Classical Composer Reaction/Analysis to DIRE STRAITS: ROMEO AND JULIET | The Daily Doug (Ep. 730)
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@danielpittman8896 ай бұрын
MK: I can't do a love song, like the way it's meant to be. Me: Mr. Knopfler, I beg to differ.
@harlanginsberg72696 ай бұрын
This song is autobiographical. Mark Knopflerdated a girl in a punk band named Holly Vincent. They broke up and she said in an interview When asked about him said "I used to have a scene with him" the words he used in The song. Knopfler felt like she used him to become more well known and that's what the song was about at least partially
@stevem-h3562
5 ай бұрын
"How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?" you can feel the intensity of how much that relationship stung. F'ing brilliant.
@lazarlazarov7857
2 ай бұрын
Almost all of his songs are
@emjem996 ай бұрын
One night back in about 81 my soon to be wife and I were driving from Canberra to home in Sydney. This song was on a mix tape and I had to pull off the road because I was a blubbering mess so absolutely and completely in love with that girl. 43 years later and we're still married and this song still gives me goosebumps.
@davidberesford7009
6 ай бұрын
What can I say but AH!
@mcwulf25
6 ай бұрын
It really is that kind of song.
@nickcalvert769
2 ай бұрын
Beautiful
@raycornford2836 ай бұрын
"All I do is kiss you, through the bars of a rhyme" - brilliant!
@Thrano
6 ай бұрын
Many years ago, I praised the writing in that bridge in another comment section and got told to "Take your meds, old man".
@louisevaughn2281
6 ай бұрын
I read somewhere that when Bob Dylan heard that line he knew he wanted to enlist Marks help on his next album which became Infidels
@ZendelWashington
5 ай бұрын
a prison & paradise
@esselleanderic
5 ай бұрын
Yes, one of my favourite lines of all time!
@johnrichards2640
5 ай бұрын
..and I bet and you exploded into my heart….is my favourite line. Genius
@stevenewcomer88376 ай бұрын
“Why Worry” by Dire Straits is one of the prettiest songs that you will ever hear.
@markmiwurdz2248
6 ай бұрын
@stevenewcomer8837. You may have already seen this. Saw an interview with Mark Knopfler before his guitar collection auction recently. When asked about “Why Worry”, Mark said that he had written the song in too high a key for his voice - even back then and then dubbed his own tune “Why Bother”! I believe Mark wrote this song with The Everly Brothers (RIP) in mind. Don and Phil did actually sing the song on a show Mark did with Chet Atkins called “Certified Guitar Player” back in the last century. Stay safe and well.
@julierobins7699
5 ай бұрын
I totally agree. One of my absolute favorite songs.
@thunderroad51276 ай бұрын
One of the greatest attributes of MK and Dire Straits-every song is even better live. Every single one.
@sillysausage4549
6 ай бұрын
You are mostly wrong The songs on Alchemy Live, for instance, are pale shadows of the studio versions. There are a few exceptions. The Mandela Concert versions of this and Brothers, for instance. I saw them live a couple of times. Mark had a disconcerting need to improvise everywhere without the cameras in attendance and ignored signature phrases that fans had travelled miles to hear. Studio versions all day for me.
@FranciscoHernandez-ni3kd
6 ай бұрын
@thunderroad5127 agree. They belonged to a race of rock musicians (nowadays almost extinct) that enjoyed playing around their songs in a live setting so they became something else. In the case of Knopfler & Co. they succeeded in improving them. For instance, there are some songs out of "Brothers In Arms" or "On Every Street" I never quite enjoyed in studio, and love their live counterparts in "On The Night", like "Your Latest Trick" or "Calling Elvis"
@RideAcrossTheRiver
6 ай бұрын
@@sillysausage4549 Thank you for your baseless opinion.
@sillysausage4549
6 ай бұрын
@RideAcrossTheRiver why is it "baseless"? Because it differs to yours? I saw them live. Twice. They were crap both times. So grow the fuck up.
@sillysausage4549
6 ай бұрын
@RideAcrossTheRiver why is "baseless"? Because it differs to yours? Being a fan of their music, and attending two disappointing live shows, is all the license I need to voice my opinion. If you disagree, fine, but your comment was utterly narcissistic, much like the OPs.
@mindeloman5 ай бұрын
"When we made love, you used to cry." What an amazing line.
@kyls732 ай бұрын
Used to work in a kitchen at an Australian footy club as a teenager. The publican on Friday nights played this album without fail.
@bobcarr26496 ай бұрын
I still remember the girl I was with when this came out, something happened and she was in tears and I said we were forever...we weren't but for that moment we were. Can't hear this song without seeing her face. What more can you ask of art?
@Kelters6 ай бұрын
Agreed. For me these lyrics are some of the smartest you'll find in rock. Brilliant poetry.
@Rob-eo5ql6 ай бұрын
One of my all time favorites. Watched lots of reactions to this….You’re the first reactor that caught the West Side Story/There’s a Place for Us reference! Love that part!
@gamera3000
6 ай бұрын
The West Side Story reference, both musically & lyrically always jumps out at me &lifts the song too.
@Stogie21126 ай бұрын
"I can't do everything, but I'd do anything for you." -- One of the best lines ever written. The live version, from "Alchemy", is much better!
@callummackintosh7506 ай бұрын
Another super breakdown of a classic tune, Doug. Mark Knopfler is a wonderful songsmith. It would be great if you had a listen to "Private Investigations" on the Dire Straits album 'Love Over Gold' - it's a wonderful moody and dynamic piece which I'm sure you'll find very interesting🙂
@ivansanchez143
6 ай бұрын
or to love over gold (the song). That album is a masterpiece, from start to end
@lapelcelery42
6 ай бұрын
@@ivansanchez143The chords in Love Over Gold are crazy for a rock guitarist. Mark's one of a kind.
