A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: AKW1987 on January 10, 2015, 12:33:59 PM
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to mark the 20th anniversary of MKs solo career (next year I know) if you had to compile your own "best of" Mark solo compilation you can pick 10 tracks only!!! (solo albums 1996-2012)
1.What It Is
2.Sailing To Philadelphia
3.Why Aye Man
4.Hill Farmers Blues
5.Cannibals
6.Postcards From Paraguay
7.Get Lucky
8.Done With Bonaparte
9.Privateering
10.A Place Where We Used To Live
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10 is s good number. My list differs from yours a lot. But ask me again after Tracker is released. ;)
LE
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10 songs are very little as MK has many records...
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Right but that's the challenge, jbaent. ;D
Here is my try:
1. Darling Pretty
2. What It Is
3. Sailing To Philadelphia
4. Speedway At Nazareth
5. One More Matinee
6. Why Aye Man
7. Fare Thee Well Northumberland
8. Hill Farmer's Blues
9. 5.15 AM
10. Before Gas & TV
And
Long Highway
You Don't Know You're Born
Border Reiver
Hard Shoulder
Get Lucky
Redbud Tree
Occupation Blues
It's not possible. Period. ;)
LE
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1.What It Is
2.Sailing To Philadelphia
3.Why Aye Man
4.Hill Farmers Blues
5.Darling pretty
6.Postcards From Paraguay
7.Speedway at Narareth
8. 05.15 a.m.
9.Boom like that
10.Border Reiver
hmm, most openers, but hey MK has too much good stuff
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1. Darling Pretty
2. What It Is
3. Sailing to Philadelphia
4. Speedway at Nazareth
5. Silvertown Blues
6. Hillfarmer's Blues
7. Marbletown
8. 5.15 am
9. Before Gas & TV
10 Piper to the End
Tooooo many good songs to choose from, it's impossible, really! :)
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1 What it is
2 Done with Bonaparte
3 Sailing to Philadelphia
4 Privateering
5 Postcards from Paraguay
6 Rudiger
7 Darling Pretty
8 Why Aye Man
9 Border Reiver
10 Cannibals
That's my list but I can make another one with many many other songs!!! :thumbsup ;)
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1. Kingdom of Gold
2. What It Is
3. Sailing to Philadelphia
4. Speedway at Nazareth
5. Devil Baby
6. So far from the Clyde
7. 5.15am
8. A Night in Summer Long Ago
9. Yon Two Crows
10 Imelda
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1. Darling Pretty
2. Boom Like That
3. What It Is
4. Everybody Pays
5. A Place Where We Used To Live
6. In The Sky
7. Madame Geneva's
8. Silvertown Blues
9. 5.15 Am
10. Donkey Town
Has been said. 10 songs from the catalog that big, too hard to choose. The man is good song machine :thumbsup
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to be honest:
Darling pretty is perhaps one of the best ones.
The 3 solos in it are killer. Especially live.
Listen to the Vaison Version or Antibes. Wow
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1.) What it is
2.) Why Aye man
3.) Boom like that
4.) Hillfarmer's Blues
5.) Done with Bonaparte
6.) Sailing to Philadelphia
7.) Border Reiver
8.) Speedway at Nazareth
9.) Our Shangri-La
10.) Piper to the end
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10 is pretty hard so gonna have to put 11 just to try and cram em in!!
Remember 11 is the least amount MK has ever released on any of his 7 Albums...(Get Lucky)
1) Darling Pretty - just has to be!!
2) Cannibals
3) Claim to Fame
4) What it is
5) Prairie wedding (Played at our wedding)
6) I used to could
7) You don't know your born (Shadows/Hank influence sound at end)
8) Secondary Waltz (Heard if first at Hay-on-Wye Live!)
9) Our Shangri-La
10) Dream of the drowned submariner
11) Piper to the end (Played at my Fathers Funeral)
Extra bonus Tracks:
* Gator Blood
* Remembrance Day (Heard it when we saw Mark Play this 'Live-ish' in Trafalgar Square)
* True love will never fade
* Get Lucky
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For those who like statistics - I have summarized the up to now (10) posted "best of" Knopfler's solo career on AMIT forum in a small statistic.
