Dire Straits - In The Gallery

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  • Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2024

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  • @syoung321
    @syoung321 4 года назад +134

    One of the best debut albums in the entire history of debut albums.

    • @RedMissou
      @RedMissou 3 года назад +7

      I'm a die hard Zeppelin fan, imo by far the best band ever, but Dire Straits first album might very well be better than Zeppelin I to me

    • @Sakolas81
      @Sakolas81 3 года назад +4

      Totally agreed .. Count the fact new genre of music formed with this album

    • @benlichtman8033
      @benlichtman8033 3 года назад +2

      Definitely up there. Boston is great too. Hendrix as well

    • @alexcasadei8930
      @alexcasadei8930 3 года назад +2

      Totally agreed also, but Moby Grape first album from 1967 is awesome and great.

    • @alexcasadei8930
      @alexcasadei8930 3 года назад +1

      Totally agreed also, but Moby Grape first album from 1967 is awesome and great.

  • @malignantnarcissism5892
    @malignantnarcissism5892 Год назад +9

    who's listening 45 years later to this great classic song and album.......2023

  • @Goonman22
    @Goonman22 5 лет назад +60

    My favorite Dire Straits track ever. From start to finish drums, bass, guitars, vocals in perfect rhythmic harmony.

    • @mikezimmerman8118
      @mikezimmerman8118 2 года назад +1

      Mine too!

    • @tommyavlastenok7960
      @tommyavlastenok7960 2 года назад

      Mine too!

    • @johnorson6907
      @johnorson6907 2 года назад +1

      If you don’t move in some way when you hear this you’re probably a robot

    • @MrSudeepdas
      @MrSudeepdas Год назад

      Mine as well. The way this rhythm is created - phenomenal - the dire Straits rhythm. Staccato at its best.

  • @ЗоранЖивковић-б9в
    @ЗоранЖивковић-б9в 3 года назад +32

    Incredibly good song on this extraordinary album.

  • @ZohebKhanOfficial
    @ZohebKhanOfficial 5 лет назад +32

    This has become my favourite Dire Straits song. You can dance to it, sip your beer with it, listen to it while at work and a lot more. Such immense quality of guitar work and that distinctive voice of Mark Knopfler. And superb songwriting. He owns this piece!

    • @winstonsmith9740
      @winstonsmith9740 6 месяцев назад

      It's unbelievably hypnotic I find. It seems to take me away somewhere, blissfully. It's a soothing song with groove.

  • @AlchZdot
    @AlchZdot 5 лет назад +57

    truly one of the best albums and so grossly underated. I enjoy him not hiding behind distortion with his guitar. Just clean picking!!!!

    • @matteovrizzi
      @matteovrizzi 2 года назад +1

      definitely Knopfler's best sound
      not a fan of the hi-gain commercial sound (money for nothing etc)

    • @Heathcoatman
      @Heathcoatman Год назад +1

      @@matteovrizzi I agree, but I still think there are some really really good songs on Brothers in Arms, they just werent the ones the GP heard. The last four tracks of that album are much more aligned with the early style. Very good tracks.

    • @matteovrizzi
      @matteovrizzi Год назад

      @@Heathcoatman thanks for that. i'm going to dust off the brothers in arms lp and have another listen.

    • @BigDaddyAlvrz
      @BigDaddyAlvrz 9 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@HeathcoatmanCome on, the song "One World" is the shittiest song ever done by Dire Straits.
      80s pop rock cliché sound in that song.
      In my opinion, the magic of Dire Straits is only in his 2 first albums.
      The best thing about these 2 records is that they brought us hits like Sultans or Lady Writer, but secondary songs like "In The Gallery", "Lions", "Communiqué" or "Angel of Mercy" are as good as the hits. They're like hidden gems and all songs have the same top quality.
      After that 2 albums, they went too commercial in my opinion and they started to do weaker than hits. Songs like "Industrial Desease", the mentioned "One World" or "The Man is Too Strong" are not bad song, but they're inferior to the main hits and quality is lower in these songs.

    • @Heathcoatman
      @Heathcoatman 9 месяцев назад

      @@BigDaddyAlvrz Nothing quite so interesting as a music snob. Arent you bitchen

  • @mikerucker5167
    @mikerucker5167 4 года назад +23

    This was the song that got me hooked on Knopfler's songwriting- brilliant idea, perfectly executed.

