- rock, classic rock, album rock, pop rock
- 55 min
- 9 tracks
- Vertigo
Brothers in Arms is the fifth studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits, released on 17 May 1985, by Vertigo Records internationally and Warner Bros. Records in the United States. It was the first album in history to sell over one million copies in CD format. The album was produced by bandleader Mark Knopfler and by Neil Dorfsman, who had engineered Dire Straits' 1982 album Love over Gold and Knopfler's 1983 soundtrack album Local Hero.
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Character
Spare, grave, classical in form and earnest.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- Christgau's Record GuideB−
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 ★
- The Great Rock Discography8/10
- MusicHound4/5
- Pitchfork8.6/10
- Q5/5 ★
- Record Mirror1/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide4.5/5 ★
- Sounds3/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1So Far Away5:14
- 2Money for Nothing8:25
- 3Walk of Life4:13
- 4Your Latest Trick6:34
- 5Why Worry8:31
- 6Ride Across the River6:59
- 7The Man’s Too Strong4:40
- 8One World3:41
- 9Brothers in Arms6:56
9 tracks, 55 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Dire Straits
- Label
- Vertigo
- Released
- 1985
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- AU
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