A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: foma on April 03, 2014, 11:10:40 PM
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Hey all my fellow get-a-lifers. You know I love lists and I wonder once, how many songs Mark has written up to date? There are many collections, but they lack numbers.
So I decided to do a research. UPDATED 06 April 2014 (12 new changes).
All the DS songs (officially released as Dire Straits):
(http://cs540105.vk.me/c614620/v614620999/9487/vzACjMk6uUs.jpg)
Total: 60
All the MK solo songs (officially released + DS days + couple of co-written tunes + soundtrack songs):
(http://cs540105.vk.me/c614620/v614620999/9480/g7mQxzuZM0c.jpg)
Total: 140
All the MK instrumental music:
(http://cs540105.vk.me/c614620/v614620999/913d/WacMGn4I2gY.jpg)
Total: 68 *Double 'The Rocks And The Thunder' tune is not the typo (check original CD), but counts like one tune anyway :)
All the MK unreleased songs:
(http://cs540105.vk.me/c614620/v614620999/8f8a/zbYiqu45Hq4.jpg)
Total: 16
Overall total: 284 tunes, 200 complete songs (words + music).
Longest DS+MK lyrics: Industrial Disease
Longest MK solo lyrics: Song For Sonny Liston
Shortest DS lyrics: How Long
Shortest DS+MK lyrics: Say Too Much :lol
Size of the all MK and DS lyrics: ~0,2 MB
What did I missed or did wrong? I'll correct all my faults. Let's do the complete and spot-on statistics :)
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Wow ! This is a great list. What an effort ! Love it :)
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Woo. Get a lifers assemble!
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Whoops, I accidentally put Eastbound Train both to released and unreleased songs. Fixed.
Yes, I think great name for this is 'Get-A-Life In Songs'. I love to find answers for the most ridiculous questions. Biggest lyrics? How many songs?
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Two brothers and a stranger from the color of money soundtrack is missing
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Yep, fixed. Not sure at all with DS songs list as well as with all others :lol
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;D
Whoops, I accidentally put Eastbound Train both to released and unreleased songs. Fixed.
Yes, I think great name for this is 'Get-A-Life In Songs'. I love to find answers for the most ridiculous questions. Biggest lyrics? How many songs?
Rio
' Get-A-Life in Songs' >:( ;D
Do you want to consider MK - collaborations in the list?
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Well done, foma! :clap :clap :clap
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Nice work! :) It would have been something if the list of "All the MK unreleased songs" was the track list for his upcoming album, or maybe the track list of disc 2, where disc 1 contains only new songs... ::)
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59 + 137 = 196
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Oh, and it's called Miss You Blues, not Miss Your Blues. ;)
LE
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I was delighted to obtain the original Sultans vinyl single at Christmas ( I gave it to my wife, but amazingly she said you might enjoy this more than i... Ok I said.. )
Hearing the different sultans mix + eastbound train pumping through my phono amp was terrific.
Great work, yet again foma.
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Still in the soundtracks section, Fistful of ice cream from Comfort & Joy is missing ! (and what a beautiful track!!!)
The "Robbie the reindeer in the hooves of fire" soundtrack was written by MK, not released as an album and the final song The other side of the moon can be listed in the MK songs section too!
I think I love you too much is a DS song rather than a MK song as it was released in the Knebworth album (1990).
In the Neck and Neck album, MK is credited in There'll be some changes made though it's a cover but the lyrics make references to Money for nothing...
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Correct 'Miss Your Blues'
Add 'A Fistful Of Ice Cream'
Correct upper-case I in 'I Dug Up A DIamond'
Recalculate the total
Done, but actually 'A Fistful Of Ice Cream' was on the list! On the first place :)
The Other Side of The Moon is in MK list, too.
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And the most cool thing is
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Correct 'Miss Your Blues'
Add 'A Fistful Of Ice Cream'
Correct upper-case I in 'I Dug Up A DIamond'
Recalculate the total
Done, but actually 'A Fistful Of Ice Cream' was on the list! On the first place :)
The Other Side of The Moon is in MK list, too.
I hadn't read the list carefully ... Great job Foma !
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Nice!
I Think I Love You Too Much
Seeing In The Dark
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Exactly, I forgot Seeing In The Dark. Done.
Also added Metroland instrumental, just for the beauty of it. Look at these straight rows :)
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Well done, coma! :clap :clap :clap
That autocorrect spelling made me lol (see above)! :o
That's foma with an "F." ;)
Great list by the way - what a work gone into this.
