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Offlineboriszhukov

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Marks greatest songs as solo artist after DS
« on: January 18, 2019, 10:58:20 AM »
With the new songs in mind. Has there ever been a polll to which songs would be considered his 'greatest hits' since going solo?

Since the material he has done as solo artist is very different and less commercial than the DS stuff. I think it would be interesting to see which 20 songs would be considered his strongest since DS.

I suppose some of the songs played most often in concert would have to be strongly considered since that would probably would be the material MK considered the strongest.

A quick glance at setlist.com would indicate these (considering mainly that the songs have been played frequently for more than one album tour):

Speedway at Nazareth
What It Is
Hill Farmer's Blues
Marbletown
Sailing to Philadelphia
Done With Bonaparte
Song for Sonny Liston
Why Aye Man
Postcards from Paraguay
Piper to the End
Cannibals
Our Shangri-La
Donegan's Gone

It would be intersting to see the output of a poll on this.
« Last Edit: January 18, 2019, 05:30:53 PM by boriszhukov »

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Re: Marks greatest songs as solo artist after DS
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2019, 12:21:49 PM »
poposal, let'S make a poll per album, then collect the x best per album and put them in a final poll.
any takers?
my favourites, right now, from the top of my head:
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Re: Marks greatest songs as solo artist after DS
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2019, 01:18:22 PM »
Exciting idea.

IMHO officially released b-sides and bonus tracks should count too.

A favorite song shouldn't be fallen on the altar of record companies greed. :)
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Re: Marks greatest songs as solo artist after DS
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2019, 01:46:02 PM »
Exciting idea.

IMHO officially released b-sides and bonus tracks should count too.

A favorite song shouldn't be fallen on the altar of record companies greed. :)
absolutely!
any Knopfler, Floyd or Dylan will do....

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Re: Marks greatest songs as solo artist after DS
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2019, 01:52:10 PM »
Interesting idea, would be interesting to discuss what criteria go to make a good song? For example, I would regard 'Basil' as a far better song then say 'So far away' due to its portrait sonic canvas, others might disagree....

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Re: Marks greatest songs as solo artist after DS
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2019, 05:26:31 PM »
Interesting idea, would be interesting to discuss what criteria go to make a good song? For example, I would regard 'Basil' as a far better song then say 'So far away' due to its portrait sonic canvas, others might disagree....

I guess my idea is mainly what 10-20 tracks were to be on a 'Greatest hits' release.

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Re: Marks greatest songs as solo artist after DS
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2019, 05:27:02 PM »
Speedway at Nazareth
What It Is
Hill Farmer's Blues
Marbletown
Sailing to Philadelphia
Done With Bonaparte
Song for Sonny Liston
Why Aye Man Play
Postcards from Paraguay
Piper to the End
Cannibals
Our Shangri-La
Donegan's Gone


His best songs in solo career, in my opinion are:

ordered by album:

Rudiger
Je Suis Désolé
Are We In A Trouble Now
What It Is
Sailing To Philadelphia
Baloney Again
Speedway At Nazareth
Why Aye Man
Hill Farmer Blues
5:15 am
Our Shangri-la
Postcards From Paraguay
Heart Full Of Holes
Let It All Go
The Fish And The Bird
In The Sky
Border Reiver
Before Gas And TV
Monteleone
Piper To The End
Privateering
Two Yon Crows
Kingdom of Gold
Laughs and Jokes and Drinks and Smokes
Terminal Of Tribute To

Wow... that's a lot of amazing songs... Monster Knopfler.

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Re: Marks greatest songs as solo artist after DS
« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2019, 09:38:30 PM »
This would be my list if I would compile a personal Best-Of List now. Cannot go down to 20, have it already shortened. This is essential to me:

Darling Pretty
Don't You Get It
Done With Bonaparte
What It Is
Sailing To Philadelphia
El Macho
Speedway At Nazareth
One More Matinee
Why Aye Man
The Ragpicker's Dream
You Don't Know You're Born
5.15 AM
Boom, Like That
Song For Sonny Liston
Donegan's Gone
The Scaffolder's Wife
We Can Get Wild
In The Sky
Border Reiver
Before Gas And TV
Monteleone
Piper To The End
Redbud Tree
Seattle
Kingdom Of Gold
Today Is Okay
Laughs & Jokes & Drinks & Smokes
Basil
River Towns
Long Cool Girl
Heart Of Oak

