So during my decorating session last weekend I listened to an album that comes from a band that now seems to be classified as uncool. The album was “Alchemy: Dire Straits Live” by Dire Straits.
This album had come back to mind after seeing Mark Knopfler on TV being interviewed; I think he has a solo album coming out.
I bought this because as a kid at school we had a cool teacher who played films at lunchtime on VHS. He was quite into his music as well and one day he showed the film of this concert. I hadn’t really considered Dire Straits as a band to follow and I’ve never bought or listened to any of their other works. However this live performance really caught my attention. The guitar playing of Mark Knopfler was the fascination; he was pretty good but seemed to have an effortless style on the video. Quite a laid backing player.
The musical style is very rock; quite like the blues in places. As with any of these sorts of albums it is a greatest hits to date collection; which is what I wanted. It’s also a pretty long album at 90+ minutes which was good since I was stuck up a ladder painting and didn’t have to return to select more music.
Having said everything about this album; I can’t stand their later work and in particular “Money for Nothing”. I got sick of seeing the video all the time.
Middle Aged and Listening 2 Music 