![]() ![]() ![]() But it’s still a pleasant enough album, with a few cuts (Lady Writer, Where Do You Think You’re Going? and Once Upon a Time in the West, in particular) deserving a lot more praise than they ever came close to getting. Sure, it sounds rushed (which it was, released within just 10 months of their debut), and it’s certainly the easiest of the band’s albums to overlook. Communique got slated to within an inch of its life, with Jonathan Daümler-Ford of The Birmingham Daily Post saying that “the songs sound like pale imitations, or the cuts which were not good enough for Dire Straits” and All Music saying it “seemed little more than a carbon copy of its predecessor with less compelling material.” With the benefit of hindsight, it’s not nearly as bad as everyone made out. The second album was always going to be compared to the first and unless Dire Straits performed a minor miracle and pulled two seminal albums out of the bag in a row, those comparisons were never going to be kind. ![]() collection offers nine lean, laid-back originals brimming with thoughtful lyrics and Mark Knopfler's intricate guitar lines. Cut in the Bahamas with veteran producers Barry Beckett and Jerry Wexler at the helm, the Warner Bros. After their glorious debut, Communique never really stood a chance. COMMUNIQUE means an official announcement, and the message that Dire Straits' 1979 album sent was that the success of the quartet's eponymous debut was no fluke. ![]()
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