  • @billclements1159
    @billclements1159 3 года назад +11

    This album is so frickin awesome. I bought it on cassette tape when I was a teenager. There best album ever in my opinion.

  • @starjunkie2804
    @starjunkie2804 5 лет назад +20

    My favorite on this Album. And I bought it in album form over 40 years ago. Still just as much of a baptism as it was when released. Knopfler's unique playing style was not lost on me. I love this song!......In the gall gall gall gall gallery. Nice lead.

    • @thomasmcgowan8563
      @thomasmcgowan8563 4 года назад +1

      I have had the lp, the cassette and now the digital download.

    • @starjunkie2804
      @starjunkie2804 4 года назад +1

      I had it on the clear sleeve Vinyl for the late 1978's. I Believe 1978? I was mainly listening to Pink Floyd's Animals that summer I was such a little rock and roll player back then. I could copy on guitar anythin Iistened to back then. When Ven Halen came out in 1978 It was like a punch to the face by Connor McGregor. Just Brutal. In my humble opinion, Mr. Ed may be a true jerk, but he's one if the biggest ever best ever rock guitarists. The sounds he comes up with having no pedals or anything atrached. MAGNIFICANCE! They should have never done the cover songs though. It cheapens them.

  • @philld1201
    @philld1201 4 года назад +38

    Harry R Phillips, Leeds sculptor - He couldn't be in the gallery.
    This song tells the story about a sculptor from Leeds called Harry R Phillips. The lyrics say how he was ignored by all the trendy boys in London and in Leeds. While the dealers they get together, and they decide who gets the breaks, and who's going to be in the gallery.
    Mark was a junior reporter for the Yorkshire Evening Post in the late 1960's. One of his assignments was to interview a musician from Leeds called Steve Phillips, his father was the sculptor Harry Phillips. Mark and Steve played the Leeds pub circuit as a duo called The Duolian String Pickers. Mark bought the famous National Resonator guitar from Steve that featured on the Brothers in arms album cover.
    The idea for the song came about when Mark visited an art gallery in Shaftesbury Avenue, London. He found the exhibits to be laughable and a con subsidised by the public purse for "all the phonies and all of the fakes" while genuine talented artists like Harry R Phillips were Ignored.
    The lyrics tell of Jesus on the cross, which is a sculpture Harry
    Philips made. It can be seen above the altar in St. George's church,
    Letchworth Garden City. The fallen angel is the other sculpture that can be seen on the tower of St Michael's church in Lewes. I've no idea what the skating ballerina was though :-)

    • @ParaBellum2024
      @ParaBellum2024 3 года назад +9

      Thanks for this explanation. I've listened to this song for over forty years, but never known its story. Now to look up Harry R Phillips! Edit... check this out: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/St_Georges_Letchworth_Font.jpg

    • @candelise
      @candelise 2 года назад

      @@ParaBellum2024 And on it goes!

    • @Radar1zmgkz
      @Radar1zmgkz 2 года назад +1

      A remarkable story. I've listened to the song about a 100 times and never knew this.

    • @MrSudeepdas
      @MrSudeepdas Год назад +2

      Back stories like this make everything so relatable. Thank you so much from Kolkata.

    • @illinnyan4053
      @illinnyan4053 8 месяцев назад

      This has always been my favorite song on this favorite album. I know all the words by heart still, 45 years later. I completely understood the story, never knew that it was a based on a real person. Thank you for sharing it.

  • @jesusrufo4992
    @jesusrufo4992 5 лет назад +69

    I don't know why but today i'm binge listening to Dire Straits, I did listen sultans of swing and Walk of life before but now im discovering great hits. What a band!

  • @justchilling177
    @justchilling177 Год назад +3

    2:55 - 4:03 and 5:05 are one of the best and most underrated guitar solos I've ever heard 🔥, it sounds so so cool and has such a distinctive tone 👌

  • @SanjeevTiwari92
    @SanjeevTiwari92 3 года назад +17

    whenever I am in mood of some funky, I turn to 'In The Gallery'.

  • @kevind3203
    @kevind3203 6 лет назад +87

    40 years later, nobody can play guitar like this other than Mark Knopfler.

    • @adamdyer7197
      @adamdyer7197 3 года назад

      Prince, Apparently was better. Eric Clapton was asked ' what's it like being the Best guitarist in the world ' ? He replied, I don't know, ask Prince.

