LOVE OVER GOLD
| Dire Straits
LOVE OVER GOLD
Love over Gold is the fourth studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 20 September 1982 by Vertigo Records internationally and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. The album featured two singles: "Private Investigations," which reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart, and "Industrial Disease," which reached number 9 on Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the United States. -wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
1982 - an ambitious, sometimes difficult record that is exhilarating in its successes and, at the very least, fascinating in its indulgences
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All Music
Since Mark Knopfler is a skilled, tasteful guitarist, he can sustain interest even throughout the languid stretches, but the long, atmospheric, instrumental passages aren't as effective as the group's tight blues-rock, leaving Love Over Gold only a fitfully engaging listen.
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The Absolute SOund
2012 - But it also possesses real instrumental body, bottom-end punch, and a remarkably wide dynamic range. And the famous, sometimes eerie, sense of air and space is tremendously appealing, these nearly 20 years on.
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The Afterword
2016 - Love Over Gold is an immensely satisfying package. An elevation of polished rock to art status, and the coming of age of Knopfler as a singer, songwriter and mature musician.
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Alltime Records
It's pretty basic stuff really, but these compositions are mellow and simple in a good way.
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Liverpool Sound and Vision
2012 - well produced and sounds great, a worthy album to be included in a strong decade of music as one of the finest
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Only Solitaire
Boundary expansion - less humble than before, and also less idiosyncratic, but immaculately produced anyway.
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Don Ignacio
The result is a remarkably consistent and engaging album, and one of their finest works!
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Robert Christgau
I admit that Mark Knopfler is a classy enough guitarist and producer to entice me into his nostalgic obsessions: at its best "Telegraph Road" sounds like supernal Mark-Almond, and the cheesy organ on "Industrial Disease" betrays a sense of humor.
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Evans Rock Album Reviews
an album that not only offers something different from the group's norm but likewise offers a profoundly rewarding listening experience as well
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Oocities
Ultimately, however, Love Over Gold is only intermittently involving and/or interesting.
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The Quietus
There are times it impresses and thrills me, times when it seems little more than a fan letter.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
Dire Straits' fourth album is their most intricate and exquisite, a tasteful and occasionally difficult work of art led by the 14-minute opener "Telegraph Road."
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