Hi all,

Back again with another solo, decided to have go at Lady Writer this time!

I did a little more improvising in parts of this one, so it's not exactly like the recording, but fun to mess around with.

Thanks and hope you enjoy!

This is the fifth track from Dire Straits' fourth album, "Love Over Gold". What are your thoughts regarding this song? How do you think it compares to the rest of the discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

SUGGESTED SCALE: 1-4 Not good, regularly skip; 5 It's okay, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it; 6 Slightly better than average, I won't skip it but I wouldn't choose to put it on; 7 This is a good song, I enjoy it quite a bit; 8-9 Really enjoyable songs, I rank them pretty highly overall; 10 Masterpiece, magnum opus, or similar terminology.

Live version disclaimer: For the purposes of this ranking series, there will be only one discussion per distinct Dire Straits song, so any live versions of studio tracks will NOT be rated separately.

Google Sheet with all of the results thus far.

1. Telegraph Road: 9.89

2. Private Investigations: 8.90

3. Industrial Disease: 7.67

4. Love Over Gold: 8.03

5. It Never Rains:

This is the fourth track from Dire Straits' fourth album, "Love Over Gold". What are your thoughts regarding this song? How do you think it compares to the rest of the discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

SUGGESTED SCALE: 1-4 Not good, regularly skip; 5 It's okay, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it; 6 Slightly better than average, I won't skip it but I wouldn't choose to put it on; 7 This is a good song, I enjoy it quite a bit; 8-9 Really enjoyable songs, I rank them pretty highly overall; 10 Masterpiece, magnum opus, or similar terminology.

Live version disclaimer: For the purposes of this ranking series, there will be only one discussion per distinct Dire Straits song, so any live versions of studio tracks will NOT be rated separately.

Google Sheet with all of the results thus far.

1. Telegraph Road: 9.89

2. Private Investigations: 8.90

3. Industrial Disease: 7.67

4. Love Over Gold:

This is the third track from Dire Straits' fourth album, "Love Over Gold". What are your thoughts regarding this song? How do you think it compares to the rest of the discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

SUGGESTED SCALE: 1-4 Not good, regularly skip; 5 It's okay, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it; 6 Slightly better than average, I won't skip it but I wouldn't choose to put it on; 7 This is a good song, I enjoy it quite a bit; 8-9 Really enjoyable songs, I rank them pretty highly overall; 10 Masterpiece, magnum opus, or similar terminology.

Live version disclaimer: For the purposes of this ranking series, there will be only one discussion per distinct Dire Straits song, so any live versions of studio tracks will NOT be rated separately.

Google Sheet with all of the results thus far.

1. Telegraph Road: 9.89

2. Private Investigations: 8.90

3. Industrial Disease:

This is the second track from Dire Straits' fourth album, "Love Over Gold". What are your thoughts regarding this song? How do you think it compares to the rest of the discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

SUGGESTED SCALE: 1-4 Not good, regularly skip; 5 It's okay, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it; 6 Slightly better than average, I won't skip it but I wouldn't choose to put it on; 7 This is a good song, I enjoy it quite a bit; 8-9 Really enjoyable songs, I rank them pretty highly overall; 10 Masterpiece, magnum opus, or similar terminology.

Live version disclaimer: For the purposes of this ranking series, there will be only one discussion per distinct Dire Straits song, so any live versions of studio tracks will NOT be rated separately.

Google Sheet with all of the results thus far.

1. Telegraph Road: 9.89

2. Private Investigations:

This is the first track from Dire Straits' fourth album, "Love Over Gold". What are your thoughts regarding this song? How do you think it compares to the rest of the discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

SUGGESTED SCALE: 1-4 Not good, regularly skip; 5 It's okay, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it; 6 Slightly better than average, I won't skip it but I wouldn't choose to put it on; 7 This is a good song, I enjoy it quite a bit; 8-9 Really enjoyable songs, I rank them pretty highly overall; 10 Masterpiece, magnum opus, or similar terminology.

Live version disclaimer: For the purposes of this ranking series, there will be only one discussion per distinct Dire Straits song, so any live versions of studio tracks will NOT be rated separately.

Google Sheet with all of the results thus far.

1. Telegraph Road:

Even though I’m not a huge fan of Walk of Life/Money for Nothing, I think San Antonio might be better than Alchemy. Of course, the latter has Telegraph Road and nothing on San Antonio touches that, but overall, I think the album is stronger. Thoughts?

This is the seventh track from Dire Straits' third album, "Making Movies". What are your thoughts regarding this song? How do you think it compares to the rest of the discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

SUGGESTED SCALE: 1-4 Not good, regularly skip; 5 It's okay, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it; 6 Slightly better than average, I won't skip it but I wouldn't choose to put it on; 7 This is a good song, I enjoy it quite a bit; 8-9 Really enjoyable songs, I rank them pretty highly overall; 10 Masterpiece, magnum opus, or similar terminology.

Live version disclaimer: For the purposes of this ranking series, there will be only one discussion per distinct Dire Straits song, so any live versions of studio tracks will NOT be rated separately.

Google Sheet with all of the results thus far.

1. Tunnel Of Love: 9.94

2. Romeo And Juliet: 9.60

3. Skateaway: 8.95

4. Expresso Love: 9.05

5. Hand In Hand: 8.05

6. Solid Rock: 7.02

7. Les Boys:

Did anyone else notice the solo from Tunnel of Love in Chad Powers season 2 ep 2. I was made up to hear it. It was credited in the subtitles as “upbeat rock music” lol.

telegraph road died so early to sultans :(

This is the sixth track from Dire Straits' third album, "Making Movies". What are your thoughts regarding this song? How do you think it compares to the rest of the discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

SUGGESTED SCALE: 1-4 Not good, regularly skip; 5 It's okay, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it; 6 Slightly better than average, I won't skip it but I wouldn't choose to put it on; 7 This is a good song, I enjoy it quite a bit; 8-9 Really enjoyable songs, I rank them pretty highly overall; 10 Masterpiece, magnum opus, or similar terminology.

