Mark Knopfler is a sublime songwriter as well as a great one music composer and elegant guitarist recognized all over the world, every single track both the text and the music of each one has its own story.
Many people who have always known my passion for Mark's works they tell me that tracks like Setting Me Up and Money for Nothing or What It Is and Border Reiver they don't seem to be produced by the same person, even after a long time.
Here we all know this aspect, so when they ask me which album is my favourite I tend to answer that they are all worth having, bar none.
Golden Heart it is true that it is very varied but how can one not love the pieces such as Je Suis Desolè or Are We in Trouble Now.
Tracker it's true that 'maybe' it doesn't have the best production that Ainlay could have given, but when I listen to Lights of Taormina and Silver Eagle everything else fades away.
Privateering is it true that instead of a double, a single album could have been made, but again I listen to Go love and Dream of the Drowned Submariner and the rest doesn't count...and I could go on with the rest of the albums.
For music lovers what matters are the songs.
I consider myself lucky to know Mark's work in its entirety, and I have to say 'a lot of stuff', 'great stuff'
really