A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: OklahomaPonies on December 01, 2023, 12:00:05 PM
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long time lurker, first time poster (so I hope I'm not breaking any forum rules posting this here!). we're obviously all big MK fans so I thought it would be interesting to see how similar or how different our tastes are within that.
the rules are simple: pick your favourite song from each MK solo album, and then rank the albums starting with your most favourite. simple, but maybe not easy... studio bonus tracks are allowed, but live bonus tracks are not.
discussion welcomed but please no hating on anyone for their choices, this is just meant to be a bit of light-hearted fun!
I'll start:
GH - Nobody's Got The Gun
STP - Silvertown Blues
TRD - Hill Farmer's Blues
SL - 5:15 am
KTGC - The Fizzy And The Still
GL - Border Reiver
P - Miss You Blues
T - Oklahoma Ponies
DTRW - Trapper Man
Albums: STP, SL, GL, P, TRD, T, DTRW, KTGC, GH
some of my earliest childhood memories are playing STP on repeat on my parents' CD player when I was about 3 years old so it's a very special album to me (:
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GH - Are We In Trouble Now
STP - Sailing to Philadelphia
TRD - Hill Farmer's Blues
SL - Boom Like That
KTGC - Heart Full Of Holes
GL - Border Reiver
P - Follow The Ribbon
T - Long Cool Girl
DTRW - My Bacon Roll
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GH - Don't you get it
STP - Silvertown blues
TRD - A place where we used to live
SL - The trawlerman's song
KTGC - In the Sky
GL - Get Lucky
P - Seattle
T - Basil
DTRW - One song at a time
Albums: SL GL KTGC STP T GH P DTRW TRD
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GH - Are We In Trouble Now
STP - Silvertown Blues
TRD - Fare Thee Well Northumberland
SL - 5.15 am
KTGC - We Can Get Wild
GL - Piper To The End
P - Yon Two Crows
T - Basil
DTRW - Drover's Road
Albums: SL, Tracker, KTGC, GL, TRD, GH, STP, DTRW
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GH Done With Bonaparte
STp: Speedway
TrD: Old Pigweed
SHANGRI la: Sucker Row
KTGC: Behind with the rent
GL: Piper
PRIVATEERING: yon two crows
TRACKER: laughs and Jokes
DTRW: Pale Imitation
SL, privateering, Get Lucky, Sailing, Kill to get crimson, golden heart, ragpicker, tracker, DTRW
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GH - Vic and Ray
STP - Wanderlust
TRD - Fare thee well Northumberland
SL - Song for Sonny Liston
KTGC - Scaffolder's wife
GL - Hard shoulder
P - Radio City Serenade
T - Basil
DTRW - Nobody does that
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GH: Darling Pretty
STP: Speedway at Nazareth
RPD: A Place Where We Used to Live
SL: Everybody Pays
ATRR: Beyond My Wildest Dreams
KTGC: Behind with the Rent
GL: So Far from the Clyde
P: Today Is Okay
T: Lights of Taormina
DTRW: Back on the Dance Floor
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GH: Darling Pretty
STP: Sailing to Philadelphia
RPD: Hillfarmer
SL: Postcards
ATRR: Rollin' on
KTGC: We can get wild
GL: Border Reiver
P: Kindom of Gold
T: Basil
DTRW: Nobody's Child
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At the moment:
GH - Are We in Trouble Now
STP - Sands Of Nevada
RPD - A Place Where We Used To Live
SL - Back To Tupelo
KTGC - Heart Full Of Holes
GL- Before Gas And TV
P - Redbud Tree and Bluebird
T - Basil
DTRW - Drover's Road
Tomorrow may be different ;)
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GH - Darling Pretty
STP - What It Is
TRD - Why Aye Man
SL - Boom Like That
KTGC - Let It All Go
GL - Piper to the End
P - Privateering
T - Laughs and Jokes and Drinks and Smokes
DTRW - One song at a time
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GH - Are We In Trouble Now
STP - Sailing To Philadelphia
TRPD - Old Pigweed
SL - 5:15 am
KTGC - We Get Wild
GL - So Far From The Clyde
P - Follow the Ribbon
T - Lights of Taormina
DTRW - Matchstick Man
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It's quite difficult to choose just one song because I love so many more songs from each album.
As Robson mentioned, tomorrow could be different.
But let's try it for today. ;)
GH – Are We In Trouble Now
STP – What It Is
RPD – Old Pigweed
SL – The Trawlerman's Song
KTGC – The Fish And The Bird
GL – Cleaning My Gun
P – Yon Two Crows
T – Lights Of Taormina
DTRW – Every Heart In The Room
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GH – Darling Pretty
STP – Prairie Wedding
RPD – Fare thee well northumberland
SL – Sucker Row
KTGC – heart full of holes
GL – before gas and tv
P – blood and water
T – beryl
DTRW – my bacon roll
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1. GH / Gravy Train
2. STP / What it is (Mexico extended version ;D)
6. RPD / Why Aye Man
8. SL / Song for Sonny Liston
9. KTGC / The Fish and the Bird
4. GL / Cleaning my gun
3. P / Corned beef city
5. T / Oklahoma ponies
7. DTRW / One song at a time
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1. GH / Gravy Train
2. STP / What it is (Mexico extended version ;D)
6. RPD / Why Aye Man
8. SL / Song for Sonny Liston
9. KTGC / The Fish and the Bird
4. GL / Cleaning my gun
3. P / Corned beef city
5. T / Oklahoma ponies
7. DTRW / One song at a time
No Border Reiver, Border Reiver?
