The band:
- The Epic Riff in Money for Nothing
. It's worth noting that in the album version of the song (which is 8 minutes long, thus the shortened version for the linked video), the song spends 1:36 just building up to that riff.- In fact, when "Weird Al" Yankovic wanted to parody the song, Knopfler offered/demanded to reprise the riff himself.
- "Walk of Life".
- "Tunnel of Love". It contains some of Knopfler’s best guitar playing ever, all through the song.
- The solo at the end of "Sultans of Swing" has convinced many a fan that Mark Knopfler may well be the greatest guitarist alive. Even Eric Clapton had a hard time keeping up with Knopfler while playing it.
- The live version is even better.
- The live version
- Also the solos in "Lady Writer".
- "Industrial Disease", a six-minute-long rocker about economic collapse, with an epic keyboard riff.
- "Telegraph Road" is 14 minutes of awesome. Particularly the hauntingly beautiful instrumental in the middle, after "Three lanes moving slow".
- The live version of "On Every Street" juxtaposes the slow buildup with the epic outro featuring some truly stunning steel guitar work from Paul Franklin.
