Do you like more DS albums or MK albums ?

[PensaGhost]

Do you like more DS albums or MK albums ?

[Eddie Fox]

Generally speaking DS but STP is up there too.

[PensaGhost]

I think this is a pretty interesting poll

[Stitches89]

Dire Straits mostly, but I find going back to the Mark Knopfler albums a bit more rewarding at times because they don't feel as lived in to me as DS. I find I can unearth some lost gems on MK albums the more time goes by.

[Mossguitar]

It’s a bit like asking: «What do you like the most, margherita or pizza? But ok, I like both, and I like that MK has evolved. When it comes to albums, I love all DS albums and most solo albums.

[superval99]

I love DS and I have been a fan from the early days, but I listen mainly to the solo albums these days - the lyrics and the melodies are just more "me".  When MK went solo and I heard GH for the first time, I knew that this was exactly what I was waiting for.      

[crimmer]

As everyone knows on here im more of a mk solo fan , than the  dire straits stuff

[JF]

I don't separate things. I see his career as a whole thing

I prefer first the 77-85 era, then the solo era (more 96-06 than after) and at last the 86-93 era

that means that yes I far prefer DS albums than solo ones, like for example Communique, LOG or Alchemy, but on the other hand, I prefer STP, Wag the dog, Shangri-La, Get Lucky or ATTR over OES, and I prefer the live disc on the sultans of swing comp over OTN for example

and when I listen to bootlegs, I rarely listen to OES tour, but more often first period or solo tours

so to me, the point is not to compare DS and solo, but more about eras in his whole career

[Love Expresso]

Simply spoken, I love everything he did before he started to reside in BG. Things generally got worse from 2007 on from MY POINT OF VIEW.  I talk about LOVE here. I still LIKE many songs from KTGC onwards but generally his albums got more and more boring and sedative and lame since that. Until Shangri-La there always was something awesome, breathtaking, almost spectacular on every album.

Sometimes it's not too good to have too much time (and equipment) in your hands. Of course it SOUNDS better and better nowadays, and is spectacularly well recorded for sure, but I would always swap that for a couple of really great songs from the Likes of DP, DWB, WII, HFB, SAN, 5.15 AM, WAM and so on.

LE

[asouza]

Dire Straits albums are better for me.

[jbaent]

Can't answer because to me DS and MK are like two very different artists/bands.

I rarely listen to DS because the reality of MK nowadays has so very little to do with DS that I don't feel nlike listening to DS at all.

[PensaGhost]

55% pro DS so far, I think real world is more like 80-90% pro DS

[Eddie Fox]

True thing. In fact in the real world not many people know about Mark's solo career, at least not in my country! If you can trick people into going to a DSL concert thinking it's DS that's because they don't even know who Mark is. That's what Mark wanted when he broke up with Ed though, to have a low profile career, so I'm pretty sure he's ok with that.

[Darling Pretty]

Simply spoken, I love everything he did before he started to reside in BG. Things generally got worse from 2007 on from MY POINT OF VIEW.  I talk about LOVE here. I still LIKE many songs from KTGC onwards but generally his albums got more and more boring and sedative and lame since that. Until Shangri-La there always was something awesome, breathtaking, almost spectacular on every album.

Sometimes it's not too good to have too much time (and equipment) in your hands. Of course it SOUNDS better and better nowadays, and is spectacularly well recorded for sure, but I would always swap that for a couple of really great songs from the Likes of DP, DWB, WII, HFB, SAN, 5.15 AM, WAM and so on.

LE

You nailed it again LE.
After Shangri La it went down.
Well, Get Lucky was again very cool, some nice melodies in there.
Privateering and Tracker were boring after 10 days of listening.

I listen more to MK solo because he has the double of albums out. :-)
But he never wrote those milestones like BIA, SOS, TR oder TOL.
That's the difference.

So DS here on my side . Dire Straits rocked. They are Legends

[dmg]

Simply spoken, I love everything he did before he started to reside in BG. Things generally got worse from 2007 on from MY POINT OF VIEW.  I talk about LOVE here. I still LIKE many songs from KTGC onwards but generally his albums got more and more boring and sedative and lame since that. Until Shangri-La there always was something awesome, breathtaking, almost spectacular on every album.

Sometimes it's not too good to have too much time (and equipment) in your hands. Of course it SOUNDS better and better nowadays, and is spectacularly well recorded for sure, but I would always swap that for a couple of really great songs from the Likes of DP, DWB, WII, HFB, SAN, 5.15 AM, WAM and so on.

LE

Interesting post.  Perhaps he is in too much of a comfort zone in terms of recording his albums that when they go out on the road they can't get out of the rut and play out of their comfort zone.