What songs of Marks grabbed you on the first hearing,songs you couldn't get out of your head for ages?

Mine were from the Straits days "Tunnel of Love" (brought back memories of my teenage years hanging around Fairgrounds and the extremely loud and fantastic music and the girls!!) and also for the haunting guitar solo at the end,which you didn't want to fade away.Still play it at max volume in the car to this day!

From the solo career "Sailing to Philadelphia" just a fantastic song,still love playing it.

Regards

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"You only get one life, this I know.
Gonna get my licks in now before I go".

...the first song was "Sultans.." and I was hooked...and so, so many others are still floating around in my head....sometimes I get , seems like a craving, for Mr.Mark's guitar sounds, and I love the dobro. We have one and I just love the tones...and Mr.Mark has the most unique way of playing it...haunting...........(robin:)..

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...when life hands you a bucket of manure.......
.....use it for fertilizer.....
...me

Well, as I've said, it was the Tunnel of Love guitar solo that grabbed me all those years ago.  Never looked (listened) back!    But interesting that you should ask that--considering your signature.      Old Pigweed grabbed me immediately.    Pigweed grows in my garden more abundently than any planted vegetable.     So from the very first the song made me smile.  Like all MK's lyrics, there is so much more to discover than at the first listen.  But it grabbed me--and has kept me loyal.   Another one on the RPD cd was "A Place Where we Used to Live."  Haunting, beautiful, sad--especially for those of us who have had to leave a place we loved.   But that is one of the great things about this man:  he can reach all of us with his universality.

 

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". . . our love comes shining red and gold. . . "

Lately, I've been listening to Ragpicker's a lot....love *Why aye man* & *Marbletown*....the guitar work is just FUN! can't say anything but aw yeah...........Also that album w/ Chet Atkins is one of my faves......

 

 

 

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...when life hands you a bucket of manure.......
.....use it for fertilizer.....
...me

Sultans was the intial hook...but once I got the first album I listened to Lions and Waterline a lot. Once upon a time in the west...Romeo and Juliet....Private Investigations...Darling Pretty...Telegraph Road...Song for Sonny Liston and Punish the Monkey   were all instant favorites of mine.

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Doctor parkinson declared Im not surprised to see you here
Youve got smokers cough from smoking, brewers droop from drinking beer
I dont know how you came to get the betty davis knees
But worst of all young man youve got industrial disease

Instant songs by Dire Straits:

Walk Of Life (song thanks to which I discovered DS in 1988 when I was 10!)

Money For Nothing

Brothers In Arms

Sultans Of Swing

Down To The Waterline (which really deserves to appear on the BEST OF's!)

Private Investigations

Your Latest Trick

Twisting By The Pool

Where Do You Think You're Going (has its place in the BEST OF's too!!)

Romeo And Juliet

On Every Street

The Bug

...Just to name a few... These are the hits, so to speak.

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Instant songs by MK now:

First and foremost I must say I also intantly loved the whole Golden Heart record back in 1996 and instant faves were:

Imelda

Golden Heart

Cannibals

Je Suis Désolé

Are We In Trouble Now

Don't You Get It (for its fine solos especially!!)

Then came the STP album with:

What It Is (THE song!! I've already commented on that one somewhere in the forum)

Silvertown Blues

Speedway at Nazareth

Sailing To Philadelphia

The Ragpicker's Dream:

Why Aye Man

Quality Shoe

Hillfarmer's Blues

Devil Baby

Shangri-La:

Postcards From Paraguay

The Trawlerman's Song

Sucker Row

5.15 am

ATRR with E. Harris:

Beachcombing

I Dug Up A Diamond

Rollin' on

KTGC:

The Scaffolder's Wife

Punish The Monkey

Heart full Of Holes

The Fizzy And The Still

Madame Geneva's

 

 

 

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AURELIEN BRUSSET
Singer guitarist of French band ROCKAWAY.

ROCKAWAY VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ESXa7hTO7E

DIRE STRAITS/MARK KNOPFLER/ROCKAWAY websites:
http://aurelienbrusset.over-blog.com
www.myspace.com/aurelienbrusset

aurelienbrusset:

ATRR with E. Harris:

Beachcombing

I Dug Up A Diamond

Rollin' on

 

I have to say, Rollin' on stuck on my ears by the first time. Don' t know if it' s because I had heard something similar before... or for that round of bass notes upon which the whole song is constructed, it enters my head and don' t come out.

Other two songs that hit me were: Beyond my wildest dreams;

Red staggerwing: because I often listen to danceable traditionals, and that song is very similar

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ognuno vada dove vuole andare, ognuno invecchi come gli pare, ma non raccontare a me cos' è la libertà

My wife and I used Beyond My Wildest Dreams to end our wedding's ceremony at the City Hall.

Also used the instrumental theme to Metroland when going out of the chapel.

...If anyone cares, which I doubt!   

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AURELIEN BRUSSET
Singer guitarist of French band ROCKAWAY.

ROCKAWAY VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ESXa7hTO7E

DIRE STRAITS/MARK KNOPFLER/ROCKAWAY websites:
http://aurelienbrusset.over-blog.com
www.myspace.com/aurelienbrusset

Well I'm 22 now and the first song I listened to was Lady Writter when I was about 15, and from there I begun a long journey up to today. A big big day for me, as I'm going to see Mark live for the first time!

