08-16-2016, 05:10 PM
(08-15-2016, 10:10 PM)cletus1 Wrote:(08-15-2016, 01:17 PM)tvguy Wrote:(08-15-2016, 09:54 AM)cletus1 Wrote:(08-13-2016, 12:28 PM)tvguy Wrote:(08-13-2016, 06:39 AM)cletus1 Wrote: The similarities in their singing style and voices did not occur to me untill you posted this. This is probably my favorite Mark Knopfler song.
No way That's better than The Sultans of swing?
Actually it is. The guitar and timing in the Brothers In Arms song is clean. The song is also soulful. Sultans of Swing has a carnival quality only a teenybopper would like.
LOL you are out of your fucking gourd.. teenyboppers? At first I thought you don't GET IT because you don't play guitar. But no because you must be the only person I've EVER known who didn't love that song.
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Reception
Critical reception to the track was universally positive. Ken Tucker of [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone]Rolling Stone singled out "Sultans of Swing" as a highlight of the album for its "inescapable hook" and compared Knopfler's vocal stylings to that of Bob Dylan.[24] The New Rolling Stone Album Guide called the song "an insinuating bit of bar-band mythmaking" whose lyrics "paint a vivid picture of an overlooked and underappreciated pub combo".[25] The Spokane Chronicle's Jim Kershner wrote that "Sultans of Swing" is "remarkable, both for its lyrics that made fun of hip young Londoners and the phenomenal guitar sound of Knopfler", which "sounded like no other guitar on radio".[26] Jon Marlowe of The Palm Beach Post called it "an infectious, sounds-damn-good-on-the-car-radio ode to every bar band who has ever done four sets a night, seven nights a week".[27]
100 Greatest Guitar Solos: No. 22 "Sultans of Swing" (Mark Knopfler)
http://www.guitarworld.com/100-greatest-...k-knopfler
Now, now, don't get carried away. I really like Sultans of Swing, just not as much as Brothers in Arms. And I apologize for the derogatory comment about the carnival sound only a teenybopper would like. I was just trying to give my favorite Dire Straits song a shout out. You are correct; I do not play guitar, but I do have ears.
I really liked "Sultans of Swing" but I've heard it too many times by now. If I had to pick a favorite Mark Knopfler song now, that wouldn't be it.