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1. GH / Gravy Train
2. STP / What it is (Mexico extended version ;D)
6. RPD / Why Aye Man
8. SL / Song for Sonny Liston
9. KTGC / The Fish and the Bird
4. GL / Cleaning my gun
3. P / Corned beef city
5. T / Oklahoma ponies
7. DTRW / One song at a time
No Border Reiver, Border Reiver?
Haha! As stated before. First places come and go. :)
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Good one.
Here's mine:
GH: Rudiger
STP: Sands Of Nevada
RPD: Hill Farmer Blues
SL: Postcards From Paraguay (better than any live version)
KTGC: Heart Full Of Holes
GL: Border Reiver
P: Privateering
T: Laughs And Jokes And Drinks And Smokes
DTRW: When You Leave
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Difficult task, usually this:
GH: Nobody's Got The Gun
STP: Wanderlust
RPD: A Place Where We Used to Live
SL: Boom Like That
KTGC: Scaffolder's wife
GL: So Far from the Clyde
P: Yon Two Crows
T: Basil
DTRW: When You Leave
When I finished I noticed that in my choices, only 3 were played live, I made the choice thinking about them in their studio versions.
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GH: What Have I Got To Do
STP: What It Is
RPD: A Place Where We Used to Live
SL: 5:15am
KTGC: True Love Will Never Fade
GL: Monteleone
P: Occupation Blues
T: Lights of Taormina
DTRW: Sky and Water (Unless we can include Precious Voice From Heaven)
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GH - are we in trouble now
StP - silvertown blues
Rpd- marbletown
SL - back to Tupelo
ATRR - This is us
Ktgc- punish the monkey
GL - Cleaning my gun
P - corned beef city
T - broken bones
Dtrw - back on the dancefloor
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GH : Are we in trouble now
STP : Baloney Again
TRD : A Place Where We Used To Live
SL : 5.15 a.m.
ATRR : Rollin’ On
KTGC : Behind with the rent
GL : So Far From The Clyde
P : Redbud Tree
T : Silver Eagle
DTRW : One Song At A Time
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LH - Stargazing
CAJ - A Fistful of Ice cream (that i now realise is Private Investigation revisited?)
C - The long road
TPB - Storybook love
LETB - A Love idea
N&N - There'll be some changes made
GH - My Claim to Fame
WTD - Just instinct
M - She's gone
STP - Long Highway
ASAG - Four in a row
TRD - Old Pigweed
SL - Don'T crash the ambulance
ATRR - Dug up a diamond
RLR - All that matters
KTGC - Madame Geneva's
GL - So Far from the Clyde
P - Follow The Ribbon
Altamira - Altamira
T - Lights of Taormina
DTRW - One song at the time
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LH - Stargazing
CAJ - A Fistful of Ice cream (that i now realise is Private Investigation revisited?)
C - The long road
TPB - Storybook love
LETB - A Love idea
N&N - There'll be some changes made
GH - My Claim to Fame
WTD - Just instinct
M - She's gone
STP - Long Highway
ASAG - Four in a row
TRD - Old Pigweed
SL - Don'T crash the ambulance
ATRR - Dug up a diamond
RLR - All that matters
KTGC - Madame Geneva's
GL - So Far from the Clyde
P - Follow The Ribbon
Altamira - Altamira
T - Lights of Taormina
DTRW - One song at the time
I don't think that A Fistful of Ice cream is Private Investigation revisited, I rather think it's the contrary...
I think that A Fistful of Ice cream was the first arrangement Mark had for the song. In the Oldfield book, he talks about a "melody in italian cinema style".
So I think he had this kind of melody in head first.
Then, he composed PI and changed it a little bit, adding the News outro from OL tour
and then, after, when he recorded the Comfort & Joy soundtrack, he came up again with his first idea of the music
well, of course, it's just speculation ...
https://textes-blog-rock-n-roll.fr/une-chanson-a-la-loupe-private-investigations-de-dire-straits/#Lorigine_du_morceau
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"I wrote a melody in the style of Ennio Morricone and performed it myself on acoustic guitar because I wasn't working with a band at the time. I had another piece in the same key, so I combined them. I didn't develop any songwriting method. This time I simply combined two pieces that happened to fit together"
MK
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"I wrote a melody in the style of Ennio Morricone and performed it myself on acoustic guitar because I wasn't working with a band at the time. I had another piece in the same key, so I combined them. I didn't develop any songwriting method. This time I simply combined two pieces that happened to fit together"
MK
excatly :thumbsup
the french translation of the book don't say "Morricone", but rather "italian movie music style"
and indeed, the 2nd part of A fistul of icecream sounds very much mediterranean style
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Yeah, but to be honest, Mark's "Last Exit To Brooklyn" sounds way more like Morricone, down to a direct lifting of the part of the melody from Morricone's "Once Upon a Time in the West" as a little homage I think.
