re You Shook Me All Night Long
I love that song so much!
I also have a conflicting creepy memory associated with it. I was 14, playing a mixed doubles game of badminton with a guy who was 16. I had to wear one of those stupid fucking short skirts, and he was standing behind me singing 'knockin me out with those american thighs'. When I walked back to serve, he said 'do you know that song?' & winked at me and I gave him my most deadpan 'yes' and refused to talk to him for the rest of the game. Bleh.
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:48 (ten years ago) link
Imagine if that scene was soundtracked by Lido Shuffle
― voodoo chili, Thursday, July 31, 2014 10:38 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha, give me 24 hours.
caek, it loves you back. While I'm looking for Lido, maybe I'll see if I've got any Letters to Cleo for ya.
― pplains, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
OK folks, this concludes side 1 of your Thursday countdown, but gr80 is in the break room getting ready to turn the record over and bring you side 2...
http://i.imgur.com/oSCkkB4.jpg
31. Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing 1253 points, 22 votes, 1 first place vote
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:50 (ten years ago) link
Yes!
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:50 (ten years ago) link
AND HARRY DOESN'T MIND
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:51 (ten years ago) link
xps lol emil.y wtf is that?
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:51 (ten years ago) link
some dude could you post a recap for those of us nerds crossing tracks off our ballots?
― campreverb, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:52 (ten years ago) link
I love love love Dire Straits. I love them. I'm so happy they're here.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
creole
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link
This might be their highest entry here, but I'm excited that it could also be the lowest of three.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link
London.. town
― pplains, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:57 (ten years ago) link
fcc so so otm about Layla being forever ruined by that dire unplugged version, my Clapton vote went to Bell Bottom Blues, so tortured in all the right ways.Also I find it endlessly interesting that Jim Gordon killed his mom yet Clapton still gets the fuck you votes, such is the power of his yick factor
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:57 (ten years ago) link
Was gonna save the recap for the end of the day today
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:58 (ten years ago) link
argh I had mercifully forgotten about that slow turgid unplugged version of Layla, ick
― sleeve, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:59 (ten years ago) link
"layla" forever ruined by the unplugged version. the ony song i can think of for which this is so.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz)
it's not quite ruined for me but yeah the unplugged version is such a piece of shit
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:59 (ten years ago) link
clapton sounds like an old man nodding off during the whole performance
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:00 (ten years ago) link
When they found Clapton unplugged, he was frozen so stiff it took them three days to thaw him out for the autopsy.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:00 (ten years ago) link
I registered to a guitar forum using my irl name when I was in elementary school. Now a post about how I think 'Sultans of Swing' is the best 'guitar song' will forever be a top google search result for my name.
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:02 (ten years ago) link
The "and a crowd of young boys, they're just foolin' around in the corner" verse is Knopf's Dylanest moment
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link
young SG otm
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:05 (ten years ago) link
This is one of the few times Knofler's schtick works.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:05 (ten years ago) link
I dont seem to be getting the pictures anymore.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link
sultans is sublime
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
knopfler's schtick works extremely well for the entirety of Dire Straits
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
Love Sultans but love Romeo and Juliet and Tunnel of Love so much more, if you kick Les Boys off Making Movies you have a perfect album.Which I did not vote for as one of my favorite CR albums, shame on me.
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
Though Sultans' guitar solo is amazing, the solos from In the Gallery trump it
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:11 (ten years ago) link
yeah, and Making Movies is great as well. and Communique!
looks ok on my end, anyone else?
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:12 (ten years ago) link
That Unplugged Layla is horrible, but it's one of those tracks that was made even more horrible by its unexplainable ubiquity. From 1992-1993, I probably heard it more than any other song.
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:12 (ten years ago) link
if you kick Les Boys off Making Movies you have a perfect album. --PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy)
QFT
And yeah "romeo" and "tunnel" are a whole other thing, but not the kind of thing you hear on the radio very often.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:12 (ten years ago) link
I still see pics (android)
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
Did Guitar George know the E7 inversion that George Harrison was talking about upthread? Or maybe Guitar George is George Harrison...
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
i posted in the noms thread that i hate hearing sultans on the radio, but this poll has made me do a total 180, the lyrics/story to this song are so wonderful, they say everything "American Pie" wants to using 10% as much ink
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
Jeff "Guitar" George Will Teach You Guitar
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
Guitar George knew ALL THE CHORDS
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link
Only thing I hated worse than that acoustic version of Layla was that acoustic version of Hotel California.
― pplains, Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
harkens back to the halcyon days of my tweens when all the boys wore tennis headbands because they wanted to be like Mark Knopfler
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
Yup, that's why "Sultans" was my only Dire Straits vote in this. Making Movies is indisputably a classic rock album, but not so much a Classic Rock album.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:20 (ten years ago) link
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl),
don't you mean "les boys"
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
lol vc
lol vg. I sometimes think about trying to rock a 'Knopf at Live Aid' look. But tbh all of the band were smokin' that day.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/23900000/Mark-Knopfler-Dire-Straits-mark-knopfler-23947785-600-731.jpg
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs48/i/2014/088/c/2/mark_knopfler_tribute_by_lilie1111-d2541v7.jpg
http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1.0-0/c0.80.720.479/s720x720/1545679_188300018043602_1418941632_n.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
mark knopfler fan art ... can't believe i hadn't gone down that road before.
he's so gross. The mouth looks like he bought it someplace.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:37 (ten years ago) link
Also, it's really hard to search for GNR Fan Fiction on Google.
― pplains, Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
I dare you to enter the world of Stevie Nicks fan art and slash.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
holy jesus.
http://i.imgur.com/nYix2MF.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
https://img0.etsystatic.com/008/0/6371787/il_570xN.407276888_g4h4.jpg
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
dylan + springsteen + petty, at least genetically
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g216/lespauldouble/magazine_img.jpg
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
augh those pics
for those in need:
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― sleeve, Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link