Album – 9 of 10 – Dire Straits – Dire Straits
It would have been impossible to go past the Dire Straits first Album for this list. Even if my favourite song is on the second album 🙂
Dire Straits 1978
Dire Straits also the first properly main-stream concert I went to, around December 1979, The Lewisham Odeon, Lewisham, near front row, all polite and well behaved.
9 tracks at 41:34 none of which miss a note or are bad or out of place, a well polished and lovely put together debut album.
I have this on original vinyl, which seems in keeping with my 10 album list.
A lot of the lyrics seem to play to some angst, or feeling offing the little man struggling in a big world that’s hard to understand or get on top of, and a lot of them, for me, are about places that are passingly familiar or easy to find if you’ve a mind. As will a lot of music there are always phrases or chords that ar personal.
It’ be easy to pick ‘Sultans of Swing’ as the stand-out track but it isn’t, the most well known perhaps, but not the best.
Without the Vinyl
1978, what a time in your life, that 17-20 year old golden years when you’re indestructible, gorgeous, confident and still finding your place in the scheme of things.
I’m having a listen on the Vinyl version from when it was new, you can bob along on Spotify if you want to here:
Dire Straits (Remastered) by Dire Straits
The Beer:
Dugges / Stillwater Cocoa Cacao – In collaborating with Stillwater Artisanal we always focus on distinct, clear, punchy flavors. This beer is no exception. Inspired by everyone’s favorite candy, this is a chocolate bar in a bottle. Unwrap! This is brewed by
and is in the style that is and Imperial Stout
with the beer
This rates as a 99 out of a 100 score on the one rating app 85 on the other, a range of opinions. This is a small 300cl bottle that has beer that is 11.5% ABV, which is around 345 Calories a serve size, that’s around 3 standard drinks in NZ !
The beer is dark and the aroma is almost of overly bitter soured fruit. This is a beer that has an incredible fullness in the mouth, like a billowing cushion, and it comes with an alcohol burn at the back. It is a fine sipping beer that is all up in your face with its own cleverness.
The pdubyah-o-meter would rate this at about 9 on a good day but probably nearer to an 8
Beer and Vinyl, a Monday. A wet and cold Queens Birthday day off, I’m having a grand old time with brilliant memories on the vinyl and a comfortable and enjoyable beer to sip along with it.
A life just as ordinary 