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I love the list :D Maybe one of the other editors can make a section on the site to have it as an item there as well as here in the forum ;D
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Amazing list! Great work Foma! :clap
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Do not be shocked!;D The following titles have MK officially registered as writer. Some titles are clearly works in progession, like "You win some", probably an early version of "Get lucky". But there are some interesting things in this list, hope some floks round here know more...
A CUT ABOVE THE REST
A SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION
A STATE OF MIND
AMOUREUX
COSMIC SQUARE DANCE
CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO DIE
DID YOU COME
DO WHAT YOU WANNA
DON'T MEAN A THING
ECOLE DU ROCK N ROLL A
FLASHING FOR MONEY
FOR THE WANT OF SOMETHING BETTER
FRENCH CRICKET
GET BUSY
HARD WORK
HOMETIME CUES
HONKY TONK FEVER
HOOVES OF FIRE
I DIDN'T EXPECT THERE TO BE YOU
I HOPE THAT I DIDN'T
I LOVE, YOU LOVE
I'LL SEE YOU THEN
I'M DOING BETTER NOW
IT'S WHAT I WANT
JONI'S A WAITRESS
LAST SHIP
LETTING GO
LIMO
MARKIN' TIME
MY OWN VIDEO
MY STREET
NO TRUCKS OUT
NOT IN THE FRAME
ON RAGLAN ROAD
ONE OLD SHOE
OVERNIGHT SENSATION
RELAX
SERIOUS SHIT
SO WHY DIDN'T YOU STAY IN PARIS?
SONGS FOR SWANS
THE HOUSE ON TOP OF THE HILL
THE WATER IS WIDE
TONI'S JEALOUS OF ME
VOUS AVEZ DU FEU
WALK ON DOWN THAT ROAD
YOU WIN SOME
YOU'RE NOT EVEN GONE
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I'll take Coma as my pseudonym lol! Yes, it took a while, especially to get all the lyrics right and in one place.
Interesting list mschaap. GET BUSY, HOOVES OF FIRE, OVERNIGHT SENSATION released officially as far as I know.
I laughed hard at MARKIN' TIME song :lol ON RAGLAN ROAD clearly is not MK's song.
Added approx. size of all MK lyrics (just ~200 kilobytes).
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COSMIC SQUARE DANCE : I believe it's a title on a Chet Atkins record where MK appears, but I don't know if he wrote this track.
FLASHING FOR MONEY : a kind of disco-techno track (by "Deep dish vs dire straits") with a MFN sample
RELAX : a track by Deetah with a Why Worry sample
I LOVE LOVE YOU : a track by John Legend with a TOL sample
ONE OLD SHOE : unreleased track from Wag the Dog ?(I remember when in 1997 or 98 I came on a university connected computer searching for MK news and I read on a site that MK was working on the WTD soundtrack and a song called One Old Shoe was mentioned).
The french titles (or refering to France) could be tracks left out from Metroland ?
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Great lists foma and mschaap! I did notice The Water is Wide on the last list. That one isn't MK's either, it was first published in, I think, about 1906 - a bit before his time! ;D Cosmic Square Dance is listed on Chet Atkins album Stay Tuned, by Wikipedia, as being written by Atkins, MK, and Paul Yandell.
I have wondered about some of these songs, so it is great to finally see them all in a list. :thumbsup
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ONE OLD SHOE : unreleased track from Wag the Dog ?(I remember when in 1997 or 98 I came on a university connected computer searching for MK news and I read on a site that MK was working on the WTD soundtrack and a song called One Old Shoe was mentioned).
isn't it the song sung by Willie Nelson in the movie ?
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Nice!
I Think I Love You Too Much
Seeing In The Dark
I'd say that seeing in the dark is not really an MK tune, but rather an adaptation of dark was the night, cold was the ground
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Foma, you could add a section with the few songs MK covered !
On raglan road, The Lily of the west, Lost on the river, You win again, Wonderful world, Restless farewell, Baby let's play house, Blue moon of Kentucky, Seeing in the dark, Wild mountain thyme (A Shot At Glory soundtrack)
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The song "Good Old Shoe" was performed by Willie Nelson in "Wag the Dog", but according to IMDB.com it was written by Edgar Winter. The official soundtrack only contained songs written by MK.
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I would only take in "real" songs. I even have problems with the ones in the unknown section - maybe they are just not more than a name only... same goes with the long latest list, only song titles that are saved, not sure if they really do exist.
The idea of a statistic section is really great! Really valuable and would make AMIT even more worth visiting..
And we had the sheet with the complete tour statistics from last year, all songs, played how often etc. That one could be added, too!
