Category: Classic Rock

8 thoughts on “ So Far Away - The Windbreakers* - A Different Sort... (Vinyl, LP, Album) ”

1. DIRE STRAITS Brothers In Arms (Rare UK single-sided white label test pressing LP featuring the five tracks from side one of the album - So Far Away, Money For Nothing, Walk Of Life, Your Latest Trick and Why Worry. With 'VERH25 A' stamped inthe run out and '1' & '2' printed in black on the labels, housed in a plain die-cut sleeve.

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2. The full album was NOT what I expected at all. Iirc, Free was the first single and Here Comes a Feeling came after, which really set up the mood for the album then. Don’t Mind(!!), Every Color, and Nobody Like You were great pop songs, but the rest of the album didn’t make a big impression on me.

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3. May 21,  · Brothers In Arms was unstoppable from the moment of its release in May It made Dire Straits superstars, but it also warped the popular perception of both Knopfler and his band. Dire Straits became a byword for a certain sort of safe, homogenised music, and Knopfler was turned into a caricature of the middle-aged rocker, with jacket sleeves rolled up and wearing a kelndebconsphincgicesymriejigwhorate.xyzinfo was.

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4. A more conscious rock sound. Also, it’s short. 10 tracks, tight and punchy. Has one of their best ever openers in Sleepflower, and one of their greatest singles in La Tristessa. And, as an album experience listening start to end, it holds up well. A far, far stronger album than SATT. When the price falls to nearer £25, I’ll have a look.

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5. "Far Ago And Long Away" is a play on words, as in relativity space = time, so "far away" = "far ago" and "long ago" = "long away". The album cover has several images related to time and popular time-travel icons, including a photography camera, a clock mechanism, a police box as a reference to the TARDIS in Doctor Who, a wormhole-like tunnel.

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6. Brothers In Arms, the Dire Straits album that became a global No.1 with worldwide sales of 30 million, entered the UK chart on 25 May

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7. Exactly ten years after Dire Straits' first compilation, Money for Nothing, appeared in the stores, their second, Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits, was released.A decade is a significant span of time, and the average band would have produced enough material for an entirely different collection, one that shared no similarities with its predecessor.

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8. tUnE-yArDs’ debut album, BiRd-BrAiNs, captured that passion in fits and starts. It is an album that you grow to love for its rusty spots as much for the well polished ones – an album that sounds less like something spit out by a computer and more like the type of worn out cassette you’d find in a dollar bin at a garage sale and cherish as.

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