A Mark In Time

Previous Albums => Tracker (2015) => Topic started by: Dutchessy on September 15, 2014, 04:30:46 PM

Title: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on September 15, 2014, 04:30:46 PM
Sein neues Album
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Pottel on September 15, 2014, 05:04:06 PM
torrent tracker....
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on September 15, 2014, 05:05:34 PM
Please, a translation in English  :D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on September 15, 2014, 05:06:55 PM
Please, a translation in English  :D

It's a Google translation!   ;D


So as we know it: Mark Knopfer with his guitar on stage. (Foto:  Archives )

Salem   / cg / sz Scottish singer and former frontman of Dire Straits is on Sunday, May 31, 2015, at the Salem Open Airs. This was announced by the organizers Allgaeu Concerts on Monday. The official sale starts on Friday, 26 September.


Knopfler presented at Salem his current songs, a selection from his solo albums and perso-course some notable hits of the 20-year-old Dire Straits era on a European tour that takes him to Germany. His new album "Tracker" is published at the beginning of the year.



The 65-year-old  has popular music with some of their best songs always important Delivered in-pulse. As a brilliant guitarist, singer and songwriter of Dire Straits, which are certainly among the greatest rock bands of all time, he became world famous. His nine solo albums are linked to the He founded song tradition and combine both creative periods to inspiring live experiences.



With approximately 120 million albums sold, it is one of an illustrious group of artists that distinguishes outstanding success and lasting significance. On the multiple Grammy winner, the term superstar is true really, although he never behaves like as such. His music is a one critic aptly called "alternative to the hectic Popzirkus, himself became a worldwide success."
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Post by: jbaent on September 15, 2014, 05:09:01 PM
Thank you!

So at least one concert will be on sale in a week and no official announcement yet...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on September 15, 2014, 05:12:02 PM
Do we like the album title?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: singv on September 15, 2014, 05:17:33 PM
Hmmm...not sure, I guess it will depend on the lyrics of the song by the same name!
 
Btw, May in Europe means US leg in late summer or even the fall of 2015...
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Post by: vgonis on September 15, 2014, 05:24:57 PM
We are still waiting for the official announcement!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Ar (aka Enlight) on September 15, 2014, 05:42:17 PM
 i love the title :lol
 uhhh spanish city tracker , tracker de la knopfler  , i knew he was among us , reveal yourself Mark! i guess the one with the best ratio
i mean he has all the good stuff .

OOhh hello everybody , a reply from me , after a long time. Hope u're all doing fine :wave
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on September 15, 2014, 05:58:19 PM
Please, a translation in English  :D

JB just use Google Translator :)

Having Germans between us it worths a proper translation, which Google is not.
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Post by: superval99 on September 15, 2014, 06:08:12 PM
Please, a translation in English  :D

JB just use Google Translator :)

Having Germans between us it worths a proper translation, which Google is not.

Google did it perfectly this time, as shown by superval

It was the best available at the time, because no Germans were on line!   ;)
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Post by: yontwocrows on September 15, 2014, 06:16:49 PM
I like the title, but still waiting for the official announcement. Newspapers, you know...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Banjo99uk on September 15, 2014, 06:26:33 PM
if it is called Tracker I think thats a naff title.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Jarle on September 15, 2014, 06:34:56 PM
Why is the official statements always behind the rest of the world?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: vgonis on September 15, 2014, 06:36:33 PM
Perhaps they have chosen this so when someone tries to find it he will have a billion hits. Maybe it is Trucker after all, lost in german translation?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on September 15, 2014, 06:51:50 PM
I googled a German translation for "Tracker" and found several meanings. A part in the solar energy technology to follow the sun/wind, someone who chases someone/something, and, very interesting, another word for a (military) drone. Is that known to our Englishspoken members, are you familiar  with these vocabulary?

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on September 15, 2014, 06:58:59 PM
Hmmm...not sure, I guess it will depend on the lyrics of the song by the same name!
 
Btw, May in Europe means US leg in late summer or even the fall of 2015...

Ir late march, early April as in previous tours.
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Post by: LoveExpresso on September 15, 2014, 07:10:16 PM
However I go for the classic historical tracker, who leads us to songs like Redbud Tree... (hunted down, I came along...).
Must say I like the title and it sounds like Privateering II to me...

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Sultan of Swing on September 15, 2014, 07:16:01 PM
Let's hope it's true!
However, the safest thing to do is wait for the official announcements, as someone already pointed out, newspapers aren't always correct.
Guy has been saying for a while now that the announcements will be "soon", so let that day come please!!
Still, I think it's looking good. I don't know what I think of the title, but it does sound Privateering-ish to me.
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Post by: cannibals on September 15, 2014, 07:30:24 PM
Thinking i was the one who found this article on the web and posted it on the tour 2015 section. Now reading all you're replies here on the post from Dutchessy really gives me a  :) feeling  :thumbsup :thumbsup
Hoping for some official news soon but i think it probably will be this week or the next. Anyway, will be surfing the net every now and then for some new dates and if i found one i will post it...  :wave
Oh, and we all know one song from the new album now. A song called tracker  :lol
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Post by: dmg on September 15, 2014, 07:41:06 PM
I like the title of the album but does it mean that it will only be available as a download only?  ;D
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Post by: ingridswing on September 15, 2014, 07:51:53 PM
Let's hope it's true!
However, the safest thing to do is wait for the official announcements, as someone already pointed out, newspapers aren't always correct.
Guy has been saying for a while now that the announcements will be "soon", so let that day come please!!
Still, I think it's looking good. I don't know what I think of the title, but it does sound Privateering-ish to me.

2 newspapers in 2 different countries can't be wrong ;-)
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Post by: Sultan of Swing on September 15, 2014, 07:53:41 PM
I like the title of the album but does it mean that it will only be available as a download only?  ;D

Yes, and it will have the most compressed mp3-files known to man. That's good right  ::)
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Post by: Knopflerfan on September 15, 2014, 07:53:56 PM
Nice title if that is what it is? I reckon it sounds like another Privateering type Album to me - wohhhoooo!! :wave  :clap (To be honest I'm not too fussed on album titles - just so long as there is plenty of MK Vocal & GUITAR then that will be just fine!!!)

I should think it will be available in all formats wouldn't you? :hmm
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Sultan of Swing on September 15, 2014, 07:55:14 PM
Let's hope it's true!
However, the safest thing to do is wait for the official announcements, as someone already pointed out, newspapers aren't always correct.
Guy has been saying for a while now that the announcements will be "soon", so let that day come please!!
Still, I think it's looking good. I don't know what I think of the title, but it does sound Privateering-ish to me.

2 newspapers in 2 different countries can't be wrong ;-)
You're right, I forgot about the other (Norwegian?) one. The  management must have already gone to the venues and everything.
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Post by: cannibals on September 15, 2014, 08:17:50 PM

2 newspapers in 2 different countries can't be wrong ;-)
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Wich other one besides the one from Germany or am i something missing here.....
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Sultan of Swing on September 15, 2014, 08:50:39 PM

2 newspapers in 2 different countries can't be wrong ;-)

Wich other one besides the one from Germany or am i something missing here.....
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http://www.amarkintime.org/forum/index.php/topic,3783.0.html (http://www.amarkintime.org/forum/index.php/topic,3783.0.html)
You even posted it.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: louisewickson on September 15, 2014, 09:09:13 PM
On an African safari, a 'tracker' sits on a small seat that juts out from the 4x4 (Jeep, Toyota etc) to read the spoor (tracks and other signs) of wildlife in the area. Could be a great album title as the tracker seeks lions, elephants, rhinos, maybe even rabbits (not that they'd survive long). The imagery and themes of survival could be endless!
Note to Pottel - could you please edit my (real) name which I see no one does and change it to "Tracker"?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Pottel on September 15, 2014, 09:24:11 PM
Please, a translation in English  :D

JB just use Google Translator :)

Having Germans between us it worths a proper translation, which Google is not.

Google did it perfectly this time, as shown by superval
naaah, not really...
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Post by: Dutchessy on September 15, 2014, 09:35:11 PM
Thinking i was the one who found this article on the web and posted it on the tour 2015 section. Now reading all you're replies here on the post from Dutchessy really gives me a  :) feeling  :thumbsup :thumbsup
Hoping for some official news soon but i think it probably will be this week or the next. Anyway, will be surfing the net every now and then for some new dates and if i found one i will post it...  :wave
Oh, and we all know one song from the new album now. A song called tracker  :lol

Yes, very good find!! I thought it deserved an own topic because its the first source who mentioned the album title and release period.
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Post by: Dutchessy on September 15, 2014, 09:36:27 PM
just out a MK ticket alert on italian dates,
it usually happens when dates are going to be announced shortly

Awsome!!
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Post by: cannibals on September 15, 2014, 09:40:02 PM
Thinking i was the one who found this article on the web and posted it on the tour 2015 section. Now reading all you're replies here on the post from Dutchessy really gives me a  :) feeling  :thumbsup :thumbsup
Hoping for some official news soon but i think it probably will be this week or the next. Anyway, will be surfing the net every now and then for some new dates and if i found one i will post it...  :wave
Oh, and we all know one song from the new album now. A song called tracker  :lol

Yes, very good find!! I thought it deserved an own topic because its the first source who mentioned the album title and release period.

Ofcourse this news needs a topic of it's own!!! I'm glad you did start one  :clap
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: cannibals on September 15, 2014, 09:43:55 PM

2 newspapers in 2 different countries can't be wrong ;-)

Wich other one besides the one from Germany or am i something missing here.....
http://www.amarkintime.org/forum/index.php/topic,3783.0.html (http://www.amarkintime.org/forum/index.php/topic,3783.0.html)
You even posted it.
[/quote]

I was under the impression that two newspapers named the new name album of MK but ofcouse this was about the two tourdates we have so far and the one from Germany also mentioned the name off the new album, Tracker, with a releasdate early 2015.
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Post by: dmg on September 15, 2014, 10:00:56 PM
On an African safari, a 'tracker' sits on a small seat that juts out from the 4x4 (Jeep, Toyota etc) to read the spoor (tracks and other signs) of wildlife in the area. Could be a great album title as the tracker seeks lions, elephants, rhinos, maybe even rabbits (not that they'd survive long). The imagery and themes of survival could be endless!
Note to Pottel - could you please edit my (real) name which I see no one does and change it to "Tracker"?

Interesting.  Mark seems interested in wildlife conservation and (I think) is patron to a couple of charities involving the rhino and elephant.  This may be the theme of the title track, indeed album (African/tribal).  :think
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Post by: cannibals on September 15, 2014, 10:08:15 PM
If the info is correct the band line up will be the same like last year..

http://veranstaltungen.schwaebische.de/leoonline/portals/sm/veranstaltungen/id/362332

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Post by: foma on September 15, 2014, 11:02:30 PM
Glenn Wolf LOL.
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Post by: jbaent on September 15, 2014, 11:04:54 PM
just out a MK ticket alert on italian dates,
it usually happens when dates are going to be announced shortly

Can we see that alert? A screen capture or something...
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Post by: dmg on September 15, 2014, 11:20:47 PM
Glenn Wolf LOL.

We shall need to be-ware of full moons next tour!  ;D
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Post by: Ar (aka Enlight) on September 16, 2014, 01:28:27 AM
Glenn Wolf LOL.

We shall need to be-ware of full moons next tour!  ;D

lollll,
as we see a little mistake is printed easy.....so the title can also be " Trucker" :think
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Post by: Lis on September 16, 2014, 02:24:51 AM
Hmmm... if tickets are going on (general public) pre-sale on September 26, shouldn't markknopfler.com offer the tickets prior to Sept. 26?  :think

Am I missing something??  ???
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Post by: shangri la 1 on September 16, 2014, 03:27:41 AM
 :smack ::) Heheh! Had a funny thought reading these posts:-
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Post by: sweetsurrender on September 16, 2014, 06:09:30 AM
:smack ::) Heheh! Had a funny thought reading these posts:-


Very funny!  ;D ;D

Can't say I like the title though. :thumbsdown
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Post by: tunnel85 on September 16, 2014, 06:20:36 AM
just out a MK ticket alert on italian dates,
it usually happens when dates are going to be announced shortly
Excellent ! Thank you Pensaboy. I'm desperately waiting for the italian dates. Hope to be lucky with Milano / Torino/ Roma. The exactly same dates as last year would be fabulous.  :)
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Post by: Jarle on September 16, 2014, 06:35:57 AM
According to the Norwegian ticket provider Billettservice, Mark will play at DNB Arena 8th June 2015. Ticket on sale from 26th September  ;D

http://www.billettservice.no/event/mark-knopfler-billetter/437079
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Post by: singv on September 16, 2014, 10:10:01 AM
It's official... Euro presale Sep 17!!!!!

We are excited to announce Mark Knopfler will release his ninth studio album, Tracker, in early 2015. Along with that news, we can reveal the first dates on his 2015 tour in support of the new album.

For a complete look at the shows announced today, as well as information on the MarkKnopfler.com presales, please visit the Tour page. There are many more shows to be announced very soon, so please keep an eye on this site!

Fans who participate in tomorrow
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Post by: Masiakasaurus on September 16, 2014, 10:30:16 AM
Woho! He'll be playing in my town in june  :clap . Now I have to try not to wish this whole year away  :think
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Post by: jbaent on September 16, 2014, 10:46:33 AM
Presales announced just one day before...

Boys, girls, don
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Post by: holaknopfler on September 16, 2014, 10:53:39 AM
I'm wondering what the live recordings will be. And the merchandise.. A bicycle fixed by the whole band? ;D
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Post by: yontwocrows on September 16, 2014, 11:46:10 AM
It is official and today is my birthday. I like the title.
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Post by: holaknopfler on September 16, 2014, 11:50:03 AM
It is official and today is my birthday. I like the title.

Happy birthday yontwocrows!! :thumbsup :thumbsup
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Post by: dmg on September 16, 2014, 12:13:05 PM
It is official and today is my birthday. I like the title.

Great present.  Happy birthday!  :wave
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Post by: vgonis on September 16, 2014, 01:39:30 PM
Happy birthday! ;D
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Post by: MusicGirl1 on September 16, 2014, 02:43:43 PM
I saw it on a dutch news website (www.nu.nl).
Good news, that Mark is putting out a new album.

Maaike
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Post by: CarrionSpy on September 16, 2014, 04:29:43 PM
You can see the Tracker album cover on mk news!!! It seems that MK is on it!!!
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Post by: superval99 on September 16, 2014, 04:31:45 PM
You can see the Tracker album cover on mk news!!! It seems that MK is on it!!!

Just saw it!    MK is so far away though!    ;)
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Post by: Dutchessy on September 16, 2014, 04:32:18 PM
This is it
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Post by: Banjo99uk on September 16, 2014, 04:35:12 PM
I like the album cover a lot. Is this the first time he has appeared on the front cover albeit very small.
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Post by: CarrionSpy on September 16, 2014, 04:36:00 PM
This is it

Thank you very much for the high res picture!!! I am excited today!!!! :clap
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Post by: dmg on September 16, 2014, 04:37:20 PM
I like the cover too but I think they've photoshopped him some hair!    ;)
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Post by: Banjo99uk on September 16, 2014, 04:40:00 PM
It'll be nice to have that summers day image drop through the letter box during winter.
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Post by: holaknopfler on September 16, 2014, 04:41:52 PM
Beautiful cover, did Salvador made it or Guy?
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Post by: Lestroid on September 16, 2014, 04:53:49 PM
Well he is outstanding in his field.....

(ba dum dum)
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Post by: JF on September 16, 2014, 04:55:39 PM
the colors (sky, filed) and letters made me immediately think to the bootleg cover "going to Amsterdam 2001" I got in 2002

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=2386354 (http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=2386354)
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Post by: JF on September 16, 2014, 05:00:48 PM
the fact he is holding an acoustic guitar makes me think to the inner booklet of TRD with the acoustic guitar in his case.

maybe a clue for the album flavour...acoustic, folkish, etc...well it wouldn't be a surprise at all
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Post by: dmg on September 16, 2014, 05:00:59 PM
the colors (sky, filed) and letters made me immediately think to the bootleg cover "going to Amsterdam 2001" I got in 2002

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=2386354 (http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=2386354)

Austerity measures have even reached PC Management and they used an old bootleg cover as basis on which to design the new album cover!
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Post by: dmg on September 16, 2014, 05:03:02 PM
the fact he is holding an acoustic guitar makes me think to the inner booklet of TRD with the acoustic guitar in his case.

maybe a clue for the album flavour...acoustic, folkish, etc...well it wouldn't be a surprise at all

Like I said - no need for Chuck's input this time if it was just a simple acoustic job?
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Post by: CarrionSpy on September 16, 2014, 05:05:30 PM
the fact he is holding an acoustic guitar makes me think to the inner booklet of TRD with the acoustic guitar in his case.

maybe a clue for the album flavour...acoustic, folkish, etc...well it wouldn't be a surprise at all

Like I said - no need for Chuck's input this time if it was just a simple acoustic job?

I don't think that will be acoustic because of many pictures in GF diary1 with electric guitars and amps!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on September 16, 2014, 05:10:39 PM
the fact he is holding an acoustic guitar makes me think to the inner booklet of TRD with the acoustic guitar in his case.

maybe a clue for the album flavour...acoustic, folkish, etc...well it wouldn't be a surprise at all

Like I said - no need for Chuck's input this time if it was just a simple acoustic job?

I don't think that will be acoustic because of many pictures in GF diary1 with electric guitars and amps!

Maybe not.  He'd look a bit silly carrying an electric guitar with cables and an amp into a field looking for a socket to plug it in!
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Post by: singv on September 16, 2014, 05:15:19 PM
(http://www.markknopfler.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tracker_cover_c.jpg)
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Post by: Ar (aka Enlight) on September 16, 2014, 05:20:43 PM
I saw it on a dutch news website (www.nu.nl).
Good news, that Mark is putting out a new album.

Maaike

maaike the link works  but i see no news about mark's new album, i also tried the search option.
am i doing something wrong?? :think

thx
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Post by: holaknopfler on September 16, 2014, 05:28:43 PM
I saw it on a dutch news website (www.nu.nl).
Good news, that Mark is putting out a new album.

Maaike

maaike the link works  but i see no news about mark's new album, i also tried the search option.
am i doing something wrong?? :think

thx

Enlight,

It is in the section entertainment
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Post by: Ar (aka Enlight) on September 16, 2014, 05:33:56 PM
I saw it on a dutch news website (www.nu.nl).
Good news, that Mark is putting out a new album.

Maaike

maaike the link works  but i see no news about mark's new album, i also tried the search option.
am i doing something wrong?? :think

thx

Enlight,

It is in the section entertainment


well here i go , read it to quick thought it was about the 2013 gig. :smack :smack
i am sorry Maaike
thanks Holaknopfler , where to be without you and all the great folks here on amit
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Post by: Dutchessy on September 16, 2014, 05:39:19 PM
I saw it on a dutch news website (www.nu.nl).
Good news, that Mark is putting out a new album.

Maaike

maaike the link works  but i see no news about mark's new album, i also tried the search option.
am i doing something wrong?? :think

thx

Enlight,

It is in the section entertainment

http://www.nu.nl/muziek/3879048/mark-knopfler-concert-ziggo-dome.html (http://www.nu.nl/muziek/3879048/mark-knopfler-concert-ziggo-dome.html)
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Post by: vgonis on September 16, 2014, 07:00:27 PM
With this album he equals the official albums he created with DS, including the three live ones! At the same time he matches the time of DS existence as a group, if we don't count the hiatus amongst BiA and OES. So officially his solo career takes the lead.
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Post by: foma on September 16, 2014, 07:09:01 PM
With DS Mark released only 60 songs, as a solo artist almost 3 times more.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: vgonis on September 16, 2014, 07:16:40 PM
Yes, maybe true, but sometimes I still miss the days of albums such as LOG and MM with 5 or 7 tracks only.
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Post by: Knopflerfan on September 16, 2014, 07:38:42 PM
Lovely 'warm' cover - very impressed!!

Hopefully it will be released in January when I celebrate my 40th Birthday!!
Then I reckon it will be good to celebrate my '40th Birthday year' in The Stanhope with everyone from here during the RAH residency!! :wave
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Post by: wespresso on September 16, 2014, 08:53:35 PM
I like the cover, bit different then previous albums, but I like that!
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Post by: dannr1 on September 16, 2014, 10:25:03 PM
Yeah, I like this dreamy-ish cover, brings me back to STP cover
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Post by: schmonka on September 16, 2014, 10:28:30 PM
Ok - cool - we know there will be an album and its title - plus the first tour date announcements - so its all looking good for 2015.

As an aside and an interesting challenge for our forum members to keep them busy between now and the album release/tour....im sensing (because lots of you are this way inclined) - the challenge will be......and this falls into DS/MK location info....the new game......"Find the field".....the winner will have ultimate bragging rights about being the ultimate dedicated Knopfler-ite!  As a guess it will be in the UK.....Southern UK somewhere.......Home Counties....? (due to distance travelled - i cant see MK travelling days to take a pic of him in a field!)......So where is the field?  Only recreating the iconinc photo with photo evidence will be crowned the winner....you cant just say....oh yes - its a field next to my house.....that clearly doesnt count - photo proof please!!! :clap
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Post by: Shai on September 16, 2014, 10:58:35 PM
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/mark-knopfler-tracker/

I just saw this today! Europe in June/July....USA in Sept/Oct. - darn, that's one year away!

I also find the cover stunning!

Saul
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Fletch on September 16, 2014, 11:33:17 PM
Is that the first cover with Mark himself on it?

Edit - whoops someone already asked, my bad for not reading first !!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jerrymb on September 17, 2014, 01:07:19 AM
I remember before Privateering was released some of the songs were on Youtube well before Privateering came out. Have any of the new songs that might be on Tracker shown up live on Youtube?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on September 17, 2014, 07:43:43 AM
No - maybe because this time there was no Bob Dylan tour around before the album release where he would have had the possibility to play new songs already which therefore ended up on Youtube?  ;)

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Neville Sherman on September 17, 2014, 08:34:23 AM
Interesting and great news all around. This must be one heck of a thought through album. Clearly the time span for recording given previous records has gone well beyond what they normally commit to. All the experimentation and tweaking is still going on and I presume it has to be mixed still. Surely this whets the appetite does it not? I am presuming this is a single record this time but hopefully maybe some extras may come out of the ether to complement 'Tracker' at some point. Hope so. 2015 looking good already!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: El Macho on September 17, 2014, 10:29:02 AM
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/mark-knopfler-tracker/

I just saw this today! Europe in June/July....USA in Sept/Oct. - darn, that's one year away!

I also find the cover stunning!

Saul

Where do you read that he will be in North America in September and October 2015 ??
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: localhero1986 on September 17, 2014, 11:58:59 AM
Is that the first cover with Mark himself on it?

Edit - whoops someone already asked, my bad for not reading first !!

Nooooo. He's been there, done that. Darling pretty CD single / Cannibals CD single / What it is CD single / One take radio sessions
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on September 17, 2014, 12:06:23 PM
Is that the first cover with Mark himself on it?

Edit - whoops someone already asked, my bad for not reading first !!

Nooooo. He's been there, done that. Darling pretty CD single / Cannibals CD single / What it is CD single / One take radio sessions

Yes, you can count Neck & Neck as well, but it's all duets and singles, not a proper solo or DS album. So technically it's the first time then.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: yontwocrows on September 17, 2014, 12:21:15 PM
Dire Straits live at the BBC?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on September 17, 2014, 12:56:41 PM
Dire Straits live at the BBC?

Thats not a DS nor MK release, but BBC release, DS and MK didnt have any say about the cover, design whatever.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on September 17, 2014, 01:00:00 PM
As it was offered on markknopfler.com for 14 Dollar or something I guess it will be a normal album.. No Double this time?

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on September 17, 2014, 01:23:48 PM
As it was offered on markknopfler.com for 14 Dollar or something I guess it will be a normal album.. No Double this time?

LE

Thank God if it'll be a normal album. Previous was too eclectic to my ears, you get blues, ballads, rock, folk and all that stuff.

I wonder what we will see on the back? Since he is standing back on the cover, on the back it should be... Mark's face?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on September 17, 2014, 01:26:08 PM
The cover says rural in every way. Perhaps the folksy/bluegrass trace isn't such a bad guess this time?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on September 17, 2014, 02:18:31 PM
As it was offered on markknopfler.com for 14 Dollar or something I guess it will be a normal album.. No Double this time?

LE

pre order for 10 euro indeed.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on September 17, 2014, 02:22:51 PM
All of you who purchased tickets can preorder the record right now and its 10 euros?

Cheap!

No indications on limited editions etc etc? Release date?

I also read that tickets presales purcharsers have acces to some live recordings and special merchandise, any of you had acces to anything?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on September 17, 2014, 02:30:31 PM
All of you who purchased tickets can preorder the record right now and its 10 euros?

Cheap!

No indications on limited editions etc etc? Release date?

I also read that tickets presales purcharsers have acces to some live recordings and special merchandise:

Fans who participate in tomorrow
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Rail King on September 17, 2014, 03:09:39 PM
Do we like the album title?

Very, very, very much.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Rail King on September 17, 2014, 03:12:51 PM
if it is called Tracker I think thats a naff title.

Naff? Why? I guess the only titleI like just as much is "Kill to Get Crimson".
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Rail King on September 17, 2014, 03:20:55 PM
I like the album cover a lot. Is this the first time he has appeared on the front cover albeit very small.

I think I sort of like the cover, too. Especially in combination with the title. But then ... what exactly is he doing out there in that field? Lost on his way back to his picknick friends? The tree's right behind you, Mark!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on September 17, 2014, 03:25:57 PM
All of you who purchased tickets can preorder the record right now and its 10 euros?

Cheap!

No indications on limited editions etc etc? Release date?

I also read that tickets presales purcharsers have acces to some live recordings and special merchandise, any of you had acces to anything?

Not yet.. Pre order is possible yes. Release early 2015... Maybe the only advantage is the cheap price.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on September 17, 2014, 03:42:17 PM
By the way, a while ago Isabella was in a place, that reminds me Tracker cover a little bit:

(http://cs617431.vk.me/v617431999/1c3b8/UuoOjxHGfho.jpg)

It's Cadnam, by the way. Very cool idea by MK, I think every get-a-lifer now must find and visit this genuine Knopfler-field :lol
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: singv on September 17, 2014, 04:22:23 PM
By the way, a while ago Isabella was in a place, that reminds me Tracker cover a little bit:

It's Cadnam, by the way. Very cool idea by MK, I think every get-a-lifer now must find and visit this genuine Knopfler-field :lol

Foma, you clever detective, you! I continue to be amazed by the knowledge and information resource of AMIT forumers (yes, that's a real word in America!)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: JF on September 17, 2014, 04:44:06 PM
Yes, maybe true, but sometimes I still miss the days of albums such as LOG and MM with 5 or 7 tracks only.

+1
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: vgonis on September 17, 2014, 05:45:49 PM
Foma I don't see any Telegraph (electric) poles in your photo.   ;D  And this field is so common looking that I may be able to find a similar looking one in Greece as well!   ;) Will take my time, until the release of the album!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on September 17, 2014, 05:50:50 PM
All of you who purchased tickets can preorder the record right now and its 10 euros?

Cheap!

No indications on limited editions etc etc? Release date?

I also read that tickets presales purcharsers have acces to some live recordings and special merchandise, any of you had acces to anything?

Not yet.. Pre order is possible yes. Release early 2015... Maybe the only advantage is the cheap price.

It'll be posted from Canada and we'll be last to get hold of it!  Privateering Deluxe Edition box set springs to mind.  ::)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: kaleo74 on September 17, 2014, 06:53:45 PM
The album cover looks like an old battle field.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: schmonka on September 18, 2014, 02:43:49 AM
Using my Agriculture degree - ive tried to look at the field and see what i could pick up....

Its definately a farmers field and definately just after the crop has been harvested - you can see recent tractor movements left over on the post harvest landscape.

My first thought it was a maise field - but on closer inspection the crop in the ground isnt maise stubble

My next thought moved onto one fo the cereals (wheat or barley) - the crop is too badly sown and badly spaced to be a cereal

...So the last logical conclusion is that MK is standing in a field of recently harvested Oilseed Rape.

And as the harvest for Oil Seed Rape is harvested in August or September in the UK, this picture could only be a few weeks old...

Now....to find the recent Oilseed Rape fields in UK.....due to normal crop rotations its probabaly growning either wheat or barley for this season - so will be ploughed and now be showing little green shoots....so the farmer wont be best pleased with Knopfler-ists tramping across his field!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Knopflerfan on September 18, 2014, 05:19:44 AM
The location of the field on the album cover for me has to be in the 'New Forest' but I could be wrong? But living so near, it looks familiar... .. :wave
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on September 18, 2014, 12:39:07 PM
Just for the record and for this thread, Guy confirmed that it will be a single album, so no double, but with a lot of bonus tracks (as he understands).

This "as I understand" is pretty astonishing, we had discussions about the release forms earlier. So it really seems to me that Mark says to the record company,"Here is a bunch of songs, these 12 to 16 I suggest for the album, I suggest this running order, here is a bunch of 3 to 8 bonus songs, for further use if you like. Do with it as you want to."  This sounds not exactly the way MK is to be seen - as an artist of fullest  control about everything..

However, great to have some bonussongs in sight! Question is, how many Deluxe boxes and Special Editons does one have to buy to get them all..

LE

Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on September 18, 2014, 12:46:27 PM
Just for the record and for this thread, Guy confirmed that it will be a single album, so no double, but with a lot of bonus tracks (as he understands).

This "as I understand" is pretty astonishing, we had discussions about the release forms earlier. So it really seems to me that Mark says to the record company,"Here is a bunch of songs, these 12 to 16 I suggest for the album, I suggest this running order, here is a bunch of 3 to 8 bonus songs, for further use if you like. Do with it as you want to."  This sounds not exactly the way MK is to be seen - as an artist of fullest  control about everything..

However, great to have some bonussongs in sight! Question is, how many Deluxe boxes and Special Editons does one have to buy to get them all..

LE

Indeed, I think it will cost a lot to collect all the songs on CD (over 100 euro's i guess).... Again :-\
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on September 18, 2014, 12:59:37 PM
The bonus tracks will surface soon on the net anyway so I wouldn't worry.  The deluxe editions only give you poker chips and other junk do they not anyway?  I myself have never bought into them.  Remember folks - I wouldn't order them from the official site.  Remember the delay with Privateering Deluxe boxes?  ::)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: localhero1986 on September 18, 2014, 01:20:17 PM
By the way: I must have missed something very, very, very important in the last couple of years. Privateering was MK's 7th studio album (they say). Tracker is known to be his 9th... What's number 8 like? Is it good? What's it called anyway? :think
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on September 18, 2014, 01:25:11 PM
Its called All the roadrunning...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on September 18, 2014, 01:33:30 PM
Never treated Roadrunning as a solo album, despite almost all songs written by MK. But since official site stated it like '9-th STUDIO album', so it makes sense. But his DS albums are also stuido, so why not '17-th studio album'? Including DS, Hillbillies and Neck And Neck. It should be 8-th solo studio album.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: vgonis on September 18, 2014, 02:15:17 PM
Just for the record and for this thread, Guy confirmed that it will be a single album, so no double, but with a lot of bonus tracks (as he understands).

This "as I understand" is pretty astonishing, we had discussions about the release forms earlier. So it really seems to me that Mark says to the record company,"Here is a bunch of songs, these 12 to 16 I suggest for the album, I suggest this running order, here is a bunch of 3 to 8 bonus songs, for further use if you like. Do with it as you want to."  This sounds not exactly the way MK is to be seen - as an artist of fullest  control about everything..

However, great to have some bonussongs in sight! Question is, how many Deluxe boxes and Special Editons does one have to buy to get them all..

LE


I think that he is obligated to offer some extra songs, in case the company issue a single (as Bsides) or to play the itunes, amazon promo game of special  songs. I completely disagree with this logic, as a consumer, but unfortunately as a fan I always fall for this... Desire versus logic that will affect the releases eventually.   
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: CarrionSpy on September 18, 2014, 02:34:09 PM
Never treated Roadrunning as a solo album, despite almost all songs written by MK. But since official site stated it like '9-th STUDIO album', so it makes sense. But his DS albums are also stuido, so why not '17-th studio album'? Including DS, Hillbillies and Neck And Neck. It should be 8-th solo studio album.

I agree with that. The thing is that www.markknopfler.com states Privateering as the seventh MK's album! Did we miss something?

http://www.markknopfler.com/category/news/2012/page/3/


Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: vgonis on September 18, 2014, 03:57:31 PM
I don't like the lots of extra songs announcement at all

higher number of songs = lower quality

I want an album with just 5 songs and the first lasting 14:15

 ;)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Masiakasaurus on September 18, 2014, 03:58:52 PM
I don't like the lots of extra songs announcement at all

higher number of songs = lower quality

I want an album with just 5 songs and the first lasting 14:15
A new album of the same caliber as LoG... That would really be something  :clap
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on September 18, 2014, 04:16:58 PM
I don't like the lots of extra songs announcement at all

higher number of songs = lower quality

I want an album with just 5 songs and the first lasting 14:15
A new album of the same caliber as LoG... That would really be something  :clap

I'm afraid that if it did, it would contain a 10 minute uilleann pipes solo!  ::)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: JF on September 18, 2014, 05:45:52 PM
I don't like the lots of extra songs announcement at all

higher number of songs = lower quality

I want an album with just 5 songs and the first lasting 14:15

totally agree

it's not the amount of tracks that counts, but the quality of them

I would say that one RATR, or one INR, or even one WII, one STP equals tons of quality shoe, stand up guy or secondary waltz imho....

http://www.amarkintime.org/forum/index.php/topic,3808.15.html (http://www.amarkintime.org/forum/index.php/topic,3808.15.html)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: yontwocrows on September 18, 2014, 08:54:09 PM
Never treated Roadrunning as a solo album, despite almost all songs written by MK. But since official site stated it like '9-th STUDIO album', so it makes sense. But his DS albums are also stuido, so why not '17-th studio album'? Including DS, Hillbillies and Neck And Neck. It should be 8-th solo studio album.

I agree with that. The thing is that www.markknopfler.com states Privateering as the seventh MK's album! Did we miss something?

http://www.markknopfler.com/category/news/2012/page/3/
It's a double album, so it counts for two  ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on September 18, 2014, 08:57:04 PM
Never treated Roadrunning as a solo album, despite almost all songs written by MK. But since official site stated it like '9-th STUDIO album', so it makes sense. But his DS albums are also stuido, so why not '17-th studio album'? Including DS, Hillbillies and Neck And Neck. It should be 8-th solo studio album.

