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  • @poloreacts27
    @poloreacts27  6 месяцев назад +80

    DO NOT have a telegram please don't fall for SPAM IN THE COMMENTS.
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    • @SteveJames-tc1gh
      @SteveJames-tc1gh 6 месяцев назад +1

      Do watch The Royal Marines version with Cpl Sammy McIndoe singing it !

    • @dancarter482
      @dancarter482 6 месяцев назад +10

      YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO THE ALBUM TRACK! This is faded out early - there's a massive chunk missing from the end!

    • @seanh4841
      @seanh4841 6 месяцев назад +1

      Constantly getting the Wanna Contact You, scamper, scamper

    • @CoolCoyote
      @CoolCoyote 6 месяцев назад

      get them all the time you right click them and report it as spam to youtube/google

    • @charlesm9929
      @charlesm9929 6 месяцев назад +1

      This song destroys me every time I hear it.

  • @earlofsmeg
    @earlofsmeg 24 дня назад +31

    I was both in Iraq and Afghanistan. Seven years, which I will never get back. The only thing I miss are the guys who served with me. My brothers in arms.

  • @chrisnelson8221
    @chrisnelson8221 3 месяца назад +171

    As a recently retired USMC LtCol of 22 years... this song was played at the memorial for all 3 of my friends and 1 roommate who died during my career. I love this song, but I hate this song, and I will turn it off if I hear it at a random moment I didn't plan for during the day. There's no argument, though, that Mark Knopfler and his guitar paint an amazing picture of life and death with your brothers in arms, and even though I clicked purposefully on your reaction video to see what you thought and was prepared to hear it......I still cried halfway through it, thinking about the friends I lost.

    • @myguykaikai9215
      @myguykaikai9215 2 месяца назад +12

      This song always takes me down to that place I hate being at, but I can’t seem to stop myself from coming back to listen to it again.

    • @danielmonger8754
      @danielmonger8754 Месяц назад +9

      Thinking of you and ALL our men and women in uniform....freedom is never free
      5:42

    • @slavafromwisconsin1806
      @slavafromwisconsin1806 Месяц назад +4

      🙏

    • @katsybo
      @katsybo Месяц назад +3

      It is absolutely heartbreaking and beautiful. 🕊️

    • @sandraharris6393
      @sandraharris6393 Месяц назад +5

      It has heart & soul pouring over every note 🇬🇧🇺🇸

  • @aaronherbison7316
    @aaronherbison7316 6 месяцев назад +359

    There's a reason why the album "Brothers in arms" is one of the best selling albums of all time. It's a masterpiece

    • @midnightrider1100
      @midnightrider1100 6 месяцев назад +12

      It truly is. Definately a top 10 if not the best album of all time.

    • @wozza2101
      @wozza2101 6 месяцев назад +9

      I'd put "Making Movies" next to it

    • @RedPen1966
      @RedPen1966 23 дня назад

      I heard "Money for Nothing" SOOOOOOO many times at college that it's the one track I cannot listen to on loop. The rest of the album is STUNNING.

  • @robertvantassel102
    @robertvantassel102 2 месяца назад +49

    As a veteran.. This song holds in my soul..

    • @grahamshedd
      @grahamshedd 6 дней назад

      Absolutely totally agree

  • @firefighterchick
    @firefighterchick 6 месяцев назад +487

    This is one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs ever written or performed.
    It was written during the Falkland War.
    "We are fools to make war on our brothers in arms."
    Meaning that we are of one world and yet we kill each when we are all brothers.

    • @penderyn8794
      @penderyn8794 6 месяцев назад

      It's nothing to do with the Falkland Islands according to dire straits...... It's about the insanity of ww1 and how brothers includes all human men

    • @5yearsout
      @5yearsout 6 месяцев назад +24

      Whoever suggested this, thank you, the album had many big hits on it, this track always seemed to get overlooked but was always my favorite.

