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Dire Straits - Love Over Gold flac album
  • Performer Dire Straits
  • Title Love Over Gold
  • Date of release 1986
  • Country Europe
  • Style Classic Rock
  • Other formats AIFF DMF DTS MP1 VQF AHX RA
  • Genre Rock
  • Size MP3 1830 mb
  • Size FLAC 1576 mb
  • Rating: 4.6
  • Votes: 206

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.

Dire Straits 1982 Love Over Gold - Private Investigations 06:46. Dire Straits 1982 Love Over Gold - . elegraph Road 14:16. Dire Straits 1982 Love Over Gold - 04 Love Over Gold 06:17. Dire Straits - Telegraph Road (1982 Love Over Gold) 14:16. DIRE STRAITS - Love Over Gold (1982) - Любовь дороже золота 06:18. Dire Straits (Love over Gold, 1982) - 5. It never rains 07:56. Dire Straits - Love Over Gold (1982) - 05. It Never Rains 07:53

Perhaps Dire Straits tried to be overly ambitious. Higher production values does not a great album make. In my opinoon there is a certain sameness to the overall tone of the music (TRACK AFTER TRACK) that leaves me a tad bored. it never really achieves the very best qualities that we love from the very best Shm-Sacd's. Perhaps its the recording process that tries to fill in to much insrumentation or perhaps its the tape source. In either case I expected more  . And the original album was so much better than this. Recommended only if you are a hige die-hard of Love over Gold.

Adding a new rhythm guitarist, Dire Straits expands its sounds and ambitions on the sprawling Love Over Gold. In a sense, the album is their prog rock effort, containing only five songs, including the 14-minute opener "Telegraph Road. 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.

Tracklist

A1 Telegraph Road 14:20
A2 Private Investigations 7:00
B1 Industrial Disease 5:50
B2 Love Over Gold 6:15
B3 It Never Rains 7:55

Companies, etc.

  • Distributed By – Yonca Plak Ve Kaset

Credits

  • Bass – John Illsley
  • Design [Sleeve] – Michael Rowe
  • Drums – Pick Withers
  • Engineer – Neil Dorfsman
  • Engineer [Assistant] – Barry Bongiovi
  • Guitar – Hal Lindes, Mark Knopfler
  • Keyboards – Alan Clark
  • Mastered By – Robert Ludwig*
  • Photography By – Alan Lobel, Peter Cunningham
  • Producer, Written-By – Mark Knopfler
  • Programmed By [Synths] – Ed Walsh
  • Vibraphone, Marimba – Mike Mainieri (tracks: A2, B2)
  • Vocals – Mark Knopfler

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
800 088-2 Dire Straits Love Over Gold ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM, RP) Vertigo 800 088-2 Europe Unknown
С60 24731 001, 6359 109 Даэр Стрэйтс* Love Over Gold = Любовь Дороже Золота ‎(LP, Album, Red) Мелодия, Vertigo С60 24731 001, 6359 109 USSR 1986
7150 109 Dire Straits Love Over Gold ‎(Cass, Album, FIR) Vertigo 7150 109 Turkey 1985
6359 109, none Dire Straits Love Over Gold ‎(LP, Album) Vertigo, Fálkinn 6359 109, none Iceland 1982
800 088-2 Dire Straits Love Over Gold ‎(CD, Album, Unofficial) Vertigo 800 088-2 Unknown

Tracklist

1 Telegraph Road 14:15
2 Private Investigations 6:45
3 Industrial Disease 5:49
4 Love Over Gold 6:16
5 It Never Rains 7:54

Companies, etc.

  • Distributed By – PolyGram
  • Marketed By – PolyGram
  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Chariscourt Ltd.
  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Phonogram Ltd. (London)
  • Copyright (c) – Phonogram Ltd. (London)
  • Published By – Rondor Music
  • Made By – SKC

Credits

  • Bass – John Illsley
  • Composed By, Producer – Mark Knopfler
  • Design [Sleeve] – Michael Rowe
  • Drums – Pick Withers
  • Engineer – Neil Dorfsman
  • Engineer [Ass't Engineer] – Barry Bongiovi
  • Guitar – Hal Lindes
  • Keyboards – Alan Clark
  • Liner Notes [Specially Written Sleeve Notes] – John Tobler
  • Management – Damage Management
  • Mastered By – Robert Ludwig*
  • Photography By – Alan Lobel, Peter Cunningham
  • Programmed By [Synth Program] – Ed Walsh
  • Vibraphone [Vibes], Marimba – Mike Mainieri (tracks: 2, 4)
  • Vocals, Guitar – Mark Knopfler

Notes

10 page B&W booklet contains credits and lyrics.
CD: Made In Korea by SKC.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 3 259180 008826
  • Matrix / Runout: 800 088-2 03 #

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
800 088-2 Dire Straits Love Over Gold ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM, RP) Vertigo 800 088-2 Europe Unknown
С60 24731 001, 6359 109 Даэр Стрэйтс* Love Over Gold = Любовь Дороже Золота ‎(LP, Album, Red) Мелодия, Vertigo С60 24731 001, 6359 109 USSR 1986
7150 109 Dire Straits Love Over Gold ‎(Cass, Album, FIR) Vertigo 7150 109 Turkey 1985
6359 109, none Dire Straits Love Over Gold ‎(LP, Album) Vertigo, Fálkinn 6359 109, none Iceland 1982
800 088-2 Dire Straits Love Over Gold ‎(CD, Album, Unofficial) Vertigo 800 088-2 Unknown