Prog Synch Listen: Dire Straits, Skated Away (on the thin ice....)

[C]

She's a film director now in Tunisia (not sure where the smudges on her face come from)

She still looks good at nearly 60








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[Nancy]

Mark Knopfler is a wonderful storytelling lyricist. And some people criticize his voice, but I think it fits the songs perfectly.

[soundchaser]

A little tear, if you please.

Beautiful and sad.

[Nancy]

She's a film director now in Tunisia (not sure where the smudges on her face come from)

She still looks good at nearly 60








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I wouldn't have guessed a day over 45...

[kath]

the music on this closing section is just so fucquin ace (as it is throughout the song)

[kath]

A little tear, if you please.

Beautiful and sad.

ya

[soundchaser]

She's a film director now in Tunisia (not sure where the smudges on her face come from)

She still looks good at nearly 60




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Well, a toast to her.

[Nancy]

Side 1 of Love Over Gold, is the absolute peak for me

Side 2, not so much.

I have a sick, twisted love for Industrial Disease. It's pure joy to me.

[kath]

great sense of variety in the way this thing is sequenced

[kath]

She's a film director now in Tunisia (not sure where the smudges on her face come from)

She still looks good at nearly 60




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Well, a toast to her.

indeed

and a toast to love, even if the time is wrong and it is out of joint

[kath]

the band is soooooo together on this

[soundchaser]

A nice bit of Springsteen inspiration...just like The Boomtown Rats.

[kath]

such a fluid feel, building up, building down... toro toro taxi

[soundchaser]

Oh, I've got to turn the record over in a minute.

Very old school. Two of my sons are into making movies.

[C]

and a toast to love, even if the time is wrong and it is out of joint

spot on kath

Spot on





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[kath]

A nice bit of Springsteen inspiration...just like The Boomtown Rats.

didn't that springsteen producer dude do this one?

[soundchaser]

Great sound and production, of course.

[C]

The band are so tight!

Making movies - on location


Great robust stuff!







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[C]

All night long

A stunningly well produced album

Slipping and a sliding







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[Nancy]

I would like to see them do one last tour... never got to see them back in the day. But I don't think Mark is interested, and if he's happy doing what he's doing good for him.