Erm…thread drift alert. Perhaps we need a new “rockabilly lite” music genre definition thread?! Good thread though, it has made me go back and listen to the first 3 albums 
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The keyboard is genius.
It’s acknowledged as the first ever recording that combines Rockaboobilly and French Barrel Organ.
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I’m one of the drifters, so feel some responsibility to get it back on task.
I voted MM, solely because Skateaway is one of my favourite tunes, not just DS, either. And I’m a casual fan.
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Zero drift as far as I can tell. Your fave album is determined by the tracks on it. Just as some love MM or LOG, some dislike them for the tracks which are perceived as not fitting i.e. Les Boys and Industrial Disease. Discussing the pros and cons of each seems entirely legit to me. In the end I went MM over LOG because LB is at the end of MM and you can just stop it before it starts whereas with LOG ID is slap bang in the middle. Much harder to ignore or pretend it wasn’t central to the recording.
I see I shall have to be locked in a cell with my own magnificent ignorance. Once more many thanks for the elucidation.
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I just like Dire Straits
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Same here. It would be boring if all of their tracks were written and played in the same style. I have a leaning towards several tracks on the studio albums, but like them all when played live. Part of the attraction is the varying styles.
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I am equally appreciative of your deadpan responses 
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Yes the fact that on subsequent albums they had to use Omar Hakim, Jeff Pocaro and Manu Katché to replace him must say something! Perhaps not technically like a Di Meola but I hold MK very highly, the most fluid, melodic, expressive of guitarists, on the slow runs on Telegraph Rd, wow!
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Agree 100% with that.
I only really like their pretentious albums.
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This question probably deserves a new thread of its own.
My own choice here would be Supertramp, a band that I still love and whose albums I still revisit from time to time, despite being considered terribly uncool these days.
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Not by me. I still like Supertramp and Dire Straits. But then again I am probably uncool too!
Tastes do change over time for sure and there are artists and bands I liked at the time but I am not so keen on now and visa versa. For instance I really did not like Sparks when they first appeared but these days I really like some of their albums such as Kimono My House.
Some artists and albums are very much of their time and have not travelled forward to todays tastes well.
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Who cares if some people consider any style, artist or work to be ‘uncool’? I’m sure that much of the music in my collection could be considered uncool by some, but I like it.
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Not by me either. Supertramp are one of the few groups from my youth that I still listen to.
I was surprised one day to hear the coolest of the cool, Gilles Peterson, playing them on his Saturday afternoon show on Radio 6. So I would say they are still quite well regarded. I loved them as an alternative to much of the dreary Prog that was popular in my day.
Supertramp made music that has not dated.
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Agree 100% its what we as individuals like, we are all different, have different tastes etc, otherwise the ‘What are you listening to thread’ would be very boring.
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How about ABBA , cool or uncool todays ? For me it was already uncool in the mid eighties.
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I certainly don’t, as I love Supertramp, and Crime of The Century and Crisis? What Crisis? in particular are very special albums to me. However, in more recent years I feel they haven’t really received the credibility from the critics that they deserve.
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Crime of The Century is indeed a classic album. I met Ken Scott once and he did remark that they were very difficult to work with in the studio. Ego’s etc but the end result was magnificent.
I have no idea as I doubt I am any reliable arbiter on what is “cool” or not but I have been no great fan of ABBA then or now but there is no doubt much of their stuff is very recognisable and still popular with many still. I do have one ABBA LP in my collection “The Visitors” from 1981 which I do occasionally play and quite like. It has a more mature style than the very poppy singles of earlier releases.
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