HTM
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ms3hzjwqxacxl0/Top%2010%20AMIT.htm?dl=0
EXCEL
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k1pa5h1bse0kx8d/Top%2010%20AMIT.xls?dl=0
Bluebird
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1. Speedway
2. What it is
3. Hill Farmer's
4. Prairie wedding
5. Silvertown
6. Why aye man
7. My Claim to Fame
8. Boom, like that
9. Border reiver
10. Piper
Honourable mention:
Remembrance day
In no particular order.
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1. Golden Heart
2. Darling Pretty
3. What it is
4. Silvertown
5. Speedway
6. 5.15 am
7. Hilfamer
8. So far from the Clyde
9. Submariner
10 Kingdom of Gold.
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Almost impossible not to end up with singles only (some exeptions), but I guess this would sum it up for me. It's probably these 10 songs I would first introduce to anyone who never listened to MK.
1. Darling Pretty
2. What It Is
3. Why Aye Man
4. Wanderlust
5. Speedway at Nazareth
6. Boom, Like That
7. The Trawlerman's Song
8. Silvertown Blues
9. All the Roadrunning
10. Piper to the End
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- What It Is
- Metroland
- Heart Full Of Holes
- Darling Pretty
- Privateering
- Seattle
- So Far From The Clyde
- Sailing To Philadelphia
- Speedway At Nazareth
- In The Sky
Bonus super deluxe tracks:
- Pyroman
- Let's see you
- Silvertown Blues (Live from rehearsals)
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Interesting to think about...
. darling pretty
. imelda
. speedway at nazareth
. silvertown blues
. boom like that
. hot or what
. what it is
. kingdome of gold
. don't you get it
. seattle
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(...now edited in order of likeability)
Oh dear... :)
Some of my favs will hardly make the common MK-fan's list so here goes
1. Gravy Train
2. Cannibals
3. Metroland
4. Corned Beef City
5. What it is (extended version) :thumbsup
6. Why Aye Man
7. My claim to fame
8. Pulling down the ride
9. Darling Pretty
10. I used to could
Just almost made it:
- Donegan's Gone
- Cleaning my gun
- Pyroman (would accordingly have made top 10, had it been released)
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For those who like statistics - I have summarized the up to now (10) posted "best of" Knopfler's solo career on AMIT forum in a small statistic.
HTM
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ms3hzjwqxacxl0/Top%2010%20AMIT.htm?dl=0
EXCEL
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k1pa5h1bse0kx8d/Top%2010%20AMIT.xls?dl=0
Bluebird
Wow! Great effort!
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:smack This is really pissing me off. Just sayin' ::)
1 Speedway at Nazareth
2 5:15 AM
3 Silvertown Blues
4 Hill Farmer's Blues
5 Our Shangri-La
6 Got to Have Something
7 The Trawlerman
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and Metroland.
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1.What It Is
2. Redbud Tree
3. So Far From The Clyde
4. Darling Pretty
5. Boom, Like That
6. Postcards From Paraguay
7. Hill Farmer's Blues
8. Sailing To Philadelphia
9. Speedway At Nazareth
10. The Long Highway
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I can't do this. Agree with Lis ;D ps. i will let you know when i'm ready to post my list.
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YONTWOCROWS, it's not such a big effort. With Excel it is done very quickly.
I was a little bit curious to know which songs are favorites. And how the ranking is. So I made this list.
If some of you are also interested in it, I could update the list from time to time.
I would also like to make such a list of my 10 favourite songs, but I can't decide which one on place 1, place 2 and so on. What I wonder is: so far "Bluebird" :) for example wasn't mentioned, this is one of my favorite songs.
At the moment it looks like this:
Darling Pretty-- ---------------7 x No. 1
What it is----------------------6 x No. 1
Speedway at Nazareth------2 x No. 1
Golden Heart------------------1 x No. 1
Kingdom of Gold--------------1 x No. 1
Here are 3 different versions of updated lists:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/i9z7231isc3vy98/Top%2010%20AMIT%200112%20A.htm?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lcakntbcy15zq7z/Top%2010%20AMIT%200112%20B.htm?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h4jmb5025vnebwa/Top%2010%20AMIT%200112%20C.htm?dl=0
Bluebird
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P*ssin me off too! Just noticed My Claim to Fame to Border Reiver's list and that would be in my top ten for sure. Must edit mine now. :-\
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P*ssin me off too! Just noticed My Claim to Fame to Border Reiver's list and that would be in my top ten for sure. Must edit mine now. :-\
I intend to edit mine too, when I've given it a bit more thought! It's a compliment to MK's songwriting that it's such a hard task! ;)
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Don't think 10 is a fair track list after all it's not a Dire Straits Greatest hits when I would struggle to get 10!!! ;D
I reckon that as MK has never released any less than 11 tracks on any one of his 7 solo 'studio' albums I think we should up the stakes by another track each.....
