Mark knopfler on the guitar is the 8th wonder of the world , 🥺

That is what I call giving your child a great education.

I think this is Mark at the very pinnacle of his technical and artistic mastery... his restraint and control is transcendent

This song gets better with age. As you grow older, you get to understand the meaning of the lyrics, combined with the restrained but powerful music. A genuine and timeless classic.

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

It really is beautiful isn't it. I will have to tell my boy about the lyrics and explain it to him. Would be good to learn some history. Which he loves 😊

@bwilson5401

Жыл бұрын

I understood them when they came out.Youve gotta be simple if youre an adult and it takes you years to understand.Bloody Hell,we really do have to worry if it takes decades for morons to understand a simple song.

If this song isn’t a 10/10, what is? This is the gold standard right here-and it’s good to see the next generation being introduced to proper music.

I don't know what speaks louder Mark or his guitar either way we are fools to make war and in my opinion this is in the top five greatest songs ever made.

As a massive Queen fan, I love and admire Dire Straits. Especially this song, chills all over the place ❤️ Mark Knopfler an amazing guitarist, such a distinctive sound and voice. Keep up the good work guys!

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! We totally agree. My boy now knows when Dire Straits is playing! Distinctive sound... You're totally right ☺️🙏🏼

Undoubtedly the best version of brothers in arms. Makes me tear up every time too. 😊

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

I think it may well be yes! I absolutely loved this version. Gets me every time!

Fantastic song from one of the most iconic band in the world. 💜🙏🏻 #peace

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

They are incredible! 🙂🙏🏼 #peace #love

This song is sending chills down my spine, even after all that time. Great reaction.

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

Every time without fail for me. My boy loved it too, I hope he'll continue to love it ☺️

One of my favorite songs by Dire Straits for sure.

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

It's super amazing isn't it. Same here! 🙏🏼

That's the only true reaction I expect to see when people watch this song. It means that they really understand the meaning and the profundity of it, as well as the magnificent piece of art that Dire Straits manege to produce

@XplozoneReacts

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. We absolutely love this!

Dad has tears,so have I,because your Dad and I know what this song really is about,I hope You never have to see war...... :-)

@XplozoneReacts

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this beautiful comment. Dad totally agrees 🙏🏼

One of my all time favourite bands. Glad to say I saw them live a few times during the 80's. Dire Straits are a band that sound best live & Mark K is one of the best guitarists there is. No auto tune back in those days, just fantastic musicians.

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

I can see why! Mark's playing is something you can never miss.. you just know it's him every time! Amazing! 🙂

Loved that reaction. What a masterpiece this song is. Underrated and underplayed

@XplozoneReacts

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I totally agree! It really is one of the most incredible songs ever written... Certainly a desert island track for me. 😊🙏🏼

What a awesome and powerful song! I love Marks style of playing with his fingers, what a sound... Romeo & Juliet please, some day. And more Nightwish too, thank you! 🇫🇮🇬🇧

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

It's incredible isn't it! We loved this! More Nightwish coming very soon!! 🙂🙂 🇫🇮🇬🇧

@hifkforever6374

2 жыл бұрын

@@XplozoneReacts yes it is! Thanks guys!

Cherish these moments and memories with each other !!! Bless you both and be well ! Thank you for sharing!!

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! We really enjoy this and have the best time doing these videos together. Very proud dad here! ☺️

I'm a huge fan of Dire Straits, as was my late Dad. I grew up listening to them and I remember watching this performance on video (I was 6/7 at the time, so my Dad recorded it). I didn't understand the significance of it at the time, just thought it was a brilliant performance of a brilliant song, but to do that on stage at a Nelson Mandela tribute concert while he was incarcerated purely for the colour of his skin (for 27 years!), just WOW. I have tears in my eyes when I listen to it on the album, so you can imagine my reaction to watching this performance. It isn't possible to score it high enough for me. Also love the Falkland Islands version of the video to this song - you guys should do a reaction to that. I'm a new subscriber to your channel, and I've subscribed purely on the basis of this video. You guys seem to have a very similar relationship to the one I had with my Dad, and you're both very engaging and likeable. Keep up the great work.

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 🙏🏼😊 that really means the world to us. Welcome to our little xplo-family 🙂 I think we'd like to see as many of these as possible. It's such a beautiful piece of music and I think as my boy gets older, he'll understand more and more what it all means 🙂

No words between dad and són but full communication through music

@XplozoneReacts

Жыл бұрын

We have that bond. I'm very lucky to have a wonderful son with a beautiful soul

Eric Clapton on backup. An indication that this dude might be all right on the guitar.

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha yeah he's not so bad!

Love and Respect from Royal corps of Signals, and The princess of wales regiment., always stay close together father and son,. GOD BLESS

@XplozoneReacts

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. Yes it is so beautiful 🙏🏼

Maravilhosa, som espetacular, uma das melhores musicas da minha vida

Люблю эту песню

This is my favorite version of this song. Mark lets it fly. And watching his technique is so amazing. This video shows it so good. He doesn't just pick he uses his thumb to stop strings. This song gets to me all the time. It was on an episode of Miami Vice you can see on KZread.