    • @Hilux244
      @Hilux244 3 года назад +1

      Leauge totally of his own

    • @russellnorth1418
      @russellnorth1418 3 года назад

      Finger picker, blunts the sound

    • @addy_hits
      @addy_hits 3 года назад +1

      @@russellnorth1418 and sounds great

    • @andreafederer
      @andreafederer 2 года назад

      It’s incredible how nobody can get that exact tone...you can get close but there’s always something missing. Will always love Knopfler

  • @WilliamWilsonEgoliGolf
    @WilliamWilsonEgoliGolf 9 лет назад +39

    My Dad's favourite band - and I reckon the finest lead break ever!

  • @martijnvaassen
    @martijnvaassen 4 года назад +6

    Knopfler's guitar playing is off the charts...but the secret weapon of this line-up was Pick Withers. Exquisite, tight as f*ck and knew exactly when to shine and when not to 🥁

  • @juanboscogomezgomez7529
    @juanboscogomezgomez7529 4 года назад +20

    You know when a song is a master piece when you hear it for the first time and you say ... WHAT DA HELL IS THIS? WHY I HAVENT LISTEN THIS BEFORE?

  • @MrSudeepdas
    @MrSudeepdas Год назад

    The way this rhythm is created - phenomenal - the dire Straits rhythm. Staccato at its best.

  • @juanr.2540
    @juanr.2540 2 года назад +2

    Knopfler and his soft-magic guitar touch... and the best drummer that got the group: Pick Withers.

  • @bigcoolviking
    @bigcoolviking 3 года назад +4

    Its not just the notes and those amazing cords and picking, its the gaps, the pregnant pauses, that also speak volumes.

  • @apolloctg
    @apolloctg 4 года назад +11

    Best Album of Dire Straits

  • @timj41
    @timj41 2 года назад +3

    I think I bought this album in the early 80s, never appreciated what a great song this is until more recently. I was telling our son (who plays guitar pretty well imo) it was bloody brave of the them to record this at the time and maybe even braver for the record company to back them. There was nothing else out there remotely like this at the time and with punk taking off, clean undistorted guitar and non disco friendly tracks it was a bit of a gamble. MK still has the first electric guitar his father bought him and I think that’s pretty bloody cool also, never forgot where he came from and although I really didn’t like some of their more commercial cuts (let’s face it , twisting by the pool was a travesty) I really enjoy the story telling that MK weaves into his material. Lesser heard gems such as Why Aye Man, Song for Sonny Liston etc, even Industrial Disease while being as commercial as hell, I don’t think many of the lyrics are repeated apart from the song title. Massive respect for him.

  • @davek2687
    @davek2687 10 лет назад +31

    "Like the waves coming to the shore. It was in his blood and in his bones." Great line to describe artists.

    • @blueskeleton7744
      @blueskeleton7744 5 лет назад +1

      Thanks for pointing that lyric out... Been listening and lip syncing all these years.. amen brother/sister it is true.. I am an Artist. Peace to All, walk well. Blue Skeleton

  • @6812869
    @6812869 2 года назад

    Brings back great memories. No stress to speak of and I was young .and almost worry free .wish I had my youth back

  • @markcoluzzi5754
    @markcoluzzi5754 5 лет назад +3

    First heard this in the summer of 78 while thrashing my 76 MG thru hairpin turns ( at 90mph ) at Presque Isle State Beach Park. Would've made a great video nowadays! Timeless...........

  • @greenwich1754
    @greenwich1754 6 лет назад +18

    The whole damn album is awesome. Perhaps my fave of all time. Doesn't hurt that it came out the year I graduated high school either.

    • @susanlord5154
      @susanlord5154 6 лет назад

      Marty Howe Yes likewise and then bought my new car...cruised through the eighties with this Album

    • @JohnSmith-mx8wp
      @JohnSmith-mx8wp 5 лет назад

      +Marty Ohhh yeah, it's definitely going to that desert island with me!

    • @MrDrRockn1
      @MrDrRockn1 5 лет назад

      @@JohnSmith-mx8wp ........graduated in 78 also ......a fan from the start

  • @ValhallaBeckons
    @ValhallaBeckons Месяц назад

    Gods, what a band. Such groooooove.

