Another Knopfler fan here - I broke my rule about not buying CDs of items I own in LP to get all the Dire Straits remasters, so I could play them on my computer at work. My favorite Dire Straits album is Making Movies - Tunnel of Love and Romeo and Juliet still grab something inside me and twist it.

Knopfler's album with the late Chet Atkins, "Neck and Neck", is great fun - the two of them sound like they had a great time making it. And Knopfler's newest solo, "Sailing to Philadelphia" is worth the purchase for the title song alone, a duet with James Taylor (I know, Spaw, you consider him terminally bland, but I STILL like him 30 years after my teenage crush on him) that is the story of Mason and Dixon's famous survey.