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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Love them or loathe them?

They were my first memory of watching M T V with "Money for nothing."

I also love brothers in arms, Romeo and Juliet.

So fabbers what are you favourite Dire Straits songs?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Has to be "the Sultans of Swing"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Brothers in arms

Billy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The one that sings about bowery bums

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Has to be "the Sultans of Swing" "

Yes that one too, how could I forget!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Omg so reminds me of being in the back of mum & dads car haha got to be romeo & juliet

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My dad loves them....hmm it says it all really.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Has to be "the Sultans of Swing"

Yes that one too, how could I forget! "
Seriously lol, i adore Dire Straits, love all their stuff from " Tunnel of love" to "Private Investigations"

Great band, which now thanks to you i will have to listen to

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

loathe them.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Has to be "the Sultans of Swing"

Yes that one too, how could I forget! Seriously lol, i adore Dire Straits, love all their stuff from " Tunnel of love" to "Private Investigations"

Great band, which now thanks to you i will have to listen to "

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By *ugby 123Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

O o O oo

Walk of life and So far away

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

one of my best pals had brothers in arms played at his funeral all the way through i thought of the yrs and tears we had working together , was not a great fan of them but this song was def meant for him , still miss him , slep tight pal x

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I can remember "borrowing" a CD from my brothers room when I was 15 still have today and he doesn't know!

The very best of dire straits.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"one of my best pals had brothers in arms played at his funeral all the way through i thought of the yrs and tears we had working together , was not a great fan of them but this song was def meant for him , still miss him , slep tight pal x "

Brothers in arms is a fantastic song has a lot of meaning for me too.

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By *lutandhubbyCouple
over a year ago

west midlands

Brothers in arms and the mans too strong

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"The one that sings about bowery bums"

Bowery bums?

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By *oxerjoshleeMan
over a year ago

Sheffield


"Love them or loathe them?

They were my first memory of watching M T V with "Money for nothing."

I also love brothers in arms, Romeo and Juliet.

So fabbers what are you favourite Dire Straits songs? "

LOVE them. Got the brothers in arms album on my car's hardrive... brilliant to drive to.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Romeo and Juliet and les boys

Making movies was one of first I downloaded onto iPhone, the old cd was a little bit scratched

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Love them or loathe them?

They were my first memory of watching M T V with "Money for nothing."

I also love brothers in arms, Romeo and Juliet.

So fabbers what are you favourite Dire Straits songs?

LOVE them. Got the brothers in arms album on my car's hardrive... brilliant to drive to. "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sultans of Swing.... And Romeo and Juliet.

I still love the guitar work on their stuff.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The one that sings about bowery bums

Bowery bums? "

Just Googled it... called Your Latest Trick

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Romeo and juliet is one of my all time favourite songs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

Walk of life and So far away "

got both tunes going round in my head now

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By *plpxp2Couple
over a year ago

Middlesbrough

Tunnel of love, Private Investigations and the ones already mentioned. Brilliant.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"The one that sings about bowery bums

Bowery bums?

Just Googled it... called Your Latest Trick"

Hmm not heard that one may have to u tube it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sultans of swing,, loud as u can,, my second favorite of all time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The one that sings about bowery bums

Bowery bums?

Just Googled it... called Your Latest Trick

Hmm not heard that one may have to u tube it. "
Great track!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mark Knopfler is one of my most favourite guitarist, his solo on Sultans of Swing is fantastic! Although I look at the video for "Money for Nothing" and how crap the graphics are nowadays haha

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By *andS_GlasgowCouple
over a year ago

Giffnock

through these fields of destruction...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Telegraph road. I worked out that at the right speed, I could listen, and of course play air guitar, drive from my work place to the local Tesco's and hear that guitar section right the way to the end

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"through these fields of destruction..."

Baptisms of fire ....I've witness all your suffering...

As the battle raged higher.

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By *aucy3Couple
over a year ago

glasgow


"Brothers in arms and the mans too strong "

My two favourite dire strait tracks.

