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| | Amazon.ca: Brothers In Arms (20th Anniversary Edition): Music: Dire Straits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) |
 | | The result was an album that drove home to even the last uninitiated chump out there that Dire Straits were a musical force to reckon with, and that the success of their prior albums had not been coincidence alone. |
 | | From the growling thunderstorm opening, the sad and evocative electric guitar intro, and the first verse, more whispered than sung, through the slow and steady crescendo of the song's intensity to the closing guitar solo, Mark Knopfler's ode about war, in ancient Scotland and today, "civil" and otherwise, is nothing short of a true masterpiece. |
 | | "Brothers in Arms" was Dire Straits' most successful studio album, and one of the biggest-selling albums of the 1980, thanks to an exhaustive tour and the high exposure its single releases received on MTV. |
| www.amazon.ca /Brothers-Arms-20th-Anniversary-Straits/dp/B0009A21R6 (718 words) |
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