#521 Dire Straits - Making Movies

Here The Dire Straits make straightforward rock and roll songs stretched out to epic length, evoking Dylan and Springsteen in their ragged balladry, while the production is Steely Dan smooth and the sentiment is Steely Dan quietly-disaffected. The guitar sound is clean and the ballads full of a certain aching pathos, but the whole thing never quite goes for the throat, nor quite reaches for the stars (the solo at the end of Tunnel of Love being an exception, mabye). A quietly agreeable album that looms as large and ethereal as a cloud 3.5/5