It was also the first single released from the album, which was possibly an odd choice, but I believe it did well enough and people certainly bought the thing, so it didn't turn the audience off. It has one of the typical Knopfler guitar solos in it, and moves along at a nice, sedate pace. The album opens with ' So Far Away', a gentle love song about being separated from loved ones. Well, sometimes the audience knows what it likes and the critics be damned, I guess. It is a monolith of an album, but I seem to remember at the time the critics not liking it. In Australia, it spent a huge amount of time on top of the album charts, and I also believe it did well everywhere else in the world. I believe it was the first album where the CD outsold the record (vinyl), but that could be an old memory rearing its misinformed head. Now, this was one of the first things I bought on CD, so we are going away from sides for this one.
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I should also point out that this was the studio follow-up to Love Over Gold ( ExtendedancEPlay being an EP, not a full album, and Alchemy being live), so looking at the differences between the two is stunning when one followed the other. I don't have any personal anecdotes to go along with the songs here (I know – shock!), but the night the first one of my friends bought it, about ten of us went to his house and just listened to it, beginning to end. It was one of those albums that crossed generations and societal structures. I was in high school at the time, and the lyrics to two of the songs on this album were used in our Religious Education class when talking about morality without religion (it was used positively the priest taking the class loved the songs). It was one of those albums that just sold and sold and kept on selling. In the mid-80s, this album and songs from it were everywhere. But straight away, I went back to this album and… well, here I am. But I had already promised some-one else I'd do my promised Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell review, and that was certainly a fun listen. I listened to it maybe three times before it struck me that I should write about it. Reissuing these albums allows the magic to be made available again on both counts.Now, what her message and our brief online "conversation" told me was that I hadn't actually listened to this CD in a very long time, so out it came, on it went, and… I'd forgotten just how good this album is. Of course, both are also each a key work in Mark Knopfler's career - when Dire Straits peaked and other avenues opened up for him. In context, both quite different albums deserve their place due to their relevance to their time but in contrasting ways. That iconic resonator guitar image also helps - cleverly set like a spaceship in the sky. A long album, but one rooted in time historically for many people as well as technologically. It is the plaintive songs that eclipse the livelier ones for me. For this who don't know the film, it is just a slightl escape into the Highlands but with substance - one of those films that doesn't take itself too seriously from the era before blockbusters took over.īrothers In Arms always evokes something for me - that light blue cover always recalls new footage of the conflict in the South Atlantic especially along with the title track. But it s being able to lose yourself in the moment that I feel is one of the joys of the album. The story thread of the clash of ideals of 80s corporate business and a simpler way of life works well.
The album cover helps to evoke the image and the album is not too long. I would say that the soundtrack is integral to the film - without it, it might have been forgotten. It's a nice British film not too far refer from the essence of the Ealing Comedy. It's a gently comic satire on human nature with an ecological undertone that, to be honest, stands true today. If you know the film, you can evoke the sprit along the way.
All the time, you know you have the highlight of the main theme 'Goung Home' right at the end.Īlong the way there are some delightful moments, including Gerry Rafferty vocal (the only one). Click to expand.Without straying too far f topic, one of the joys of this soundtrack for me is being able to get lost in it, escaping to the atmosphere of the film set mainly in coastal Scotland.
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