Emotional attachment to a song

[rmarques821]

Hey guys,

Are there any songs written by Mark that you feel you can't listen to (or listen to with some pain) because they are somehow attached to an estranged person, or a bad situation in your life?

Hill Farmer's Blues and especially Love Over Gold do that for me.

[holaknopfler]

Absolutely. Silver Eagle for me.

[quizzaciously]

For me it's more like attachment to certain periods in life. Like, Shangri-La album came out when I went to school, Kill To Get Crimson came out exactly when I were trying to get into university, then Get Lucky saved me from depression when I was dropped out of university. Privateering came out exactly when I met my future wife and so on. When people say, "Mark's music is the soundtrack of my life", they usually really mean that.

[Jules]

The ragpickers dream and Shangri-la fit with two very different periods of my life, and there are songs that look to be written to reflect certain events that were happening to me. I feel very attached to them.

[PensaGhost]

Hey guys,

Are there any songs written by Mark that you feel you can't listen to (or listen to with some pain) because they are somehow attached to an estranged person, or a bad situation in your life?

Hill Farmer's Blues and especially Love Over Gold do that for me.

I guess I am the one with the biggest problem here and in the whole MK world, I hope anyone else' problem is much smaller.
I used to play the guitar (DS/MK songs) several hours a day until 1995 when I was 18 then apparently because of playing too much both my wrists had a problem which I never solved and basically I have never played again.

Since then I obviously had a big pain listening to anything related to DS/MK
but recently I passed the 40 yo old and the idea that the boy/professionist/artist playing with friends at 18/20/30/40 yo will never come back has saddened and humiliated me so much that I hardly listen to anything anymore, so to answer your question all songs are involved.

[Pottel]

Long Highway. no particular reason, it just hits me every time. also, hand in hand.

[caci99]

I don't have this kind of problem of revisiting hard periods of my life, but yes there songs with particular meaning to me:

Private investigations - for some reason recalls me of my deceased father
Your latest trick - related to my first girlfriend
Brothers in arms - brings memory of a very dear teacher, more like a friend and mentor at my 20s
All the road running album - always related to my mother (she loves that album)

[dmg]

Long Highway. no particular reason, it just hits me every time. also, hand in hand.

Probably LH for me too.  Every time I hear it I think of Mr. P.  Or R&J and his pee breaks!   

[Jules]

Long Highway. no particular reason, it just hits me every time. also, hand in hand.

Probably LH for me too.  Every time I hear it I think of Mr. P.  Or R&J and his pee breaks!   

In Newcastle I checked the perfect formula to avoid that pee breaks. Last pint has to be consumed one hour before you enter to the venue as later, so you'll have that pee moment before the show starts, and no problems for the rest of the show!

[Pottel]

Long Highway. no particular reason, it just hits me every time. also, hand in hand.

Probably LH for me too.  Every time I hear it I think of Mr. P.  Or R&J and his pee breaks!   

In Newcastle I checked the perfect formula to avoid that pee breaks. Last pint has to be consumed one hour before you enter to the venue as later, so you'll have that pee moment before the show starts, and no problems for the rest of the show!

I drink too much to be able to do that
Nothing suits a pre break better than Romeo and J

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[dmg]

Long Highway. no particular reason, it just hits me every time. also, hand in hand.

Probably LH for me too.  Every time I hear it I think of Mr. P.  Or R&J and his pee breaks!   

In Newcastle I checked the perfect formula to avoid that pee breaks. Last pint has to be consumed one hour before you enter to the venue as later, so you'll have that pee moment before the show starts, and no problems for the rest of the show!

I drink too much to be able to do that
Nothing suits a pre break better than Romeo and J

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By the time this next tour comes about it'll need to have a mid-set interval for Mark to have a pee break! 

[quizzaciously]

Funny enough most of musicians seems to have a pee break while Sultans, and I think it's a more appropriate song to do it anyway. Actual pee break gives me more pleasure than listening to the SOS for the millionth time. Next tour we will see Mark himself doing a pee break on Sultans! Remember my words.

[Jules]

Long Highway. no particular reason, it just hits me every time. also, hand in hand.

Probably LH for me too.  Every time I hear it I think of Mr. P.  Or R&J and his pee breaks!   

In Newcastle I checked the perfect formula to avoid that pee breaks. Last pint has to be consumed one hour before you enter to the venue as later, so you'll have that pee moment before the show starts, and no problems for the rest of the show!

I drink too much to be able to do that
Nothing suits a pre break better than Romeo and J

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I control myself and leave the drinks for the after show

[Eddie Fox]

Funny enough most of musicians seems to have a pee break while Sultans, and I think it's a more appropriate song to do it anyway. Actual pee break gives me more pleasure than listening to the SOS for the millionth time. Next tour we will see Mark himself doing a pee break on Sultans! Remember my words.

Given the lack of passion Mark's been displaying during Sultans I dare say that's his mid-show mental break. The body is there but his mind is somewhere else...

[Eddie Fox]

Hey guys,

Are there any songs written by Mark that you feel you can't listen to (or listen to with some pain) because they are somehow attached to an estranged person, or a bad situation in your life?

Hill Farmer's Blues and especially Love Over Gold do that for me.

How much time do you have? lol Mark's music is such a huge part of my life that pretty much every milestone I experienced in life comes with one of his songs - if not a whole album.