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Dire Straits ‎ "Brothers In Arms"  Vertigo ‎VERH 25 Vinyl, LP, housed in a lyric inner sleeve and released in 1985.
The vinyl appears to have been lightly played and is in great condition. It played through beautifully on my elderly stereo - no hop, stick or jump. It is housed in its original printed inner sleeve, which shows minimal signs of wear and which is in great shape - no rips or writing. The sleeve has some slight ring-wear front and back but is otherwise in great condition, again, with no rips or writing. The spine is intact and legible. Matrix / Runout  Side One : VERH 25 A // 5 ∇ 420 T  POUNDA TAPE 1 Matrix / Runout  Side Two : VERH 25 B // 7 ∇ 420 T
"Brothers in Arms" is Dire Straits' fifth studio album, released on 13 May 1985 by Vertigo Records internationally and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. It charted at number one worldwide, spending a total of 14 non-consecutive weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart (including 10 consecutive weeks between 18 January and 22 March 1986), nine weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 in the United States and 34 weeks at number one on the Australian Albums Chart. "Brothers in Arms" was the first album certified 10-times platinum in the UK and is the eighth-best-selling album in UK chart history, is certified nine-times platinum in the United States, and is one of the world's best-selling albums, having sold more than 30 million copies worldwide.
The album won a Grammy Award in 1986 for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, the 20th Anniversary Edition won another Grammy in 2006 for Best Surround Sound Album, and also won Best British Album at the 1987 Brit Awards. Q magazine placed the album at number 51 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.
"Money for Nothing" was one of the most-played music videos on MTV following its release. It is one of only two Dire Straits songs on a studio album not to be solely credited to Mark Knopfler (the other being "The Carousel Waltz" which opens "Making Movies"), with guest vocalist Sting given a co-writing credit due to the melody of the repeated "I want my MTV" (sung by Sting) in the song's fade-out echoing the melody of the Police's "Don't Stand So Close to Me".
"Walk of Life" was a number two hit for the band in the UK in early 1986 and a number seven hit in the United States later that year. The song was nearly left off the album, but was included after the band out-voted producer Neil Dorfsman.
On the second side of the album, three songs ("Ride Across the River", "The Man's Too Strong" and "Brothers in Arms") are lyrically focused on militarism. "Ride Across the River" uses immersive Latin American imagery, accompanied by synthesized pan flute, a reggae-influenced drum part and eerie background noises. "The Man's Too Strong" depicts the character of an ancient soldier (or war criminal) and his fear of showing feelings as a weakness. "Brothers in Arms" deals with the senselessness of war.
The guitar featured on the front of the album cover is Mark Knopfler's 1937 14-fret National Style "O" Resonator. The Style "O" line of guitars was introduced in 1930 and discontinued in 1941. The photographer was Deborah Feingold. The back cover features a painting of the same guitar, by German artist Thomas Steyer.
More recent legacy reviews have praised the record. Reviewing the remastered Dire Straits albums in 1996, Rob Beattie of Q awarded "Brothers in Arms" five stars out of five, and claimed that "repeated listening reveals it as a singularly melancholic collection – see the guitar slashing of "The Man's Too Strong" and the title track, where joy is as sharp as sorrow". In a 2007 review for BBC Music Chris Jones called "Brothers in Arms" "a phenomenon on every level... a suite of Knopfler's very fine brand of JJ Cale-lite". In his retrospective review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album four out of five stars, crediting the international success of the album not only to the clever computer-animated video for "Money for Nothing", but also to Knopfler's "increased sense of pop songcraft". The "indelible guitar riff" on "Money for Nothing", the catchy up-tempo boogie of "Walk of Life", the melodies of "So Far Away" and the Everly Brothers-style "Why Worry", the jazzy "Your Latest Trick", and the flinty "Ride Across the River"—Dire Straits had "never been so concise or pop-oriented, and it wore well on them." Erlewine concluded that the album remains "one of their most focused and accomplished albums, and in its succinct pop sense, it's distinctive within their catalog".
In 1986 "Brothers in Arms" won a Grammy Award in 1986 for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, while the 20th Anniversary Edition won another Grammy in 2006 for Best Surround Sound Album, and also won Best British Album at the 1987 Brit Awards. In 2000, Q magazine placed the album at number 51 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2003, the album ranked number 351 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
In November 2006 the results of a national poll conducted by the public of Australia revealed their top 100 favourite albums. "Brothers in Arms" came in at number 64. "Brothers in Arms" is ranked number 3 in the best albums of 1985 and number 31 in the best albums of the 1980s.