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Author Topic: The new songs - A hypothesis  (Read 29979 times)

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Re: The new songs - A hypothesis
« Reply #75 on: March 23, 2023, 02:39:39 PM »
Won't be long until he saying this is the best album they've ever done...
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Re: The new songs - A hypothesis
« Reply #76 on: March 23, 2023, 04:59:25 PM »
Maybe I'm in the minority but I'd like a double album plus bonus tracks. Yes, I want a repeat of 2012 :)
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Re: The new songs - A hypothesis
« Reply #77 on: March 24, 2023, 07:47:24 AM »
Quantity over quality, then.


I on the other hand hope they are really cherry picking and choose the absolute best songs they can fit on ONE LP.

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Re: The new songs - A hypothesis
« Reply #78 on: March 24, 2023, 09:29:28 AM »
I would like a double album too, Mark must have written many, many songs during lockdown alone.
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Re: The new songs - A hypothesis
« Reply #79 on: March 24, 2023, 01:42:47 PM »
25 songs for sure.
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Re: The new songs - A hypothesis
« Reply #80 on: March 24, 2023, 05:49:19 PM »
Love Over Gold was recently voted best DS album on this very forum with only 5 songs.  Quality over quantity.
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Re: The new songs - A hypothesis
« Reply #81 on: March 24, 2023, 06:03:24 PM »
Ideally I'd like one really great album and then a pile of good bonus tracks.

I see an album as a whole "thing", to be enjoyed in a single sitting. This is harder to pull off with a double album. Just make a good album then give us get a lifers the other tracks.
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Re: The new songs - A hypothesis
« Reply #82 on: March 24, 2023, 06:23:28 PM »
I mentioned the album "Privateering" because Mark originally thought about a blues album but gave up on this idea, so he mixed blues tracks with others.
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Re: The new songs - A hypothesis
« Reply #83 on: March 24, 2023, 10:03:50 PM »
Maybe I'm in the minority but I'd like a double album plus bonus tracks. Yes, I want a repeat of 2012 :)

I TOTALLY agree with you. And, even more important, I don't think that the Priveteering double was "quantity over quality". There were true gems, and many many high level songs by Mark... It would be absolutely great to have a double, after all these years

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Re: The new songs - A hypothesis
« Reply #84 on: March 24, 2023, 10:13:47 PM »
Maybe I'm in the minority but I'd like a double album plus bonus tracks. Yes, I want a repeat of 2012 :)

I TOTALLY agree with you. And, even more important, I don't think that the Priveteering double was "quantity over quality". There were true gems, and many many high level songs by Mark... It would be absolutely great to have a double, after all these years

 :thumbsup Exactly ! :)
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Re: The new songs - A hypothesis
« Reply #85 on: March 25, 2023, 12:16:09 AM »
10 quality songs for me.

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Re: The new songs - A hypothesis
« Reply #86 on: March 25, 2023, 12:15:18 PM »
Maybe I'm in the minority but I'd like a double album plus bonus tracks. Yes, I want a repeat of 2012 :)

I TOTALLY agree with you. And, even more important, I don't think that the Priveteering double was "quantity over quality". There were true gems, and many many high level songs by Mark... It would be absolutely great to have a double, after all these years


Yes, Privateering has gems, but to have Corned Beef City, Gator Blood and I Used To Could on there, three very similar songs? Weird.

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Re: The new songs - A hypothesis
« Reply #87 on: March 25, 2023, 03:43:57 PM »
Won't be long until he saying this is the best album they've ever done...

HAHAHAHA!
That's true.

i'm afraid about this 'multitude of songs' or 'the album is not fixed in one gender only'

Last time i read one of this sentences, a couple of months later came the DTRW... a zillion songs and only one or two songs catched me.

DTRW, MK's worst work, ever.

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Re: The new songs - A hypothesis
« Reply #88 on: March 25, 2023, 07:17:57 PM »
Yes, i hope it will be a cool double-album, 2-CD-Set, 2-Vinyl-Set, for example with carefully chosen tracks by MK and his buddies. A deluxe-Box-Set will also be fine, filled with some treasuries like some outtakes or unreleased stuff.  :think 8)
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Re: The new songs - A hypothesis
« Reply #89 on: March 28, 2023, 10:01:20 AM »
Well, for me it's simple, it's Mark Knopfler, one of the greatest ever song writers, so more songs from him I can hear the better :) and with the touring thing having ended, I feel he will be recording more songs more often, not just after a tour.
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