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YONTWOCROWS, it's not such a big effort. With Excel it is done very quickly.
I was a little bit curious to know which songs are favorites. And how the ranking is. So I made this list.
If some of you are also interested in it, I could update the list from time to time.
I would also like to make such a list of my 10 favourite songs, but I can't decide which one on place 1, place 2 and so on. What I wonder is: so far "Bluebird" :) for example wasn't mentioned, this is one of my favorite songs.
At the moment it looks like this:
Darling Pretty-----------------7 x No. 1
What it is----------------------6 x No. 1
Speedway at Nazareth------2 x No. 1
Golden Heart------------------1 x No. 1
Kingdom of Gold--------------1 x No. 1
Here are 3 different versions of updated lists:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/i9z7231isc3vy98/Top%2010%20AMIT%200112%20A.htm?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lcakntbcy15zq7z/Top%2010%20AMIT%200112%20B.htm?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h4jmb5025vnebwa/Top%2010%20AMIT%200112%20C.htm?dl=0
Bluebird
For the record (no pun intended) I'd like to add that my top 10 are in no particular order. :)
edit... now they are
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Mine wasn't in order of favourites either, just the order of the albums! ;)
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Dmg,
relating to your top 10 I noticed mistakes in my Dropbox lists. So sorry. Before there will come up more problems I think it's better I take the files from my Dropbox.
border-reiver and superval99 - sorry
Bluebird
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Mine is ordered based on how I would put the songs on an album: not in order of favorites but how they work together.
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Almost impossible not to end up with singles only (some exeptions), but I guess this would sum it up for me. It's probably these 10 songs I would first introduce to anyone who never listened to MK.
1. Darling Pretty
2. What It Is
3. Why Aye Man
4. Wanderlust
5. Speedway at Nazareth
6. Boom, Like That
7. The Trawlerman's Song
8. Silvertown Blues
9. All the Roadrunning
10. Piper to the End
Hello Maxx it's exactly what I did for a friend of mine who did not know MK's song and now she is interested maybe to come along with me in June to see him perform in Paris..
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Mine is ordered based on how I would put the songs on an album: not in order of favorites but how they work together.
I did the same.
@Bluebird: But i'm still very interested in the list. It's really difficult to decide which 10 tracks to choose, it's nearly impossible to put them into an order of importance. But I'm for example interested which song gets the most hits, which songs onl a few. And your list is very helpful. There are interesting votes. I decided due the votes to listen to e.g. wanderlust and metroland again.
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1. Darling pretty
2. Baloney again
3. The ragpickers dream
4. Everybody pays
5. Donkeytown
6. Madame Geneva
7. Get lucky
8. Radio City serenade
9. Today is ok
10. Metroland
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1. Silvertown blues
2. Gravy train
3. Yon two crows
4. Camerado
5. Madame Geneva's
6. Marbletown
7. Coyote
8. Border reiver
9. This is us
10. Don't you get it
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1. Silvertown blues
2. Gravy train
3. Yon two crows
4. Camerado
5. Madame Geneva's
6. Marbletown
7. Coyote
8. Border reiver
9. This is us
10. Don't you get it
Nice list! :)
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1. Silvertown blues
2. Gravy train
3. Yon two crows
4. Camerado
5. Madame Geneva's
6. Marbletown
7. Coyote
8. Border reiver
9. This is us
10. Don't you get it
Nice list! :)
Next setlist for Manchester. ;)
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One by one for me :
So I start with :
1 Are We in trouble Now
2 Silvertown Blues
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Well, it's been a while.. With a new album on the way stirring new enthusiasm.
Always difficult to choose best of's, especially 10; takes hours, not minutes...
1. What it is
2. Sailing to Philadelphia
3. Corned Beef City
4. A Place Where we Used to Live
5. I Used to Could
6. Don't You Get It
7. Back to Tupelo
8. Radio City Serenade
9. In the Sky
10. Piper to the End