You are taking all the fun out of listening and enjoying the music 
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100% sure. The blog says nothing on the nature of the recording. Ed Bicknell asserted that Muff basically did a live recording in the studio but Muff, the Knopfler brothers and Pick think he confused that with the demos.
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Not many albums are live interactive performances .. that’s why multitracking was invented. Doesn’t mean the players don’t respond to and interact with the tracks they’re playing with though. So the listeners get the best of all worlds. That’s the theory
Yeah, “I really love interacting with the recording of my colleagues and myself rather than being in the same room and playing live with them”… said no musician ever.
As a musician I will say that the live interaction, especially when it involves eye contact, is waaaay ahead in terms of end product.
Well i unashamedly love them all , to different degrees at different times and different moods.They kinda landmarked different stages of my personal life and dare I say kit evolution .
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Love Over Gold has some pretty awesome material to play along with with an air guitar.
My dad taught me a few tasty manoeuvres.
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That’s pretty much my view as well 
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Playing live together might be a great vibe but studio albums are not made that way. Overdubs, double tracking, drop-ins forever and much fixing in the mix.
Yeah, thx for the lecture, which completely misses my original point that the first DS album has no magic from them playing together as they overwhelmingly didn’t.
I love all of the DS albums, the original is my favourite but not the first DS album I purchased that was BOA, followed by OES then LOG, I came to DS, MM and C rather late in my DS listening but DS remains my favourite.
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The bill’s in the post
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Ok, the magic is apparently not there. But it’s still a magical album. You will disagree, but it’s how I feel it when listening to.
I listened today to the live BBC, where they are supposed to play together. I much prefer the studio one. There’s something forceful in the live.
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Nice thread @LindsayM thank you.
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Industrial Disease is the best song on LoG. Very well observed commentary on the state of the nation.
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Thanks Rafael. I found it on Qobuz. Bought 3 tracks. But poor sound quality.
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Well we’re not allowed politics but it’s good how we’re different musically, yes the subject matter is well written but musically I consider it crass, crude and completely out of context with the rest of an otherwise excellent record.
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And that is why music is so great, we can all be different, like what others dislike, yet never be wrong in our choices.
Industrial Disease is a great track and always brings a smile to my face when I hear it, but I accept that not everyone will like it, after all we cannot all like the same tracks all the time.
Great thread though.
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In retrospect those lyrics were begging to be written by someone but the song itself is hopelessly out of context on that album. Would have been far better as just a single. It’s also the first example of the rockabilly lite which suggested cruise control had been entered.
Easy too to forget that the original mix was hammered because the vocals were pretty much set at the same level as the instruments and no space carved out using eq etc. Very much smacked of being so pleased with yourself at your wit ab’s wisdom that you wedged it in there without much thought for sequencing, production consistency etc.
Not really, it was almost a UK interpretation of what was explored, from the USA perspective, on Telegraph Rd on Side 1 but musically yes it was worlds apart and in my view awful. Rockabilly? No, almost post punk synthesized new wave something or other! Agreed Walk of Life and The Bug, the latter with a distinctive Eddie Cochran groove, lent that way.
“Rockabilly Lite?!”. As a musician (
) you must realise, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Ridiculous. Whilst it wouldn’t be my favourite DS album, I think Love Over Gold is probably the best sounding.