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Offlineborder_reiver

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Re: pick just one song from each solo album
« Reply #15 on: December 02, 2023, 05:36:53 PM »
1. GH / Gravy Train
2. STP / What it is (Mexico extended version  ;D)
6. RPD / Why Aye Man
8. SL / Song for Sonny Liston
9. KTGC / The Fish and the Bird
4. GL / Cleaning my gun
3. P / Corned beef city
5. T / Oklahoma ponies
7. DTRW / One song at a time
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Re: pick just one song from each solo album
« Reply #16 on: December 02, 2023, 07:13:31 PM »
Good one.

Here's mine:

GH: Rudiger
STP: Sands Of Nevada
RPD: Hill Farmer Blues
SL: Postcards From Paraguay (better than any live version)
KTGC: Heart Full Of Holes
GL: Border Reiver
P: Privateering
T: Laughs And Jokes And Drinks And Smokes
DTRW: When You Leave

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Re: pick just one song from each solo album
« Reply #17 on: December 02, 2023, 09:40:00 PM »
Difficult task, usually this:

GH: Nobody's Got The Gun
STP: Wanderlust
RPD: A Place Where We Used to Live
SL: Boom Like That
KTGC: Scaffolder's wife
GL: So Far from the Clyde
P: Yon Two Crows
T: Basil
DTRW: When You Leave


When I finished I noticed that in my choices, only 3 were played live, I made the choice thinking about them in their studio versions.
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Re: pick just one song from each solo album
« Reply #18 on: December 04, 2023, 11:01:36 AM »
GH: What Have I Got To Do
STP: What It Is
RPD: A Place Where We Used to Live
SL: 5:15am
KTGC: True Love Will Never Fade
GL: Monteleone
P: Occupation Blues
T: Lights of Taormina
DTRW: Sky and Water (Unless we can include Precious Voice From Heaven)
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Re: pick just one song from each solo album
« Reply #19 on: December 05, 2023, 09:23:17 PM »
GH - are we in trouble now
StP - silvertown blues
Rpd- marbletown
SL - back to Tupelo
ATRR - This is us
Ktgc- punish the monkey
GL - Cleaning my gun
P - corned beef city
T - broken bones
Dtrw - back on the dancefloor

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Re: pick just one song from each solo album
« Reply #20 on: December 06, 2023, 11:05:18 PM »
GH : Are we in trouble now
STP : Baloney Again
TRD : A Place Where We Used To Live
SL : 5.15 a.m.
ATRR : Rollin’ On
KTGC : Behind with the rent
GL : So Far From The Clyde
P : Redbud Tree
T : Silver Eagle
DTRW : One Song At A Time
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Re: pick just one song from each solo album
« Reply #21 on: December 06, 2023, 11:31:13 PM »
LH - Stargazing
CAJ - A Fistful of Ice cream (that i now realise is Private Investigation revisited?)
C - The long road
TPB - Storybook love
LETB - A Love idea
N&N - There'll be some changes made
GH - My Claim to Fame
WTD - Just instinct
M - She's gone
STP - Long Highway
ASAG - Four in a row
TRD - Old Pigweed
SL - Don'T crash the ambulance
ATRR - Dug up a diamond
RLR - All that matters
KTGC - Madame Geneva's
GL - So Far from the Clyde
P - Follow The Ribbon
Altamira - Altamira
T - Lights of Taormina
DTRW - One song at the time
any Knopfler, Floyd or Dylan will do....

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Re: pick just one song from each solo album
« Reply #22 on: December 07, 2023, 10:53:53 AM »
LH - Stargazing
CAJ - A Fistful of Ice cream (that i now realise is Private Investigation revisited?)
C - The long road
TPB - Storybook love
LETB - A Love idea
N&N - There'll be some changes made
GH - My Claim to Fame
WTD - Just instinct
M - She's gone
STP - Long Highway
ASAG - Four in a row
TRD - Old Pigweed
SL - Don'T crash the ambulance
ATRR - Dug up a diamond
RLR - All that matters
KTGC - Madame Geneva's
GL - So Far from the Clyde
P - Follow The Ribbon
Altamira - Altamira
T - Lights of Taormina
DTRW - One song at the time

I don't think that A Fistful of Ice cream is Private Investigation revisited, I rather think it's the contrary...

I think that A Fistful of Ice cream was the first arrangement Mark had for the song. In the Oldfield book, he talks about a "melody in italian cinema style".
So I think he had this kind of melody in head first.
Then, he composed PI and changed it a little bit, adding the News outro from OL tour
and then, after, when he recorded the Comfort & Joy soundtrack, he came up again with his first idea of the music

well, of course, it's just speculation ...

https://textes-blog-rock-n-roll.fr/une-chanson-a-la-loupe-private-investigations-de-dire-straits/#Lorigine_du_morceau

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Re: pick just one song from each solo album
« Reply #23 on: December 07, 2023, 03:48:16 PM »
"I wrote a melody in the style of Ennio Morricone and performed it myself on acoustic guitar because I wasn't working with a band at the time. I had another piece in the same key, so I combined them. I didn't develop any songwriting method. This time I simply combined two pieces that happened to fit together"

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Re: pick just one song from each solo album
« Reply #24 on: December 07, 2023, 05:05:22 PM »
"I wrote a melody in the style of Ennio Morricone and performed it myself on acoustic guitar because I wasn't working with a band at the time. I had another piece in the same key, so I combined them. I didn't develop any songwriting method. This time I simply combined two pieces that happened to fit together"

MK

excatly  :thumbsup
the french translation of the book don't say "Morricone", but rather "italian movie music style"
and indeed, the 2nd part of A fistul of icecream sounds very much mediterranean style

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Re: pick just one song from each solo album
« Reply #25 on: December 07, 2023, 06:04:38 PM »
Yeah, but to be honest, Mark's "Last Exit To Brooklyn" sounds way more like Morricone, down to a direct lifting of the part of the melody from Morricone's "Once Upon a Time in the West" as a little homage I think.

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Re: pick just one song from each solo album
« Reply #26 on: December 07, 2023, 10:02:44 PM »
Yeah, but to be honest, Mark's "Last Exit To Brooklyn" sounds way more like Morricone, down to a direct lifting of the part of the melody from Morricone's "Once Upon a Time in the West" as a little homage I think.

Last exit to Brooklyn is very similar to Cavalleria rusticana's intermezzo.
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Re: pick just one song from each solo album
« Reply #27 on: December 07, 2023, 10:28:04 PM »
Yeah, but to be honest, Mark's "Last Exit To Brooklyn" sounds way more like Morricone, down to a direct lifting of the part of the melody from Morricone's "Once Upon a Time in the West" as a little homage I think.

Last exit to Brooklyn is way too similar to Cavalleria rusticana's intermezzo.

yes indeed
https://textes-blog-rock-n-roll.fr/last-exit-to-brooklyn-une-b-o-de-mark-knopfler-qui-sortait-il-y-a-30-ans/

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Re: pick just one song from each solo album
« Reply #28 on: December 08, 2023, 10:36:48 AM »
no one commenting on the fact that i tried to incorporate ALL MK "albums"?
any Knopfler, Floyd or Dylan will do....

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Re: pick just one song from each solo album
« Reply #29 on: December 08, 2023, 11:09:04 AM »
no one commenting on the fact that i tried to incorporate ALL MK "albums"?

No, it's just normal Pottel behaviour  :P
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