Industrial Disease
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| Single by Dire Straits from the album Love over Gold |
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| Released | 1985 | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 05:48 | ||||
| Label | Vertigo | ||||
| Writer(s) | Mark Knopfler | ||||
| Love over Gold track listing | |||||
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"Industrial Disease" is a song by the British rock band Dire Straits and written by Mark 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.
[edit] 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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