The piano is one of the main rhythm playing in here, which plays notes from the low range to the highest which brings variety of sound and it sound perfect. Marks voice is at its best with him actually singing beautifully. Love Over Gold is beautiful with its soothing piano and acoustic guitar. It is a very good song and fun to listen to. All the instrumentation is great and the guitar is superb as always. The song sounds like it is based on a rock n roll style on verses with brings up the catchiness in the song. This song picks up with Mark talking again but with a fast pace talking about symptoms of Industrial Disease. It starts of with an organ playing then clean guitar strumming then it goes to some sort of wah-wah/phaser sound which is really cool. This process is repeated again but then goes silent after it which has a great finish. Then the powerful distortion of the guitar strikes you with few chords, fantastic tension put towards it. Here there is only the bass and the guitar playing. At the middle of the song, the bass plays one note in 4 by 4 timing on each beat making the rhythm. The acoustic is superb with its really hard notes and hard hitting lyrics. It has many instruments like caribbiean instruments and japanese as well so it is very varible as well. Mark actually talks in this song as you cant actually sing in this song so it suits the song. It starts off with a kind of japanese sounding guitar then moves to the acoustic guitar with gives it now a spanish feel. Private Investigations is a very slow song but mighty powerful. Damn excellent guitar song and an excellent start to an album. The ending has one of the best solos I have IMO ever heard, it lasts for at least 3 minutes and it always varies which is so damn good!!! This song is just genius and is epic, one of the best of Dire Straits. After 3 minutes, the whole song picks its momentum and carrys on its original sequence.

Halfway through the song the whole song slows down to bring the piano role in to give that classical feeling and guitar comes in with its soothing solo which sounds beautiful with the piano. Mark's voice in this really suits the song as he has that crooning voice and it soundsĮxcellent. Then the scene goes quiet then vocals come in and the whole song picks up really nicely. Then it moves to the rhythm itself which has a slow rock lead guitar as its melody which is Mark Knopfler which is fantastic. Telegraph Road kicks off with a quiet whistling sound then the piano and acoustic guitar comes in with a dark element in it. This album is an LP but it only has 5 songs but they are all quite long. The album went gold in America and spent four weeks at number one in Britain. This album is Dire Straits 4th after 'Making Movies', 2 years of production brings Love Over Gold, an album filled with long, experimental passages, plus the single 'Private Investigations,' which became a number two hit in the U.K.

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