DIRE STRAITS & MARK KNOPFLER BOX SET COLLECTORS SET

1ST ORIGINAL 2013 TREMENDOUSLY RARE EUROPEAN PRESSING OUT OF PRINT BACK TO BLACK UNIVERSAL RECORDS 1ST EDITION BOX SET SERIES. 

THIS IS NOT THE RECENT 2020 USA PRESSED 2ND GENERATION WITH UPC CODE 603497860548 .  

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Bernie Grundman mastered the first four titles from analogue masters, with lacquers cut by Grundman and Chris Bellman; Brothers in Arms and On Every Street mastered by Bob Ludwig from digital masters, and cut by Chris Bellman. All are pressed on beautiful 180 GRAM vinyl. The CD running order with full length versions of the tracks have been restored to Brothers In Arms, now presented as a 2xLP set, as well as a double vinyl of On Every Street.  

COLLECTORS NOTE: THE ONLY SET WE FOUND IN NEW CONDITION LIKE WE ARE OFFERING HERE WE'VE SEEN SELLING FOR $1300+ THAT'S HOW RARE THIS SPECIFIC SET IS WITHIN THE COLLECTORS MARKET IN THIS 1ST EUROPEAN RELEASE.

TITLES ARE:

DIRE STRAITS BROTHERS IN ARMS 180 GRAM 2 LP SET  DIRE STRAITS DIRE STRAITS 180 GRAM LP -   DIRE STRAITS COMMUNIQUE 180 GRAM LP DIRE STRAITS LOVE OVER GOLD 180 GRAM LP  DIRE STRAITS MAKING MOVIES 180 GRAM LP 

& Dire Straits On Every Street 180 gram LIMITED EDITION DOUBLE LP SET 

Career-spanning 8LP box set: The Studio Albums 1978-1991!

First four titles mastered by Bernie Grundman from analog masters

Brothers in Arms and On Every Street mastered by Bob Ludwig from digital masters

All six albums pressed on audiophile 180-gram heavyweight vinyl

Emerging on the scene in 1977, Dire Straits became one of the most commercially successful bands of its time. Led with virtuoso skill by vocalist/guitarist, Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits was behind such hits as "Sultans of Swing," "Brothers In Arms," "Romeo and Juliet," and "So Far Away."

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will induct Dire Straits in April 2018, honoring the legendary band's incredible musical legacy. Rhino kicks off the celebration early with a career-spanning box set The Studio Albums 1978-1991. Bernie Grundman mastered the first four titles from analogue masters, with lacquers cut by Grundman and Chris Bellman; Brothers in Arms and On Every Street mastered by Bob Ludwig from digital masters, and cut by Chris Bellman. All are pressed on beautiful 180-gram vinyl. The CD running order with full-length versions of the tracks have been restored to Brothers In Arms, now presented as a 2xLP set, as well as a double vinyl of On Every Street.

The Dire Straits Complete Studio Albums 1978-1991 box set collects the band's six successful studio albums spanning a time-frame of 13 years. The box set begins with the band's self-titled debut album, followed by Communique and Making Movies released in 1979 and 1980 respectively. Love Over Gold came next, released two years later in 1982, with the band's most successful effort, Brothers In Arms, arriving in 1985. Dire Straits' 1991 release, On Every Street, came to be the band's final studio album before calling it quits.

Propelled by Mark Knopfler's literate songs, gruff vocals, and spidery guitar work, Dire Straits had overcome initial skepticism for their resistance to '70s new wave accents in favor of their rootsy traditionalism. The band's sound was based upon the laid-back blues-rock of J.J. Cale, but they also had jazz and country inflections, occasionally dipping into the epic song structures of progressive rock.