@NunoPlague6 ай бұрын
The version of this song in their live performance "On the night" is the absolute best.,
@mftubeyou
6 ай бұрын
Oh yes! Totally awesome.
@prnajaf
6 ай бұрын
My fave is the version at the Mandela concert -- killer sax solo.
@johnrichards2640
5 ай бұрын
That sax solo…
@daveandrew5896 ай бұрын
The introductory guitar part is played on a 1930's era National Resonator Guitar. If you've ever had the privilege of holding one of these guitars, they are works of art. It's the same guitar as pictured on the Brothers in Arms album cover. Knopfler has since gone on record as regretting putting the guitar on the album cover, as it resulted in prices for original National Resonators climbing up into 6-figure territory. It's an incredibly distinctive guitar part. Played in Open-D tuning. An absolutely gorgeous song.
@girs666
6 ай бұрын
Absolutely. Duolian resonator from National ( i owned one in 2014, not from 34’ of course)
@pintsize8162
6 ай бұрын
Mark played this in Open G with a capo at the 3rd fret putting it into B flat.
@alanglover91176 ай бұрын
Hi Doug, You should immediately follow this with Bruce Springsteen Jungleland. It starts with the same riff but on piano. Bruce's piano man Roy Bittan plays on both tracks. It's Bruces take on West Side Story which is Bernstein's take on Romeo and Juliet. Of course Mark closes the circuit by referring to Theres a place for us. Loved your analysis.
@tsgeisel
6 ай бұрын
I never listened that closely to Jungleland to get the West Side Story reference, but I definitely agree that Doug should listen to it.
@daveburns3886
6 ай бұрын
Didn’t think of that!!!
@gracylillymaddy6 ай бұрын
An absolute all timer. The Indigo Girls version is spectacular also.
@timwebber92776 ай бұрын
I've been in love with this song for some decades now. Great to know your thoughts on it.
@michaelschey10846 ай бұрын
the pinnacle of their work. doesn't get better than this
@Mister_Samsonite6 ай бұрын
"You'll fall for chains of silver. You'll fall for chains of gold. You'll fall for pretty strangers, and the promises they hold". Mark Knopfler the poet!
@nigelclinning24486 ай бұрын
One of two songs that bring a tear to my eye. This for the loss of my first love and, Mike and the Mechanics’ The Living Years for the death of my father.
@sriramkalaga930016 сағат бұрын
The brilliance of the words and MK's compositions aside, what the song is famous for is MK's use of the 1937 National Resonator Steel Guitar (borrowed at that time from his good friend Steve Phillips). The opening guitar chords give the unique sound of that acoustic steel Resonator guitar... Then, there's that heavenly drumming by Pick Withers. Classic!!
@lesgrice44196 ай бұрын
Flip to 'Tunnel of Love', the guitar 'solo' by Knopfler at the end is just unparalled in its build break and beauty...
@tonyg1951
6 ай бұрын
Agreed. Tunnel of love for me is one of their best tracks if not, THE best. The quiet section in the middle that gradually increases in loudness and tempo and then the fade out guitar that could go on for another 10 minutes for me and it would not be enough
@erinfilbert9462
6 ай бұрын
Greatest A side in music history.
@jimmypenrose14016 ай бұрын
If you listen to the piano during the coda; he starts dropping the intro hook melody for "Love Over Gold" into that repeating 4 to 5 ostinato. They used to use that as a way to segue from one song to the other.
@ross4970
6 ай бұрын
Are you sure?
@amcape84446 ай бұрын
This is one of the best drums ever recorded! Playwise and soundwise..
@jeffbell75305 ай бұрын
This song gives me the chills.
@CoolCoyote6 ай бұрын
making movies is a real classic album. another underrated song from it is 'Skateaway' and 'Les boys
@GreyStreet142 ай бұрын
I first heard this song in the movie Can't Hardly Wait back in 98, and I insta fell in love! My girlfriend and I watched it in Cinema in Cincinnati, OH when we were still in high school. There's no mobile phones back then, I had to write the lyrics in a tissue paper when we ate at McDonald's after the movie. I was onloy able to write "romeo-juliet song with guitar". I found which song it was only in 2002. Now, it's in my spotify and in there forever. Thank you Jennifer Love-Hewitt.
@GuyDudeman
Ай бұрын
where I first heard it too. Thank you to that movie for introducing me to this masterpiece.
@childofatom952 ай бұрын
You’d LOVE Telegraph Road, it’s long and complex and just poetry
@j.kevvideoproductions.64636 ай бұрын
This my favorite Dire Straights song. The feeling of pain, loss and resignation in it is palpable.
@jimbrentar6 ай бұрын
"A Place For Us" was a song in West Side Story
@classicraceruk1337
6 ай бұрын
Which is based on Romeo and Juliet by The Bard.
@revylokesh17836 ай бұрын
My favourite DS song. There's just something about it that plucks my heartstrings the right way ...
@Mi5terMarc6 ай бұрын
I think this is my favorite Dire Straits song.....endlessly jockeying for position with Sultans of Swing.
@huskerdonut5 ай бұрын
On Live Alchemy, the song stretches to about 8:30. Most everything on that record takes its time getting there, and for good reason.
@10CentHead6 ай бұрын
Such a great song… lots of emotional layers, smart lyrics, and the playing is stellar as you’d expect with Dire Straits
@adrianholmes95196 ай бұрын
Always loved this. The dobro guitar sound speaks of the aching heart, and Mark Knopfler's liquid lead phrases at the end are heroic and bluesy at the same time. You just can't escape the romance of this.
