Brothers In Arms

In the 80s, when you walked into the iconic stereo rooms at your Best Buy or high end shop, they played this to demonstrate their equipment. First rock album to be recorded fully digital, or DDD. Money for Nothing would open those speakers up and show those power amp limitations! One of the Best Albums ever!

We all knew the Dire Straits of old had vanished when the Sting line, I Want My MTV reared its ugly head. There are glimpses of the band we loved here and there, but the albums that flowed and scratched the same itch from beginning to end were a thing of the past. Man’s Too Strong & Brothers In Arms are the standout tracks if you’re after the honest stuff. They never put out a bad album. Which is impressive when you hit it big in the middle of the 80’s. Everyone was allowed to step off the path and take a dip in the decadence I guess.

Masterpiece just listen to it!!!

...not to pile on the reviewer here, but..."Riding On The River" is reggae-- not blues, Latin and Caribbean. And, yeah...no mention of the title track?

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Money for Nothing, with the now socially unacceptable verses removed, has become a repetitive and monotonous shell of its former self. Many works of art from former times could now be seen as offensive to some, why was this one edited?

This album is a masterpiece!!l A must have!!

By far one of the best albums ever!!

I can't remember when I first heard this album, or when I realized these were new songs. Each song (with the exception, perhaps, of why worry), sounded to me like I had always known them and always would know them. I remember hearing the album as a kid with my friends, and in our college dorm, and listening to it with my dad, and then with my roommates just after college. Now, 20 years later, after losing the CD to a car stereo thief, I am buying the album again. Not sure why, as I can still hear every note as clearly as if it was playing. The band has that big, flowing, rolling sound, big musicality, strongly rooted in great musicianship. Even the synthesizer sounds are crafted and seasoned to blend into the richness of the tones rolling out of the guitar, base, and drum tracks that mark this album as one of the great works of the 1980s.

Amazing album