Dire Straits - When It Comes To You (Live in Nîmes, France / 1992 / Visualiser)

[dustyvalentino]

Saw this elsewhere and thought some might find it interesting in the context of the OES chat, 1991 UK total album sales figures.

[olazabalrok]

I listened to the Walk Of Life (San Antonio) and... I don't know. Something is missing.... Keys are too low. MK's guitar to high.... I dunno.

Totally agree, another disaster mix by GF, I hope the other songs are better ...

Again agree here and this should be one of the simplest songs, just your basic rock ’n roll track. I’ve lost my hope long time ago for enjoyable mixes.

The 1996 releases are not remixes but remasters, not too big of a difference to originals.

[Rolo]

I listened to the Walk Of Life (San Antonio) and... I don't know. Something is missing.... Keys are too low. MK's guitar to high.... I dunno.

Totally agree, another disaster mix by GF, I hope the other songs are better ...

I said that I dislike the new mixes "for my taste".
GF made crystal clear elegant mixes. It's possible to hear a pin drop. However, for my taste, needs punch.
Maybe on a correct equipment and played loud, it sound excelent.

About San Antonio, maybe some tracks could have some noise and it could affect the desirable mix. However, I doubt that GF would deal with noysy tracks.

I personally think the 1996 remixes sound noticeably worse than the original CDs…

My On Every Street CD (maybe Alchemy too) is the only original that I have. All the rest are the 1996 remasters.
Maybe, because of that, I like them so much 

The 1996 releases are not remixes but remasters, not too big of a difference to originals.

YES! correct.
Remasters.

[wayaman]

These multitracks come from a radio recording that might be less good than a studio recording, at least they are made with different purposes and different standards of quality, it's not the same if the final product would be a radio broadcast or a commercial release.

But that's the only thing they managed to find anyway.

[Pottel]

Saw this elsewhere and thought some might find it interesting in the context of the OES chat, 1991 UK total album sales figures.

? do not see sales numbers here?

[dustyvalentino]

Star is platinum (300k)
Black circle gold (100k)
White circle silver (50k I think from memory)

According to this site OES stalled at 2 x platinum, compared with 15 x platinum for BiA...

https://www.bpi.co.uk/brit-certified

[Love Expresso]

Yes, when you check the figures at the Wikipedia entry for On Every Street, it states 600.000 sold copies in the UK  and around 5.26 million copies worldwide.

About 5 million albums would be phantastic in most of the cases but with a predecessor that sold 26 million it is no surprise that it is viewed as a failure.

(5 Mio is more than sales of Love Over Gold or the first Album.)

LE

[ds1984]

This is nonsense to say that a double platinum stalled because the one before did way better.

How many double platinum awarded artist would think that way?

This is were bias are starting.

BIA is in the "out of competition" category, this is the exception, the abnormal.

OES should be compared to all other Dire Straits releases but BIA.

Of course OES suffers from comparaison with BIA but the norm in popular music is more to have a very big selling album once and then struggle to make it bigger each time, let alone staying close. Or sometime waiting for 10 or 20 years...

Dire Straits remains greatly successful.

Star is platinum (300k)
Black circle gold (100k)
White circle silver (50k I think from memory)

According to this site OES stalled at 2 x platinum, compared with 15 x platinum for BiA...

https://www.bpi.co.uk/brit-certified

[ds1984]

Well KBFH or Westwood were using a good mobile studio as some others radio
Maybe they do not spend extensive production work as a record company would do then to issue a live album but I would say that the raw tapes are probably close in recording quality.

I read critics about Guy work but I still think that the allowed budget for the 20's mixes are way lower that it used to be in 90's even if technology is helping and things can be released faster now.
Listen to Rick Beato on that take.

These multitracks come from a radio recording that might be less good than a studio recording, at least they are made with different purposes and different standards of quality, it's not the same if the final product would be a radio broadcast or a commercial release.

But that's the only thing they managed to find anyway.

[peterromer]

I listened to the Walk Of Life (San Antonio) and... I don't know. Something is missing.... Keys are too low. MK's guitar to high.... I dunno.

Totally agree, another disaster mix by GF, I hope the other songs are better ...

I thought so too, until I heard the previous Atmos releases on my Yamaha sorrund system that supports it. Loud and crystal clear the Atmos has more "room", depth and clarity.
It is like MK is sitting right in front of you and the musicians around you, best way to describe it.
Not just surround, it better than that.

OES should NEVER be compared to BIA. Its like comparing any other of the greats artists nr. 1 album of all time to a later of their albums. It is unfair comparison. 








I said that I dislike the new mixes "for my taste".
GF made crystal clear elegant mixes. It's possible to hear a pin drop. However, for my taste, needs punch.
Maybe on a correct equipment and played loud, it sound excelent.

About San Antonio, maybe some tracks could have some noise and it could affect the desirable mix. However, I doubt that GF would deal with noysy tracks.

I personally think the 1996 remixes sound noticeably worse than the original CDs…

My On Every Street CD (maybe Alchemy too) is the only original that I have. All the rest are the 1996 remasters.
Maybe, because of that, I like them so much 

The 1996 releases are not remixes but remasters, not too big of a difference to originals.

YES! correct.
Remasters.

[Pottel]

not sure where else to drop this one, so just doing it here:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2025/03/27/dire-straits-shoot-up-the-charts-decades-after-the-band-split/

[dustyvalentino]

not sure where else to drop this one, so just doing it here:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2025/03/27/dire-straits-shoot-up-the-charts-decades-after-the-band-split/

Too slow grandad