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Yeah, but to be honest, Mark's "Last Exit To Brooklyn" sounds way more like Morricone, down to a direct lifting of the part of the melody from Morricone's "Once Upon a Time in the West" as a little homage I think.
Last exit to Brooklyn is very similar to Cavalleria rusticana's intermezzo.
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Yeah, but to be honest, Mark's "Last Exit To Brooklyn" sounds way more like Morricone, down to a direct lifting of the part of the melody from Morricone's "Once Upon a Time in the West" as a little homage I think.
Last exit to Brooklyn is way too similar to Cavalleria rusticana's intermezzo.
yes indeed
https://textes-blog-rock-n-roll.fr/last-exit-to-brooklyn-une-b-o-de-mark-knopfler-qui-sortait-il-y-a-30-ans/
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no one commenting on the fact that i tried to incorporate ALL MK "albums"?
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no one commenting on the fact that i tried to incorporate ALL MK "albums"?
No, it's just normal Pottel behaviour :P
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no one commenting on the fact that i tried to incorporate ALL MK "albums"?
No, it's just normal Pottel behaviour :P
Then my normal behaviour would be to say why not include all the DS albums as well as it was pretty much all solo MK anyway? :lol
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GH - Are We in Trouble Now
STP - Sailing to Philadelphia
TRD - You Don’t Know You’re Born
SL - Our Shangri-La
KTGC - Let It All Go
GL - So Far from the Clyde
P - Dream of the Drowned Submariner
T - Silver Eagle
DTRW - One Song At A Time
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no one commenting on the fact that i tried to incorporate ALL MK "albums"?
No, it's just normal Pottel behaviour :P
Yes, typical attention seeking from Pottel, best ignored ;)
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no one commenting on the fact that i tried to incorporate ALL MK "albums"?
No, it's just normal Pottel behaviour :P
Yes, typical attention seeking from Pottel, best ignored ;)
i know it may not look/sound/smell like it, but you know, i got me some feels too you know!
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Lolz
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GH: Vic and Ray
STP: Silvertown Blues
TRD: Hill Farmer's Blues
SL: 5:15 AM
KTGC: Behind With the Rent
GL: Border Reiver
P: Privateering
T: River Towns
DTRW: Back On the Dance Floor
This was harder than I expected. Ask me tomorrow and the list would surely be different.
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GH: Don't You Get It
STP: One More Matinee
TRD: Fare Thee Well Northumberland
SL: 5.15 am
KTGC: We Can Get Wild
GL: Before Gas & TV
P: Seattle
T: Basil
DTRW: My Bacon Roll
This was a pretty easy no-brainer.. :lol
LE
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GH: Vic And Ray
STP: El Macho
TRD: A Place Where We Used To Live
SL: Back To Tupelo
KTGC: Fizzy And the Still
GL: Border Reiver
P: Go Love
T: Long Cool Girl
DTRW: Back On the Dance Floor (this is one of the coolest songs Mark has written, ever)
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GH: A night in Summer Long Ago
STP: Speedway at Nazareth
TRD: Fare Thee Well Northumberland
SL: 5.15am (pleased to see a lot of love for this track in this thread.)
KTGC: Secondary Waltz
GL: Border Reiver
P: Seattle
T: Laughs and Jokes
DTRW: Good on You Son
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DTRW: Back On the Dance Floor (this is one of the coolest songs Mark has written, ever)
Absolutely! A cool song by a cool guy. 8)
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DTRW: Back On the Dance Floor (this is one of the coolest songs Mark has written, ever)
Absolutely! A cool song by a cool guy. 8)
I'm just thinking how this would have sounded live, especially 15-20 years ago, when he had more energy and "presence". I think it would have killed live.
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Here are mine:
Are We In Trouble Now
What It Is
Hill Farmer's Blues
5.15 AM
In The Sky
Piper To The End
Radio City Serenade
Terminal Of Tribute To
Trapper Man
Almost good enough for Desert Island Discs ;)
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Done with Bonaparte
Speedway
Devil Baby
5.15am
Donkey Town
Madame Genevas
Monteleone
Yon two crows
Basil
Matchstick Man
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GH: Done with Bonaparte
STP: Speedway at Nazareth
TRD: Hill Farmer's Blues
SL: 5.15am
KTGC: We can get wild
GL: So far from the Clyde
P: Kingdom of gold
T: Lights of Taormina
DTRW: Trapper man
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GH: Done with Bonaparte
STP: Silvertown blues
TRD: Why Aye Man
SL: Postcards from Paraguay
KTGC: Punish the Monkey
GL: So far from the Clyde
P: Privateering
T: Lights of Taormina
DTRW: One song at a time