxe Beach Boys Beach Slang Beachwood Sparks Beagle Hat Bears Beat Farmers Beat Of The Earth Beatles Beatlesque Bee Gees Ben Folds Five Ben Lee Ben Vaughn Best Coast Beths Bettie Serveert Beulah Big Audio Dynamite Big Star Billy Joel Bishop Allen Bjork Black Nasty Black Watch Blake Babies Blanketman Bleached Blossom Toes Blue Blue Cartoon Blues Bo Burnham Bob Dylan Bob Mould Bongos Bonny Doon Book Of Love Bootlegs Breeders Brewer & Shipley Brian Eno Brian Jonestown Massacre Brian Protheroe Brinsley Schwarz British Invasion Britpop Bruce Springsteen Bubblegum Buffalo Springfield Built To Spill Buzzcocks Byrds Camera Obscura Camper Van Beethoven Captain Beefheart Captain Beyond Captain Sensible Caravan Carpenters Cars Cat Stevens Charlatans Charly Bliss Cheap Trick Chesterfield Kings Children's Music Chills Chris Bell Chris Forsyth Chris Spedding Christmas Music Circles Around The Sun Clash Classic Rock Classical Music Clean Cleaners From Venus Cliff Hillis Close Lobsters Cocteau Twins Colleen Green College Radio Compilations Connections Connells Continental Drifters Cosmic Rough Riders Cotton Mather Courtney Barnett Creeper Lagoon CSNY Culpeper's Orchard Cure Curt Boettcher Damned Dan Lyons Dandy Warhols Daniel Johnston Danny & Dusty Darling Buds Dave Depper Dave Edmunds David Bowie David Crosby David Gilmour dB's Dead Milkmen Death Cab For Cutie Devo Died Pretty DIIV Dire Straits DM3 Dom Mariani Doors Doug Tuttle Dr. Still, if only for the first side of the LP and bits of the second, it's, again, decent enough. And I don't like closer "Les Boys" at all, which sounds like a Transformer/Berlin-era Lou Reed song, fey cabaret but without Reed's commitment to the camp.
The second side is less enjoyable for me I'm not as much a fan of Knopfler's shorter, harder-rocking songs. "Romeo and Juliet" is lovely, "Tunnel of Love" engaging that first side, with the longer running times giving the songs room to build and pivot, is a joy throughout. "Skateaway" is fantastic, my favorite Straits tune, Mark Knopfler's guitars buoyant and perky, the song alternating between one of his theatric, soft-spoken narratives and a rousing arena-ready chorus. And while I kinda dig the debut and, to a lesser extent, Communique, it's the third one I probably play most often (aside from Live Alchemy I kinda prefer them in a live, jammier environment, where Knopfler's guitar pyrotechnics shine).
Maybe not to Brothers In Arms, which I still can't hear without feeling like an R.E.M.-loving college radio nerd bristling against the album's cultural oversaturation, but certainly to their earlier albums. And whatever grudging enjoyment I derived from some of their music was pretty much eviscerated by the time of 1985's Brothers In Arms, which was so omnipresent during my college years (equaled only by maybe U2's Joshua Tree) that I couldn't help but reject it outright, regardless of its artistic merit.īut like I said, I've come around.
It didn't help that their music was competing for my attention with the likes of the Clash and the Talking Heads and Squeeze and the Jam, and that just wasn't a fair fight. (Which I say with no disrespect intended when you're a middle-aged grown-up, having a variety of decent enough weekend background music is actually kinda crucial.)īack in the 70s and 80s, though - ugh, I just found them hopelessly dull and overly mannered. Here's another band I really hated back in the day, but these days find make for decent enough weekend background music.
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