@JB-gx5nd6 ай бұрын
Started listening to dire straits aged 7 and still listening aged 47!!. Great to hear your thoughts. Knopfler great on guitar but also a fabulous songwriter.
@kingstumble6 ай бұрын
The Romeo and Juliet story has had so many different variations on it and this is right up there with the best. If he were alive today I think Bill would approve!
@antoniagamble60766 ай бұрын
I love all their music, some more than others but this is my favourite for sure. Thanks Doug, really enjoy your program.
@sanandaallsgood6736 ай бұрын
I've never heard this song before either, and I've worked their concerts before as security. This is intriguing to me! Thanks for playing this.
@glennandadriansrocktalk6 ай бұрын
This is such a beautiful song. So many songs of theirs are works of art.
@russellbywater46486 ай бұрын
Dr. Helvering, greetings from the UK. I wish to commend you not only for the fine choice of material you select for reaction but also for your thoughtful, attentive and intelligent approach to them. Moreover, unlike most Americans (if that is indeed what you are) you are able to talk without saying the word 'like' constantly and unnecessarily. Others might have said, "That was, like, F sharp major which is just above, like, F major, and like totally great and stuff." It is refreshing and a pleasure. Fine work, Sir. I thought a helvering was a fish of some sort but I'm not quite myself today.
@daveburns38866 ай бұрын
Roy Bitton on keys .. on hiatus from Bruce’s estreeters.. he also did stellar work on meatloaf’s ’bat out of hell’ Bruce calls him the professor.. mark knoffler could play guitar, but could compose a great tune.. great sense of timing
@bilbobaggins7066 ай бұрын
One of my Dire Straits faves. Thank you. May I suggest a track that (I humbly predict) you will love? Van Morrison singing Into The Mystic. It's very layered, with plenty to get your teeth into, including the beautiful piano that you really have to listen out for but which, once you've heard it, you feel is integral and the song would be hugely diminished without it.
@radredmusic58656 ай бұрын
Dire Straits is one of my all time favorite bands. Anything by them is worth checking out; can’t go wrong.
@sourisvoleur48546 ай бұрын
I love his use of the resonator guitar on this. It's so lonely sounding and really fits the feeling of the lyrics.
@pinkpolly884 ай бұрын
I have no idea why, but this song makes me cry hard every time I hear it. I'm not even a fan of Dire Straits. It's just gorgeous ❤
@TheAcgtrs6 ай бұрын
One of my all-time favorite Dire Straits songs. I love, love, love, the live version, off of the Alchemy album.
@Nito1974Reis6 ай бұрын
A great song from a great album. Doug did you saw them playing live ? It was one of my first concerts... all these songs were there... Romeo & Juliet, Tunnel of Love, Telegraph Road, Sultans of Swing...
@winstonsmith36905 ай бұрын
Great analysis and dissection!
@llarryamrose39805 ай бұрын
"Mark Knopfler has an extraordinary ability to make a Schecter custom Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night, exhausted from being good all week, and needing a stiff drink, which is not strictly relevant since the record had not yet gotten to that bit, but there will be too much else going on when it does, and furthermore the chronicler does not intend to sit by with a track list and a stopwatch so it seems best to mention it now while things are still moving slowly." -- Douglas Adams ("So Long and Thanks For All the Fish") "...that bit" is either "Romeo and Juliet", or the guitar solo from "Tunnel of Love", also from the same album.
@iainmason2645 ай бұрын
"Can't do everything, but I'd do anything for you" is my favorite lyric. He's just a genius both as a lyricists and a guitarist.
@hoolihanmick58976 ай бұрын
Really nice analysis Doug. MK's lyrical bent has always been so clever, mixing his personal history with contempary and historical themes. From the very first album his trademark humour and powers of observation shine through. There are so many of his songs that would deserve a close look, but it would be great if you found the time to do the title track from 'Love over Gold'. There is so much going on in that instrument wise that sometimes you overlook the sheer beauty of the song itself.
@seajaytea93405 ай бұрын
One of my favorite Dire Straits songs! I also enjoy the cover version done by the Indigo Girls.
@jasonGamesMaster6 ай бұрын
My favorite Dire Straits song, even though it came out 3 years before I was born, it just really spoke to me during my first big break up as a teenager (this and Black by Pearl Jam)
@margueritewood70366 ай бұрын
This and The Bug are my favorites from Dire Straits. Great band!!!!!
@TyeDyeGuyRV5 ай бұрын
The first time I heard this was a cover by Indigo Girls. While a bit overwrought, I felt the pain more in Amy Ray's voice than I do in Mark's, which has always struck me as a bit cold and monotone. Regardless, a great song!
@goshisanniichi6 ай бұрын
I love this song. Don't forget those drums. I'd say this song has some of the percussion in popular music.
@forformgamer6 ай бұрын
Dire Straits always reminds me of summer holidays... This album was on in the car when I was a kid and I once lost all other casette tapes except Brothers in Arms during a road trip with a friend. Later on when I went on my first trip with my girlfriend I wanted to at least have some Dire Straits in the car. These guys have been on many trips with me...
@joannecunliffe80676 ай бұрын
This is one of the first finger-picked guitar pieces I ever learned as a young teenager - I spent hours learning this note perfect! Yes it isn't a complicated piece but it's a beautiful song to listen to and to play. I recorded it on cassette tape and transcribed it note by note as tablature (I didn't have the actual music). More people should sit down and do that (these days) as it allows you to appreciate the subtleties of the composition of the piece. It actually sounded better on classical guitar (rather than 6 string metal stringed acoustic) as I didn't have a resonator guitar! Mark is such a wonderful guitarist and a kind and patient person. "Local Hero: Going Home" is a fabulous guitar instrumental to play as well.