    • @user-ek4cf9qd8u
      @user-ek4cf9qd8u 6 месяцев назад +15

      During a recent war when a death of one of the Armed Forces was announced, the local radio station would play this song. This song brings those moments back now.

    • @teeheeteeheeish
      @teeheeteeheeish 5 месяцев назад +6

      Partially correct... Its lamenting the war, because the British fought against colonists on the Falklands, so they had a particular connection with the people. Obviously any war is a tragedy, but particularly when you are kin.

    • @firefighterchick
      @firefighterchick 5 месяцев назад +1

      @teeheeteeheeish I did know that. I was referring to the overall message.

  • @johndoe-gt6gp
    @johndoe-gt6gp 6 месяцев назад +113

    Few guitarists can squeeze tears out of a guitar quite like Mark Knopfler. He’s a genius in both playing and writing.

  • @merrilynhunt7819
    @merrilynhunt7819 4 месяца назад +117

    Mark is now 74 years old and has a new album coming out in April.

  • @scottphelps6387
    @scottphelps6387 4 месяца назад +59

    Mark did not even need lyrics, his guitar spoke straight to your soul. And this one more than any other always gets me. The very best from my favorite band of all time.

  • @kenthouston467
    @kenthouston467 2 месяца назад +35

    As a combat veteran, this song always gets me - brings back some very tough memories.

  • @brianking9286
    @brianking9286 2 месяца назад +34

    This song is so appropriate, given what's going on in the world in 2024. "We're fools to make war on our brothers in arms."

    • @speakingtherealtruth
      @speakingtherealtruth Месяц назад +1

      I concur. But terrorists are not "brothers in arms", they are terrorists end of story!

  • @CheerfulArmadillo-id1ez
    @CheerfulArmadillo-id1ez 2 месяца назад +28

    I grew up literally surrounded by the British Armed forces when the Falklands war was on. Saw many of my friends come home tormented by warfare, the horrors as well as the loss of life. This song is one of the greatest anti war songs of all time as well as being a beautiful tune. After all these years it still breaks my heart. Farewell to all who fell in war!!

  • @lindadozier8055
    @lindadozier8055 4 месяца назад +28

    Hauntingly beautiful musical portrayal of the horrors of war. To say that Mark makes the guitar “cry” is an understatement. You have only heard it one time ? Everyone should have heard this hundreds of times. Where have you been? The guitar work in this piece is mesmerizing! Unbelievably beautiful!

  • @victoriavickery6086
    @victoriavickery6086 3 месяца назад +29

    This piece is extraordinarily beautiful and painful at the same time.

  • @johnarnott3775
    @johnarnott3775 3 месяца назад +24

    Mark knopfler from my hometown of Newcastle in the North of England. This was played at my brother in laws funeral. Took me years to be able to listen to it again as it was so emotional. Wrote all the songs, sang them all, played lead guitar on all, was the producer, wrote film scores. The man is a poet and so humble too. A 'local hero'.

    • @tomosprey6310
      @tomosprey6310 3 месяца назад +3

      A great human being

    • @user-tu3xz9zx9v
      @user-tu3xz9zx9v Месяц назад

      Interesting and endless respect for Mark as a musician and human being

  • @chrisjenkins6120
    @chrisjenkins6120 6 месяцев назад +317

    🎼Dire Straits will take you to many different worlds. Mark Knopfler is now 74 years old and is still playing. He can make a guitar cry when he chooses. Brothers is one fine example. Take the time to react to Telegraph Road. What a story! It says it all.☮️💟

    • @HermannFrauenschuh
      @HermannFrauenschuh 6 месяцев назад +21

      Yes, the alchemy live version. 👍

    • @CoastPropertyBuyers
      @CoastPropertyBuyers 6 месяцев назад +15

      Agreed. Telegraph Road is EPIC!

    • @SPGhettus
      @SPGhettus 6 месяцев назад +3

      My choice for next, too. Alchemy or album either one.

    • @dakotalandandcattle
      @dakotalandandcattle 6 месяцев назад +5

      You would enjoy the album Neck and Neck with Chet Atkins, who was his inspiration.