@XplozoneReacts

16 күн бұрын

We'll definitely check that scene put on Miami Vice! It really is a masterpiece piece of music! Thanks so much! 😊🙏

@Cashcrop54

16 күн бұрын

@@XplozoneReacts If you can let me know how you liked it. It's not the whole episode but it doesn't much matter!

It was the first time I have seen this video, and apart from the extremely inept photography, (took about 8 min to even see Knopflers brilliant left hand) it is so heart-warming to see just how much this song means to Mark (Knopfler). Excellent song and sentiments..

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

It really is. We really enjoyed this one 😊🙏🏼

Mark Knopfler wrote this about the Falklands war, its a dying soldier talking to the soldiers around him, his brothers in arms. The words are heartbreaking, if you listen again. The OFFICIAL VIDEO has graphics even more heartbreaking, I think Mr Knopfler should be very proud of this song. Mark Knopfler is a genius, I've come to realise that at the age of a young 74, they were at their best in the 1980's I loved them then and still do, Mark will be around the same age as me now. Very well done 👏👏👏👏👏

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

He really is a fantastic songwriter. It's a beautiful song! 🙂

One of my favourites great song and very emotional, good job guys

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! It really is a very emotional and incredible song 🙏🏼☺️

Good boy calls Dad crying sentimental..he knows dad loves dire

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

I couldn't hide it. He's such a brilliant young man. Very proud of him 🙏🏼❤️😊

I was lucky enough to see these guys for my first concert when I was 12. Nice reaction. Just subbed!

Telegraph Road live off the Alchemy album will grab you as well, it's brilliant.

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent idea! It's on the list ☺️

My fav group and great reaction , brings a lump to the throat every time.

My twins Han not long been born when this came out and I thought it was brilliant They have both served in Iraq and one has done Afghan twice , it has a different meaning for me now , they are both safe but I can’t say the same for some of their comrades , God bless all that get sent to war for old blokes who think they know best

My wife said, “That guy is a great guitar player.” Haha, yeah, he’s pretty good. 😂

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha these "pretty good" comments need to be addressed 🤣

Since the Ukraine war, I've watched a number of reaction videos to this fundamental truth - you see it arising within people within the first three measures of Knopfler's guitar. Usually it ends in tears - unlike any song ever written, it touches us all. He has captured the pure essence of our fundamental failure, and the pain of his guitar escapes no one. This video is particularly fascinating, because the young man's innocence has yet to meet some of our harsher realities, as compared to his father. So he reacts to his father's reaction. But sadly and perhaps inescapably, the tears of the father become the tears of the son. And tho' we long to shield them, we cannot . . .

@XplozoneReacts

Жыл бұрын

Such a beautiful comment and really opens your eyes to the message behind the music and lyrics. Thank you 🙏🏼❤️

EVERY NOTE PERFECT ! Tears in Heaven from Clapton got to follow that.

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

Great idea!! Consider it on the list 🙂

Like you both reacting to Brothers in Arms! Thanks. Today, with Russia invading Ukraine, the song becomes special in a new way. Esspecially the last two rules: 'We're fools to make war On our brothers in arms'..

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

It is a beautiful song! Thank you! It's a sad day, Russia invading Ukraine makes us sad. The song lyrics are right! 🙏🏼

Incrível 🎉🎉

Watching 2023 ANZAC Day, Australia, - "We're fools to make war, On our brothers in arms" - Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits)

@XplozoneReacts

Жыл бұрын

Perfect 🙏🏼

This song was played on a episode of miami vice the coolest tv show back in the 80's the episode was Out were the buses don't run . It was when Miami vice was a massive hit tv show 1985 I do believe and the episode the song was played for was one of he best episodes from the series the song fitted that episode so well. It was the first time I heard brothers in arms and I had tears in my eyes ,fantastic song .The episode is on utube

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

Wow I want to watch Miami vice just from reading that now 🙂 I don't think there's ever been a time where o haven't had a tear, listening to this 🙏🏼🙂

We can see a classic scene with this song, on the TV show "Miami Vice" in the 1980's, (in last scene of the episode: 'Out Where the Buses Don't Run')

@XplozoneReacts

4 ай бұрын

Ahh we'll definitely have to watch that! 😀

@PB...

4 ай бұрын

@@XplozoneReacts On youtube, put: "Brothers in Arms - Miami Vice Scene"

Awesome reaction guys. Such a great song. I remember learning this on the guitar. Some great memories there. A 12 sounds good 🤣🤣

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

You should put some videos up of yourself playing guitar!! 🙂

@bazkeen

2 жыл бұрын

@@XplozoneReacts Might do that. Have never really thought about it before.

Nice reaction, thank you, I love Mark Knopfler

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! 🙂 We do too... He's an incredible musican 😊

When Clapton plays rythm, you're quite good...

You know your good when you got Eric Clapton playing backing for you 🤣

Mark made that guitar cry.