@StevenQ746 ай бұрын
Mark wrote this about his relationship with Holly Vincent, she broke up with him after she signed a record deal and Mark felt like she used him, she said in an interview "Mark Knopfler?, yeah, I used to have a scene with him"
@gordonschenck16726 ай бұрын
This came out in 1980 when I was dating a girl that summer. But that fall she went away to college and my job took me away to another place. We met one last time before the final split. This is the theme song of our romance. It was just that the time wasnt right. And this song haunts me to this day.
@nickcalvert769
6 ай бұрын
43 years ago and I can feel your emotion reading that 😢
@stevem-h3562
5 ай бұрын
Yep. This is why we have the good fortune for music like this to be the placeholders of these big events in our lives. Its what makes these songs so precious.
@charlesmarkley2206 ай бұрын
This entire is really good. Very underrated.
@TheKelama4 ай бұрын
You gotta listen to Once up on a time in the west-alchemy live version!
@rikfroschauer17436 ай бұрын
This is just like Billy Joel's Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, in the way the protagonist's end up. Brenda and Eddie end up just like this version of Romeo and Juliette!
@jonathankirton56436 ай бұрын
I used to work with a guy who lived in the town where the lady on whom Juliet was based also lived. He told me she was none too happy about the song. You would love Private Investigations by them
@NathanielHarari3 ай бұрын
…the amount of times I had to play this song on the guitar at the request of a girl at a party (Dust in the Wind and others as well of course)… 🤣
@steeleye21126 ай бұрын
Always loved the song and then it went and spawned one of the greatest covers ever recorded by The Indigo Girls.
@Wolverines776 ай бұрын
His live performances of this, after Dire Straits dissolved, from his solo career are even better. You can tell the real-life emotions behind the song have started to either register in his own heart or he has realized exactly what the song means to his fans... My personal favorite version is from his 1992 live performance from the BBC televised concert "A Night in London."
@MattHarris856 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed the writing. Knopfler was a lecturer in English for a few years before his music career took off
@toddashton96966 ай бұрын
Thanks for this Doug. Great choice for today. Great reaction. Have to admit I miss the old Daily Doug intro. Making movies was a great album. I think you would also really enjoy "Skateaway" from this album. Hey for next Valentines, consider reacting to Leonard Cohen, "Dance me to the end of love"
@stars1above496 ай бұрын
i really enjoy watching your videos!! i love pink floyd so it made me happy to watch your pink floyd videos. so i have a few requests for you to react to!! 1- gorillaz - demon days or plastic beach 2- rush - signals i don’t know if you’ve heard these songs or have reacted to them in the past, but i would really like seeing you react to them!
@Pugwash.6 ай бұрын
I even remember the video they made for this release. Very stylish.
@pauldowlan32855 ай бұрын
One of the best contemporary love songs ever written in my humble opinion
@ScottCabernet6 ай бұрын
Great pick! I first heard this song as a cover by The Killers and loved it immediately. Whenever you're feeling like gaming music again you should definitely check out Megalovania from Undertale (both the chiptune original and the orchestra version). Also, I would love it if you took a look at a great Canadian group, Walk off the Earth. I would recommend their original Farther We Go (acapella version), but what they're really known for is their amazing covers where they use a wide variety of instruments and every object to create an incredibly rich acoustic sound.
@esdfg6 ай бұрын
I always thought, and still think, MK remembers the “seranade” parts at the beginning and end of the song, with third person telling/ singing those parts.
@markmm10666 ай бұрын
I always put Mark Knopfler and Colin Hay in a similar category. In hugely popular bands in the late 70s/early 80s. Long singer/songwriter career which was probably less profitable, but highlighted the immense talent of the lead artists.
@Thrano6 ай бұрын
Oddly enough, Romeo and Juliet is - as I understand it - mostly about getting over an old love and moving on. Happy Valentine's Day!
@mcwulf256 ай бұрын
One of my favourite DS singles.
@yaniche11906 ай бұрын
This is a short list of songs from VERY VERY skilled bands with different genre Unexpect - Desert Urbania Unexpect - Megalomaniac tree Animals as leaders - CAFO Animals as leaders - Ka$cade Planet X - Quantum factor Planet X - Desert girl Pomegranate Tiger - Cyclic Jason Richardson & Luke Holland - Tendinitis Pomegranate Tiger - Entities (album) Snarky puppy - Outlier Cloudkicker - Beacons (album) Planet X - Ataraxia (just put it at 5:47 lol, its 3 times 15/16 followed by some wizard stuff lol)
@georgesheffield15806 ай бұрын
Doug ,remember that Mark lectured on writing ( taught ) at a university in the UK before he started his music career.
@tommonk76516 ай бұрын
A truly bittersweet symphony.... I was a big fan of Pick Withers' drumming. And Roy Bittan was borrowed from Springsteen's E Street Band....
@allisonrich50616 ай бұрын
Ah, Making Movies is my favorite Dire Straits album. This song has always been difficult to hear since the person with whom I associate it is no longer there. But it's a wonderful album and a perfect song for today's Daily Doug.
@josbruls5 ай бұрын
Songs about love affairs gone wrong are always the best!
@timcotton17825 ай бұрын
It has been said that Rush would have been Shakespeare's favorite rock band, and I can't argue with that, but Mark Knopfler is a bard of the first tier. So many songs out there have lyrics which do not fit the tempo or energy of the music, or vice versa. Dire Straits songs are never so; the mood of the music is always a perfect match to the words of the story being told.