I agree with that. The thing is that www.markknopfler.com states Privateering as the seventh MK's album! Did we miss something?

http://www.markknopfler.com/category/news/2012/page/3/
It's a double album, so it counts for two  ;D

Very good - I like that!  :lol
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Justme on September 18, 2014, 09:13:06 PM
I don't like the lots of extra songs announcement at all

higher number of songs = lower quality

I want an album with just 5 songs and the first lasting 14:15

 :clap
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on September 19, 2014, 09:27:36 AM
I think that TRACKER its the first MK album announced without releasing date, and if I
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on September 19, 2014, 09:34:18 AM
I think that TRACKER its the first MK album announced without releasing date, and if I
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on September 19, 2014, 09:53:09 AM
I think that TRACKER its the first MK album announced without releasing date, and if I
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Shai on September 23, 2014, 12:00:38 AM
The link below states that the release date is in January 2015.

Also, there are some guest appearances on the album from Ruth Moody, Bruce Molsky, Nigel Hitchcock and Phil Cunningham.

http://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/what-s-on/enjoy-an-evening-with-mark-knopfler-1-6853956

   Shai
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: nababo on October 10, 2014, 06:30:56 PM
Many of you have enjoyed the cover, but I think it's just cheap. There's a shadow at the begining of the perspective, MK is too far and not focused, those electric poles cut oof the sense of "wilderness", and the position of the photo is slightly bent to the left. I'm sure vgonis would do a better job even with a cellphone.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on October 10, 2014, 08:01:44 PM
Last Eric Clapton cd cover was a selfie picture made with his iPhone...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Pottel on October 11, 2014, 07:10:39 PM
Many of you have enjoyed the cover, but I think it's just cheap. There's a shadow at the begining of the perspective, MK is too far and not focused, those electric poles cut oof the sense of "wilderness", and the position of the photo is slightly bent to the left. I'm sure vgonis would do a better job even with a cellphone.
i honestly actually like all of that....sorry
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on October 11, 2014, 09:13:26 PM
Don't mind if it's cheaply made or not.  I prefer that to the loud vulgarity that is the Get Lucky album cover.  As Randy Newman once said:  "It's Music That Matters."  Well, nearly!  ;)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: shangri la 1 on October 12, 2014, 12:11:13 AM
Agree with those comments. I like the simplicity of the cover, and this puts our focus on what's inside....
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Throttle on October 12, 2014, 01:28:17 AM
I like this picture, but at the same time the image itself worries me a little.
It seems to me he goes away, and nothing can prevent him from doing that.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: yontwocrows on October 12, 2014, 12:32:05 PM
i honestly actually like all of that....sorry
:thumbsup
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dustyvalentino on October 12, 2014, 06:54:40 PM
Surely MK was on the OES cover?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on October 12, 2014, 07:46:15 PM
Surely MK was on the OES cover?

Well, his boots were!  :lol
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: vgonis on October 14, 2014, 03:01:25 PM
The OES cover always reminded me of a Robert Frank photo from the Americans  (  http://vimeo.com/39415663  see at 37 sec) although it is quite different!


And many expensive shows -  artists have stopped coming to Greece for a live date. Dylan came twice, but there were many unsold tickets, Leonard Cohen as well. Roger Waters played in an 3/4 empty stadium, in 2013.(To answer to an older question, that for some reason I missed!) The tickets are cheap for Europeans, but pretty expensive for the Greek salary that has plummeted to 460 Euros to an average of 680.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: vgonis on October 14, 2014, 03:02:59 PM
Hey Nababo, how is your baby? And your new life as a father? Hope you are fine good buddy!  :wave
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: nababo on October 14, 2014, 06:24:48 PM
Hey Nababo, how is your baby? And your new life as a father? Hope you are fine good buddy!  :wave

Hey, greek man, you're so kind.  :D :D :D I''l answer in p.m, okie?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: vgonis on October 14, 2014, 08:22:13 PM
OK! 

By the way, I think a cover art of an album used to be important when we had a physical release selling more than a digital one. And us discussing this, reveals that we are in fact from a different time!   ;D

By the way, I used to buy (cheap) records, just because I liked their sleeve artwork. Some will probably never be released in CD form, since they are not very good, but their artwork (from fantastic to peculiar and kitsch) should remain in history. Alas the main product included (the music) could not save them.

Tracker cover is not bad, but I feel that we haven't seen the final artwork. 
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Camerado on October 14, 2014, 08:25:04 PM
Surely MK was on the OES cover?

Well, his boots were!  :lol

Not only his boots  ;)

(http://eil.com/images/main/Dire-Straits-On-Every-Street-45632.jpg)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on October 14, 2014, 08:43:10 PM
Forgot about that one.  That is a nice cover.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ds1984 on October 15, 2014, 12:00:22 AM
Then you shoul add some 7"

(http://eil.com/images/main/Dire-Straits-Sultans-Of-Swing-40000.jpg)


(http://eil.com/images/main/Dire-Straits-Love-Over-Gold-23121.jpg)

(http://cache.osta.ee/iv2/auctions/1_1_18483310.jpg)

(http://eil.com/images/main/Dire-Straits-Brothers-In-Arms-430401.jpg)

(http://991.com/newgallery/Dire-Straits-Your-Latest-Trick-33829.jpg)

(http://eil.com/images/main/Dire-Straits-Sultans-Of-Swing-407111.jpg)

(http://eil.com/images/main/Dire-Straits-Tunnel-Of-Love-148128.jpg)

(http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/5d1e4f21607e7c26637e1678e3e7209f/2047601.jpg)

(http://eil.com/images/main/Dire-Straits-Tunnel-Of-Love-156640.jpg)

(http://991.com/NewGallery/Dire-Straits-Romeo-And-Juliet-354803.jpg)

and video : (http://991.com/NewGallery/Dire-Straits-Making-Movies-157565.jpg)

(http://991.com/NewGallery/Dire-Straits-Sultans-Of-Swing-10979.jpg)

(http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/d/dire_straits-money_for_nothing%282%29.jpg)


Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: vgonis on October 15, 2014, 12:15:38 AM
Oh, the good old days of singles. MK, has not issued one for privateering and/or the Get lucky ones were only promos.
But in a sense, all singles from the 70ies on were in reality a promotional item (and cheap, barely covering the expenses) in order to convince you to buy the actual product which was the album.

And it is true that MK does NOT appear in any of the album (solo or DS)  front covers, except live at the BBC. 

But the singles were a taste for the newcomers and an extra gift for the fans. So the artwork control was not as strict as the albums'. You get to have several different covers, with all sorts of styles and aesthetics. And of course photos to thrill the fans, to make more intimate and to familiarize the newcomers.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ds1984 on October 15, 2014, 12:41:28 AM
In the 70's, 80's and 90's the single market was a big one and made good incomes.

Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: vgonis on October 15, 2014, 12:51:11 AM
In reality the singles were losing ground from the 70ies on. Yes, there were making money out of them , but they were cheaply made and cheaply looking. They were revived for the disco as 12'' to have bigger grooves and to contain more beats and bass, and remixes. But in reality the product was the LP. And money were made if you sold vast amounts. Musicians made their living (and still do) not from selling records, but from airplay, usage of their music, concerts and merchandise. Only the ones that sell like bread receive checks from their record companies.  The one hit wonders from the 60ies and 70ies solved their life problem, but it was not the same for the one hit wonders of the 80ies or 90ies. And it is not peculiar that singles started getting scarce as releases in the 00nds.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: JF on October 15, 2014, 10:17:04 AM
And it is true that MK does NOT appear in any of the album (solo or DS)  front covers, except live at the BBC. 
and also except MFN, but ok it's not an album, it's a best of....
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: JF on October 15, 2014, 10:20:51 AM
in the early sixties it was the reverse : singles were the "main" product, while LPs were only a bunch of tunes put together mainly by the record company.
it changed in the mid sixties I guess, with Beatles (and other artists) who decided to make "albums"...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ds1984 on October 15, 2014, 10:13:49 PM
in the early sixties it was the reverse : singles were the "main" product, while LPs were only a bunch of tunes put together mainly by the record company.
it changed in the mid sixties I guess, with Beatles (and other artists) who decided to make "albums"...

Albums became cheaper too buy for the youngster of the 60's than for those of the 50's. There is economy behind that, consumption society that gained  Europe. And the album market did not kill the market of single, they were two parallel market, each one with its customers. The dead format of the 60's, killed by album selling growth, was the EP.

In reality the singles were losing ground from the 70ies on. Yes, there were making money out of them , but they were cheaply made and cheaply looking. They were revived for the disco as 12'' to have bigger grooves and to contain more beats and bass, and remixes. But in reality the product was the LP. And money were made if you sold vast amounts. Musicians made their living (and still do) not from selling records, but from airplay, usage of their music, concerts and merchandise. Only the ones that sell like bread receive checks from their record companies.  The one hit wonders from the 60ies and 70ies solved their life problem, but it was not the same for the one hit wonders of the 80ies or 90ies. And it is not peculiar that singles started getting scarce as releases in the 00nds.

A lot more artist have lived from selling record than touring, as a whole record sales were much more profitable for artists (even if they perceived only a small part of the cake). Only the big names could heavily profit from touring but in those years a lot of tour could not have been settled if the record company had not put money in it to use them as commercial support for record sales. Now you are offered a record if you buy concert tix...

Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: JF on October 15, 2014, 10:27:23 PM
DS1984 you are right that there was an economy factor, but the "artistic" aim changed also : trying to create whole pieces of art, "albums" composed by several pieces that fit together, while the 50ies and early 60ies were more based on "individual" songs so to say
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dustyvalentino on October 15, 2014, 10:56:49 PM

And it is true that MK does NOT appear in any of the album (solo or DS)  front covers, except live at the BBC. 


So you think they used a model for OES?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on October 15, 2014, 10:58:22 PM

And it is true that MK does NOT appear in any of the album (solo or DS)  front covers, except live at the BBC. 


So you think they used a model for OES?

Depends on who was cheaper!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: JF on October 15, 2014, 11:07:10 PM

And it is true that MK does NOT appear in any of the album (solo or DS)  front covers, except live at the BBC. 


So you think they used a model for OES?

they even used a model standing for McCartney on Sgt pepper back sleeve ! :D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: vgonis on October 15, 2014, 11:29:45 PM
Boots were not even MK's size! Who cares, really. If the face is not thee, it can be anyone, even a robot, or spare body parts, heavily airbrushed.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: nababo on October 16, 2014, 07:01:32 PM

And it is true that MK does NOT appear in any of the album (solo or DS)  front covers, except live at the BBC. 


So you think they used a model for OES?

they even used a model standing for McCartney on Sgt pepper back sleeve ! :D

According to conspiracy theories, this model it's been in use instead of sir Paul until today. And his name is Billy Shears...
 8)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: JF on October 16, 2014, 11:18:07 PM

According to conspiracy theories, this model it's been in use instead of sir Paul until today. And his name is Billy Shears...
 8)

there are 2 "different" things (although linked) :

1) the very well known "Paul is dead" hoax, with the Billy Shears substitution, all the "clues" on sleeves and in songs lyrics, etc...
2) the REAL fact that on the picture below, it's indeed NOT Paul who is back, because he wasn't present for this photo session, so he was replaced by a model. And among many other facts, this one served and maybe helped to start the famous hoax
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ds1984 on October 17, 2014, 11:29:04 PM
But what a strange idea to use a model's back when front looks so genuinely the same as the original  ;D

(http://digilander.libero.it/jamespaul/sgt_pepper_cd_booklet/sgt_pepper_cd_booklet_sgt_pepper_group_pages_22_23.gif)

(note the visible OPD - aka Officially Pronounced Dead).

He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
Nobody was really sure
If he was from the House of Lords



Or on this unused shot you can see Paul's blooded Rickenbaker

(http://i0.wp.com/www.retronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/163.jpg)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on October 18, 2014, 09:00:22 AM
The Beatles are great but wasn't this a thread about TRACKER  the new MK album?

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: JF on October 18, 2014, 05:58:11 PM
The Beatles are great but wasn't this a thread about TRACKER  the new MK album?

LE

ah the eternal debate : should we let the discussion "flow" or should we start another topic each time someone quotes a more "general" theme, (but linked with a former comment)

sorry for my disgression about Macca, I will start another topic in the general discussion section  :)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on October 18, 2014, 06:08:11 PM
Oh JF it started earlier already about the album covers. . ;D

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: JF on October 21, 2014, 08:29:07 AM
for those interested :  :wave

http://www.amarkintime.org/forum/index.php/topic,3892.0.html (http://www.amarkintime.org/forum/index.php/topic,3892.0.html)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on October 21, 2014, 09:36:44 AM
This is because of the lack of information about the new record... we really need some announcements  ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on October 21, 2014, 11:06:22 AM
Fully agree!

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on October 21, 2014, 11:44:00 AM
Maybe a sample would be nice!  We had Redbud Tree a wee while before the Privateering album was released...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on October 21, 2014, 12:37:49 PM
I guess they will sell it to us as christmas gifts during december.. one song every week or so.. also information about releases, boxes, editions and stuff would be very welcome to brighten up these dark "flagpole days" a little bit..

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: JF on November 02, 2014, 10:38:20 PM
DS1984 you are right that there was an economy factor, but the "artistic" aim changed also : trying to create whole pieces of art, "albums" composed by several pieces that fit together, while the 50ies and early 60ies were more based on "individual" songs so to say

sorry to bring back this off topic subject again, but I am currently reading the french version of "beatles complete recordings, all songs explained in details" and I found this quote that suits exactly what I meant :

in 1963, LPs don't have real homogeneity yet. It is mostly a compilation of tracks. George Martin confirms :"we were recording singles, and those that weren't released ended up on an album. the 2nd album has been done in this way"

sorry for bad traduction, but I guess you got the idea
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ustas on November 14, 2014, 02:54:49 PM
An info by UM Germany:
17.12.14  MDR / Mark Knopfler live in Berlin

Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on November 14, 2014, 03:15:30 PM
An info by UM Germany:
17.12.14  MDR / Mark Knopfler live in Berlin

That's nice!  A showcase perhaps?  Let's hope so.  Berlin was the scene for his first showcase in 2007.

Thanks for that good news ustas.  You've brightened up a very dull day here.  VERY dull!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on November 14, 2014, 03:18:37 PM
An info by UM Germany:
17.12.14  MDR / Mark Knopfler live in Berlin

That's nice!  A showcase perhaps?  Let's hope so.  Berlin was the scene for his first showcase in 2007.

Thanks for that good news ustas.  You've brightened up a very dull day here.  VERY dull!

It's Mr Superval's birthday on the 18th!    :think
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on November 14, 2014, 03:23:20 PM
An info by UM Germany:
17.12.14  MDR / Mark Knopfler live in Berlin

That's nice!  A showcase perhaps?  Let's hope so.  Berlin was the scene for his first showcase in 2007.

Thanks for that good news ustas.  You've brightened up a very dull day here.  VERY dull!

That means new songs in 1 month from now!  :D :D :D :D (i suppose)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on November 14, 2014, 04:41:33 PM
An info by UM Germany:
17.12.14  MDR / Mark Knopfler live in Berlin
It's Mr Superval's birthday on the 18th!    :think

And mine, too. LOL.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on November 14, 2014, 04:49:00 PM
Although I can't find any info on UM Germany website:
http://www.universal-music.de/mark-knopfler/termine
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Marijo58 on November 14, 2014, 06:06:11 PM
Germany and Germans friends got Lucky on this one!! Wonderful gift for those who are having their Birthdays!! Happy for you!!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on November 14, 2014, 06:08:37 PM
It is the 2007 Meistersaal Show for sure.

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on November 14, 2014, 06:14:00 PM
What's really good news is seeing Ustas being back and posting.  :thumbsup

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: yontwocrows on November 14, 2014, 07:08:27 PM
LE is right! It's the MDR TV broadcast of the 2007 live showcase
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on November 14, 2014, 07:21:19 PM
What a let-down!    :(
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on November 14, 2014, 07:44:29 PM
Coincidence if they did happen to broadcast it with the impending new release just around the corner.  Perhaps too good to be true, plus the fact that he hasn't attempted this sort of thing in a good few years now.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on November 14, 2014, 07:48:11 PM
What a let-down!    :(

So sorry, Val!

 ::)

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on November 14, 2014, 08:00:58 PM
What a let-down!    :(

So sorry, Val!

 ::)

LE

No worries LE.  It was a nice thought for a short while!    :wave
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on November 14, 2014, 08:30:46 PM
What a let-down!    :(

So sorry, Val!

 ::)

LE

No worries LE.  It was a nice thought for a short while!    :wave

At least it's not another rerun of the infamous AVO Session.  Cringe.

Although, if I recall his voice was shot on Donegan at this show!  And was Fizzy out of tune due to the excessive heat in the hall or something?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on November 14, 2014, 08:53:24 PM
What a let-down!    :(

So sorry, Val!

 ::)

LE

No worries LE.  It was a nice thought for a short while!    :wave

At least it's not another rerun of the infamous AVO Session.  Cringe.


Yes, thankfully!    ::)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ustas on November 14, 2014, 10:14:16 PM
Although I can't find any info on UM Germany website:
http://www.universal-music.de/mark-knopfler/termine

It's press-newsletter dated 12NOV. Available online at http://www.schattenblick.de/infopool/musik/fakten/mflb4019.html
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Guitarman1972 on November 15, 2014, 11:39:22 AM
Any information yet on the exact release date of "Tracker"? Or any information when it will be announced when it will be released? Cause i'm waiting with so much anticipation.  :D

What can we assume as "begin 2015"? Is that the first month or the first quarter of 2015?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on November 15, 2014, 12:00:15 PM
Any information yet on the exact release date of "Tracker"? Or any information when it will be announced when it will be released? Cause i'm waiting with so much anticipation.  :D

What can we assume as "begin 2015"? Is that the first month or the first quarter of 2015?

I think it had been mentioned January already but in Guy's entry the other day he said early next year.  Of course, that could also mean January!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Darling Pretty on November 15, 2014, 01:27:47 PM
I bet for release in March. Like GH
Last week or so.
Jan/feb is too early.

Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on November 15, 2014, 05:07:12 PM
Dutch concert promotor said January.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ustas on November 19, 2014, 08:53:20 AM
Damn. MDR will broadcast the old record:
Aus Anlass der anstehenden Tour sendet das MDR Fernsehen ein exklusives Konzert "Kill to get Crimson", dass 2007 im historischen Meistersaal am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin aufgezeichnet wurde
http://www.mdr.de/tv/programm/sendung475284.html
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on November 19, 2014, 11:34:07 AM
Damn. MDR will broadcast the old record:
Aus Anlass der anstehenden Tour sendet das MDR Fernsehen ein exklusives Konzert "Kill to get Crimson", dass 2007 im historischen Meistersaal am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin aufgezeichnet wurde
http://www.mdr.de/tv/programm/sendung475284.html

 :(
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on November 19, 2014, 12:56:56 PM
It's in HD at least. And not a bad performance. It was pretty clear to me that MDR would choose the only MK recording they have..

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Jarle on November 22, 2014, 10:47:44 PM
Guy today:

I'm not certain of the release date but it is now finished.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Marijo58 on November 23, 2014, 06:21:31 PM
Guy today:

I'm not certain of the release date but it is now finished.
Thanks Jarle!! Now we know it's finished and it's great news!! We've just to be patient until it's released!! :thumbsup
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Jarle on November 24, 2014, 06:34:58 AM
Someone on the Mark Knopfler Fans Worldwide group on Facebook:

So I just heard a part of a song on Mark's coming album 'Tracker'. Believe me, it's frickin' awesome!!!

and

It resembles privateering a little bit, but I only heard 10 seconds of it

Actually pretty exciting. Hopefully we will here something pretty soon also :)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ds1984 on November 24, 2014, 03:48:10 PM
"but I only heard 10 seconds of it "

Quite short to make his mind.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on November 24, 2014, 07:08:52 PM
Hopefully he is mistaken in his judgement of it's sound or this song isn't representative of the album as a whole.  From my POV anyway.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on November 24, 2014, 07:54:24 PM
Hopefully he is mistaken in his judgement of it's sound or this song isn't representative of the album as a whole.  From my POV anyway.

He told me it was a celtic part. Its DaanTheoden btw, also an amit member.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on November 24, 2014, 08:01:13 PM
 He has to learn a lot - posting in first on facebook?  ;D

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Marijo58 on November 25, 2014, 08:34:59 AM
He has to learn a lot - posting in first on facebook?  ;D

LE

I agree with you LE but usually Artists like him doesn't want to go on Twitter or FB. They dislike the whole business and they're asking other member of their Team to post for them!! And frankly i don't blame them for that. In France we have several personnalities who have been insulted on their FB pages lately!!! And regarding MK, some friend of mine sent me yesterday the link to that crazy man who posted a very strange blog 2 years ago talking about the beginning of DS!! I won't name this lunatic because I was rather shocked and I don't want to start a new debate with this nonsense!!!  ::)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on November 25, 2014, 10:41:28 AM
He has to learn a lot - posting in first on facebook?  ;D

LE

I agree with you LE but usually Artists like him doesn't want to go on Twitter or FB. They dislike the whole business and they're asking other member of their Team to post for them!! And frankly i don't blame them for that. In France we have several personnalities who have been insulted on their FB pages lately!!! And regarding MK, some friend of mine sent me yesterday the link to that crazy man who posted a very strange blog 2 years ago talking about the beginning of DS!! I won't name this lunatic because I was rather shocked and I don't want to start a new debate with this nonsense!!!  ::)

He isn't talking about MK ;)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Marijo58 on November 25, 2014, 11:45:14 AM
Yes Dutchessy I have no doubts so ever about that!! :thumbsup
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Banjo99uk on November 25, 2014, 08:10:59 PM
According to the o2 its due for release in January. This is good news. :thumbsup
http://www.theo2.co.uk/events/detail/mark-knopfler
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on November 25, 2014, 10:21:51 PM
Love the quote on that link:

"...if you don
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on November 25, 2014, 10:40:10 PM
What if Sultans not even played at all with all its twiddly bits? :)
Looks like Mark not ended up losing all of his fans around the globe.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on November 26, 2014, 01:08:25 PM
What if Sultans not even played at all with all its twiddly bits? :)
Looks like Mark not ended up losing all of his fans around the globe.

Seems the full quote isn't quite true any more, especially the part where he claims to enjoy playing the old ones.  Wonder when he changed his mind and what suddenly made him think his songs were no longer "signposts" in our lives.   ;)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on November 26, 2014, 01:32:59 PM
Someone on the Mark Knopfler Fans Worldwide group on Facebook:

So I just heard a part of a song on Mark's coming album 'Tracker'. Believe me, it's frickin' awesome!!!

and

It resembles privateering a little bit, but I only heard 10 seconds of it

Actually pretty exciting. Hopefully we will here something pretty soon also :)

The release date is approaching, so in no time some radios will start broadcasting one of the new songs, as happened with Redbud tree...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on November 26, 2014, 01:36:17 PM
Hopefully he is mistaken in his judgement of it's sound or this song isn't representative of the album as a whole.  From my POV anyway.

He told me it was a celtic part. Its DaanTheoden btw, also an amit member.

From what we know, that sound has to be representative, if we think in the previous MK records, and the band he used for this record, being the folkie ones the only band besides MK, Guy, Ian and Glenn...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on November 26, 2014, 01:47:36 PM
I remember listening an excerpt of a 'celtic' opening part of Yon Two Crown prior to its release, and thought it would be very celtic tune. I thought about anything but not about the Silvertown Blues kind of tune, such dynamic and rock song. So this first opinion can be also wide and about anything.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on November 26, 2014, 02:21:43 PM
Yes, 10 seconds are very little... Imagine if you listen to the first 10 seconds of Kingdom of gold...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on November 26, 2014, 02:23:15 PM
 :o http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/18934097/Tracker/Product.html?searchstring=knopfler+tracker&searchsource=0&searchtype=allproducts&urlrefer=search (http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/18934097/Tracker/Product.html?searchstring=knopfler+tracker&searchsource=0&searchtype=allproducts&urlrefer=search) :o
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on November 26, 2014, 02:29:42 PM
:o http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/18934097/Tracker/Product.html?searchstring=knopfler+tracker&searchsource=0&searchtype=allproducts&urlrefer=search (http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/18934097/Tracker/Product.html?searchstring=knopfler+tracker&searchsource=0&searchtype=allproducts&urlrefer=search) :o

Finally a DVD  ;D  ;)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on November 26, 2014, 02:31:18 PM
:o http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/18934097/Tracker/Product.html?searchstring=knopfler+tracker&searchsource=0&searchtype=allproducts&urlrefer=search (http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/18934097/Tracker/Product.html?searchstring=knopfler+tracker&searchsource=0&searchtype=allproducts&urlrefer=search) :o

Wouldn't surprise me if mk.com sent out copies of the Ray Winstone film to orders they received!  ::)

Nice one Border.  Closest we'll get I suspect.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on November 26, 2014, 02:35:51 PM
:o http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/18934097/Tracker/Product.html?searchstring=knopfler+tracker&searchsource=0&searchtype=allproducts&urlrefer=search (http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/18934097/Tracker/Product.html?searchstring=knopfler+tracker&searchsource=0&searchtype=allproducts&urlrefer=search) :o

Wouldn't surprise me if mk.com sent out copies of the Ray Winstone film to orders they received!  ::)

Nice one Border.  Closest we'll get I suspect.

Now now, the front cover says it's a masterful performance! Front covers never lie...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on November 26, 2014, 02:39:52 PM
Hey, dmg and border_reiver, you nearly gave me a heart attack!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on November 26, 2014, 02:42:25 PM
:o http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/18934097/Tracker/Product.html?searchstring=knopfler+tracker&searchsource=0&searchtype=allproducts&urlrefer=search (http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/18934097/Tracker/Product.html?searchstring=knopfler+tracker&searchsource=0&searchtype=allproducts&urlrefer=search) :o

Wouldn't surprise me if mk.com sent out copies of the Ray Winstone film to orders they received!  ::)

Nice one Border.  Closest we'll get I suspect.

Now now, the front cover says it's a masterful performance! Front covers never lie...

Let's hope that's an omen then!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on November 26, 2014, 03:35:58 PM
Sorry guys for the bad joke  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I started to check play.com almost everyday, it was there where I discovered back on 2012 that Privateering was a double record, the cover and the track list even before it was officially announced, so it worths to check again  ;)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on December 01, 2014, 12:46:27 PM
Apparently, we are more or less one month or one month and a half for the Tracker release, but there is not any announce at all...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: surferboy on December 01, 2014, 12:51:53 PM
Unfortunatelly this is the same information policy towards us fans as it is with further tour info.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on December 01, 2014, 01:04:03 PM
I'm afraid the release date will be in Februari/March  :-\

Guy could not confirm January in his forum answer last week... Makes me feel worried about January.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: cannibals on December 01, 2014, 02:46:33 PM
I am sure we will have it before the tour starts in may...................................................
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ingridswing on December 01, 2014, 02:48:11 PM
I am sure cannibal but we really need to discuss a lot before that  :)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Marijo58 on December 01, 2014, 07:32:17 PM
Being new on this forum, I'm not used to follow every MK new albums and Tours, so the question I maybe could ask is: Was it always like this time or was it better before Tracker 2015? Anyway as far as I'm concerned, Paris next June will be the only Gig I can afford so I don't feel frustrated not to be more informed but still interested in when the CD will be on the market!!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on December 01, 2014, 08:08:22 PM
With Tracker everything looks like its made in a hurry...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on December 01, 2014, 08:15:26 PM
With Tracker everything looks like its made in a hurry...

It seems like an eternity to me!    ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on December 01, 2014, 08:24:20 PM
With Tracker everything looks like its made in a hurry...

It seems like an eternity to me!    ;D

Me too!  Although in the end it looks like final preparations are going to be rushed.  They must surely have the album released before the final concert dates are revealed (and I include the N American ones in that).  I still doubt they have finished releasing all the European dates.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on December 02, 2014, 11:36:09 AM
According to a well known Spanish fan well informed, it looks like MK was not happy with the result or had second thoughts, and the post-production is taken (or took) much time than expected, I dont know if that was before or after the record was received at British Grove fully mastered from the USA, but it
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Post by: Dutchessy on December 02, 2014, 02:27:47 PM
According to a well known Spanish fan well informed, it looks like MK was not happy with the result or had second thoughts, and the post-production is taken (or took) much time than expected, I dont know if that was before or after the record was received at British Grove fully mastered from the USA, but it
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Post by: olazabalrok on December 02, 2014, 02:29:05 PM
And according to Guy's final diary entry the record is fabulous.
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Post by: superval99 on December 02, 2014, 02:38:13 PM
In Guy's words:

"It's fabulous, really great. I think you will like it. "

I can't wait!      ::)
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Post by: Dutchessy on December 02, 2014, 02:39:23 PM
And according to Guy's final diary entry the record is fabulous.

Ofcourse  ;)
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Post by: jbaent on December 02, 2014, 03:46:21 PM
And according to Guy's final diary entry the record is fabulous.

He never said that before with any of the previous records!!!!!

Oh wait, he did, always, with every of them...
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Post by: superval99 on December 02, 2014, 03:54:12 PM
And according to Guy's final diary entry the record is fabulous.

He never said that before with any of the previous records!!!!!

Oh wait, he did, always, with every of them...

....and I have liked every one of them, although some more than others -  even KTGC!     :)
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Post by: Marijo58 on December 02, 2014, 04:57:22 PM
And according to Guy's final diary entry the record is fabulous.
Has MK ever made bad records?!?!  I don't think so and I don't doubt either, in any way, that for every Fans of his music, it'll be a real pleasure to their ears!!! I can also understand the delay because January is too close to the end of Christmas and New Year's holidays!!!
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Post by: dmg on December 03, 2014, 03:17:10 PM
And according to Guy's final diary entry the record is fabulous.
Has MK ever made bad records?!?!  I don't think so and I don't doubt either, in any way, that for every Fans of his music, it'll be a real pleasure to their ears!!! I can also understand the delay because January is too close to the end of Christmas and New Year's holidays!!!

That is a good point.  With Christmas digesting the entire media for the month of December then where would he manage to do any promotion!
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Post by: ds1984 on December 04, 2014, 12:36:46 AM
I don't care about the release date.

Decision is made, go the very old days : attend concert first and only then listen to the studio record. So "Tracker" will be a July only release to me.  Thus this time this way by attending May 15th gig in Dublin, not only I will discover the new setlist like it was before Internet time but also I will be blessed with songs I never heard before ;D

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Post by: superval99 on December 04, 2014, 08:57:01 AM
I wonder if the release date is later than usual, because Privateering  was only officially released in the US 15 months ago.   A new album would have seemed a bit close to Privateering over there.    :think
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Post by: jbaent on December 04, 2014, 10:54:22 AM
I dont think it has anything to do about it, my guess is that the only reason is that the time its needed to finish the production of the physical record, in terms of design of the covers, the marketing strategy, whatever is needed to do after the record is finished. They thought that it might be ready for a january release but noticed that it won
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Post by: LoveExpresso on December 04, 2014, 11:27:30 AM
If I remember correctly than there was never any official mentioning of "January", only "early 2015".. "Early" could be March also..

LE
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Post by: jbaent on December 04, 2014, 11:45:41 AM
If I remember correctly than there was never any official mentioning of "January", only "early 2015".. "Early" could be March also..

LE

Exactly, officially, January was never announced, but most of the promoters, including the UK ones (its still in the London O2 site) announced that the record will be out in January, probably because someone from the record company or MK
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Post by: dmg on December 04, 2014, 11:48:31 AM
If I remember correctly than there was never any official mentioning of "January", only "early 2015".. "Early" could be March also..

LE

I think it was the O2 web site where it was stated a January release so you're right.

@ds1984:  Remember back in the day we had the singles to keep us going.  e.g. Calling Elvis was released before the OES tour started but the album wasn't released until around the last Birmingham date.
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Post by: surferboy on December 04, 2014, 11:51:35 AM
LE, in regard to many points of discussion here in the last months I often referred to the in my view "offical" information that accompanied the announcing of the tour dates through the venues and ticket sellers like:

http://www.ticketline.co.uk/mark-knopfler#tour

I was critical about it, because in many regards it gave us more info than the mk.com site itself and the ticket sellers can only have the info from the management

The explicit mentioning of January instead of "early"
The revealing of touring band members
and that the tour would last to/till August
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Post by: superval99 on December 04, 2014, 11:56:29 AM
Seatwave are still saying this:

"Don
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Post by: dmg on December 04, 2014, 11:58:47 AM
LE, in regard to many points of discussion here in the last months I often referred to the in my view "offical" information that accompanied the announcing of the tour dates through the venues and ticket sellers like:

http://www.ticketline.co.uk/mark-knopfler#tour

I was critical about it, because in many regards it gave us more info than the mk.com site itself and the ticket sellers can only have the info from the management

The explicit mentioning of January instead of "early"
The revealing of touring band members
and that the tour would last to/till August

I think the information is a little out of date though.  It also states that Mark is "currently applying the finishing touches to Tracker in his west London studio." 

There's also a statement from Mark saying "I like playing the old songs," so it must be years out of date!  :lol

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Post by: Neville Sherman on December 04, 2014, 02:26:03 PM
March for me. Guy's 'some months away' clearly points to ignoring January. March sounds about right. In fact, I think March 31st is looking ideal - my birthday!!
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Post by: superval99 on December 04, 2014, 02:55:43 PM
Yes, March like Golden Heart!    :)   That will be fine and will give us a few weeks to become accustomed to the new songs before the tour starts.   :)
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Post by: Knopflerfan on December 04, 2014, 04:06:58 PM
Yep I agree with a March release just like GH all those years ago!!
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Post by: Jana on December 04, 2014, 06:11:19 PM
March for me. Guy's 'some months away' clearly points to ignoring January. March sounds about right. In fact, I think March 31st is looking ideal - my birthday!!

