20th anniversary limited edition of Dire Strait's 1985 album in the Hybrid/SACD format - 5.1 Surround Sound, packaged in a standard jewel case. Features the same nine tracks as the original version. Mercury. 2005. Album Description
 |  | Awesome!!!!! (SACD Version) |  |
What can I say. Unbelievable. Finally heard this via a PS3 playing the SACD at 5.1 24bit/176KHz linear PCM direct via HDMI to an RX-V3800. I have owned this album since the early eighties and it was like hearing it for the first time. The clarity, bass detail and space was amazing. 5 stars just doesn't seem adequate.
July 28, 2008I am not a big fan of Dire Straight, but his album has it all. I truly beautiful sound and well put together album.
April 5, 2008After reading a review above I realized my copy of 'brothers in arms' is a dvd-a issue and will therefore have to purchase the sacd version to confirm to myself that sacd is a better system of top end sound. I have both a sacd & dvd-a player and seldom if ever utilize the dvd-a system. Both are wired for direct multi-channel connections, so there is no processing done by the reciever(onkyo tx-sr-800) and I have found the sacd to be vastly superior to the dvd system. This will help confirm if my feelings are true or not.
February 15, 2008i havent got any idea for this product because dont arrive to me...i am still waiting may be arrive to me in few months:((
February 13, 2008 | | (1.5 stars) You might as well be flushing your fifteen bucks down the toilet | |
So here comes the overproduction! I'm not impressed with this group by any stretch of the imagination, but they had their strengths in subtlety, subtlety that does not occur at all on this album, which was somehow a masssssssive success on MTV, probably because of the overproduction. But it's not all that good. The previous two albums were spotty, but none of them contained anything as awful as the synth-washed pop song "So Far Away" - I don't think either of those albums even used synthesizers, in fact. Somehow "So Far Away" was a massive hit regardless. An even bigger hit was the endless, boring, trite, homophobic (ironic or not, the entire second verse is simply unacceptable from anyone) anti-MTV rant "Money for Nothing". Now here's some wonderful food for thought: "Money for Nothing", in spite of supposedly being this huge anti-commercial rant, is the most stereotypical '80s pop song you can imagine. It's got the loud, calculated, distorted guitars; the big booming 4/4 beat; more synthesizers than you ever knew what to do with. And I'm being lead to believe this is anti-corporate? HA! So then there's the third of the three big bad hits, and the worst of the bunch: "Walk of Life", modernized, sterilized boogie. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Dire Straits should not boogie. And even when the group touches on what could be something good, like on the jazzy "Your Latest Trick", with that fantastic sax part, they ruin it by contrasting that sax part with hair-metal guitar. Why? It was perfectly fine as a Steely Dan rip-off with neat little bongos. It did not need the stupid metal guitar. It's good compared to the three hits, true, but... eurgh, I hate those three hits. Besides, I love the sax part, as I have said multiple times. And then... well, then you have your token boring Dire Straits songs. Not only are "Your Latest Trick" and "Ride Across the River" impossibly lethargic, they're also impossibly long and overproduced in the process. But then after that you have the one song I do like. "The Man's Too Strong" has a subtle, menacing-sounding folk section and a big booming rock chorus. Now, that song I like. Not for the rock parts at all - it's another one of those '80s heart attacks - but for the quiet acoustic bits. The rock parts are totally useless. And after that, we get to hear Dire Straits' take on generic '80s funk-rock. The insulting song in question is "One World". If I never hear that song again in my life I will be happy. And then you have the third token boring Dire Straits song, the totally uneventful title song. I'm not big on Dire Straits, but sometimes they can good - though I've never heard an impressive album by them, I like random songs of theirs ("Romeo and Juliet"; "Private Investigations"; "Sultans of Swing"; every part non-guitar solo part of "Tunnel of Love"), and they're good when they manage to be subtle without boring me to death - something "Romeo and Juliet" totally succeeds in, I'll add. But this is just plain awful. There are no songs on it that I like entirely. Not even "The Man's Too Strong", because of the hair-metal guitar that should not have been a part of it.
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