@revwillyg64506 ай бұрын
Song still gives me chills. Happy VD everyone ❤🤘🏻
@palloslevente
6 ай бұрын
venereal disease?
@revwillyg6450
6 ай бұрын
@@palloslevente lol. Hopefully not
@jamesharrigan48953 ай бұрын
Oh Doug. Their story is absolutely over.
@user-se2in8fg7z6 ай бұрын
Love the live version with Emmylou Harris brilliant
@nantague
6 ай бұрын
My favorite version.
@user-se2in8fg7z6 ай бұрын
I'd love you to look at Killers 'Human'
@davelevey90746 ай бұрын
Great song and lyrics Indigo Girls also did a great cover of this track
@paulsuddes11446 ай бұрын
Storytelling by a genius musician….
@c.willharden95896 ай бұрын
OZZY OSBORNE - SUICIDE SOLUTION (off the live album "TRIBUTE". Features RANDY THE SOLO
@barbarajean72085 ай бұрын
The Indigo Girls cover of this song is amazing!
@donovanemery5976 ай бұрын
Roy Bittan from the E Street Band on Keyboards 😀
@grahamnunn89986 ай бұрын
Love this album, I was there with the first three albums. I felt things were getting a bit laboured by Love Over Gold but they were still much more subtle hear. As a guitarist, that was always the focus of my attention but I don't think he gets enough credit as a wonderfully expressive singer.
@lazarlazarov78572 ай бұрын
Doug, it is must be band to make more videos
@philshorten32216 ай бұрын
Brilliant! I only only only wish Mark had written that last line to be... Juliet steps out of the shade and says "you and me babe how about it? “❤
@SuprousOxide2 ай бұрын
I just love "You and me, babe. How about it?" as the world's worst pickup line. But apparently it worked as Juliet responds "Whatcha gonna do about it?" Are you going to follow through with the bravado necessary to be that forward?
@108efp5 ай бұрын
The life versions are incredible.
@108efp
5 ай бұрын
*Live
@EaglesPerch-vd3jj6 ай бұрын
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MK: I can't do a love song, like the way it's meant to be. Me: Mr. Knopfler, I beg to differ.
This song is autobiographical. Mark Knopflerdated a girl in a punk band named Holly Vincent. They broke up and she said in an interview When asked about him said "I used to have a scene with him" the words he used in The song. Knopfler felt like she used him to become more well known and that's what the song was about at least partially
@stevem-h3562
5 ай бұрын
"How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?" you can feel the intensity of how much that relationship stung. F'ing brilliant.
@lazarlazarov7857
2 ай бұрын
Almost all of his songs are
One night back in about 81 my soon to be wife and I were driving from Canberra to home in Sydney. This song was on a mix tape and I had to pull off the road because I was a blubbering mess so absolutely and completely in love with that girl. 43 years later and we're still married and this song still gives me goosebumps.
@davidberesford7009
6 ай бұрын
What can I say but AH!
@mcwulf25
6 ай бұрын
It really is that kind of song.
@nickcalvert769
2 ай бұрын
Beautiful
"All I do is kiss you, through the bars of a rhyme" - brilliant!
@Thrano
6 ай бұрын
Many years ago, I praised the writing in that bridge in another comment section and got told to "Take your meds, old man".
@louisevaughn2281
6 ай бұрын
I read somewhere that when Bob Dylan heard that line he knew he wanted to enlist Marks help on his next album which became Infidels
@ZendelWashington
5 ай бұрын
a prison & paradise
@esselleanderic
5 ай бұрын
Yes, one of my favourite lines of all time!
@johnrichards2640
5 ай бұрын
..and I bet and you exploded into my heart….is my favourite line. Genius
“Why Worry” by Dire Straits is one of the prettiest songs that you will ever hear.
@markmiwurdz2248
6 ай бұрын
@stevenewcomer8837. You may have already seen this. Saw an interview with Mark Knopfler before his guitar collection auction recently. When asked about “Why Worry”, Mark said that he had written the song in too high a key for his voice - even back then and then dubbed his own tune “Why Bother”! I believe Mark wrote this song with The Everly Brothers (RIP) in mind. Don and Phil did actually sing the song on a show Mark did with Chet Atkins called “Certified Guitar Player” back in the last century. Stay safe and well.
@julierobins7699
5 ай бұрын
I totally agree. One of my absolute favorite songs.
One of the greatest attributes of MK and Dire Straits-every song is even better live. Every single one.
@sillysausage4549
6 ай бұрын
You are mostly wrong The songs on Alchemy Live, for instance, are pale shadows of the studio versions. There are a few exceptions. The Mandela Concert versions of this and Brothers, for instance. I saw them live a couple of times. Mark had a disconcerting need to improvise everywhere without the cameras in attendance and ignored signature phrases that fans had travelled miles to hear. Studio versions all day for me.
@FranciscoHernandez-ni3kd
6 ай бұрын
@thunderroad5127 agree. They belonged to a race of rock musicians (nowadays almost extinct) that enjoyed playing around their songs in a live setting so they became something else. In the case of Knopfler & Co. they succeeded in improving them. For instance, there are some songs out of "Brothers In Arms" or "On Every Street" I never quite enjoyed in studio, and love their live counterparts in "On The Night", like "Your Latest Trick" or "Calling Elvis"
@RideAcrossTheRiver
6 ай бұрын
@@sillysausage4549 Thank you for your baseless opinion.
@sillysausage4549
6 ай бұрын
@RideAcrossTheRiver why is it "baseless"? Because it differs to yours? I saw them live. Twice. They were crap both times. So grow the fuck up.
