DIRE STRAITS : ON THE NIGHT

 

Disc One (74:56)

  1. Calling Elvis
  2. Walk Of Life
  3. Heavy Fuel
  4. Romeo And Juliet
  5. Private Investigations
  6. Sultans Of Swing
  7. Fade To Black
  8. Your Latest Trick
  9. When It Comes To You
  10. I Think I Love You Too Much

Disc Two (61:53)

  1. You And Your Friend
  2. On Every Street
  3. Two Young Lovers
  4. Tunnel Of Love
  5. Telegraph Road
  6. Money For Nothing
  7. Brothers In Arms

Label : Vertigo

Venue : Les Arenes, Nîmes, France + Feijenoord Stadion, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Recording Date : May 19-21, 1992 + May 29-31, 1992

Release Date : May 10, 1993 / November 2023 (expanded edition)

Review (Wikipedia) : On the Night is the second live album by the British rock band Dire Straits, released on 10 May 1993 by Vertigo Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. The album features many of the band's later hits, including the singles "Walk of Life" and "Money for Nothing". The cover art of the album features dishes of the Very Large Array in central New Mexico. On the Night was recorded in May 1992 at Les Arenes in Nīmes, France, and at Feijenoord Stadion in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, concerts that were part of the On Every Street Tour, which included 216 shows in Europe, North America, and Australia, and sold 7.1 million tickets. On the Night was released on 10 May 1993 by Vertigo Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. A CD single for "Your Latest Trick" entitled Encores, was released in the UK which included three additional recordings from the tour: "The Bug", "Solid Rock" and "Local Hero - Wild Theme". The album was remastered and reissued with the rest of the Dire Straits catalogue in 1996 for most of the world outside the United States. In November 2023, On The Night was re-released and expanded for the box set Live 1978-1992. The original songs were remastered by Andrew Walter, while Guy Fletcher newly mixed the songs "Sultans of Swing", "Fade To Black" (inserted between "Private Investigations" and "Your Latest Trick"), "When It Comes To You", "I Think I Love You Too Much" (inserted after "Your Latest Trick"), "Two Young Lovers", "Tunnel of Love" and "Telegraph Road" (inserted before "Money for Nothing"). The new double CD configuration also swaps the order of "On Every Street" and "You and Your Friend". Encores is included as a separate disc in the box set (despite "The Bug" actually not being an encore but usually played before "Private Investigations", as in the DVD tracklist shown below). "Planet of New Orleans", according to Guy Fletcher, "was not performed on the nights that were recorded – as far as I am aware." The box set marks the first time "I Think I Love You Too Much" was included on a Dire Straits release. The band never put out a studio version; Jeff Healey released it on his album Hell to Pay, while an earlier live performance by Dire Straits (with Eric Clapton) was recorded at the 1990 Knebworth Festival and included on the "various artists" album and video distillation. In his review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album two out of five stars, writing that the album "works sporadically, offering enough good material to interest fans but not enough to win back the commercial audience earned by Brothers in Arms."