Mark Knopfler Solo Album Elimination Poll - Round 8

[Jules]

For me, the only one that is perfect from start to end is Get Lucky, I even love the blues one despite is so out of context, the rest are all very good, specially Ragpickers and Crimson, but all they have one or two songs that I don't like.

Same goes for Shangrila, is a record that is perfect for me until Sonny Liston, after that song until the last one, all songs are good but weak in my opinion, which makes that record not perfect, but close to. And, also for me, far superior than STP, is more really a true MK solo record than Sailing.

[Jules]

A friend of mine talked me, long ago, a kind of joke interpretations of the MK solo records, that I more or less remember, so I'm gonna share with you just for a laugh


GH - I'm so in love, that I'm gonna make a record with Straits sounding songs, celtic, country and all kind of weird styles, because, love is so amazing!

STP - I can't believe I'm still trapped with the DS sticker on my cd's, I should do something to run away!

RPD - Hey, now, listen, this is me going solo in the end!

SL - Hope you like this because, this is how is going to be me! Hey, I'm back!

KTGC - I have a wonderful studio so, excuse me for experiment!

GL - Now, I know how my studio works, listen to this!

Privateering - How you dare saying that my blues song on GL wasn't good? I can play the blues! Take a double shot!

Tracker - Should I learn to play slide, or am I good with it? Are these songs long enough, or should I repeat again and again these verses?

DTRW - I had so many gaps working on my musical that I had fun doing this or that, it's not bad at all!

[MagicElliott]

A friend of mine talked me, long ago, a kind of joke interpretations of the MK solo records, that I more or less remember, so I'm gonna share with you just for a laugh


GH - I'm so in love, that I'm gonna make a record with Straits sounding songs, celtic, country and all kind of weird styles, because, love is so amazing!

STP - I can't believe I'm still trapped with the DS sticker on my cd's, I should do something to run away!

RPD - Hey, now, listen, this is me going solo in the end!

SL - Hope you like this because, this is how is going to be me! Hey, I'm back!

KTGC - I have a wonderful studio so, excuse me for experiment!

GL - Now, I know how my studio works, listen to this!

Privateering - How you dare saying that my blues song on GL wasn't good? I can play the blues! Take a double shot!

Tracker - Should I learn to play slide, or am I good with it? Are these songs long enough, or should I repeat again and again these verses?

DTRW - I had so many gaps working on my musical that I had fun doing this or that, it's not bad at all!

Brilliant post! Bang on summary of all the albums. With Tracker I might add “I can play in the key of C major but can’t remember the chords for any other key. Guy remembers, cuz he never forgets anything but he won’t tell me.”

[dustyvalentino]

GH - I bought an expensive Les Paul so I'm going to play it on every song to justify the expense.

[MagicElliott]

GH - I bought an expensive Les Paul so I'm going to play it on every song to justify the expense.

And “I hired the best musicians in Ireland so I’d better get my money’s worth.”

[quizzaciously]

Shangri-La also containts arguably the hardest MK riff there is which is Song For Sonny Liston. The thing is so hard to play and emulate that I still can't do it. Also, Donegan's Gone riff is pretty tricky to play properly, not just to mess around it. And Bob Dylan actually called Sonny Liston his favourite MK song, which says a lot.

[Knopflerfan]

New MK Soundtrack poll has been started here....

https://www.amarkintime.org/forum/index.php?topic=8008.0