Expresso Love
"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 distorted guitar playing the main riff, which was recycled from the unreleased track "Making Movies".[1] It also has a keyboard melody played throughout the piece, with the melody altering slightly at points. It is basically a love song. 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?"
| "Expresso Love" | ||||
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| Single by Dire Straits | ||||
| from the album Making Movies | ||||
| A-side | "The Bug" | |||
| Released | 1992 1984 (Alchemy version) | |||
| Recorded | 1980 | |||
| Genre | Roots rock | |||
| Length | 5:12 | |||
| Label | Vertigo Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Mark Knopfler | |||
| Producer(s) | Mark Knopfler, Jimmy Iovine | |||
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It was one of the four songs from the Making Movies album 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.
In 1984, the live version from Alchemy was released as a single backed with the Alchemy edition of "Two Young Lovers",[2] and the song was later re-released in CD format as one of the B-sides to the single "The Bug".