 

 

 

                Disc: 1

                1. Down To The Waterline

                2. Water Of Love

                3. Setting Me Up

                4. Six Blade Knife

                5. Southbound Again

                6. Sultans Of Swing

                7. In The Gallery

                8. Wild West End

                9. Lions

               

Disc: 2

                1. Once Upon A Time In The West

                2. News

                3. Where Do You Think You're Going

                4. Communique

                5. Lady Writer

                6. Angel Of Mercy

                7. Portobello Belle

                8. Single Handed Sailor

                9. Follow Me Home

               

Disc: 3

                1. Tunnel Of Love

                2. Romeo And Juliet

                3. Skateaway

                4. Expresso Love

                5. Hand In Hand

                6. Solid Rock

                7. Les Boys

               

Disc: 4

                1. Telegraph Road

                2. Private Investigations

                3. Industrial Disease

                4. Love Over Gold

                5. It Never Rains

               

Disc: 5

                1. So Far Away

                2. Money For Nothing

                3. Walk Of Life

                4. Your Latest Trick

               

Disc: 6

                1. Why Worry?

                2. Ride Across The River

                3. The Man's Too Strong

                4. One World

                5. Brothers In Arms

               

Disc: 7

                1. Calling Elvis

                2. On Every Street

                3. When It Comes To You

                4. Fade To Black

                5. The Bug

                6. You And Your Friend

               

Disc: 8

                1. Heavy Fuel

                2. Iron Hand

                3. Ticket To Heaven

                4. My Parties

                5. Planet Of New Orleans

                6. How Long

6 TITLES WITH 8 LP'S WITHIN THIS BOX

PLUS TWO MARK KNOPFLER DELUXE EDITIONS BOX SETS

  Mark Knopfler Tracker DELUXE LIMITED EDITION 2LP, 2CD, DVD Box Set

Rolling Stone 50 Best Albums of 2015- Rated 23/50!

Deluxe Limited Edition 180g 2LP, 2CD, DVD Box Set!

Mastered By Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering!

Tracker is Mark Knopfler's ninth solo album and features 11 new Knopfler songs inspired by a wide range of subjects including Beryl Bainbridge and Basil Bunting. Produced by Knopfler and Guy Fletcher and recorded at British Grove Studios in London, Tracker was released on March 17, 2015 in North America.

"The album title 'Tracker' arrived out of me trying to find my way over the decades. Out of me tracking time - looking at people, places and things from my past, and out of the process of tracking as in recording tracks in the studio," said Mark Knopfler about the album.

"Beryl" is the first single from the album. The song is dedicated to Beryl Bainbridge who was one of Britain's leading novelists.

"Knopfler isn't pining for the past but he is looking back, sometimes wistfully, sometimes with a resigned smile, and he appropriately draws upon sounds that he's long loved...this skillful interweaving of Knopfler's personal past helps give Tracker a nicely gentle resonance." -Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic

 

Features:

Deluxe Limited Edition

2LP, 2CD, DVD Box Set

180g Vinyl

Vinyl mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering

Gatefold Jacket

Bonus CD contains 6 extra tracks

DVD contains exclusive video and interviews

6 Photographic Prints

Numbered Art Print

DVD: NTSC

DVD Region Code: 0

Selections:

2LP / 2CD:

1. Laughs and Jokes and Drinks and Smokes

2. Basil

3. River Towns

4. Skydiver

5. Mighty Man

6. Broken Bones

7. Long Cool Girl

8. Lights of Taormina

9. Silver Eagle

10. Beryl

11. Wherever I Go (feat. Ruth Moody)

 

Bonus CD tracks:

1. .38 Special

2. My Heart Has Never Changed

3. Terminal of Tribute To

4. Heart of Oak

5. Time Will End All Sorrow

6. Oklahoma Ponies

Mark Knopfler Down The Road Wherever Deluxe LIMITED  EDITION CD & 3LP Box Set

TAS Rated 5/5 Music, 4.5/5 Sonics in the January 2019 Issue of The Absolute Sound!

Deluxe Limited Edition CD & 3LP Box Set!

Mark Knopfler's 9th studio album is released on Knopfler's own British Grove Records via Virgin EMI Records.

The album stays true to the folk and roots-inflected ambience of his solo material, but introduces new elements of jazz, funk and even a hint of the rockier leanings of earlier days.

The album features new songs inspired by a wide range of subjects, including Knopfler’s early days in Deptford with Dire Straits, a stray soccer fan lost in a strange town, the compulsion of a musician hitching home through the snow and a man out of time in his local greasy spoon diner.

