Track Listing

1. So Far Away
2. Money For Nothing
3. Walk of Life
4. Your Latest Trick
5. Why Worry
6. Ride Across The River
7. The Man's Too Strong
8. One World
9. Brothers In Arms

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1733 in Music
• Released on: 2000-09-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered

Amazon.com essential recording
Propelled by Mark Knopfler's literate songs, gruff vocals, and spidery guitar work, Dire Straits had overcome initial skepticism for their resistance to '70s new wave accents in favor of a rootsy traditionalism. This 1985 album captures the band consolidating a far more epic style than the concise shuffles and ballads that the original scrappy quartet had reeled off, their ambitions fueled by the larger canvas afforded by the CD. One of the first albums to exploit the format's longer playing time, Brothers in Arms was initially released in separate versions for CD/cassette and edited LP, and the band became digital poster boys on a world tour sponsored by CD hardware interests. Critics that had once warmed to the band sniffed at the marketing, but the album remains their best known, noteworthy for the MTV staple "Money for Nothing" and the breezy rock shuffle "Walk of Life," as well as for the wistful "So Far Away," the plot-driven narratives of "Ride Across the River," and the title song. --Sam Sutherland

Album Description
Digitally remastered edition of their 1985 multi-platinum album, their biggest ever. Nine tracks, featuring the #1 smash 'Money For Nothing', plus the top 10 'Walk Of Life' & the top 20 hit 'So Far Away'. 1996 Mercury Records release.

Album Details
Their Landmark Recording Digitally Remastered. Includes 'money for Nothing'.

Customer Reviews

80's Anthem
What can I say? This "album" came out when my oldest child was born. I had been on total bedrest for two months at a University Hospital. The baby was still born three months early, but survived. While he was still in the hospital, but I had been released, there was an oldies concert in the town where he was born which we attended. While the crew was setting up the equipment, the music from "Brothers in Arms" was blaring from the loudspeaker. I consider this collection of great eighties music to be my freedom album: freedom from bedrest (even though I did that willingly to have a child,) freedom from infertility and the freedom to still be "cool" at 30, despite the 60's adage: "Never trust anyone over 30!" I was at a dinner party once, and a man said he thought Dire Straits were the Beatles of the 80's. While I wouldn't go that far, I do feel that "Money for Nothing" is the Anthem of the 80's and the first three songs on the CD were among the best of that decade. The later songs are good too; a bit more mellow than the first. Overall, a great collection of songs is found in this (now) small package.

DIRE STRAITS AND MARK KNOPFLER ARE BRILLIANT
I was surprised to hear that Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms had sold 29 million copies worldwide, the 3rd-best selling album of the 1980s, and the 12th best selling album of all time as I had always believed that they were my favorite band. This album is a classic (but not my favorite from them) and contains such masterpieces as So Far Away, Money For Nothing (which is their best song along with Heavy Fuel), and Walk of Life. This is great, but Love Over Gold and On Every Street were even better!

Commercial Peak! And That's Not A Bad Thing!
After moderate success only with the three albums since their eponymous 1978 debut, nobody expected the Straits to pull a career-making album out of their bag of tricks. But then, Mr. Knopfler is always full of surprises! Much like 1980's "Making Movies", this album is a track-by-track triumph; the classic "Money For Nothing" is the most memorable and famous track, all eight and a half minutes of it; the title track is a long-standing concert favorite; and the infectious "Walk Of Life" and smooth "So Far Away" still live today on adult contemporary playlists. But there's even more here - "Why Worry" is a low-key plea for letting go of pain, and the smooth jazz of "Your Latest Trick" is a sensational highlight. "The Man's Too Strong" is a worthy number with sudden, jarring power chords making sure you're listening to what the boss has to say! You can see, however, the first strains of the demise of Dire Straits in this album. Knopfler's experimentation was growing too big for the band, and he would start playing with movie scoring ("Local Hero" and "The Princess Bride") and bluegrass (check out the wonderful "Neck and Neck" with Chet Atkins) before Dire Straits would produce its swan song in 1991's "On Every Street". The band would only produce a total of six studio albums in a career spanning 13 years...but the musical legacy is timeless.