A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => One Deep River / The Boy => Topic started by: Jules on January 30, 2024, 12:02:00 PM
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Wrong ’un
You're so nonchalant
You could get anyone you want
But he's a wrong 'un
A wrong 'un
He's got a record as long as your arm
Keep your distance and you won't get harmed
He's a wrong 'un, uh-huh
A wrong 'un
Leave him where you found him
Why carry that load?
Leave him where you found him
At the side of the road
Leave him where you found him
Don't let him inside
Leave him where you found him
Hitching a ride
You're kind and beautiful
You could have a man who's cool
But he's a wrong 'un
A wrong 'un
You got to know the way that I feel
You could get a better deal
And he's a wrong 'un, uh-huh
A wrong 'un
Leave him where you found him
Why carry that load?
Leave him where you found him
At the side of the road
Leave him where you found him
Don't let him inside
Leave him where you found him
Hitching a ride
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As a non native speaker (and reader) I never have seen or heard of "' 'un" in any shape or form. No idea what it means. Is it slang for "them" ... "' 'em"?
LE
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It is "one" as in "He is a wrong one" maybe a bad person.
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Typically used to describe a sex offender.
So you would say Harvey Weinstein is a wrong 'un. Or R Kelly is a wrong 'un.
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Okay that helps, thank you very much. Don't know then why it should be about David.
You learn something new every day (especially with MK lyrics)
LE
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Okay that helps, thank you very much. Don't know then why it should be about David.
You learn something new every day (especially with MK lyrics)
LE
I should say it's not only used to describe sex offenders, but that would be the most common usage in my experience.
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You're so nonchalant
You could get anyone you want
But he's a wrong 'un
A wrong 'un
He's got a record as long as your arm
Keep your distance and you won't get harmed
He's a wrong 'un, uh-huh
A wrong 'un
Leave him where you found him
Why carry that load?
Leave him where you found him
At the side of the road
Leave him where you found him
Don't let him inside
Leave him where you found him
Hitching a ride
You're kind and beautiful
You could have a man who's cool
But he's a wrong 'un
A wrong 'un
You got to know the way that I feel
You could get a better deal
And he's a wrong 'un, uh-huh
A wrong 'un
Leave him where you found him
Why carry that load?
Leave him where you found him
At the side of the road
Leave him where you found him
Don't let him inside
Leave him where you found him
Hitching a ride
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A Wrong 'un - A person of bad character..
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Anyone has this already? My boxset hasn't arrived yet...
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Yes, absolutely despise this tune, heard it once and I won't be playing it again. Bland and a non interesting song All round...
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Oh dear. What sort of style is it?
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Country. Sounds like his tele from Prairie Wedding? Repetitive lyrically - too much so for me. Very simple song.
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Oh dear. What sort of style is it?
Who's your baby now ;D
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Oh dear. What sort of style is it?
Who's your baby now ;D
That's the one! :thumbsup
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Heard it now and like it alot! Vinyl tracks as great as cd bonus songs. Taken together a superb 9 song album.
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Heard it now and like it alot! Vinyl tracks as great as cd bonus songs. Taken together a superb 9 song album.
Good job we are all different, this is the only song I do not like. Absolutely detest it!
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I like it. But it would have been better if it wasn't so softly polished.
A gritty Telecaster and less synths. More twangy outlaw country.
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Nice 'un!
Mark's voice similar to the OES days, which I like a lot.
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I like this one! :)
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The hint of Cleaning My Gun in the guitar sound is awesome, those slightly overdriven droney parts in between verses are awesome
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Updated with lyrics, thanks Knopflerfan
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Duplicated thread, this one is older: https://www.amarkintime.org/forum/index.php?topic=8613.0
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A "record as long as his arm": that would be his criminal record, the list of crimes he has committed.
To me, it sounds like someone (maybe a father, uncle or brother?) giving advice to a girl about her lover, who he thinks isn't good for her.
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Makes me think of Amy Winehouse, but could be anybody. It's an age old cliche. "Women love the bad boy". I guess that's why my love life has been so successful over the years ;)
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Makes me think of Amy Winehouse, but could be anybody. It's an age old cliche. "Women love the bad boy". I guess that's why my love life has been so successful over the years ;)
Haha! Good on you, son ;)
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Ba(l)d boy, that is.
LE
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Ba(l)d boy, that is.
LE
Lol
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Bad and bald ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDLLPW20y3U
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Bad and bald ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDLLPW20y3U
Ha ha ha, one of my absolute favourite episodes!
I'll counter with a quote from the "real" George :)
(https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-anyone-can-be-confident-with-a-full-head-of-hair-but-a-confident-bald-man-there-s-your-larry-david-7-25-25.jpg)
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Awesome.
I'm probably more like a diamond in the trough.