    • @VeroBNL
      @VeroBNL 6 месяцев назад +3

      He’s simply amazing!

  • @bul166
    @bul166 3 месяца назад +79

    I know Mark Knopfler gets a lot of recognition and is held in high esteem, particularly amongst his peers, other musicians. But no matter what I will always think he's a criminally underrated guitarist. SO much talent!!

    • @user-dr3gz4yn8h
      @user-dr3gz4yn8h 3 месяца назад +6

      Mark is one if the GOATS.

    • @BjørjaBear
      @BjørjaBear 3 месяца назад +7

      The strange thing with his playing is that you can pick out his sound and phrasing right away. Even in a less known pieces as the backing band stuff they did for Bob Dylan. It just sticks out.

    • @lm5730
      @lm5730 3 месяца назад

      He really, really isn't

    • @teresacaon6109
      @teresacaon6109 2 месяца назад +4

      It's a temporary Song. Will never get old. See whats happening in the world now 2024. Sad very sad

    • @tomjones4981
      @tomjones4981 2 месяца назад +1

      Agreed!

  • @martindavis4632
    @martindavis4632 3 месяца назад +25

    The words “ now the sun has gone to hell” sends shivers and goose bumps every time I hear it

  • @oldtastic6G
    @oldtastic6G 6 месяцев назад +163

    This song has one of my three favorite guitar solos ever. It can literally bring me to tears. Mark Knopfler is simply amazing. 'Nuff said.

    • @TanBurishere
      @TanBurishere 6 месяцев назад +2

      Yes, such a good solo!

    • @loobkoob
      @loobkoob 6 месяцев назад +7

      What are the other two? I'd assume Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb is one of them?

    • @dramaqueen6G
      @dramaqueen6G 6 месяцев назад +5

      You're right about Comfortably Numb. The third is Carlos Santana - Black Magic Woman.

    • @jglendening2
      @jglendening2 6 месяцев назад +2

      I remember listening to this song when I was younger and not understanding what it was about. The late Tim Wilson, a Comedian on the Bob and Tom show once said "Mark Knopfler can play a damn bass" He was right

    • @michaelchialastri1088
      @michaelchialastri1088 2 месяца назад

      Wow amazing and sad at the same time. That man is beyond great.

  • @viper7869
    @viper7869 6 месяцев назад +290

    I served 17 years with the Brit military and this always brings a tear to my eye and chokes me up. My grandad was in the 1st WW and won the Military Medal for bravery in the field ..he was on the Somme and Pachendale ..my hero.

    • @Steinerssbr
      @Steinerssbr 6 месяцев назад +3

      Well... MK wrote a song about the First World War,
      Remembrance Day... One about the Napoleonic War, Done with Bonaparte... you'll like it.,,

    • @annehemmer5153
      @annehemmer5153 6 месяцев назад +2

      Great man. So sad.

    • @penderyn8794
      @penderyn8794 6 месяцев назад +11

      The song is anti-war and is attacking the insanity of ww1 .... Mark had a German grandfather and an English grandfather .... He said it was mad to think about them killing each other and he wouldn't exist

    • @canangel75
      @canangel75 6 месяцев назад +1

      😢on a be in the Gloucestershire z....but got erased...oh well.....

    • @graemes52
      @graemes52 5 месяцев назад

      I thought he was half Hungarian Jew.@@penderyn8794

  • @KMerth-yl7rx
    @KMerth-yl7rx 5 месяцев назад +37

    One of the Top Guitarists of all time.

  • @joed4318
    @joed4318 6 месяцев назад +59

    My father, brother and I are all retired military. When this song came out, my brother asked me to play it at his funeral when the time came. For years, everytime I heard it, it brought me to tears thinking about why I was going to play it. When my brother passed away from cancer, I played it very loud at the funeral. You could not help to not hear every word. It speaks to/for all of our "Brothers In Arms".
    Thanks for your respectful review of the song.
    Thank you M.K. for giving us your heart.

