Dire Straits

Dire Straits is the self-titled debut album by British rock band Dire Straits, released in October 1978 (see 1978 in music) by Phonogram Records.
The single "Sultans of Swing" first broke the US top five early spring 1979 (being a hit a full five months after the album was released there) and then rose to #8 in the British charts. "Water of Love" was also released as a single in some countries, and charted in Australia, reaching #54, and in the Netherlands, reaching #28. In Europe, the album sold four million copies while in the U.S. it sold two million copies.
The album was remastered and released with the rest of the Dire Straits catalogue in 1996 to most of the world excluding the U.S. and on 19 September 2000 in the United States. For 2010 release of an anniversary album is planned. 

It will be devoted the 30 anniversary of the edition of a vinyl.

The cover image is taken from a painting by Chuck Loyola, while the Dire Straits Fender icon was designed by Geoff Halpern.

A small number of guitars were used on the album by Mark Knopfler. These included a pair of red Fender Stratocasters (one from 1961-serial number #68354 and one from 1961/62-serial number #80470). He played his 1928 National and 1937 National steel guitars on tracks "Water of Love" and "Wild West End", respectively. A black Fender thinline Telecaster was played on "Setting Me Up". Mark and David also played Mark's sunburst Fender Telecaster. There was also an unidentified acoustic guitar used on several tracks.

The original version of the album contained a slightly shorter version of "Sultans of Swing", omitting the last seconds of the guitar solo at the end of the song, but the full-length version was included on the remastered edition of the album.

Cassette versions of the album often featured the sides in reverse order to the original vinyl album: side A comprised tracks 6 through 9, while side B featured tracks 1 through 5. The French issue of the cassette saw "Down to the Waterline" and "Wild West End" interchanged in the order mentioned above to allow for a more equal playing time on each side.

Happy Saturday!

Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 drama film directed by John Badham and starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, an immature young man whose weekends are spent visiting a local Brooklyn discothèque; Karen Lynn Gorney as his dance partner and eventual friend; and Donna Pescow as Tony's former dance partner and would-be girlfriend. While in the disco, Tony is the king. His care-free youth and weekend dancing help him to temporarily forget the reality of his life: a dead end job, clashes with his unsupportive and squabbling parents, racial tensions in the local community, and his associations with a gang of macho friends.

A huge commercial success, the film significantly helped to popularize disco music around the world and made Travolta, already well known from his role on TV's Welcome Back, Kotter, a household name. The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, featuring disco songs by the Bee Gees, is one of the best selling soundtracks of all time. The film is the first example of cross-media marketing, with the tie-in soundtrack's single being used to help promote the film before its release and the film popularizing the entire soundtrack after its release. The film also showcased aspects of the music, the dancing, and the subculture surrounding the disco era: symphony-orchestrated melodies, haute-couture styles of clothing, pre-AIDS sexual promiscuity, and graceful choreography.

The story is based upon a 1976 New York magazine article by British writer Nik Cohn, "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night". In the late 1990s, Cohn acknowledged that the article had been fabricated. A newcomer to the United States and a stranger to the disco lifestyle, Cohn was unable to make any sense of the subculture he had been assigned to write about; instead, the character who became Tony Manero was based on a Mod acquaintance of Cohn's.

Track listing

"Stayin' Alive" - Bee Gees

"How Deep Is Your Love" - Bee Gees

"Night Fever" - Bee Gees

"More Than a Woman" - Bee Gees

"If I Can't Have You" - Yvonne Elliman

"A Fifth of Beethoven" - Walter Murphy

"More Than a Woman" - Tavares

"Manhattan Skyline" - David Shire

"Calypso Breakdown" - Ralph MacDonald

"Night on Disco Mountain" - David Shire

"Open Sesame" - Kool & the Gang

"Jive Talkin'"  - Bee Gees

"You Should Be Dancing" - Bee Gees

"Boogie Shoes" - KC and the Sunshine Band

"Salsation" - David Shire

"K-Jee" - MFSB

In Through The Out Door

In Through The Out Door is the last studio album of Led Zeppelin's glory came in 1979.Shortly after the group disbanded after the tragic death of drummer John Bonham, leaving a gaping hole in the rock world.The album, released for the label, Swan Song, meat out with a jacket made of coarse brown paper on Which Was reported only the band's name and job title.Inside the cover portrayed a real bar scene. No doubt the original idea.

The pieces contained in this platter are seven: the excellent In The Evening, one of the best songs composed by Led Zeppelin in the last period of Their career in the procession really exciting, compact and dramatic, Followed by the South Bound Suarez disenchanted That opens with keyboards and then do a little Reminiscent of rails Custard Pie from Physical Graffiti, the banal Fool In The Rain has an interlude with an unusual sound from the rhythm of samba much emphasized by the battery of Bonzo-this is one of the ugliest pieces ever-composed by the band, Hot Dog is a skilful blend of sound rock'n'roll, rockabilly and country as a whole, However, is a piece of little significance; Carouselambra Represents one of the highlights of this release. 

Basically it is a progressive rock track very long (too honest), with Several changes and great peace of evidence to The Enormous work on the synthesizer of John Paul Jones, the heartbreaking moment comes next with a song All My Love sweet and melodic with Plant a big item. The song is dedicated to Karac Also, the son of the singer died in 1977, the fair closes the album I'm Gonna Crawl in slow soulful song, opens with a string section.

In Through The Out Door is an album too innovative in order to keep peace with the times, full of different sounds (pop, soul, Caribbean music) and characterized by heavy use of keyboards and synthesizers.It Appears in conclusion, to overly cha from the traditional sound has made the fortunes of Led Zeppelin.And 'this, unfortunately, His fatal flaw That Makes It, in fact, the least successful release of the British group.

Love Let Me Go

LP of the day is "Love Let Me Go" of the hardcore british band, More Than Life.

Released year: 2010
Label: Purgatory

Tracklist:

1. Scarlet Skyline
2. Curtains Closing
3. The First Night Of Autumn
4. Take My Life Away
5. Black Eyed
6. Silent Grey
7. I've Lost Tracks Of Everything
8. Daisy Hill
9. Obsession
10. Love Let Me Go

If you like: Dead Swan, The Carrier, Bane