LE
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Great job.
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Great work!
One small correction: it's The Rocks And The Water, not The Rocks And Water ;)
Oh and Fireswamp instead of Firesqamp :p
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Wow. great work. Love this list.
I've often wondered how many songs MK had done, but I always thought it might be more like 400-500,
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That's a real serious piec of work!
Congratulations, Foma!
Never heard of "Seeing in the dark", what is it?
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Thank you Hugo! These a HUGE corrections, will do.
Swing In The Dark is a soundtrack for a little documentary about astronomy.
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One little mistake I found: You have 'The Dream of the Drowned Submariner" listed as "The Sream of the Drowned Submariner"
Other than that, quite an impressive list.
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Wow! Quite impressive how you gyus able to find out such a small mistakes. Thank you Sailtekxo!
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Updated with recent corrections.
I just realised on Local Hero soundtrack we have TWO 'The Rocks and the Thunder', tracks 6 and 13. Kinda strange but I included both in the list so it's not to interrupt the beauty of the perfect rows :lol
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That's a real serious piec of work!
Congratulations, Foma!
Never heard of "Seeing in the dark", what is it?
It's a PBS documentary about astronomy which MK made the score for. Heavily inspired by the blues classic 'Dark was the night cold was the ground". Not entirely a coincidence since that song is on the golden disc onboard the Voyager, sent into infinity (?) for other faraway galaxies.
The documentary can be seen here:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yKDjSCx-8g8
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long highway? did i somehow miss it in the list? great list...
now we need that in excel, with the perfomances going from left to right, and then simply cross when which song was played, et voila!!!
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It's THE long highway. I love articles lol :)
Yes, would be great to merge two lists together.
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- "Everybody's Pay To Play"? :think don't you mean Everybody Pays?
- "Whoop De Doo" instead of "Whoop Dee Doo"
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- "Everybody's Pay To Play"? I think don't you mean Everybody Pays?
- "Whoop De Doo" instead of "Whoop Dee Doo"
Thank you Hugo! Again and again. Updated.
Maybe I can somehow highlight songs played live? It's easier than to merge lists, as I think.
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Hey all my fellow get-a-lifers. You know I love lists and I wonder once, how many songs Mark has written up to date? There are many collections, but they lack numbers.
So I decided to do a research. UPDATED 05 April 2014.
All the DS songs (officially released as Dire Straits):
(http://cs540105.vk.me/c614620/v614620999/8fb8/Ya5tAH5peUE.jpg)
Total: 60
All the MK solo songs (officially released + DS days + couple of co-written tunes + soundtrack songs):
(http://cs540105.vk.me/c614620/v614620999/9156/fmh2sYICcqQ.jpg)
Total: 136
All the MK instrumental music:
(http://cs540105.vk.me/c614620/v614620999/913d/WacMGn4I2gY.jpg)
Total: 68 *Double 'The Rocks And The Thunder' tune is not the typo (check original CD), but counts like one tune anyway :)
All the MK unreleased songs:
(http://cs540105.vk.me/c614620/v614620999/8f8a/zbYiqu45Hq4.jpg)
Total: 16
Overall total: 280 tunes, 196 complete songs (words + music).
Longest DS+MK lyrics: Industrial Disease
Longest MK solo lyrics: Song For Sonny Liston
Shortest DS lyrics: How Long
Shortest DS+MK lyrics: Say Too Much :lol
Size of the all MK and DS lyrics: ~0,2 MB
What did I missed or did wrong? I'll correct all my faults. Let's do the complete and spot-on statistics :)
wow..so scary and so good at the same time ;)
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hey foma, got this thing as an xlsx file, or txt? then we can get that max list started...
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Hello foma, I compared your list with mine and I've discovered three songs that I've forgotten. Because of your list, could it be that "Speedway at Nazareth", "Junkie Doll" and "Wild Mountain Thyme" from A Shot At Glory are missing? You might have noticed that already. Otherwise, my and your list contain the same songs.
I've collected songs (at the moment 94) written by other artists, where MK is playing guitar and/or is singing. If anyone is interested, please contact me.
I hope what I'm doing here is OK. I have very little experience with internet forums.
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I don't know how drunk I had to be to forgot Junkie Doll and Speedway, but this is ridiculous.
Thank you for pointing this out. I updated the list again, now MK Solo have three rows :)
Wild Mountain Thyme is not MK tune, as far as I know.
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Wonder how imperfect this list could be? Check out this:
Hot Of That
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I don't know how drunk I had to be to forgot Junkie Doll and Speedway, but this is ridiculous.
