Expresso love is single handedly the most underrated track in the history of tracks, the piano harmonies and lyrics are fantastic, check the first b-side out, trust me, mate. But whatever will happen in the future, he'll never sound as inspired and brilliant again as on this wonderful album.

The song “Skateaway” has an interesting backing rhythm and actually contains the title words of the album ‘Making movies’.Making Movies is the record on which Mark Knopfler comes out from behind his influences and Dire Straits come out from behind Mark Knopfler. The other pressings that I know have a litle bit more reverb and here are soundpicture on the dry side and the listeners can come even closer to the music. A slightly noisy sound floor on the lead in on side one is the only production issue I noticed, not enough to complain about and hardly noticeable in the songs. The second single release was " Skateaway," and the third and final single from the album was the lengthy opening track, " Tunnel of Love," with its intro "The Carousel Waltz" by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, which only reached the number 54 position in the UK. I'm inclined to agree with Rolling Stone magazine's assessment that had this record actually been a motion picture, it might have garnered a flock of Academy Awards.

Four songs were recorded during the sessions but not released on the album: "Making Movies," "Suicide Towers," " Twisting by the Pool" and "Sucker for Punishment.Dire Straits expanded into a quintet when keyboard player Alan Clark and Californian guitarist Hal Lindes were recruited as full-time group members shortly after the album's release in October 1980. Vote up content that is on-topic, within the rules/guidelines, and will likely stay relevant long-term.

Making Movies reached number one on the album charts in Italy and Norway, number 19 in the United States and number 4 in the United Kingdom. He even went as far as getting Springsteen's piano player Roy Bittan to play lots of sweeping arpeggios and big full chords when needed, and at the very beginning of the album is an extract from Rogers and Hammerstein's The Carousel Waltz, a very Springsteenian theme.He seems to be putting Roy Bittan's piano playing in the spotlight instead of his own guitar on most of the other tracks. The song is filled with romantic projections, though in real life most women would run away from a creepy carnival worker hitting on them. Twisting by the Pool" was released on the ExtendedancEPlay EP on 10 January 1983 and reached the UK Top 20 when released as a single. David Knopfler left Dire Straits in August 1980 during the recording of the album, following heated arguments with his brother [4] and almost immediately after the recording of a BBC2 Arena documentary about the group featuring several individual interviews with the band members. I've compared all of these vinyl releases with clean copies and I can definitely say the Mofi beats them all.

Always more about the whole than the sum of their individual parts, Dire Straits demonstrate that while Knopfler is the lynchpin, this record is a true band effort. Ask critics what their favorite Dire straits album is, they'll always tell you it's their titleless debut. The mofi version of this album makes you LOVE to just listen to the music, whereas the orig UKs are better to let it spin and rock out to because the detailed instrument separation isn't as accessible to listen to. Almost flawless album Amazing vocals, amazing instrumentation, and the lyric writing is truely immaculate here. In his retrospective review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine noted that Making Movies "ranks among the band's finest work.

David appears on video playing "Solid Rock" and "Les Boys" live in concert, but these performances preceded the recording. Sometimes I see Rhino and remember their glory days, never even looked to see how recent this one was. However, I just picked one of these up used from the LRS in new condition, ultrasonic cleaned it in a double cycle, played it and was very happy with the purchase.