Dire Straits - Making Movies (rel.1980)

Front Cover	Album Info
	Artist/Composer Dire Straits Title Making Movies Length 37:37 Discs: 1 Tracks: 7 Format CD Packaging Jewel Case Label Vertigo/Warner Bros. Cat. Number N/A Style General Rock Rating N/A

Credits

Songwriter Mark Knopfler

Track list

01 Tunnel Of Love 08:08 02 Romeo & Juliet 05:54 03 Skateaway 06:18 04 Expresso Love 05:03 05 Hand In Hand 04:49 06 Solid Rock 03:19 07 Les Boys 04:06

Notes

_Without second guitarist David Knopfler, Dire Straits began to move away from its roots-rock origins into a jazzier variation of country-rock and singer-songwriter folk-rock. Naturally, this means that Mark Knopfler's ambitions as a songwriter are growing, as the storytelling pretensions of Making Movies indicate. Fortunately, his skills are increasing, as the lovely "Romeo and Juliet," "Tunnel of Love" and "Skateaway" indicate. And Making Movies is helped by a new wave-tinged pop production, which actually helps Knopfler's jazzy inclinations take hold. The record runs out of steam toward the end, closing with the borderline offensive "Les Boys," but the remainder of Making Movies ranks among the band's finest work.