  • @numv2
    @numv2 3 года назад +5

    The attack of notes is so powerful

  • @ladyvondingus
    @ladyvondingus 6 лет назад +7

    I was really lucky to have my parents give me the amazing luxury of artists to grow up with. I guess I fall in the category "what music is today" will never ever surpass or succeed certain sounds.

  • @johanvermeulen7668
    @johanvermeulen7668 5 лет назад +4

    Saw them back in 78 after this album was released . They were playing in a tent in front of about 300 people ! The support act was Julie felix . Those were the days !

  • @nasomichaels8225
    @nasomichaels8225 3 года назад +2

    Such a raw track, great lyrics, masterful guitar work.

  • @numv2
    @numv2 7 лет назад +128

    Knopfler plays each note like if it was the last one.

  • @lesdan2029
    @lesdan2029 6 лет назад +27

    Still my most very favourite album of all time, with this being my very favourite song from.

    • @yvestanneau1780
      @yvestanneau1780 6 лет назад +2

      Les Dan Amen

    • @jjohnston94
      @jjohnston94 6 лет назад +3

      I know, and yet, I'm 51 years old, and I have never, ever, not even once, heard this song on the radio.

    • @timkc1638
      @timkc1638 5 лет назад +3

      Les Dan yah this is one of my favorite rock albums. The whole thing is playable all the way through and yah this and six blade knife are my favorite off of the album.

  • @Hilux244
    @Hilux244 5 лет назад +5

    In a leauge all of his own, immensely gifted musician

  • @twe9043
    @twe9043 5 лет назад +7

    Given the state of art and music in the 21'st century this song is most prophetic.

  • @TheBoozeBrothers1
    @TheBoozeBrothers1 5 лет назад

    This is the song that told me Mark had arrived on the scene and would be a force to be reckoned with. His guitar playing all through this is just exquisite.

  • @babeurreroger9639
    @babeurreroger9639 7 лет назад +197

    This track is insanely good

    • @stephenpizzuti7562
      @stephenpizzuti7562 5 лет назад +14

      Most people don't know exactly how hard to play and how great this tune is and this album is for that matter.
      This song sticks in your head.
      40 years later and it's like listening to it for the first time.

    • @christophert7040
      @christophert7040 5 лет назад +2

      cant agree any more with you guy.

    • @laterkijken6423
      @laterkijken6423 4 года назад +1

      after pink floyd best band ive ever hear and ofcourse jimmi hendrix but thats a little trippy hahah

    • @murraycooper8556
      @murraycooper8556 4 года назад

      @@christophert7040 aà

    • @fox89280
      @fox89280 3 года назад

      @@stephenpizzuti7562 almost every Dire Straits song seems like it to me.. everytime I hear it it’s like the 1st time !

  • @mayranovaes2460
    @mayranovaes2460 6 лет назад +44

    man i wish modern music was as good as classic rock

    • @savedbyzero3554
      @savedbyzero3554 6 лет назад +1

      Mayra Novaes I TOTALLY AGREE W/ YOU... TODAY'S MUSIC IS BASED ON THE PHRASE DON'T KNOW, DON'T CARE AND WHATEVER!!!!!!

    • @mayranovaes2460
      @mayranovaes2460 6 лет назад +9

      its just so fucking sad man, all of my favorite artists are dying and there's no one of my generation as good as them

    • @aaronstandingbear
      @aaronstandingbear 6 лет назад +3

      It arose out of hippies and young rebels with a guitar and not much else, no computers, no big fat stereos for entertainment. Made our own music with what instruments there were. Whistle a tune, sing a song, slap your knees, dance all night long. Lack of easy wealth, and individual innovation made outstanding musicians come out of the mix. It has changed drastically in ways not incompatable with music lovers, World music, Chill, crossover Blues Rock, Blues Jazz, Lounge.... theres lots to love if you look around and give a listen.

    • @kasper5688
      @kasper5688 5 лет назад

      amen to that

    • @kylelikeskjvbible
      @kylelikeskjvbible 5 лет назад

      back when the bass player played a groove with the drums, not nowadays with 18 string basses and everyone plays bass notes around the tone of middle C

  • @duffyjohnson77
    @duffyjohnson77 6 лет назад +17

    One of their best tunes

  • @melissagaudet7993
    @melissagaudet7993 5 лет назад +2

    a TOTAL HEAVY hitter on guitar and vocals Mark u Rock!!!!