I disagree! I would like to have the new album as my birthday gift earlier on 13 March  ;D
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Post by: Lis on December 05, 2014, 01:50:47 AM
February 2nd is perfect to me.  Groundhog's Day, and my birthday  :D
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Post by: Dutchessy on December 05, 2014, 09:38:45 AM
February 2nd is perfect to me.  Groundhog's Day, and my birthday  :D

February 4 is mine! :)
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Post by: Lis on December 06, 2014, 08:39:39 AM
 :smack
Thanks Pensaboy!!!  Great movie, and this song was a perfect choice for such a surreal moment.  Or moments...
 :D ;D :D
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Post by: El Macho on December 09, 2014, 09:57:23 PM
Release date : probably end of january, according to GF forum
Q : I know you can neither confirm nor deny, but Guitarist UK magazine seems to think this will release in late Jan 2015 (tho that could change still). I guess it will land when its good and ready, but the earlier the better for most of us....
A :Correct
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Post by: Dutchessy on December 09, 2014, 10:32:17 PM
Release date : probably end of january, according to GF forum
Q : I know you can neither confirm nor deny, but Guitarist UK magazine seems to think this will release in late Jan 2015 (tho that could change still). I guess it will land when its good and ready, but the earlier the better for most of us....
A :Correct

I think the 'correct' is related to ' I know you can neither confirm nor deny'... ;)
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Post by: LoveExpresso on December 10, 2014, 06:54:28 AM
I guess so, too. And it's the typical Dr. Fletch answer. If you ask him three questions in one post, he chooses to answer one of them, not necessarily making clear which one.  :wave  ;D

LE
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Post by: dmg on December 10, 2014, 12:23:04 PM
I wonder if it'll be released at the same time as Mr Bob's new album "Shadows In the Night" due for release on 3rd February.  At least his fans have a release date.
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Post by: jbaent on December 10, 2014, 01:10:50 PM
The fact that it hasnt been announced yet makes me think they dont even know yet...

Probably they are waiting to know how much will take their logistics before to announce a release date, just in case.
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Post by: Marijo58 on December 10, 2014, 05:36:33 PM
I asked Guy Fletcher about gigs at the RAH and said to him that it must be difficult for him not to be able to answer our same questions about the release dates of Tracker and the Tour and he said to me that he felt frustrated which I think is, as a matter of fact, surely true!!!! He couldn't tell me either whether they will be performing at the RAH next year!! I guess we all have to be patient, there must be good reasons why MK is holding back the informations this time!!
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Post by: foma on January 05, 2015, 10:02:03 PM
By the way, 2015 will be the 30th anniversary for Brothers In Arms. Isn't it's cool?
I wonder if Mark delayed Tracker release just to match these years.
In 1985 you get BiA in record stores to test you CD player, now...
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Post by: dmg on January 05, 2015, 11:27:01 PM
By the way, 2015 will be the 30th anniversary for Brothers In Arms. Isn't it's cool?
I wonder if Mark delayed Tracker release just to match these years.
In 1985 you get BiA in record stores to test you CD player, now...

Maybe they decided to release Tracker on the anniversary of BIA release - 17th May...
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Post by: LoveExpresso on January 06, 2015, 07:37:43 AM
Honestly, I guess that he couldn't care less. But it is a company thing, not all of it is in his own hands.

LE
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Post by: dmg on January 06, 2015, 11:43:38 AM
Maybe the super-duper special edition deluxe version will be released with BIA outtakes to coincide with the anniversary, hence the delay.  That's why they want to release it the same day as the original BIA album back in 1985.   :think

Nah, not his style.
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Post by: LoveExpresso on January 06, 2015, 01:19:20 PM
May 17th would mean sitting in Dublin and having no new album as the tour starts May 15th..

LE
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Post by: ds1984 on January 06, 2015, 04:03:32 PM
Are there outtakes from BIA?


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Post by: jbaent on January 06, 2015, 05:54:14 PM
Are there outtakes from BIA?

Probably, lets ask Guy!
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Post by: yontwocrows on January 06, 2015, 07:32:42 PM
I just found a tracker release date. This source says April 15th. Don't know how reliable the information is, but i checked a few other release dates that seem to be true. If it's true, it's still a loooooooong time to wait  :-\

http://www.947thebrew.com/onair/jrod-42330/new-releases-in-2015-13116253 (http://www.947thebrew.com/onair/jrod-42330/new-releases-in-2015-13116253)

Sorry, correction: Due to the missing of line spacing I have overlooked that Tracker is categorized as "TBA/Rumored", so back to the start! No clue when the release date is supposed to be
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Post by: TJ on January 06, 2015, 07:53:24 PM
I guess "early" (as in "early 2015") has a flexible definition for MK and his gang.  Kind of like "soon".
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Post by: dmg on January 06, 2015, 11:39:50 PM
Are there outtakes from BIA?

Haven't a clue but it would be great for a box set, wouldn't it?
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Post by: vgonis on January 06, 2015, 11:46:29 PM
Don't think there are any outtakes, due to the recording procedure,  but I would love to hear some demos!
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Post by: dmg on January 06, 2015, 11:49:40 PM
Don't think there are any outtakes, due to the recording procedure,  but I would love to hear some demos!

That's a point.  Except maybe Terry's drum track.  :think
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Post by: vgonis on January 06, 2015, 11:57:56 PM
 ;D  You got it right away dmg. If I remember correctly they had all the tracks down and were not happy with Terry's drumming and brought in Omar who did the work in a couple of days. So it was not cut "live" to have outtakes, only an extra scrapped Terry's drumming maybe, but surely it was never mixed. And if it was so bad to call an outside drummer, it would probably be very damaging for the "image" of the perfectionist MK had. And since we were never got the "extras" from the albums that every fan knew existed, it is highly unlike to get from these ones.
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Post by: jakehadlee on January 07, 2015, 12:21:21 AM
;D  You got it right away dmg. If I remember correctly they had all the tracks down and were not happy with Terry's drumming and brought in Omar who did the work in a couple of days. So it was not cut "live" to have outtakes, only an extra scrapped Terry's drumming maybe, but surely it was never mixed. And if it was so bad to call an outside drummer, it would probably be very damaging for the "image" of the perfectionist MK had. And since we were never got the "extras" from the albums that every fan knew existed, it is highly unlike to get from these ones.

I don't think there was any suggestion TW's playing was "bad" - just that MK wanted a different vibe to the recordings that was not in Terry's style. I'd love to hear his versions - DS were always at their best when Terry was on the sticks, and there's a chance I might prefer what he did.
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Post by: jbaent on January 07, 2015, 08:04:42 AM
I just found a tracker release date. This source says April 15th. Don't know how reliable the information is, but i checked a few other release dates that seem to be true. If it's true, it's still a loooooooong time to wait  :-\

http://www.947thebrew.com/onair/jrod-42330/new-releases-in-2015-13116253 (http://www.947thebrew.com/onair/jrod-42330/new-releases-in-2015-13116253)

Sorry, correction: Due to the missing of line spacing I have overlooked that Tracker is categorized as "TBA/Rumored", so back to the start! No clue when the release date is supposed to be

Good news is that these are US release dates, if you check amazon most of the items listed here will be released one or two month earlier in Europe!
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Post by: jf9081 on January 09, 2015, 12:39:48 PM
Http//www.directcurrentmusic.com/music-news/2015/1/8/mark-knopflers-tracker-on-track-for-march-10-release-via-verve&ved=0CB8QFjAA&usg=AFQjCNH9M_v8fz4diD0KQY_fGMyCVXo8bw

 :o 10 march??
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Post by: dmg on January 09, 2015, 12:52:01 PM
So that's the first time we've had a definitive date then?  Just waiting to hear it from official sources now I guess but I would think this is about right.  Thanks for that jf9081 - it'll not be long in coming around!
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Post by: foma on January 09, 2015, 12:59:39 PM
Http//www.directcurrentmusic.com/music-news/2015/1/8/mark-knopflers-tracker-on-track-for-march-10-release-via-verve&ved=0CB8QFjAA&usg=AFQjCNH9M_v8fz4diD0KQY_fGMyCVXo8bw

 :o 10 march??

Look at the cover! It's much better now. Mark, thank you for getting rid of these shadows on the cover. It looks so much better now.
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Post by: knopflertom on January 09, 2015, 01:01:47 PM
So that's the first time we've had a definitive date then?  Just waiting to hear it from official sources now I guess but I would think this is about right.  Thanks for that jf9081 - it'll not be long in coming around!

So they state that released in US on 10th March. I think will be released in Europe a bit earlier. (maybe 6th March, as new records are released on fridays in Germany) ???
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Post by: jbaent on January 09, 2015, 01:04:43 PM
That date is for US market only, Verve Music is the record company who release his records in the USA since he broke his deal with Warner.

At the rest of the world it might be Virgin / Emi / Universal / Mercury... Which are all the same nowadays.

http://www.directcurrentmusic.com/music-news/2015/1/8/mark-knopflers-tracker-on-track-for-march-10-release-via-verve (http://www.directcurrentmusic.com/music-news/2015/1/8/mark-knopflers-tracker-on-track-for-march-10-release-via-verve)
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Post by: knopflertom on January 09, 2015, 01:08:44 PM
http://www.kcsn.org
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Post by: jbaent on January 09, 2015, 01:14:14 PM
It points to the same site.

I wish we would have at least one European date... because the official confirmation, we know... will take his time, weekend is here.
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Post by: foma on January 09, 2015, 01:18:16 PM
They not only cropped the cover, but added some gradient at the top, it looks more contrast now and cooler.
To me the best news is that they actually thought old cover was kinda strange. This is it by the way:

(http://static.squarespace.com/static/526c410fe4b039ceb7d8d4a1/t/54aeeda7e4b0ac54b0f1984b/1420750251193/?format=500w)
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Post by: jbaent on January 09, 2015, 01:21:11 PM
Too bright at the down part, I dont like it  :(
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Post by: foma on January 09, 2015, 01:35:39 PM
Too bright at the down part, I dont like it  :(

Where did you find this brightness? The grass now is not so yellowish and the trees are greener.
Still hope they will remove these dots caused by the dust on optics. Why not to clean optics before shooting?
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Post by: jbaent on January 09, 2015, 01:38:00 PM
The clouds, MK himself, the trees and the grass, is brighter and it looks worse than before...

And nothing of the black things on the grass...
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Post by: dmg on January 09, 2015, 02:18:18 PM
Too bright at the down part, I dont like it  :(

Where did you find this brightness? The grass now is not so yellowish and the trees are greener.
Still hope they will remove these dots caused by the dust on optics. Why not to clean optics before shooting?

Maybe I'm going blind but what dots?  It would seldom be caused by dirt on the lens, more likely dirty sensor or even more likely a dirty monitor  ;) but unless Mr McGoo could see it for himself...
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Post by: Neville Sherman on January 09, 2015, 02:20:41 PM
So, we can start to salivate! I'd predicted my birthday - the 31st March - a few weeks ago. Think I will ask Guy to ask MK to put it back a three weeks!
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Post by: superval99 on January 09, 2015, 02:23:38 PM
It's very close to my birthday!   A great birthday present!   :)
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Post by: foma on January 09, 2015, 02:29:06 PM
This is just three of the dots which I find at the very first sight. Hope somebody from MK Design team read this anyway!
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Post by: Jarle on January 09, 2015, 03:18:25 PM
They not only cropped the cover, but added some gradient at the top, it looks more contrast now and cooler.
To me the best news is that they actually thought old cover was kinda strange. This is it by the way:

(http://static.squarespace.com/static/526c410fe4b039ceb7d8d4a1/t/54aeeda7e4b0ac54b0f1984b/1420750251193/?format=500w)

This cover looks much better :)
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Post by: dmg on January 09, 2015, 04:00:39 PM
This is just three of the dots which I find at the very first sight. Hope somebody from MK Design team read this anyway!

Ah, thanks for that!  Perhaps that's what he's looking at?   ;D  Or UFO's   :o
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Post by: foma on January 09, 2015, 07:28:23 PM
This uDiscover website just stated:

While we prepare for imminent details of Mark Knopfler
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Post by: jf9081 on January 10, 2015, 12:54:37 PM
Tracker edition cd
Font.. Musictap.net
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Post by: rudiger on January 10, 2015, 01:13:03 PM
Tracker edition cd
Font.. Musictap.net

Thanks!

"Tracker is going to get a heavy duty release package, or set of packages.
 
The forms that Tracker will be taking will be the standard CD release, as well as a 2CD Deluxe Edition, a 2LP vinyl set, DD, and a 2CD/2LP/DVD Limited Edition Box set"


DD?  DVD perhaps

I guess the 2nd disc of the 2CD set will be a DVD containing some sort of "making of" (as always).
But if they sell a DVD alone maybe it will contain something different  8)
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Post by: foma on January 10, 2015, 01:18:26 PM
DVD perhaps? But why just one DVD?

I can't believe to the websites like this to be honest :D
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Post by: rudiger on January 10, 2015, 01:22:59 PM
Yes, I've edited my post  ;)

I share the same doubts
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Post by: jbaent on January 10, 2015, 02:03:52 PM
DD means Digital Download

This info may comes from a press note sent to be used on monday but some web sited did it before.

Maybevthe 2cd includesvan extra cd with live takes from the 2015 tour, or extra songs, and the dvd in the box is the video press kit. I wish it would be the BBC show but it wont, because is what we want  ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: rudiger on January 10, 2015, 02:12:57 PM

Maybe the 2cd includes an extra cd with live takes from the 2015 tour, or extra songs, and the dvd in the box is the video press kit.

it seems likely
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Post by: schmonka on January 12, 2015, 12:32:32 AM
DD - Dolby Digital?? :think ;D ;D
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Post by: jbaent on January 13, 2015, 01:17:34 PM
It
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Post by: vgonis on January 13, 2015, 02:07:26 PM
March 10!
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Post by: jbaent on January 13, 2015, 02:18:08 PM
Its Amazon.com so it's American dates and formats I guess...
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Post by: Marijo58 on January 13, 2015, 02:19:18 PM
March 10!

Yessss now we know!!! Wonderful to see that this waiting is over!!! Have a nice day everybody!! :thumbsup :wave
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Post by: OnlyMe on January 13, 2015, 03:45:40 PM
Still no word on a EU release date?  :hmm :disbelief
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Post by: ds1984 on January 14, 2015, 08:44:21 PM
March is good since I decided NOT to listen to it before attending the show(s).
Already hard to resist to the single.

 
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Post by: yontwocrows on January 14, 2015, 08:56:23 PM
ds: Great attitude. I admire it, but it will never be mine. Too weak  ;D
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Post by: Best Brown Baggies on January 15, 2015, 08:27:04 AM
Any info of track names & times yet???
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Post by: jbaent on January 15, 2015, 10:18:25 AM
I check regularly the Amazon sites, play.com, hmv etc but nothing yet.

I guess that tomorrow with the official launch of the single we will have more information.
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Post by: LoveExpresso on January 15, 2015, 10:23:14 AM
Yes, now that we have the non-smoker-song, we are ready for the next one!  :lol

LE
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Post by: Jarle on January 15, 2015, 11:25:42 AM
Universal Norway says that a press release for "Tracker" will be published tomorrow :)
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Post by: holaknopfler on January 15, 2015, 11:26:46 AM
Universal Norway says that a press release for "Tracker" will be published tomorrow :)

Do you know any journalists up there? ;D
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Post by: LoveExpresso on January 15, 2015, 11:27:12 AM
Cool! You have to translate it for us, hope that is clear my young friend!!  :wave :wave ;D ;D ;D

LE
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Post by: Jarle on January 15, 2015, 11:51:50 AM
Universal Norway says that a press release for "Tracker" will be published tomorrow :)

Do you know any journalists up there? ;D

Unfortunately not, but I will try to get a copy :)
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Post by: Jarle on January 15, 2015, 11:52:46 AM
Cool! You have to translate it for us, hope that is clear my young friend!!  :wave :wave ;D ;D ;D

LE

I will for sure :)
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Post by: LoveExpresso on January 15, 2015, 11:55:59 AM
Looking forward to it very much. Usually, press kits contain some precious informations about ideas, settings and themes of some songs. I remember the Get Lucky press kit being very informative.

LE
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Post by: jbaent on January 15, 2015, 12:17:53 PM
Universal Norway says that a press release for "Tracker" will be published tomorrow :)

Do you know any journalists up there? ;D

Unfortunately not, but I will try to get a copy :)

If tomorrow is when the single is supposed to be ofically launched, probably Norway won
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Post by: LoveExpresso on January 15, 2015, 12:44:32 PM
Let's hope so, jbaent. As for the nap, I think it is more of an extended winter sleep..  :disbelief

LE
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Post by: cannibals on January 15, 2015, 02:59:57 PM
March 10. Still nothing official.  :think

http://www.rockpopinfo.com/new-album-releases

Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Jarle on January 15, 2015, 04:14:33 PM
Universal Norway says that a press release for "Tracker" will be published tomorrow :)

Do you know any journalists up there? ;D

Unfortunately not, but I will try to get a copy :)

If tomorrow is when the single is supposed to be ofically launched, probably Norway won
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on January 15, 2015, 04:26:32 PM
From Guy's Forum:

Q   -  Very cool tune, but thank God that's not the official release. That means you still have time to get rid of those annoying keyboards, that sounds like a bee trapped in an empty coke can. 


Guy   -  It's called a Vox Continental. I'm glad you like it as it's all over the rest of the album, quite heavily featured (since I mixed it!)
 
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Post by: LoveExpresso on January 15, 2015, 04:29:17 PM
Quite offending question on Guy's forum and I think his answer has the right sarcasm in it. However, I really hope it is only sarcasm and Guy is not true about what he says! Can't stand that sound either!  :D :D

LE
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Post by: jbaent on January 15, 2015, 04:36:31 PM
Our fellow Dennis Brower sent to Spanish City facebook a pdf with a list of songs from an ACE search with some titles that could be from new songs, in alphabetic order:

38 Special

Basil

Beryl

Broken bones

Heart of oak

Hot dog

Laughs and jokes and drinks and smokes

Lights of Taormina

Long cool girl

Mighty man

My heart has never changed

Oklahoma ponies

River towns

Silver eagle

Skydiver

Terminal of tribute to

Time will end all sorrow

Wherever I go

Some titles might be from Privateering or Get Lucky, as it lists everything that has been registered, in the list there are also songs like "Never met a one like you" that we know Hot Rize recorded or "The older surfest of the beach" that we know Jimmy Buffett recorded or other songs from film scores etc etc etc that I didnt listed here, just the suspects of being "Tracker" songs








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Post by: Dutchessy on January 15, 2015, 04:37:43 PM
Interesting PDF with possible song titles of Tracker posted by Marijn and Jeroen

Edit: Lol, Jbaent was just quicker  :lol
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on January 15, 2015, 04:47:13 PM
Some sound really strange, some incomplete.. no Tracker? But 18 is a good number, including bonus tracks it is more or less the usual number of songs...

LE
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Post by: Ar (aka Enlight) on January 15, 2015, 05:19:14 PM
i think that pdf file is a bit of a hoax ,

the orig. posted pdf on FB also includes tracks like :
Guide my sword (princess bride)
and Stargazer (local hero)

Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: JeroenvG on January 15, 2015, 05:43:05 PM
i think that pdf file is a bit of a hoax ,

the orig. posted pdf on FB also includes tracks like :
Guide my sword (princess bride)
and Stargazer (local hero)



It's not a hoax. If you look at the WORK ID's Beryl started with the digits 887.

I searched again on ASCAP en selected just the song with WORK ID's that started with 887. If all the songs were uploaded at the same time then the numbers would be sequentially or in the vicinity of Beryl. That's all I did.

just search for yourself right here: https://www.ascap.com/home/ace-title-search/index.aspx

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Post by: jbaent on January 15, 2015, 06:27:42 PM
Who says Beryl is the first one?

Guide my sword and Stargazer says published by Strait Jacket, so the id doesn't work as the rest are published by Will d.side...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Ar (aka Enlight) on January 15, 2015, 07:01:01 PM
i think that pdf file is a bit of a hoax ,

the orig. posted pdf on FB also includes tracks like :
Guide my sword (princess bride)
and Stargazer (local hero)



It's not a hoax. If you look at the WORK ID's Beryl started with the digits 887.

I searched again on ASCAP en selected just the song with WORK ID's that started with 887. If all the songs were uploaded at the same time then the numbers would be sequentially or in the vicinity of Beryl. That's all I did.

just search for yourself right here: https://www.ascap.com/home/ace-title-search/index.aspx


That i understand , but for example id: 31329**** , provides a song called : A CUT ABOVE THE REST , by STRAITJACKET SONGS LTD,
Mark never recorded a song with that name and there are more songs i can remember Mark ever wrote or recorded , so it is most likely that those (Tracer) ID-number and song names are incorrect.
Also it would be an album without a title track.


2.
A CUT ABOVE THE REST
Work ID: 313290490
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: yontwocrows on January 15, 2015, 07:33:46 PM
I think that the list give us a good hint. And i believe that we will read many of them on the tracker album.
The problem with the unpublished songs in that list was already discussed here: http://www.amarkintime.org/forum/index.php?topic=1961.0 (http://www.amarkintime.org/forum/index.php?topic=1961.0).

Why not register a song for copyright, even if you not publish it?

Anyway: .38 Special / Broken Bones /Lights of Taormina /Silver Eagle / Skydiver / Terminal of tribute to - this titles make me curious.
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Post by: Dutchessy on January 15, 2015, 08:07:24 PM
A source from spain gave me the following info:

CD : 11 tracks
CD Deluxe : 4 extra's (don't know if he means 4 bonus songs)
CD Box: 6 extra's (songs?) + dvd + vinyl
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Post by: LoveExpresso on January 15, 2015, 08:22:09 PM
Guy mentioned "lots of bonus tracks" - otherwise I would expect another "live from the rehearsal room" kind of live recorded stuff of old well known songs..
11 songs should mean that there are at least one or two songs on it that are longer than let's say 4 or 5 minutes, or it would be a quite short album...

After the sensation with the first double album in MK's career it has to be a letdown somehow to get a simple "single" album, with 11 songs instead 20..

But if there is some kind of "album" feel, (something that lacked Privateering in my opinion, but Get Lucky had it extremely well made), it will be ok with me!

LE
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Post by: yontwocrows on January 15, 2015, 08:49:22 PM
Although i like the Privateering album, i know what you mean. Get lucky is a superb album...
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Post by: jbaent on January 15, 2015, 10:11:06 PM
A source from spain gave me the following info:

CD : 11 tracks
CD Deluxe : 4 extra's (don't know if he means 4 bonus songs)
CD Box: 6 extra's (songs?) + dvd + vinyl

If that Spanish source gave you that info it means that the official information is coming in no time.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: El Macho on January 16, 2015, 12:28:51 AM
I made a research on the Ascap ACE site
https://www.ascap.com/home/ace-title-search/index.aspx
A research with performer = dire straits
I find in the titles :
Boom Like That
Sailing To Philadelphia
Two Skinny Kids
What It Is

So, were these songs originally  Dire Straits songs ?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Rolleyway Man on January 16, 2015, 01:57:44 AM
The track listing is now showing on iTunes, with 'Beryl' available for download. UK release date: 16th March.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Ar (aka Enlight) on January 16, 2015, 02:04:34 AM
A source from spain gave me the following info:

CD : 11 tracks
CD Deluxe : 4 extra's (don't know if he means 4 bonus songs)
CD Box: 6 extra's (songs?) + dvd + vinyl

If that Spanish source gave you that info it means that the official information is coming in no time.


Seems that Dutchessy's spanish source is quite right about the release forms.

http://www.musictap.net/2015/01/09/new-mark-knopfler-album-tracker-gets-march-date-and-more/

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Post by: Jarle on January 16, 2015, 06:35:55 AM
Here is the track list for the Deluxe Edition. From iTunes. 15 tracks. The normal version has 11 tracks.

Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on January 16, 2015, 07:44:27 AM
Cool, Jarle, even with track lengths! Thanks!
Now we know that within a few weeks we probably will have the iTunes-usual 30 sec. snippets, the same as we had with Privateering.

A Special Edition with 4 new songs - I wonder who ever will buy the normal version..

LE
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Post by: Neville Sherman on January 16, 2015, 08:04:32 AM
Geez, this looks stunningly good! To have track lengths of this duration hints to me of something special! Roll on March! I know we should not wish the most precious thing we have away - time - but I can't wait for March!
Phew!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on January 16, 2015, 08:09:35 AM
I needed it a little bit easier to read :

MARK KNOPFLER - TRACKER

1   Laughs and Jokes and Drinks and Smokes(6:39)
2   Basil (5:44)
3   River Towns(6:16)
4   Skydiver(4:38)
5   Mighty Man(5:55)
6   Broken Bones(5:30)
7   Long Cool Girl(5:05)
8   Lights of Taormina(6:09)
9   Silver Eagle(5:01)
10   Beryl(3:10)
11   Wherever I Go(feat Ruth Moody)(6:24)

DELUXE EDITION
12   .38 Special(2:46)
13   My Heart Has Never Changed(3:48)
14   Terminal of Tribute To(5:52)
15   Heart Of Oak(1:43)


The "short" ones as the usual bonus "rubbish" one might to add..  ;D. Really, this is the answer to all my track list questions every year - all tracks on the regular album are pretty long! Like it! I have trouble with the meaning of the "to" and the meaning of track 14?

LE
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Post by: LoveExpresso on January 16, 2015, 08:19:36 AM
Ok, here's my try:
Track 1: Another "In the sky" - atmosphere, and the songs and the laughter are carried away...
Track 2: Basil (Rathbone) a song about the good old times of Sherlock Holmes in black and white
Track 4: Skydiver: About Felix Baumgartner, no doubt
Track 5: The Mighty Man's Too Strong!
Track 6: Mark remembers his bad motorcylce accident and the pills
Track 12: Kingdom Come to this Camerado..


LE
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Post by: El Macho on January 16, 2015, 08:22:27 AM
About 74 minutes length for the deluxe edition !
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Post by: jbaent on January 16, 2015, 08:36:01 AM
The box has 6 extra songs, the same 4 than the deluxe but with two more, I don't know which ones, maybe checking the PDF...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Jarle on January 16, 2015, 09:00:55 AM
Press relelase:

http://www.mynewsdesk.com/no/universalmusicnorge/pressreleases/mark-knopfler-annonserer-nytt-album-1105993
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Post by: Neville Sherman on January 16, 2015, 09:05:53 AM
Basil - Basil Fawlty? Basil Brush? The herb? Who knows!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on January 16, 2015, 09:07:25 AM
Basil Bunting.

Wow, sleeve notes written by Richard Ford.

And the press release differs between four bonus tracks on the deluxe CD and 6 extra tracks in the lavish box set...

LE
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Post by: superval99 on January 16, 2015, 09:16:55 AM
Can't wait for the release now!    I think it's going to be a very special album.    :P
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Post by: Dutchessy on January 16, 2015, 09:17:17 AM
Awsome! A lot of long tracks :D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Rail King on January 16, 2015, 09:33:58 AM
From Guy's Forum:

Q   -  Very cool tune, but thank God that's not the official release. That means you still have time to get rid of those annoying keyboards, that sounds like a bee trapped in an empty coke can. 


Guy   -  It's called a Vox Continental. I'm glad you like it as it's all over the rest of the album, quite heavily featured (since I mixed it!)

Hahaha, "a bee trapped in an empty coke can". I wonder who posted this. Brilliant!

Personally, I can live with the amount of bees in Beryl, but I'm not very fond of the sound, either. I think Mark and Guy use it when they want to make something sound "funny/comical". Like in Do America, Who's Your Baby Now, We Can Get Wild etc. But I don't think they're very good at that; it always sounded cheesy rather than funny to me. If you want to be funny, you'd better be REALLY funny. Some Vox Continental alone won't do the trick. But anyway, OF COURSE it won't be all over the album.
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Post by: Rail King on January 16, 2015, 09:42:40 AM
Here is the track list for the Deluxe Edition. From iTunes. 15 tracks. The normal version has 11 tracks.

 :o Wow, I LOVE these track names! I don't know why, but somehow I find the moment when I first see the new track list to be even more exiting than listening to the single for the first time. This is going to be a wonderful album, bees in the can or not.
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Post by: Rail King on January 16, 2015, 09:48:40 AM
Given the cover pic, "Wherever I Go" would have been a fitting album title, too ...  ;)

(Quite sure the word "tracker" will be somewhere in those lyrics.)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on January 16, 2015, 10:08:01 AM
No "Tracker" song... First time if "Let it all go" counts as "Kill to get crimson"  ;D
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Post by: LoveExpresso on January 16, 2015, 10:25:10 AM
Amazon.de (Germany) states release date March 6th.

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on January 16, 2015, 10:30:21 AM
Amazon.de (Germany) states release date March 6th.

LE

Amazon.es (Spains) in the digital releases says 16th  >:(
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Post by: surferboy on January 16, 2015, 10:35:08 AM
I ask myself why mk.com has always to be the last to announce the news?
I hope they put on something later in the day.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on January 16, 2015, 10:36:48 AM
I ask myself why mk.com has always to be the last to announce the news?
I hope they put on something later in the day.

Because they are in Canada?????
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Post by: OnlyMe on January 16, 2015, 10:50:43 AM
At the moment Amazon.co.uk only lists mp3-dowloads.  I hope CD format will be added soon...

The official MK site still has Privateering as 'the new album'  ::)
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Post by: Rail King on January 16, 2015, 11:15:44 AM
No "Tracker" song... First time if "Let it all go" counts as "Kill to get crimson"  ;D

It will be another "Crimson" or "Making Movies" case, I'm sure. One of the songs will be about a tracker. Oh, and of course there was one album whose title didn't at all appear in the lyrics. It was called ... Dire Straits!
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Post by: LoveExpresso on January 16, 2015, 11:24:45 AM
The Lights of Taormina speaks for itself, I guess (I expect kind of Our Shangri-La tune).
Silver Eagle is about Bob's tour bus, i bet..

LE
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Post by: Barzofarhyme on January 16, 2015, 11:25:21 AM
At the moment Amazon.co.uk only lists mp3-dowloads.  I hope CD format will be added soon...

The official MK site still has Privateering as 'the new album'  ::)

CD listing now up on Amazon.co.uk. :clap :thumbsup

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tracker-Mark-Knopfler/dp/B00S1M7KXO/ref=sr_1_1_twi_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421403799&sr=8-1&keywords=mark+knopfler+tracker
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Post by: superval99 on January 16, 2015, 11:36:23 AM
Silver Eagle - the band's private jet?
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Post by: dmg on January 16, 2015, 12:06:37 PM
The first thing I noticed when I saw this on FB was the track lengths and they are pretty decent. 

On the Amazon UK link it states beside the Taormina thing:

8. Lights Of Taormina - Mark Knopfler, Mike McGoldrick

Why is Mikes name mentioned?  Did he co-write it or are these the only two musicians playing on it?

Another thing I noticed was that the bonus song Heart of Oak will be the shortest song he's ever written (except for soundtrack work).
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Vesper on January 16, 2015, 12:35:38 PM
Did anyone notice the url link to the news on MK.com?
http://www.markknopfler.com/mark-knopflers-tracker-coming-march-the-9th/

But the news itself says: Mark Knopfler
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Post by: Vesper on January 16, 2015, 12:46:04 PM
Thanks to me Dutch friends:

http://store.universalmusic.com/udiscover/*/*/Tracker-Box-Set/3RGC0000000

Amazing!!!!!
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Post by: jf9081 on January 16, 2015, 12:50:53 PM
Lights of Taormina :o :o :o :clap

Sicilia? Thank you mark!!!
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Post by: jbaent on January 16, 2015, 12:55:36 PM
The Box
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Post by: dustyvalentino on January 16, 2015, 01:06:24 PM
Box looks nice, I guess the DVD will just be the EPK, kind of hoping in vain it would be a live show...
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Post by: jbaent on January 16, 2015, 01:10:54 PM
In the Universal Shop site, 78 euros, very good price in comparation with the 125 euros from Amazon.com some days ago...

103 euros with shipping costs...
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Post by: peterromer on January 16, 2015, 01:13:04 PM
Box looks nice, I guess the DVD will just be the EPK, kind of hoping in vain it would be a live show...

Same here, I think I go for the Deluxe CD instead this time. Has anyone received mails from markknopfler.com for presales prices ?
Wonder if prices are the same from members from the MK site and and https://store.universalmusic.com/udiscover/artist.html?a=mark_knopfler&utm_campaign=KNOPFLERStore&utm_content=KNOPFLERStore&utm_medium=PdPromotedPost&utm_source=Facebook

 
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Post by: LoveExpresso on January 16, 2015, 01:16:22 PM
I wonder if the 6 extra tracks are containing the 4 bonus tracks or if we will get possibly 10 other tracks together with the 11 from the album?

LE
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Post by: Jasper90 on January 16, 2015, 01:22:24 PM
Wow great news! Album with a lot of long tracks, the box looks great! :D. I really looking forward to it already, can't wait!
Nice birthday present btw, 16th March is my birthday! ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on January 16, 2015, 01:27:06 PM
I wonder if the 6 extra tracks are containing the 4 bonus tracks or if we will get possibly 10 other tracks together with the 11 from the album?

LE

The six tracks are the 4 tracks in the 2cd version, plus two another bonus tracks.

12. .38 Special
13. My Heart Has Never Changed
14. Terminal of Tribute To
15. Heart of Oak
16. Time Will End All Sorrow
17. Oklahoma Ponies (traditional melody, lyrics and arrangement by Mark Knopfler)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Vesper on January 16, 2015, 01:33:24 PM
I'm so impressed by this box! I just bought my copy of the 300 available!!!
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Post by: jbaent on January 16, 2015, 01:39:33 PM
I'm so impressed by this box! I just bought my copy of the 300 available!!!

Did they charged your card inmediately or you will pay when the box is ready to shipment?
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Post by: El Macho on January 16, 2015, 01:47:03 PM
Hot Dog will be the amazon.de bonus track ? (he should have named it Curry Wurst... ;D)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on January 16, 2015, 01:49:42 PM
I'm so impressed by this box! I just bought my copy of the 300 available!!!

Is it 300 copies worldwide or only at the Universal store?
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Post by: Suprlinda on January 16, 2015, 01:50:33 PM
Mark's site now has the posting up, and the dates are changed by a week. 
Quote
Mark Knopfler
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Post by: LoveExpresso on January 16, 2015, 01:54:47 PM
I wonder if the 6 extra tracks are containing the 4 bonus tracks or if we will get possibly 10 other tracks together with the 11 from the album?

LE

The six tracks are the 4 tracks in the 2cd version, plus two another bonus tracks.

12. .38 Special
13. My Heart Has Never Changed
14. Terminal of Tribute To
15. Heart of Oak
16. Time Will End All Sorrow
17. Oklahoma Ponies (traditional melody, lyrics and arrangement by Mark Knopfler)

Not sure where these info comes from? It is hard to keep track, especially when you are supposed to work actually.. Hot Dog, amazon.de bonus track, again?

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on January 16, 2015, 01:57:08 PM
I wonder if the 6 extra tracks are containing the 4 bonus tracks or if we will get possibly 10 other tracks together with the 11 from the album?

LE

The six tracks are the 4 tracks in the 2cd version, plus two another bonus tracks.

12. .38 Special
13. My Heart Has Never Changed
14. Terminal of Tribute To
15. Heart of Oak
16. Time Will End All Sorrow
17. Oklahoma Ponies (traditional melody, lyrics and arrangement by Mark Knopfler)

Not sure where these info comes from? It is hard to keep track, especially when you are supposed to work actually.. Hot Dog, amazon.de bonus track, again?

