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.
Solo albums and classic soundtrack work run parallel in Marks life and he. 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. The most meticulous and gifted of craftsmen, Mark Knopfler is known to one. 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. Dire Straits would also go on to release a third live album called 'Live at the BBC' that would consist of much of their early material that they performed at the BBC. 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. The second album is 'On the Night', which focuses on the material from Dire Straits last two studio albums - 'Brothers in Arms' and 'On Every Street'. After their glorious debut, Communique never really stood a chance.
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