Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
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It doesn't take long to realize Love Over Gold is like no other Dire Straits album – and a staunch proclamation of independence from a band that continued to take longer creative strides with each successive project. Fearlessly extending over metaphoric hills, valleys, and plains for nearly 14-and-a-half minutes, the opening "Telegraph Road" is a guitar hero's dream and exhilarating showcase for Lindes' give-and-take capabilities. In tandem with keyboardist Alan Clark, Lindes provides the ideal foil for not only Knopfler but the long-time rhythm section of bassist John Illsley and drummer Pick Withers.
Taking its time to arrive at destinations, the quintet paints evocative musical and lyrical portraits steeped in patience, drama, and, often times, sadness. Desolate emotions color the sweeping "Telegraph Road" and barren "Private Investigations," which finds Knopfler in the role of a tired private eye contemplating the emptiness and scars of his profession. Vocally, the Dire Straits leader remains in top form throughout, his whiskey-coated rasp conveying romantic ache, ongoing frustration, and what Rolling Stone beautifully deemed "wracking schizophrenia between the heart and the heartless, the loving and the pain."
Called Dire Straits' prog-rock statement, Love Over Gold is a classic that defies labelling and avoids ageing.
Mobile Fidelity
Mastered from the original master tapes and pressed at RTI, Mobile Fidelity's 180g 45RPM 2LP version of Love Over Gold teems with superb balances, front-to-back soundstages, and crystalline purity. The dead-quiet surfaces and extra-wide grooves bring forward previously obscured details, extra information, and mastering-studio-quality transients. The distinctive textures of a host of instruments – marimbas, acoustic and electric guitars, vibes, synthesizers – further enhance the ambitiousness of the 1982 album.
On this audiophile pressing, everything Knopfler does seemingly turn to gold. Gearheads will hear the unique characteristics afforded by his use of a Mesa Boogie Mark II guitar amplifier (soon again employed on Brothers in Arms) and carefully chosen selection of Schecter Stratocasters, 1937 National steel guitar, and Ovation six- and twelve-string models. Reference-level separation and lifelike imaging place Knopfler and company in your room, while tube-like warmth, spaciousness, and airiness causes the music to breathe anew. This LP will be in your rotation for months.
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- Mastered At – Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
- Manufactured By – Rhino Entertainment Company
- Pressed By – Record Technology Incorporated
- Licensed From – Warner Records Inc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Warner Records Inc.
- Record Company – Warner Music Group
Record Store Day limited edition with OBI Strip (602438936892)
Jacket's done with metallic foil printing technique. Consequently the flash on the front sleeve is "silverish" compare to original white color on the first pressings or most of the reissues.
Include 12"x12" album cover lithography with embossed stamp, Abbey Road Half Speed Mastering Certificate & 4 page color insert with lyrics and brand new liner notes.
The record was cut using a specialist technique known as half-speed mastering.
The artisan process results in cuts that have superior high frequency response (treble) and very solid stable stereo images. In short, a very high quality master that helps to create a very high quality record.
- Copyright © – Mercury
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Mercury
- Mastered At – Abbey Road Studios
- Manufactured By – Optimal Media GmbH – BL60796 in Germany