LE

From a very official site (Universal Records)

https://store.universalmusic.com/udiscover/*/*/Tracker-Box-Set/3RGC0000000 (https://store.universalmusic.com/udiscover/*/*/Tracker-Box-Set/3RGC0000000)
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Post by: LoveExpresso on January 16, 2015, 01:58:18 PM
Ok thanks!  :thumbsdown

Could not find the amazon.de bonustrack however..

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on January 16, 2015, 02:01:18 PM
Ok thanks!  :thumbsdown

Could not find the amazon.de bonustrack however..

LE

Thats probably a guessing by El Macho, and I agree with it, it looks like it would be another extra track in amazon.de because thats the only title left from the pdf we saw yesterday, but I guess that until the record is not released we won
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on January 16, 2015, 02:09:14 PM
I meant ok thanks  :thumbsup of course,

and now I see clearer! Thanks for your patience!

Hot Dog.. pfft..

LE
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Post by: Jana on January 16, 2015, 02:27:42 PM
new info on germany universal site from today:

http://www.universal-music.de/mark-knopfler/news/detail/article:231779/willkommen-zurueck-mark-knopfler-kuendigt-neues-album-tracker-fuer-den-6-maerz-2015-an
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Post by: Lestroid on January 16, 2015, 02:29:46 PM
When I see the title "Laughs and Jokes and Drinks and Smokes",  I can't help but think of "Badges, Posters, Stickers, and T-Shirts".  I always loved that song.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Ar (aka Enlight) on January 16, 2015, 02:39:45 PM
In all the excitement i have to apologize too Dennis Brower , JeroenvG and Jbaent for me thinking and uttering that the ACE search(pdf) was a kind of hoax, after all it was an excellent piece of research!! , well done folks .What was i thinking with all the knowledge around here :smack
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ds1984 on January 16, 2015, 02:56:15 PM

Lights of Taormina LOL

He really liked that place/concert

If I remember well the last Sultans ever was played there

Nope, SOS was played again later that same year on the secret US gig.
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Post by: marki on January 16, 2015, 02:57:09 PM
Well, now it's official, with all 4 formats:

http://store.universalmusic.com/udiscover/artist.html?a=mark_knopfler&utm_campaign=KNOPFLERStoremailer&utm_content=UMGUK9931-386332&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=KNOPFLER

Spirit levels high!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: surferboy on January 16, 2015, 02:57:39 PM
Thanks to Jana's link we get a little more info about the songs:

Broken Bones is about J.J. Cale,
Laughs and Jokes and Drinks and Smokes is about Mark's youth

So to me one of the lines that go through the album could be people oriented songs: Basil, Beryl, J.J. ...
Mark tracking people that were important in his life.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on January 16, 2015, 03:09:30 PM
Thanks to Jana's link we get a little more info about the songs:

Broken Bones is about J.J. Cale,
Laughs and Jokes and Drinks and Smokes is about Mark's youth

So to me one of the lines that go through the album could be people oriented songs: Basil, Beryl, J.J. ...
Mark tracking people that were important in his life.

MK quote:

"The album title 'Tracker' arrived out of me trying to find my way over the decades. Out of me tracking time - looking at people, places and things from my past, and out of the process of tracking as in recording tracks in the studio."
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: diremark86 on January 16, 2015, 03:13:10 PM
I'm so impressed by this box! I just bought my copy of the 300 available!!!

Is it 300 copies worldwide or only at the Universal store?

According the banner, at the top of the uDiscover main page:

"Strictly limited to 300 and only available at uDiscover"
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ds1984 on January 16, 2015, 03:14:35 PM
I am fed up with these expensive deluxe featuring exclusive music.

I don't cope with this crappy game, and again it will be a NO-NO for me!



Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on January 16, 2015, 03:31:57 PM
I'm so impressed by this box! I just bought my copy of the 300 available!!!

Is it 300 copies worldwide or only at the Universal store?

According the banner, at the top of the uDiscover main page:

"Strictly limited to 300 and only available at uDiscover"

Ah, good thing it's been secured then  ;)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Knopflerfan on January 16, 2015, 04:20:28 PM
Yes agree! Email recieved & box set ordered - well it had to be didn't it??!! Remember those of us with tickets via MK.COM get a free copy of the album...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on January 16, 2015, 04:33:45 PM
Oh they did't get rid of these dots on the clouds, looking forward to see it live on the vinyl!
By the way, the cover changed again. More cropped, more sharped. Did they ever stop? ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: JeroenvG on January 16, 2015, 04:34:28 PM
Remember those of us with tickets via MK.COM get a free copy of the album...

DO we all get a free copy? Last time it was only for UK fans...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ingridswing on January 16, 2015, 05:00:51 PM
I never saw a thing about the free copy, where should that be listed and where and how to order. Saw no information about it at all
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on January 16, 2015, 05:03:30 PM
Remember those of us with tickets via MK.COM get a free copy of the album...

DO we all get a free copy? Last time it was only for UK fans...

Only if you ordered tickets for UK shows!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ingridswing on January 16, 2015, 05:09:52 PM
You should know I ordered tix for UK shows  :P
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ingridswing on January 16, 2015, 05:12:55 PM
Now I see, 1 extra line in the confirmation, but info has to be made available. So I can get 2 free copies. Other shows friends bought
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Rail King on January 16, 2015, 05:14:07 PM
It just occurred to me that it's very unusual for Mark to put an uptempo song like "Beryl" towards the end of an album (second before last).

(Would I have more important things to think about? I probably would.  ;))
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on January 16, 2015, 05:23:07 PM
Now I see, 1 extra line in the confirmation, but info has to be made available. So I can get 2 free copies. Other shows friends bought

What do you want with 2 free copies?  ;D ;D :wave

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Ar (aka Enlight) on January 16, 2015, 05:25:43 PM
Mark said:

Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on January 16, 2015, 05:27:49 PM
You should know I ordered tix for UK shows  :P

Ofcourse i know, it was a reply to Jeroen  ;)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: diremark86 on January 16, 2015, 05:46:05 PM


Ah, good thing it's been secured then  ;)

Likewise...I will feel better about it when I have sitting on my coffee table though....
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: rudiger on January 16, 2015, 07:47:13 PM
Taormina is about 40 km from my home: when the weather is good I can almost see the "Lights of Taormina"

Well, as soon as I'll receive the CD I'll take a walk in Taormina to listen to this song in the right place  :lol
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: rudiger on January 16, 2015, 09:16:47 PM
I'm so impressed by this box! I just bought my copy of the 300 available!!!

Is it 300 copies worldwide or only at the Universal store?

According the banner, at the top of the uDiscover main page:

"Strictly limited to 300 and only available at uDiscover"

But is it the pre-order to be exclusive on this site or the whole sale? 300 copies worldwide seem little to me
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Knopflerfan on January 16, 2015, 10:02:29 PM
I take it that its strictly 300 only and that's it - so if you want it, order it asap....
Please be aware that there is a courier charge which makes the total price
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: rudiger on January 16, 2015, 11:01:13 PM
I take it that its strictly 300 only and that's it - so if you want it, order it asap....
Please be aware that there is a courier charge which makes the total price
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: rudiger on January 16, 2015, 11:02:24 PM
Taormina is about 40 km from my home: when the weather is good I can almost see the "Lights of Taormina"

Well, as soon as I'll receive the CD I'll take a walk in Taormina to listen to this song in the right place  :lol

great Rudiger

 ;)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: IrisRose on January 17, 2015, 02:43:42 AM
I just ordered the box set, and shipping was over $50 US.   Total price $144.00 US.   And all I want are all the songs.  I truly don't care about the vinyl, since I no longer have a turntable, or the other extras.    So if anyone wants the vinyls and or other souvenirs, I'm willing to sell them for a nominal price.   
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Knopflerfan on January 17, 2015, 03:04:45 AM
Wow Iris Rose, aren't you going to keep it all as a lovely set? I personally don't play vinyl or even cds (We play music purely downloaded and played through surround sound system) but I'm gonna keep it as a collectible set...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: IrisRose on January 17, 2015, 04:14:39 AM
Truly, Knopfler fan.   I like programs, badges and the music, whether it's downloaded or on cd.   Oh yes, the dvds.   But someone out there wants the vinyls, I'm sure.   
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on January 17, 2015, 11:49:59 AM
From where this photo was taken?

http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/188938/9

(http://static1.stereoboard.com/images/stories/2013/images/A-Z%20Main%20Artist%20Images/M/600x320xmark_knopfler_lj_160115.png.pagespeed.ic.DVxoNXJSWu.jpg)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on January 17, 2015, 11:53:25 AM
Lovely picture of MK!    :P
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: localhero1986 on January 17, 2015, 12:44:14 PM
Hi guys! Well that's some gooooooooooood news! ;D ;D ;D Just saying, it's great news a new album is on it's way but... Just my thoughts on the 300 limited availability stuff. It's only udiscover which says "ONLY 300 COPIES". No official announcement there will be only 300 boxes... Right? :wave

Until then: just enjoy the news, sound snippets and whatever is released / published and so on! ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on January 17, 2015, 12:57:20 PM
I saw recently another website selling '300 copies strictly limited edition from ***.com'. Come on, guys, it's a box-set, the most expensive edition, how they could made just this much? It's clearly a marketing strategy.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Jana on January 17, 2015, 03:46:45 PM
From where this photo was taken?

3 new press fotos 2014: http://www.universal-music.de/mark-knopfler/bilder  ;)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Knopflerfan on January 17, 2015, 04:17:07 PM
Hi guys! Well that's some gooooooooooood news! ;D ;D ;D Just saying, it's great news a new album is on it's way but... Just my thoughts on the 300 limited availability stuff. It's only udiscover which says "ONLY 300 COPIES". No official announcement there will be only 300 boxes... Right? :wave

Until then: just enjoy the news, sound snippets and whatever is released / published and so on! ;D

But undiscover is the official outlet from mk.com... as per email recieved from them...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: peterromer on January 17, 2015, 05:12:46 PM
But it remains unknown if we as MK members receives any discount through this membership. I guess not. I am still awaiting the announced email we were supposed to receive for pre-ordering.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Knopflerfan on January 17, 2015, 05:18:07 PM
Had email through from MK.COM with no mention of discounts?? but as there IS only 300 limited edition box sets I wouldn't hang around....
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Throttle on January 17, 2015, 07:55:20 PM
3 new press fotos 2014

Thank you, Jana! 
I liked those new pictures, especially the third one, where he looks down.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on January 18, 2015, 12:31:49 AM
uDiscover have elaborated about the box saying:

"Strictly limited to 300 and only available at uDiscover.

http://store.universalmusic.com/udiscover/ (http://store.universalmusic.com/udiscover/)

I still have a hard time believing that though.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on January 18, 2015, 12:36:23 AM
uDiscover have elaborated about the box saying:

"Strictly limited to 300 and only available at uDiscover.

http://store.universalmusic.com/udiscover/ (http://store.universalmusic.com/udiscover/)

I still have a hard time believing that though.

I think it's a bull****. Even The Ragpicker's Dream LP was made many times more in terms of quantity. This looks like a really bad joke.

Why not to bring it even further and give box-set only to Mark's friends then? Or only to family members or something.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: peterromer on January 18, 2015, 03:45:49 AM
Those are insane shipping costs  ???, 28 British Pounds to send the box set to Denmark. Same Price for Deluxe CD Set.
Waiting for Amazon.de prices.

Physical Product    Tracker: Deluxe CD     CD Album    Release Date 16/03/15   
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on January 18, 2015, 10:02:21 AM
"Tracker" is already #45 in Best Sellers on Amazon UK this morning!    :)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on January 18, 2015, 11:52:11 AM
Just ordered the "Limited Deluxe Edition" for 23,38
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on January 18, 2015, 12:02:48 PM
I just ordered the Deluxe CD - 15 tracks from Amazon UK -
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on January 18, 2015, 12:05:37 PM
That would make around 18 Euro which is quite a difference!  ;) Hope you ordered the CD and not the mp3-download?  ;D

I find it astonishing that Richard Ford wrote the liner notes - I wonder how that connection came to be.

LE

Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on January 18, 2015, 12:09:04 PM
That would make around 18 Euro which is quite a difference!  ;) Hope you ordered the CD and not the mp3-download?  ;D

I find it astonishing that Richard Ford wrote the liner notes - I wonder how that connection came to be.

LE

No, it's the CD, but with MP3 download included.   Release date 16th March - delivery 19th March.   :)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on January 18, 2015, 12:14:11 PM
At times, I find it quite unclear to find stuff on the amazon sites lately. For example, I am on the amazon.co.uk site by now and was only able to find the standard and vinyl edition, and all single mp3 tracks.

It changes on a daily base at the moment.

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on January 18, 2015, 12:20:26 PM
At times, I find it quite unclear to find stuff on the amazon sites lately. For example, I am on the amazon.co.uk site by now and was only able to find the standard and vinyl edition, and all single mp3 tracks.

It changes on a daily base at the moment.

LE

Strange!   I can only find the Standard CD - 11 tracks, the Deluxe CD 15 tracks and MP3, but no vinyl!   :hmm

Apparently, it's because you are accessing the site from Germany!   ;)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Justme on January 18, 2015, 12:39:41 PM
In the meantime I wish MK would switch to a non-major label, or distribute his records directly, like GF does.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Vesper on January 18, 2015, 02:49:18 PM
From where this photo was taken?

3 new press fotos 2014: http://www.universal-music.de/mark-knopfler/bilder  ;)

I like those fotos! Too bad they aren't that sharp.
My guess is their screens from the presskit.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: sweetsurrender on January 18, 2015, 04:13:34 PM
From where this photo was taken?

3 new press fotos 2014: http://www.universal-music.de/mark-knopfler/bilder  ;)

Mark looks really handsome !!!!!! ;) great press release photos.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: OnlyMe on January 19, 2015, 09:40:15 AM
Those are insane shipping costs  ???, 28 British Pounds to send the box set to Denmark. Same Price for Deluxe CD Set.
Waiting for Amazon.de prices.

Physical Product    Tracker: Deluxe CD     CD Album    Release Date 16/03/15   
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on January 19, 2015, 03:30:16 PM
it seems that Guy likes 'Terminal of Tribute To' , one of the extra song of the album

Q: Can you share with us what your favorite song is on the new album

Guy: Currently, it's one of the bonus tracks...that begins with Te....

Which often means that this is a slow and soothing "skipper". Seattle was GF:s favourite last time around.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: yontwocrows on January 19, 2015, 03:36:34 PM
No, it was Kingdom of gold:

"8th September 2012   
Q: Congrats on an astonishing album, so many highlights.....too many to mention: Redbud Tree, Privateering, Haul Away, Yon Two Crows, Seattle, Bluebird....but my favourite (tucked away at track 17) is Dream of the Drowned Submariner. So, which one is your favourite?    
A: "Well they've all been a favourite at some point. Current leader is Kingdom of gold."

 
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Jarle on January 19, 2015, 04:58:36 PM
it seems that Guy likes 'Terminal of Tribute To' , one of the extra song of the album

Q: Can you share with us what your favorite song is on the new album

Guy: Currently, it's one of the bonus tracks...that begins with Te....

Which often means that this is a slow and soothing "skipper". Seattle was GF:s favourite last time around.

And Seattle is one of the best songs on the album, so Guy was right  :) ;)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on January 19, 2015, 05:10:02 PM
No, it was Kingdom of gold:

"8th September 2012   
Q: Congrats on an astonishing album, so many highlights.....too many to mention: Redbud Tree, Privateering, Haul Away, Yon Two Crows, Seattle, Bluebird....but my favourite (tucked away at track 17) is Dream of the Drowned Submariner. So, which one is your favourite?    
A: "Well they've all been a favourite at some point. Current leader is Kingdom of gold."

Ah, my mistake!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on January 19, 2015, 05:37:59 PM
He also said Seattle in another post, he got asked about his favourite many times and he changed the title from one answer to another...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: kempston_joystick on January 19, 2015, 05:54:40 PM
Hi all, first time poster. I ordered the box set last week. I happened to notice that today, Universal has removed all mention of the "strictly limited to 300 copies." I thought I'd mention it in case anyone else ordered it based on its rarity. Feels like an unpleasant scan on Univeral's part.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: nababo on January 19, 2015, 05:57:57 PM
Hi all, first time poster. I ordered the box set last week. I happened to notice that today, Universal has removed all mention of the "strictly limited to 300 copies." I thought I'd mention it in case anyone else ordered it based on its rarity. Feels like an unpleasant scan on Univeral's part.

That's good news, especially for me. I'm not allowed - by country restrictions or whatever it is - to purchase the supermegaextradeluxe box from the site. I'm hopping Amazon will have it as well.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Jarle on January 19, 2015, 09:01:24 PM
Hi all, first time poster. I ordered the box set last week. I happened to notice that today, Universal has removed all mention of the "strictly limited to 300 copies." I thought I'd mention it in case anyone else ordered it based on its rarity. Feels like an unpleasant scan on Univeral's part.

Hi!

I mailed uDiscover about the 300 copies yesterday, but haven't got any answer. Strange thing indeed now that the notice is gone from their site.

 
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on January 19, 2015, 10:19:46 PM
If the info they gave about the 300 copies is wrong I am filing a claim.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Vesper on January 20, 2015, 12:17:24 AM
If the info they gave about the 300 copies is wrong I am filing a claim.

I'm thinking the same! Keep us posted!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jerrymb on January 20, 2015, 01:55:54 AM
I still see limited edition cds that came out 15 years ago. The word LIMITED is one of the biggest scams going. When they say LIMITED they mean LIMITED to as many people who are willing to buy it.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Jarle on January 20, 2015, 06:35:44 AM
The box is now also available for pre-order from Elusive Disc:

http://www.elusivedisc.com/Mark-Knopfler-Tracker-Limited-Edition-2LP-2CD-DVD-Box-Set/productinfo/VERLP16983/

It says "Limited edition", but nothing about 300 copies...

And on Amazon.de:

http://www.amazon.de/Tracker-Ltd-Super-Deluxe-Mark-Knopfler/dp/B00S1M7LHY
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on January 20, 2015, 07:35:29 AM
Thanks Jarle!

That does it.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: peterromer on January 20, 2015, 11:42:24 AM
Hi!
I mailed uDiscover about the 300 copies yesterday, but haven't got any answer. Strange thing indeed now that the notice is gone from their site.
[/quote]

Yep. I did exactly the same. No Answer. They probably got cold feet and what a shame.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on January 20, 2015, 12:05:31 PM
Hi!
I mailed uDiscover about the 300 copies yesterday, but haven't got any answer. Strange thing indeed now that the notice is gone from their site.

Yep. I did exactly the same. No Answer. They probably got cold feet and what a shame.
[/quote]

Peter, you have a PM. Did you see it? :)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on January 20, 2015, 12:06:36 PM
Amazon.de: EUR 69,99 Kostenlose Lieferung (free delivery!!)

We paid 78 and 25 delivery costs!!  :hmm What tha F*ck... :thumbsdown :think

It is possible to cancel the order at udiscover within 14 days.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: holaknopfler on January 20, 2015, 12:49:12 PM
Can you order from Amazon de in holland dutchessy?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on January 20, 2015, 12:58:04 PM
Can you order from Amazon de in holland dutchessy?

Trying, but i think so
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: peterromer on January 20, 2015, 01:05:08 PM

Peter, you have a PM. Did you see it? :)
[/quote]

No I did not. Now I did  :)  and replied. could be great that you are also going there.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: peterromer on January 20, 2015, 01:10:52 PM
Amazon.de: EUR 69,99 Kostenlose Lieferung (free delivery!!)
We paid 78 and 25 delivery costs!!  :hmm What tha F*ck... :thumbsdown :think
It is possible to cancel the order at udiscover within 14 days.

Yeah, its a mess unfortunately. I got a tip from a guy to whom I sold my "Get Lucky Limited Edition" to, that this site is very cheap and very good.
http://www.wowhd.co.uk/   (choose your country)
They do not have MK
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: OnlyMe on January 20, 2015, 02:13:33 PM
Pre-ordered my Deluxe-CD on Amazon.co.uk today.  Can't wait  ;D

Now I still have to decide which 3 USB sticks I should pre-order  :hmm   I'm leaning towards Dublin (opening night), Antwerp (because I'll be there) and one of the RAH gigs...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Vesper on January 20, 2015, 03:58:34 PM
I don't feel good about the whole discussion regarding the box set. I kinda feel ripped off and I think others that bought it from uDiscover feel too. That's why I decided to forward my comments to uDiscover, Universal (Nederland), MK.com and Guy (and hopefully it will reach PCM as well). From the  Dutch Mark Knopfler Facebook page I know several others are 'working' on the matter as well so let's hope something happens.

My commentary can now be read on Guy's forum and he replied: "I can't say I disagree, I will forward your comments".



To be continued.............
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on January 20, 2015, 04:07:50 PM
I have cancelled my preorder for the box now as well.

It's a shameful trick. Can't say I'm going to ever purchase something again off uDiscover.

When "uDiscover" that they lied.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Vesper on January 20, 2015, 04:15:39 PM
I have cancelled my preorder for the box now as well.

It's a shameful trick. Can't say I'm going to ever purchase something again off uDiscover.

When "uDiscover" that they lied.

Didn't cancel mine (so far).

I must say I had a good laugh from your joke!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: cannibals on January 20, 2015, 04:48:50 PM
http://www.bol.com/nl/p/tracker/9200000038731611/

Tracker now availible true bol.com in the netherlands but only the one without bonustracks at the moment.. I will wait a bit longer........
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: holaknopfler on January 20, 2015, 05:09:34 PM
I have cancelled my preorder for the box now as well.

It's a shameful trick. Can't say I'm going to ever purchase something again off uDiscover.

When "uDiscover" that they lied.

Lololol ;D ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on January 20, 2015, 05:42:28 PM
http://www.bol.com/nl/p/tracker/9200000038731611/

Tracker now availible true bol.com in the netherlands but only the one without bonustracks at the moment.. I will wait a bit longer........

6 march release  ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on January 20, 2015, 05:43:19 PM
I don't know why on Earth Mark's management decided to work so close with this website, so many Facebook post comes from it. Now that.
Seems like generic mediocre website with strange love to lists and facts like Mark who didn't have the nerve to ask dad for an amplifier.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: kempston_joystick on January 20, 2015, 05:46:47 PM
I contacted Universal, they have asked me for a screenshot showing the "strictly limited" claim. I don't have one. I'm canceling my order.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ElinaFinn on January 20, 2015, 05:53:09 PM
I have cancelled my preorder for the box now as well.

It's a shameful trick. Can't say I'm going to ever purchase something again off uDiscover.

When "uDiscover" that they lied.

Did you notice it said in the cancellation rules that you may cancel your purchase within 14 days - beginning on the day AFTER you receive the product(s)? And you'll have to return the product at your own cost and risk. The delivery charge you paid will not be refunded, if I understood it right.   :o  That is unfair, now that we know they've lied.  >:(  They completely fooled me with that "limited edition" stuff, although the high delivery cost made me wonder where on earth this uDiscover store really is - Antarctica?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Vesper on January 20, 2015, 06:08:24 PM
Here are the screenshots
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ingridswing on January 20, 2015, 06:10:22 PM
Thanks Klaas! Couldn't do it with my phone
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Vesper on January 20, 2015, 06:12:51 PM
I have cancelled my preorder for the box now as well.

It's a shameful trick. Can't say I'm going to ever purchase something again off uDiscover.

When "uDiscover" that they lied.

Did you notice it said in the cancellation rules that you may cancel your purchase within 14 days - beginning on the day AFTER you receive the product(s)? And you'll have to return the product at your own cost and risk. The delivery charge you paid will not be refunded, if I understood it right.   :o  That is unfair, now that we know they've lied.  >:(  They completely fooled me with that "limited edition" stuff, although the high delivery cost made me wonder where on earth this uDiscover store really is - Antarctica?

This is from their site, seems like it's possible to cancel:

We should be able to cancel your order or any item from your order providing we haven't already dispatched it to you. Just enter your request below and we will do our best to action it before it goes to our warehouse. We are not able to cancel your order once it's been processed.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Vesper on January 20, 2015, 07:01:37 PM
You just have to send them a message to tell them that you want to cancel your order.
They are very helpful.
I already got my money back.

http://store.universalmusic.com/udiscover/help/

Good for you!

I don't have a respone yet
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Vesper on January 20, 2015, 08:07:42 PM
Mail from Paul Crockford:

Dear Klaas,

You will be receiving a note from Universal Records regarding your complaint.
Many apologies from our side for the issue.
Hopefully they will be able to resolve the issue with you.
Thanks for your support of Mark.

Kind regards

PC


2 minutes later I got this:

Dear Klaas,

I work at Mark Knopfler
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on January 20, 2015, 08:11:33 PM
Today Guy gave an unexpected clear answer to the question about Ian Thomas' early drumming (as shown in the first diary entry). I would have been sure, same as the guy who asked, that this would have been Beryl. Now Guy said it is "River Towns". This song title is resonating in my mind since the first time I read it - it is so much an MK theme, that I am really looking forward to hear it, now with specific drums on it it is even more promising.
Newcastle, London - places where he lived - and I remember his nice warm words 2010, speaking of Hamburg as a "beautiful" city.. another river town..
All songs with a maybe "Geordie" theme in it are always phantastic work from MK.. so "River Towns", a song that needs drumming - looking forward to it!

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on January 20, 2015, 08:19:07 PM
Today Guy gave an unexpected clear answer to the question about Ian Thomas' early drumming (as shown in the first diary entry). I would have been sure, same as the guy who asked, that this would have been Beryl. Now Guy said it is "River Towns". This song title is resonating in my mind since the first time I read it - it is so much an MK theme, that I am really looking forward to hear it, now with specific drums on it it is even more promising.
Newcastle, London - places where he lived - and I remember his nice warm words 2010, speaking of Hamburg as a "beautiful" city.. another river town..
All songs with a maybe "Geordie" theme in it are always phantastic work from MK.. so "River Towns", a song that needs drumming - looking forward to it!

LE

Not forgetting Glasgow, the city of his birth and Leeds too!    ;)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on January 20, 2015, 10:10:52 PM
Mail from Paul Crockford:

Dear Klaas,

You will be receiving a note from Universal Records regarding your complaint.
Many apologies from our side for the issue.
Hopefully they will be able to resolve the issue with you.
Thanks for your support of Mark.

Kind regards

PC


2 minutes later I got this:

Dear Klaas,

I work at Mark Knopfler
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Pottel on January 20, 2015, 10:42:14 PM
Today Guy gave an unexpected clear answer to the question about Ian Thomas' early drumming (as shown in the first diary entry). I would have been sure, same as the guy who asked, that this would have been Beryl. Now Guy said it is "River Towns". This song title is resonating in my mind since the first time I read it - it is so much an MK theme, that I am really looking forward to hear it, now with specific drums on it it is even more promising.
Newcastle, London - places where he lived - and I remember his nice warm words 2010, speaking of Hamburg as a "beautiful" city.. another river town..
All songs with a maybe "Geordie" theme in it are always phantastic work from MK.. so "River Towns", a song that needs drumming - looking forward to it!

LE

Not forgetting Glasgow, the city of his birth and Leeds too!    ;)
and antwerp, DA river city.
anyways, ordered the deluxe box from amazon. do they have the ominous bonus song  i keep reading about??
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on January 20, 2015, 11:00:39 PM
There was a song name called "Hot Dog" on a pdf with unofficial stuff which turned out to be a list of almost all songs from tracker, apart from Hot Dog.
There is no official mentioning of it yet.
If amazon (or another online retailer or iTunes) use it, they will probably use for the mp3 download version. That was the case with Time In The Sun and Early Bird.

The Deluxe Edition is a single CD with 11 standard tracks plus 4 bonus tracks. 2 more bonus tracks apart from those 15 are in the Limited Box.

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Pottel on January 20, 2015, 11:01:17 PM
thnx bruv...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: goldenheart96 on January 20, 2015, 11:05:40 PM
Wow, I'm positively surprised!  :)


Mail from Paul Crockford:

Dear Klaas,

You will be receiving a note from Universal Records regarding your complaint.
Many apologies from our side for the issue.
Hopefully they will be able to resolve the issue with you.
Thanks for your support of Mark.

Kind regards

PC


2 minutes later I got this:

Dear Klaas,

I work at Mark Knopfler
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ds1984 on January 20, 2015, 11:57:58 PM
A reliable source is telling me that 'Terminal of Tribute To' is a great song

This would confirm what Guy said 2 days ago, that is 'his favourite'

Now I'd like to know why this song is basically out of the album and available only as an extra song

Is that the song somebody referred to on a link posted on Guy site? (but Guy, of course, did not publish...)?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jerrymb on January 21, 2015, 12:08:37 AM
A reliable source is telling me that 'Terminal of Tribute To' is a great song

This would confirm what Guy said 2 days ago, that is 'his favourite'

Now I'd like to know why this song is basically out of the album and available only as an extra song

Because often the artists themselves are very poor judges of what is a great song and what isn't.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: schmonka on January 21, 2015, 12:45:24 AM
A reliable source is telling me that 'Terminal of Tribute To' is a great song

This would confirm what Guy said 2 days ago, that is 'his favourite'

Now I'd like to know why this song is basically out of the album and available only as an extra song

Because often the artists themselves are very poor judges of what is a great song and what isn't.

Look at Follow the Ribbon....perhaps one of the best songs from the last album...left off and only available as a bonus extra....who made THAT decision...!?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: OnlyMe on January 21, 2015, 08:27:48 AM
Just as so many other fans, I think the whole bonus songs-scheme is very unfair.  They should just put every song on the CD and be done with it.  I'm not interested in LP's or the other promotional material, so I'm not paying the high price for the box-set, but I always feel cheated because of the extra songs I'm missing  :'(

I think it's a poor marketing strategy, because we all know we'll eventually end up with getting the songs through other means anyway.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dustyvalentino on January 21, 2015, 08:31:56 AM
NYC another river town where MK has lived.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on January 21, 2015, 09:15:01 AM
Could we use this thread to show in which shops the box is cheaper?

With Shipping Costs, the cheaper I
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Vesper on January 21, 2015, 09:46:10 AM
http://www.bol.com/nl/p/tracker/9200000038731611/

Tracker now availible true bol.com in the netherlands but only the one without bonustracks at the moment.. I will wait a bit longer........

6 march release  ;D

It changed to March 13. All 4 formats on it as well!
http://www.bol.com/nl/s/algemeen/zoekresultaten/Ntt/mark%2Bknopfler%2Btracker/N/0/Nty/1/search/true/searchType/qck/sc/media_all/index.html?_requestid=1348635
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on January 21, 2015, 09:58:12 AM
http://www.bol.com/nl/p/tracker/9200000038731611/

Tracker now availible true bol.com in the netherlands but only the one without bonustracks at the moment.. I will wait a bit longer........

6 march release  ;D

It changed to March 13. All 4 formats on it as well!
http://www.bol.com/nl/s/algemeen/zoekresultaten/Ntt/mark%2Bknopfler%2Btracker/N/0/Nty/1/search/true/searchType/qck/sc/media_all/index.html?_requestid=1348635

Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: holaknopfler on January 21, 2015, 10:08:44 AM
http://www.bol.com/nl/p/tracker/9200000038731611/

Tracker now availible true bol.com in the netherlands but only the one without bonustracks at the moment.. I will wait a bit longer........

6 march release  ;D

It changed to March 13. All 4 formats on it as well!
http://www.bol.com/nl/s/algemeen/zoekresultaten/Ntt/mark%2Bknopfler%2Btracker/N/0/Nty/1/search/true/searchType/qck/sc/media_all/index.html?_requestid=1348635

Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on January 21, 2015, 12:37:39 PM
http://www.bol.com/nl/p/tracker/9200000038731611/

Tracker now availible true bol.com in the netherlands but only the one without bonustracks at the moment.. I will wait a bit longer........

Yes, that's right. 74 euro
6 march release  ;D

It changed to March 13. All 4 formats on it as well!
http://www.bol.com/nl/s/algemeen/zoekresultaten/Ntt/mark%2Bknopfler%2Btracker/N/0/Nty/1/search/true/searchType/qck/sc/media_all/index.html?_requestid=1348635

Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on January 21, 2015, 12:41:58 PM
Fnac Spain is selling the box at almost 80 euros, shipping costs apart.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Rail King on January 21, 2015, 01:53:21 PM
A reliable source is telling me that 'Terminal of Tribute To' is a great song

This would confirm what Guy said 2 days ago, that is 'his favourite'

Now I'd like to know why this song is basically out of the album and available only as an extra song

Because often the artists themselves are very poor judges of what is a great song and what isn't.

Look at Follow the Ribbon....perhaps one of the best songs from the last album...left off and only available as a bonus extra....who made THAT decision...!?

Very true about "Follow the Ribbon", one of my all-time favourite songs. I never understood why it was left off. That doesn't mean, though, that "Terminal" will be a similar case. I'm not so sure if Guy is the best judge ...  :-\
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: cannibals on January 21, 2015, 03:07:54 PM
Take a look at this Belgium site. The box is priced at 148 Euro  :disbelief :disbelief :disbelief :disbelief :disbelief :disbelief :disbelief

http://www.cosmox.nl/INTERSHOP/web/WFS/shop-cosmox_nl-Site/nl_NL/-/EUR/FHSearch-Start;pgid=V_27QywxmepSRpFxxakMs89000000_e8cooB;sid=bx55DZLl5xZ5VsZa3RxWKj4kudxyz6uHBv4K3-OkAt0Oq7X_eiext-X-7RQWtxQYH4EQUIBYTPNzEeE3Hl8MgXn8At0Oqw==?fh_search=Mark+Knopfler+-+Tracker&searchcategory=02

Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: cannibals on January 21, 2015, 03:19:34 PM
Going off topic here but anybody have seen this before? Looks like illegal dvd to me?

http://www.velvetmusic.nl/shopping/product_details.php?gt=Ogh&lang=nl&id=9824371&knopfler-mark-live-in-concert-romeo-DVD#.VL-0i090wdU

I've seen it others sites too.

Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on January 21, 2015, 03:33:32 PM
Going off topic here but anybody have seen this before? Looks like illegal dvd to me?

http://www.velvetmusic.nl/shopping/product_details.php?gt=Ogh&lang=nl&id=9824371&knopfler-mark-live-in-concert-romeo-DVD#.VL-0i090wdU

I've seen it others sites too.



