And in terms of covers, I can attest that songs from Born in the U.S.A.
In one (admittedly imperfect) measurement of popularity among young people, Spotify streams, three separate songs from Appetite dwarf anything from Brothers in Arms. It feels like both albums loom far above Brothers in Arms in the current consciousness. and just ahead of Appetite for Destruction. On the ’80s album-sales charts, Brothers in Arms sits just behind Born in the U.S.A. They were massively, enormously, stadium-filling-pop-superstar famous.
It feels like Dire Straits have been, not forgotten certainly, but not remembered at anywhere near the level of their success. I wonder if that might surprise some people. Brothers in Arms is the sixth-best-selling album of the entire 1980s.
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