pick just one song from each solo album

[border_reiver]

1. GH / Gravy Train
2. STP / What it is (Mexico extended version  )
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

No Border Reiver, Border Reiver?

Haha! As stated before. First places come and go.   

[Rolo]

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

[Brunno Nunes]

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.

[qjamesfloyd]

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)

[Marnix]

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

[El Macho]

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

[Pottel]

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

[JF]

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

[Robson]

"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

[JF]

"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 
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

[quizzaciously]

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.

[Jules]

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.

[JF]

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/

[Pottel]

no one commenting on the fact that i tried to incorporate ALL MK "albums"?

[Dutchessy]

no one commenting on the fact that i tried to incorporate ALL MK "albums"?

No, it's just normal Pottel behaviour