Yes me too, the intro alone has such a great atmosphere, even if it will develop to another Fish And The Bird it would be ok with me, I like that one, too!It is quite a bit Fishy, or Birdy actually, with some "Gas & TV" ingredients ;)
LE
This is the skipper to me in this record. A song that he already has done, "The Fish and the Bird"...
We know that MK uses to file some songs until he finds the correct music for the song, well, in this case, he's using a music that already was used, so I don´t get why he did it this way... This song could had been great, but like this, for me it´s just a copy of a song he already made.
This is the skipper to me in this record. A song that he already has done, "The Fish and the Bird"...
We know that MK uses to file some songs until he finds the correct music for the song, well, in this case, he's using a music that already was used, so I don´t get why he did it this way... This song could had been great, but like this, for me it´s just a copy of a song he already made.
This is the skipper to me in this record. A song that he already has done, "The Fish and the Bird"...
We know that MK uses to file some songs until he finds the correct music for the song, well, in this case, he's using a music that already was used, so I don´t get why he did it this way... This song could had been great, but like this, for me it´s just a copy of a song he already made.
Sorry if I'm asking a stupid question but are you talking about the lyrics or about the music?? In the last case where did you hear the songs as the album Tracker isn't yet out. :wave
I don't know why: but from all of the tracks which are on the album I skip none of them, because I like them (really) all. And now I'm sitting hear listening and keep skipping this one. It's not that I absolutely don't like it.. But, you know.. I don't know. Maybe it has to grow on me. The slide intro is nice though!!
A real snoozefest.
Mark Knopfler has pretty deep lyrics on Tracker, I can't see any song on Privateering (apart from Today Is Okay) which would have this MK touch. Most of them are pretty artificial instead of astistic. I was never getting warm with the Submariner or Kingdom of Gold for example. I went through all the songs of Privateering this afternoon: maybe Seattle and Yon Two Crows have the usual quality. This time, there are some songs on Tracker which immediately reached me not only musically but also lyrically. Mighty Man is one of them.
LE
Who is the man on the picture in the album notes beside the lyrics of Mighty Man?
Who is the man on the picture in the album notes beside the lyrics of Mighty Man?
Nothing to do with fairground or circus.
LE
Mark Knopfler has pretty deep lyrics on Tracker, I can't see any song on Privateering (apart from Today Is Okay) which would have this MK touch. Most of them are pretty artificial instead of astistic. I was never getting warm with the Submariner or Kingdom of Gold for example. I went through all the songs of Privateering this afternoon: maybe Seattle and Yon Two Crows have the usual quality. This time, there are some songs on Tracker which immediately reached me not only musically but also lyrically. Mighty Man is one of them.
LE
Disagree partially.
Haul Away is a very beautiful attempt to put into words the painful inner process of having to endure the death of a close and loved person and the process of finally overcoming it. The doldrums is such a beautiful, soothing and consoling picture for a soul that is in the state of painful paralyzation after the death of a loved one when everything in life comes to a standstill and before eventually the doldrums are overcome and the soul gets the wind again to continue the journey of life. Can it get any deeper than that? The poet is once more a compassionate consoler ("to help people through their days... and through their nights").
One could say similar things about Submariner.
Redbud Tree is existential as well.
Privateering has its very deep moments that are hard to sound the depth of.
The problem with Privateering, for me at least, was that there was no reason for it to be 20 odd songs long - I think we could all make a great 10 track album of our own from the songs - far too many similar blues songs - which themselves recalled previous songs like You Can't Beat the House etc. So the standouts got a bit lost - but when you consider the great songs on the album...Haul Away, Submariner, Radio City, Yon Two Crows, Miss You Blues - they are great and powerful but sit them alongside lots of blues - which sound a little inauthentic - and the power is diluted. The slightly odd thing is that there was much more cause for a double album for this project as the standard of songs is so high - much less so so over the piece on Privateering.Agree a lot with you, to many weak songs for the Privateering double album. It could have been a very very perfect and strong album, if only 12 songs were released as a standard album ;)
The problem with Privateering, for me at least, was that there was no reason for it to be 20 odd songs long - I think we could all make a great 10 track album of our own from the songs - far too many similar blues songs - which themselves recalled previous songs like You Can't Beat the House etc. So the standouts got a bit lost - but when you consider the great songs on the album...Haul Away, Submariner, Radio City, Yon Two Crows, Miss You Blues - they are great and powerful but sit them alongside lots of blues - which sound a little inauthentic - and the power is diluted. The slightly odd thing is that there was much more cause for a double album for this project as the standard of songs is so high - much less so so over the piece on Privateering.
Dream of the Drowned Submariner/Haul Away?
"It’s the same with “Mighty Man,” for instance. It’s from reading about about the navvies who came over to the UK from Ireland and built the whole infrastructure that we have now — the dams and canals, then later on the railways and roads and houses. You name it, they built it. I happened to read a lovely book called “I Could Read the Sky.” It’s beautifully written by Timothy O’Grady, but Steve Pyke plays just as important a role with these wonderful photographs and portraits. It’s a very moving book, and one of the things that this character says he can do is, “I could read the sky.” I didn’t use that line, obviously. I wouldn’t. But the third verse of “Mighty Man” is about him listing the things he could do, like standing up on horseback. That was from “I Could Read the Sky.”(http://www.salon.com/2015/03/28/mark_knopfler_this_getting_older_stuff_ain%E2%80%99t_for_wimps/( Interview by Stephen Deusner)
I just put the informations from the interview to the right song, so that the don't get lost. That's what Mark said about the song:Quote"It’s the same with “Mighty Man,” for instance. It’s from reading about about the navvies who came over to the UK from Ireland and built the whole infrastructure that we have now — the dams and canals, then later on the railways and roads and houses. You name it, they built it. I happened to read a lovely book called “I Could Read the Sky.” It’s beautifully written by Timothy O’Grady, but Steve Pyke plays just as important a role with these wonderful photographs and portraits. It’s a very moving book, and one of the things that this character says he can do is, “I could read the sky.” I didn’t use that line, obviously. I wouldn’t. But the third verse of “Mighty Man” is about him listing the things he could do, like standing up on horseback. That was from “I Could Read the Sky.”(http://www.salon.com/2015/03/28/mark_knopfler_this_getting_older_stuff_ain%E2%80%99t_for_wimps/( Interview by Stephen Deusner)