Mark Knopfler Solo Album Elimination Poll - Round 5

[Knopflerfan]

My Parties should have been a bside at best.

MP is actually quite good - try listening to it again, it might make you smile!

[superval99]

I like every track on SL, including DCTA.  The line "there's even a whistle in there for attracting attention" makes me smile - it's something similar to what they say on a plane when it's about to take-off.    

[rmarques821]

My Parties should have been a bside at best.

Oh my! This is blasphemy! For an On Every Street lover like me this hits me right in the heart! 

[Knopflerfan]

My Parties should have been a bside at best.

Oh my! This is blasphemy! For an On Every Street lover like me this hits me right in the heart! 

An 'OES' Lover? Oh dear.....Good album dont get me wrong but I wouldn't say I'm a lover of this particular album personally....

[Love Expresso]

My Parties should have been a bside at best.

Never. One of the best songs on the album, whereas When It Comes To You, Ticket To Heaven and My Parties not even are good b-sides.

LE

[Robson]

I used to think How Long should be B side. But after 3O years, I think the album on every street is complete.

[dustyvalentino]

My Parties should have been a bside at best.

Never. One of the best songs on the album, whereas When It Comes To You, Ticket To Heaven and My Parties not even are good b-sides.

LE

I don’t understand?

[qjamesfloyd]

I can't agree about Ticket To Heaven, it is a beautiful song, lovely strings arrangement from Sir George Martin, to me it is the song that pointed towards Mark going solo, it has a solo era feel about it rather than a Dire Straits song, maybe that is why it is not highly rated.

[superval99]

My Parties should have been a bside at best.

Never. One of the best songs on the album, whereas When It Comes To You, Ticket To Heaven and My Parties not even are good b-sides.

LE

I don’t understand?

Neither do I!   

[Knopflerfan]

My Parties should have been a bside at best.

Never. One of the best songs on the album, whereas When It Comes To You, Ticket To Heaven and My Parties not even are good b-sides.

LE

I don’t understand?

Neither do I!   

For the record, I don't get it either??

[Love Expresso]

What's not to understand? I think My Parties is one of the best songs of the On Every Street album while Dusty said it should be a b side at best. Songs on On Every Street that I myself would see at b sides at best qualitywise are When It Comes To You, Ticket To Heaven and How Long. Better now? Jesus!

LE

[dustyvalentino]

What's not to understand? I think My Parties is one of the best songs of the On Every Street album while Dusty said it should be a b side at best. Songs on On Every Street that I myself would see at b sides at best qualitywise are When It Comes To You, Ticket To Heaven and How Long. Better now? Jesus!

LE

OK, chill my friend, that’s not what you wrote originally

[Love Expresso]

If you say so.. (Chill is my second name.)

LE

[dmg]

My Parties should have been a bside at best.

The humour wears thin for me half way through but I don't mind listening to it again once in a while even though I usually skip this along with Ticket to Heaven.  Let's just say it's quirky and leave it there! 

[hunter]

OES is a rather dark album, so a couple of light-hearted tracks provide some 'comic relief' as it were.


Ticket to Heaven is just pure sarcasm. Mark copies the musical style of the (in)famous American teleevangelists of that time. My Parties sounds like a Randy Newman song. It doesn't do much for me, but I like how you really can envision what the party looks like.


One thing I don't like about OES is how the songs are ordered. It's more or less a rocking song, then a slow song, then a rocking song, etc. I like the 'waves' to be a bit bigger.