My review - **SPOILERS about songs**

[Dutchessy]

Wow thank you Rail King! Very nice find!

[Rail King]

I realize I should have opened a separate thread for this. Did so now.

[Rail King]

By the way, all the leaked download links I found so far led to this dubious page (below). You can actually download the songs there as a zip file, but it comes password-protected, and if you follow the provided link to get the password, they ask you for your credit card information.

https://zone-telechargement-albums.com/go.php?n=373133

I hope we'll get a proper leak, soon. 

[JF]

you remember, sometimes we had this kind of discussion :
imagine one of your friends has never heard a MK solo album, he only knows Dire Straits, and he asks you : "hey, I like very much Dire Straits, what MK album would you recommand to listen first ?"

I think there are great probabilty that you will recommend STP first, not KTGC or RPD, right ?

well, I don't want to bring too much expectations, but I think I can say without taking too much risk, that in less than 2 months you will recommend Down the road wherever too...

[Love Expresso]

well, I don't want to bring too much expectations

Failed! 

LE

[JF]

 

[Robson]

you remember, sometimes we had this kind of discussion :
imagine one of your friends has never heard a MK solo album, he only knows Dire Straits, and he asks you : "hey, I like very much Dire Straits, what MK album would you recommand to listen first ?"

I think there are great probabilty that you will recommend STP first, not KTGC or RPD, right ?

well, I don't want to bring too much expectations, but I think I can say without taking too much risk, that in less than 2 months you will recommend Down the road wherever too...

I don't know. Possible. Maybe Get Lucky...
This fragment interested me more:

"I think I can say without taking too much risk, that in less than 2 months you will recommend Down the road wherever too...

A new album one of the most beautiful?

[herlock]

I would recommend TRD anytime.
Wonderful album.

[JF]

I would recommend TRD anytime.
Wonderful album.

I loveTRD too, and the subject is not if it's a wonderful album or not, it's more about if it would interest a DS fan or not

Believe me, I tried many times and when someone is hearing devil baby, marbletown, old pigweed, title track, quality shoe or a place where we used to live, it's not really what he expected, when he liked songs like when it comes to you, calling elvis or planet of new orleans

don't misunderstand me, and do'nt expect epic guitar solos. But, the guitar tones, the overall sound, the global production, the groove, the general feeling, whatever you name it, could attract some DS fans, more than previous albums. At least I've heard several songs that could fit very well the radio mainstream actual style, and it was not really the case on albums like KTGC, tracker, rPD or even Privateering and Get lucky, and even if I also love these albums. but we are fans, not the average public.

Well it's just a guess, maybe time will tell I'm wrong. let's see...

[herlock]

TRD has a special unique feel.
It is slow, yes, but not nearly as dull as KTGC (save for Punish the Monkey).
It is the closest thing to a "concept album" that Mark has ever come to. Poor, simple people, having small victories.
WAM is a great uptempo single, 2002 live versions are amazing. HFB has become a live classic, not only because the added end guitar solo, but also for the peaceful, sad atmosphere. A place we used to live is so... calming. Coyote is great fun, live it was a staple in 2010. The title track is touching.
Sometimes I like it even better than STP. Maybe Mark's most underrated album...

[Jules]

TRD has a special unique feel.
It is slow, yes, but not nearly as dull as KTGC (save for Punish the Monkey).
It is the closest thing to a "concept album" that Mark has ever come to. Poor, simple people, having small victories.
WAM is a great uptempo single, 2002 live versions are amazing. HFB has become a live classic, not only because the added end guitar solo, but also for the peaceful, sad atmosphere. A place we used to live is so... calming. Coyote is great fun, live it was a staple in 2010. The title track is touching.
Sometimes I like it even better than STP. Maybe Mark's most underrated album...

TRD to me is the link between MK, the Dire Straits frontman searching for its own identity as a solo artists and MK, the solo artist that knows where he wants to go musically in his solo career.

STP was a first step into that direction, after a first solo record full of songs with some DS feel in them, some country and some celtic ones, a mix of things without a clear direction; STP was different to GH but it wasn't yet what MK would be as a solo artist, still DS feel in it but with some strange kind og sound, different...

TRD really put him in its own path as a solo artist.

[Rail King]

TRD has a special unique feel.
It is slow, yes, but not nearly as dull as KTGC (save for Punish the Monkey).
It is the closest thing to a "concept album" that Mark has ever come to. Poor, simple people, having small victories.
WAM is a great uptempo single, 2002 live versions are amazing. HFB has become a live classic, not only because the added end guitar solo, but also for the peaceful, sad atmosphere. A place we used to live is so... calming. Coyote is great fun, live it was a staple in 2010. The title track is touching.
Sometimes I like it even better than STP. Maybe Mark's most underrated album...

I like to think that Shangri-La might be his most underrated, but The Ragpicker's Dream is probably the closest to my heart. I I were forced to keep but one of his albums (and thanks God I'm not), it might be this one.

[Guitarman1972]

TRD contains two magnificant songs 'Hill Farmer's Blues' and 'A Place Where We Used To Live'. Though i must say that I prefer to listen to the live version of HFB from the Get Lucky tour. The Amsterdam 2010.06.28 recording is the best HFB version I came accross from that tour. If you think there is a better version let me know though. But keep in mind that a longer version is not necessarily a better version. The bass sits so well in the 2010.06.28 recording and because of that adding an extra dimension to the song.

[dmg]

TRD contains two magnificant songs 'Hill Farmer's Blues' and 'A Place Where We Used To Live'. Though i must say that I prefer to listen to the live version of HFB from the Get Lucky tour. The Amsterdam 2010.06.28 recording is the best HFB version I came accross from that tour. If you think there is a better version let me know though. But keep in mind that a longer version is not necessarily a better version. The bass sits so well in the 2010.06.28 recording and because of that adding an extra dimension to the song.

I like HFB from Glasgow and Birmingham on that tour.

[Dutchessy]

Birmingham has the longest HFB solo of all tours i think