MK Statistics

[foma]

Hey all my fellow get-a-lifers. You know I love lists and I wonder once, how many songs Mark has written up to date? There are many collections, but they lack numbers.

So I decided to do a research. UPDATED 06 April 2014 (12 new changes).

All the DS songs (officially released as Dire Straits):

Total: 60

All the MK solo songs (officially released + DS days + couple of co-written tunes + soundtrack songs):

Total: 140

All the MK instrumental music:

Total: 68 *Double 'The Rocks And The Thunder' tune is not the typo (check original CD), but counts like one tune anyway

All the MK unreleased songs:

Total: 16

Overall total: 284 tunes, 200 complete songs (words + music).

Longest DS+MK lyrics: Industrial Disease
Longest MK solo lyrics: Song For Sonny Liston
Shortest DS lyrics: How Long
Shortest DS+MK lyrics: Say Too Much

Size of the all MK and DS lyrics: ~0,2 MB

What did I missed or did wrong? I'll correct all my faults. Let's do the complete and spot-on statistics

[sweetsurrender]

Wow ! This is a great list.  What an effort ! Love it

[dustyvalentino]

Woo. Get a lifers assemble!

[foma]

Whoops, I accidentally put Eastbound Train both to released and unreleased songs. Fixed.

Yes, I think great name for this is 'Get-A-Life In Songs'. I love to find answers for the most ridiculous questions. Biggest lyrics? How many songs?

[El Macho]

Two brothers and a stranger from the color of money soundtrack is missing

[foma]

Yep, fixed. Not sure at all with DS songs list as well as with all others

[sweetsurrender]

 

Whoops, I accidentally put Eastbound Train both to released and unreleased songs. Fixed.

Yes, I think great name for this is 'Get-A-Life In Songs'. I love to find answers for the most ridiculous questions. Biggest lyrics? How many songs?

Rio


' Get-A-Life in Songs'    
Do you want to consider MK - collaborations in the list?

[IrisRose]

Well done, foma!   

[Jarle]

Nice work! It would have been something if the list of "All the MK unreleased songs" was the track list for his upcoming album, or maybe the track list of disc 2, where disc 1 contains only new songs...

[LoveExpresso]

59 + 137 = 196

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Oh, and it's called Miss You Blues, not Miss Your Blues. 

LE

[Fletch]

I was delighted to obtain the original Sultans vinyl single at Christmas ( I gave it to my wife, but amazingly she said you might enjoy this more than i... Ok I said.. )

Hearing the different sultans mix + eastbound train pumping through my phono amp was terrific.

Great work, yet again foma.

[El Macho]

Still in the soundtracks section, Fistful of ice cream from Comfort & Joy is missing ! (and what a beautiful track!!!)
The "Robbie the reindeer in the hooves of fire" soundtrack was written by MK, not released as an album and the final song The other side of the moon can be listed in the MK songs section too!
I think I love you too much is a DS song rather than a MK song as it was released in the Knebworth album (1990).
In the Neck and Neck album, MK is credited in There'll be some changes made though it's a cover but the lyrics make references to Money for nothing...

[foma]

Correct 'Miss Your Blues'
Add 'A Fistful Of Ice Cream'
Correct upper-case I in 'I Dug Up A DIamond'
Recalculate the total

Done, but actually 'A Fistful Of Ice Cream' was on the list! On the first place
The Other Side of The Moon is in MK list, too.

[foma]

And the most cool thing is

[El Macho]

Correct 'Miss Your Blues'
Add 'A Fistful Of Ice Cream'
Correct upper-case I in 'I Dug Up A DIamond'
Recalculate the total

Done, but actually 'A Fistful Of Ice Cream' was on the list! On the first place
The Other Side of The Moon is in MK list, too.

I hadn't read the list carefully ... Great job Foma !