I found this cover picture for this one:

(http://s.s-bol.com/imgbase0/imagebase3/large/FC/8/1/9/9/9200000038639918.jpg)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on January 21, 2015, 03:39:06 PM
What about this one?

http://www.amazon.de/MARK-KNOPFLER-Greatest-Hits-2CD/dp/B00OHVDC4O/ref=sr_1_14?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1421850960&sr=1-14&keywords=mark+knopfler
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on January 21, 2015, 04:02:06 PM
I rather focuss in find the best price for the box instead of find bootlegs  ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Vesper on January 21, 2015, 05:55:56 PM
This seems like another photo for Tracker
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: holaknopfler on January 21, 2015, 05:59:22 PM
Wow great pic, thanks Klaas!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on January 21, 2015, 06:37:54 PM
Wouldn't it be more appropriate if they shot him with a pen-in-hand or reading a book rather than with a guitar during a shoot these days?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on January 21, 2015, 07:15:10 PM
Beryl is more about the writer's life than about one of her books. Same with Basil Bunting, Mark obviously met him when he was young and the poet made a deep impression on him?  And you never can read too much books. But I am biased.

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ElinaFinn on January 21, 2015, 07:24:57 PM
You just have to send them a message to tell them that you want to cancel your order.
They are very helpful.
I already got my money back.

http://store.universalmusic.com/udiscover/help/

I just received an e-mail from uDiscover saying they've cancelled my order as requested. Thanks for your help, Caroline1985 and Klaas Bouke!  :wave
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Jana on January 21, 2015, 08:05:55 PM
This seems like another photo for Tracker

 WOW! :thumbsup
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: knopflerized on January 21, 2015, 11:28:16 PM
Okay Here I am  :D :D
Universal should review their prices.... We're all cancelling !
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on January 21, 2015, 11:35:42 PM
Okay Here I am  :D :D
Universal should review their prices.... We're all cancelling !

Some Dutch members did contact Universal about this. We expect to have news about this soon. We keep you informed!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on January 22, 2015, 08:33:32 AM
My cancellation went through and the order amount has been stricken from my CC.

Hello Amazon!  ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: shangri la 1 on January 22, 2015, 09:40:04 AM
Mail from Paul Crockford:

Dear Klaas,

You will be receiving a note from Universal Records regarding your complaint.
Many apologies from our side for the issue.
Hopefully they will be able to resolve the issue with you.
Thanks for your support of Mark.

Kind regards

PC


2 minutes later I got this:

Dear Klaas,

I work at Mark Knopfler
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on January 22, 2015, 10:55:46 AM

Any lawyers members here??

Present!  :wave
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on January 22, 2015, 11:41:52 AM
To get back on a lighter note after the last couple of embarrasment (for me), I revisited the Tracker Info: I must say that after the 90-Min.-Double-Album
it is great to have an album (for me, the Deluxe Edition will be the "normal" album so to say) with 15 tracks, many of them long, that plays over 75 minutes.
Although there are two very short (ridiculous short) tracks among the "bonus" songs, this may be the right way to "out" of the album if you know what I mean. The concept and the track names really made me curious and I am awaiting the next song (snippet) more anxious than ever.

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on January 25, 2015, 07:06:06 AM
What's this? Found it on YouTube...

Mark Knopfler - Tracker 2015 Full Album (link in description): http://youtu.be/etLvMqsoiy4

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on January 25, 2015, 09:49:19 AM
FAKE, you have to put your telephone number and subscribe to crap services thar costs lots of money
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Zeeley on January 25, 2015, 12:23:47 PM
Amazon.de: EUR 69,99 Kostenlose Lieferung (free delivery!!)
We paid 78 and 25 delivery costs!!  :hmm What tha F*ck... :thumbsdown :think
It is possible to cancel the order at udiscover within 14 days.

Yeah, its a mess unfortunately. I got a tip from a guy to whom I sold my "Get Lucky Limited Edition" to, that this site is very cheap and very good.
http://www.wowhd.co.uk/   (choose your country)
They do not have MK
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ustas on January 26, 2015, 12:15:31 AM
I do not follow the forum a long time so sorry if it's double post:

MARK KNOPFLER' NOTES  TRACKER


You won
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ustas on January 26, 2015, 12:19:51 AM
(http://sacksco.com/photo/hi/mark_knopfler2.jpg)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ustas on January 26, 2015, 12:28:21 AM
(http://sacksco.com/photo/hi/mark_knopfler.jpg)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on January 26, 2015, 12:50:10 AM
Do you have these images in hi-res Ustas? :lol
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ustas on January 26, 2015, 01:01:25 AM
It's hi-rez. As is.

Both are not photos, it's screenshots from "short film" by Henrik Hansen and interview by Tom Bird. Both videos are expected to be available on bonus DVD
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on January 26, 2015, 07:13:59 AM
Hi ustas. Very good to see you back again. Thanks a lot. Some of the press release was known already, but not to this extent. Very interesting news! :thumbsup

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on January 26, 2015, 08:20:00 AM
My ISP called and asked why I'm hogging all the bandwith in Sweden right now...  :hmm

 ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: OnlyMe on January 26, 2015, 09:46:22 AM
Big Thank You at ustas  :thumbsup That was an interesting read  :thumbsup
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on January 26, 2015, 10:27:18 AM
Not to keen about a saxophone in that song River Towns - a song I have very high expectations for... (I guess I will be disappointed in the end automatically  ;D) - not a friend of saxophone in MK's music in general - apart from Two Young Lovers.. All those little information pieces here and there let my expections rise a lot

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: surferboy on January 26, 2015, 11:12:17 AM
Nice pieces of info in the notes.
My expectations have changed after reading them:
It seems the early Straits sound of Beryl is just a singular thing and not representative of the whole album.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on January 26, 2015, 11:28:38 AM
Nice pieces of info in the notes.
My expectations have changed after reading them:
It seems the early Straits sound of Beryl is just a singular thing and not representative of the whole album.

Funny as I already expected that BEryl sound would be an island in the record, specially when you think that "the band" of the recordings was John McCusker, Mike McGoldrick, Phil Cunningham and Bruce Molski...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: surferboy on January 26, 2015, 11:38:42 AM
And I forgot that someone on this forum had an after-gig chat with Mike McG who said that Tracker sounded not that different to Privateering.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on January 26, 2015, 12:38:53 PM
And I forgot that someone on this forum had an after-gig chat with Mike McG who said that Tracker sounded not that different to Privateering.

I thought about that too but it sounded like an answer from someone who didn't want to give too much away!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on January 26, 2015, 01:08:29 PM
And I forgot that someone on this forum had an after-gig chat with Mike McG who said that Tracker sounded not that different to Privateering.

I thought about that too but it sounded like an answer from someone who didn't want to give too much away!

And maybe Mike just heard the songs in which he got to play, that could be, lets say, the 75% of the record?

Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: IrisRose on January 26, 2015, 01:39:14 PM
Great article, Ustas.    Thanks for sharing it with us.   Nice insight into some of the songs.   
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on January 26, 2015, 01:41:38 PM
Thanks Ustas! Great find!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on January 26, 2015, 01:47:23 PM
Thanks ustas - a great read!    :)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: yontwocrows on January 26, 2015, 07:53:27 PM
Thanks Ustas.
Oh - i think Broken Bones might be a song for me
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Pottel on January 26, 2015, 11:28:22 PM
interesting "interview"
didn't knoe mark attends the transatlantic sessions himself.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on January 27, 2015, 09:43:09 AM
interesting "interview"
didn't knoe mark attends the transatlantic sessions himself.

its a tv show as well.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on January 27, 2015, 09:45:27 AM
interesting "interview"
didn't knoe mark attends the transatlantic sessions himself.

its a tv show as well.

He went to one of them in London with Guy when Ruth was performing.   
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on January 27, 2015, 10:57:23 AM
interesting "interview"
didn't knoe mark attends the transatlantic sessions himself.

its a tv show as well.

He went to one of them in London with Guy when Ruth was performing.

I
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on January 27, 2015, 11:09:55 AM
interesting "interview"
didn't knoe mark attends the transatlantic sessions himself.

its a tv show as well.

He went to one of them in London with Guy when Ruth was performing.

I
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on January 27, 2015, 11:22:53 AM
Guy wrote in his Privateering Recording Diary (page 6) that he and Mark went to see her.

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Marijo58 on January 27, 2015, 03:18:22 PM
Thanks a lot Ustas, it was indeed very interesting!! Makes me want to be in March so I can listen to the wole album!!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on January 28, 2015, 10:56:50 PM
By the way, the new Tracker press photo:

(https://pp.vk.me/c625624/v625624999/1bf74/23XNX4aR_LY.jpg)

This one is clearly from the same photo shoot from another picture has been circulated on the internet for a long time already:

(https://pp.vk.me/c625230/v625230621/1a083/_ZNA2dK_WOI.jpg)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on January 29, 2015, 09:44:56 AM
Wow! Amazing pictures! I hope they are included in the box.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on January 29, 2015, 09:50:43 AM
I have had the second picture in my MK Photos collection for quite a long time - more than a year at least, but the first is new to me, even though it's from the same photoshoot.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on January 29, 2015, 10:06:40 AM
Yeah the first picture ist great - but Mark is too grumpy on that one. I like the older one more. So not really "new" press photos until now, only the stills from the film obviously?

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on January 29, 2015, 10:18:47 AM
Yeah the first picture ist great - but Mark is too grumpy on that one. I like the older one more. So not really "new" press photos until now, only the stills from the film obviously?

LE

Right, only stills from EPK, Tim's interview and an old photo shoot. Hope they reveal some more photos from that one! Looks great, better than lifeless and steril photo shoots (remember Mark with eyes made of glass from KTGC photo shoot lol?), the only press picture that I like after gorgeous 2004 set is Mark hanging out at the graveyard.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on January 29, 2015, 11:29:22 AM
That pictures were taken during the production rehearsals from the Privateering tour, the place in which he is it
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on January 29, 2015, 11:31:50 AM
'There has never been a statue erected in honor of a critic', but for MK
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Post by: MK_live on January 29, 2015, 12:18:04 PM
It was shot at the LH2 studios.

http://www.lh2studios.co.uk/

Impressive building I think!
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Post by: jbaent on January 29, 2015, 12:31:27 PM
It was shot at the LH2 studios.

http://www.lh2studios.co.uk/

Impressive building I think!

THANKS!!!!
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Post by: Rail King on January 30, 2015, 11:30:49 AM
'There has never been a statue erected in honor of a critic', but for MK
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on February 01, 2015, 11:29:50 PM
Quite irritating that the site of the German retailer SATURN says the genre of Tracker is "Country"...  :think ;D

LE
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Post by: schmonka on February 02, 2015, 12:34:33 AM
Back to the album for a sec......

My only concern is that we all know that when a single gets released off an album its pretty much seen as the best (if not one of the best) tracks on the album...

Musically yes this was a great tune.....lyrically....it was pants - is this the "best" track on the album?  erm - I'm a little worried...... :-\
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Post by: yontwocrows on February 02, 2015, 12:42:50 AM
Redbud Tree wasn't the best track of Privateering, neither.
I think that there will be splendid tracks on the new album.
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Post by: dmg on February 02, 2015, 01:23:21 PM
Back to the album for a sec......

My only concern is that we all know that when a single gets released off an album its pretty much seen as the best (if not one of the best) tracks on the album...

Musically yes this was a great tune.....lyrically....it was pants - is this the "best" track on the album?  erm - I'm a little worried...... :-\

I think the singles are usually just chosen as the more upbeat numbers.  Other album tracks are sometimes better, sometimes not.
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Post by: Jarle on February 02, 2015, 09:30:36 PM
Back to the album for a sec......

My only concern is that we all know that when a single gets released off an album its pretty much seen as the best (if not one of the best) tracks on the album...

Musically yes this was a great tune.....lyrically....it was pants - is this the "best" track on the album?  erm - I'm a little worried...... :-\

I doubt this is the best track from the album. I think it just a track from the album that suites the radio format. It is that short. And although the length of the song is not an indication of quality, I'm quite sure that songs like Wherever I Go, with its 6 minutes and 24 seconds, has much more to it. Beryl is just a taste...
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Post by: foma on February 02, 2015, 10:24:36 PM
Clearly 'Beryl' was put out because of its Dire Straits feeling. And Mark said it's a song with the strongest DS feeling in it.
Look at how people love 'Beryl', people really love it. And this snare drum intro just like Sultans. Best choice for single ever!

I'm not expecting something like this on the album. I expect country and folk.
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 02, 2015, 10:39:25 PM
No country please!   :o :o Nothing indicates that, thank god!!

LE

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Post by: jbaent on February 03, 2015, 09:28:25 AM
No country please!   :o :o Nothing indicates that, thank god!!

LE

With that musicians, as you say, all indicates that it's not going to be country.
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 03, 2015, 10:59:09 AM
It's not that I don't like country but there is other stuff MK can do better...

LE
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Post by: dmg on February 03, 2015, 12:54:29 PM
It's not that I don't like country but there is other stuff MK can do better...

LE

I think he does country rather well.  There's always been a bit of a country influence in his music right back to the early DS days.
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Post by: foma on February 03, 2015, 01:00:38 PM
It depends what you consider country. I mean country like 'Are We In Trouble Now', classic american thing.
Also there is bluegrass, this is stereotypical american country with fast tempos, violins and banjo. You decide :)
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 03, 2015, 01:08:51 PM
It's not that I don't like country but there is other stuff MK can do better...

LE

I think he does country rather well.  There's always been a bit of a country influence in his music right back to the early DS days.

Yes I know Of course. And Bluegrass is ok for me.

LE
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Post by: binone on February 03, 2015, 03:22:42 PM
Lots of songs from 92 and Emmiliu have been performed and recorded by Country artist.

Also, don
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Post by: jbaent on February 03, 2015, 05:09:53 PM
Fnac Spain is raffling a travel to London to asist to a 2015 tour rehearsal if you preorder the record with them...
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Post by: shangri la 1 on February 04, 2015, 10:18:29 AM
 :wave Just noticed that AMIT TV's 'MARK KNOPFLER TRACKER Tour 2015 *USA Canada dates NOW*' video has had 36,000 views in the past 4-weeks. Found the stats per viewing country interesting. Would be nice for someone to maybe compare the record sales figures in a few months time with this interest shown now, prior to release, with these stats?
Male to Female was also a BIG surprise M 83% to F 17%
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-cauHCbfpg

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Post by: shangri la 1 on February 04, 2015, 10:20:22 AM
Country of VIEWING Stats
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Post by: Vesper on February 04, 2015, 11:59:55 AM
Fnac Spain is raffling a travel to London to asist to a 2015 tour rehearsal if you preorder the record with them...

Seems like it's happening again indeed. Bol.com is doing the same (again).
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 04, 2015, 01:35:33 PM
With Germany on Number 1 of the YouTube statistics this at least fits with the number of shows from the Tracker tour compared with other countries..  ;) ;)  :)

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on February 04, 2015, 07:15:53 PM
Talking about country. The first song on Tracker actually reminded to me 1948 hit
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Post by: jbaent on February 04, 2015, 08:04:43 PM
I can easily imagine MK singing something like that!  ;D
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Post by: jbaent on February 05, 2015, 05:55:49 PM
A weird look MK had on that days
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Post by: holaknopfler on February 05, 2015, 08:31:27 PM
There is an interview with him in the soundz magazine, it is in Dutch but I will try to translate the most interesting parts. Some nice info in it actually, not all standard stuff
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 05, 2015, 09:27:06 PM
There is an interview with him in the soundz magazine, it is in Dutch but I will try to translate the most interesting parts. Some nice info in it actually, not all standard stuff

Now that's teasing!  :D Do you think it is a new one?

LE
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Post by: ustas on February 05, 2015, 09:38:30 PM
UM Canada says that the album key tracks are Beryl and River Towns.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on February 05, 2015, 09:43:49 PM
Not sure what a key track is? What would be the key track(s) of Privateering?

LE
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Post by: holaknopfler on February 05, 2015, 09:53:36 PM
There is an interview with him in the soundz magazine, it is in Dutch but I will try to translate the most interesting parts. Some nice info in it actually, not all standard stuff

Now that's teasing!  :D Do you think it is a new one?

LE

It sure is a new one! The interviewer talks about going to British Grove, there is some info in the interview about albums he made before, about the studio. Mark tells about that The Who is recording, and Eric Clapton in a while. Then the interviewer asks some questions about the album. He asks MK about laughs and jokes. Mark then tells that Ian Thomas came up with the idea of doing a Dave Brubeck like intro. So it sounds(the intro)  like Take Five (which he tells) and says that Dave Brubeck is an hero. So he says they 'put you on the wrong leg' if I translate it literally from dutch to english. He also tells about Skydiver. He tells that the song is about people, normal people or about a fighter pilot who drops bombs, and still has a normal life. 'Dive Bomber in the 2.15' he sings. He tells about a fighter pilot who has to drop his bombs from 2.15 km. River Towns refers to the mississipi.

That are the most interesting parts for Tracker, maybe someone can translate the complete interview? I'm afraid I don't have time for it the forthcoming weeks haha! When I have time I maybe can translate some more parts, but this is it for Tracker. The rest of the info is already here.
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 05, 2015, 09:57:37 PM
Wow! Thanks so much! Love it when more and more little pieces of info come in!

Thanks again!

LE
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Post by: Guitarman1972 on February 05, 2015, 10:18:04 PM
According to the cover of Soundz Magazine this albums is the closest to a Dire Straits album ever! Guess those who love the Mark Knopfler albums, but hate Dire Straits will not like this album.  lol  ;D
http://www.bcm.nl/coverfeed/?mag=SO&size=1
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 05, 2015, 10:52:23 PM
So journalists were already able to listen to it. Must be leaking sooner or later?

LE
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Post by: holaknopfler on February 05, 2015, 10:57:28 PM
So journalists were already able to listen to it. Must be leaking sooner or later?

LE

Maybe, or the journalist in case of the Dutch interview was able to listen to it at BG.
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Post by: foma on February 05, 2015, 11:03:41 PM
So intro for an album written in 5/4 then? Interesting. Thank you for interview snippets! I'm sure the interviewer listened it in studio.
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Post by: foma on February 05, 2015, 11:22:06 PM
I wonder what made they to release such a statement? If Mark told almost nothing about Tracker, so why it closer to DS than ever?

They must be overlistened Beryl, looks like I know who made 200,000 views on MK's Vevo channel...
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Post by: yontwocrows on February 06, 2015, 09:03:10 AM
It sure is a new one! The interviewer talks about going to British Grove, there is some info in the interview about albums he made before, about the studio. Mark tells about that The Who is recording, and Eric Clapton in a while. Then the interviewer asks some questions about the album. He asks MK about laughs and jokes. Mark then tells that Ian Thomas came up with the idea of doing a Dave Brubeck like intro. So it sounds(the intro)  like Take Five (which he tells) and says that Dave Brubeck is an hero. So he says they 'put you on the wrong leg' if I translate it literally from dutch to english. He also tells about Skydiver. He tells that the song is about people, normal people or about a fighter pilot who drops bombs, and still has a normal life. 'Dive Bomber in the 2.15' he sings. He tells about a fighter pilot who has to drop his bombs from 2.15 km. River Towns refers to the mississipi.

That are the most interesting parts for Tracker, maybe someone can translate the complete interview? I'm afraid I don't have time for it the forthcoming weeks haha! When I have time I maybe can translate some more parts, but this is it for Tracker. The rest of the info is already here.

Thanks holaknopfler for the infos. Again i think that this album could be highranked on my personal favourites of MK. Don't want to wait anymore...
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Post by: rudiger on February 06, 2015, 12:11:41 PM
Thanks for your effort :clap Any hint is well appreciated during the long wait  :wave
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 06, 2015, 12:18:03 PM
Lots of Dutch AMITERs around?  ;D Could someone please deliver?

LE
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Post by: Dutchessy on February 06, 2015, 12:44:32 PM
Lots of Dutch AMITERs around?  ;D Could someone please deliver?

LE

haven't seen it myself yet  :-\
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Post by: Dutchessy on February 06, 2015, 12:53:50 PM
When i did a search with my mobilephone on Amazon.de i saw all the songs of the new album as a mp3 download with a preview button. There was a counter what counted back from 30 secs to 0, but no sound (yet)

Only sound with Beryl.

So... it's coming soon?
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Post by: jbaent on February 06, 2015, 12:59:57 PM
When i did a search with my mobilephone on Amazon.de i saw all the songs of the new album as a mp3 download with a preview button. There was a counter what counted back from 30 secs to 0, but no sound (yet)

Only sound with Beryl.

So... it's coming soon?

Oh yes please
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Post by: holaknopfler on February 06, 2015, 01:38:01 PM
Okay I'm crazy as hell but I went home earlier today and I'm now translating the interview. Please love me, amit people. No, joking. Should be here in a few hours
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Post by: jabbathehut on February 06, 2015, 02:14:29 PM
will only leak once physical units of the album start being moved around.Journalists listen on-line they don't get sent physical cd's  anymore.
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Post by: holaknopfler on February 06, 2015, 02:59:24 PM
Front page:

With Tracker, Mark Knopfler delivers a superior album that looks more like his work with Dire Straits than his previous solo cd's. Soundz had the opportunity to speak to the legend in his own studio in the English Chiswick.

West London has some beautiful neighborhoods, en Chiswick is one of them. Although, you wouldn't notice a big recording studio in a small street called British Grove. Even the neighbor doesn't know that there are superstars on daily base. 'I saw some expensive cars around, so I thought there was a car dealer'. At the door stands, Knopfler's manager Paul Crockford, a nice relaxed bloke, who takes care of Knopflers business for years. Above Knopflers stands waiting with a big smile. Jeans, black t-shirt and a shirt on top of it. Showing of isn't something for him. 'What do you think of British Grove?' are his first words. His blue eyes twinkle. Knopfler looks good. Hij points to the door of the studio. 'The Who is recording a new album here. Next week Eric Clapton comes for recordings. Until my accountant says that it's not profitable anymore, I just keep going on.' We sit down in the beautiful relax room of the studio and Mark looks through the last edition of Soundz and reads the traveling story from the south of North America. 'Wow. The Muscle Shoals Sound Studio. I've had some great moments there..'

That is a part of North America that seems to attract you a lot, isn't it? Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama.

'I've known the Muscle Shoals Studio and Alabama for the first time when Bob Dylan asked me to play on his record Slow Train Coming. He came to one of our first shows in L.A. and asked if I wanted to join. The record was made with producers Barry Beckett and Jerry Wexler, two legends for me. When there was decided to record it in the MSS in Alabam, it was too good to be true: recording with your idol in the most famous studio in the world. A young boy from Glasgow can only dream of that. The sessions were great, but there is one thing that stayed with me forever: Barry and I went out for dinner in the town Muscle Shoals. In a steakhouse. Barry is not a small guy, but he took a steak as big as my upper arm. Then a barge with fat grit en then he ordered a lot of ice, and emptied a bottle of coke over it. Everything went it really fast.'

Anyway there are some regions and countries where you like to come often. The Netherlands as well?

'Abolutely. Where are you from? Bergen op Zoom? I know that region: Breda, Antwerp... I love to travel with my wife through The Netherlands. I was in the '70's and '80's a lot in Hilversum, where of course where the Philips label and wisseloord studios. In that office and studio was always a great atmosphere. It sounds like a cliche, but the people are different there. Really friendly.'

Also on Tracker observations of places and people are central. I understand you really like the North west of England.

''Northumberland is the most beautiful part of the country. It looks a lot like France in terms of nature. Durham, Westmorland, and the Scottish Dumfriesshire. I already get emotional when I talk about it. I really like to come there and drive through it with my oldtimers. It also is a terribly inspiring surrounding, where I came since I was a kid. That's why my lyrics are so English. I really understand that people from outside England are having difficulties with my lyrics. There quite detailed.'

The album also goes about freedom of the individual. The song 'Skydiver' is a good example of that.

'As an artist, on a certain moment, you make the choice to live outside the society, not conforming to that what all other people do. I try to get into the heads of other characters. I love individuals who go completely there own way. And I'm really not only talking about musicians or artists. Someone who drops his bombs down and doesn't know what kind of damage occurs beneath him, lives also outside the normal life. 'Dive Bomber In The 2.15' I sing. A fighterplane has to drop his bombs at 2.15 km to be accurate. But the song also is about gamblers, who don't follow the rules'.

You are inspired by people, the landscape but also old cars and art.

'Do you see that enormous painting over there? It's from John Bratby. He was the most celebrated painter from England in the sixties. The called his style Kitchen Sink Realism. This is from 1959. When two years later the lines and circles became popular, it was done with his succes. I think that is fascinating. Look, I got really interested in the lives from artists in the last years, but also in the live from normal people who have a normal job.'

Basil also is an track which springs in the eye. Tell us something about your relationship with the writer Basil Bunting.

'At this age I can bring up much more understanding for the behaviour and thinking of Bunting. I was 15 years old when I met Basil for the first time. I had a job on saturday at the newspaper for which he wrote en he fascinated me. But if you're 15 you only care about yourself, so you don't understand his grumpy behaviour. At that age the world is at your feet and you've never heard of sarcasm. Basil was clearly unhappy. If he wanted a cup of coffee you heard a miserable dark voice 'BOY COFFEE!' He absolutely didn't fit in his surrounding. Later I read his autobiographical poem. That is actually a meditation at a young life and throwing away your dreams.'

River Towns can relate to anything. What is it with you and city's which are next to a river?

'A few years ago I've read Rising Tide, a great book about the floods from the Mississippi. They call the river The Old Man, in that region. The power of the water from the Mississippi is unknown. I find that region and the towns Natchez, Hastings and Memphis very mystical. Also this nummer goes about a person in a book, this time from Breed D'J Pancake, a writer of short fictious stories. It's about a crane operator who works in the haven and terribly lonely, but doesn't really care about that. Pancake killed himself when he was 26. Loneliness is a problem in the current society, that hardly gets any attention.'

The first single is called Beryl. That's about the writer Beryl Bainbridge.

'There was a period in England when a writer was only taken serious when you studied at Oxford or Cambridge - or Oxbridge, like we called it- but Bainbridge came from working class, and didn't study at all. Nowadays, writers can come from each layer of the people. Beryl was nominated five times for a big prize, but never won one. Only from the nineties she became commercially popular, when she started writing historical fiction. She really inspired me.'

With the opener Laughs and jokes and drinks and smokes you put the listener on the wrong leg. Do I hear Dave Brubeck?

'Haha, sure! Brubeck, what an hero! My drummer, Ian Thomas, came up with the idea. In my eyes he's the best studio drummer in England. This nummer came very naturally. I really have a fantastic band with Guy, Glenn, Phil. Besides I could use a great violists and flutists. It's my job to make the right decisions. How do I fill in a song? Who plays on it? It really is like choosing the best school for your kids.'

I saw some great vintage amps and instruments. Am I sitting in front of a collector?

'Guy and I really like old instruments and amps. At home and here I have a great collection. We can go on for hours with searching the right guitar for a piece. Then the instrumental filling in comes, do we take an accordion or an harmonium? Are we going to do it acoustic or a part electric? Trakcer is recorded with complete freedom. Some tracks were on tape in a day but for other songs I took a lot more time. I've been very productive the last years. In the current tour we don't do more then three gigs after each other. Not because I can't take it anymore, but I want to create and write in between.'

Can you live with your own limitations?

'Look, I know in which I'm good at. Writing songs, and making a good album. I'm not a singer in the literal way of the word. I've never been. In the beginning years with DS I got a lot of critics about it, but now the low voice seems to work haha!'

You fill the Ziggo Dome without doing musical concessions. Still the biggest concerthall in The Netherlands.

'Isn't that the hall from Leon Rademakers, the old boss of Mojo Concerts? We have been friends for years. It's funny that guys like Leon and Herman Schueremans are still on top of the business. I don't forget these things. For some things I have a very good memory. I was 18 months old when I first sang Rudolph the red nose reindeer. A bit lisping though. I sang a lot with my mother and all those children songs, I can still sing them for you now. I have a kind of scrapyard in my head.'

All your studio experience which is in your scrapyard now comes back in the BG studio.

'Certainly. You know, a recording studio is just a nice and noble tradition. Not only in England, also in America and France. I had to do it a lot earlier, but I'm sometimes a bit slow in understanding. When I started with the studio in 2006, I had a lot of idealistic motifs. I learned a lot from people I worked with in the past: Barry Beckett, Neil Dorfsman, Chuck Ainlay, Bob Ludwig. All of that experience, I wanted to put in the BG. All those people helped me realising this. We can do really anything here. We have the EMI REDD Desk standing over here. With that you can make recordings like in the sixties.'

You are playing with the best musicians in the scene, were the big steersman at DS and now you are the boss again, although you are very modest. It seems like a contradiction to me, or am I wrong?

'Nee, you are right. My musicians let me walk away with a lot of things. That happened in the time of DS and still is now. Like Keith Richards said one time: 'The singer is always right.' I didn't start with this to make money. I'm a songwriter in the first place, and then a guitarist. That's different for the guys who play in my band, they earn their money with playing. Because I've been in the studio since 1978, I learned a lot and I know what I'm doing. From who I learned a lot? From everybody actually. When I did Making Movies with Jimmy Lovine, he brought Shelly Yakus with him. That man did the technics for the most famous albums from John Lennon, Tom Petty, U2 and Lou Reed. Those are almost intimidating people, because of their knowledge. So good! I really like to hang out with such genius people.'

But the times of nights in the studio are gone?

'Yeah, now they are. But I look back to it with happy memories. I know we were recording love over gold in 1982 in The Power Station in NY. I was young and had so much energy. After a studio session with my technician Neil Dorfsman I drove home on my bicycle at four in the morning. Then I already saw the garbage trucks. Manhattan just before sunrise is so beautiful. I could go on forever and there was no brake on it. Those were great times. With Neil I did Brothers in Arms later on. That album we made here in the AIR studios and on the island Montserrat. That was also really great.'

Is that where Laughs and Jokes is about?

'Certainly, but the song goes back even further. As a teenager I didn't have any money. But I didn't care at all. So I couldn't buy an nice Fender or amp. We drank and have uncomplicated fun. I did a lot hitchhiking and was good at it. I discovered Scotland and England by hitchhiking. I had only one dream and that was having a band. You really have to want that badly, otherwise it won't work. My old bassplayer John Illsley, was my mate already at that time. He still is my best friend actually, a great human! His last album was recorded here.'

Now you've made more solo albums than albums with Dire Straits. How important is that history for you?

'Still very important. I wrote some nice tunes in that time. I still play those. We recently played in America TR and SFA en I still play them with the same intensity as 30 years ago. I now have a band that plays the songs from DS better than the original group. That is logical by the way. Also I became a better musician and performer. The Netherlands stays a special country to me. In 1991 we played three times a sold out Ahoy and now again in the Ziggo Dome. We've played there before actually. It was one of the better gigs we played in that tour. De atmosphere in your country is different and the fans know all songs. That gives me a very warm feeling.'

END.

So, there is the full transcription of the interview. Please mind that English is not my native language, so there could be mistakes here and there.


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Post by: Barzofarhyme on February 06, 2015, 04:17:30 PM
Great Job Hola  :clap :clap :clap :thumbsup

Really interesting read. Thanks for taking the time to translate and I'm sure your English is far better than my Dutch  ;D
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Post by: foma on February 06, 2015, 04:17:55 PM
I was young and had so much energy. After a studio session with my technician Neil Dorfsman I drove home on my bicycle at four in the morning. Then I already saw the garbage trucks. Manhattan just before sunrise is so beautiful. I could go on forever and there was no brake on it. Those were great times. With Neil I did Brothers in Arms later on.

Isn't this looks like a clue for
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Post by: Banjo99uk on February 06, 2015, 04:20:35 PM
Thank you Hola for that, it was a great read.
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 06, 2015, 04:24:14 PM
Hallo Hola, thanks!!!  :thumbsup :thumbsup

Very fast and very interesting! I live the part about hitchhiking..

foma, I thought the same, during driving home from recording Love Over Gold, the idea for Your Latest Trick arises..
glorious times!

LE
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Post by: Jana on February 06, 2015, 04:44:49 PM
Thank you, holaknopfler!   :clap
Very interesting interview.
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Post by: jbaent on February 06, 2015, 04:52:35 PM
Wow, thank you!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: Dutchessy on February 06, 2015, 05:03:14 PM
Cool to know:

I've been very productive the last years. In the current tour we don't do more then three gigs after each other. Not because I can't take it anymore, but I want to create and write in between.'

And i've searched on youtube for the drumming style of Dave Brubeck. It's jazz style.
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Post by: yontwocrows on February 06, 2015, 05:03:54 PM
Thank you, holaknopfler! A great effort. A very interesting article that i enjoyed reading!
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Post by: holaknopfler on February 06, 2015, 05:18:59 PM
My pleasure. Always great to help my fellow AMIT-ers, this community delivers so much good things, that it's really no problem:-) Great read indeed!
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Post by: surferboy on February 06, 2015, 05:19:45 PM
Thank you very much for going home early and taking the time to translate!
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Post by: naif on February 06, 2015, 05:38:23 PM
Thank you Holaknopfler! Much appreciated :thumbsup

18 months.... The man has a great memory indeed.
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Post by: nababo on February 06, 2015, 05:41:50 PM
I was young and had so much energy. After a studio session with my technician Neil Dorfsman I drove home on my bicycle at four in the morning. Then I already saw the garbage trucks. Manhattan just before sunrise is so beautiful. I could go on forever and there was no brake on it. Those were great times. With Neil I did Brothers in Arms later on.

Isn't this looks like a clue for
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Post by: nababo on February 06, 2015, 05:46:30 PM
And, of course, thanks Holaknopfler for his hard good work!
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Post by: foma on February 06, 2015, 06:19:05 PM
Thank you Holaknopfler! Much appreciated :thumbsup

18 months.... The man has a great memory indeed.

I think he just counted down months when actual recording could be hit in the UK, and Gene Autry actually had
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Post by: TJ on February 06, 2015, 06:28:00 PM
I now have a band that plays the songs from DS better than the original group.


I hate when he says that.  Couldn't disagree more.  The current band is obviously great musicians, but DS played DS way better.
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 06, 2015, 06:34:06 PM
He really sounds inspired and energetic. I like this interview very much. Not sure about my first imaginations of River Towns though, I would have made it some sort of Geordie/5.15 am - kind of song, or Single-Handed Sailor a-like.. now it seems more like another Planet of New Orleans which would be great. The only song I really hate on Privateering is Blood and Water, so I hope River Towns sounds not too much like that one.

It is really tough to wait now. The story about the opening song sounds really interesting!

And you need a very good memory to remember ad hoc when a certain song was released and which charts positions etc.. :-)

LE
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Post by: naif on February 06, 2015, 07:06:45 PM
Thank you Holaknopfler! Much appreciated :thumbsup

18 months.... The man has a great memory indeed.