@sillysausage4549
6 ай бұрын
@RideAcrossTheRiver why is "baseless"? Because it differs to yours? Being a fan of their music, and attending two disappointing live shows, is all the license I need to voice my opinion. If you disagree, fine, but your comment was utterly narcissistic, much like the OPs.
"When we made love, you used to cry." What an amazing line.
Used to work in a kitchen at an Australian footy club as a teenager. The publican on Friday nights played this album without fail.
I still remember the girl I was with when this came out, something happened and she was in tears and I said we were forever...we weren't but for that moment we were. Can't hear this song without seeing her face. What more can you ask of art?
Agreed. For me these lyrics are some of the smartest you'll find in rock. Brilliant poetry.
One of my all time favorites. Watched lots of reactions to this….You’re the first reactor that caught the West Side Story/There’s a Place for Us reference! Love that part!
@gamera3000
6 ай бұрын
The West Side Story reference, both musically & lyrically always jumps out at me &lifts the song too.
"I can't do everything, but I'd do anything for you." -- One of the best lines ever written. The live version, from "Alchemy", is much better!
Another super breakdown of a classic tune, Doug. Mark Knopfler is a wonderful songsmith. It would be great if you had a listen to "Private Investigations" on the Dire Straits album 'Love Over Gold' - it's a wonderful moody and dynamic piece which I'm sure you'll find very interesting🙂
@ivansanchez143
6 ай бұрын
or to love over gold (the song). That album is a masterpiece, from start to end
@lapelcelery42
6 ай бұрын
@@ivansanchez143The chords in Love Over Gold are crazy for a rock guitarist. Mark's one of a kind.
The version of this song in their live performance "On the night" is the absolute best.,
@mftubeyou
6 ай бұрын
Oh yes! Totally awesome.
@prnajaf
6 ай бұрын
My fave is the version at the Mandela concert -- killer sax solo.
@johnrichards2640
5 ай бұрын
That sax solo…
The introductory guitar part is played on a 1930's era National Resonator Guitar. If you've ever had the privilege of holding one of these guitars, they are works of art. It's the same guitar as pictured on the Brothers in Arms album cover. Knopfler has since gone on record as regretting putting the guitar on the album cover, as it resulted in prices for original National Resonators climbing up into 6-figure territory. It's an incredibly distinctive guitar part. Played in Open-D tuning. An absolutely gorgeous song.
@girs666
6 ай бұрын
Absolutely. Duolian resonator from National ( i owned one in 2014, not from 34’ of course)
@pintsize8162
6 ай бұрын
Mark played this in Open G with a capo at the 3rd fret putting it into B flat.
Hi Doug, You should immediately follow this with Bruce Springsteen Jungleland. It starts with the same riff but on piano. Bruce's piano man Roy Bittan plays on both tracks. It's Bruces take on West Side Story which is Bernstein's take on Romeo and Juliet. Of course Mark closes the circuit by referring to Theres a place for us. Loved your analysis.
@tsgeisel
6 ай бұрын
I never listened that closely to Jungleland to get the West Side Story reference, but I definitely agree that Doug should listen to it.
@daveburns3886
6 ай бұрын
Didn’t think of that!!!
An absolute all timer. The Indigo Girls version is spectacular also.
I've been in love with this song for some decades now. Great to know your thoughts on it.
the pinnacle of their work. doesn't get better than this
"You'll fall for chains of silver. You'll fall for chains of gold. You'll fall for pretty strangers, and the promises they hold". Mark Knopfler the poet!
One of two songs that bring a tear to my eye. This for the loss of my first love and, Mike and the Mechanics’ The Living Years for the death of my father.
The brilliance of the words and MK's compositions aside, what the song is famous for is MK's use of the 1937 National Resonator Steel Guitar (borrowed at that time from his good friend Steve Phillips). The opening guitar chords give the unique sound of that acoustic steel Resonator guitar... Then, there's that heavenly drumming by Pick Withers. Classic!!
Flip to 'Tunnel of Love', the guitar 'solo' by Knopfler at the end is just unparalled in its build break and beauty...
@tonyg1951
6 ай бұрын
Agreed. Tunnel of love for me is one of their best tracks if not, THE best. The quiet section in the middle that gradually increases in loudness and tempo and then the fade out guitar that could go on for another 10 minutes for me and it would not be enough
@erinfilbert9462
6 ай бұрын
Greatest A side in music history.
If you listen to the piano during the coda; he starts dropping the intro hook melody for "Love Over Gold" into that repeating 4 to 5 ostinato. They used to use that as a way to segue from one song to the other.
@ross4970
6 ай бұрын
Are you sure?
This is one of the best drums ever recorded! Playwise and soundwise..
This song gives me the chills.
making movies is a real classic album. another underrated song from it is 'Skateaway' and 'Les boys
I first heard this song in the movie Can't Hardly Wait back in 98, and I insta fell in love! My girlfriend and I watched it in Cinema in Cincinnati, OH when we were still in high school. There's no mobile phones back then, I had to write the lyrics in a tissue paper when we ate at McDonald's after the movie. I was onloy able to write "romeo-juliet song with guitar". I found which song it was only in 2002. Now, it's in my spotify and in there forever. Thank you Jennifer Love-Hewitt.
@GuyDudeman
Ай бұрын
where I first heard it too. Thank you to that movie for introducing me to this masterpiece.
You’d LOVE Telegraph Road, it’s long and complex and just poetry
This my favorite Dire Straights song. The feeling of pain, loss and resignation in it is palpable.