@XplozoneReacts

Ай бұрын

He did. Then he made it feel happy again... like a god! 🙏

👏👏👏🍻🍻🍻Just🦄🦄

@XplozoneReacts

Жыл бұрын

No words, right? 😊🙏🏼

I love Dire Straits..seeing Mark Knopfler reminded me of another song...one he did with James Taylor, called “Sailing to Philadelphia”..it’s wonderful..you might know of it already..can only find audio of it on KZread...It’s a little slice of the history of the U.S.A.....about the drawing of the Mason Dixon Line...your son might like the story it tells..Aros yn iach ....fan go maith 🤩

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

Oh we will definitely have to check that out! Anything with a bit of history, gets us keen to listen and learn! ☺️ Heddwch a phositifrwydd 🙏🏼

@carolwinston4709

2 жыл бұрын

Sailing to Philadelphia is my favorite too- always gives me chills, deeply stirring song, Mark Knophler must read a lot about history- Done with Bonapart, Iron Hand, Je suis Desole- best of the best

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

@@carolwinston4709 as soon as the lad is back, we will be listening to that along with a lot more from Dire Straits 😊🙏🏼

Was about the UK war with Argentina over the Falklands in the 80ties

@XplozoneReacts

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

Guys I've been asking loads of People to react to this live set from the Mandela Concert also check out and react to " Sultans of swing and also Romeo and Juliet both from the same concert you won't be disappointed trust me

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

Oh we will definitely do that. We loved this!! 🙂 We will always try to react to all suggestions. Slowly making our way through! 🙂

Kids too young. At points he seemed bored and restless. Completely understandable. That is the beauty of innocence. This is a poem you have to grow into and then you cry.

@XplozoneReacts

Жыл бұрын

I think that's just the lads normal face as he's a teenager 🤣 He really loves the song. I think the lyrics are something to behold and really touching. I've explained more about the lyrics to him but didn't want to lay it on too heavily. I'd rather he learn to grasp lyrics himself as he grows 😊

Watch sultans of swing from the same concert

You should have showed him the "graphic version"! For a kidd way more interesting. Nice reaction vid anyway!

This song was inspired by the Falklands War, which was going on when Dire Straits lead singer Mark Knopfler wrote the song. The Falklands War was a conflict between Argentina and the UK over islands off the coast of Argentina that each country claimed rights to. The islands are British territories, but in 1982 Argentina tried to reclaim one of the islands. Britain reclaimed their territories, but lost 258 soldiers in the conflict.

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

I remember the stories about the Falklands. I was Born in 82 so when I looked up my year of birth there were lots of storing about that sad time. The song is a very emotional one, that anybody will feel just listening to it. Mark Knopfler really shows his true genius here 🙂

#genius

I guess the kid's a bit too young to grasp its' emotional content - with what's going on in Ukraine it had me in tears.

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah maybe a little.. I think for now it's more about the performance and the sound that he's connecting with. It's a struggle to get through this song without feeling very intensely! 🙏🏼❤️

Get your son to play the guitar, he's the future

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

He can play a little, also he can play the drums a little 😊

Strange that whilst I was at Newcastle Uni in the late 70's when Dire Straits were starting off at the time they didn't "do anything for me". Newcastle is their hometown so they were getting a lot of radio exposure and Sultans of Swing was all the rage, but until Brothers in Arms came out and the title track specifically I wasn't interested in them. I felt that they were ruined by the fame trip and that is certainly the vibe that (Mark) Knopfler has given out. Great reaction, this is up there with High Hopes as a track that can bring a tear to my eye too.

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

I actually didn't know where they were from. I just knew they were British.. Sultans of swing will be coming soon. I think if a song can bring a tear to my eye, then it's a perfect song to me ☺️

This song is a true tribute to the brave soldiers of Ukrian. Fear Not!!!! Said the Lord.

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

It's beautiful!

Did you recognise Eric Clapton gigging with Dire Straits at this concert?

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

I did indeed... So naturally, the lad needs to hear some Clapton 🙂🙏🏼

The sultán of swin of this night I, the better version of all.

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

We have that coming soon! 😊

If you do not like the music and lyrics of this song YOU HAVE SERIOUS PROBLEM GOING ON IN YOUR HEAD.

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

It's such an incredible song! 🙂

@orionrodi

2 жыл бұрын

Let's all shear it, with Putin...

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

@@orionrodi that's a great idea!!!!

Of course he has tears. The people killing one another have more in common with each other than the ones at the top waging these wars. We went into Quwait but we ignored Rwanda. No people were threatened, just oil wells and supply chains and pipelines. Meanwhile, 500,000, many women and children were being slaughtered in Rwanda. We might as well of had an Exxon insignia on our arms rather than the American flag. Look at all the brave who were killed and for what? When will we stop killing our brothers?

@XplozoneReacts

2 жыл бұрын

It's extremely hard to listen with everything going on now with Russia and Ukraine. I really wish everyone could just live and love. Just that. Peace 🙏🏼

Exploitation of kids to feed adult ego is not a good thing dad! Don't you watch the news?

@XplozoneReacts

3 ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more! I hope myself and my son never witness that kind of thing in front of us. I actually don't watch the news. I avoid negativity and won't be roped into believing the propaganda. We prefer to enjoy music together, not dwell on the failings of the world. Hence this channel...