Most rock and pop is played at one dynamic, or even at a very limited range between 'quiet' and loud. This is especially the case in the studio.
Rehearsing for the OES tour, the quiet was so quiet, you were barely touching your instrument. The loud, was extremely loud and hard hit.
Sometimes we'd go from full on loud to almost no sound in an instant.
Dire Straits is one of the few bands where tempos change in songs, intensity changes in very short instances.
Most bands start a song and it stays the same tempo throughout, and perhaps gradually gets louder towards the end, but basically a set dynamic.