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Re: Marks greatest songs as solo artist after DS
« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2019, 11:16:54 PM »
Done With Bonaparte
Golden Heart
Rudiger
Are We In Trouble Now
Sailing to Philadelphia
The Long Highway
Hill Farmer's Blues
Boom, Like That
Border Reiver
Get Lucky
Kingdom Of Gold
Haul Away
Follow The Ribbon
Long Cool Girl
My Heart Has Never Changed
Silver Eagle
My Bacon Roll
When You Leave
« Last Edit: January 19, 2019, 07:42:31 PM by rmarques821 »

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Re: Marks greatest songs as solo artist after DS
« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2019, 12:10:19 PM »
After much deliberation finally whittled it down to 20 after agonisingly deleting some great tracks:


Darling Pretty
A Night in Summer Long Ago
Done with Bonaparte
What It Is
Sailing to Philadelphia
Baloney Again
Speedway at Nazareth
Boom, Like That
Punish the Monkey
Let It All Go
Border Reiver
Remembrance Day
So Far from the Clyde
Piper to the End
Laughs and Jokes and Drinks and Smokes
Basil
My Bacon Roll
One Song at a Time
Don’t Suck Me In
Sky and Water
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Re: Marks greatest songs as solo artist after DS
« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2019, 03:35:41 PM »
Rudiger
What it is
Sailing to Philadelphia
Speedway at Nazareth
Silvertown Blues
Why Aye Man
Hill Farmer's Blues
A place we used to live
Boom, Like That
Postcards from Paraguay
I dug up a diamond
Punish the Monkey
Border Reiver
Piper to the end
Yon Two Crows
Kingdom of Gold
Long Cool Girl
Terminal To Tribute To
One Song At A Time
My Bacon Roll

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Re: Marks greatest songs as solo artist after DS
« Reply #11 on: January 19, 2019, 04:19:38 PM »
Too many great songs to choose from!

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Darling Pretty
Done With Bonaparte
Are We In Trouble Now
What It Is
Sailing to Philadelphia
Silvertown Blues
Speedway At Nazareth
Fare Thee Well Northumberland
We Can Get Wild
5.15am
Boom Like That
Trawlerman's Song
Border Reiver
Before Gas & TV
Piper to the End
Yon Two Crows
Dream of the Drowned Submariner
Laughs & Jokes
Basil
When You Leave/ Back on the Dancefloor
« Last Edit: January 23, 2019, 11:02:34 AM by superval99 »
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Re: Marks greatest songs as solo artist after DS
« Reply #12 on: January 19, 2019, 04:41:14 PM »
Here goes!

Here's my 20 in album order and it's sooooo difficult to get 20....

Darling Pretty
Golden Heart
What it is
Speedway at Nazareth
Why Aye Man
5:15am
Boom like that
Our Shangri-La
True love will never fade
Secondary waltz
Border Reiver
Get Lucky
Remembrance day
Piper to the end
I used to could
Dream of the drowned submariner
Occupation Blues
Lights of Taormina
Heart of oak
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Re: Marks greatest songs as solo artist after DS
« Reply #13 on: January 19, 2019, 10:43:59 PM »
Here's my 20, some from each album:

Darling Pretty
Je Suis Desole
What It Is
Sailing to Philadelphia
The Ragpicker's Dream
Hillfarmer's Blues
5:15 am
Song For Sonny Liston
Let It All Go
In the Sky
Haul Away
Yon Two Crows
Dream of the Drowned Submariner
Border Reiver
Piper to the End
Lights of Taormina
Wherever I Go
Heart of Oak
Drover's Road
One Song At A Time
« Last Edit: January 20, 2019, 03:39:13 PM by rockaway »

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Re: Marks greatest songs as solo artist after DS
« Reply #14 on: January 20, 2019, 11:29:34 AM »
Looking through the albums to decide on my faves I realised there are some that I underestimated at the time.  I seem to have a large number from Get Lucky, an album I thought was not outstanding at the time.  Some of the songs have become classics however and it is surely one of his best solo albums.

On the other hand, despite being a double album Privateering has a poor showing with not a single song making my list.  The title track nearly made it but I had to remove it to make the 20 tracks.

Tracker has been much criticised by myself but it fared better, saved by two outstanding tracks worthy of any album.

The latest thing features well but this is hardly a retrospective view as all the others are, so they may well change after a year or so.  One Song At A Time is an instant classic though.
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