100 RECORDS IN 2022 CHALLENGE
Dire Straits- Making Movies
Record review #11/100
February 2022:
Discovering a band and working through their discography rarely follows a linear timeline. For every hipster sneering that they “only like the band’s early stuff,” there are 100’s of other people that come to any given group at the midpoint (or later) in their career.
So it is for me and Dire Straits. Like millions of other kids in the 80’s, my first taste of the group was “Money For Nothing,” off of 1985’s Brothers In Arms record.
- Animation? Check.
- Good groove? Check.
- Sting showing up? Check. Check. Check.
So they sang about banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee, and we all danced along.
What I — and I'm willing to bet most of us my age — didn't know was that this wasn’t the band’s 1st record; it was their 5th. By the time Mark Knopfler & co had us all talking about moving refrigerators, they’d already been together almost a decade, and survived the sort of pitfalls that often kill bands.
Summer 1980:
2 records and a full five years before Brothers in Arms came crashing through our TVs, Making Movies was released. The band…
