DIRE STRAITS c or d

(Album features guest backing vox from James Taylor, Van Morrison, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, and the guys from Squeeze. Knopfler showing off his rolodex there.)

Wish he'd just turned up at the Hall Of Fame, played Les Boys solo, then left

Checked to see if I posted the live version of Portobello Belle that I really like; looks like I did, about a year ago.

I’ll probably end up getting cancelled but I’ve never got why ‘Les Boys’ gets such a bad rap...sure it’s a bit dated and gauche but fundamentally it’s quite sweet and for a pretty huge rock band to write a LGBQT seems fairly progressive...I say fairly

― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy),

Don't get defensive -- there's no point.

I don't find it sweet or dated -- it's a dumb heavy-handed attitude toward a slice of gay culture about which a casual Fassbinder fan would've had some insight. I find Rod Stewart's "The Killing of Georgie" awkward, gauche, and often stupid but way more empathetic.

agreed. the melody is nice, lyrics should be about lying in a field eating grapes or something

I think Mark Knopfler's lyrics are often dumb and heavy-handed. I think the guitar is really his native language; he has such lyricism in his guitar solos, and such nuance and lightness of touch, but he's much clumsier with words, imo. His choruses are often good, and sometimes he gets a kind of dark ominous vibe going in the lyrics that works for him, but there's a lot of really clunky try-hard stuff in there too.

I think that's one reason his star has fallen lately; the other, imo, is he's just not weird enough. Telegraph Road is a good song, but if you heard it described on paper, you'd think it was a lot stranger and more atmospheric than it is.

otm

Hate this band but great name

really? Pre-Brothers in Arms, it’s great bar music imo

Example please

I mean...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fAQhSRLQnM

It's so much better than great bar music! Unless you mean, like, music you don't mind when it comes on in a bar, in which case, sure. But, for example, this song is a beaut:

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

well yeah I just meant cuz calstars likes bars, I wasn’t implying they were a “bar band” I just mean ~vibes~

“tunnel of love” is awesome.. lyrics aside it always sounded really... dangerous to me, like some violence is about to pop off idk

well yeah I just meant cuz calstars likes bars, I wasn’t implying they were a “bar band” I just mean ~vibes~

wtf is that video for Tunnel of Love

and the first three Dire Straits albums are bar ambient if there ever was, Knopfler soloing on a Strat is what beer tastes like

Heh, tell that to Eric "Michelob" Clapton, who basically personified "cheap beer in the '80s." Knopfler soloing is the sound of you getting home, thinking about what you did or didn't do.

“Bar ambient” ?

Brian wino

Lol

And "Romeo and Juliet" is neither bar nor ambient.

bar ambient is equally good if you ignore it or focus drunkenly on it in an attempt to remain upright

The fuck is bar ambient tho

That Tunnel of Love clip might be the most Yawnsomely Literal music video I've ever seen.

love over gold is basically an ambient album

Love over Green World

My wife: "Dire Straits were dad rock before I knew what dad rock was."

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