"A Place For Us" was a song in West Side Story
@classicraceruk1337
6 ай бұрын
Which is based on Romeo and Juliet by The Bard.
My favourite DS song. There's just something about it that plucks my heartstrings the right way ...
I think this is my favorite Dire Straits song.....endlessly jockeying for position with Sultans of Swing.
On Live Alchemy, the song stretches to about 8:30. Most everything on that record takes its time getting there, and for good reason.
Such a great song… lots of emotional layers, smart lyrics, and the playing is stellar as you’d expect with Dire Straits
Always loved this. The dobro guitar sound speaks of the aching heart, and Mark Knopfler's liquid lead phrases at the end are heroic and bluesy at the same time. You just can't escape the romance of this.
Started listening to dire straits aged 7 and still listening aged 47!!. Great to hear your thoughts. Knopfler great on guitar but also a fabulous songwriter.
The Romeo and Juliet story has had so many different variations on it and this is right up there with the best. If he were alive today I think Bill would approve!
I love all their music, some more than others but this is my favourite for sure. Thanks Doug, really enjoy your program.
I've never heard this song before either, and I've worked their concerts before as security. This is intriguing to me! Thanks for playing this.
This is such a beautiful song. So many songs of theirs are works of art.
Dr. Helvering, greetings from the UK. I wish to commend you not only for the fine choice of material you select for reaction but also for your thoughtful, attentive and intelligent approach to them. Moreover, unlike most Americans (if that is indeed what you are) you are able to talk without saying the word 'like' constantly and unnecessarily. Others might have said, "That was, like, F sharp major which is just above, like, F major, and like totally great and stuff." It is refreshing and a pleasure. Fine work, Sir. I thought a helvering was a fish of some sort but I'm not quite myself today.
Roy Bitton on keys .. on hiatus from Bruce’s estreeters.. he also did stellar work on meatloaf’s ’bat out of hell’ Bruce calls him the professor.. mark knoffler could play guitar, but could compose a great tune.. great sense of timing
One of my Dire Straits faves. Thank you. May I suggest a track that (I humbly predict) you will love? Van Morrison singing Into The Mystic. It's very layered, with plenty to get your teeth into, including the beautiful piano that you really have to listen out for but which, once you've heard it, you feel is integral and the song would be hugely diminished without it.
Dire Straits is one of my all time favorite bands. Anything by them is worth checking out; can’t go wrong.
I love his use of the resonator guitar on this. It's so lonely sounding and really fits the feeling of the lyrics.
I have no idea why, but this song makes me cry hard every time I hear it. I'm not even a fan of Dire Straits. It's just gorgeous ❤
One of my all-time favorite Dire Straits songs. I love, love, love, the live version, off of the Alchemy album.
A great song from a great album. Doug did you saw them playing live ? It was one of my first concerts... all these songs were there... Romeo & Juliet, Tunnel of Love, Telegraph Road, Sultans of Swing...
Great analysis and dissection!
"Mark Knopfler has an extraordinary ability to make a Schecter custom Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night, exhausted from being good all week, and needing a stiff drink, which is not strictly relevant since the record had not yet gotten to that bit, but there will be too much else going on when it does, and furthermore the chronicler does not intend to sit by with a track list and a stopwatch so it seems best to mention it now while things are still moving slowly." -- Douglas Adams ("So Long and Thanks For All the Fish") "...that bit" is either "Romeo and Juliet", or the guitar solo from "Tunnel of Love", also from the same album.
"Can't do everything, but I'd do anything for you" is my favorite lyric. He's just a genius both as a lyricists and a guitarist.
Really nice analysis Doug. MK's lyrical bent has always been so clever, mixing his personal history with contempary and historical themes. From the very first album his trademark humour and powers of observation shine through. There are so many of his songs that would deserve a close look, but it would be great if you found the time to do the title track from 'Love over Gold'. There is so much going on in that instrument wise that sometimes you overlook the sheer beauty of the song itself.
One of my favorite Dire Straits songs! I also enjoy the cover version done by the Indigo Girls.
My favorite Dire Straits song, even though it came out 3 years before I was born, it just really spoke to me during my first big break up as a teenager (this and Black by Pearl Jam)
This and The Bug are my favorites from Dire Straits. Great band!!!!!
The first time I heard this was a cover by Indigo Girls. While a bit overwrought, I felt the pain more in Amy Ray's voice than I do in Mark's, which has always struck me as a bit cold and monotone. Regardless, a great song!
I love this song. Don't forget those drums. I'd say this song has some of the percussion in popular music.
Dire Straits always reminds me of summer holidays... This album was on in the car when I was a kid and I once lost all other casette tapes except Brothers in Arms during a road trip with a friend. Later on when I went on my first trip with my girlfriend I wanted to at least have some Dire Straits in the car. These guys have been on many trips with me...
This is one of the first finger-picked guitar pieces I ever learned as a young teenager - I spent hours learning this note perfect! Yes it isn't a complicated piece but it's a beautiful song to listen to and to play. I recorded it on cassette tape and transcribed it note by note as tablature (I didn't have the actual music). More people should sit down and do that (these days) as it allows you to appreciate the subtleties of the composition of the piece. It actually sounded better on classical guitar (rather than 6 string metal stringed acoustic) as I didn't have a resonator guitar! Mark is such a wonderful guitarist and a kind and patient person. "Local Hero: Going Home" is a fabulous guitar instrumental to play as well.
Mark wrote this about his relationship with Holly Vincent, she broke up with him after she signed a record deal and Mark felt like she used him, she said in an interview "Mark Knopfler?, yeah, I used to have a scene with him"
This came out in 1980 when I was dating a girl that summer. But that fall she went away to college and my job took me away to another place. We met one last time before the final split. This is the theme song of our romance. It was just that the time wasnt right. And this song haunts me to this day.