  • @user-iz8kj3of4d
    @user-iz8kj3of4d 2 месяца назад +14

    A Vietnam War veteran, hits me right in my heart.

  • @vincentpearcejustsimplycla2322
    @vincentpearcejustsimplycla2322 4 месяца назад +33

    The best guitarist in history. Takes it to another level beyond Genius.

    • @petersimmons3654
      @petersimmons3654 3 месяца назад

      John Martyn is recognised by most guitarists including Page and Gilmour rate as best. ruclips.net/video/tu444rkY8nQ/видео.html

  • @charleshayden1400
    @charleshayden1400 2 месяца назад +15

    One of the best Anti-War songs ever written. Mark’s guitar cries, and IT NEVER FAILS that - so do I. “We are FOOLS to make war on our Brothers-in-Arms.” That would enfold Humankind in this consideration. For those unfamiliar, war sucks, and we are far too good at it. 🙏🏻🫶🏿

  • @DJFalkoHannover
    @DJFalkoHannover 6 месяцев назад +27

    The whole baby blue „brothers in arms“ album with Mark Knopflers shiny resonator National guitar on the cover is one epic legendary masterpiece record of the whole 80s decade.

  • @paulmcmahon4552
    @paulmcmahon4552 6 месяцев назад +67

    one of the best descriptions of Mark Knopfler i have read, is that he narrates the song (Music), his guitar sings it, and what a beautiful combination

    • @poloreacts27
      @poloreacts27  6 месяцев назад +3

      Great, break down

    • @cherylwoodward
      @cherylwoodward 6 месяцев назад +2

      What an apt description of his performing. So true.

  • @kimgarbutt2529
    @kimgarbutt2529 6 месяцев назад +22

    No whistles and Bells just Dire Straights doing their beautiful haunting best. Amazing Band and Knopfler is a poet and guitar genius

  • @sjd7810
    @sjd7810 4 месяца назад +34

    Played every year at the national memorial arboretum ( UK ) with thousands of bikers in attendance after their annual charity ride for our devoted servicemen fallen in arms.
    Mammoth respect!!

  • @georgesheffield1580
    @georgesheffield1580 5 месяцев назад +11

    The animator of this video also deserves recognition too.

  • @GeorgeinScotland
    @GeorgeinScotland 6 месяцев назад +38

    33 years in the British Army, seen lots of crap that will stay deep but this track still this song stops me in my tracks when I hear it, Polo you gave it the respect it deserves and fully understood it

  • @cliveduncan1152
    @cliveduncan1152 5 месяцев назад +145

    Probably the most underrated English band ever.

    • @targetglen
      @targetglen 5 месяцев назад +5

      "English" ? Knopfler is Scottish by birth...

    • @chrisandrew852
      @chrisandrew852 5 месяцев назад +19

      wow... I wouldn't call them underrated. They were huge in their time and are still highly respected.

    • @keylime6900
      @keylime6900 5 месяцев назад +20

      English mother, Hungarian father, born in Glasgow but raised in Northern England. It's a stretch to call him Scottish.

    • @keylime6900
      @keylime6900 5 месяцев назад +7

      Also the original comment was the band was English, not Mark per se. I bet the band was formed in England. Tunnel of Love is about his childhood at Whitney Bay outside of Newcastle.

    • @keithmaddison6877
      @keithmaddison6877 4 месяца назад +3

      ​@@targetglenidiot he's a geordie

  • @user-fr6zs5zo5i
    @user-fr6zs5zo5i 6 месяцев назад +46

    Mark wrote this song when the UK went to war with Argentina in the Falklands in 1982

  • @paulwood5803
    @paulwood5803 6 месяцев назад +23

    This is, without doubt, one of THE greatest anti war songs ever written and performed. This song could bring a tear to a glass eye and always makes mine a little damp.

  • @bonnieahearn623
    @bonnieahearn623 2 месяца назад +11

    Polo: Glad that you found Mark’s music. This song makes me cry with every listening. I come from a family with a long military history. There is no glory in killing, after the first rush of battle….then a lifelong sadness for having to had to kill others. Good, bad or indifferent.