Other instant songs for me were Down to the wateline, Sultans, Tunnel of Love, What it is, Brothers in arms, ... Those are the ones I can think of right now, but there are so many great ones....

"Now the sun's gone to hell, and the moon's riding high"

...sure, I care...that's really cool....and if MrMark knew that he'd probably be very touched...I'm new on here, but I love how everyone is so enthusiastic about his music...my family thinks I have MK on the brain (sometimes I do) but I'm glad this is here as an outlet....or we might just combust spontaniously...

 

 

 

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...when life hands you a bucket of manure.......
.....use it for fertilizer.....
...me

aurelienbrusset:

My wife and I used Beyond My Wildest Dreams to end our wedding's ceremony at the City Hall.

Also Used the instrumental theme to Metroland when going out of the chapel.

...If anyone cares, which I doubt!   

... well...

I am personally allergic to marriage. One of the first things I told my Franco (more than 18 years since we stuck together), was: Man, if you want to get married, I respect your opinion. But you gonna marry someone else.

... but having Beyond my wildest dreams as a soundtrack could be one of the very few things that could make me change my mind.

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ognuno vada dove vuole andare, ognuno invecchi come gli pare, ma non raccontare a me cos' è la libertà

I couldn't get out of my head the following songs... fortunately in the pre-iPOD era the CD's had the "Repeat One" feature !!!

Dire Straits: Sultans of Swing, Lions, Wild West End

Communiqué: News, Angel of Mercy

Making Movies: Tunnel of Love, Hand in Hand

Love over Gold: It Never Rains 

Alchemy: Romeo and Juliet, Sultans of Swing, Tunnel of Love, Local Hero

Brothers in Arms: Your Latest Trick

On Every Street: Planet of New Orleans

Golden Heart: Golden Heart

Sailing to Philadelphia: What it Is, Sailing to Philadelphia, Silvertown Blues, One More Matineè

The Ragpicker's Dream: NONE

Shangri-La: 5:15 am 

All The Road Running: If This is Goodbye

Kill to Get Crimson: In the Sky 

 

This Is Us!

Hello denmark: You and your excellent posts...This is a great subject because everyone has been through this..We have heard songs that hit us like a misil and we never looked back....Dire Straits has hit me with several songs that I couldn't stop listening for hours and hours....Every once in a while I can listen to the same song over and over for hours and it seems that it's impossible to get away from the CD player...One day I stayed several hours(8-10) listening to DS' songs straight, no eating, no pipi, no phone calls, no nothing, just pure music from DS..The following DS songs have hit me instantly harder and sweeter than any other music:

1º) "Romeo And Juliet"

2º) "Once Upon A Time In The West"

3º) "Tunnel Of Love"

4º) "Lady Writer"

5º) "Skateaway"

6º) "Sultans Of Swing"

7º) "Solid Rock"

8º) "Your Latest Trick"

9º) "Expresso Love"

10º) "Water Of Love"

The following Mark's solo songs have hit me instantly:

1º) "What It Is"

2º) "Boom, Like That"

3º) "Punish The Monkey"

4º) "Why Aye Man"

5º) " Silvertown Blues"

6º) "Darling Pretty"

7º) "Baloney Again"

8º) "The Trawlerman's Song"

9º) "Everybody Pays"

10º) "Donegan's Gone"

Regards,........................................"And I recall my fall from grace, Another time another place"....

I guess I was a bit restrictive in my last post about the Straits' instant songs last time! Here are some others, album after album.

Dire Straits: 

Sultans of swing

Down to the waterline

Wild west end

Water of love

Communiqué:

Lady writer

News

Once upon a tme in the west

Where do you think you're going

Making Movies: 

Tunnel of love

Romeo and juliet

skateaway

Expresso love

Solid rock

Love Over Gold:

Private investigations

Industrial disease

Love over Gold

I would tend to say Telegraph Road, but it takes a little more time to fully tame it (I started listening to it when I was 10, so that's very young to apprehend such a symphony!! Nevertheless it rapidly grew on me.

Brothers In Arms:

Money for nothing

Walk of life

Brothers in arms

So far away

Your latest trick

Ride across the river

The man's too strong

Money For Nothing Comp:

Twisting by the pool

Apart from all the songs I've already listed, this comp contained a fantastic version of Portobello Belle, played during the 1982-1983 Love Over Gold tour.

On Every Street:

Calling Elvis

Heavy fuel

The bug

On every street

You and your friend

Iron hand

Planet of News Orleans

I must simply precise something: "instant songs" doesn't necessarily means "favourite ones". Some other songs are discovered later, after listening to the instant songs that have stricken you first. And then you end up digging the whole fxxx catalogue, which is truely awesome, to say the least! 

 

 

 

 

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AURELIEN BRUSSET
Singer guitarist of French band ROCKAWAY.

ROCKAWAY VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ESXa7hTO7E

DIRE STRAITS/MARK KNOPFLER/ROCKAWAY websites:
http://aurelienbrusset.over-blog.com
www.myspace.com/aurelienbrusset