- Industrial Disease
Infobox Single
Name = Industrial Disease
Artist =Dire Straits
from Album =Love over Gold
Released = 1985
Format =
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length = 05:48
Label = Vertigo
Writer =Mark Knopfler Extra tracklisting
Album =Love over Gold
Type = studio
prev_track = "Private Investigations "
prev_no = 2
this_track = "Industrial Disease"
track_no = 3
next_track = "Love Over Gold"
next_no = 4"Industrial Disease" is a song by the Britishrock band Dire Straits and written byMark Knopfler . It appeared on their 1982 album "Love over Gold ".The song was released as a single in the U.S and as a rare B-side to
Private Investigations on cassette tape in the United Kingdom.Meaning
The song takes a look at decline of the British manufacturing industry in the early 1980s, focusing on strikes, depression and dysfunctionality. For example, the absurdity of media-driven maladies is laid out in a segment of the song describing the narrator's visit to a doctor's office for treatment of his "Industrial Disease".
The reference to "Brewer's Droop" as a medical condition is an in-joke, referring both to the effect of alcohol on libido and to the band of the same name that
Mark Knopfler played in prior to "Dire Straits".
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