  • @kingtraceyjennifer
    @kingtraceyjennifer 3 месяца назад +19

    I think because it was a complete band who had no interest in sex drugs rock and roll. They just played their music. Lived for it and no outside influences.

    • @maruka1716
      @maruka1716 2 месяца назад +4

      Definitely not a druggie band. Beer and cigarettes, sure, but that's it. And they were in their 30s and married by this point. Mark has said in interviews that he was glad he didn't get famous till he was almost 30. He thinks things may have gone worse for him if it had happened when he was ten years younger.

  • @Wolverines77
    @Wolverines77 6 месяцев назад +90

    Old Marine here. This song literally turned my life around when I was 16 and a junior in high school. I had lost my entire structure to my life starting Oct 23, 1983, with the bombing of the Marine barracks at Beirut Intl Airport. I was an Air Force kid living in West Germany, and for two straight weeks, I would have to walk within 50 feet of the two hangars where the bulk of the remains of our 242 Marines, Sailors and Soldiers were being brought to be ID'd and processed before returning them home to their families. I would often catch the looks on the young men and women outside on breaks as I would walk past (many only 5 or 6 years my senior), and it made me realize that the world had been turned on its head. Just 4½ months later, one of the C-130s in my dad's squadron went down on a snow-covered mountain in northwest Spain, performing a night jump by the Combat Controllers that worked side-by-side with my dad's squadron. In the blink of an eye, we lost 16 men (all of whom I had known from the 3 years dad had been the First Sergeant of this squadron. A few in particular were super close to our family. One was basically my 19 year old older brother. A few months later, we transferred to Sacramento (Mather AFB), and I was too late to get into half the classes I needed towards graduation. I started skipping half my classes, fighting every waking minute with mom and dad, ran away for several 3-4 days stints. I was close to just enlisting in the Army as a dropout, but I had to wait until I was 17 and have the parents sign off. My best friend pulled into the school parking lot and saw me sitting there contimplating the entirety of my universe, and he motioned me over. I got into his car, and he just purchased the Dire Straits album that had just dropped. I was happy to have something new and exciting to take my mind out of the downward spiral I was in. This song came on, and by the half-way way point I knew in my heart that I needed to finish school and enlist in the military and honor all of those men and even my Dad's service. Luckily, we transferred back to West Germany for my senior year and with a world-class team of teachers, I made it graduation. I ended up having to enlist in the Marine Corps.
    There are at least 15 different live versions that make this studio version seem like a B+. My personal favorite is "A Night In London" 1993 BBC concert performance. Mark's guitar blending in with the string quartet really rips at every fiber in your heart and soul...
    Thank you for checking this out, I wish I could afford a few dollars a month to join your Patreon. Maybe if my situation brightens soon I will...

    • @novagate22
      @novagate22 6 месяцев назад +3

      Quotable quote.

    • @agross12345
      @agross12345 5 месяцев назад +2

      You're right! Only later LIVE versions of this song!

    • @annetaylor-wx5dk
      @annetaylor-wx5dk 4 месяца назад +6

      Bless you...

  • @emmamcdonagh
    @emmamcdonagh 6 месяцев назад +57

    This song makes me cry no matter how much I listen to it.
    Stunning

    • @emmamcdonagh
      @emmamcdonagh 6 месяцев назад +6

      Also... The guitar in this song, sounds like it's singing back to Mark, like a duet with his guitar!

    • @joe9042
      @joe9042 3 месяца назад +1

      Me too. If it doesn't touch you, you are souless.

  • @trishdaniel6196
    @trishdaniel6196 6 месяцев назад +40

    HOW BEAUTIFUL, THANK YOU FOR THIS REACTION, BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES, BOTH OF MY BROTHERS FOUGHT IN VIET NAM, AND THEY BOTH CAME HOME, NOT THE SAME, BUT ALIVE, AND I AM GRATEFUL......DIRE STEAITS IN MY VIEW WAS ALWAYS SO UNDERRATED!!!!!

