Dire Straits · 1982 Spin it Again - Mark Knopfler went to Montserrat and made a record that sounds like a novel you don't want to finish.

Mark Knopfler · 1991 Spin it Again - He had the biggest-selling British rock album behind him and made this instead — a quiet, fingerpicked thing about faith healers and dead kings.

Dire Straits · 1991 Spin it Again - Six years after Brothers in Arms sold nine million copies, Knopfler came back with something quieter, more interior, and then walked away for good.

Mark Knopfler · 1996 Spin it Again - Sixteen songs, no stadium in sight, and a guitar tone that makes you realize how much of Dire Straits was just overhead.

Dire Straits · 1980 Spin it Again - Knopfler figured out that a Fender and a good story about a woman leaving could do more damage than a wall of synthesizers ever would.

Dire Straits · 1985 Spin it Again - Mark Knopfler recorded this on a Schecter Strat through a Notchell amp and somehow made corporate radio sound like a rain-soaked motorway at 2am.