MK 20 years solo CD

[AKW1987]

to mark the 20th anniversary of MKs solo career (next year I know) if you had to compile your own "best of" Mark solo compilation you can pick 10 tracks only!!! (solo albums 1996-2012)

1.What It Is
 2.Sailing To Philadelphia
 3.Why Aye Man
 4.Hill Farmers Blues
 5.Cannibals
 6.Postcards From Paraguay
 7.Get Lucky
 8.Done With Bonaparte
 9.Privateering
 10.A Place Where We Used To Live

[LoveExpresso]

10 is s good number. My list differs from yours a lot. But ask me again after Tracker  is released. 

LE

[Jules]

10 songs are very little as MK has many records...

[LoveExpresso]

Right but that's the challenge, jbaent. 
Here is my try:
1. Darling Pretty
2. What It Is
3. Sailing To Philadelphia
4. Speedway At Nazareth
5. One More Matinee
6. Why Aye Man
7. Fare Thee Well Northumberland
8. Hill Farmer's Blues
9. 5.15 AM
10. Before Gas & TV

And
Long Highway
You Don't Know You're Born
Border Reiver
Hard Shoulder
Get Lucky
Redbud Tree
Occupation Blues

It's not possible. Period. 

LE

[Darling Pretty]

1.What It Is
 2.Sailing To Philadelphia
 3.Why Aye Man
 4.Hill Farmers Blues
 5.Darling pretty
 6.Postcards From Paraguay
 7.Speedway at Narareth
 8. 05.15 a.m.
 9.Boom like that
 10.Border Reiver

hmm, most openers, but hey MK has too much good stuff

[superval99]

1.   Darling Pretty
2.   What It Is
3.   Sailing to Philadelphia
4.   Speedway at Nazareth
5.   Silvertown Blues
6.   Hillfarmer's Blues
7.   Marbletown
8.   5.15 am
9.   Before Gas & TV
10  Piper to the End


Tooooo many good songs to choose from, it's impossible, really!   

[Marijo58]

1 What it is
2 Done with Bonaparte
3 Sailing to Philadelphia
4 Privateering
5 Postcards from Paraguay
6 Rudiger
7 Darling Pretty
8 Why Aye Man
9 Border Reiver
10 Cannibals


That's my list but I can make another one with many many other songs!!! 
 

[K-alberto]

1.    Kingdom of Gold
2.    What It Is
3.    Sailing to Philadelphia
4.    Speedway at Nazareth
5.    Devil Baby
6.    So far from the Clyde
7.    5.15am
8.    A Night in Summer Long Ago
9.    Yon Two Crows
10    Imelda

[naif]

1. Darling Pretty
2. Boom Like That
3. What It Is
4. Everybody Pays
5. A Place Where We Used To Live
6. In The Sky
7. Madame Geneva's
8. Silvertown Blues
9. 5.15 Am
10. Donkey Town

Has been said. 10 songs from the catalog that big, too hard to choose. The man is good song machine 

[Darling Pretty]

to be honest:
Darling pretty is perhaps one of the best ones.
The 3 solos in it are killer. Especially live.
Listen to the Vaison Version or Antibes. Wow

[yontwocrows]

1.) What it is
2.) Why Aye man
3.) Boom like that
4.) Hillfarmer's Blues
5.) Done with Bonaparte
6.) Sailing to Philadelphia
7.) Border Reiver
8.) Speedway at Nazareth
9.) Our Shangri-La
10.) Piper to the end

[Knopflerfan]

10 is pretty hard so gonna have to put 11 just to try and cram em in!!
 Remember 11 is the least amount MK has ever released on any of his 7 Albums...(Get Lucky)

1) Darling Pretty - just has to be!!
2) Cannibals
3) Claim to Fame
4) What it is
5) Prairie wedding (Played at our wedding)
6) I used to could
7) You don't know your born (Shadows/Hank influence sound at end)
Secondary Waltz (Heard if first at Hay-on-Wye Live!)
9) Our Shangri-La
10) Dream of the drowned submariner
11) Piper to the end (Played at my Fathers Funeral)

Extra bonus Tracks:
* Gator Blood
* Remembrance Day (Heard it when we saw Mark Play this 'Live-ish' in Trafalgar Square)
* True love will never fade
* Get Lucky

[Bluebird]

For those who like statistics - I have summarized the up to now (10) posted "best of" Knopfler's solo career on AMIT forum in a small statistic.

HTM
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ms3hzjwqxacxl0/Top%2010%20AMIT.htm?dl=0

EXCEL
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k1pa5h1bse0kx8d/Top%2010%20AMIT.xls?dl=0

Bluebird

[dmg]

1.  Speedway
2.  What it is
3.  Hill Farmer's
4.  Prairie wedding
5.  Silvertown
6.  Why aye man
7.  My Claim to Fame
8.  Boom, like that
9.  Border reiver
10. Piper

Honourable mention:
Remembrance day

In no particular order.

[cannibals]

1. Golden Heart
2. Darling Pretty
3. What it is
4. Silvertown
5. Speedway
6. 5.15 am
7. Hilfamer
8. So far from the Clyde
9. Submariner
10 Kingdom of Gold.