What are your Mark Knopfler favorites?

Someone put the lyrics to a Youtube-clip I once shared of Knopfler's "That's the way it always starts" in it occurred to me (as the last one in this forum perhaps) that Knopfler has a great talent to place himself alone in a room in a nightly city environment.... it's there in the aforementioned song:

It's there in "Your Latest Trick":

He's in a strange place in "On Every Street"

Which isn't far away from the atmosphere in "Private Investigations"
Is Mark Knopfler really a detective novelist?!?

 

My top 5 are

01 Making Movies
02 Love Over Gold
03 The Ragpicker's Dream
04 Brothers In Arms
05 Sailing To Philadelphia / Dire Straits

 

Speedway at Nazareth

 

Brothers In Arms is a very solid album, and "Walk of Life" flashes me back to a very good time in my life and gives me an uplift every time I hear it. I also have a special fondness for Neck and Neck, the album he did with the legendary Chet Atkins.

 

Dire Straits
Communiqué
Brothers In Arms

My favorites are:

Sultans of Swing
Money for Nothing
Walk of Life
So Far Away

 

Sailing to Philadelphia and Ragpicker's Dream by far.
If people can recommend Knopfler cd's that sound like these two, I'd welcome them.
Don't care too much for the ones he did with Emmylou Harris and Chet Atkins, and Get Lucky. Too folky and country rootsy.
Can't wait to see him do a bit more jazz-flavored record.

 

Btw, has anyone noticed what a sweet gem of a song 'A Place Where We Used To Live' is? My favorite Knopfler song (on Ragpicker's Dream).

 

It didn't do anything in the marketplace, but I always had a special place for "In Our Shangri-La" on that album that had the slot machine on the cover.

 

I think Mark's albub with Emmylou Harris, All The Roadrunning, is similar stylistically to those two albums. IIRC the sessions for All The Roadrunning overlapped with the sessions for those two albums.

 

I received his latest album, Down the Road Forever, for Christmas and am really enjoying it. I’ve only had a chance to play it twice but, to me, it has a little more Dire Straits DNA than some of his other recent albums.

 

Btw, can anybody explain how I can have my own avatar?

 

Easy for me:

Dire straits
On every street
Communique

 

Where's Alchemy?

 

I think 'Neck And Neck' with Chet Atkins should be on the list since the Emmylou Harris collaboration is included. Arguably his film scores too ('Local Hero' is possibly as well known as any MK rack).

 

Very difficult to pick favorites. One DS and one solo for me but could change on any given day.

Making Movies
Sailing to Philadelphia

Some favorite songs, limited to one from any album. Really too many to list.
Sultans
Once Upon a Time in the West
Tunnel of Love
Brothers in Arms
Telegraph Road
Going Home
Silver town Blues
So Far From the Clyde
Song for Sonny Liston

I’ve saw DS once in 1985. Mark Knophler 4or 5 times. One of my all time favorite artists and will see him any chance I get. Hear he’s coming back to Wolftrap this summer.

 

If you click on your name at the top right side of the page, you’ll get a drop down menu that has “avatar” as an option. I don’t remember the details but it can’t be too hard or I wouldn’t have bothered lol!

 

Love Knopfler's latest album too!

 

Dire Straits Albums:

Making Movies
Love Over Gold

Solo Albums:

Down The Road Wherever
Shangri-La


Songs:

Romeo & Juliet
Tunnel of Love
Whoop Dee Doo
Telegraph Road
When You Leave
What It Is
True Love Will Never Fade
Lady Writer
Brothers In Arms
Water Of Love


Side Stuff:

Slow Train Coming with Bob Dylan
Soundtrack to Local Hero

[Never seen DS or MK live ... but have tickets for September in Vancouver, British Columbia]

 

If This Is Goodbye with Emmylou Harris must be included in Side Stuff and Favourite Songs.

 

“Go, Love”, off of Privateering, is to me absolutely stunning. It is one of the few songs by any artist that really puts me inside the song.