  • @dargusto
    @dargusto 5 лет назад +9

    Ooh that tone and feeling ...!

  • @danhuyck527
    @danhuyck527 4 года назад +31

    April 12th 2020.... still blaring this in the headphones.

    • @danhuyck527
      @danhuyck527 2 года назад

      September 2022 still

    • @ssurfcity
      @ssurfcity 2 года назад +1

      October 6/2022, still kickin'!!

  • @derekguy5595
    @derekguy5595 6 лет назад +20

    Best album they ever did. Real Dire Straits before commercialism got a hold. Magnificent.

    • @maks-hg2yq
      @maks-hg2yq 6 лет назад +5

      Commercialism never touched Knopfler. Songs like "So Far Away" and "Brothers in Arms" prove it.

    • @cornelbebie7400
      @cornelbebie7400 6 лет назад +4

      I rate this album among the best Dire Straits ever. Call it the "pure and unadulterated Dire Straits" .... but the later albums have only consolidated the outstanding status of this band. So, yeah, it's outstanding and even more...

    • @TheDamnWalterWhite
      @TheDamnWalterWhite 6 лет назад +1

      @@cornelbebie7400 Exactly. Brothers In Arms 1985 was the most sold album in the band, so people could think they were influenced by commercialism

    • @cornelbebie7400
      @cornelbebie7400 6 лет назад +1

      I'd actually be really hard pressed to find anything "commercial" in Dire Straits' production. Even the more main line stuff like the album On Every street is just pure delight.

    • @MrDrRockn1
      @MrDrRockn1 5 лет назад +2

      like so many others , there earlier work superior, hands down

  • @No-Von
    @No-Von 11 лет назад +28

    freakling groow up with that album... will hear it till i die...

    • @robertkirk4387
      @robertkirk4387 6 лет назад +2

      let's hope that is not too soon

    • @No-Von
      @No-Von 4 года назад

      @@JesseOnThaDrums i Know how i look!! (ITS political) gues you wouldn Know....

    • @feolender2938
      @feolender2938 4 года назад

      snap, 46 this year, been listening to it since '79

  • @gegaks218
    @gegaks218 5 лет назад +5

    Great song from the brillant album,their best, Dire Straits !

  • @styjam1125
    @styjam1125 11 лет назад +15

    USE TO PUT HEADPHONES ON AND JUST KICK BACK,THE WHOLE ALBUM WAS GREAT!!

  • @davidmarshall7390
    @davidmarshall7390 4 года назад

    The story of this song is as true now as the day it was written. More things change, the more they stay the same. Great track on a great album.

  • @chinsuanmang9c661
    @chinsuanmang9c661 5 лет назад +2

    Great song with guitar works, this is my fav. Dire Straits track.

  • @olivermeier2949
    @olivermeier2949 Год назад

    I wore a few copies of this album out in my youth.

  • @barristanselmy2758
    @barristanselmy2758 7 лет назад +35

    Silence during solos is paramount, Mark Knopfler is a god.

  • @Radar1zmgkz
    @Radar1zmgkz 2 года назад

    Best concert I ever saw

  • @ParaBellum2024
    @ParaBellum2024 3 года назад

    I've just dug out my cassette tape of this album, having not listened to it for some time, what with CDs, RUclips etc. It's over forty years old, and still plays well on my cheap system. Best of all, the sound quality is markedly better than we've become used to with RUclips videos. Comparing this song back-to-back, it's really noticeable. I should add, my computer audio goes to the AUX input of the stereo system, so both computer and tape sounds come out of the same speakers. The stereo is an Aiwa LCX-137.

  • @Mikeneto
    @Mikeneto 9 лет назад +18

    This is just....... AWESOME!!!!!

  • @RedMissou
    @RedMissou 3 года назад +4

    "Harry made a bareback rider proud and free upon a horse"
    There's just something about the way he says that opening lyric

  • @HyundaiVelosterTurbo
    @HyundaiVelosterTurbo 5 лет назад +5

    Wayyy back in the day my drill instructor told me to aspire to 4 things in this life for true happiness...A bad ass car, a bad ass bed,a loving woman & a bad ass audio video system...This song is why!!!

