That whole album is really good, iirc. I'm not sure I've heard any of the albums after it, though, and there have been ... several. But from that album you also get this gem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxl2YGDJEAM
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 22:59 (three years ago) link
(Album features guest backing vox from James Taylor, Van Morrison, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, and the guys from Squeeze. Knopfler showing off his rolodex there.)
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 23:01 (three years ago) link
Wish he'd just turned up at the Hall Of Fame, played Les Boys solo, then left
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 23:33 (three years ago) link
Checked to see if I posted the live version of Portobello Belle that I really like; looks like I did, about a year ago.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 01:28 (three years ago) link
I’ll probably end up getting cancelled but I’ve never got why ‘Les Boys’ gets such a bad rap...sure it’s a bit dated and gauche but fundamentally it’s quite sweet and for a pretty huge rock band to write a LGBQT seems fairly progressive...I say fairly
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy),
Don't get defensive -- there's no point.
I don't find it sweet or dated -- it's a dumb heavy-handed attitude toward a slice of gay culture about which a casual Fassbinder fan would've had some insight. I find Rod Stewart's "The Killing of Georgie" awkward, gauche, and often stupid but way more empathetic.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 01:36 (three years ago) link
agreed. the melody is nice, lyrics should be about lying in a field eating grapes or something
― brimstead, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 01:51 (three years ago) link
I think Mark Knopfler's lyrics are often dumb and heavy-handed. I think the guitar is really his native language; he has such lyricism in his guitar solos, and such nuance and lightness of touch, but he's much clumsier with words, imo. His choruses are often good, and sometimes he gets a kind of dark ominous vibe going in the lyrics that works for him, but there's a lot of really clunky try-hard stuff in there too.
I think that's one reason his star has fallen lately; the other, imo, is he's just not weird enough. Telegraph Road is a good song, but if you heard it described on paper, you'd think it was a lot stranger and more atmospheric than it is.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 02:00 (three years ago) link
otm
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 02:18 (three years ago) link
Hate this band but great name
― calstars, Friday, 18 June 2021 19:44 (two years ago) link
really? Pre-Brothers in Arms, it’s great bar music imo
― brimstead, Friday, 18 June 2021 20:18 (two years ago) link
Example please
― calstars, Friday, 18 June 2021 20:31 (two years ago) link
I mean...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fAQhSRLQnM
― brimstead, Friday, 18 June 2021 21:06 (two years ago) link
It's so much better than great bar music! Unless you mean, like, music you don't mind when it comes on in a bar, in which case, sure. But, for example, this song is a beaut:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAirINwjaxE
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 June 2021 21:19 (two years ago) link
well yeah I just meant cuz calstars likes bars, I wasn’t implying they were a “bar band” I just mean ~vibes~
― brimstead, Friday, 18 June 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
“tunnel of love” is awesome.. lyrics aside it always sounded really... dangerous to me, like some violence is about to pop off idk
― brimstead, Friday, 18 June 2021 21:39 (two years ago) link
― calstars, Friday, 18 June 2021 22:17 (two years ago) link
wtf is that video for Tunnel of Love
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Friday, 18 June 2021 22:39 (two years ago) link
and the first three Dire Straits albums are bar ambient if there ever was, Knopfler soloing on a Strat is what beer tastes like
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Friday, 18 June 2021 22:47 (two years ago) link
Heh, tell that to Eric "Michelob" Clapton, who basically personified "cheap beer in the '80s." Knopfler soloing is the sound of you getting home, thinking about what you did or didn't do.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 June 2021 22:50 (two years ago) link
“Bar ambient” ?
― calstars, Friday, 18 June 2021 23:01 (two years ago) link
Brian wino
― disraeli grinds my gears (NickB), Friday, 18 June 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link
Lol
― Champagne Heathernova (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 18 June 2021 23:03 (two years ago) link
And "Romeo and Juliet" is neither bar nor ambient.
― Champagne Heathernova (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 18 June 2021 23:05 (two years ago) link
bar ambient is equally good if you ignore it or focus drunkenly on it in an attempt to remain upright
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Friday, 18 June 2021 23:05 (two years ago) link
The fuck is bar ambient tho
― calstars, Friday, 18 June 2021 23:06 (two years ago) link
That Tunnel of Love clip might be the most Yawnsomely Literal music video I've ever seen.
― enochroot, Friday, 18 June 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link
love over gold is basically an ambient album
― brimstead, Friday, 18 June 2021 23:32 (two years ago) link
Love over Green World
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Friday, 18 June 2021 23:33 (two years ago) link
My wife: "Dire Straits were dad rock before I knew what dad rock was."
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Thursday, 14 April 2022 23:16 (two years ago) link
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYMhS78R/
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 11 February 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link