New Original Master Recording Dire Straits – Making Movies Ltd Ed MFSL 2-468 MOF

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New Original Master Recording Dire Straits – Making Movies Ltd Ed MFSL 2-468 MOFI

Original Master Recording Dire Straits – Making Movies Ltd Ed MFSL 2-468 MOFI

Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab – MFSL 2-468

Series: Original Master Recording – , Gain 2™ Ultra Analog 45RPM 180g Series 

Format: 2 × Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Album, Numbered, Reissue, Remastered, Special Edition, Gatefold 180g 

Country: US

Released: 13 Nov 2019

Genre: Rock

This album is no longer available from MOFI, where it is now out of stock,  and it is becoming very rare, especially as a new & sealed purchase. Buy it whilst you can!

Grading:  

Vinyl - Mint - New & Sealed

Sleeve - Mint - New & Sealed

Cinematic Landscapes and Intricate Passages Sound Sublime: Mastered from Original Master Tapes, Features Audiophile Dynamics

Making Movies marks a magnificent turning point in Dire Straits' career. Considered by many fans to be the group's most complete album, the 1980 set witnesses leader Mark Knopfler greatly expanding his songwriting palette and setting his storytelling amidst more complex, involving arrangements. Dire Straits also benefits from crucial contributions from Bruce Springsteen pianist Roy Bittan and the departure of rhythm guitarist David Knopfler. The songs spark with a mélange of poetry, passion, and cohesion that engages the senses and begs to be experienced again and again.

Mastered from the original master tapes and pressed at RTI, Mobile Fidelity's 180g 45RPM 2LP set of Making Movies breathes with reference-caliber airiness, spaciousness, dynamics, and separation. Produced by Jimmy Iovine and Knopfler, the record – which contains many Springsteen-esque elements – features the cleanliness and clarity that have long been Dire Straits trademarks. The extra-wide 45RPM grooves on this edition provide previously unattainable detail, information, and soundstaging. This is what audiophile recordings are all about.

You know you're in the presence of sonic greatness as soon as the first few seconds of the opening "Tunnel of Love" pass, as the introductory passage built on organ and piano – new additions to Dire Straits' palette – intertwine with the unmistakable coil-spring twang of Knopfler's guitar. The three-dimensional, full-bodied presentation of the latter instrument on this Mobile Fidelity LP is alone worth the price of admission. Crisp, rich, and balanced, the analog sound brings Knopfler's Fender Vibrolux and Music Man HD130 amplifiers into your room. The romanticism of Bittan's piano, precision timekeeping of drummer Pick Withers, and steady roll of bassist John Illsley come across with similar potency, scale, and verve.

Always more about the whole than the sum of their individual parts, Dire Straits demonstrate that while Knopfler is the lynchpin, this record is a true band effort. Bittan's role cannot be overstated. His melodicism poetically complements Knopfler's subtle staccato rhythms and more than makes up for the exit of David Knopfler. Expansive and cinematic, the aptly titled Making Movies puts a premium on interrelated subjects (love, relationships, heartbreak) and deep-seated emotions that play out in heartfelt lyrics, intense singing, and epic frameworks. Everything clicks.

The album's power isn't lost on Iovine, who later told Rolling Stone: "The right people were in the room together. It really was making a record in the pure sense of the term. The whole thing sounds like one song. But you what that is? That's the writing, the guy who wrote it. He wrote the album like that; he wanted to make the album like that."

Indeed, the first five tracks – "Tunnel of Love," "Romeo and Juliet," "Skateaway," "Expresso Love," "Hand in Hand" – comprise a mini-suite united by theme, harmony, and spirit. Every member of the newly configured Dire Straits has a say in the shaping of the material. There's not a note out of place. Iovine and Knopfler's standout production puts it over the top.

MOFI MFSL Numbered Special Edition.

Printed in U.S.A.

Specially plated and pressed on 180g high-definition vinyl

Tracklist

A

Tunnel Of Love

B1

Romeo And Juliet

B2

Skateaway

C1

Expresso Love

C2

Hand In Hand

D1

Solid Rock

D2

Les Boys

VINYL GRADING-VISUAL UNLESS STATED

MINT - SEALED

NEAR MINT (N/M)  LP LOOKS LIKE IT HAS HARDLY BEEN PLAYED IF AT ALL. VINYL HAS A NICE SHEEN. MAY CONTAIN BARELY NOTICEABLE LIGHT NON SOUNDING MARK

EXCELLENT+ (EX+) LP ALMOST IN N/M CONDITION WITH THE ODD LIGHT NON SOUNDING MARK AND THE ODD SPINDLE TRAIL.

EXCELLENT (EX)  LP ALMOST IN EX+ CONDITION WITH THE ODD LIGHT HAIRLINE AND SOME NON SOUNDING MARKS.

VERY GOOD+ (VG+)  LP ALMOST IN EX CONDITION WITH A FEW HAIRLINES/SCUFFS/MARKS 

VERY GOOD (VG)  LP HAS SEVERAL SOUNDING AND NON SOUNDING MARKS WHICH WILL REDUCE THE QUALITY OF SOUND BUT WILL PLAY THROUGH WITHOUT ANY SKIPS/JUMPS

POOR (P) - LP IS IN POOR SHAPE. LOTS OF SOUNDING MARKS/SCRATCHES. WILL NOT PLAY THROUGH WITHOUT SKIPS/JUMPS. 

SLEEVE GRADING

NEAR MINT (N/M)  SLEEVE "AS NEW" WITH THE ODD LIGHT CREASE/MARK WHICH IS HARDLY NOTICEABLE.

EXCELLENT+ (EX+)  SLEEVE ALMOST IN N/M CONDITION WITH THE ADDITION OF A FEW VERY LIGHT EDGE WEAR/CREASES, VERY CLEAN 

EXCELLENT (EX)  SLEEVE ALMOST EX+ BUT WITH THE ADDITION OF SOME LIGHT AGE WEAR/BLEMISHES TO THE COVER AND/OR EDGES. MAY HAVE SOME WRITING ON (ALWAYS DISCLOSED ON ITEM DESCRIPTION) 

VERY GOOD+ (VG+)  SLEEVE ALMOST IN EX CONDITION. MORE PROMINENT EDGE WEAR/BLEMISHES AND WEAR TO THE EDGES/CORNERS. STILL NO RIPS OR TEARS

VERY GOOD (VG)  SLEEVE ALMOST IN VG+ BUT WILL SUFFER FROM STAINING/HEAVY AGE WEAR AND MAY CONTAIN SMALL RIPS/TEARS

POOR (P)  SLEEVE IN POOR SHAPE. WILL BE TORN/STAINED AND HEAVY AGE WEAR. 

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