Dire Straits - Love Over Gold Warner 180g LP (Warner 47772) Mastered by Bernie Grundman @ Grundman Mastering Vinyl rip in 24-bit/192kHz (converted to 24/96 & 16/44.1) | FLAC | cue, m3u & Tech Log Artwork | Rock; Pop | 1982 Allmusic.com rating: 4/5 Adding a new rhythm guitarist, Dire Straits expands its sounds and ambitions on the sprawling Love Over Gold. In a sense, the album is their prog rock effort, containing only five songs, including the 14-minute opener "Telegraph Road." Since Mark Knopfler is a skilled, tasteful guitarist, he can sustain interest even throughout the languid stretches, but the long, atmospheric, instrumental passages aren't as effective as the group's tight blues-rock, leaving Love Over Gold only a fitfully engaging listen. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine/AMG Love Over Gold is the fourth album by British rock band Dire Straits. Due to its lengthy atmospheric instrumental passages it has been cited as the band's only album that resembles progressive rock, although not quite achieving it.[1] In 1986, Love Over Gold sold 4.4 million copies in Europe and reached gold status in the United States. It was remastered and released with the rest of the Dire Straits catalogue in 1996 for most of the world on Vertigo Records outside the US and in 2000 in the United States. It is also the last album on which drummer Pick Withers played. "Private Dancer", a song originally planned for the album, was recorded by the band except for the vocals. Mark Knopfler decided that a female voice would be more appropriate and handed the song to Tina Turner for her comeback album of the same name. "The Way It Always Starts", another song written during the "Love over Gold" sessions, ended up on Knopfler's soundtrack to "Local Hero" with vocals sung by Gerry Rafferty. "Badges, Posters, Stickers and T-Shirts" was cut from the album, released in the UK as a B-side, and subsequently released in the U.S. as the 4th track on the ExtendedancEPlay EP. Tracklisting Side 1 01 - Telegraph Road (14:16) 02 - Private Investigation (06:43) Side 2 03 - Industrial Disease (05:51) 04 - Love Over Gold (06:18) 05 - It Never Rains (07:55) Personnel Mark Knopfler – guitar, Vocals Alan Clark – Organ, Piano, Synthesizer John Illsley – bass Hal Lindes – rhythm guitar Pick Withers – drums Additional personnel Mike Mainieri – marimba, vibraphone on 2 4 Ed Walsh – synthesizer Credits▼ Artwork By – Michael Rowe Composed By, Producer – Mark Knopfler Engineer – Barry Bongiovi, Neil Dorfsman Mastered By – Bob Ludwig Photography – Alan Lobel, Peter Cunningham Notes▼ (P) 1982 Chariscourt Ltd. (P) 1982 Phonogram Ltd. London (C) 1982 Phonogram Ltd. London 2010 re-issue. Pressed by Pallas in Germany. Mastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analogue tapes. Barcode and Other Identifiers▼ Barcode: 093624969693 Technical Log RCM Hannl 'limited' with "Rotating Brush" Music Hall MMF 9.1 Turntable Tonearm: Pro-Ject 9cc evo with Pure Silver Wires Cartridge: Nagaoka MP-500 Brocksieper Phonomax (Tube Phono PreAmp) E-MU 0404 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface Interconnections : Silent Wire NF5 WaveLab 6 recording software iZotope RX Advanced 1.21 for resampling and dithering Vacuum cleaning > TT > Brocksieper Phonomax > E-MU 0404 > WaveLab 6 (24/192) > manual click removal > analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > converted to 24/96 (16/44.1) with iZotope RX Advanced 1.21 > split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21) No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout. Personal Note With my vinyl rips I try to catch the whole beauty of records. Therefore I don't use any post-processing or any sound improver. What you get is a clear and flat transfer. For getting a clear sound I'll do an extended washing of each record with my RCM, which can take up to 30 minutes brushing for each side. Resistant ticks and clicks I try to remove as good as possible, but the priority is not to loose any musical information. Surface noises, as long they are not to high, are left in place. Only on bad pressings or on records recorded with extremly low level I do a fade in-/-out. As John Peel said, 'Life is full of surface noises'. In some cases this means I have to do a compromise... The result has to pass my personal quality criteria which is IMO quite high.