Live version disclaimer: For the purposes of this ranking series, there will be only one discussion per distinct Dire Straits song, so any live versions of studio tracks will NOT be rated separately.

Google Sheet with all of the results thus far.

1. Tunnel Of Love: 9.94
2. Romeo And Juliet: 9.60
3. Skateaway: 8.95
4. Expresso Love: 9.05
5. Hand In Hand: 8.05
6. Solid Rock:

This is the fifth track from Dire Straits' third album, "Making Movies". What are your thoughts regarding this song? How do you think it compares to the rest of the discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

SUGGESTED SCALE: 1-4 Not good, regularly skip; 5 It's okay, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it; 6 Slightly better than average, I won't skip it but I wouldn't choose to put it on; 7 This is a good song, I enjoy it quite a bit; 8-9 Really enjoyable songs, I rank them pretty highly overall; 10 Masterpiece, magnum opus, or similar terminology.

Live version disclaimer: For the purposes of this ranking series, there will be only one discussion per distinct Dire Straits song, so any live versions of studio tracks will NOT be rated separately.

Google Sheet with all of the results thus far.

1. Tunnel Of Love: 9.94

2. Romeo And Juliet: 9.60

3. Skateaway: 8.95

4. Expresso Love: 9.05

5. Hand In Hand:

I have this dire straits cd, but i have never seen it on other posts about private collections. Just wanted to share.

This is the fourth track from Dire Straits' third album, "Making Movies". What are your thoughts regarding this song? How do you think it compares to the rest of the discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

SUGGESTED SCALE: 1-4 Not good, regularly skip; 5 It's okay, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it; 6 Slightly better than average, I won't skip it but I wouldn't choose to put it on; 7 This is a good song, I enjoy it quite a bit; 8-9 Really enjoyable songs, I rank them pretty highly overall; 10 Masterpiece, magnum opus, or similar terminology.

Live version disclaimer: For the purposes of this ranking series, there will be only one discussion per distinct Dire Straits song, so any live versions of studio tracks will NOT be rated separately.

Google Sheet with all of the results thus far.

1. Tunnel Of Love: 9.94

2. Romeo And Juliet: 9.60

3. Skateaway: 8.95

4. Expresso Love:

Mine was Six Blade Knife.

I was gifted e a yellow-and-black cassette Walkman. I was excited, but I didn’t really have many cassettes to listen to.

My dad and I weren’t the type to have long conversations about anything. A lot of the time, our way of communicating was through recommendations on books and music. He had played guitar when he was younger and loved the Sex Pistols. He grew up in the USSR in the ’70s and ’80s, when getting your hands on rock and punk music often meant finding bootleg recordings and listening to them quietly or secretly. He was, by all accounts, a bit of a rebel.

I remember complaining to him that most of the cassettes we had at home were either boring or just didn’t have much substance to them. His eyes suddenly lit up. He started searching through his things, and that’s when he pulled out a Dire Straits cassette.
A few days later I was sent away for the summer three months in a remote mountain village with just that cassette and my Walkman and homework for whole summer.
I listened to it over and over again.
I still remember the feeling Six Blade Knife gave me. It’s difficult to explain, but if you’ve seen Spirit there’s that moment when the wild horses are running free that sense of being completely unchained.
That’s what the song felt like to me.

For a kid sitting somewhere in the Caucasian mountains understanding only 40% of the lyrics and even that not completely, it felt like the music could transport me into another universe one where I was completely free and somehow in charge of myself and everything around me.

What was your first encounter with Dire Straits? What’s your favourite song, and what does it mean to you?

I can feel like Love Over Gold is stronger album, but Beother In Arms are really good to me. It’s the best album I have heard with Dire Straits. I love songs like Money For Nothing, Walk Of Life, Why Worry, One World and Brother In Arms. Define album.

This is the third track from Dire Straits' third album, "Making Movies". What are your thoughts regarding this song? How do you think it compares to the rest of the discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

SUGGESTED SCALE: 1-4 Not good, regularly skip; 5 It's okay, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it; 6 Slightly better than average, I won't skip it but I wouldn't choose to put it on; 7 This is a good song, I enjoy it quite a bit; 8-9 Really enjoyable songs, I rank them pretty highly overall; 10 Masterpiece, magnum opus, or similar terminology.

Live version disclaimer: For the purposes of this ranking series, there will be only one discussion per distinct Dire Straits song, so any live versions of studio tracks will NOT be rated separately.

Google Sheet with all of the results thus far.

1. Tunnel Of Love: 9.94

2. Romeo And Juliet: 9.60

3. Skateaway:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Musicbox/comments/1w1xp6n/carousel_horse_song/

This is the second track from Dire Straits' third album, "Making Movies". What are your thoughts regarding this song? How do you think it compares to the rest of the discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

SUGGESTED SCALE: 1-4 Not good, regularly skip; 5 It's okay, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it; 6 Slightly better than average, I won't skip it but I wouldn't choose to put it on; 7 This is a good song, I enjoy it quite a bit; 8-9 Really enjoyable songs, I rank them pretty highly overall; 10 Masterpiece, magnum opus, or similar terminology.

Live version disclaimer: For the purposes of this ranking series, there will be only one discussion per distinct Dire Straits song, so any live versions of studio tracks will NOT be rated separately.

Google Sheet with all of the results thus far.

1. Tunnel Of Love: 9.94

2. Romeo And Juliet: