Brothers In Arms – Dire Straits

Around release time for this album we had a few people from Italy come stay with us for a summer (we had sort of an exchange thing going) and we went to see Dire Straits up at Poplar Creek while they were here. On the drive there, Vic, who was probably in his early twenties, asked us about the lyrics to “Money For Nothing” as he was curious as to why he got his cheese for free. – Forty years later I still hear cheese for free. – I will always hear cheese for free.

With that said, I always considered this to be a good but not great Dire Straits album. It’s now been 40 years since it came out, and it was so overplayed at the time that I am still not ready to listen to most of these songs again. My quota was reached back then and is still remarkably near the maximum.

I do like “Your Latest Trick” and “Brothers In Arms” occasionally though.

Making Movies is way better!

To learn more about the 1001 Albums Project, I first wrote about it here.