I think he just counted down months when actual recording could be hit in the UK, and Gene Autry actually had
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Post by: superval99 on February 06, 2015, 07:42:08 PM

 I now have a band that plays the songs from DS better than the original group.

   That's what Alan Clark said about "The Straits"!     ;)    :lol

BTW Many thanks, holaknopfler for this translation.    :thumbsup
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Post by: Marijo58 on February 06, 2015, 10:11:15 PM
My pleasure. Always great to help my fellow AMIT-ers, this community delivers so much good things, that it's really no problem:-) Great read indeed!

Thanks a lot Hola for this really most interesting interview with MK at BG!!! Makes me more impatient to hear more songs from Tracker before the 16th of March!!! :thumbsup
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Post by: dustyvalentino on February 06, 2015, 10:46:29 PM
Thanks so much hola.
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Post by: kaleo74 on February 07, 2015, 05:17:15 AM
thank you holaknopfler for translating ! great interview and looks like a great album coming.
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 07, 2015, 11:51:21 AM
I try not to get too excited about these lyric information - it really says not too much about the song. The info about Beryl sounds great but ended in a rather repetitive song with some key words (Booker, grave, tobacco). Also musically it could have been interesting. So the lyrics are one level, for me a very important one, but Tracker could be a mess nevertheless, although it all sounds very interesting!  ;D

LE
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Post by: yontwocrows on February 07, 2015, 11:58:13 AM
Yes, could be a mess, and i try also hard not to be overexcited in advance. The higher the level of preexcitement is the more likely the expectations can't be fulfilled. But it's very hard to keep calm. Still looking forward to the album... :wave
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Post by: holaknopfler on February 07, 2015, 12:06:40 PM
I've got some info again. I asked a Dutch music journalist on Twitter if he had already heard tracker. He said no, but a journalist who is a friend of him did hear it. And he was very enthusiast about it. I recall that Leo isn't very fond of the slow folky melodies (and his friends neither) so maybe I can conclude that it could be a more uptempo album. And of course, that the promo lines we read in interviews are right. That it sound more like dire straits than his solo work. Again, as LE said, says nothing about the album but it's interesting to hear that critical journalists (which I know for a fact) are enthusiast about it!
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Post by: Dutchessy on February 07, 2015, 01:31:16 PM
I've got some info again. I asked a Dutch music journalist on Twitter if he had already heard tracker. He said no, but a journalist who is a friend of him did hear it. And he was very enthusiast about it. I recall that Leo isn't very fond of the slow folky melodies (and his friends neither) so maybe I can conclude that it could be a more uptempo album. And of course, that the promo lines we read in interviews are right. That it sound more like dire straits than his solo work. Again, as LE said, says nothing about the album but it's interesting to hear that critical journalists (which I know for a fact) are enthusiast about it!

Leo Blokhuis?
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Post by: holaknopfler on February 07, 2015, 01:50:45 PM
I've got some info again. I asked a Dutch music journalist on Twitter if he had already heard tracker. He said no, but a journalist who is a friend of him did hear it. And he was very enthusiast about it. I recall that Leo isn't very fond of the slow folky melodies (and his friends neither) so maybe I can conclude that it could be a more uptempo album. And of course, that the promo lines we read in interviews are right. That it sound more like dire straits than his solo work. Again, as LE said, says nothing about the album but it's interesting to hear that critical journalists (which I know for a fact) are enthusiast about it!

Yes sir!

Leo Blokhuis?
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Post by: Robson on February 07, 2015, 04:16:46 PM
"Loneliness is a problem in the current society, that hardly gets any attention..."
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Post by: jbaent on February 11, 2015, 01:01:11 PM
Too quiet...

No leaks, no snippets...

 ::)
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Post by: surferboy on February 11, 2015, 01:56:10 PM
Too quiet...

No leaks, no snippets...

 ::)

Yes, that's how I feel, too.
The quiet before the storm...
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Post by: naif on February 11, 2015, 01:59:55 PM
Some new infos i guess:
http://www.hotpress.com/Mark-Knopfler/music/reviews/albums/Mark-Knopfler--Tracker/13560434.html
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Post by: jbaent on February 11, 2015, 02:03:02 PM
Some new infos i guess:
http://www.hotpress.com/Mark-Knopfler/music/reviews/albums/Mark-Knopfler--Tracker/13560434.html

Very interesting

So people from the press already heard the record...
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Post by: naif on February 11, 2015, 02:19:39 PM
Some new infos i guess:
http://www.hotpress.com/Mark-Knopfler/music/reviews/albums/Mark-Knopfler--Tracker/13560434.html

Very interesting

So people from the press already heard the record...

Probably, he refers some lyrics, melody... Long Cool girl and the opening track sounds interesting. Ruth Moody and folkie thing will be a skipper for me. At least they should give us the lyrics for god sake. They working like CIA.
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Post by: holaknopfler on February 11, 2015, 02:22:38 PM
Some new infos i guess:
http://www.hotpress.com/Mark-Knopfler/music/reviews/albums/Mark-Knopfler--Tracker/13560434.html

Very interesting

So people from the press already heard the record...

Probably, he refers some lyrics, melody... Long Cool girl and the opening track sounds interesting. Ruth Moody and folkie thing will be a skipper for me. At least they should give us the lyrics for god sake. They working like CIA.

How do you know it's a skipper when you haven't heard it?  :o
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Post by: Guitarman1972 on February 11, 2015, 02:25:28 PM
Have the track lengths already been discussed somewhere on the forum?  ???

https://itunes.apple.com/nl/album/tracker-deluxe-version/id952808090
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Post by: naif on February 11, 2015, 02:28:10 PM
I know it sounds a little sharp but i don't like folk music. I'm sure it will be a very good song - because Mark wrote it- but after a few listens folk songs doesn't effect on me. Matter of taste of course.
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Post by: foma on February 11, 2015, 06:14:02 PM
Lol, is the whole line 'the cinematic textures of
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 11, 2015, 08:19:49 PM
Just a little update: Tracker Deluxe Edition now for 17,99
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Post by: Marijo58 on February 11, 2015, 09:59:23 PM
Just a little update: Tracker Deluxe Edition now for 17,99
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Post by: jbaent on February 11, 2015, 10:25:04 PM
As mentioned in other thread, the remaining song "hot dog" will be available as a bonus track for mediamarkt.de.
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Post by: Pottel on February 11, 2015, 11:21:44 PM
As mentioned in other thread, the remaining song "hot dog" will be available as a bonus track for mediamarkt.de.
just ordered it.
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Post by: Pottel on February 11, 2015, 11:31:20 PM
interesting to see him mention Herman Schueremans, still the man that co-shaped my musical youth with his Festival Torhout-Werchter, later Werchter.
where i saw the straits the first and only time, floyd, u2, roger waters, those many years of festivals,....great so see a man like that honoured.
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Post by: Vesper on February 11, 2015, 11:44:02 PM
As mentioned in other thread, the remaining song "hot dog" will be available as a bonus track for mediamarkt.de.

Looked back at the ASCAP list that was flooting around before,
seems like 'Never Met A One Like You' is the last song 'flooting around'

Correct me if I'm wrong
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Post by: jbaent on February 12, 2015, 12:18:25 AM
As mentioned in other thread, the remaining song "hot dog" will be available as a bonus track for mediamarkt.de.

Looked back at the ASCAP list that was flooting around before,
seems like 'Never Met A One Like You' is the last song 'flooting around'

Correct me if I'm wrong

It was a left out song from Privateering, recorded by Tim O'Brien's band, Hot Rize.
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Post by: jbaent on February 12, 2015, 12:19:14 AM
As mentioned in other thread, the remaining song "hot dog" will be available as a bonus track for mediamarkt.de.
just ordered it.

Only available from Germany then? And only from mediamarkt?
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Post by: foma on February 12, 2015, 05:46:26 PM
Don't want to bring up snippets topic up to not to fals-surprise anyone, but I checked all releases scheduled for February and March on iTunes and looks like none of them have snippets. So I believe they got rid of snippets? Even albums due to release just in 3-4 days don't have it. Must check Amazon.
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Post by: jbaent on February 17, 2015, 01:07:35 PM
A nice little video snippet of the press kit, and MK is playing a song from the record with his Les Paul that sounds quite nice...

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152862832014934 (https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152862832014934)
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Post by: jbaent on February 17, 2015, 01:12:11 PM
A nice little video snippet of the press kit, and MK is playing a song from the record with his Les Paul that sounds quite nice...

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152862832014934 (https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152862832014934)

In the MK official twitter account says that on February 20th the whole video would be available to watch

https://twitter.com/MarkKnopfler (https://twitter.com/MarkKnopfler)
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Post by: dmg on February 17, 2015, 01:13:06 PM
A nice little video snippet of the press kit, and MK is playing a song from the record with his Les Paul that sounds quite nice...

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152862832014934 (https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152862832014934)

Thanks.  Does sound nice!  I know it's only a few notes but it does!!!  ;D
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Post by: Jarle on February 17, 2015, 01:26:52 PM
A nice little video snippet of the press kit, and MK is playing a song from the record with his Les Paul that sounds quite nice...

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152862832014934 (https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152862832014934)

Fantastic. This is the kind of music I want :D
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Post by: superval99 on February 17, 2015, 01:33:27 PM
Those few notes remind me of "Sons of Scotland - The Quiet Theme" from "A Shot at Glory".   Sounds lovely!   :)
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Post by: rudiger on February 17, 2015, 01:40:16 PM
very nice! thanks  :clap
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Post by: jbaent on February 17, 2015, 01:53:21 PM
It reminds me to "Remembrance Day"
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Post by: straitsway75 on February 17, 2015, 02:28:13 PM
 :clap :clap :clap :clap :clap
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Post by: Marijo58 on February 17, 2015, 04:17:43 PM
Terrific!! And the entire interview will be on line the 20 th of February, next friday!! Yesss!! We are really very lucky that MK is such a devoted songwriter and Musician!!
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Post by: Jarle on February 17, 2015, 07:07:22 PM
Terrific!! And the entire interview will be on line the 20 th of February, next friday!! Yesss!! We are really very lucky that MK is such a devoted songwriter and Musician!!

Agree! He looks so satisfied with what he does   :)
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Post by: Dutchessy on February 17, 2015, 07:10:28 PM
Sounds like inamorata from GF.
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Post by: foma on February 17, 2015, 07:34:30 PM
A lot of slash chords in this song, I like that ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: dmg on February 17, 2015, 07:58:21 PM
Something I noted was a distinct lack of pipes and citterns!   :thumbsup ;D :thumbsup

I'm off now for a hop, a skip and a jump!  Wee-hee!
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Post by: jbaent on February 17, 2015, 11:59:44 PM
Something I noted was a distinct lack of pipes and citterns!   :thumbsup ;D :thumbsup

I'm off now for a hop, a skip and a jump!  Wee-hee!

Not so fast Junior, not so fast... we only heard a very short snippet of it, the pipes and cittern come after  ;D
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Post by: rosco on February 18, 2015, 10:51:18 AM
Something I noted was a distinct lack of pipes and citterns!   :thumbsup ;D :thumbsup

I'm off now for a hop, a skip and a jump!  Wee-hee!

Ah the skirl of the pipes will have you jumping and skipping in no time..... proud Scotsmen like us  :thumbsup
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Post by: dmg on February 18, 2015, 12:23:30 PM
Something I noted was a distinct lack of pipes and citterns!   :thumbsup ;D :thumbsup

I'm off now for a hop, a skip and a jump!  Wee-hee!

Not so fast Junior, not so fast... we only heard a very short snippet of it, the pipes and cittern come after  ;D

D'oh!  :smack
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Post by: jbaent on February 19, 2015, 10:56:21 AM
I just read the terms and conditions of the Fnac draw of two tickets for a 2015 Tour rehearsal, and it says that the rehearsal is on MAY 12th for 300 people.
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Post by: Dutchessy on February 19, 2015, 02:56:44 PM
New EPK snippet on Facebook!

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152866967994934 (https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152866967994934)
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Post by: Dutchessy on February 19, 2015, 03:10:55 PM
it's a happy microphone

and the smell of tape  ;)
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Post by: border_reiver on February 19, 2015, 03:15:56 PM
Love the slide!   :thumbsup  :thumbsup  :thumbsup

(as always)
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 19, 2015, 03:30:23 PM
Lol, is the whole line 'the cinematic textures of
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Post by: foma on February 19, 2015, 03:49:15 PM
You are right LE, I also thought about Taormina. Not so much water of love here, just because Water Of Love is much faster than this. Subtle difference here, like bossa and salsa have, almost same rhythms but with fast and slow tempos. This rhythm immediately reminded to me this cooool cover:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAWcVTfKWL0
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 19, 2015, 03:56:04 PM
Right about the speed foma, (and I love the original Wicked Game very much, too). Anyway, when I talk about Water of love, I realized that I don't have the album version in mind but this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYzmW2Kgghc

Anyway, we are talking about the same kind of rhythm here, and I really love that one!

Wow, could this really be the best album MK has ever made?  Also the background music sounds great again - it seems Guy has done a lot of good keyboard/organ/harmonium work on Tracker.. (apart from that annoying one of Beryl :-) )

LE
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Post by: Dutchessy on February 19, 2015, 04:17:58 PM
Is he singing during the first 5 seconds?
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 19, 2015, 04:24:39 PM
Yes. Something about a rainbow..

LE
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Post by: Dutchessy on February 19, 2015, 04:26:43 PM
Yes. Something about a rainbow..

LE

colors of the rainbow...
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Post by: yontwocrows on February 19, 2015, 07:17:03 PM
Honestly, i just have to say it again. It's gonna be one of my fav records. I've just a feeling!
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Post by: Jarle on February 19, 2015, 07:27:59 PM
Honestly, i just have to say it again. It's gonna be one of my fav records. I've just a feeling!

I support you on that one. Everything seems so well worked through, and the sound of the snippets are wonderful.
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Post by: jbaent on February 20, 2015, 10:29:52 AM
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7-cpV_H_z4

I
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Post by: Dutchessy on February 20, 2015, 10:31:55 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7-cpV_H_z4

I
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Post by: holaknopfler on February 20, 2015, 10:50:08 AM
All I can say is just wow: many emotions going through my head right now. Excitement, the most.
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 20, 2015, 10:54:03 AM
Not available in Germany.

LE
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Post by: holaknopfler on February 20, 2015, 10:55:24 AM
Not available in Germany.

LE

Check your PM
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Post by: jbaent on February 20, 2015, 11:04:02 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5102VYXW48L._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)
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Post by: superval99 on February 20, 2015, 11:06:16 AM
That was really wonderful, but I'm sure I read somewhere that the film was 18 minutes long - maybe it is edited and the rest is kept for the box set.   :-\

I know I'm going to love this album, especially "The Lights of Taormina" .   

It was nice to see MK at his Solent home with his whippets and I laugh out loud every time I see Guy talking about "the smell of tape"!    :lol   :lol

Can't wait for March 16th!    :D
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Post by: jbaent on February 20, 2015, 11:12:08 AM
The forth song can be "Basil" again, as MK sings it again, so maybe that Gibson solo is from it
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Post by: Dutchessy on February 20, 2015, 11:37:03 AM
4th song is also 'Basil'
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Post by: Dutchessy on February 20, 2015, 11:41:38 AM
That was really wonderful, but I'm sure I read somewhere that the film was 18 minutes long - maybe it is edited and the rest is kept for the box set.   :-\

I know I'm going to love this album, especially "The Lights of Taormina" .   

It was nice to see MK at his Solent home with his whippets and I laugh out loud every time I see Guy talking about "the smell of tape"!    :lol   :lol

Can't wait for March 16th!    :D

Where did you read it? I really hope it's 18 minutes!It's really wonderful
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Post by: superval99 on February 20, 2015, 12:12:23 PM
That was really wonderful, but I'm sure I read somewhere that the film was 18 minutes long - maybe it is edited and the rest is kept for the box set.   :-\

I know I'm going to love this album, especially "The Lights of Taormina" .   

It was nice to see MK at his Solent home with his whippets and I laugh out loud every time I see Guy talking about "the smell of tape"!    :lol   :lol

Can't wait for March 16th!    :D

Where did you read it? I really hope it's 18 minutes!It's really wonderful

 I have searched, but maybe I just had 18 minutes in my head and that's what I expected!     :-\    I love it though - even 5.18!     :D
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 20, 2015, 12:39:47 PM
If this is really the full film, Mr. Hansen would be a very bad director. The end is pretty rough. This is a cut version for sure.

LE
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Post by: dmg on February 20, 2015, 01:05:49 PM
Like his reading material at 0:50s - "Gibson Electrics."  ;D

"Bedside Book of Birds."  Is this really about the feathered variety?  ;)

He's showing that MFN slide that was on Guys site a few weeks ago and Guy also mentioned the tape gag then too!  Perhaps they were filming it only as recently as then.  These films always seem a bit contrived to me when you see the guys in the studio and Mark in his beach house apparently spinning ideas around when quite obviously the whole album is already completed and ready to go.  Still, at least we get a sample of some songs and they sound great!
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Post by: jbaent on February 20, 2015, 01:07:32 PM
If this is really the full film, Mr. Hansen would be a very bad director. The end is pretty rough. This is a cut version for sure.

LE

And what
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Post by: joko on February 20, 2015, 02:07:19 PM
sad to say the video is not available in Germany.
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Post by: surferboy on February 20, 2015, 02:18:52 PM
Indeed, is there a chance for Germans to watch the video?
Thanks for any help!
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Post by: D44mu on February 20, 2015, 02:21:58 PM
To alle German Fans:
You
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Post by: surferboy on February 20, 2015, 02:26:58 PM
Thanks for your help. I will try when I get home.
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Post by: foma on February 20, 2015, 02:30:58 PM
Be sure to write only posotive reviews on new film, because Mark reads AMIT right now, see: http://coub.com/view/53dfh

 :lol :lol :lol
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Post by: binone on February 20, 2015, 03:12:51 PM
Be sure to write only posotive reviews on new film, because Mark reads AMIT right now, see: http://coub.com/view/53dfh

 :lol :lol :lol

 :clap ;D
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Post by: dmg on February 20, 2015, 03:33:47 PM
Be sure to write only posotive reviews on new film, because Mark reads AMIT right now, see: http://coub.com/view/53dfh

 :lol :lol :lol

To Mark: I know I criticised the film - well these films in general - but I still think your performance was fab darling!
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Post by: surferboy on February 20, 2015, 04:03:40 PM
To alle German Fans:
You
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Post by: Bluebird on February 20, 2015, 04:36:57 PM
Surferboy,

try this link, for me - in Germany - it works:

http://www.vevo.com/watch/mark-knopfler/Tracker-A-Film-By-Henrik-Hansen/GBUV71500021

Bluebird
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Post by: Justme on February 20, 2015, 04:46:50 PM
To anyone who is p*##ed off by that stupid blocking of content on youtube, I'd like to suggest:

http://www.unblockyoutube.co.uk/

Just paste that link into the site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7-cpV_H_z4 and you'll be able to watch that wonderful clip. It's great to see his mate de Cad having an appearance, too. A very passionate and knowledgeable chap when it comes to vintage cars.
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Post by: surferboy on February 20, 2015, 05:20:01 PM
Thanks bluebird and Justme,
will try when I'm at home shortly!
Have a nice weekend everybody!
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Post by: joko on February 20, 2015, 05:55:14 PM
To anyone who is p*##ed off by that stupid blocking of content on youtube, I'd like to suggest:

http://www.unblockyoutube.co.uk/

Just paste that link into the site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7-cpV_H_z4 and you'll be able to watch that wonderful clip. It's great to see his mate de Cad having an appearance, too. A very passionate and knowledgeable chap when it comes to vintage cars.

thanks ... that works for me  :thumbsup
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Post by: surferboy on February 20, 2015, 06:57:15 PM
Surferboy,

try this link, for me - in Germany - it works:

http://www.vevo.com/watch/mark-knopfler/Tracker-A-Film-By-Henrik-Hansen/GBUV71500021

Bluebird

Thanks so much, it worked, beautiful!
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Post by: TJ on February 20, 2015, 07:29:57 PM
If this is really the full film, Mr. Hansen would be a very bad director. The end is pretty rough. This is a cut version for sure.


It is short and the ending pretty abrupt, but this little film is visually stunning, I think.  Mr. Hansen has an eye for what looks good.
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 20, 2015, 07:35:33 PM
If this is really the full film, Mr. Hansen would be a very bad director. The end is pretty rough. This is a cut version for sure.


It is short and the ending pretty abrupt, but this little film is visually stunning, I think.  Mr. Hansen has an eye for what looks good.

Yes, I agree. A lot of nice detail shots and some nice ideas. 

LE
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Post by: yontwocrows on February 20, 2015, 08:20:18 PM
Who is the guy beside Mark in the Alfa?
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 20, 2015, 08:21:35 PM
Henrik Hansen?

LE
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Post by: Justme on February 20, 2015, 08:40:16 PM
Who is the guy beside Mark in the Alfa?

It's Alain de Cadenet.
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Post by: Banjo99uk on February 20, 2015, 08:42:09 PM
He's done the same on this film as he does with his guitaring. Left us needing a little bit more.
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 20, 2015, 08:45:22 PM
Ok, I thought it was the director - but the fact that there is Mr. Cadenet in the clip needs a little bit more expalantion don't you all think? I am not too deep into movie art, and this all looks very nice, but it is not more than a trailer.. and even if it is called "short film", it cannot be this short.

Hopefully.

LE
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Post by: foma on February 20, 2015, 08:49:53 PM
Ok, I thought it was the director - but the fact that there is Mr. Cadenet in the clip needs a little bit more expalantion don't you all think? I am not too deep into movie art, and this all looks very nice, but it is not more than a trailer.. and even if it is called "short film", it cannot be this short.

Hopefully.

LE

Have you ever seen a film without end credits? Not so many, bad ones maybe, but this not bad indeed and this is not a full movie, I deadly sure.
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Post by: yontwocrows on February 20, 2015, 08:59:23 PM
@Justme: Thanks for the info.

I'm also convinced that there will be e longer version (maybe as bonus in the deluxe box?).
Guy said today in the forum that there are talks about a longer version. (that's a hint, isn't it?)

With credits informations etc. I'm not so sure. It looks more like a promo-/image film to tease us a bit.
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Post by: border_reiver on February 20, 2015, 09:10:05 PM
My money is on the fact that "Lights of Taormina" will be the best song of the album  :)
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Post by: border_reiver on February 20, 2015, 09:11:24 PM
MediaMarkt has listed the Henrik Hansen interview to be just 5:18 minutes. In the deluxe box.
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 20, 2015, 10:05:23 PM
Tracker - A Film By Henrik Hansen (Documentary) 5:18 min
 
Tracker (Interview) 24:08 min
 
 
LE
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Post by: border_reiver on February 20, 2015, 11:27:25 PM
Whoo! Thanks!

But it's the interview and the shortfilm is still, well short.
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 21, 2015, 07:54:35 AM
Yes, ridiculously short. Maybe it's a game about time, as Mark says, time seems to be important for the theme of the album, so, well.. .

Where exactly is this nice beachhouse? Not asking to stalk him, I never cared about the geographics of his private life, but the area in the first part has such tremendous resemblance with the area I live in, (but without these gorgeous trees) that I really wonder.. the flooded area expecially..

and is he really able to do the distance from that place to British Grove on a scooter?  ;)

LE
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 21, 2015, 08:09:15 AM
Also, I changed my mind about which song could be that one with the nice Gibson solo (and the sax part). I mentioned that the solo sounds as an outro of the album so I thought it could be "Wherever I Go", but now I go for "Long Cool Girl" - that was the song compared to Romeo & Juliet, right? And I think this little part has pretty much of the second half of the live-version of Romeo - even a sax part..

Mark is shown exactly as the old grumpy man, as grumpy as he describes Basil Bunting.. this deep voice, the clothing.. I love that.
And on Basil, when he sings "grumpy as hell", the guitar makes that grumpy sound - could be the blue pensa?

LE
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 21, 2015, 08:15:17 AM
Basil has a great concept as far as I can judge it by now - no wonder he seems to like to talk about it so detailed...

Mark portrayed as a young man, naive, happy, energetic, "up for the world", meeting that grumpy old poet... finding out he has written that masterpiece "Briggflatts" - now, from the point of view of being old (and somewhat grumpy?) himself, he writes about it, finally understanding what Basil was about, "to "to have time to think about time"..

I have difficulties to find a song with similar depth on Privateering, this one seems to be in the same league as 5.15am..

Wow, can't wait. And the connection with the opener seems to be there, didn't Mark say "Laughs & Jokes and Drinks & Smokes" was about him young and "up for the world", too?

I guess it will be pure bliss to listen to the album as a whole..

LE

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Post by: Dutchessy on February 21, 2015, 08:33:39 AM
Well, maybe they put the best 3 songs of the album in this short movie... :P

Maybe all the other songs are blues songs :lol
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Post by: jbaent on February 21, 2015, 10:04:39 AM
Yes, ridiculously short. Maybe it's a game about time, as Mark says, time seems to be important for the theme of the album, so, well.. .

Where exactly is this nice beachhouse? Not asking to stalk him, I never cared about the geographics of his private life, but the area in the first part has such tremendous resemblance with the area I live in, (but without these gorgeous trees) that I really wonder.. the flooded area expecially..

and is he really able to do the distance from that place to British Grove on a scooter?  ;)

LE

The beach house is at The Solent strait, just google it and look at the maps where it is, not very far from Illsley's pub.
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Post by: border_reiver on February 21, 2015, 10:04:52 AM
Well, maybe they put the best 3 songs of the album in this short movie... :P

Maybe all the other songs are blues songs :lol

That would be fantastic!  ;D
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Post by: foma on February 21, 2015, 11:11:40 AM
Anybody noticed that this particular shot from the short film could be even more appropriate for cover than official one? :lol

(https://pp.vk.me/c625416/v625416999/1d309/UiHom6S8Oak.jpg)
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Post by: Jana on February 21, 2015, 01:46:38 PM
 foma, :thumbsup

I personally like soft blue-grey-white-green color of this shot much more then blue-yellow color of the official cover.
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Post by: yontwocrows on February 21, 2015, 03:07:51 PM
I noticed the allusion, but wasn't aware of the option bring the Cover.You're right would be a good Cover.
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Post by: dmg on February 21, 2015, 09:48:18 PM

The beach house is at The Solent strait, just google it and look at the maps where it is, not very far from Illsley's pub.
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Nice and handy if he fancies a quick one!  ;)
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 21, 2015, 09:53:29 PM
Cheers!

LE
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Post by: knopflertom on February 22, 2015, 01:08:25 PM
It is this house?

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Post by: jbaent on February 22, 2015, 02:52:09 PM

As you may guess we are not telling where it is exactly, as it's private information.
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Post by: Silvertown on February 22, 2015, 02:55:12 PM
It is this house?

As you may guess we are not telling where it is exactly, as it's private information.

 :thumbsup
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 22, 2015, 03:03:29 PM
I agree and was more after a description of the area with my Initial question. I once read the novel Waterland from Graham Swift and got reminded to it somehow. But those were the Fens which is another part of the coast. Nice surroundings over there which I feel very familiar with.

LE


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Post by: dustyvalentino on February 22, 2015, 06:10:16 PM
I hate to censor but I have removed the link.

Regardless of whether or not it's MK's house we don't want to be responsible for folk turning up having a look. :)
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Post by: Marijo58 on February 23, 2015, 11:45:19 AM
Anybody noticed that this particular shot from the short film could be even more appropriate for cover than official one? :lol

(https://pp.vk.me/c625416/v625416999/1d309/UiHom6S8Oak.jpg)
I agree with you Foma!! He looks like a real Gentleman Farmer on this picture!! I liked this short film anyway even though I could have watched more!! But we have to be satisfied with what we got!!
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Post by: dmg on February 23, 2015, 12:47:01 PM
Anybody noticed that this particular shot from the short film could be even more appropriate for cover than official one? :lol

(https://pp.vk.me/c625416/v625416999/1d309/UiHom6S8Oak.jpg)

Which way to The Clansman, Victor?

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Post by: Barzofarhyme on February 23, 2015, 04:26:22 PM
Anybody noticed that this particular shot from the short film could be even more appropriate for cover than official one? :lol

(https://pp.vk.me/c625416/v625416999/1d309/UiHom6S8Oak.jpg)

Which way to The Clansman, Victor?

lol  ;D ;D


Love Still Game. :clap

Think this would fit better with the grumpy theme though.

I DON'T BELIEEEEEEVVVVVVVE IT  ;D

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Post by: dmg on February 23, 2015, 04:43:50 PM
 :lol 

I've got to admit your one's better!

I believe Richard Wilson was brought up in Greenock, just 20 miles from Bearsden.  I don't believe that!
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Post by: shangri la 1 on February 23, 2015, 09:49:39 PM
:lol 

I've got to admit your one's better!

I believe Richard Wilson was brought up in Greenock, just 20 miles from Bearsden.  I don't believe that!
My lovely wife is also from Greenock.  :)
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Post by: dmg on February 23, 2015, 10:21:06 PM
:lol 

I've got to admit your one's better!

I believe Richard Wilson was brought up in Greenock, just 20 miles from Bearsden.  I don't believe that!
My lovely wife is also from Greenock.  :)

Wow!  It's a small world indeed.  Only 55 miles from myself.
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Post by: jbaent on February 26, 2015, 01:40:44 PM
Anything new here?

http://www.heute.de/dire-straits-legende-mark-knopfler-im-zdf-interview-irgendwann-fall-ich-um-und-das-wars-dann-37325742.html?tabNo=1
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Post by: D44mu on February 26, 2015, 02:30:05 PM
Nice interview but nothing new and no news from the album.
But at the end MK says about his death: So i probably fall over on a stage - and that
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Post by: LoveExpresso on February 26, 2015, 03:11:01 PM
Strange timing, two weeks before release, stating that "a new album has been released". This is one of the interviews that I hope no one of my friends has seen - with a tired, weary MK, (he could have been shaved), always saying the same stuff for decades now..

LE
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Post by: D44mu on February 26, 2015, 03:30:49 PM
But truth is: there are always the same questions . . .
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Post by: jbaent on February 26, 2015, 03:41:14 PM
I have to say that I like that three days beard look on MK. Most of the promo pics for All TheRoadrunning were made with that look and they were, at least, different...
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Post by: superval99 on February 26, 2015, 04:33:09 PM
The most embarrassing thing is, that they need to mention the tax avoidance thing in the article below the interview.
I don't care about it. But is it really necessary to mention it in this context?

I noticed it too!    Quite unnecessary imo! 
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Post by: dmg on February 26, 2015, 05:24:54 PM
Strange timing, two weeks before release, stating that "a new album has been released". This is one of the interviews that I hope no one of my friends has seen - with a tired, weary MK, (he could have been shaved), always saying the same stuff for decades now..

LE

I must agree and am reluctant to even look at an interview these days for that very reason (not the fact he's unshaven  ;)).
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Post by: superval99 on February 26, 2015, 05:48:27 PM
He did look very tired, but maybe he had a long day.  btw I like his unshaven look now and then!     

I don't have a problem with the interview - he answers what the interviewer asks and is always polite, no matter how many times he has to answer the same old questions!   ;)

What should he talk about?    What questions should he be asked that we don't already know?   Imagine you are the interviewer!    :think
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Post by: Throttle on February 26, 2015, 09:05:47 PM
He did look very tired, but maybe he had a long day.

Or maybe he just caught cold. His nose is stuffed up and his eyes are red and rheumy. 
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Post by: dmg on February 26, 2015, 10:29:10 PM
He did look very tired, but maybe he had a long day.  btw I like his unshaven look now and then!     

I don't have a problem with the interview - he answers what the interviewer asks and is always polite, no matter how many times he has to answer the same old questions!   ;)

What should he talk about?    What questions should he be asked that we don't already know?   Imagine you are the interviewer!    :think

Love how you always stick up for him Val.  Your loyalty knows no bounds!  ;)

I think we all realise he must get tired of the same old questions etc. but he surely must expect them and after all, they are doing him a favour by promoting his album and tour.  My main gripe is the fact he uses the same phrases/clich
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Post by: Rail King on February 27, 2015, 02:23:49 PM
I think as an interviewer, you'll have to ask VERY good (and specific) questions to get something meaningful from Mr. K. He'd rather use his songs to say what he has to say, that's may impression.

But what WAS interesting is the tax avoidance thing
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Post by: Rail King on February 27, 2015, 02:51:47 PM
Sorry, I just saw that there's a whole thread about the tax thing already. Should check this forum more frequently, really ...  :-[
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Post by: superval99 on February 27, 2015, 03:10:34 PM
http://www.amarkintime.org/forum/index.php/topic,3727.0.html

I just think, that it's kind of unfair to bring it up in this context.
I mean, he gives them an interview and they have nothing better to do than to mention this.
They could have also mentioned that he donates money to charities, which they didn't do.

Exactly!   It was totally inappropriate, because it was nothing whatsoever about music, or the upcoming album!

It would be better that these journalists find something good to write about MK, than digging around for something they see as shady! 
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Post by: Rail King on February 27, 2015, 03:25:47 PM
Quote
It would be better that these journalists find something good to write about MK, than digging around for something they see as shady!

Errm, no. Quite the opposite. It's a good journalist's job to write about the shady side of things. What you are referring to is PR/marketing, not journalism.

By the way, The Guardian, who first published these news, is Mark Knopfler's favourite newspaper. And for a reason.
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Post by: superval99 on February 27, 2015, 03:30:46 PM
Quote
It would be better that these journalists find something good to write about MK, than digging around for something they see as shady!

Errm, no. Quite the opposite. It's a good journalist's job to write about the shady side of things. What you are referring to is PR/marketing, not journalism.

By the way, The Guardian, who first published these news, is Mark Knopfler's favourite newspaper. And for a reason.

They delight in digging up the dirt!   Good journalism should be well-balanced - most often it's not!   
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Post by: Rail King on February 27, 2015, 03:39:19 PM
Quote
It would be better that these journalists find something good to write about MK, than digging around for something they see as shady!

Errm, no. Quite the opposite. It's a good journalist's job to write about the shady side of things. What you are referring to is PR/marketing, not journalism.

By the way, The Guardian, who first published these news, is Mark Knopfler's favourite newspaper. And for a reason.

They delight in digging up the dirt!   Good journalism should be well-balanced - most often it's not!   

Sorry, but I disagree. Let's assume the sun wouldn't rise tomorrow morning. Surely that woud be a negative thing, and surely it would be worth a newspaper article. Would the journalist writing that article have to mention that, to balance things out, the sun actually DID come up on the days before? No. Mark made the headlines for donating money and spending for good causes before, now his making headlines for something else. That's only natural. Journalists report what's new.
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Post by: yontwocrows on February 27, 2015, 06:13:17 PM
I've lost all my trust in newspapers and in journalist in general. Reading a newspaper ist most of the time an annoyance, even the "quality" papers are getting poorer and poorer. They are mainly looking for scandals, and if they can't find them they try to produce them. Everything is exagerated, and the ideal to INFORM people is completely lost.

