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Re: Dire Straits
« Reply #50 on: 11 Aug 2008, 06:30 »
Brothers in Arms is one of my favourite albums, containing two of my favourite songs (Man's too Strong and Brothers in Arms) and their other albums are really good.  Brothers in Arms still sends chills up my spine after all these years.

I've seen them in concert (Ottawa in 1992) and Mark Knopfler solo (Ottawa again, in 2006) and the music is amazing.  the only thing is don't go to Mark's concerts expecting a stage show - the man has zero stage presence, but with his ability to make his guitar do what it does I can forgive him.
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Re: Dire Straits
« Reply #51 on: 11 Aug 2008, 07:27 »
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I'd like it to be known that what I've heard out of Nels Cline (Wilco's Sky Blue Sky) is the only thing that even seems to come within shooting distance.

You seriously need to get some other Nels Cline. Even the Wilco live album.
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Re: Dire Straits
« Reply #52 on: 11 Aug 2008, 08:10 »
Just saw Mark Knopfler at the Mann Music center in Philadelphia in early August.  Great show.  It's nice to see he can still amaze a huge audience.  Telegraph Road was an unbelievable closer...
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Re: Dire Straits
« Reply #53 on: 11 Aug 2008, 08:19 »
Quote from: Border Reiver on 11 Aug 2008, 06:30
Brothers in Arms is one of my favourite albums, containing two of my favourite songs (Man's too Strong and Brothers in Arms) and their other albums are really good.  Brothers in Arms still sends chills up my spine after all these years.


*glomps on to kindred soul*

see!!! yay, I'm not the only one who loves this album!



*listens to Your Latest Trick interspersed with We Decide It*
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Re: Dire Straits
« Reply #54 on: 11 Aug 2008, 09:33 »
Quote from: Border Reiver on 11 Aug 2008, 06:30
the only thing is don't go to Mark's concerts expecting a stage show - the man has zero stage presence, but with his ability to make his guitar do what it does I can forgive him.

I've never seen Mark or Dire Staits, but I've heard that too about their shows.  They're all about playing the tunes and putting everything into it, not about running around and jumping up and down.  I'm okay with that.  Some bands are for a rowdy good time, others are really more for listening.
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Re: Dire Straits
« Reply #55 on: 11 Aug 2008, 16:26 »
my dad recently went to a Mark Knopfler concert and said that now, he was ready to die. if thats not props i have no idea what is.
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Re: Dire Straits
« Reply #56 on: 11 Aug 2008, 21:27 »
I know it's supposed to be high praise, but I always found that particular expression a bit weird, and depressing.  Maybe because when I was little, I didn't understand it, and thought it pretty much meant the opposite.  "I saw Mark Knopfler; now I want to die".
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Re: Dire Straits
« Reply #57 on: 11 Aug 2008, 21:45 »
haha yeah me too
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Re: Dire Straits
« Reply #58 on: 11 Aug 2008, 21:54 »
This thread just made me put on Brother's in Arms; I listened to that album a ton when I was a kid.  I always equate Ride Across the River to driving around in South Dakota at night with my family.
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Re: Dire Straits
« Reply #59 on: 11 Aug 2008, 22:04 »
Whenever I listen to Dire Straits I feel like Patrick Bateman would approve of it.
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Re: Dire Straits
« Reply #60 on: 11 Aug 2008, 23:30 »
Bah, he can't even get reservations at Dorsia's, what does he know?
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Re: Dire Straits
« Reply #61 on: 11 Aug 2008, 23:37 »
"Sultans of Swing" was the first song I listened to after I lost a regional spelling bee. Now every time I listen to that song I feel a crushing sense of inadequacy.

I mean I missed the word "divine" for fuck's sake.
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Re: Dire Straits
« Reply #62 on: 11 Aug 2008, 23:53 »
I missed parentage because the stuck up prick that insisted on saying the words because only someone from his school could be trusted to enunciate correctly didn't pronounce the P and barely pronounced the n, so it sounded like heritage.

Still somewhat annoyed, though I got over thinking that he did it because it was me and a student from his school left.
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Re: Dire Straits
« Reply #63 on: 15 Aug 2008, 16:18 »
Listening to Dire Straits makes me go all weird and wobbly, in the best possible ways. Every so often I start craving music by Knopfler and end up listening to both DS and his solo stuff almost non-stop for a couple of weeks.

Knopfler is without doubt my favourite guitarist of all time, and perhaps also my single favourite musician. Tunnel of Love, Sultans of Swing, and Walk of Life are some of my favourite tunes of all time.

And this thread is like my favourite QC thread of all time!
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Re: Dire Straits
« Reply #64 on: 16 Aug 2008, 03:54 »
Quote from: Patrick on 11 Aug 2008, 23:37
Now every time I listen to that song I feel a crushing sense of inadequacy.

Yeah, but don't you feel that way all the time?
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Re: Dire Straits
« Reply #65 on: 17 Aug 2008, 01:45 »
Only around women.
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Re: Dire Straits
« Reply #66 on: 20 Aug 2008, 00:08 »
For a time, I thought that a dire strait was the Panama Canal.

I guess I'll fetch my headphones.
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