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Post by NYR on Nov 21, 2010 23:15:05 GMT -5
Have I entered an alternate boarding world where saying a band that is universally considered terrible is terrible is in any way strange behaviour? you = the world. got it. |
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Post by seymourstein on Nov 28, 2010 1:03:15 GMT -5
I'm glad you're starting to get it.
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Nov 14, 2018 12:13:13 GMT -5
Just stumbled on Sultans of Swing on YouTube right now. First time I encountered Dire Straits. Song is definitely good enough for me to dig a bit deep, I think.
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Nov 14, 2018 12:17:05 GMT -5
love dire straights. man, can knopfler PLAY. i think "money for nothing" is one of the best songs of the 80s. Listening to this now. TUNE!!! |
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Post by seamiedev on Nov 14, 2018 12:55:55 GMT -5
Just stumbled on Sultans of Swing on YouTube right now. First time I encountered Dire Straits. Song is definitely good enough for me to dig a bit deep, I think. This is the version of SOS I love personally. My older brother was a big Dire straits fan up to Brothers In Arms so they were played a lot in our house. I have his double vinyl of the alchemy live lp !! |
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Post by seamiedev on Nov 14, 2018 12:59:17 GMT -5
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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on Nov 14, 2018 15:54:10 GMT -5
I like Sultans Of Swing, Romeo and Juliet (which I picked for an English project once) and Money For Nothing (fun fact for anyone who didn't know this yet: that's Sting doing the "I want my MTV" bits) but I really HATE Private Investigations.
Knopfler is a great player with a unique style, but I don't like them enough to dig deeper. I don't know, sometimes bands click later with me so it might be different if you ask me in 5 years.
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Post by lahaine on Nov 14, 2018 16:13:07 GMT -5
Brother in Arms is a great album, as is Moving Pictures and self titled Debut. Very good band, although they were fashion disasters and cheesy 80's videos might have not helped them been more admired.
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Post by funhouse on Nov 14, 2018 16:37:00 GMT -5
Not Dire Straits, but I just wanted a reason to post this.
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Post by matt on Nov 14, 2018 17:39:55 GMT -5
Not Dire Straits, but I just wanted a reason to post this. Dire Straits is essentially just Mark Knopfler though so it counts! Never heard that before, sounds great (EDIT: in fact, on second listen it’s unbelievably great!). Again, from the Local Hero soundtrack, this one is beautiful, my favourite use of an acoustic guitar ever. The melody is just beautiful. The one thing that struck me about Knopfler is just how relatively small his ego isn’t and how comfortable he is in not being a star. For a guy who fronted one of the biggest bands in the 1980s with one of the biggest selling albums of all time, he could walk down the street and nobody would bat an eyelid. And for all the immense multi-million pound offers to reform Dire Straits that he’s been offered, the fact he’s not even been tempted is quite astonishing, especially considering there was no animosity to the split. Granted, that’s probably got much to do with the fact him and his band mates have no swagger and lack any rock star charisma! And I think that lack of ‘coolness’ (whatever that is) is actually what is so refreshing about him and them. |
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Post by andybellwillring on Nov 14, 2018 17:55:05 GMT -5
I'm not familiar with them beyond the hits, but Walk of Life has to be one of the worst songs in all of popular music.
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Post by Binary Sunset on Nov 14, 2018 20:38:40 GMT -5
I'm not familiar with them beyond the hits, but Walk of Life has to be one of the worst songs in all of popular music. But it's so happy. And fits as an ending song to any movie... |
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Post by andybellwillring on Nov 15, 2018 4:25:09 GMT -5
I'm not familiar with them beyond the hits, but Walk of Life has to be one of the worst songs in all of popular music. But it's so happy. And fits as an ending song to any movie... Can never get past that corny organ riff. Crime against music. |
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Post by funhouse on Nov 15, 2018 12:44:44 GMT -5
But it's so happy. And fits as an ending song to any movie... Can never get past that corny organ riff. Crime against music. Someone arrest this man. |
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Post by seamiedev on Nov 16, 2018 11:35:37 GMT -5
I'm not familiar with them beyond the hits, but Walk of Life has to be one of the worst songs in all of popular music. Funny video though.................... |
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Post by The Escapist on Nov 17, 2018 9:37:52 GMT -5
The Jamaican fella would like to buy a house there, but it's a bit pricey.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2018 10:10:47 GMT -5
The Jamaican fella would like to buy a house there, but it's a bit pricey. Play a record. |
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Post by funhouse on Dec 15, 2018 10:08:48 GMT -5
This has been my new favorite song for about a week now, and since no one had mentioned it in this thread yet I had to. From the 6 minute mark and forward... it might be the best outro I've ever heard, and it is yet to not make me emotional. I really should stop listening to it for a while, because it will inevitably stop to have that affect on me, but I can't.
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Post by owenwxm on Dec 15, 2018 10:42:11 GMT -5
This has been my new favorite song for about a week now, and since no one had mentioned it in this thread yet I had to. From the 6 minute mark and forward... it might be the best outro I've ever heard, and it is yet to not make me emotional. I really should stop listening to it for a while, because it will inevitably stop to have that affect on me, but I can't. Top top tune. Check out the live version at alchemy, incredible stuff. Dire Straits are an incredible band, their debut and making movies are near flawless albums front to back. |
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Post by matt on Dec 15, 2018 11:18:40 GMT -5
This has been my new favorite song for about a week now, and since no one had mentioned it in this thread yet I had to. From the 6 minute mark and forward... it might be the best outro I've ever heard, and it is yet to not make me emotional. I really should stop listening to it for a while, because it will inevitably stop to have that affect on me, but I can't. Oh for me it’s undoubtedly their best song - I’m fairly certain this is the tune that prompted me to make this thread 8 years ago as I remember playing it constantly around that time. As you say, the outro nails it as a bonafide masterpiece. |
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