Thank you for pointing this out. I updated the list again, now MK Solo have three rows :)
Wild Mountain Thyme is not MK tune, as far as I know.
wild mountain theme
txt can be opened as excel, easy peasy.
send it to me, i will add the dates, see how i can get it started, maybe we can make it a forum effort, spreading the workload over a few volunteers?
up to 2008 (including we are talking some 1610 shows, split it up and it becomes far less of a gargantuan task
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Does anyone know if 'Dark was the night cold was the ground' by MK is somehow available as music only audio file? I mean apart from just being in the background in the documentary DVD Seeing In The Dark.
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Great work! Bravo!
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does anyone have an up to date excel (or other) overview of all MK/DS and others concerts ever played?
want to use that as a starting base, together with Foma's song overview.
to get to a "what was played where and when" overview.
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I tried to create such an overview a while ago, see here:
http://oneverybootleg.nl/tourdates.htm
As far as I know, it is the complete overview, but in case I missed anything, all corrections are welcome :)
Jeroen
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Hey Jeroen, although I visit your site quite often, I never was aware of this! Great list indeed! (And interesting for me to see that the first time MK ever played in Germany was in Hamburg, Sporthalle in May 1978.. )
Kudos to you for this big amount of work!
LE
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i know jeroen, but do you have this as a file? excel, word, csv, access??
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Hey Jeroen, although I visit your site quite often, I never was aware of this! Great list indeed! (And interesting for me to see that the first time MK ever played in Germany was in Hamburg, Sporthalle in May 1978.. )
Kudos to you for this big amount of work!
LE
and i did not know that the first show outside of the uk was in belgium, a lot of them actually.
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Sorry, I don't have it in a separate file, I guess you have to copy-paste.
Good luck! :)
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Thanks guys for all your effort. Amazing lists!
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Hey all my fellow get-a-lifers. You know I love lists and I wonder once, how many songs Mark has written up to date? There are many collections, but they lack numbers.
So I decided to do a research. UPDATED 06 April 2014 (12 new changes).
All the DS songs (officially released as Dire Straits):
(http://cs540105.vk.me/c614620/v614620999/9487/vzACjMk6uUs.jpg)
Total: 60
All the MK solo songs (officially released + DS days + couple of co-written tunes + soundtrack songs):
(http://cs540105.vk.me/c614620/v614620999/9480/g7mQxzuZM0c.jpg)
Total: 140
All the MK instrumental music:
(http://cs540105.vk.me/c614620/v614620999/913d/WacMGn4I2gY.jpg)
Total: 68 *Double 'The Rocks And The Thunder' tune is not the typo (check original CD), but counts like one tune anyway :)
All the MK unreleased songs:
(http://cs540105.vk.me/c614620/v614620999/8f8a/zbYiqu45Hq4.jpg)
Total: 16
Overall total: 284 tunes, 200 complete songs (words + music).
Longest DS+MK lyrics: Industrial Disease
Longest MK solo lyrics: Song For Sonny Liston
Shortest DS lyrics: How Long
Shortest DS+MK lyrics: Say Too Much :lol
Size of the all MK and DS lyrics: ~0,2 MB
What did I missed or did wrong? I'll correct all my faults. Let's do the complete and spot-on statistics :)
hey foma, can you send this to me in a format like excel, csv or word???
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Nice work Foma and Pottel.
Shortest DS+MK lyrics: Say Too Much. Too funny! :lol :lol
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"Shortest DS lyrics: How long" - is not bad either ;D
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"Shortest DS lyrics: How long" - is not bad either ;D
Yeah! Do you think he meant it? :think
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Nice work Foma and Pottel.
Shortest DS+MK lyrics: Say Too Much. Too funny! :lol :lol
Really great work ! thanks for the effort. :)
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foma..? can you send me your songs as a file? so we can start matching it with the tour dates?
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"Me and my friend" - adding to unreleased songs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqQy7nAGpSs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqQy7nAGpSs)
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"Shortest DS lyrics: How long" - is not bad either ;D
Yeah! Do you think he meant it? :think
^ it's almost as though MK abandoned song-writing between 84 and 94 :(
Apart from the instrumental coda of OES and the interesting Planet of New Orleans I'm left cold.
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Does 'Chilly Wind' counts? :)
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It would be great if someone would put the album the song appears in next to the name of the song. Another huge undertaking!
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"Me and my friend" - adding to unreleased songs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqQy7nAGpSs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqQy7nAGpSs)
And of course, "Move it away"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnvC-RhdSug#t=20