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Dire Straits Album: “Private Investigations: The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler”
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Private Investigations: The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler |
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Release Date:2005-11-15
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Type:Unknown
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Genre:Classic Rock, Mainstream Rock, 1970s Rock
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Label:Mercury
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Explicit Lyrics:No
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UPC:602498744765
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Review - :
This 22-cut double-disc set finally gets at it. Issuing a single disc of {$Dire Straits} and {$Mark Knopfler} would be a silly thing at best and a hopelessly frustrating one at worst. When the band burst on the scene with {&"Sultans of Swing,"} there was a lot happening in {\rock} music, but most of it was under the radar and remains forgotten except in the historic annals of music fanatics. {$Knopfler} and his band were full of {\rock & roll} romance and proved it through their first four recordings time and again. They couldn't help but become superstars and mainstays of {@MTV}. But there is another story told on this best-of, which begins with {&"Telegraph Road."} The story-songs {$Knopfler} wrote were always the best anyway, and this set is full of them, from {&"Sultans"} to {&"Romeo & Juliet,"} {&"Skateaway,"} {&"So Far Away,"} {&"Walk of Life,"} and (of course) {&"Brothers in Arms,"} which made for the most dramatic marriage of the little screen and {\rock} music when it was featured in the closing sequence of an episode of {#Miami Vice}. But there are many other stops along the way, like {&"Private Investigations,"} {&"Sailing to Philadelphia,"} {&"Going Home"} (from {#Local Hero}), and {&"The Long Road"} (from {#Cal}). But {&"On Every Street,"} {&"Calling Elvis,"} and {&"What It Is"} are here, too, making for a wonderfully rounded if argumentative best-of collection that goes the distance and explains sonically what all the fuss was about in the first place. There's the guitar sound that's as much {$Tony Joe White} as it is {$J.J. Cale} and {$Billy Gibbons}, and the elegance of {$James Burton} and {$Chet Atkins}. There is soul, pathos, drama, and a bittersweet memory that {$Van Morrison} first evoked on {^Astral Weeks} and {^Saint Dominic's Preview}. There is a new cut here as well, a duet with {$Emmylou Harris} called {&"All the Roadrunning,"} taken from an upcoming collaborative album, and it's nice -- beautiful, in fact -- and keeps the line of continuity and excellence in perspective. This is not only a fine collection for fans because of its wonderful sequencing, but the best introduction to the man and the band that one could ask for. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
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