Dire Straits - Communiqué (CD)

Brings back fond memories

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Mar 3, 2001

Back in the early 1980s, when I first heard this album, it was the sort of sound that I wanted to hammer out full blast in my London flat. This was a three storey affair that meant everybody got to hear the music. Its just as well we all liked this s...ound. It was great! I was looking for music to match the progressive rock of the 1970s. (Life is not just all about U2). At this time Dire Straits helped to fit the bill. All this against a background (then) of the increasingly use of using electronics to generate "music". Especially good tracks are Where Do You Think You're Going. This track builds beautifully and just when the riff really gets going it ends. I just want to hear more!Lady Writer is typical of just what is good about Dire Straits. And I think Portobello Belle is a track to nurture in the mind - it stays there anyway. Its so catchy. Why you say ? Well just listen to to the keyboard and, especially on "live" versions, the saxaphone arrangements with the rest of the band. How anyone - apart from those died in the wool industrial computer music nerds - can say this is boring is totally beyond me.Go back to the drawing boards computer/electronic music fans. Read more Less