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Albums similar to Making Movies

These are the albums most often named alongside Dire Straits - Making Movies by people listing five favorite records. If you are looking for artists similar to Dire Straits, this is where their listeners went. Nobody wrote these recommendations and no algorithm guessed at them: every album below is one that a real person put on the same list.

1. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
2. Robert Palmer - Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley
3. Joe Jackson - Big World
4. Nanci Griffith - One Fair Summer Evening
5. Rush - Permanent Waves
6. Steely Dan - Gaucho
7. The Who - Quadrophenia
8. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
9. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
10. Paul Simon - Graceland
11. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
12. R.E.M. - Out of Time
13. Alpha Blondy - Apartheid Is Nazism
14. Elvis Costello - Girls Girls Girls
15. Marillion - Reel to Real
16. Nazareth - Two X 5
17. Pfm - Live in USA
18. Tanita Tikaram - The Sweet Keeper
19. The Rainmakers - The Good News and the Bad News
20. Wes Montgomery - Plays the Blues
21. Fairport Convention - The Five Seasons
22. Black 47 - Black 47
23. Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites
24. Darden Smith - Trouble No More
25. Helen Hoffner - Wild About Nothing
26. Oingo Boingo - Nothing to Fear
27. The Rolling Stones - Aftermath
28. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood
29. Webb Wilder - Doo Dad
30. J.J. Cale - Shades

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