Yesterday's question proved easy enough that it was solved in about two hours or so - which means around 2 am Eastern Standard Time. The event was absolutely Live Aid, and Sting's contribution to Dire Straits' Money For Nothing was one of the biggest MTV hits of the 80s much due to the inventive animated music video. The year was 1985, and Dire Straits' album Brothers In Arms, which, by the way, should be required listening and a staple in any music collection, was often cited as one of the biggest instruments in selling the new invention: The CD player. The album was one of the first to be fully digital - digital recording, mixing, and mastering (although there are some concerns with the accuracy of the mixing being labelled digitalaccording to an uncited paragraph in Wikipedia) - and as such it was a prime example of the clarity of sound that the CD medium could offer. Whether analog or digital sound is better is a debate that still rages on, especially with the resurgence of vinyl and the dwindling of CD sales due to streaming or digital downloads, and I will be happy to leave it elsewhere and just hint at it here. But if you want an example of an underrated Dire Straits song, check out one of my personal favorites, The Man's Too Strong from Brothers In Arms. I included it here just because that's how much I love it.
For tomorrow, we are going to look for a song that is legendary, but wasn't on the album it was recorded for. It was an album outtake from an album produced by a member of Dire Straits. The artist has won a very significant award/prize recently, to some controversy. The song reached legendary status in that it was such a stellar piece of work that it was hard to imagine any reason it would have been left off the album. So... What is the award/prize, who is the artist, what is the name of the song, and what album is it an outtake from - and what year was that album released? Am I sounding cryptic? It might be easier than you think...
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