10 Classic Bands Who Only Had One Classic Album

10. Dire Straits

As the ‘80s started to get underway, your star power had to be larger than life if you wanted to be seen. Even if you could put together a bunch of great tunes into one package, it didn’t mean much if you had to compete with the neon-colored contemporaries dominating the charts. For all the more fabricated pop of the day though, Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits strapped on a headband and dominated the entire rock sphere.

Though the band had already had a hit with “Sultans of Swing” in the late ‘70s, it wasn’t until they made Brothers in Arms that people really started to pay attention. Pulling from the synth revolution taking place as well as resting on their laurels as mellow rockers, the band turned in some of the best feel-good tunes of the decade from “Walk of Life” to the unofficial anthem of MTV in “Money For Nothing.”

It was a great time to be Dire Straits, but the glory dissipated as the band went onto new projects. After a few more stabs at a full album, the band went their separate ways, with Mark Knopfler going on to be one of the most acclaimed guitarists in the world. Dire Straits have more than a few classic songs under their belt, but when talking about their recorded output, Brothers in Arms is the fullest album experience we ever got.