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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3kqaj5-ULk Dire Straits was a band that barely registered in the US but managed to dominate in Australia and New Zealand for reasons historians have not been able to explain. Probably because we're idiots. Their first album contained probably one of the most-overplayed Dad-rock tunes of all time, which you probably all know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2nQZPC2uTs Their concert strategy was to just play their normal studio tune but with an extra 35 minutes of guitar, piano or saxophone solos thrown in per song. This lead to Dire Straits concerts that last for up to a week. By the end most of the fans were dead from dancing like shitheads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64vvX6-d_JY Eventually they made their biggest mistake by making an album that owned too much and was so popular that a lot of their fanbase disowned them. Never again has society hit this level of peak-white people. This album was combined a massive 200 gig world tour that started in Yugoslavia and ended in Sydney. If you were in a city in 1985 - 1986 outside of America, Dire Straits was probably playing there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX0IjD5DPQI I guess Mark Knopfler got bored of mega stadium gigs and liked making soundtrack music so he decided to call time on the whole thing and headband sales never really recovered. Now he makes not-half-bad solo albums about books he reads and places he goes that don't suck and most people ignore so it's OK to say you like them again without your friends just slapping you for five hours straight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6gzkjAkiVg And despite all this, the decades of success, the massive concerts and the huge numbers of records sold, Mark Knopfler's most famous song is probably this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4QnalIHlVc In time we will either look back on Dire Straits as a better version of Sting & The Police or a worse version of U2. Australia and New Zealand never really recovered from actually agreeing on something for once and they just argue about cricket and who hates immigrants more. That has been today's instalment of "poo poo I found in my parent's record cupboard".
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 11:03 |
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# ? Apr 29, 2024 07:33 |
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i like the song "money for nothing"
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 11:14 |
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Dire Straits is pretty much the definition of Dad Rock. Not in a bad way though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhdFe3evXpk is my favourite Dire Straits song.
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 11:45 |
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Dire Straits is way better than U2 as they are not trash.
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 11:47 |
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Amusingly Sultans of Swing is literally about dad's forming bands and not really being that good at it.
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 11:49 |
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He's playing in Newcastle again soon, he can still sell a 6000 person arena with his solo work. I would go however UK ticket prices mean I would have to sell at least two of my internal organs to make down payment on one ticket.
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 11:56 |
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Nutsngum posted:Amusingly Sultans of Swing is literally about dad's forming bands and not really being that good at it. it goes well when you play it after the song about watching MTV and thinking "pffft, that looks easy".
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 11:59 |
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i liked the one song where the music video had thunderbird puppets
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 11:59 |
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Mr. Pumroy posted:i liked the one song where the music video had thunderbird puppets Calling Elvis. It also has a butt in it.
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 12:03 |
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you know who was a real sultan of swing? david carradine.
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 12:07 |
Money for nothing would be a really good song if it wasn't hopelessly dated by the MTV references and casual sarcastic homophobia
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 12:09 |
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hemophilia posted:Money for nothing would be a really good song if it wasn't hopelessly dated by the MTV references and casual sarcastic homophobia You do realise its the "character" calling people like Mark Knopfler fags for being rich musicians right?
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 12:31 |
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hemophilia posted:Money for nothing would be a really good song if it wasn't hopelessly dated by the MTV references and casual sarcastic homophobia Money for nothing is a good song because the MTV reference marks it in history and because it makes fun of casual homophobes you dingdong
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 12:35 |
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Mark Knopfler's "Sailing to Philadelphia" album is a masterpiece in every sense of the word.
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 13:03 |
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they've got some pretty good songs, but the whole squeaky-clean suburban blues vibe just makes it hard for me to enjoy them
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 13:08 |
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We're talking about knopflers solo career now, bub
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 13:10 |
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SpaceAceJase posted:We're talking about knopflers solo career now, bub well the same goes for his solos, really. my dad (surprise surprise) is a huge pink floyd and dire straits fan, so i've been listening to them all my life basically. sailing to philadelphia could pretty much be a david gilmour solo. that music gives me a mental image of a middle class family man, sitting in his den on a saturday night, wife is doing laundry or w/e, the kids are either asleep or out if they're old enough and he's relaxing with a drink listening to some mark knopfler. he's content, not happy but content and the music reflects that.
