Love Over Gold Songs Ranked
Love Over Gold is the fourth studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 20 September 1982 by Vertigo Records internationally and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. The album featured two singles: “Private Investigations,” which reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart, and “Industrial Disease,” which reached No. 9 on Billboard’s Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the United States. The album reached number one on album charts in Australia, Austria, Italy, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom, as well as number 19 in the United States. Love Over Gold was later certified gold in the United States, platinum in France and Germany, and double-platinum in Canada and the United Kingdom. Here are all of Love Over Gold’s songs ranked.
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5. It Never Rains
“Man, Mark Knopler’s tone is very Bob Dylan in this track and these keyboards 10 years later were used, and still are, by The Wallflowers (Jacob Dylan’s band, son of Bob Dylan), what a cool thing not?! Listen to Three Marlenas from the Wallflowers and see.”
4. Industrial Disease
“This track has the keyboards that a few years later would make the band extremely well known.
The track is extremely ironic, funny and ingenious in its idea, the lyrics address all the discrepancies of modern life and how all values become extreme and bizarre.”
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3. Love Over Gold
“This keyboard and guitar melody are extremely beautiful. The guy is good at writing melody see! Putz!
He was so inspired that his guitars should be included in the study scale of classical guitar schools (by the way, this was precisely the school he studied).
Once again, the interventions of Mike Mainieri are extremely important, especially in the final part with the vibraphone (xylophone).”
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2. Private Investigations
“This track is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever heard. It all starts a la Pink Floyd in Wish You Were Here, but it’s the guitar that hits hard in a heartbreaking piano melody. The track tells a sad story of a Police Investigator, who lives alone and practically lives for work, imagine one of those American police movies, now imagine the whole story in your head because of this song. There’s no money that pays to have it all in your mind, and it’s Mark’s fault, bless you.”
1. Telegraph Road
“This track here is sensational, prophetic beginning, full of sounds and a sign of the rays of time. Just until the melody starts with guitar and piano. The band enters and John Illsley’s bass, bass, also marks the entrance of Mark’s guitars. This letter, what would this letter be? Fantastic, telling the story of how a city begins, becomes too gigantic for itself, enters into corruption and dies. All this under the baton of a risky, tuned and very well arranged band.”