    • @blazerman61
      @blazerman61 5 лет назад +1

      Yeah well that's why he was just a DI...hope you fared better

  • @garyhunter599
    @garyhunter599 6 лет назад +6

    MK is known among guitarists as 'The Master', he is the master of the universe. He ain't underrated!

  • @Firebrand.886
    @Firebrand.886 4 года назад

    I listened to this song for the first time digitally, but ever since I listened the vinyl version I can’t get it out of my head.

  • @stephenpizzuti7562
    @stephenpizzuti7562 5 лет назад +4

    Absolutely great!

  • @sledgehammer347
    @sledgehammer347 11 лет назад +79

    My buddy had this on 8 track kids, never ending strait's. Every Sat. night play cards, drinkin Molson Ale, blackberry brandy shots, and burn a couple.

  • @dancalestini9850
    @dancalestini9850 7 лет назад +13

    Favorite DS album favorite song Wild West end a close second why they never played these song on the radio mind boggling 😜

  • @GeneCernyar
    @GeneCernyar 5 месяцев назад

    What a great song!

  • @barbstegner4639
    @barbstegner4639 7 месяцев назад

    My ✨ favorite Dire STRAITS song 🎵

  • @spiriteNsh1
    @spiriteNsh1 5 лет назад

    That groovy twang with the guitars is the key to this song. Some funky tunes to pick you up leave it to The Straits

  • @SHALAt22
    @SHALAt22 5 лет назад +2

    I'd missed classic Dire Straits.

  • @numv2
    @numv2 2 года назад

    The level reached with this debut album is simply insane ;)

  • @lukedunham5010
    @lukedunham5010 2 года назад

    Had a dog,. Years ago.....she loved niceness,. Her hearing.... Long winded story..... .

  • @JDSly1
    @JDSly1 9 лет назад +117

    Great album. Not a bad song on it.

    • @gerardvono63
      @gerardvono63 6 лет назад +3

      Exact

    • @TheDamnWalterWhite
      @TheDamnWalterWhite 6 лет назад +7

      In the galle, galle, galle GALLERYY AGHHH !!!!

    • @JohnSmith-mx8wp
      @JohnSmith-mx8wp 5 лет назад +2

      Absatively!!!

    • @davidrobertson2174
      @davidrobertson2174 5 лет назад +2

      their finest work! 👌🏽

    • @JDSly1
      @JDSly1 3 года назад +1

      My personal favorite song on that album has got to be "Down to the Waterline". I also like "Lions" and "Water of Love" a lot too. ...And, of course, "Sultans of Swing".

  • @walichowdhury370
    @walichowdhury370 6 лет назад +4

    I love what Mark Knopfler does at the end with the guitar. i wish it kept going

  • @user-wg8te2ws9y
    @user-wg8te2ws9y Год назад

    Perfect rhythm!!

  • @rosbifle413
    @rosbifle413 5 лет назад +3

    Dad's favourite album. Goodbye Dad.

  • @harounadiallo2949
    @harounadiallo2949 6 лет назад +16

    Eternal guitarman

  • @tomgeorgearts
    @tomgeorgearts 4 года назад +3

    My favourite solo on the album

  • @curtisyost5247
    @curtisyost5247 Год назад +1

    Strong in all aspects

  • @fredmoore8661
    @fredmoore8661 5 лет назад +2

    From his first album. One of the very best!

  • @stevenkay4
    @stevenkay4 2 года назад

    One of my top favorites of all times👍

  • @richardblackard4809
    @richardblackard4809 2 года назад

    Perfect album.

  • @troloquimicoxd69
    @troloquimicoxd69 2 года назад

    Incredible funk-blues!!!

  • @surennaidu9435
    @surennaidu9435 4 года назад

    One of my all time favorites of DS

  • @darrenmoscoe475
    @darrenmoscoe475 4 года назад

    Tight funky great track enjoy this so much

  • @adelejellybelly2010
    @adelejellybelly2010 6 лет назад +1

    What a brilliant song.

  • @drrain007
    @drrain007 5 лет назад +1

    Somewhere lost antiparos in a bar its name doors, people everywhere, beers till get down, smoke to the brim and pure music!

  • @montgomerydenzer8805
    @montgomerydenzer8805 10 лет назад +8

    As an artist I can totally relate to this song IME LIVING IT

  • @matthewukdow2090
    @matthewukdow2090 6 лет назад +5

    A flippin' mazing song!

