What are your Mark Knopfler favorites?

Love that song, one of my favorite three or four from the album. I always prefer getting as many of the 'bonus' cuts as possible on the cd.

 

It says a lot for an artist when there is little consensus for favorites like in this case.

 

The first five Dire Straits albums, Ragpicker's Dream, Local Heroes, Screenplaying, Shangri-La, Sailing To Philadelphia and All The Road Running with Emmylou Harris

 

(Deep breath)

'Music By Mark Knopfler
From The Film Cal'

(As it is stated on the cover!)

 

I also rate the Metroland soundtrack highly.

 

Just in case the existence of this thread comes to Mr Knopfler's attention, can I just add that I'd be confident of a new favorite for the list if he could make contact with Kate Rusby and do an album together.

I'd see it as a Robert Plant/Alison Krauss type collaboration for this decade.

On topic, my favorite songs of his include-

Sultans Of Swing
Six Blade Knife
Private Investigations
Lady Writer
Your Latest Trick
You And Your Friend
On Every Street
Punish The Monkey
Done With Bonaparte
Je Suis Désolé
Secondary Waltz

 

Making Movies.

 

Another of my concert highlights was when Mark revived "On Every Street" for the set in 2015.

It's coming up on the tenth anniversary of Kill To Get Crimson, another great late-summer album. I love relaxing on the patio listening to this; just had "Secondary Waltz" playing yesterday!

 

Infidels.

 

Love Over Gold. Top to bottom just a fantastic album from a catalog of fantastic albums.

I love hearing Knopfler's guitar work. I know it's one of "the hits" but he makes his solos and fills in "Sultans of Swing" sound easy.

 

Local Hero is ace.

Love Over Gold the best Dire Straits.

Tim

 

Was listening to and loving All the Road Running the other night.

Have many of the above-mentioned albums, and also the Neck and Neck with Chet Atkins.

 

Favorite Dire Straits track: Industrial Disease
Favorite solo track: Boom, Like That
Side work: Dylan's Slow Train Coming
(Although Neck and Neck is really, really good)

I'm shallow like that.

 

MK has always been a real favorite. My picks:

Dire Straits fave albums (I love them all):

Communique
On Every Street
Brothers In Arms

Fave solo/collaborations:

Neck and Neck (w/ Chet Atkins)
All the Roadrunning / Real Live Roadrunning (w/Emmylou Harris)
Shangri La
Golden Heart
Tracker

Fave Soundtrack:

Wag The Dog

Fave tracks (solo/collab):

Darling Pretty
Golden Heart
5:15 AM
Boom, Like That
Our Shangri La
Belle Star
If This Is Goodbye
Love And Happiness
Beyond My Wildest Dream
Dirty River Town

 

Get Lucky
Done with Bonaparte
What is Is
5:15 A.M
Hill Farmer's Blues
The Trawlerman's Song
Postcards From Paraguay
Radio City Serenade
The Long Road

 

The DS debut is the best thing he ever did, I think. Lots of good stuff sprinkled throughout his career, but everything about that first album is perfect.

 

I seem to have stepped off the bus after Rag Picker's Dream. No idea how so many albums could have passed me by. I've got some serious catching up to do.

I reckon most of M.K.'s work is consistently strong with even lesser material scoring a "good"

As to favourites, I reckon Making Movies just about shades it as far as Dire Straits is concerned. I know it's his Springsteen moment but the songs are just glorious (even Les Boys!). Sailing To Philadelphia is top of the pile solo-wise but they're all worth owning (which is why I'm so annoyed for missing so many recent ones!)

Individual tracks? Private Investigations and Why Aye Man.

Just seen him live once, with the Notting Hillbillies. An excellent, laid back show. Interestingly, I've got to know his Hillbillies band mate, Brendan Croker because he plays occasionally at a session that I also attend. Nice chap.

 

+1 for Nothing Hillbillies, its also a very impressive vinyl recording. Recently reissued too but the original sounds great and can be found for cheap.

 

We prefer to call it Notting Hillbillies

Fabulous album.

WAG THE DOG reminds me of recent headlines.

 

I have always just found the sound of his guitar playing to be one of the great sounds in rock, but alas it hasn't been connected with songs I value for too much of his career. (Like, post-LOVE OVER GOLD.)

 

Communique
Making Movies
Love Over Gold
Brothers In Arms
Alchemy (not listed in the poll)

 

A lovestruck Romeo. And Juliet. Sublime.

 

Two Knopfler albums are SO far above the rest for me:

Making Movies
Love Over Gold

Third place is not anywhere close to those heights...

 

I'm surprised All the Roadrunning has got so few votes - in my opinion this is one of his strongest, if not the strongest, post Dire Straits release