Making Movies

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The song “Skateaway” has an interesting backing rhythm and actually contains the title words of the album ‘Making movies’. David Knopfler left Dire Straits in August 1980 during the recording of the album, following heated arguments with his brother [4] and almost immediately after the recording of a BBC2 Arena documentary about the group featuring several individual interviews with the band members. Skateaway" is another brilliant song, the only song on which Knopfler really shows us what a great guitar player he is. While the mix is not of the highest level it’s still quite good, not pedestrian at all from my perspective.

The mofi version of this album makes you LOVE to just listen to the music, whereas the orig UKs are better to let it spin and rock out to because the detailed instrument separation isn't as accessible to listen to. The other pressings that I know have a litle bit more reverb and here are soundpicture on the dry side and the listeners can come even closer to the music.However, this Mofi does an unbelievable job of separating the instruments to let them all breathe and give them space. With the E-street band's Roy Bittan joining on keyboards the band began to move away from the simple bluesy rock of the first 2 albums. Always more about the whole than the sum of their individual parts, Dire Straits demonstrate that while Knopfler is the lynchpin, this record is a true band effort. Three of the seven tracks from Making Movies continued to be played throughout the Love over Gold, Brothers in Arms and On Every Street tours: “Romeo and Juliet”, “Tunnel of Love” and “Solid Rock”, while “ Expresso Love” was played in all concert tours until 1986.

The three awesome songs are all on side one, the best of which is "Romeo and Juliet" (one of the rare songs that I used to listen to and get watery-eyed after the first chorus) although "Tunnel of Love" is pretty perfect too. Expresso love" is still a great rocker though and the ballad "Hand in hand" is also a Dire straits favorite of mine. Considered by many fans to be the group's most complete album, the 1980 set witnesses leader Mark Knopfler greatly expanding his songwriting palette and setting his storytelling amidst more complex, involving arrangements. Expresso love is single handedly the most underrated track in the history of tracks, the piano harmonies and lyrics are fantastic, check the first b-side out, trust me, mate. Expansive and cinematic, the aptly titled Making Movies puts a premium on interrelated subjects (love, relationships, heartbreak) and deep-seated emotions that play out in heartfelt lyrics, intense singing, and epic frameworks.Almost flawless album Amazing vocals, amazing instrumentation, and the lyric writing is truely immaculate here. The song is filled with romantic projections, though in real life most women would run away from a creepy carnival worker hitting on them. Dire Straits expanded into a quintet when keyboard player Alan Clark and Californian guitarist Hal Lindes were recruited as full-time group members shortly after the album's release in October 1980.

He seems to be putting Roy Bittan's piano playing in the spotlight instead of his own guitar on most of the other tracks. Sometimes I see Rhino and remember their glory days, never even looked to see how recent this one was. Iovine had also worked on Springsteen's Born to Run and Darkness on the Edge of Town albums, and he was instrumental in recruiting E-Street Band keyboardist Roy Bittan for the Making Movies sessions.Making Movies Is A Rock Masterpiece After Dire Straits second album was criticized as more of the same, Mark Knopfler responded with a rock masterpiece titled Making Movies. With new group members Alan Clark and Hal Lindes on board, Dire Straits embarked on tours of Europe, North America, and Oceania [6] from October 1980 until July 1981 to promote the album. Then the album takes a noticeable decline in quality, which is extremely noticeable but those songs still suffice. The album sessions continued with Sid McGinnis on rhythm guitar, although he was uncredited on the album. Rolling Stone ranked Making Movies number 52 in their survey of the 100 Best Albums of the Eighties.