  • @billbennett9537
    @billbennett9537 5 месяцев назад +15

    Mr Knopfler provides the backup to his own guitar's lead vocals for this song.

  • @lauriemartin490
    @lauriemartin490 6 месяцев назад +42

    I grew up in a military family, surrounded by veterans of foreign wars. Then I grew up and married and my husband was deployed to the middle east. I hate war. I hate that we kill each other. I hate that we haven't figured out how to stop doing that. BUT, I have so much love and respect for the men and women who put themselves in harms way for a cause that is bigger than their own lives. This song always hits me so hard.

    • @kevinmcdonald8241
      @kevinmcdonald8241 5 месяцев назад +3

      Respect for your family members who put themselves in harm's way to protect the weak, defend against the tyranny of those who would harm or kill the innocent.

  • @BitsofEurope
    @BitsofEurope 3 месяца назад +17

    Being ex military myself this is my anthem and still applicable today given I do a lot currently in Ukraine and it represents a tribute to current Brothers in Arms fighting and dying there. Beautiful piece with a lot of meaning. Thanks for reacting to this and showing the feeling you got from it.

  • @CROmusik
    @CROmusik 4 месяца назад +10

    Ich könnte jedes Mal weinen, Mark berührt immer wieder aufs Neue mein Herz. Er ist ein Meister und hat mit Brothers in Arms ein Meisterwerk erschaffen. Seine Art Gitarre zu spielen ist einzigartig, er müsste nicht einmal singen, das macht die Gitarre für ihn. Danke Mark für deine Musik ❤

  • @MelindadelosSantos
    @MelindadelosSantos 2 дня назад

    He and Santana are my favorite guitarists. It’s beyond their virtuosity …they tug at the heartstrings of your soul.✨

  • @samlawrence4670
    @samlawrence4670 6 месяцев назад +65

    One of the most meaningful songs ever recorded. Go back and read the lyrics and realise it’s told from the point of view of a dying soldier saying goodbye to his brothers in arms. Mark really makes his guitar the soul of this song.

    • @georgesheffield1580
      @georgesheffield1580 6 месяцев назад +4

      All of Mark's songs have meaning often very deap and sincere.

    • @rossmacintosh5652
      @rossmacintosh5652 6 месяцев назад +6

      By the lines "We're fools to make war On our brothers in arms" it would seem he's including the enemy as his "brothers in arms". I think that raises that meaningfulness even higher.

  • @DavidCharles-wi4qr
    @DavidCharles-wi4qr 6 месяцев назад +19

    Respect given to the brave men and women who defend freedom.

    • @dxb8086
      @dxb8086 5 месяцев назад

      And who exactly is threatening your freedom? And how do they do that? Wars are always about power, money and influence.

  • @GraupeLie
    @GraupeLie 4 месяца назад +10

    If this song doesn't touch you, you don't have a heart. The lyrics are brilliant (and so, so true), the guitar is weeping, Mark's delivery is chilling. Legendary is definitely the right term to use here. So wonderful to see someone discovering Mark Knopfler and the Dire Straits all anew...And yes, very different from "Sultans of Swing", and yet both are SO Dire Straits.

  • @dingbat19
    @dingbat19 6 месяцев назад +18

    This track never comes up in lists of the greatest guitar tracks of all time but it absolutely should. There is no flashy playing here, no "how many notes can I play in 5 seconds" playing here, but the beauty of a pure connection between a human heart and a guitar. Few are blessed with expressing emotion so vividly via the guitar - David Gilmour and Steven Rothery can do this along with Mark Knopfler, but few others. An absolute masterpiece of a song.

