A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: DS on February 15, 2018, 12:22:37 AM
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Which are the top songs that give you the shivers? Not your favourite songs, but the ones that give you the strongest emotions for whatever reason.
It's difficult to make a top three, but I'll start:
Romeo and Juliet
Because hell, that's Romeo and Juliet.
Wild West End
I love it. That guitar at the beginning. And I can't stop imagining myself walking through the streets of London as the song progresses. It's a beautiful, peaceful feeling.
Laughs and Jokes
There's something about the story that fascinates me, and also the way he sings it. I especially love the ending lyrics, I don't know why they trigger me so much:
Then the old brass shrugged and said
We don’t know where she’s gone
Later on I picked up the ball
And I took off down the line
I suppose by then I’d realised
You’d run into hard times
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1. Where Do You Think You're Going?
2. Private Investigations
3. Basil
Note: but they may change tomorrow.
Oh, last but not least...
4. River Of Grog
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Great question!
Love Over Gold and Golden Heart for personal reasons. I actually stopped listening to them completely.
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I choose three, in order:
Romeo & Juliet
Love Over Gold
Wild West End
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A place where we used to live
So far from the Clyde
Silver Eagle
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1. So far away
2.I’m the fool
3. Get lucky
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No R&J for me. Not a bad song, but overplayed at any rate. Sick and tired of it.
1) TOL - The martyr song that did not deserve this fate.
2) TR - Best piece of music ever written, and very emotional.
3) BIA - So touching. Especially Wembley 85.
4) Hill farmer's blues. Great solo classic, very emotional.
5) Piper to the end - the new BIA. Awesome.
6) Where do you think you're a going - bitterness classic !
7) Iron Hand - wish it was still played.
8) Long cool girl. Don't know why but this one is very special. Makes me at peace.
9) A place we used to live. Same.
10) Sultans. No really emotional per session, but hearing Alchemy or Wembley end solo gives me shiver every time !
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1) TOL - The martyr song that did not deserve this fate.
:lol
4) Hill farmer's blues. Great solo classic, very emotional.
so true!!
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I have many such emotional songs.
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1) YOU AND YOUR FRIEND is magic song that never stop to hear in years
2) RUDIGER when I listen this song the first time I understand that Mark, even in solo career, would continue to make me dream
3) FOLLOW THE RIBBON this song is very special for me, very special
good thread :wave
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My vote goes to - My Claim To Fame & River Of Grog
Very touching songs, my eyes have been known to get watery! :)
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Piper and My Claim To Fame.
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This is a tough one... But my take is Heart Full Of Holes. The line "I remember the officer's watch In my hand: 'Repair it or die' I was told. It's a wonder to me — I still don't understand why I ever survived to be old with a heart full of holes" ALWAYS gets me even when I just read it. Yes, the "From Cullercoats and Whitley Bay out to rockaway" line from Tunnel Of Love gets me, too. But not always!
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Piper to the End
Brothers in Arms
Where Do You Think You're Going?
So Far From the Clyde
If This is Goodbye
News
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Dire Straits' first album this year is 40 years old so I will only choose tracks from this album. The whole album is amazing but the most emotional for me is:
Water Of Love
"...Once I had a woman I could call my own
Once I had a woman now my woman is gone
Once there was a river now there’s a stone
You know it’s evil when you’re living alone..."
Southbound Again
"Southbound again, last night I felt like crying
Southbound again, last night I felt like crying
Right now I’m sick of living
But I’m going to keep on trying"
In The Gallery
Wild West End
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Forgot to add:
-Dream of a drawned submariner. Only played 4 times live... And I heard one of them in Stuttgart. Awesome.
- Rudiger, yes, the first one than that moved me on the first solo album.
- A night in summer long ago: another touching one, rarely played live, that I had the chance to hear twice in a row in Paris (2010 and 2011).
