Expresso Love

"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".