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Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980).
by The Call of the Wendigo Wed May 06, 2020 8:36 pm
This is one of my fave Knopfler solos.
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Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980).
by The Call of the Wendigo Wed May 06, 2020 8:37 pm
It is a thing of melancholy beauty.
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Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980).
by The Call of the Wendigo Wed May 06, 2020 8:37 pm
Trademark diddly-diddly-diddly bit.
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Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980).
by Fangirl Three Wed May 06, 2020 8:38 pm
The piano bits in that were very pleasing.
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Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980).
by The Call of the Wendigo Wed May 06, 2020 8:38 pm
It is ending. What a beautiful song, all in all.
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Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980).
by The Call of the Wendigo Wed May 06, 2020 8:38 pm
Track 2 - Romeo and Juliet.
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Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980).
by The Call of the Wendigo Wed May 06, 2020 8:39 pm
National Guitar being used as such things were meant to be used.
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Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980).
by Nightjar Wed May 06, 2020 8:39 pm
Herein we see the eternal appeal of Dire Straits to a certain and infinitely loyal demographic.
Technically excellent musical ability, tasteful melodies and pensive lyrics and themes married to the winning formula of making more-or-less the same song over and over again...
Technically excellent musical ability, tasteful melodies and pensive lyrics and themes married to the winning formula of making more-or-less the same song over and over again...
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Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980).
by Nightjar Wed May 06, 2020 8:39 pm
Now, I like this one.
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Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980).
by The Call of the Wendigo Wed May 06, 2020 8:39 pm
"Hey la, my boyfriend's back." Old-style girl band reference.
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Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980).
by Nightjar Wed May 06, 2020 8:40 pm
I like the pared back quality.
I like the way the drummer gets involved more front and centre.
I like the way the drummer gets involved more front and centre.
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Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980).
by The Call of the Wendigo Wed May 06, 2020 8:41 pm
I think it's this track where you can most spot the benefit of a keyboard player having been added. It gives the chorus that bit more oomph than on their previous albums.
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Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980).
by Nightjar Wed May 06, 2020 8:41 pm
"Pfler's vocals and the drums effectively duke it out like punch drunk boxers.
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Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980).
by Fangirl Three Wed May 06, 2020 8:42 pm
This song is much less bad than I was led to believe.
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Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980).
by Nightjar Wed May 06, 2020 8:43 pm
I might add that I really love this song.
Of course it comes from an immensely difficult time of my young life.
Weirdly, it reminds me of staying with my mad aunt in the South of France when my cousin Lily was a baby.
Of course it comes from an immensely difficult time of my young life.
Weirdly, it reminds me of staying with my mad aunt in the South of France when my cousin Lily was a baby.
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Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980).
by Fangirl Three Wed May 06, 2020 8:44 pm
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:National Guitar being used as such things were meant to be used.
Does that mean the line in Graceland, about how the 'Mississippi delta, was shining like a national guitar' isn't a metaphor about America at all, it's just a simile?
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Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980).
by The Call of the Wendigo Wed May 06, 2020 8:44 pm
I think the genius of Knopfler is that he understand both the worthlessness and the pricelessness of ordinary lives.
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Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980).
by Fangirl Three Wed May 06, 2020 8:44 pm
Vaguely Pet Shop Boys drums there just for a moment.
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Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980).
by The Call of the Wendigo Wed May 06, 2020 8:44 pm
Track 3 - Skateaway.
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Re: Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980).
by Nightjar Wed May 06, 2020 8:44 pm
Did I already say that I love this song?
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