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Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.
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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Minorkos
Feb 20, 2010

i like the song "money for nothing"

Fatkraken
Jun 23, 2005

Fun-time is over.
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.

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005
Dire Straits is way better than U2 as they are not trash.

Nutsngum
Oct 9, 2004

I don't think it's nice, you laughing.
Amusingly Sultans of Swing is literally about dad's forming bands and not really being that good at it.

olblue
Nov 9, 2003

...lets go exploring!
Fallen Rib
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.

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem

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".

Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001

i liked the one song where the music video had thunderbird puppets

Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Mr. Pumroy posted:

i liked the one song where the music video had thunderbird puppets

Calling Elvis.

It also has a butt in it.

Frostwerks
Sep 24, 2007

by Lowtax
you know who was a real sultan of swing? david carradine.

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


Money for nothing would be a really good song if it wasn't hopelessly dated by the MTV references and casual sarcastic homophobia

Nutsngum
Oct 9, 2004

I don't think it's nice, you laughing.

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?

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

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

SpaceAceJase
Nov 8, 2008

and you
have proved
to be...

a real shitty poster,
and a real james
Mark Knopfler's "Sailing to Philadelphia" album is a masterpiece in every sense of the word.

Dyna Soar
Nov 30, 2006
they've got some pretty good songs, but the whole squeaky-clean suburban blues vibe just makes it hard for me to enjoy them

SpaceAceJase
Nov 8, 2008

and you
have proved
to be...

a real shitty poster,
and a real james
We're talking about knopflers solo career now, bub

Dyna Soar
Nov 30, 2006

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.

Coheed and Camembert
Feb 11, 2012
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.

lilljonas
May 6, 2007

We got crabs? We got crabs!
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.

Dyna Soar
Nov 30, 2006
rum, sodomy & the lash was also in heavy rotation at my house

Big McHuge
Feb 5, 2014

You wait for the war to happen like vultures.
If you want to help, prevent the war.
Don't save the remnants.

Save them all.
I'm not a dad and I like Dire Straits. He also did that song for The Princess Bride.

1000 Sweaty Rikers
Oct 13, 2005

I'm pretty sure it's "chips for free"

FedEx Mercury
Jan 7, 2004

Me bad posting? That's unpossible!
Lipstick Apathy

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?

chippy
Aug 16, 2006

OK I DON'T GET IT

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

Big McHuge
Feb 5, 2014

You wait for the war to happen like vultures.
If you want to help, prevent the war.
Don't save the remnants.

Save them all.

notZaar posted:

But you're probably old enough to be a dad, right?

drat.

Zeluth
May 12, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8teY54fMsxY

Smiling Mandrill
Jan 19, 2015

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.

fish and chips and dip
Feb 17, 2010
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.

fish and chips and dip fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Feb 2, 2015

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


Smiling Mandrill posted:

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.

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.

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

odd that nobody cares about the bit where he calls a black guy a chimpanzee

W424
Oct 21, 2010
Knopfler plays mostly fingerstyle, yes?
I'd love to watch a him fingering A minor for example.

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I like Dire Straits too op.

Qadaffi Taffy
Oct 1, 2006

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Does that dude really get his checks for free?

Frostwerks
Sep 24, 2007

by Lowtax

chippy posted:

it's chicks.

the intro for money to nothing was the official best thing to test a new car stereo with in the nineties

chex

Piearesquared posted:

Does that dude really get his checks for free?

see above

chippy
Aug 16, 2006

OK I DON'T GET IT

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

Frostwerks
Sep 24, 2007

by Lowtax

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

chippy
Aug 16, 2006

OK I DON'T GET IT

Frostwerks posted:

you seem pretty loving stupid

and unnecessary

Chrpno
Apr 17, 2006

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

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe

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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YoungSexualNorton
Aug 8, 2004
These are good for the children's brains.

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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