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Oh dear. The lost virtue of modesty. :disbelief
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Oh dear. The lost virtue of modesty. :disbelief
Calm yourself, I was being ironic.
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Oh dear. The lost virtue of modesty. :disbelief
Calm yourself, I was being ironic.
Me too. :)
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Oh dear. The lost virtue of modesty. :disbelief
Calm yourself, I was being ironic.
Me too. :)
:)
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As Mark mentioned at the London album launch event, there will have been songs he thought weren't good enough to be published - but "management" insisted.
This might have been one of them. It's not a bad song, but the the sound is really ... I dunno, "amorphous"? They should have listened to Cleaning My Gun before they produced this. Similar (intended) vibe, but so much better. Anyway, to me this sounds like an unfinished job they never thought they'd come back to.
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yes, I'm agree.
Wrong'un is... wrong ;D
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Reminds me a bit of Who's Your Baby Now.
I wonder if he was warning his daughter off a prospective suitor?!
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I know this is an out of the blue kind of thing, but the first time I listened to this song I thought it could be Mark talking to his daughter, telling her to not pick the wrong'uns :)
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The other day listening to the lyrics, I don't know why, I thought this song could be for his daughter Issy, when he broke with his boyfriend, someone who is an actor I can't remember the name, when the last tour, more or less, Issy was posting many pictures with him ane suddenly all of them disappeared and he was never seen again.
What if the song is for Issy and the wrong 'un is his ex boyfriend?
Of course! This cannot be ruled out and Mark will never reveal his inspiration anyway.
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The other day listening to the lyrics, I don't know why, I thought this song could be for his daughter Issy, when he broke with his boyfriend, someone who is an actor I can't remember the name, when the last tour, more or less, Issy was posting many pictures with him ane suddenly all of them disappeared and he was never seen again.
What if the song is for Issy and the wrong 'un is his ex boyfriend?
Don’t know much about the actor (Charlie Field) but I’m reasonably confident he doesn’t have a record as long as his arm. :)
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Does anyone else find the production of this track slightly irritating? I'm a total ignorant when it comes to production technology, and have no idea what they did with the guitar (and everything else) here, but it almost sounds as if someone would be turning the volume up and down.
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I listened to the vinyl bonus songs during Christmas for the first time and I have to say... I absolutely love this one :)... It is simple, but beautiful. But than again, I love mostly everything Mark does :).
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Does anyone else find the production of this track slightly irritating? I'm a total ignorant when it comes to production technology, and have no idea what they did with the guitar (and everything else) here, but it almost sounds as if someone would be turning the volume up and down.
I cannot confirm this and I like the song very much.
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Does anyone else find the production of this track slightly irritating? I'm a total ignorant when it comes to production technology, and have no idea what they did with the guitar (and everything else) here, but it almost sounds as if someone would be turning the volume up and down.
It's an effect, I think is called vibrolux or something like that.
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Tremolo?
LE
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Tremolo?
LE
I'm not an expert but tremolo is something you activate with your hand manually while playing, this is a permanent effect, a kind of reverb that is very typical in a certain type of amps, like the vibrolux.
For example, that's the sound in "the last laugh" guitars. MK and Richard used it in many many other songs
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A whammy bar is also called tremolo arm but adds vibrato to the sound (Hank sound). With a pedal you modulate the sound and add a Tremolo, which was used as you describe in The Last Laugh and this one, Wrong'un.
Vibrato is bending between two notes so to say while tremolo modulates the volume of one note, so to speak.
Guitar players please correct me when I am wrong (un) :wave
LE
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A whammy bar is also called tremolo arm but adds vibrato to the sound (Hank sound). With a pedal you modulate the sound and add a Tremolo, which was used as you describe in The Last Laugh and this one, Wrong'un.
Vibrato is bending between two notes so to say while tremolo modulates the volume of one note, so to speak.
Guitar players please correct me when I am wrong (un) :wave
LE
You're pretty close! Tremolo is usually an effect in the amplifier that, yes, modulates the volume of everything you play a little bit. You can change the speed at which this effect is being used to match the tempo of the song. The best use of this effect, I think, is "Riders On The Storm" by The Doors, tasty guitar playing.
Tremolo is almost like cheating because with this effect, EVERYTHING you play suddenly sounds cool and badass, so it's easy to overdo this effect, I guess.
Also, tremolo is a classical guitar trick where you play a constant stream of notes with index, middle and ring fingers while providing a melody with the thumb, essentially making music "flow" like water. The best example would be "Recuerdos de la Alhambra" which pretty much imitates the water flow inside the famous Spanish palace. My favourite versions are by Chet Atkins and Kazuhito Yamashita.
Overall, tremolo is one of the most controversial terms in music. And I don't like that the term would stick to a whammy bar because it's really closer to vibrato.