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I swear upon my life

Your sister gave me diamonds

And I gave them to your wife.

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Someday you'll return

To your valleys and your farms

And you'll no longer burn

To be brothers in arms.

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By *ushandkittyCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

Kitty walked down the aisle to Romeo and Juliet. They are my favourite band, although each album has certain great tracks in my opinion the best album for complete content had to be making movies. An album of love songs in different contexts, my favourite being tunnel of love closely followed by hand in hand which was our exit song at our wedding.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Brothers in Arms for me

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Telegraph Road was a great track

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By *kywatcherMan
over a year ago

Southwick


"Telegraph Road was a great track "

Agree.

Southbound Again.

Six blade knife.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Planet New Orleans, Telegraph Road, Ride Across the River, News, On Every Street, Portabello Belle, It Never Rains, Love Over Gold, Tunnel of Love

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By *ashful BazMan
over a year ago

poole dorset

Full lenth version of Tunnel of love, Your latest trick, Sultans of swing and Lady writer are my faves.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

One that makes me chuckle is

"why aye man"

Also "All The Roadrunning" with Emmylou Harris.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

met him afew years ago the cafe we were in was the shop he bought his first guitar from years ago. love all thre stuff. esp the nottinghill billys album.

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By *atcherofmyballsMan
over a year ago

hereford

Favs have to be Skateaway and Going home. Fav album is Alchemy Live

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Why would you "loathe" them.

Not liking I can understand. Not to your taste also. Not your type of music perhaps. But why loathe.

Why loathe anyone with undoubted talent. And the ability to write songs that mean something to people.

Why loathe people that create....not replicate or copy.

Is it simply because they became on if the biggest bands in the world....

And for a change try youtubing "I'm the fool" by Mark Knopler...

Or for the best ever knees up....try the live version of Going Home the theme from Local Hero

Loathe....never..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Love 'Why Worry'

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Romeo & Juliet

Private Investigations

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They are one of the very best and most talented bands ever from the UK. Mark Knopfler was the first musician to make me want to pick up the guitar.

For anyone to loathe them doesn't merit a response. If you dont like the music it's not your loss but it's not mine either lol

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By *nfieldishCouple
over a year ago

Enfield

We think knopfler is a great guitarist... And whilst not liking some of his later stuff(lacking drama).....

Some of the tracks mentioned are absolutely epic...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"We think knopfler is a great guitarist... And whilst not liking some of his later stuff(lacking drama).....

Some of the tracks mentioned are absolutely epic..."

I do agree with you and I sympathise for Knopfler at the same time, he's probably left no stone unturned for himself - like Clapton (google the picture for his new album 'Old Sock', he doesnt even care anymore).

I checked some of Knopfler's new stuff and it was like his weaker old stuff before Straits split up. 'Cleaning My Gun' was a decent track though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

'Private Investigations' was the track which got my attention, as it was so different to anything else in the singles chart at the time.

But I much prefer the kind of 'back to basics' stuff that Mark Knopfler is doing now,

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland


"Love them or loathe them?

They were my first memory of watching M T V with "Money for nothing."

I also love brothers in arms, Romeo and Juliet.

So fabbers what are you favourite Dire Straits songs? "

I love Brothers in Arms - one of my top favs. I also love Sultans of Swing

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

love dire straits

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler has a beautiful guitar tone.

I can't count the number of bands I was asked to join when I was a kid because I could play the solo to Sultans Of Swing...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

brothers in arms

private investigations

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By *obnessMan
over a year ago

york

Sultans and romeo and juliet

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Sultans and romeo and juliet"

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Just listening to walk of life.

Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies be bop a Lula baby what I say

Here comes Johnny singing I gotta woman

Down in the tunnels, tryin to make it pay

he got the action got the motion

Oh yeah the boy can, dedication, devotion

Turning all the night time into the day.

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By *lipperyWhenWet!Couple
over a year ago

Rochester


"Brothers in arms and the mans too strong "

Yes, this one!