@nickcalvert769
6 ай бұрын
43 years ago and I can feel your emotion reading that 😢
@stevem-h3562
5 ай бұрын
Yep. This is why we have the good fortune for music like this to be the placeholders of these big events in our lives. Its what makes these songs so precious.
This entire is really good. Very underrated.
You gotta listen to Once up on a time in the west-alchemy live version!
This is just like Billy Joel's Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, in the way the protagonist's end up. Brenda and Eddie end up just like this version of Romeo and Juliette!
I used to work with a guy who lived in the town where the lady on whom Juliet was based also lived. He told me she was none too happy about the song. You would love Private Investigations by them
…the amount of times I had to play this song on the guitar at the request of a girl at a party (Dust in the Wind and others as well of course)… 🤣
Always loved the song and then it went and spawned one of the greatest covers ever recorded by The Indigo Girls.
His live performances of this, after Dire Straits dissolved, from his solo career are even better. You can tell the real-life emotions behind the song have started to either register in his own heart or he has realized exactly what the song means to his fans... My personal favorite version is from his 1992 live performance from the BBC televised concert "A Night in London."
Glad you enjoyed the writing. Knopfler was a lecturer in English for a few years before his music career took off
Thanks for this Doug. Great choice for today. Great reaction. Have to admit I miss the old Daily Doug intro. Making movies was a great album. I think you would also really enjoy "Skateaway" from this album. Hey for next Valentines, consider reacting to Leonard Cohen, "Dance me to the end of love"
i really enjoy watching your videos!! i love pink floyd so it made me happy to watch your pink floyd videos. so i have a few requests for you to react to!! 1- gorillaz - demon days or plastic beach 2- rush - signals i don’t know if you’ve heard these songs or have reacted to them in the past, but i would really like seeing you react to them!
I even remember the video they made for this release. Very stylish.
One of the best contemporary love songs ever written in my humble opinion
Great pick! I first heard this song as a cover by The Killers and loved it immediately. Whenever you're feeling like gaming music again you should definitely check out Megalovania from Undertale (both the chiptune original and the orchestra version). Also, I would love it if you took a look at a great Canadian group, Walk off the Earth. I would recommend their original Farther We Go (acapella version), but what they're really known for is their amazing covers where they use a wide variety of instruments and every object to create an incredibly rich acoustic sound.
I always thought, and still think, MK remembers the “seranade” parts at the beginning and end of the song, with third person telling/ singing those parts.
I always put Mark Knopfler and Colin Hay in a similar category. In hugely popular bands in the late 70s/early 80s. Long singer/songwriter career which was probably less profitable, but highlighted the immense talent of the lead artists.
Oddly enough, Romeo and Juliet is - as I understand it - mostly about getting over an old love and moving on. Happy Valentine's Day!
One of my favourite DS singles.
This is a short list of songs from VERY VERY skilled bands with different genre Unexpect - Desert Urbania Unexpect - Megalomaniac tree Animals as leaders - CAFO Animals as leaders - Ka$cade Planet X - Quantum factor Planet X - Desert girl Pomegranate Tiger - Cyclic Jason Richardson & Luke Holland - Tendinitis Pomegranate Tiger - Entities (album) Snarky puppy - Outlier Cloudkicker - Beacons (album) Planet X - Ataraxia (just put it at 5:47 lol, its 3 times 15/16 followed by some wizard stuff lol)
Doug ,remember that Mark lectured on writing ( taught ) at a university in the UK before he started his music career.
A truly bittersweet symphony.... I was a big fan of Pick Withers' drumming. And Roy Bittan was borrowed from Springsteen's E Street Band....
Ah, Making Movies is my favorite Dire Straits album. This song has always been difficult to hear since the person with whom I associate it is no longer there. But it's a wonderful album and a perfect song for today's Daily Doug.
Songs about love affairs gone wrong are always the best!
It has been said that Rush would have been Shakespeare's favorite rock band, and I can't argue with that, but Mark Knopfler is a bard of the first tier. So many songs out there have lyrics which do not fit the tempo or energy of the music, or vice versa. Dire Straits songs are never so; the mood of the music is always a perfect match to the words of the story being told.
Song still gives me chills. Happy VD everyone ❤🤘🏻
@palloslevente
6 ай бұрын
venereal disease?
@revwillyg6450
6 ай бұрын
@@palloslevente lol. Hopefully not
Oh Doug. Their story is absolutely over.
Love the live version with Emmylou Harris brilliant
@nantague
6 ай бұрын
My favorite version.
I'd love you to look at Killers 'Human'
Great song and lyrics Indigo Girls also did a great cover of this track
Storytelling by a genius musician….
OZZY OSBORNE - SUICIDE SOLUTION (off the live album "TRIBUTE". Features RANDY THE SOLO
The Indigo Girls cover of this song is amazing!
Roy Bittan from the E Street Band on Keyboards 😀
Love this album, I was there with the first three albums. I felt things were getting a bit laboured by Love Over Gold but they were still much more subtle hear. As a guitarist, that was always the focus of my attention but I don't think he gets enough credit as a wonderfully expressive singer.
Doug, it is must be band to make more videos
Brilliant! I only only only wish Mark had written that last line to be... Juliet steps out of the shade and says "you and me babe how about it? “❤
I just love "You and me, babe. How about it?" as the world's worst pickup line. But apparently it worked as Juliet responds "Whatcha gonna do about it?" Are you going to follow through with the bravado necessary to be that forward?
The life versions are incredible.
@108efp
5 ай бұрын
*Live
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