You play the guitar on the MTV ...

If a group has suffered from being misunderstood in the 80s, it was Dire Straits: we must say that the boom largely tended to criticism by daring to rely on a virtuoso guitarist in the Time of any synthetic, which even demanded the king lazy JJ Cale by wearing a bandana (sometimes fluorescent) tennis player indolent ... as for the band's music, she offered a pretty neat mixture of atmospheric jazz and almost cinematographic American environments (on the masterpiece "Making Movies"). In 1985, Dire Straits and that changes the game petty trade "timeless" takes ambition: "Brothers in Arms" will be the album of all records: the first album released in Compact Disc-to-reach platinum, it is also and especially the best selling band's career, making him then tu peaks alongside the stars of MTV ... ironically, the firebrand of the disc, the excellent "Money for Nothing" (on which Sting heard vocalizing) is above all a virulent diatribe against MTV! Paradoxically, as the effective riff instantly becomes one of the anthems of the era. It should not however overshadow the rest of an album that looks like a Best Of both the quality of inspiration is constant: the melancholic "So Far Away" (perhaps the most linked to the old way of the group title ) to twirling (and very swing) "Walk of Life", through the magnificent "Brothers in Arms", everything here shows a commercial pop, but high class: a timeless classic and paradoxical loved evil "MTV years!"