Knopfler explains, Down The Road Wherever is a line from One Song At A Time. I remember my pal Chet Atkins once saying that he picked his way out of poverty �one song at a time, and it just stuck in my mind. You get to an age where you’ve written quite a few songs. But Down The Road Wherever seems to be appropriate for me just because it’s what I’ve always done. I’ve always tried to make a record and also to keep my own geography happening in the songs.

Knopfler assembled the same group of top-flight musicians he has worked with for the past few years (plus one or two new faces). He encourages them to put their own stamp on the material without interfering with the essence of the song.

I think the business of making a record, from having written a song and then bringing it to musicians, it can be quite a bendy route, notes Knopfler. It’s not just motorways all the way and you can end up in the occasional cul-de-sac, then you have to do a 16-point turn to try to get your truck back out on the main road as unobtrusively as you can. That’s part of the fun of it.�

Down The Road Wherever is produced by Knopfler and Guy Fletcher (Dire Straits, Roxy Music) and was recorded at British Grove Studios in London. The band features Knopfler on guitars, Jim Cox and Guy Fletcher on keyboards, Nigel Hitchcock on saxophone, Tom Walsh on trumpet, John McCusker on fiddle, Mike McGoldrick on whistle and flute, Glenn Worf on bass, Ian Ianto Thomas on drums and Danny Cummings on percussion. Richard Bennett and Robbie McIntosh also feature on guitar, Trevor Mires on trombone, and Imelda May, Kris Drever, Lance Ellington, Beverley Skeete and Katie Kissoon all add backing vocals. All songs are written by Knopfler apart from �Just A Boy Away From Home� on which he shares writing credits with Rodgers and Hammerstein, using a piece of You’ll Never Walk Alone� to spin the song’s tale of a lone Liverpool F.C. fan wandering the empty streets of Newcastle after midnight.

Knopfler has previously released eight solo albums, as well as Neck And Neck with guitar great Chet Atkins and All The Roadrunning with Emmylou Harris. He has also created film soundtracks for Local Hero, The Princess Bride and Cal. Knopfler was made an Order of the British Empire in 1999 and was given the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at the Ivor Novellos in 2012.

 

"..."Down the Road Wherever" is the apex intersection of the Scottish-bred artist's ambition and craft, deftly entwining his mastery of locational songwriting flavored with Nashvillian strum and twang. "Back On the Dance Floor" entangles his patented gnarly guitar tone with a sensual background-vocal kiss during the choruses, courtesy of Irish enchantress Imelda May. "Just a Boy Away From Home" weaves subtle, back-in-the-mix keyboard fills from longtime collaborator Guy Fletcher, smooth brush drums, and melody-caressing horns alongside an acknowledged vocal an soloing shout out to Rodgers and Hammerstein's "You'll Never Walk Alone"... Wherever Knopfler's muse continues to roam, our ears must surely follow." - Mike Mettler, The Absolute Sound, January 2019

 

Features:

• Deluxe Limited Edition CD, 2LP, Bonus 12" w/4 Extra Tracks Box Set

• 12" Double Gatefold LP

• Bonus 4 Track LP

• Deluxe CD

• 16-page booklet (with deluxe CD)

• 12" Guitar Tablature of "Back On the Dance Floor"

• 12" Print of Album artwork

• Made in the E.U.

• Limited time digital download card

 

Selections:

Side A:

1. Trapper Man

2. Back On The Dance Floor

3. Nobody's Child

Side B:

1. Nobody Does That

2. Good On You Son

3. Floating Away

Side C:

1. One Song At A Time

2. Heavy Up

3. Slow Learner

Side D:

1. Just A Boy Away From Home

2. My Bacon Roll

3. When You Leave

4. Matchstick Man

 

Bonus 12" Vinyl:

Side 1:

1. Drovers' Road

2. Don't Suck Me In

Side 2:

1. Sky And Water

2. Pale Imitation

 

Deluxe CD:

1. Trapper Man

2. Back On The Dance Floor

3. Nobody's Child

4. Just A Boy Away From Home

5. When You Leave

6. Good On You Son

7. My Bacon Roll

8. Nobody Does That

9. Drovers' Road

10. One Song At A Time

11. Floating Away

12. Slow Learner

13. Heavy Up

14. Every Heart In The Room

15. Rear View Mirror

16. Matchstick Man

 

 

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