The five hundred and fifty-first album: #551 Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Brothers in Arms is, for the most part, a nice and accessible pop rock album. It's mostly fast, quite upbeat, with some catchy lyrics and some good hooks. Some tracks deviate from that a bit - Your Latest Trick is far jazzier, for example - but there's a formula here that works quite well and is pretty straight forward. The more atmospheric pieces like Ride Across The River are as strong, a nice and gentle scenic piece, but the core pop rock is where the album stays strongest even when the experiments work well.