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By *ubbles55Couple
over a year ago

nelson/burnley

For us it's Tunnel of Love and Going Home, having said that we will listen to and enjoy all Dire Straits songs and music.

Have a listen to Mark Knopfler's Down with Bonaparte for something different if you haven't already done so.

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By *amschwingerzCouple
over a year ago

West

I wouldnt say 'loathe' but I've never been keen on 'toff rock'

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By *reenonionsMan
over a year ago

Nr Exeter

Eastbound train and Twisting by the pool - great stuff...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dire Straits were not "toff rock" they were working class and hence the name Dire Straits, they came from harsh times in the North.

PS - sorry if got anyone else barred for 24 hours for forwarding my link. The moderators here can go suck a bag of dicks for that!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Has to be "the Sultans of Swing" "

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By *nfieldishCouple
over a year ago

Enfield


"Dire Straits were not "toff rock" they were working class and hence the name Dire Straits, they came from harsh times in the North.

PS - sorry if got anyone else barred for 24 hours for forwarding my link. The moderators here can go suck a bag of dicks for that!"

Suck a bag of dicks..... The images that conjures....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Dire Straits were not "toff rock" they were working class and hence the name Dire Straits, they came from harsh times in the North.

PS - sorry if got anyone else barred for 24 hours for forwarding my link. The moderators here can go suck a bag of dicks for that!

Suck a bag of dicks..... The images that conjures....

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I'm an artist, I'm all for the word pictures lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anyone else think that "Dire Straits" and "Chris Rea" should get together and call themselves "Dire/Rea"?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

Anyone else think that "Dire Straits" and "Chris Rea" should get together and call themselves "Dire/Rea"?"

Funny you mention that, me and my brother liked both in the late 80's and used to say that joke repeatedly to anyone that hadnt heard it ten times already lol

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By *amschwingerzCouple
over a year ago

West


"Dire Straits were not "toff rock" they were working class and hence the name Dire Straits, they came from harsh times in the North.

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No, they come from good backgrounds and are mostly university, private school educated..

I was referring to their style and content though not there backgrounds..

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By *ost SockMan
over a year ago

West Wales and Cardiff

Weird one for me.

They were the first band I ever saw live - I was 16 around the time of Brothers in Arms. Played Alchemy Live to death for about three years around that time.

I never thought BiA was that good even back then when they were my favourite band - i remember the thrill of getting the cassette when it came out and being really disappointed. Yeah, the title track is very atmospheric, but I always hated So Far Away, Walk of Life and, yep, Money for Nothing.

Then got into loads of other types of music and thought they were tedious beyond for 25 years. Although I knew Knopfler was a great guitar player, I got bored with the whole guitar wizard thing (and I used to teach guitar!)

Had a slight urge to play the early stuff again in recent times and must dig out my Alchemy cassettes.

Will steer clear of BiA though - can't see me changing my mind on that one!

Funny thing, music and changing tastes!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Romeo and Juliette. Brings me to tears as the lyrics remind me of the girl I lost and never recovered from.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Brothers In Arms is still a great album.

'Sultans of Swing' on Alchemy Live is fucking awesome.

Saw them live on the On Every Street tour, and was a bit disappointed.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Great band and brothers in arms means a lot to me as was played at a relatives funeral..

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By *eordiesCouple
over a year ago

newcastle

Great Band, love just about all their songs.

I saw the band with Charles and Diana (not sitting next to them, but they were fairly close by, Diana getting right into it) at Wembley arena in 1984. This was where Sting came on stage to sing on I want my MTV.

Great show !!!

John

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By *iss our PixalMan
over a year ago

Waterloo

I just love Telegraph Rd great tune

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By *stbury DavenportMan
over a year ago

Nottingham

I've been revisiting their discography this last week. Although there's plenty of filler, their classics are classics for a reason.

I'm being thoroughly earwormed by 'Tunnel of Love' at the moment.

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