MAKING MOVIES
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MAKING MOVIES
Making Movies is the third studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits released on 17 October 1980 by Vertigo Records internationally and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. The album produced the single "Romeo and Juliet", which reached #8 on the UK Singles Chart. The album reached #1 on album charts in Italy and Norway, #19 in the United States and #4 in the United Kingdom. Making Movies was later certified platinum in the United States and double-platinum in the United Kingdom -WIKIPEDIA
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Rolling Stone
1981 - On Making Movies, Mark Knopfler pushes back those influences, rolls up his sleeves and knuckles down to the business of cutting a Dire Straits disc that’s far greater than the sum of its parts.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
And in many ways, it's their most accomplished album, filled with huge, sweeping songs ("Tunnel of Love," "Romeo and Juliet") that were bigger, bolder and more tuneful than anything they'd ever done before and, to an extent, after.
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The Quietus
such a rich album, such a beautifully realised one, drawing in references from across Knopfler’s musical schooling, stretching out with such ease and assurance
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Oocities
arguably the band's best album
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Evans Rock Album Review
a dispensable effort, mired in the band's simultaneous desultory, fruitless searches for a new artistic voice and refusal to take a true risk and eschew the trappings of their former selves
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Robert Christgau
If any up-and-coming rock-and-roller aspires to auteur status it's Mark Knopfler, and among those with a taste for his rather corny plots (Romeo and Juliet, fancy that) this establishes his claim.
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Don Ignacio
A lack of what I’d call “special moments” is generally what turns me off of this album. It was a fun thing to sit through and tap my feet to, but nothing particularly about it gives me the urge to revisit it anytime soon.
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Only Solitaire
More abstract and romantic this time, but at least it's not a clone of the debut.
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All Music
And Making Movies is helped by a new wave-tinged pop production, which actually helps Knopfler's jazzy inclinations take hold.
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No Surf Music
2011 - one of the great albums in rock history and one that should get far more recognition that it has received in recent years. With lyrical power and musicianship almost unmatched in its time, it truly belongs on any list of the great ones.
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The Independent
2015 - Lyrically, it features gritty, painful, mournful lyrics, looking at the tough side of life—something that came to be a feature of Knopfler’s lyrics.
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John Banrock
Mark Knopfler’s writing and guitar playing continue to shine throughout the album, and the new influx of co-producer Jimmy Iovine and E Street Band keyboardist Roy Bittan round out a fantastic team.
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