Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms – Mobile Fidelity
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Mobile Fidelity
Blockbuster Brothers In Arms Helped Define 80s, Catapulted Dire Straits to Arena Status
The End-All-Be-All Ultimate-Sounding Version of This Audiophile Standard: Mobile Fidelity 180g 45RPM 2LP
Captures Delicate Nuances, Revealing Textures, Finite Information
1985’s Brothers In Arms Has Sold More Than Nine Million Copies in U.S. Alone, Ranks #351 on Rolling Stone’s 500
Greatest Albums of All Time List
Digital clone of Sony 1630 U-Matic digital master
One of the world’s best-selling records and an era-defining Grammy-winning set that catapulted an acclaimed band to arena status, Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms is the kind of epic spectacular that comes around only once or twice a decade. Surpassed only in fame and visibility during the period by Michael Jackson’s Thriller, the 1985 album remains idiosyncratic for its covetable combination of adventurous song writing, precision-based performances, and reference-calibre fidelity. Anchored by “Money for Nothing,”
immediately identifiable via Mark Knopfler’s resonant finger-picked guitar riff and Sting’s “I want my MTV” vocal refrain, Dire Straits’ fifth album is stuffed with bluesy signatures, jazz-rock motifs, clever lyrics, and organic accents. Perfection abounds, not only in the manner in which the band nails its pop hooks and up-tempo boogies with debonair flair, but also in the control room.
Mastered from the original master tapes, pressed at RTI, and possessing a richness befitting the album’s stellar reputation, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered limited-edition 180g 45RPM 2LP reissue of Brothers In Arms breathes with transparent highs, atmospheric heft, and lifelike tonalities. The sense of realism this edition delivers will leave slack-jawed even the most demanding listeners. Never has it sounded so reach-out-and-touch-it realistic as it does on this high quality pressing. All of the hallmark characteristics—ample spaciousness, ideal balances, widescreen dynamics, immersive depth, lush production—are here in spades. This is the hand-down ultimate-sounding version of this audiophile favourite ever made.
Track List
- So Far Away
- Money for Nothing
- Walk of Life
- Your Latest Trick
- Why Worry
- Ride Across the River
- The Man’s Too Strong
- One World
- Brothers in Arms
