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Author Topic: Privateering - the reviews  (Read 59972 times)

Offlinesuperval99

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Re: Privateering - the reviews
« Reply #15 on: August 27, 2012, 04:36:22 PM »
Many thanks stratmad.    :)
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Re: Privateering - the reviews
« Reply #16 on: August 28, 2012, 01:26:19 PM »
This is hilarious reading:

http://thoughtcat.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/mark-knopfler-privateering-preview/

This a review of the songs before the person has listened to them!

"As I read them I was building up a picture in my mind
« Last Edit: August 28, 2012, 01:29:25 PM by Pasta Strainer »

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Re: Privateering - the reviews
« Reply #17 on: August 28, 2012, 01:31:44 PM »
 :disbelief :disbelief
"I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order."

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Re: Privateering - the reviews
« Reply #18 on: August 28, 2012, 01:34:00 PM »
Hilarious indeed  :lol

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Re: Privateering - the reviews
« Reply #19 on: August 28, 2012, 01:37:38 PM »
I hope he will come back with a proper review when he's heard it!    ::)
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Re: Privateering - the reviews
« Reply #20 on: August 28, 2012, 01:54:12 PM »
This is hilarious reading:

http://thoughtcat.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/mark-knopfler-privateering-preview/

This a review of the songs before the person has listened to them!

"As I read them I was building up a picture in my mind
They got a name for people like you, yeh they do
And they got a name for people like me too
El Macho, El Macho

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Re: Privateering - the reviews
« Reply #21 on: August 28, 2012, 01:59:12 PM »
 :lol :lol :lol Brilliant parody. You got to love something to be able to write about it that way.

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Re: Privateering - the reviews
« Reply #22 on: August 28, 2012, 02:44:33 PM »
In the new edition of Mojo magazine, the album gets 4 stars -5 is the maximum in Mojo- which signifies "Excellent" in their rating.
The opening reads "Mark Knopfler's sense of le mot juste clear on double CD's every note and syllable."

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Re: Privateering - the reviews
« Reply #23 on: August 28, 2012, 02:57:53 PM »
Looking forward to reading the Mojo interview, thanks, Fat Bob.

And did anyone see this guy from the "Toghcat" blog play guitar? He's got some videos on there. Jesus Christ, he's incredible!

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Re: Privateering - the reviews
« Reply #24 on: August 28, 2012, 03:03:21 PM »
scan!!! :-)
any Knopfler, Floyd or Dylan will do....

OfflineFat Bob

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Re: Privateering - the reviews
« Reply #25 on: August 28, 2012, 06:17:15 PM »
I think with my scanner, the review from Mojo would be impossible to read afterwards- easier if I just type it.
After the quote I gave above the rest of the review reads: "Master of genre purity in R & B, country and folk, Knopfler shapes each style to his own purpose and personality from times-past fables Redbud Trees and Yon Two Crows (cue flutes, accordions) to dirty old Chicago Delta R & B growlers Got To Have Something and Gator Blood (with fabulous Thunderbird Kim Wilson grunting fruity harmonica). But Knopfler can still startle the horses with his Martin Amis side. The urban cynic who wrote Money For Nothing and Heavy Fuel delivers more hard, nasty characters first-person in Hot Or What's ruthless gambler and Today is Okay's voracious gangster boss ("Let me have some more of those/More steak, potatoes, mmm," he salivates before popping downtown to crack heads). It's largely unmarked, but Knopfler is very good on bad people". Review by Phil Sutcliffe.  ???

I'm not sure how comprehensible that is, but that's what he wrote. It's just as well I have this on pre-order, because I'm not sure I'd be rushing out to buy on the basis of that review to be honest- but I suppose 4 stars out of 5 is as good as we can expect.

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Re: Privateering - the reviews
« Reply #26 on: August 28, 2012, 06:51:46 PM »
I think "Today is Okay" is about Sonny Liston as was said in the Uncut interview.

In a little while I'm going downtown
Maybe take me one or two rounds
I'm gonna knock that man clean out
He's going down, no doubt


Makes more sense to me.   ;)

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Re: Privateering - the reviews
« Reply #27 on: August 28, 2012, 09:44:07 PM »
Thanks for spelling it out. They're wrong about the gangster boss, of course, but if you haven't read the Uncut article, you'd have no way of knowing. Anyway, this is a very good review!

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Re: Privateering - the reviews
« Reply #28 on: August 29, 2012, 01:51:28 PM »
Found this nice little review in the MediaZine from Media Markt in the Netherlands

(I don't have time for a translation, somebody else perhaps?)

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Re: Privateering - the reviews
« Reply #29 on: August 29, 2012, 02:30:05 PM »
Found this nice little review in the MediaZine from Media Markt in the Netherlands

(I don't have time for a translation, somebody else perhaps?)

Translation:

Spread over two cd's Mark Knopfler apparently makes undisturbed the next step in his career. Mark Knopfler could have played after Dire Straits fell apart, all the hits in the length of days. But he moves in musical aspect more and more to the folk sounds from his youth. Also on the twenty tracks from Privateering, on which he works together with Kim Wilson, from Fabulous Thunderbirds, singer Ruth Moody from The Wailin' Jennys and pedal steel player Paul Franklin (Dire Straits veteran).
If i was a Fender guitar, Fender painted red...

 

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