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Two Skinny Kids is very moving for me, it is kinda nostalgic is such a personal story that actually seems to be about Mark himself and his brother or best friend's love for the Everly Brothers. Very touching, so hope it's on the new record...
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-Remembrance Day
-If this is goodbye
-so far from the clyde
-golden heart
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Wild theme for personnal reasons
A love idea / last exit to Brooklyn / las exit to Brooklyn finale
Tahitian Skies
sons of scotland
metroland theme / down day
where do you think you're going
wild west end
love over gold
angel of mercy live outro in werchter 1981
A place where we used to live
if this is goodbye
All the roadrunning
Dream of a drawned submariner
Radio city serenade
Go love
the ragpicker's dream
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A lot of you chose Wild West End! I thought I would have been the only one, wow! :)
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Wild Theme has already brought me the tears on some occasions. Whistle Theme, Smooching and Wild Mountain Thyme are others that I can not fail to mention, they do not have lyrics, but, the melodies are deep and convivial with me.
Other songs that move me a lot are:
Wild West End (My first musical passion in the DS work.)
Lions (Very engaging too, the rhythm, the atmosphere, starting from the introduction to the end.)
Down to the Waterline
You and Your Friend (There is always a sensual atmosphere)
Love Over Gold
It never rains
Only end of TOL
BIA- (especially the Mandela 1988 version)
Iron Hand (especially the version of Timothy White sessions 1992 and Dublin 23.8.91)
Of the solo career, the one that moves me the most is So Far From the Clyde, the melancholy and metaphor are deep in this.
Sailling to Philadelphia
What it is (studio version or live 2001 with Bonnie, Bonnie Banks O'Loch Lomond)
If this is goodbye
I Dug Up A Diamond (melody and duento between Mark and Richard on guitar)
Dream of a drawned submariner (Another strong song)
Long highway
Are We In Trouble Now
Darling Pretty
The Scaffold's Wife
Remembrance Day
At the moment, these are the ones I remember, they are the unique sensations they bring!
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There are many more, but here is my attempt:
Hand in Hand – an absolute beauty of a melancholy song – from the voice of a young man
Heart Full of Holes – a beautiful melancholy song – from the voice of an older man
Where Do You Think You’re Going? – super powerful; perfectly sums up youth not accepting the inevitable
Our Shangri-La
Romeo and Juliet
Follow the Ribbon
Silver Eagle – just very honestly sung
Let It All Go – abandoned dreams…
Down To The Waterline
Long Cool Girl – the intro is beautiful and sweet – it takes my breath away
Hard Shoulder – pushing through the grief of lost love
The Ragpicker’s Dream
Are We In Trouble Now
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Old Pigweed.
And Follow the Ribbon.
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Brothers in Arms, Are We in Trouble Now, Dream of the Drowned Submariner and Wild Theme from OTN.
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TOL was the song that got me into DS, any live version from 1985 and 1986
Then, BIA was the cause I learnt how to play the guitar, any live version at OES tour with the Pensa/suhr
Are we in trouble (studio )now and walf of life mandela, Sidney or Cleveland
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Hand in Hand – an absolute beauty of a melancholy song – from the voice of a young man
Yes! I love the kind of "boyish" or "naive" touch on the lyrics, definitely one of my favorites. The music is great on that one too.
The most emotional IMHO is probably Love Over Gold.
Out of his solo songs I think Hard Shoulder or A place where we used to live? I think they're great at the understated depressed feeling.
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What about ‚Haul away‘? Think it deserves to be in this list of emotional songs :)
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I was gonna say Les Boys and True Love Will Never Fade, just to see the reactions ;D
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TLWNF is beautiful and will always be important to me.
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"What about ‚Haul away‘? Think it deserves to be in this list of emotional songs"
Yes of course.
"I’m a living man and you’re a cold one
Haul away, haul away for home...
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TLWNF is beautiful and will always be important to me.
That’s a reaction:)
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Reaction for the reaction:)