Dire Straits are too good!!! Let's continue enjoying them and please continue reacting to everything from MK and DS with so many collaborations with so many other artists that they have to their credit. Thankyouuuu!☺
I'm so glad I found this reaction by you'all. Because this is one of my favorite songs by this artist. It's from there first album which I can listen to from front to back. All the songs on that first album are great.
Thank you both for reacting to this song! Mark learned slide guitar when he started out playing rockabilly music in pubs, so the sound probably has more country/ blues influence - as Dominika said. But it could be a good beach song too Andrei 🙂 While this early version of the song is the best one in my opinion, you can also check out a different but haunting live version Mark did in the 90s. 'Water of Love Vaison '96'.
I love "Water of Love" but the album version is vastly better than this live version. Here they don't seem to have much seriousness in how they play it. Too much is left for the loose slide guitar style to carry and Mark can't interpret it as successfully this way. Dire Straits are definitely a blues influenced guitar band but here they lean on a less than satisfying direction that does not come off anywhere near as articulately as the much more tightly organized version on the first album. Maybe it is just me but I derive so much more pleasure from the album cut that this comes off as a performance they didn't put as much practice or effort into. Sigh. 🤔🤷🤨
Agreed. I think our two favourite reactors enjoy seeing Mark in action. However they are missing out on some of the depth and texture brought with the band's intended finished product.
@@johnfallon3525 This concert in Cologne was from 1979, the year after their first album came out. It may very well be that they were putting together live shows in a hurry and didn't have the time to think through what they were doing, and what worked and what didn't work. A lot of Rockpalast broadcasts seem to be catching a really good band early on, and there is a certain degree of uncooked rawness to it and I think this is an example of it. The studio version's guitar playing is so much cleaner and better, largely because it is picked and not slide.
I feel like I’m driving down some desert highway in America while listening to this song.
Dire Straits are too good!!! Let's continue enjoying them and please continue reacting to everything from MK and DS with so many collaborations with so many other artists that they have to their credit. Thankyouuuu!☺
I'm so glad I found this reaction by you'all. Because this is one of my favorite songs by this artist. It's from there first album which I can listen to from front to back. All the songs on that first album are great.
Love this song. Sounds so much like something JJ Cale would've done. Mark's guitar and vocal style were influenced by JJ.
This is my favorite song by them thanks for doing this ✌🏻❤️🇺🇸
Yep, the hits just keep pouring out like Water of Love. Carry back that water to me.
Great song one of my favorites 🤟🏼
Hey guys, treat yourselves to the album version too. ❤
Just brilliant! The whole first Album!
true its a little country in the song and was a cover of Water of love by a female country band The Judds that i like
Fantastic ❤❤
Check out Mark with James Taylor.....'Sailing to Philadelphia'
You guys HAVE to react to Mark Knopflers successful solo stuff. SO many awesome songs. You will love the „Ragpickers Dream“ album very very much!
Dire Straits - I think I love you too much [Knebworth -90]
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Great song -- the whole album is fantastic. And Dominika, I agree with the Mark Knopfler love. He's too cute.
Oh yeah 😍
Lo sé,soy un pesado pero insisto,News, está en ese directo 🎸❤️😉
Thank you both for reacting to this song! Mark learned slide guitar when he started out playing rockabilly music in pubs, so the sound probably has more country/ blues influence - as Dominika said. But it could be a good beach song too Andrei 🙂 While this early version of the song is the best one in my opinion, you can also check out a different but haunting live version Mark did in the 90s. 'Water of Love Vaison '96'.
Classic album but really the studio version should be a first listen.
Thanks! Could you please react to That’s The Way by Zeppelin… live…Earls Court 1975?
Many thanks for your support. We will add it to our list 😊
Good song... But here at the beach could you please play... David Lee Roth California girls official video thank you
I love "Water of Love" but the album version is vastly better than this live version. Here they don't seem to have much seriousness in how they play it. Too much is left for the loose slide guitar style to carry and Mark can't interpret it as successfully this way. Dire Straits are definitely a blues influenced guitar band but here they lean on a less than satisfying direction that does not come off anywhere near as articulately as the much more tightly organized version on the first album. Maybe it is just me but I derive so much more pleasure from the album cut that this comes off as a performance they didn't put as much practice or effort into. Sigh. 🤔🤷🤨
Agreed. I think our two favourite reactors enjoy seeing Mark in action. However they are missing out on some of the depth and texture brought with the band's intended finished product.
@@johnfallon3525 This concert in Cologne was from 1979, the year after their first album came out. It may very well be that they were putting together live shows in a hurry and didn't have the time to think through what they were doing, and what worked and what didn't work. A lot of Rockpalast broadcasts seem to be catching a really good band early on, and there is a certain degree of uncooked rawness to it and I think this is an example of it. The studio version's guitar playing is so much cleaner and better, largely because it is picked and not slide.