Back to the interview in ZDF! It's a very poor interview, especially the written parts where the video is embedded. Instead of mentioning some tax issues from the past, (the story is old!) where everything was legal, they could have asked about the new album. I don't get it, that you can have a interview with an artist, because of the new album and the upcoming tour, but not trying to get first informations of the album. That would be a new story! I agree with LE, this is a shame of a research!
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Post by: dmg on February 28, 2015, 12:39:43 PM
It's quite simple really - if Mark didn't want asked about it he should have stipulated that no questions were asked about it.  You can't pretend that everything is rosy in the garden all the time.  Journalists must present a fair and balanced view without showing a bias or personal view, presenting the facts only.  That is what I remember from school anyway!

BTW I am assuming that this isn't available to listen to in English without the translation over it.  Correct?
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Post by: Justme on February 28, 2015, 05:38:17 PM
I've lost all my trust in newspapers and in journalist in general. Reading a newspaper ist most of the time an annoyance, even the "quality" papers are getting poorer and poorer. They are mainly looking for scandals, and if they can't find them they try to produce them. Everything is exagerated, and the ideal to INFORM people is completely lost.

It's worse, as there is no real plurality of opinions anymore. All follow the same bullsh.., erm, agenda, think-tanks, mindsets - whatever you might call it. Different-minded opinions are not allowed, or have to be ridiculed. Divide et impera and panem et circenses to keep us "entertained". And there is always a pinch of fear to be distributed. Thanks, but no thanks.
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Post by: Justme on February 28, 2015, 05:44:01 PM
Sorry, back to topic... I'm quite sure that MK wasn't aware of certain constructions, that consultants installed in order to reduce the tax burden. Either he had not the time to concentrate on "his" taxes extensively, as he prefers to stick with the music, or he wasn't interested.
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Post by: dustyvalentino on February 28, 2015, 11:24:13 PM
If MK wanted to avoid tax he could move to Switzerland like Phil Collins.

But he pays lots of tax. The story is about his ex wife.
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Post by: Dutchessy on March 01, 2015, 02:13:12 PM
Just saw this on Facebook
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Post by: dmg on March 01, 2015, 02:30:49 PM
Isn't that the On the Night shirt?   :lol
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Post by: holaknopfler on March 01, 2015, 03:16:26 PM
Just saw this on Facebook

Great find Dutchessy, did you get it already?
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Post by: holaknopfler on March 01, 2015, 03:17:11 PM
Isn't that the On the Night shirt?   :lol

The headband, the headband..!!! ;D
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Post by: pete_w on March 01, 2015, 11:41:13 PM
Quite appropriate that the feller heading the band wore a headband. Come to think of it.
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Post by: jbaent on March 02, 2015, 02:10:00 PM
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Post by: foma on March 02, 2015, 02:22:21 PM
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Post by: border_reiver on March 02, 2015, 02:28:15 PM
It says April 2015 on the cover, sit tight folks!  ;D
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Post by: pete_w on March 02, 2015, 03:23:44 PM
Got to say that he looks way younger in denim than in the farmer gentleman garb ...

(http://i1.examiner.co.uk/whats-on/article7160204.ece/alternates/s318/h_00518038.jpg)
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Post by: foma on March 02, 2015, 03:48:57 PM
Got to say that he looks way younger in denim than in the farmer gentleman garb ...

(http://i1.examiner.co.uk/whats-on/article7160204.ece/alternates/s318/h_00518038.jpg)

(https://pp.vk.me/c623318/v623318564/26ce5/kspRK7k9EOc.jpg)

Nothing basically changed apart from the headband and Suhr gone from the guitar, and the rest just the same ;D
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Post by: JeroenvG on March 02, 2015, 06:49:28 PM
http://www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/music/guitarist-magazine-back-issues/guitarist-march-2015-issue-391/ (http://www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/music/guitarist-magazine-back-issues/guitarist-march-2015-issue-391/)

You can buy the issue here when its available. Worldwide shipping.
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Post by: Silvertown on March 02, 2015, 07:11:36 PM
http://www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/music/guitarist-magazine-back-issues/guitarist-march-2015-issue-391/ (http://www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/music/guitarist-magazine-back-issues/guitarist-march-2015-issue-391/)

You can buy the issue here when its available. Worldwide shipping.

Thanks! Price seems to be cheaper or not more than if I buy it from the store here :)
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Post by: robin on March 02, 2015, 08:56:36 PM
Got to say that he looks way younger in denim than in the farmer gentleman garb ...

(http://i1.examiner.co.uk/whats-on/article7160204.ece/alternates/s318/h_00518038.jpg)

(https://pp.vk.me/c623318/v623318564/26ce5/kspRK7k9EOc.jpg)

Nothing basically changed apart from the headband and Suhr gone from the guitar, and the rest just the same ;D

This and the haircut, thanks god :D
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Post by: jbaent on March 03, 2015, 08:27:29 AM
About the release date, it is supposed to be on 16th but it looks that some countries applies their own rules depending in which day the releases are made before all the EU adopt Friday as the release date, for instance, right now Tuesday is the release date in Spain so it means we will get the record on 17th...

I think I read that some other countries (Holland?) will have it released on 13rd, is that right? Which are the release dates by country? Please add yours if the date is different

Worldwide 16th
Spain 17th
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 03, 2015, 08:35:39 AM
About the release date, it is supposed to be on 16th but it looks that some countries applies their own rules depending in which day the releases are made before all the EU adopt Friday as the release date, for instance, right now Tuesday is the release date in Spain so it means we will get the record on 17th...

I think I read that some other countries (Holland?) will have it released on 13rd, is that right? Which are the release dates by country? Please add yours if the date is different

Worldwide 16th
Spain 17th

Sweden, as always last.

18th.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Silvertown on March 03, 2015, 08:36:40 AM
About the release date, it is supposed to be on 16th but it looks that some countries applies their own rules depending in which day the releases are made before all the EU adopt Friday as the release date, for instance, right now Tuesday is the release date in Spain so it means we will get the record on 17th...

I think I read that some other countries (Holland?) will have it released on 13rd, is that right? Which are the release dates by country? Please add yours if the date is different

Worldwide 16th
Spain 17th

Seems to be 13th in Finland.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 03, 2015, 08:50:14 AM
Is it just me or didn't we have snippets available from Privateering this close to release last time?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on March 03, 2015, 09:39:00 AM
Is it just me or didn't we have snippets available from Privateering this close to release last time?

Nope, actually we had it 5 (five!) weeks before release. This time all the websites decided not to do snippets for some reason.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 03, 2015, 09:48:02 AM
Is it just me or didn't we have snippets available from Privateering this close to release last time?

Nope, actually we had it 5 (five!) weeks before release. This time all the websites decided not to do snippets for some reason.

They're hiding something from the people, something that will be too late to stop once it is out there...  :think

KTGC vol 2? ;)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 03, 2015, 09:54:51 AM
About the release date, it is supposed to be on 16th but it looks that some countries applies their own rules depending in which day the releases are made before all the EU adopt Friday as the release date, for instance, right now Tuesday is the release date in Spain so it means we will get the record on 17th...

I think I read that some other countries (Holland?) will have it released on 13rd, is that right? Which are the release dates by country? Please add yours if the date is different

Worldwide 16th
Spain 17th

Correct, Friday 13th march in Holland. They start sending Thursday 12th March from UK to Holland. I went to the local music shop last week and asked if they can get it before 13th march. This wasn't possible :P

They will have it Friday 13th march in the morning.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: holaknopfler on March 03, 2015, 10:15:18 AM
About the release date, it is supposed to be on 16th but it looks that some countries applies their own rules depending in which day the releases are made before all the EU adopt Friday as the release date, for instance, right now Tuesday is the release date in Spain so it means we will get the record on 17th...

I think I read that some other countries (Holland?) will have it released on 13rd, is that right? Which are the release dates by country? Please add yours if the date is different

Worldwide 16th
Spain 17th

Correct, Friday 13th march in Holland. They start sending Thursday 12th March from UK to Holland. I went to the local music shop last week and asked if they can get it before 13th march. This wasn't possible :P

They will have it Friday 13th march in the morning.

The guy who's a big fan of Bob? Great store he has. By the way, will this be the first time there is no leak?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 03, 2015, 10:16:32 AM
About the release date, it is supposed to be on 16th but it looks that some countries applies their own rules depending in which day the releases are made before all the EU adopt Friday as the release date, for instance, right now Tuesday is the release date in Spain so it means we will get the record on 17th...

I think I read that some other countries (Holland?) will have it released on 13rd, is that right? Which are the release dates by country? Please add yours if the date is different

Worldwide 16th
Spain 17th

Correct, Friday 13th march in Holland. They start sending Thursday 12th March from UK to Holland. I went to the local music shop last week and asked if they can get it before 13th march. This wasn't possible :P

They will have it Friday 13th march in the morning.

The guy who's a big fan of Bob? Great store he has. By the way, will this be the first time there is no leak?

Yes, that same Guy, same shop  ;) He has reserved the limited Box for me  :clap
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 03, 2015, 10:21:41 AM
About the release date, it is supposed to be on 16th but it looks that some countries applies their own rules depending in which day the releases are made before all the EU adopt Friday as the release date, for instance, right now Tuesday is the release date in Spain so it means we will get the record on 17th...

I think I read that some other countries (Holland?) will have it released on 13rd, is that right? Which are the release dates by country? Please add yours if the date is different

Worldwide 16th
Spain 17th

Correct, Friday 13th march in Holland. They start sending Thursday 12th March from UK to Holland. I went to the local music shop last week and asked if they can get it before 13th march. This wasn't possible :P

They will have it Friday 13th march in the morning.

The guy who's a big fan of Bob? Great store he has. By the way, will this be the first time there is no leak?

If they make it to the release date without any leaks it would almost be historical.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: surferboy on March 03, 2015, 10:30:27 AM
Maybe there are leaks but people are afraid to speak about it because of modern day legal action against them?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 03, 2015, 10:33:49 AM
Was there a privateering leak? And when?

Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: surferboy on March 03, 2015, 10:34:24 AM
Is it just me or didn't we have snippets available from Privateering this close to release last time?

Of the 11 (classic) album tracks we already have 4: two complete and two snippets form the short film, so we do know quite a substantial part of it already.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: surferboy on March 03, 2015, 10:43:34 AM
Is it just me or didn't we have snippets available from Privateering this close to release last time?

It is the same with the album lyrics.
Instead of eating my nails while waiting for release day I learned the lyrics and it was quite strange, because by learning them you automatically form an idea about what the song would sound like.
But MK can make the melody sound opposite to the meaning of the song, e.g. Ticket to Heaven.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 03, 2015, 10:54:19 AM
Is it just me or didn't we have snippets available from Privateering this close to release last time?

Of the 11 (classic) album tracks we already have 4: two complete and two snippets form the short film, so we do know quite a substantial part of it already.

True. And we had two or three being played at the MK+Dylan tour as well.

But with the iTunes snippets from Privateering you pretty much got a good picture of the record's outline.

This time it is more concealed, and I somehow like it like that :)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 03, 2015, 10:58:54 AM
And if I had heard Pyroman live prior to the release of STP something would have died inside me once it turned out that it was stricken.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: surferboy on March 03, 2015, 11:47:23 AM

This time it is more concealed, and I somehow like it like that :)

I like it, too.
But I can't resist listening once the snippets are there...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: pete_w on March 03, 2015, 12:10:56 PM
Anyone found any early reviews yet?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 03, 2015, 12:12:32 PM
Anyone found any early reviews yet?

Guy said it was the best thing to date  ::)

But, no. None so far.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: pete_w on March 03, 2015, 12:14:55 PM
Ah, search and ye shall find. Here's one http://classicrock.teamrock.com/reviews/2015-02-20/mark-knopfler-tracker . But you need to register to read. Anyone care to do it?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 03, 2015, 12:32:40 PM
SPOILER WARNING!!!

Text below is lighter to prevent sudden unintended reading, so mark it :)

Mark Knopfler
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: pete_w on March 03, 2015, 12:38:50 PM
Ouch ...

Actually, maybe we could start a reviews thread?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ruipedro on March 03, 2015, 12:55:16 PM
hi to all!!!Review from classic rock!............................Former Dire Straits mainman ploughs the same solo furrow.
Mark Knopfler
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 03, 2015, 01:03:33 PM
Sounds pretty good to me  ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on March 03, 2015, 01:08:25 PM
Sounds like 'best thing to date' to me, nothing extraordinary in this review, words can be put aside with every single Knopfler's song :lol
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: pete_w on March 03, 2015, 01:11:42 PM
Well, you can be sure that whatever Mark serves, it will be a top-notch dish with first-rate ingredients. But sometimes a visit to the local chippie can be more satisfying than an evening at a posh dining place. If you catch my drift.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on March 03, 2015, 01:13:07 PM
 What a smug bunch of adjectives in this review..

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on March 03, 2015, 01:19:21 PM
What a smug bunch of adjectives in this review..

LE

Yes, there were rather a lot, weren't there!  A lot of alliterations too!  I think he' must have swallowed the dictionary, or the thesaurus! ;D

@ ruipedro - Thanks very much for the information.    :thumbsup
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 03, 2015, 01:39:20 PM
hi to all!!!Review from classic rock!............................Former Dire Straits mainman ploughs the same solo furrow.
Mark Knopfler
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ingridswing on March 03, 2015, 01:41:28 PM
You were very kind to do so Border Reiver. But as you see, people got excited. If you don't want to know about the release I think it's best to stay away from the forum till releasedate, same thing some people do when the first gig of a tour is coming nearer  :D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: pete_w on March 03, 2015, 01:47:57 PM
So maybe a seperate Reviews thread then? With spoiler alert in the title?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 03, 2015, 01:57:39 PM
So maybe a seperate Reviews thread then? With spoiler alert in the title?

Yes, please start one
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: pete_w on March 03, 2015, 02:21:03 PM
Done http://www.amarkintime.org/forum/index.php/topic,4106.0.html
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on March 03, 2015, 02:59:26 PM
I don't think it's necessary to spread the information on multiple threads when it can go here, it just make it more difficult to follow everything
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ingridswing on March 03, 2015, 03:00:30 PM
All reviews in one thread (with spoiler mentioned) and our thoughts in this one seems ok to me
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: pete_w on March 03, 2015, 03:03:27 PM
I only suggested it because this thread now has 50+ pages before the release. Just thought it would be easier to find the actual reviews in a dedicated thread.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 03, 2015, 04:39:28 PM
If we only post reviews in that thread it's a very good thread with overview! Let's discuss the reviews overhere ofcourse.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Marijo58 on March 03, 2015, 06:56:32 PM
http://www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/music/guitarist-magazine-back-issues/guitarist-march-2015-issue-391/ (http://www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/music/guitarist-magazine-back-issues/guitarist-march-2015-issue-391/)

You can buy the issue here when its available. Worldwide shipping.

Thanks a lot for the link JeroenvG!! We just have to wait until it's going to be available!! I'm travelling to London for the Easter week end and I think I'll buy it there!!  :thumbsup :wave
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on March 03, 2015, 07:48:33 PM
Not too enthusiatic about what that German review said about some songs. Sax  :-\ on River Towns - hmmmm not too sure - and I have high expectations for
Laughs & Jokes and Drinks & Smokes, but a fiddle that makes it sound like a traditional folk song.. hmmm...  ::)  Mighty Man with accordeon and flute...  :think  hmmm..
 

the story about the clock is sweet though.

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: pete_w on March 03, 2015, 11:42:12 PM
Not too enthusiatic about what that German review said about some songs. Sax on River Towns - hmmmm not too sure - and I have high expectations for
Laughs & Jokes and Drinks & Smokes, but a fiddle that makes it sound like a traditional folk song.. hmmm...  ::)  Mighty Man with accordeon and flute...  :think  hmmm..
 

the story about the clock is sweet though.

LE

Those would make great song titles.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on March 04, 2015, 10:31:24 PM
That nice (and young) lady at the Media Markt in my hometown was asked today by Mr. Love Expresso that a new Mark Knopfler album was about to be released next week - "March 13th, she answered in no time, which made me happy and I wondered, should she really know that artist?
I asked "maybe you have it the day before?" and she answered "yes, pretty sure!"
So if I am lucky, I will have the CD next Thursday, which is almost only one week away! I will let you know if I have it!  ;D

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 04, 2015, 10:32:59 PM
According to the review I recently posted in the reviews section nearly every song seems to be slow or slow-ish. It is said to grow slowly on you, they said the same about KTGC and that one hasn't even begun to sprout one bit for me since those last 10 years...   >:(

The presumably bad side...

One relaxed Irish ballad.
One fairly slow
One soft song with slow intro
One is slow
One is just "Wherever I go"  ;)
One is rather slow.


- - -

And on the good side...

One breathes the air of Ireland
One is more rock, but not particularly original
One is more rock, a nod to JJ Cale
One is a crossover between folk and rock (well, this is Lights of Taormina)
One is classic DS (Beryl)



"Fudge" this... Hope is now given to the bonus tracks.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: pete_w on March 04, 2015, 10:39:32 PM
I feel anger.

It's time to ditch those tin whistles and citterns. He's been doing that Celtic thing since Local Hero and Cal, for goodness sakes. It is getting old. Like that Riverdance fad in the 90s.

Edit: Ok, anger is too much said. But it does NOT look promising. And that oilskin jacket and sixpence image in the video - it's like a Range Rover commercial for the VIP section at Wimbledon. Bleh.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 04, 2015, 10:55:45 PM
I feel anger.

It's time to ditch those tin whistles and citterns. He's been doing that Celtic thing since Local Hero and Cal, for goodness sakes. It is getting old. Like that Riverdance fad in the 90s.

Edit: Ok, anger is too much said. But it does NOT look promising. And that oilskin jacket and sixpence image in the video - it's like a Range Rover commercial for the VIP section at Wimbledon. Bleh.

More cowbell?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 04, 2015, 11:03:42 PM
Only thing missing is Paul Franklin, on the pedal tweed.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 04, 2015, 11:20:50 PM
That nice (and young) lady at the Media Markt in my hometown was asked today by Mr. Love Expresso that a new Mark Knopfler album was about to be released next week - "March 13th, she answered in no time, which made me happy and I wondered, should she really know that artist?
I asked "maybe you have it the day before?" and she answered "yes, pretty sure!"
So if I am lucky, I will have the CD next Thursday, which is almost only one week away! I will let you know if I have it!  ;D

LE

They told me its impossible because they start shipping at thursday...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on March 05, 2015, 07:39:07 AM
 
 I try to keep the other thread clean and answer to the last post over there (review thread):

 jbaent, about the absence of Bruce Molsky in the reviews, I noticed that, too. Maybe he will make his appearance in the bonus songs (some of which seem to have an Americana feel, according to their titles.) And not a single review ever mentioned more than the 11 standard edition songs.

I am astonished that anyone really would expect an album from Mark Knopfler nowadays and expects rockers or fast numbers??

The "Take Five" intro of LAJADAS was already mentioned earlier, Beryl has an intro, so lots of intros on this one. I like that. MK is a great intro-ductioner. ;D

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: pete_w on March 05, 2015, 08:03:39 AM
Border Reiver was fast, albeit with whistles and citterns.

Cleaning My Gun was a pretty good rocker.

The man can still do it. If he wants.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 05, 2015, 08:27:21 AM
Border Reiver was fast, albeit with whistles and citterns.

Cleaning My Gun was a pretty good rocker.

The man can still do it. If he wants.

Yeah! Can't remember in which interview (and to what album release) he stated that every now and then he likes to send out the folk musicians and play some rock with the other lads.

And you really could tell that he enjoyed saying that. But apparently not something that is for the fans to hear.

Edit... Corned Beef City being the exception.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: surferboy on March 05, 2015, 08:59:05 AM
I think the Italian review as oposed to all others so far gives a realistic picture of the album.

"At first I was lukewarm" describes very well the experience of a first listen to a new MK album, his music needs time and many listens to get to the bottom ("grows slowly") but as a reward it lasts much longer than other contemporary music.

I also think it will be hard to beat Lights of Taormina, which he also writes.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: pete_w on March 05, 2015, 09:45:36 AM
From the Reviews thread:

"Slow is exactly what I was expecting, slow is what we are getting since RPD was released on 2002 and nothing has changed except that MK is older."

Exactly. You cannot put it better than that!
To expect anything else is simply not realistic for more than 10 years now. The same holds for the setlist illusions that will soon start again. Besides that he still is the very best there is!

Edit: Sorry, wrong thread, won't happen again.

Statistically, yes, that's what it looks like it's going to be. As someone said (here?), it's like the same songs over and over, but with different lyrics. Someone should remind Mark about the anecdote he told where he heard Buddy Holly playing on the radio after Telegraph Road and how he felt TR was so lifeless (over-produced) in comparison with the simple, lively Buddy Holly tune.

I mean, I LOVE a good-sounding record. But if you spend a whole day just trying out various microphones to find out which minute nuance is the most pleasing ... You don't think there's a *bit* of spontaneity that gets lost in the process?

And about the setlists - Mark himself says over and over that he love the whole process - writing, recording, and then playing the songs before an audience. So what's with the static setlist then? Sure, last tour was better. Quite a few songs from Privateering were played, so maybe things are picking up in that department. Then again, if the majority of the album is a snooze fest, it's going to be fun show (sarcasm alert).
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: pete_w on March 05, 2015, 09:51:47 AM
I feel anger.

It's time to ditch those tin whistles and citterns. He's been doing that Celtic thing since Local Hero and Cal, for goodness sakes. It is getting old. Like that Riverdance fad in the 90s.

Edit: Ok, anger is too much said. But it does NOT look promising. And that oilskin jacket and sixpence image in the video - it's like a Range Rover commercial for the VIP section at Wimbledon. Bleh.

More cowbell?

 UfD9fWt8hrQ
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 05, 2015, 10:12:08 AM
I feel anger.

It's time to ditch those tin whistles and citterns. He's been doing that Celtic thing since Local Hero and Cal, for goodness sakes. It is getting old. Like that Riverdance fad in the 90s.

Edit: Ok, anger is too much said. But it does NOT look promising. And that oilskin jacket and sixpence image in the video - it's like a Range Rover commercial for the VIP section at Wimbledon. Bleh.

More cowbell?

 UfD9fWt8hrQ

Yeah, I already knew about it. Was just being ironic about what might have been needed on Tracker  ;)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on March 05, 2015, 10:56:39 AM
Funny thing is that there ARE obviously two
rockers on the album? Seems to be faded out here in terms of pre release criticism?
This Italian review let my expectations rise a lot.

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: pete_w on March 05, 2015, 11:10:46 AM
Two out of eleven isn't bad. I feel better already  ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on March 05, 2015, 11:17:00 AM
Two out of eleven isn't bad. I feel better already  ;D

Three if we include Beryl! 
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: surferboy on March 05, 2015, 11:22:42 AM
I don't want to be misunderstood.
By my remarks I don't mean any pre release criticism at all.
A slow and quiet album is more than fine with me. I like that and even expect one of his best solo albums so far.
But I think to expect his "most straits like" solo album (as stated in one of the first reviews) must inevitably lead to disappointment and what is labeled a "rocker" may as well be a number with just a rougher guitar sound.
It comes down to avoid unrealistic expectations with regard to straits like rockers and substantially overhauled setlists.
But if you avoid that you can be as happy a fan as a happy microphone or engine.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 05, 2015, 11:43:46 AM
Funny thing is that there ARE obviously two
rockers on the album? Seems to be faded out here in terms of pre release criticism?
This Italian review let my expectations rise a lot.

LE

Mine too! I think i'm gonna love most of the songs. No sign of a 'blues'  song yet  ;D ;D I'm happy with that!! (i don't like ' don't forget your hat, can't beat the house and hot or what for example')
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 05, 2015, 11:56:43 AM
Two out of eleven isn't bad. I feel better already  ;D

KTGC vol 2, now with 18% more rock!  ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 05, 2015, 12:01:12 PM

Statistically, yes, that's what it looks like it's going to be. As someone said (here?), it's like the same songs over and over, but with different lyrics. Someone should remind Mark about the anecdote he told where he heard Buddy Holly playing on the radio after Telegraph Road and how he felt TR was so lifeless (over-produced) in comparison with the simple, lively Buddy Holly tune.


There are A LOT of quotes (about rock and such) that should be resurrected, printed and sent to the man...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: pete_w on March 05, 2015, 12:07:43 PM
Two out of eleven isn't bad. I feel better already  ;D

KTGC vol 2, now with 18% more rock!  ;D

Haha!

Listen, I like mellow and quiet albums as well, but when the majority of his output are cast in that mould, it gets boring. But hey - it's nice to have a little selection for background music at auntie Bertha's dinner parties  ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on March 05, 2015, 12:22:38 PM
Slow doesn't mean a thing!   Lots of the songs on Get Lucky could be called slow, but they are beautiful.  For example "So Far From the Clyde" is relatively slow, but I don't remember many complaining about its slowness.  "Before Gas & TV" is slow, but it also happens to be one of my favourite songs.  :)   I still have a very good feeling about Tracker.   Why waste energy moaning before it's been heard and thoroughly digested!   ;)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: pete_w on March 05, 2015, 12:33:46 PM
It's not about slowness per se, but variation.

But you're right - lets hear the dang record. And then moan  ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 05, 2015, 12:51:12 PM
It's not about slowness per se, but variation.

But you're right - lets hear the dang record. And then moan  ;D

Okay, agreed :)

But I'm still reserving the right to be top moaner in two weeks time! ;)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 05, 2015, 12:54:35 PM
It's not about slowness per se, but variation.

But you're right - lets hear the dang record. And then moan  ;D

Okay, agreed :)

But I'm still reserving the right to be top moaner in two weeks time! ;)

Not something to be proud of?  ;)  :think
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 05, 2015, 12:57:14 PM
And how about all those fine blues songs on Privateering?  ::)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 05, 2015, 12:59:55 PM
And how about all those fine blues songs on Privateering?  ::)

 ;D ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on March 05, 2015, 01:09:11 PM
As Val says... MK slow songs are beautiful so if it
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: pete_w on March 05, 2015, 01:14:25 PM
Different perspectives, I guess. I want an album that is "exciting" rather than "beautiful". Not that they are mutually exclusive, but you know what I mean.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 05, 2015, 01:17:27 PM
As Val says... MK slow songs are beautiful so if it
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: pete_w on March 05, 2015, 01:19:14 PM
And how about all those fine blues songs on Privateering?  ::)

I like them, but in my opinion he should have released two albums, one with "regular" songs, and one blues album. I feel the many blues songs don't fit the other songs so well.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 05, 2015, 01:23:40 PM
And how about all those fine blues songs on Privateering?  ::)

I like them, but in my opinion he should have released two albums, one with "regular" songs, and one blues album. I feel the many blues songs don't fit the other songs so well.

I like them as well of course. Mr. Dutchessy doesn't, I was just "busting his chops" about the moaning :)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Maxx on March 05, 2015, 01:26:27 PM
We should start a forum for fans that like MK's music!  :wave
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: pete_w on March 05, 2015, 01:29:30 PM
A forum for the yeasayers and another one for the naysayers. And never the twain shall meet, eh?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on March 05, 2015, 01:36:46 PM
We should start a forum for fans that likes MK's music!  :wave

You are already in one, and one of the best, with the most clever fans in the world, that have the capacity of not only tell all the positive things about MK and his music, but also capable to critizes whatever they don't like, not only sheeps, but people who can think by themselfs!

 ;D
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Post by: crimmer on March 05, 2015, 01:39:20 PM
the privateering blues songs really made it a good album for me ! gator blood, today is ok, got to have something , highlight tracks for me.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: holaknopfler on March 05, 2015, 01:51:03 PM
I like the blues songs particularly. Gator Blood live was a real great song to hear. Still play the one from Milan a lot.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: holaknopfler on March 05, 2015, 01:52:30 PM
But I agree, Mark music tends to grow. Songs like R
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Maxx on March 05, 2015, 02:31:33 PM
We should start a forum for fans that likes MK's music!  :wave

You are already in one, and one of the best, with the most clever fans in the world, that have the capacity of not only tell all the positive things about MK and his music, but also capable to critizes whatever they don't like, not only sheeps, but people who can think by themselfs!

 ;D

You're right, of course!  I was only joking, altough it's quite interesting that so many people doesn't seem to enjoy what the man's been doing the last TEN years. ;D
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Post by: ingridswing on March 05, 2015, 02:51:26 PM
It's not that we don't enjoy it. It's just more fun to moan about it. And then we order all available versions of the new album, and go to as many concerts as we possibly can  ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on March 05, 2015, 02:58:33 PM
As Val says... MK slow songs are beautiful so if it
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ingridswing on March 05, 2015, 03:13:04 PM
LOL Jbaent, tomatoes are red, so every red is a tomato  :P
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Post by: border_reiver on March 05, 2015, 03:53:55 PM
It's not that we don't enjoy it. It's just more fun to moan about it. And then we order all available versions of the new album, and go to as many concerts as we possibly can  ;D

^This  :wave
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: pete_w on March 05, 2015, 04:05:58 PM
After all, it is better to expect the worst and hope for the best, than expect the best and hope for the worst. Hoping for the worst would be pretty sick as a matter of fact. And not sick in a cool way.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on March 05, 2015, 05:21:33 PM
LOL Jbaent, tomatoes are red, so every red is a tomato  :P

Every!

 ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Jarle on March 05, 2015, 06:37:45 PM
Has this been shared?

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2TUBF7q8EE&feature=

Now it has, anyway  :) This is the first of three clips that will be shared during the next two weeks, before the complete film will be published on March 16th :)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: holaknopfler on March 05, 2015, 06:43:10 PM
Great to hear the guitar in the beginning
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Post by: Dutchessy on March 05, 2015, 07:01:21 PM
Has this been shared?

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2TUBF7q8EE&feature=

Now it has, anyway  :) This is the first of three clips that will be shared during the next two weeks, before the complete film will be published on March 16th :)

This is new!!!!  :clap :clap :clap A pity that's 1 min about Beryl, which we already know  ;)

The beginning is 'lights of taormina'?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on March 05, 2015, 07:07:18 PM
It's Lights Of Taormina of course, and it's a shame they started the video with it! I wanted to listen to it when album would out.

Now I know how it supposed to sound :(
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on March 05, 2015, 07:12:15 PM
The intro sounded beautiful!   :)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 05, 2015, 07:34:37 PM
Probably the 24min interview from the Box DVD.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Guitarman1972 on March 05, 2015, 07:42:52 PM
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The intro sounded beautiful!

The intro sounded beautiful? Sorry Superval99, but I don't agree with you. The intro sounded absolute f#$%ing amazing! One of best intro's he probably ever did.

From what I have heard so far from the Taormina song I get the feeling it will be one of my all time favorites.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: pete_w on March 05, 2015, 07:48:36 PM
Yeah, that sounded really great. Thanks for the link.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on March 05, 2015, 08:00:52 PM
Quote
The intro sounded beautiful!

The intro sounded beautiful? Sorry Superval99, but I don't agree with you. The intro sounded absolute f#$%ing amazing! One of best intro's he probably ever did.

From what I have heard so far from the Taormina song I get the feeling it will be one of my all time favorites.

Your reply gave me a shock at first, Guitarman1972, but I agree it is absolutely amazing and I know I'm going to love Taormina.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on March 05, 2015, 08:01:17 PM
Can't watch it in Germany. Thanks GEMA.

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Justme on March 05, 2015, 08:12:12 PM
Tell them: "Sorry - my wallet isn't available for you.

You might try this: http://www.unblockyoutube.co.uk/
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on March 05, 2015, 08:22:45 PM
Hey Caroline, thanks sooo much for directing me!!  :wave :wave :thumbsup

It reminds me of Simple Minds "Belfast Child", another tempo, another mood, but the melody is somehow similar.. is it really clear that this is from Lights of Taormina? Not too sure..

Really love it how fast someone helps you if you need it really desparately around here! Thanks again!

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Vesper on March 05, 2015, 08:33:01 PM
Looking forward to Tracker more and more! Can't wait to receive my box set, deluxe cd and german cd and have it's first spin and detailed look at the whole!!!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 05, 2015, 08:33:50 PM
Lights of Taormina does have a long intro stated the Italian review. The slide guitar is the same. It must be Lights of Taormina.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jerrymb on March 05, 2015, 08:37:02 PM
One week from today I'll have my copy of Tracker!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on March 05, 2015, 08:57:16 PM
Tell them: "Sorry - my wallet isn't available for you.

You might try this: http://www.unblockyoutube.co.uk/

Justme, thanks to you, too! I will give it a try, I guess this gema problem will stay with us in Germany for a while!

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: H97 on March 05, 2015, 09:51:43 PM
It reminds me at Simple Minds "Belfast Child", another tempo, another mood, but the melody is somehow similar..

I immediatley thought the same and my father said it too, never had this with a MK song before  ::)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Vesper on March 05, 2015, 09:54:40 PM
Anyone noticed that little Martin&Co guitar? Any insight in it from one with guitar knowledge?
I seem to recall seeing it before at the Get Lucky dvd!?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on March 05, 2015, 09:58:45 PM
After the Buscadero review called 'Lights of Taormina' the best song of the album and worth the whole
album alone, I am wondering if it's 'Bonfire Night' released under a new name ... :)

Why? What do we know about Bonfire Night? :hmm

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 06, 2015, 07:17:04 AM
After the Buscadero review called 'Lights of Taormina' the best song of the album and worth the whole
album alone, I am wondering if it's 'Bonfire Night' released under a new name ... :)

Why? What do we know about Bonfire Night? :hmm

LE

According to the Glenn Saggers' mistake probably a track that didn't make it but was played during the sessions.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on March 06, 2015, 11:27:26 PM
Here's photos from new Guitarist magazine. Good reading though, go and buy it right now! Interview is good, but photos is beyond belief.

All photos © 2015 Joby Sessions | jobysessions.com

(https://pp.vk.me/c622030/v622030999/23c3b/CWg9dUnSCdI.jpg) (https://pp.vk.me/c622129/v622129999/22375/6vjSkFNAvCo.jpg) (https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/t31.0-8/s960x960/10922314_1610000752564320_1794972699418145628_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Vesper on March 06, 2015, 11:44:37 PM
Here's the link to buy it:
http://www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/music/guitarist-magazine-back-issues/
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on March 07, 2015, 07:18:07 AM
From the Australian review, in  the review thread:

Lights of Taormina, a reference to the Sicilian coastal town, has a direct connection to His Bobness. “I was on tour in Europe,” Knopfler says, “and Bob had been to Taormina just before we were there. I stayed in the same hotel room he had stayed in. It was right up next to the venue, an ancient amphitheatre. I stayed out on my balcony for a long time after we’d done the show and it made me think of a whole lot of things.

