So, Lounge --- what is the general consensus on Dire Straits?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fcnP5CjOy1Y

[Deja Q]

1. I hate being in Dire Straits.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aNaKWXqXkhw


AWESOME MUSICIANS.

And while Gen-Y openly takes a leak on the visuals, at the time they were superb and novel. Not to mention expensive... and cool. Still are, even if we can technically do better today.

[GOPisEvil]

2. ...

:thumbsup:

[NightWatcher]

3. Dire Straits suck, they sound like a bad ripoff of a guy named Mark Knopfler

now he kicks ass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-G-GHTFoX4

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. d'uh -- say what...

:rofl:

[NightWatcher]

7. shhhhh

I wanted to get a knee jerk reaction....for that I guess I should go to GD.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. That is the #1 exercise over there.

#2 is jumping to conclusions ;)

[otherlander]

4. Dire Straits rules.

That song by REM is pretty good, too, I guess... :shrug:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. uh-oh

will fix

[Swede]

9. Dire Straits are fine musicians.

:hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. Hello --

Guess what...I remembered the movie---Diary of a Mad Housewife. I think it is based on Plath. I was brain dead last night :D

[Swede]

12. I did somemore reading too.

She WAS the actress he wrote those lyrics for. They have a son named Zeke or Zack or something.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. I wonder if that was the movie? Wow!! How cool is that?

:toast:

[no name no slogan]

11. "Sultans of Swing" was cool

but they lost me once they added the keyboard players, and Mark Knopfler's headband got wider than 2".

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. Yeah. It is all about the look

:rofl:

don't care for keyboards :shrug:

[Guava Jelly]

15. So Far Away is my very favorite Dire Straits tune

excellent choice of tunes.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

21. yeah...one of my faves as well.

Thanks.

[In_The_Wind]

16. I likes 'em but

I can't hear 'em on dial-up. x(

[Tuesday Afternoon]

22. awww. That sucks.

:hug:

[Swede]

17. Brothers in arms.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=k5JkHBC5lDs

These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day youll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And youll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
Ive watched all your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

Theres so many different worlds
So many differents suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the suns gone to hell
And the moons riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But its written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
Were fools to make war
On our brothers in arms

[Tuesday Afternoon]

23. I love the last 2 lines

Were fools to make war
On our brothers in arms

thanks for the link.

[unpossibles]

39. some of my favorite songs are on that album

Brothers in Arms, Ride Across the River, Man's Too Strong...

great band, even if some of their songs don't do it for me.

[sendero]

18. What's not to like...

... great stuff, especially the early work.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

24. agreed --

:toast:

[Greyskye]

19. Mark Knopfler...

...is one of about 3 guitarists that have such a distinctive sound that it's ridiculously easy to recognize. I think that they're great!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

25. Yes. He definitely has his own sound.

I love your username :toast:

[Greyskye]

31. .

Thank you very kindly. :hi:

[Schema Thing]

28. I've honestly never heard him mimicked

who are the other two that you can recognize? I'm a bit of a musical luddite; Knopfler is the only guitarist that is truly unmistakable to my ear.

[Greyskye]

30. .

Jerry Garcia and Carlos Santana. All have extremely unique sounds/techniques.

[RetroLounge]

20. This is their best song, I think

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gz4TDrE67mI&feature=related

RL

[mokawanis]

26. I love this one

Brothers in Arms, such a good song

http://youtube.com/watch?v=k5JkHBC5lDs&feature=related

[bullwinkle428]

27. Possibly my favorite group of all time...

I've seen them twice in concert, and have seem Mark Knopfler solo twice since DS broke up. I think he has plans to tour again in support of his latest CD, and will try to see him again...

[Schema Thing]

29. They are the Anti SteelyDan. nuff said. :P~

[swag]

32. I'm sure they're great on a number of levels, but I wouldn't listen to them by choice.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

33. point taken

personally, I would vomit it I had to listen to any one genre 24/7/365.

[applegrove]

34. I love "Brothers in Arms".

[redqueen]

35. Love them.

Knopfler is one of the greatest guitarists in the world.

I love him.


One of my many favorites by them: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jdbbt31abSU

[billyskank]

36. They made some turkeys of songs but I love them.

They balanced up the turkeys with some rip roaring fantastic songs. My favourites are:

The Sultans of Swing
Down By The Waterline
Portobello Belle
Tunnel of Love
Romeo And Juliet
Money For Nothing

[redqueen]

37. Yes!

Down by the Waterline, Portobello Belle

:loveya:

Also love Six Blade Knife and Where Do You Think You're Going?... lovelovelove their early stuff. :)

[SteppingRazor]

38. Mark Knopfler is one of the most underrated guitarists in rock history. n/t