  • @baconation3771
    @baconation3771 5 лет назад +1

    no one makes the thing sing and cry like Mr. Knopfler

  • @TheHeraclion
    @TheHeraclion 5 лет назад +1

    The best album

  • @danstar455
    @danstar455 5 лет назад +1

    Always loved the intro guitar.

  • @EdLove
    @EdLove 5 лет назад +1

    Highly underrated,, much like all early DS. E.g. Communique is a masterpiece.

    • @Hilux244
      @Hilux244 5 лет назад

      not so much that he is underated, rather many people simply cannot discern a truly gifted musician when they here one. lower iq? not sure

  • @MrRufioooo
    @MrRufioooo 6 лет назад +5

    While the dealers they get together
    And they decide who gets the breaks
    And who's going to be in the gallery...
    (Insert AWESOME solo here)

  • @assuncaoj
    @assuncaoj 3 года назад +1

    Mais de quarenta anos eu ouvindo essa música. nunca me canso!

  • @Knjapo
    @Knjapo 6 лет назад +41

    Harry made a bareback rider proud and free upon a horse
    And a fine coal miner for the NCB that was
    A fallen angel and Jesus on the cross
    A skating ballerina you should have seen her do the skater's waltz
    Some people have got to paint and draw
    Harry had to work in clay and stone
    Like the waves coming to the shore
    It was in his blood and in his bones
    Ignored by all the trendy boys in London and in Leeds
    He might as well have been making toys or strings of beads
    He could not be in the gallery
    And then you get an artist says he doesn't want to paint at all
    He takes an empty canvas and sticks it on the wall
    The birds of a feather all the phonies and all of the fakes
    While the dealers they get together
    And they decide who gets the breaks
    And who's going to be in the gallery
    No lies he wouldn't compromise
    No junk no bits of string
    And all the lies we subsidize
    That just don't mean a thing
    I've got to say he passed away in obscurity
    And now all the vultures are coming down from the tree
    So he's going to be in the gallery.

    • @TheDamnWalterWhite
      @TheDamnWalterWhite 6 лет назад

      I dont understand the song. What is it saying?

    • @duffyjohnson77
      @duffyjohnson77 6 лет назад +8

      Harry is a sculptor, a "starving" artist. He doesn't play art world politics so he doesn't get to be in any of the trendy galleries of London, and it's only after dying (too poor to afford health care?) that he's suddenly in demand and selling like hotcakes. Ironic.

    • @TheDamnWalterWhite
      @TheDamnWalterWhite 6 лет назад +6

      @@duffyjohnson77 Dire Straits is art

    • @jjohnston94
      @jjohnston94 4 года назад +2

      @@TheDamnWalterWhite He was ignored by "all the trendy boys in London" because he was from northern England. Supposedly this was a real person the band knew.

  • @stjames3852
    @stjames3852 4 года назад +1

    amazing. part starting at 5:48 is such a groove

  • @simone-schmidtcopywriting2484
    @simone-schmidtcopywriting2484 5 лет назад +1

    My sound of The 80th!

  • @OLEGK200489
    @OLEGK200489 5 лет назад +4

    Not my favourite song of all time. But my favourite song off my favourite album of all time.

  • @pppantazis1
    @pppantazis1 3 года назад

    ...πόσο δηλητήριο!.....ΜΟΝΑΔΙΚΟΣ

  • @joesimm1075
    @joesimm1075 2 года назад

    I visited an art gallery in 2010 where there was just bare walls and I was asked to ‘imagine a a piece of art’.
    This song predicted the future.

    • @JohnSmith-mx8wp
      @JohnSmith-mx8wp Месяц назад

      Or...your 2010 "artist" got that idea from this song?

  • @candelise
    @candelise 2 года назад

    Their funkiest track!

  • @robertrouse9586
    @robertrouse9586 5 лет назад +1

    Put them in the Gallery with all the others. As you wish Mr. Knopfler🎪

  • @florianoraule6513
    @florianoraule6513 5 лет назад +3

    The Best….!!

  • @k3vin749
    @k3vin749 6 лет назад +1

    57 thumbs down never listen to dire straits before 🤔🤔🤔

  • @Clasius79
    @Clasius79 5 лет назад +13

    3:12 arrrgggghhh