MK 20 years solo CD

[Maxx]

Almost impossible not to end up with singles only (some exeptions), but I guess this would sum it up for me. It's probably these 10 songs I would first introduce to anyone who never listened to MK.


1. Darling Pretty
2. What It Is
3. Why Aye Man
4. Wanderlust
5. Speedway at Nazareth
6. Boom, Like That
7. The Trawlerman's Song
8. Silvertown Blues
9. All the Roadrunning
10. Piper to the End

[TheTimeWasWrong]

• What It Is
• Metroland
• Heart Full Of Holes
• Darling Pretty
• Privateering
• Seattle
• So Far From The Clyde
• Sailing To Philadelphia
• Speedway At Nazareth
• In The Sky

Bonus super deluxe tracks:

• Pyroman
• Let's see you
• Silvertown Blues (Live from rehearsals)

[boboDS]

Interesting to think about...

. darling pretty
. imelda
. speedway at nazareth
. silvertown blues
. boom like that
. hot or what
. what it is
. kingdome of gold
. don't you get it
. seattle

[border_reiver]

(...now edited in order of likeability)

Oh dear... 

Some of my favs will hardly make the common MK-fan's list so here goes

1. Gravy Train
2. Cannibals
3. Metroland
4. Corned Beef City
5. What it is (extended version)   
6. Why Aye Man
7. My claim to fame
8. Pulling down the ride
9. Darling Pretty
10. I used to could

Just almost made it:

- Donegan's Gone
- Cleaning my gun
- Pyroman (would accordingly have made top 10, had it been released)

[yontwocrows]

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

Wow! Great effort!

[Lis]

  This is really pissing me off.  Just sayin' 
1   Speedway at Nazareth
2   5:15 AM
3   Silvertown Blues
4   Hill Farmer's Blues
5   Our Shangri-La
6   Got to Have Something
7   The Trawlerman

[Lis]

and Metroland.

[H97]

1.What It Is
2. Redbud Tree
3. So Far From The Clyde
4. Darling Pretty
5. Boom, Like That
6. Postcards From Paraguay
7. Hill Farmer's Blues
8. Sailing To Philadelphia
9. Speedway At Nazareth
10. The Long Highway

[holaknopfler]

I can't do this. Agree with Lis  ps. i will let you know when i'm ready to post my list.

[Bluebird]

YONTWOCROWS, it's not such a big effort. With Excel it is done very quickly.

I was a little bit curious to know which songs are favorites. And how the ranking is. So I made this list.
If some of you are also interested in it, I could update the list from time to time.

I would also like to make such a list of my 10 favourite songs, but I can't decide which one on place 1, place 2 and so on. What I wonder is: so far "Bluebird" for example wasn't mentioned, this is one of my favorite songs.

At the moment it looks like this:
Darling Pretty-- ---------------7 x No. 1
What it is----------------------6 x No. 1
Speedway at Nazareth------2 x No. 1
Golden Heart------------------1 x No. 1
Kingdom of Gold--------------1 x No. 1

Here are 3 different versions of updated lists:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/i9z7231isc3vy98/Top%2010%20AMIT%200112%20A.htm?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lcakntbcy15zq7z/Top%2010%20AMIT%200112%20B.htm?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h4jmb5025vnebwa/Top%2010%20AMIT%200112%20C.htm?dl=0

Bluebird

[dmg]

P*ssin me off too!  Just noticed My Claim to Fame to Border Reiver's list and that would be in my top ten for sure.  Must edit mine now. 

[superval99]

P*ssin me off too!  Just noticed My Claim to Fame to Border Reiver's list and that would be in my top ten for sure.  Must edit mine now. 

I intend to edit mine too, when I've given it a bit more thought!   It's a compliment to MK's songwriting that it's such a hard task!   

[Knopflerfan]

Don't think 10 is a fair track list after all it's not a Dire Straits Greatest hits when I would struggle to get 10!!!

I reckon that as MK has never released any less than 11 tracks on any one of his 7 solo 'studio' albums I think we should up the stakes by another track each.....

[border_reiver]

YONTWOCROWS, it's not such a big effort. With Excel it is done very quickly.

I was a little bit curious to know which songs are favorites. And how the ranking is. So I made this list.
If some of you are also interested in it, I could update the list from time to time.

I would also like to make such a list of my 10 favourite songs, but I can't decide which one on place 1, place 2 and so on. What I wonder is: so far "Bluebird" for example wasn't mentioned, this is one of my favorite songs.

At the moment it looks like this:
Darling Pretty-----------------7 x No. 1
What it is----------------------6 x No. 1
Speedway at Nazareth------2 x No. 1
Golden Heart------------------1 x No. 1
Kingdom of Gold--------------1 x No. 1

Here are 3 different versions of updated lists:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/i9z7231isc3vy98/Top%2010%20AMIT%200112%20A.htm?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lcakntbcy15zq7z/Top%2010%20AMIT%200112%20B.htm?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h4jmb5025vnebwa/Top%2010%20AMIT%200112%20C.htm?dl=0

Bluebird

For the record (no pun intended) I'd like to add that my top 10 are in no particular order. 

edit... now they are

[superval99]

Mine wasn't in order of favourites either, just the order of the albums!