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 13:19 |
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Knopfler kicks rear end at basically everything, even if he is firmly in the dad rock camp. He's coming on tour near me later this year and this is probably my only chance to ever see him live, given that he doesn't really play in the US at all.
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 13:23 |
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My dad had available choices for car music when I grew up: Dire Straits, and The Pogues. Mark Knofler is purified and weaponized Dad Rock.
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 13:38 |
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rum, sodomy & the lash was also in heavy rotation at my house
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 13:39 |
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I'm not a dad and I like Dire Straits. He also did that song for The Princess Bride.
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 13:44 |
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I'm pretty sure it's "chips for free"
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 13:57 |
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Big McHuge posted:I'm not a dad and I like Dire Straits. He also did that song for The Princess Bride. But you're probably old enough to be a dad, right?
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 14:00 |
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Tace Vim posted:I'm pretty sure it's "chips for free" it's chicks. the intro for money to nothing was the official best thing to test a new car stereo with in the nineties
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 14:23 |
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notZaar posted:But you're probably old enough to be a dad, right? drat.
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 14:25 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8teY54fMsxY
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 14:27 |
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hemophilia posted:Money for nothing would be a really good song if it wasn't hopelessly dated by the MTV references and casual sarcastic homophobia Once again for those of you too stupid to understand music lyrics aka (Canadians) http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dire-straits-money-for-nothing-banned-in-canada-20110114 The song is sung from the perspective of a fat self hating 9-5 er who can't stand the fact that rock stars get money for nothing, and chicks for free. In other words its OK for this guy to say things like fag because he is the bad guy, and the butt of the joke.
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 14:34 |
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I'm glad that the concept of "dad rock" doesn't really exist neither were I'm from, nor where I live which means I can enjoy the poo poo out of Dire Straits unironically. Great music, great music.
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Smiling Mandrill posted:Once again for those of you too stupid to understand music lyrics aka (Canadians) all those words you posted and the other two dorks too, i know that. it's still stupid and unnecessary, the whole perspective thing of the song lyrics can be easily ignored and suddenly you're just left with mark knopfler screaming about faggots and it's not very cool.
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 14:51 |
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odd that nobody cares about the bit where he calls a black guy a chimpanzee
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 14:58 |
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Knopfler plays mostly fingerstyle, yes? I'd love to watch a him fingering A minor for example.
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 15:11 |
I like Dire Straits too op.
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 15:17 |
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Does that dude really get his checks for free?
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 15:21 |
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chippy posted:it's chicks. chex Piearesquared posted:Does that dude really get his checks for free? see above
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 15:27 |
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hemophilia posted:all those words you posted and the other two dorks too, i know that. it's still stupid and unnecessary, the whole perspective thing of the song lyrics can be easily ignored and suddenly you're just left with mark knopfler screaming about faggots and it's not very cool. hey guys if you take these lyrics out of context and ignore parts of them then they say something bad and that's not very cool
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 15:28 |
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hemophilia posted:all those words you posted and the other two dorks too, i know that. it's still stupid and unnecessary, the whole perspective thing of the song lyrics can be easily ignored and suddenly you're just left with mark knopfler screaming about faggots and it's not very cool. you seem pretty loving stupid
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 15:28 |
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Frostwerks posted:you seem pretty loving stupid and unnecessary
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 15:30 |
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StashAugustine posted:odd that nobody cares about the bit where he calls a black guy a chimpanzee Why do you think he's a black guy? Interesting
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 15:34 |
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hemophilia posted:all those words you posted and the other two dorks too, i know that. it's still stupid and unnecessary, the whole perspective thing of the song lyrics can be easily ignored and suddenly you're just left with mark knopfler screaming about faggots and it's not very cool. What a little bitch baby
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 15:47 |
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# ? Apr 29, 2024 07:33 |
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hemophilia posted:all those words you posted and the other two dorks too, i know that. it's still stupid and unnecessary, the whole perspective thing of the song lyrics can be easily ignored and suddenly you're just left with mark knopfler screaming about faggots and it's not very cool. please return to 2012 GBS or bitchmode twitter and continue flapping your baby arms about The F*got Word there
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