Expresso Love

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"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 slightly overdriven guitar playing the main riff, which was recycled from the unreleased track "Making Movies".^[1] It also has a piano melody played throughout, which accompanies the guitar. "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?"

The song was one of four from Making Movies 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. It was also a radio single in the United States, reaching #39 on the US Mainstream Rock chart.^[2]

In 1984, the live version from Alchemy was released as a single backed with the Alchemy edition of "Two Young Lovers",^[3] and the song was later re-released in CD format as one of the B-sides to the single "The Bug".

1. ^ Video on YouTube
2. ^ "Dire Straits Songs ••• Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography ••• Music VF, US & UK hits charts".
3. ^ "Live: Love over Gold / Solid Rock". Retrieved 2011-10-11. {{cite web}}: |archive-url= is malformed: timestamp (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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