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| "Expresso Love" | ||||
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| Single by Dire Straits | ||||
| from the album Making Movies | ||||
| A-side | "The Bug" | |||
| Released | October 1980 1984 ( Alchemy version) | |||
| Recorded | June 1980 | |||
| Genre | Roots rock | |||
| Length | 5:12 | |||
| Label | Vertigo | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Mark Knopfler | |||
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| Dire Straits singles chronology | ||||
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"Expresso Love" is a song written by Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler for their third album Making Movies . It is one of their heavier songs, with a slightly overdriven guitar playing the main riff, which was recycled from the unreleased track "Making Movies". [1] It also has a piano melody played throughout, which accompanies the guitar. "Expresso Love" also contains a reference to the earlier Dire Straits song "Wild West End" from their eponymous album, with the line "Hey mister, you wanna take a walk in the wild west end sometime?"
The song was one of four from Making Movies to be performed throughout the Love Over Gold and Brothers in Arms tours, with a particularly notable version on the live album Alchemy, but the song was dropped from the lineup afterwards. It was also a radio single in the United States, reaching #39 on the US Mainstream Rock chart. [2]
In 1984, the live version from Alchemy was released as a single backed with the Alchemy edition of "Two Young Lovers", [3] and the song was later re-released in CD format as one of the B-sides to the single "The Bug".
