Original video located here. Accessed 19th March 2012
Song title: Sultans of Swing
Artist: Dire Straits
Year: 1978
Why I like this song:
I've been listening to Dire Straits' first album recently.
As a kid in the eighties, these guys seemed to be one of the most ubiquitous acts around. I have come to know this songs through hearing them countless times.
That being said, it is odd to hear this album over thirty years later: It has an interesting take on blues rock and Mark Knopfler's guitar work is beyond question - and this was right at the same time that the punk movement, making this album a unique work. And ti can be argued that this has aged better than many punk bands of that era.
And that closing guitar solo *chef's kiss*
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