(02) Back on the Dance Floor

[Knopflerfan]

Yep, I like it, with a lovely starting rhythm... Its very 'Fresh' and I'm liking the sound. MK certainly steals the show with some lovely guitar playing.. Imelda May on backing vocals is a nice touch..

[vr46mk]

Agree with some comments here...

I was really excited about it when I first heard the guitar during the first part of the song...
The rest? Hmm, it's not awful (MK never is), but it's not "Wow!" either, it's good but not the best one of the album I think...

After the first 1-2 listenings, I thought I'd rate this one higher than GOYS, but it's starting to become the opposite now... just the way it is.
Anyway, happy another single came out before album release.

Now I just want to know my FA seats!!!!

[PensaGhost]

Agree with some comments here...

I was really excited about it when I first heard the guitar during the first part of the song...
The rest? Hmm, it's not awful (MK never is), but it's not "Wow!" either, it's good but not the best one of the album I think...

After the first 1-2 listenings, I thought I'd rate this one higher than GOYS, but it's starting to become the opposite now... just the way it is.
Anyway, happy another single came out before album release.

Now I just want to know my FA seats!!!!

hehe I am rating

Good on you   4/10   (6+ the live version without overproduction)
Dancefloor      7+

[GIUMK]

Agree with some comments here...

I was really excited about it when I first heard the guitar during the first part of the song...
The rest? Hmm, it's not awful (MK never is), but it's not "Wow!" either, it's good but not the best one of the album I think...

After the first 1-2 listenings, I thought I'd rate this one higher than GOYS, but it's starting to become the opposite now... just the way it is.
Anyway, happy another single came out before album release.

Now I just want to know my FA seats!!!!

Well yes, as a first impact GOYS has a more radio-friendly cut compared to BOTDF but, in my opinion, because it has a beginning and an end not of first impact for the general public. However, by making the right cuts, it will work very well even on the radios.

[Love Expresso]

Agree with some comments here...

I was really excited about it when I first heard the guitar during the first part of the song...
The rest? Hmm, it's not awful (MK never is), but it's not "Wow!" either, it's good but not the best one of the album I think...

After the first 1-2 listenings, I thought I'd rate this one higher than GOYS, but it's starting to become the opposite now... just the way it is.
Anyway, happy another single came out before album release.

Now I just want to know my FA seats!!!!

hehe I am rating

Good on you   4/10   (6+ the live version without overproduction)
Dancefloor      7+

7+ is a very good rating. If TR is a 10 and Speedway and 5.15 am are a 8 for me, then there is nothing better than 5 since 2012... it's fresh and new of course  and we are like junkies so we love that there is ANYthing new, but I really doubt that these two songs will played very often in my future.. but it's good enough to not annoy me. I can listen to it as I listen to radio music during household work or stuff like that... it has a good cool mood. I picture cruising through a big city on a warm summer midnight, being cool, party people, heading to the next club...

LE

[dustyvalentino]

Of course you can say it is boring if you find it so - that is personal taste. With this and GOYS I am hoping that there are much better songs on the album - by which I mean I hope there are songs I like much more than these two. If there are not then I will hate the album - but I am 99.9% sure there will be plenty on there I like. The style of the first two songs released is not for me......my favourite Mark songs of recent years? Haul Away, Radio City Serenade, Laugh and Jokes, Lights of Taomina, Heart of Oak, Silver Eagle, My Heart Has Never Changed, Yon Two Crows, Border Reiver, Get Lucky, Montelone, Piper to the End. if you asked everyone on here thier favouite songs from the last few albums everyone would give a different answer and someone's least favourite would be someone elses number one big favourite.

I could have written this myself.

Decidedly underwhelmed by the first two songs and love the ones you mention.

My main issue is with Guy's attempt at "modern" production. Some may think it's "new" and different but frankly I find it forced, contrived and out of place.

Hoping for some better "rootsy" type songs on the album and less of Guy's nonsense.

[Robson]

Sometimes I do not understand. If Mark records similar albums, I read complaints, now we have something new, fresh, I also read complaints. Of course, everyone has their own taste, but I do not understand

[dannr1]

jepp.
 absolutely
It is a cool song. Can work out live very well
and hey---no pipes

would not say boring. Long cool girl and River Towns are more boring to me

River Towns, boring

[regmka]

Sometimes I do not understand. If Mark records similar albums, I read complaints, now we have something new, fresh, I also read complaints. Of course, everyone has their own taste, but I do not understand

Well, I've never asked for something fresh.

+1 to dustyvalentino and Nick14. I really miss those touching songs from Mark. And The Boxer cover shows that Mark is still able to perform such songs. Btw, both GOYS and BOTDS are ok, but I really hope that the rest of the album is more traditional.

[Love Expresso]

Sometimes I do not understand. If Mark records similar albums, I read complaints, now we have something new, fresh, I also read complaints. Of course, everyone has their own taste, but I do not understand

It's simply the fact that it doesn’t matter how well and overloaded something is produced.. when the material is weak it will shine through and all the layers seem like a disguise. Contrary would be a song like Heart of Oak which needs nothing but Mark and a guitar and is so powerful because the song itself is high quality. BOTD is hardly something to expect from a songwriter but.. pop music?

Or: The less confident Mark and Guy are about the material, the more layers they wrap on to it to disguise the weakness.

This is nothing you have to agree with, it's just my opinion.

LE

[Robson]

Sometimes I do not understand. If Mark records similar albums, I read complaints, now we have something new, fresh, I also read complaints. Of course, everyone has their own taste, but I do not understand

It's simply the fact that it doesn’t matter how well and overloaded something is produced.. when the material is weak it will shine through and all the layers seem like a disguise. Contrary would be a song like Heart of Oak which needs nothing but Mark and a guitar and is so powerful because the song itself is high quality. BOTD is hardly something to expect from a songwriter but.. pop music?

Or: The less confident Mark and Guy are about the material, the more layers they wrap on to it to disguise the weakness.

This is nothing you have to agree with, it's just my opinion.

LE

I understand everything but Back On The Dance Floor is not pop music for me. It is a very good composition, well done. With taste, and sounds great.

I am tired of comparisons to Telegraf Road or Speedway At Nazarerth. Mark is looking into the future, he is also changing. He want something new. It's creative

[Love Expresso]

Listening to it right now and having Guy's sentence from today in my mind "If we don’t play it live I'll leave the band.."

It struck me that it really could be a title track on a Guy Fletcher solo album, soundwise, with MK guesting on the guitar. And it would be the best track on the album for sure. It's just not Mark.

I like the chorus singing with Guy's background vocals very much by the way. Shake em all down..

LE

[Robson]

But let's wait. We only know two songs

[Love Expresso]

This song, I agree, is not too bad and I appreciate it much more than let's say play around with stuff in Oklahoma Ponies.. which was just a fun number.of course.
Eagerly awaiting Trapper Man and Drover's Road more than ever. High hopes for good MK material here.

LE

[primi]

I'm not gonna lie. This is a skipper.

It's like Vic&Ray just got groove. But it's still Vic&Ray...

Skipper was the first word that got in my mind, too. Then: "boring". And then: Is this really from the same man who wrote Telegraph Road or Romeo & Juliet or Sailing To Philadelphia?

LE

Definitely a skipper for me. Not surprised though. These days I'm down to 1 or 2 good songs per MK album at best so still plenty to chose from when it comes out. Unless this time I get to zero lol.

Shame because I really had high hopes for this song. They had Imelda May and they came up with this?