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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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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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Riosan posted:Love Over Gold is probably their strongest album IMO I'd agree with this. I probably should have put in the OP that a lot of their studio stuff didn't translate well to radioplay because their songs were between six and 14 minutes long and you ended up losing either a verse or a solo which sort of ruined the song. Love Over Gold is almost entirely prog-rock and if they'd squeezed Private Dancer in there it would have been mind-bending. duck monster posted:"In time we will either look back on Dire Straits as a better version of Sting & The Police or a worse version of U2." I'm not saying I agree with it or that it's fair. Some people apparently think it's the height of coolness to height Dire Straits, that's all. Butt Wizard fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Feb 2, 2015 |
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Feb 2, 2015 21:25
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SpaceAceJase posted:post the most recent dire straits / mark knopfler song you've listened to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1mUOnwi-68
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Feb 3, 2015 05:19
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KennyLoggins posted:this was a good episode. Because Sting got given a writing credit and thus it's not a pure Dire Straits song, what are you some sort of philistine
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Feb 3, 2015 23:31
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So Brothers in Arms is new at Number 8 on the Radio 1 UK Top 40 Album charts for some reason. Did all the UK goons just suddenly go out and decide to buy a 30 year old album because of this thread? http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/albums
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Feb 9, 2015 23:33
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The Tao Jones posted:That being said, he does have a little Eric Clapton Syndrome, where a stellar guitarist tends to wind up in snoozeville without someone to light a fire under their rear end. He's done some stuff that's so laid back it's almost laid out. I saw one reviewer describe one of his album as being so laid back he was on the verge of just putting out blank CDs. Not quite sure what to make of the new album. There's four really solid tunes in there, but it doesn't feel like the complete package that Get Lucky was, despite it being longer by about three songs.
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