“Then next morning I read some material that said Bob had spent a long time out on the balcony as well. I just knew it was the same kind of experience. I don’t know that I could have written that song without that experience. “


Wonderful. Exactly the kind of things I want to know about his songs and stories. (although I am not sure if I would have wanted to know that Bob has been in the same bed before..  ;D )

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: surferboy on March 07, 2015, 08:10:23 AM
So wonderful!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Rail King on March 07, 2015, 08:21:45 AM
Quote
The intro sounded beautiful!

The intro sounded beautiful? Sorry Superval99, but I don't agree with you. The intro sounded absolute f#$%ing amazing! One of best intro's he probably ever did.

From what I have heard so far from the Taormina song I get the feeling it will be one of my all time favorites.

Abso-fucking-lutely! That's the way truly great songs start, right? :o
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on March 07, 2015, 10:45:21 AM
That intro is, according to a review I read somewhere (I can't remember when, sorry) the song "Mighty Man" which is supposed to sound something like Paris Texas.

I hope that the Guitarist magazine in Spain is the same one, I'm going to check it in a few hours.

Ps/ Dan, great work bringing the forum back to life!
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Post by: Guitarman1972 on March 07, 2015, 10:52:53 AM
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Abso-fucking-lutely! That's the way truly great songs start, right? :o

Rail King, right indeed.

The melody reminds me a bit of "The Fish And The Bird" too. Or a song from Chris Rea. Anyway, I can't wait to hear the song. This waiting drives me crazy. :-)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on March 07, 2015, 10:56:20 AM
That intro is, according to a review I read somewhere (I can't remember when, sorry) the song "Mighty Man" which is supposed to sound something like Paris Texas.

I guess you are right. I also had doubts that this is from Lights Of Taormina as I couldn't bring rhythm and Tempo and style not together with the little snippet from the Hansen film.. so another great song!!!

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 07, 2015, 11:35:15 AM
That intro is, according to a review I read somewhere (I can't remember when, sorry) the song "Mighty Man" which is supposed to sound something like Paris Texas.

I guess you are right. I also had doubts that this is from Lights Of Taormina as I couldn't bring rhythm and Tempo and style not together with the little snippet from the Hansen film.. so another great song!!!

LE

Interesting, i put my money on lights of taormina... i guess haha
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on March 07, 2015, 12:55:15 PM
Guitarist magazine said Brothers In Arms success was in 1987. Did they meant the time when BiA won a bunch of various awards?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 07, 2015, 01:02:29 PM
That intro is, according to a review I read somewhere (I can't remember when, sorry) the song "Mighty Man" which is supposed to sound something like Paris Texas.

I guess you are right. I also had doubts that this is from Lights Of Taormina as I couldn't bring rhythm and Tempo and style not together with the little snippet from the Hansen film.. so another great song!!!

LE

Interesting, i put my money on lights of taormina... i guess haha

I've changed my mind to either Skydiver or Broken Bones (I mean, how can MK and JJ Cale influences go wrong?)


edit: post 500, yay!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: tobi777 on March 07, 2015, 08:39:31 PM
This intro sounds fairly celtic to me - it reminds me a bit of the sound on Gerry Rafferty's excellent album "North & South" (1988) ...
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Post by: regmka on March 07, 2015, 10:39:00 PM
Hi all. Found this yesterday: http://www.universal-music.de/mark-knopfler/diskografie/detail/product:262116/tracker
Any ideas of what is it?
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Post by: foma on March 07, 2015, 11:17:50 PM
Hi all. Found this yesterday: http://www.universal-music.de/mark-knopfler/diskografie/detail/product:262116/tracker
Any ideas of what is it?

I was there yesterday and it was '2:05' instead of '2:25'. I would bet it will be second part of interview on MK's Vimeo Channel.
First part of the interview is exactly 2 minutes and 5 seconds long.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on March 08, 2015, 12:22:58 PM
This intro sounds fairly celtic to me - it reminds me a bit of the sound on Gerry Rafferty's excellent album "North & South" (1988) ...

Interesting! From the very first listen I have the feeling that this sounds pretty exoctic, almost Eastern, might have to to that I think this slide guitar part sounds a little bit sitar-like.. love it! And the very first words Mark sings sound awesome. Indeed when the guitar rhythm part sets in (during Mark talking),
it has a little resemblance with The Fish And The Bird"... looking forward to enjoy this track completely, hopefully on Thursday!

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on March 08, 2015, 12:27:46 PM
This intro sounds fairly celtic to me - it reminds me a bit of the sound on Gerry Rafferty's excellent album "North & South" (1988) ...

...looking forward to enjoy this track completely, hopefully on Thursday!

LE

You lucky thing, LE!     :)
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Post by: Dutchessy on March 08, 2015, 12:35:00 PM
This intro sounds fairly celtic to me - it reminds me a bit of the sound on Gerry Rafferty's excellent album "North & South" (1988) ...

Interesting! From the very first listen I have the feeling that this sounds pretty exoctic, almost Eastern, might have to to that I think this slide guitar part sounds a little bit sitar-like.. love it! And the very first words Mark sings sound awesome. Indeed when the guitar rhythm part sets in (during Mark talking),
it has a little resemblance with The Fish And The Bird"... looking forward to enjoy this track completely, hopefully on Thursday!

LE

Friday  :P
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on March 08, 2015, 12:40:48 PM
No, hoping for Thursday. MediaMarkt in my town said it is pretty possible that the get it one day before. Plus amazon.de changed the date for the mp3-version from March 9th (which would be tomorrow!!!!) to March 12th. I am pretty sure I couldn't resist if the dowload version would be available earlier.

LE
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Post by: holaknopfler on March 08, 2015, 01:09:24 PM
No, hoping for Thursday. MediaMarkt in my town said it is pretty possible that the get it one day before. Plus amazon.de changed the date for the mp3-version from March 9th (which would be tomorrow!!!!) to March 12th. I am pretty sure I couldn't resist if the dowload version would be available earlier.

LE

Same here.. I don't hope the record will leak onto the internet. I will ask my roommate to lock me in a isolated room without internet because I'm sure I would listen to it.. Spoils the moment!
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Post by: LoveExpresso on March 08, 2015, 01:13:32 PM
When the complete album is available, I never get it when it is said that it "spoils the moment"?  :) :think

LE
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Post by: holaknopfler on March 08, 2015, 01:20:58 PM
When the complete album is available, I never get it when it is said that it "spoils the moment"?  :) :think

LE

Well, I just love the moment of listening to it through a good sound system rather than mp3 quality from a laptop.
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Post by: LoveExpresso on March 08, 2015, 01:31:49 PM
Yes, that's right of course.
For example, I have a day off from work on Thursday. It would be perfectly fitting to get the CD early that day and playing it for the first time - whereas
on Friday, a delievery to my place of work would mean a big task... The kind of excellent problems we always have every couple of years and the kind of problems I would never wish to get rid of..  ;D

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on March 08, 2015, 01:52:38 PM
Come on, 99.99% of people would not notice any diffirence between mp3 version and CD. At least mp3 from online stores. I'm not in that 0.01% part of the world, so as soon I'd get a leak, I will listen to it, although my iTunes pre-order waits me on 16-th March and deluxe CD will arrive a month later.
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Post by: holaknopfler on March 08, 2015, 02:30:38 PM
Come on, 99.99% of people would not notice any diffirence between mp3 version and CD. At least mp3 from online stores. I'm not in that 0.01% part of the world, so as soon I'd get a leak, I will listen to it, although my iTunes pre-order waits me on 16-th March and deluxe CD will arrive a month later.

It's just the whole experience.. The smell of the booklet, putting the cd into the player, sit down with a cuppa coffee, and then just listen in great quality (because you do hear the difference, cd is much warmer than an MP3) if I speak for myself I rather have cd quality. If you listen close on a good system you can hear. Yeah LE, I agree with you. The struggle, I hope it continues long!
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Post by: foma on March 08, 2015, 04:06:21 PM
Come on, 99.99% of people would not notice any diffirence between mp3 version and CD. At least mp3 from online stores. I'm not in that 0.01% part of the world, so as soon I'd get a leak, I will listen to it, although my iTunes pre-order waits me on 16-th March and deluxe CD will arrive a month later.

It's just the whole experience.. The smell of the booklet, putting the cd into the player, sit down with a cuppa coffee, and then just listen in great quality (because you do hear the difference, cd is much warmer than an MP3) if I speak for myself I rather have cd quality. If you listen close on a good system you can hear. Yeah LE, I agree with you. The struggle, I hope it continues long!

I know it's a very, very tough discussion on mp3, but I remember the day I listened 'Get Lucky' for the first time. It was early august summer night (because the album leaked almost a month prior to its release), I was on holiday in the country, so what I did, I climbed on the roof that night, with my trusty mp3 player and good headphones and listened whole album under clear night sky and stars. And I actually cried on 'Piper to the End'.

Now that was an experience I should say. I could listen it on a vinyl, but it's hard to get vinyl so early, and bring it on the roof lol!

And now, every time I hear 'Hard Shoulder' or anything from Get Lucky I remember me sitting on the roof that night and listening.
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Post by: jabbathehut on March 08, 2015, 04:31:47 PM
reckon it will leak tail end of this week when physical units start moving around .These days all the journos listen online in coded locations so leaks don't happen until much closer.Unless someone in amazon presses the wrong button by accident on purpose which is what happend at the last bruce springsteen release it will be then.
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Post by: Justme on March 08, 2015, 05:15:53 PM

I know it's a very, very tough discussion on mp3, but I remember the day I listened 'Get Lucky' for the first time. It was early august summer night (because the album leaked almost a month prior to its release), I was on holiday in the country, so what I did, I climbed on the roof that night, with my trusty mp3 player and good headphones and listened whole album under clear night sky and stars. And I actually cried on 'Piper to the End'.

Now that was an experience I should say. I could listen it on a vinyl, but it's hard to get vinyl so early, and bring it on the roof lol!

And now, every time I hear 'Hard Shoulder' or anything from Get Lucky I remember me sitting on the roof that night and listening.

That's a wonderful story. Maybe one of the best ways to become introduced to the new songs that just "walked out of the door to have a life of their own". Although I'm very fond of high quality audio, it's the whole experience that counts. So just as you said, even a mp3 file will do it in the right circumstances.
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Post by: Alex_melilla on March 08, 2015, 06:18:36 PM
Tonight at 00:01 , can we buy the album in mp3?

 :hmm :hmm :hmm :hmm :hmm :hmm :o
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 08, 2015, 07:22:36 PM
Tonight at 00:01 , can we buy the album in mp3?

 :hmm :hmm :hmm :hmm :hmm :hmm :o

Now where on earth would that be?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Alex_melilla on March 08, 2015, 09:20:30 PM
i see in amazon mark knopfler tracker mp3

Original Release Date: 9 Mar. 2015
Release Date: 9 Mar. 2015
Label: Virgin EMI
Copyright: (C) 2014 Will D. Side Limited under exclusive licence to Mercury Records Limited
Record Company Required Metadata: Music file metadata contains unique purchase identifier. Learn more.
Total Length: 1:14:36
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: yontwocrows on March 08, 2015, 09:49:56 PM
Amazon of which country?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on March 08, 2015, 09:55:03 PM
Germany has changed today to that date, too..
but they are both dates, directly next to the album cover there is still written "expected release date March 13th.. in the description March 9th is mentioned two times...

I will have a look tonight..

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Alex_melilla on March 08, 2015, 09:59:55 PM
Amazon of which country?
All country I see 9 mar. spain, germany, england,
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: holaknopfler on March 08, 2015, 10:02:44 PM
@foma: what an awesome story. Now I can imagine that too. You're right of course, it's about the feeling you have when you hear the music, that's what it's about.
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Post by: yontwocrows on March 08, 2015, 10:03:09 PM
Ah, i see. I trust more the expected release date. But, LE, are you sure, that they changed the date at the bottom from 13th to 9th, or has there always been written 9th?
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Post by: Alex_melilla on March 08, 2015, 10:12:13 PM
Ah, i see. I trust more the expected release date. But, LE, are you sure, that they changed the date at the bottom from 13th to 9th, or has there always been written 9th?
since the publication of January, I've always seen March 9
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Post by: LoveExpresso on March 08, 2015, 10:19:25 PM
You are right, also in Germany, only at the download-version, there were both dates mentioned. It is pretty unlikely. But I will check back later.

I will let you know!  ;D

LE
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Post by: foma on March 08, 2015, 10:22:00 PM
http://sounds.nl/detail/3384042/cd/mark_knopfler/tracker_-deluxe_ltd

This says 12 March AND 20-page booklet! Now that's some awesome news! Love huge booklets in CD's.
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Post by: foma on March 08, 2015, 10:25:49 PM
UPD: I know, It's just songs lyrics but still, any number is good :lol
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Post by: LoveExpresso on March 08, 2015, 10:26:57 PM
Are the Richard Ford liner notes only in the big box or in every edition?
Long lyrics then obviously..

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 08, 2015, 11:03:45 PM
Maybe 1 hour left... we shall see
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Vesper on March 08, 2015, 11:04:37 PM
I'd love to get the mp3-files before March 13th because that day I won't be home before 11 at night, so not really time to have a good spin.
March 12th however .............
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 08, 2015, 11:18:24 PM
I must be blind! :)

Link please?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Vesper on March 08, 2015, 11:24:31 PM
I must be blind! :)

Link please?

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00RK8SCQE/ref=s9_simh_gw_p340_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=10KZK925KC5B150N55KD&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=455353807&pf_rd_i=301128
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Vesper on March 08, 2015, 11:28:17 PM
This one also says March 9th:

http://www.universalmusic.no/nyheter/mark-knopfler-slipper-nytt-album/
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 08, 2015, 11:28:22 PM
I must be blind! :)

Link please?

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00RK8SCQE/ref=s9_simh_gw_p340_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=10KZK925KC5B150N55KD&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=455353807&pf_rd_i=301128

Ah, I was looking at the mobile site. It said 12th :)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: holaknopfler on March 09, 2015, 12:03:09 AM
It was worth a try.. ;)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on March 09, 2015, 12:06:07 AM
It was indeed. Good night!  :wave

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: yontwocrows on March 09, 2015, 12:07:12 AM
It was worth a try.. ;)

 ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on March 09, 2015, 12:44:32 AM
This says 9 March, and by the way, first source of HD version. Looking forward to it. It's 24 bit and 192 kHz, what ask for more? Best version to me.

http://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/tracker-deluxe-mark-knopfler/0060254722250
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jabbathehut on March 09, 2015, 01:05:52 AM
still says pre-order.Probably just a mistake in the date.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Alex_melilla on March 09, 2015, 01:09:35 AM
still says pre-order.Probably just a mistake in the date.
I think , because this cd 9 march and release
http://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/mathieu-saikaly-mathieu-saikaly/0060254722927
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: holaknopfler on March 09, 2015, 03:11:19 PM
I just had contact with Media Markt, there might be a chance that I can get the album early, at thursday but she wasn't shure. There was a good chance, she said.. So I will have a look then!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: diremark86 on March 09, 2015, 03:27:43 PM
Amazon.com just notified me that the release date for my pre ordered box set has been set back to March 31st....
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 09, 2015, 03:31:40 PM
Amazon.com just notified me that the release date for my pre ordered box set has been set back to March 31st....

Say whaaaaat??  ???
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: yontwocrows on March 09, 2015, 05:16:22 PM
The Sunday Times Interview is a good read. Thanks for posting.
31 March! - Kidding?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: pete_w on March 09, 2015, 08:04:52 PM
"I just plugged it in and fiddled about".

Or, "The night I lost my virginity"  ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on March 09, 2015, 08:13:50 PM
Thursday is the 12th.

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on March 09, 2015, 08:20:43 PM
I hope so!!!
I have an order at saturn.de and a MediaMarkt in my hometown - I will check the store in the afternoon..

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on March 09, 2015, 08:28:39 PM
I´m feeling like having a hot dog on friday  ;)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on March 09, 2015, 08:31:47 PM
Honestly, not too high hopes for Hot Dog, it is just to have it for the collection... (I always have the Elvis line in my mind.. "you ain't nothing but a HOT Dog..")

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: knopflertom on March 09, 2015, 09:04:28 PM
Mark will be a guest at 3 nach 9 in Germany on 27 March

http://www.radiobremen.de/unternehmen/presse/fernsehen/talkshow1660.html
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on March 09, 2015, 09:16:48 PM
Cool, thanks for the info!

Usually a little live performance at that show. He was there in there already in 2007 and played "True Love Will Never Fade".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHr-48IUhhI

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: knopflertom on March 09, 2015, 10:03:12 PM
Youre welcome.
Offtopic:
I' m looking  for the 2004 3 nach9 Show with BlT.  Can someone help?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on March 09, 2015, 10:31:24 PM
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Promo-cd-album-MARK-KNOPFLER-TRACKER-/391077280738?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item5b0e05bbe2

Promo CD on eBay!!!!111oneoneone

UPD: Auction will end in 6 days so nothing cool here.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 09, 2015, 10:42:57 PM
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Promo-cd-album-MARK-KNOPFLER-TRACKER-/391077280738?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item5b0e05bbe2

Promo CD on eBay!!!!111oneoneone

UPD: Auction will end in 6 days so nothing cool here.

What a tool. A bit earlier date and he or she would have gotten way more green.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jabbathehut on March 09, 2015, 11:01:05 PM
really surprised there is no leak then if there are promo cds floating about.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 09, 2015, 11:04:11 PM
really surprised there is no leak then if there are promo cds floating about.

Can't be long now. Maybe tomorrow  ;)

http://hasitleaked.com/2015/mark-knopfler-tracker/ (http://hasitleaked.com/2015/mark-knopfler-tracker/) Not yet..
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: holaknopfler on March 09, 2015, 11:13:38 PM
I was weak too Dutchessy. Sounds utterly great to me. I LOVE that guitar. Please leak tomorrow, Tracker!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jabbathehut on March 09, 2015, 11:45:07 PM
feel free to share .Privately of course ;)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 10, 2015, 11:37:49 AM
That intro is, according to a review I read somewhere (I can't remember when, sorry) the song "Mighty Man" which is supposed to sound something like Paris Texas.

I hope that the Guitarist magazine in Spain is the same one, I'm going to check it in a few hours.

Ps/ Dan, great work bringing the forum back to life!

I can confirm this is true. Its indeed Mighty Man
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on March 10, 2015, 11:46:59 AM
That intro is, according to a review I read somewhere (I can't remember when, sorry) the song "Mighty Man" which is supposed to sound something like Paris Texas.

I hope that the Guitarist magazine in Spain is the same one, I'm going to check it in a few hours.

Ps/ Dan, great work bringing the forum back to life!

I can confirm this is true. Its indeed Mighty Man

mmmmmmmm  :think
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on March 10, 2015, 12:03:26 PM
That intro is, according to a review I read somewhere (I can't remember when, sorry) the song "Mighty Man" which is supposed to sound something like Paris Texas.

I hope that the Guitarist magazine in Spain is the same one, I'm going to check it in a few hours.

Ps/ Dan, great work bringing the forum back to life!

It was in this article: http://www.hotpress.com/Mark-Knopfler/music/reviews/albums/Mark-Knopfler--Tracker/13560434.html (unavilable now) and actually "Lights of Taormina" was compared with "Paris, Texas".

Here is the quote from Hot Press:

".... the cinematic textures of ‘Lights of Taormina’ sound like something from the soundtrack of Paris, Texas with hints of Nebraska-era Springsteen and a melody gleaned from ‘Save The Last Dance For Me’."
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on March 10, 2015, 12:06:32 PM
That intro is, according to a review I read somewhere (I can't remember when, sorry) the song "Mighty Man" which is supposed to sound something like Paris Texas.

I hope that the Guitarist magazine in Spain is the same one, I'm going to check it in a few hours.

Ps/ Dan, great work bringing the forum back to life!

I can confirm this is true. Its indeed Mighty Man

He has a Spanish cousin: El Macho!  ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 10, 2015, 12:13:31 PM
That intro is, according to a review I read somewhere (I can't remember when, sorry) the song "Mighty Man" which is supposed to sound something like Paris Texas.

I hope that the Guitarist magazine in Spain is the same one, I'm going to check it in a few hours.

Ps/ Dan, great work bringing the forum back to life!

I can confirm this is true. Its indeed Mighty Man

mmmmmmmm  :think

What's the matter?  ;) You were right in first place  :thumbsup
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on March 10, 2015, 12:19:01 PM
And you know I was right because...

 ;)   ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 10, 2015, 12:42:12 PM
And you know I was right because...

 ;)   ;D

Confirmed by a reliable source who just listened to it.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on March 10, 2015, 12:48:29 PM
And you know I was right because...

 ;)   ;D

Confirmed by a reliable source who just listened to it.

So, was the Hot Press quote wrong?   ???    :think
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on March 10, 2015, 12:49:28 PM
And you know I was right because...

 ;)   ;D

Confirmed by a reliable source who just listened to it.

The D-day is approaching  :D

This friday (or thursday...) someone (or someones) are going to be loved by anyone  ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 10, 2015, 08:36:06 PM
I made a new topic for AMIT reviews of Tracker:

http://amarkintime.org/forum/index.php?topic=4157.0

Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: regmka on March 12, 2015, 10:51:09 AM
According to the Guy's forum, the album is already available in the Netherlands. Has anyone got the deluxe edition? :)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Vesper on March 12, 2015, 01:07:00 PM
According to the Guy's forum, the album is already available in the Netherlands. Has anyone got the deluxe edition? :)

Tomorrow ;)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Vesper on March 12, 2015, 01:26:53 PM
First (!?) official spot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndVT6prlqXw
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 12, 2015, 02:36:23 PM
First (!?) official spot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndVT6prlqXw

 :lol Only ' beryl' in in the preview  :hmm
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on March 12, 2015, 02:48:37 PM
A well known Spanish fans already heard the extras, including Hot Dog and says they are rockers, far better than the record itself...

It also looks like some German friends already received their box!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: yontwocrows on March 12, 2015, 02:52:52 PM
 :thumbsup
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: border_reiver on March 12, 2015, 03:09:26 PM
A well known Spanish fans already heard the extras, including Hot Dog and says they are rockers, far better than the record itself...


Halle-effin-lujah!  ;D  :clap :clap :clap  :thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: naif on March 12, 2015, 03:14:56 PM
A well known Spanish fans already heard the extras, including Hot Dog and says they are rockers, far better than the record itself...


Here comes the sun :clap
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: vgonis on March 12, 2015, 03:25:37 PM
We have to understand that there are certain things we expect from the man. And all the rest that we do not expect. But that is the definition of surprise. (There is a third category, the ones we don't want)

So I was hoping for a radical change, it didn't come, so  it is a surprise!

Then again his familiar voice and guitar still does the trick. No surprise there, it is the way familiarity works!

So everything is in order. Enjoy the new MK record!
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Knopflerfan on March 12, 2015, 10:24:32 PM
Email recieved today from Universal to say my box set is on its way - Really, really can't wait now.......
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 13, 2015, 04:16:05 PM
Did we already knew that Kitty Aldridge took the front cover photo?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: surferboy on March 13, 2015, 04:30:59 PM
No, at least I didn't.
She told you?
A date?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on March 13, 2015, 04:54:47 PM
No, at least I didn't.
She told you?
A date?

Maybe is credited in the cd?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on March 13, 2015, 05:00:12 PM
No, at least I didn't.
She told you?
A date?

Maybe is credited in the cd?

It's credited on CD, as far as I can see on mine.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: JeroenvG on March 13, 2015, 05:09:46 PM
Did we already knew that Kitty Aldridge took the front cover photo?

He must do something to save money.

1: Play all the guitars yourself.
2: Use family pictures for the cover.

 ;D just kidding. What's with all the other photo's inside? Any credit for those?

(still waiting for my deluxe edition limited box from Germany!)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 13, 2015, 05:32:27 PM
Yes, credited in the booklet
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Bluebird on March 13, 2015, 05:59:36 PM
Here is a short hint for German speaking MK-Fans from German Radio SWR from today:

http://www.ardmediathek.de/radio/SWR2-Kultur-Info/Neues-Mark-Knopfler-Album-Tracker-F%C3%A4h/SWR2/Audio-Podcast?documentId=27038482&bcastId=19090750&mpage=page.info

Bluebird
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 13, 2015, 06:13:43 PM
Here is a short hint for German speaking MK-Fans from German Radio SWR from today:

http://www.ardmediathek.de/radio/SWR2-Kultur-Info/Neues-Mark-Knopfler-Album-Tracker-F%C3%A4h/SWR2/Audio-Podcast?documentId=27038482&bcastId=19090750&mpage=page.info

Bluebird

Mark's talking is from the interview on the Box set DVD
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Bluebird on March 13, 2015, 08:39:17 PM
Here is a video for German speaking Amiters. Maybe you found it already.

"In dieser Woche beleuchtet Arne Willander die neue Platte von Mark Knopfler: "Tracker"."

http://www.rollingstone.de/blogs/willander/wochentipps/article707728/willanders-album-der-woche-mark-knopfler-tracker.html

Bluebird
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: vgonis on March 14, 2015, 12:12:48 AM
Got the same note! So the official release date is the 16th? Some shops already have it, but are they allowed to sell? Does it matter?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on March 14, 2015, 07:13:12 AM
vgonis, there were different release days from the beginnng: Germany had as official release day Friday 13th  :o. The markets got their delievery already on Thursday: When I asked politely the lady was so nice to open one of those many boxes and pick the right one without looking (she knew her stuff). 30 or more nice Tracker CDs were in that box and she had no reservations to take one out, shortly book it into the computer system and let me go off to the counter with it. Will bring her a little candy for that this evening.  ;D

So on Thursday, I had mine. Whereas UK release day seems to be 16th.

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on March 14, 2015, 07:51:18 AM
Interesting: The Media Markt Edition has a cardboard slipcase. The Saturn.de version hasn't. I have both. Couldn't resist to buy at my local MM on Thursday while waiting for the Friday delivery of my Saturn online order. Nice little Feature.

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Justme on March 14, 2015, 09:10:37 AM
vgonis, there were different release days from the beginnng: Germany had as official release day Friday 13th  :o. The markets got their delievery already on Thursday: When I asked politely the lady was so nice to open one of those many boxes and pick the right one without looking (she knew her stuff). 30 or more nice Tracker CDs were in that box and she had no reservations to take one out, shortly book it into the computer system and let me go off to the counter with it. Will bring her a little candy for that this evening.  ;D

So on Thursday, I had mine. Whereas UK release day seems to be 16th.

LE

That could happen in a Rosamunde Pilcher just like that.  :wave
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Justme on March 14, 2015, 09:10:56 AM
vgonis, there were different release days from the beginnng: Germany had as official release day Friday 13th  :o. The markets got their delievery already on Thursday: When I asked politely the lady was so nice to open one of those many boxes and pick the right one without looking (she knew her stuff). 30 or more nice Tracker CDs were in that box and she had no reservations to take one out, shortly book it into the computer system and let me go off to the counter with it. Will bring her a little candy for that this evening.  ;D

So on Thursday, I had mine. Whereas UK release day seems to be 16th.

LE

That could happen in a Rosamunde Pilcher book/movie just like that.  :wave
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 14, 2015, 09:49:32 AM
Interesting: The Media Markt Edition has a cardboard slipcase. The Saturn.de version hasn't. I have both. Couldn't resist to buy at my local MM on Thursday while waiting for the Friday delivery of my Saturn online order. Nice little Feature.

LE

I ordered at Saturn  :'(
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Robson on March 14, 2015, 06:59:43 PM
http://www.covershut.com/back_covers/Mark-Knopfler-Tracker-2015-Back-Cover-99659.jpg
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: marc96er on March 14, 2015, 09:21:55 PM
Interesting: The Media Markt Edition has a cardboard slipcase. The Saturn.de version hasn't. I have both. Couldn't resist to buy at my local MM on Thursday while waiting for the Friday delivery of my Saturn online order. Nice little Feature.

LE

Today I bought the Saturn Edition, and it had a cardboard slipcase too. Maybe they just run out of slipcases during the production  ;D
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: marc96er on March 14, 2015, 10:36:41 PM
Interesting: The Media Markt Edition has a cardboard slipcase. The Saturn.de version hasn't. I have both. Couldn't resist to buy at my local MM on Thursday while waiting for the Friday delivery of my Saturn online order. Nice little Feature.

LE

Today I bought the Saturn Edition, and it had a cardboard slipcase too. Maybe they just run out of slipcases during the production  ;D

Could u post an image of the cardboard slipcase please ?

Here it is, nothing special, looks exactly like the cover and backcover:

(http://up.picr.de/21281923lz.jpg)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 14, 2015, 10:43:22 PM
Nice, i hope mine has a cardboard sleeve as well.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on March 14, 2015, 10:51:31 PM
Thanks Marc,

just saw the question and was trying to post a picture here (and failed )
Mine looks the same as you!  ;D ;D

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: foma on March 14, 2015, 11:08:19 PM
So... not any mention of 'tracker' in any songs as far as my eye can see. Any ideas?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 15, 2015, 12:06:33 AM
So... not any mention of 'tracker' in any songs as far as my eye can see. Any ideas?

I asked the same question 2 times in the other thread but nobody hops in. I thougt because the songs are about some of his memories.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ingridswing on March 15, 2015, 02:16:58 AM
It's indeed a tracker of his life. Somewhere in one of the interviews MK referred to this. Can't remember which one
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on March 15, 2015, 08:38:10 AM
So... not any mention of 'tracker' in any songs as far as my eye can see. Any ideas?

I asked the same question 2 times in the other thread but nobody hops in. I thougt because the songs are about some of his memories.

I mentioned it in my review of the album!    ;)   

Here is the section:

"I heard many nods to other MK songs, which were sometimes a bit difficult to pin-point and also to other musicians - Brubeck, JJ, The Beatles, Clapton and Dylan - perhaps this is why the album is called "Tracker" - he's remembering past songs and also people and musicians he has encountered through his life. " 
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Dutchessy on March 15, 2015, 10:02:24 AM
This topic has 1000!! posts :o only Guys forum topic contains more posts.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: vgonis on March 15, 2015, 11:19:33 AM
Interesting: The Media Markt Edition has a cardboard slipcase. The Saturn.de version hasn't. I have both. Couldn't resist to buy at my local MM on Thursday while waiting for the Friday delivery of my Saturn online order. Nice little Feature.

LE

Today I bought the Saturn Edition, and it had a cardboard slipcase too. Maybe they just run out of slipcases during the production  ;D
A dear friend of mine bought the cardboard edition from Saturn as well. Maybe just another marketing trick. Remembrer the "Kill to get crimson" double edition with the cardboard which was supposed to be numbered? I have found it with and without cardboard and both with and without being numbered. 
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: LoveExpresso on March 15, 2015, 11:30:29 AM
Even better!  :thumbsup

LE
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: Knopflerfan on March 15, 2015, 11:39:11 AM
It's indeed a tracker of his life. Somewhere in one of the interviews MK referred to this. Can't remember which one

It's most certainly mentioned on the 24min dvd where Mark explains various uses of the word Tracker.....
Tracking over the world, tracking books for information etc
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on March 16, 2018, 02:19:07 PM
Someone of Spanish City has posted this google maps location, and thinks it's the same place where the Tracker cover picture was taken...

What do you think?

It looks quite similar... and it's in the south, not far from where John Illsley has the pub in the New Forest...

https://goo.gl/maps/Z9KkbNvMZJS2
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on March 16, 2018, 02:27:10 PM
Looks right.  There's a lay-by for the car to pull in and get out to take the photo.  Also, the telegraph pole is in the correct position at the far side of the field.

Do you think Mark just walked out there or was he photoshopped in later?
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: jbaent on March 16, 2018, 02:31:07 PM
Looks right.  There's a lay-by for the car to pull in and get out to take the photo.  Also, the telegraph pole is in the correct position at the far side of the field.

Do you think Mark just walked out there or was he photoshopped in later?

I'd say he went by...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: quizzaciously on March 16, 2018, 02:34:20 PM
Someone of Spanish City has posted this google maps location, and thinks it's the same place where the Tracker cover picture was taken...

What do you think?

It looks quite similar... and it's in the south, not far from where John Illsley has the pub in the New Forest...

https://goo.gl/maps/Z9KkbNvMZJS2

Amazing that somebody actually tried to find this! It's not Abbey Road type of thing for sure though.

Looks similar, but the original photo (before the cover was photoshopped) there's tree shadows on it, so it was probably taken down the road.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dmg on March 16, 2018, 02:45:44 PM
Someone of Spanish City has posted this google maps location, and thinks it's the same place where the Tracker cover picture was taken...

What do you think?

It looks quite similar... and it's in the south, not far from where John Illsley has the pub in the New Forest...

https://goo.gl/maps/Z9KkbNvMZJS2

Amazing that somebody actually tried to find this! It's not Abbey Road type of thing for sure though.

Looks similar, but the original photo (before the cover was photoshopped) there's tree shadows on it, so it was probably taken down the road.

Just taken at a different time of day, hence the shadows.
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: superval99 on March 16, 2018, 02:56:01 PM
St Leonard's Cottages goes across the end of the lane that MK lives in.   :)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: quizzaciously on March 16, 2018, 03:00:38 PM
St Leonard's Cottages goes across the end of the lane that MK lives in.   :)

Yes, Mark's house is close, I'm not a stalker or something, but just out of interest I've found it. Looks lovely and straight on the shore. A dream...
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dustyvalentino on January 23, 2021, 10:36:29 AM
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tracker-VINYL-Mark-Knopfler/dp/B00S1M7LV0/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2Z0APVEOJV8W3&dchild=1&keywords=mark+knopfler+tracker+vinyl&qid=1611394458&sprefix=Knopfler+tracker%2Caps%2C166&sr=8-2

Tracker available on vinyl at the bargain price of £8.48.


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Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: ds1984 on January 24, 2021, 04:33:13 PM
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tracker-VINYL-Mark-Knopfler/dp/B00S1M7LV0/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2Z0APVEOJV8W3&dchild=1&keywords=mark+knopfler+tracker+vinyl&qid=1611394458&sprefix=Knopfler+tracker%2Caps%2C166&sr=8-2

Tracker available on vinyl at the bargain price of £8.48.


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The promo seems over

(https://i.ibb.co/gvf30vS/Image-1.png)
Title: Re: Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015
Post by: dustyvalentino on January 24, 2021, 04:39:54 PM
Too bad, I ordered yesterday. Only bought on CD in 2015.


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