BROTHERS IN ARMS
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BROTHERS IN ARMS
Brothers in Arms is the fifth studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 13 May 1985 by Vertigo Records internationally and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. It charted at number one worldwide, spending 10 weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart (between 18 January and 22 March 1986), nine weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 in the United States and 34 weeks at number one on the Australian Albums Chart. -wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
1985 - offers more of their winsomely rocking tunes ... Carefully crafted instead of raucous, pretty rather than booming, and occasionally affecting, the record is beautifully produced, with Mark Knopfler’s terrific guitar work catching the best light.
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All Music
Brothers in Arms remains one of their most focused and accomplished albums, and in its succinct pop sense, it's distinctive within their catalog
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BBC
2017 - Twenty years on, it’s still echoing around the world. As inescapable as ever. ...a phenomenon on every level.
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Louder Sound
2018 - Konpfler drove Dire Straits on, expanding their boundaries right up to the point Brothers In Arms became too all-consuming to contain. It wasn’t even as if he had contrived to make a blockbuster.
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Paul Rigby
2016 - displayed an increased sense of how to write a perfect pop song, from a technical standpoint: the riffs, the melodies, it was all there
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MoFi
Perfection abounds, not only in the manner in which the band nails its pop hooks and uptempo boogies with debonair flair – but also in the control room.
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Backseat Mafia
2016 - Years later, “Brothers in Arms” remains one of the most effecting entries in the Dire Straits songbook, and a masterclass in how to close an album.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
but almost every song on 'Brothers in Arms' twists into new and sometimes familiar directions -- from the throwback opener "So Far Away" to the springy "Walk of Life" to the epic title track, which closes the album
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The Quietus
a sound so slick and streamlined that all the variety and nuance of the first four albums vanished, and only the inspidity remained
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Oocities
One of the first full digital recordings, the production on Brothers In Arms is flat-out fantastic, and the album played a major role in ushering in the cd age, which perhaps explains its enduring popularity. B+
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Evans Rock Album Reviews
The case of Brothers In Arms is one of the most basic, predictable and transparent stories imaginable: Dire Straits shifted into a far more mainstream mode, instantly translating into a commercial breakthrough in the form of what's easily their best selling album, Brothers In Arms.
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Robert Christgau
the first side moves with simple generosity, not a virtue one associates with this studio guitarist's ego trip
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Don Ignacio
Barring that the overall songwriting is way worse, this more mainstream style of theirs wasn’t so unfortunate a move.
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Only Solitaire
An album of contrasts it is, but it's also definitely un-Dire Straits sounding.
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