  • @muppetbrother
    @muppetbrother 3 месяца назад +7

    P man I been listening to this since I was 13 and im 60 now. still blows me away

    • @martindavis4632
      @martindavis4632 2 месяца назад +1

      Do the maths if you were 13 when you first heard it and your 60 now that makes it 1976. It was not release until 1985 and was written about the 1982 Falklands war. You would have been 22 when you first heard this as I’m the same age as you

  • @johnbember3425
    @johnbember3425 6 месяцев назад +38

    This song always hits home because a good friend from high school was killed in Vietnam. This band has so many varied styles of music. Money For Nothing was probably their biggest hit and I also highly recommend Ride Across The River. Much appreciate your reactions.

  • @lodovico95
    @lodovico95 4 месяца назад +8

    I've listen to this song more than 100 times, it always makes me emotional, that guitar sounds like it's crying a fallen brother... Divine performance

  • @remy6080
    @remy6080 10 дней назад

    Heartbreakingly beautiful song about a soldiers last thoughts as he is dying. Thank you to all who have served your countries.

  • @lillielangtry6907
    @lillielangtry6907 3 месяца назад +12

    Israel, Palestinian, Iran, Ukraine, infighting on our own streets...😢😢😢😢😢 what a horrible thing we do to each other 😢....on and on and on...

  • @garyfallows1123
    @garyfallows1123 6 месяцев назад +13

    Have a look at the version by The Bands Of The H.M.Royal Marines, very moving played by the military, thank you to all personnel for their service 🇬🇧

  • @vickiconley3638
    @vickiconley3638 6 месяцев назад +24

    Beautiful song. My favorite song by Dire Straits is still, Telegraph Road. The intrinsic visualizations are wonderful. Good review Polo.

  • @Kotic1959
    @Kotic1959 6 месяцев назад +95

    Telegraph Road is by far my favorite track by Dire Straits. Great guitar solo

    • @simonashworth8825
      @simonashworth8825 6 месяцев назад +12

      The Alchemy live version of Telegraph Road is on another level. ALL the band members get to show what superb musicians they are.

    • @paulsiebeneicher4536
      @paulsiebeneicher4536 6 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@simonashworth8825yea. The piano/keyboard gets to shine like crazy which is one reason why I prefer it even over the stellar version of Sultans. Telegraph is for me peak Dire Straits.

    • @ozludo
      @ozludo 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@paulsiebeneicher4536 Absolutely - although that live version of "Tunnel of Love" is epic

    • @Stephmonstre
      @Stephmonstre 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@simonashworth8825so true

    • @kimgarbutt2529
      @kimgarbutt2529 6 месяцев назад +1

      It’s a masterpiece

  • @alfredlandesman5165
    @alfredlandesman5165 6 месяцев назад +9

    I recall one of the greatest endings from one of the best episodes of Miami Vice. The Dire Straits song playing the last 6 minutes while the black Daytona prowls through the darkened streets of Miami. The distant thunder. Crockett and Tubbs about to discover the mystery hidden behind the wall in the abandoned house. Just amazing.

  • @toniw725
    @toniw725 6 месяцев назад +25

    I have eagerly awaited your return to Dire Straits. I love your reaction to Sultans of Swing. I would recommend listening to Telegraph Road from the same Alchemy concert. It is arguably better than Sultans! And another track that is different but freaking awesome is Private Investigations from the 1993 concert On the night. You will not be disappointed.

  • @Boston685
    @Boston685 6 месяцев назад +25

    One of my favorites since I bought the album in high school. This song really resonates if you served or have family members who served. I'm the latter, many many family members who served - this song is so powerful. I adore the guitar in this.

  • @dilandilanjoao4310
    @dilandilanjoao4310 13 дней назад +1

    Hi there. This song was composed in honour of the soldiers who fought on the Falklands islands war between England and
    Argentina . The father of Mark Knopfler mentioned that both sides were "brothers in arms". There you have the sadness you're feeling coming thru ✌

  • @user-yr1bv4jd2k
    @user-yr1bv4jd2k 6 месяцев назад +5

    ohhhh the guitar playing of mark knopfler just pure brilliance

  • @stevehessle1959
    @stevehessle1959 5 месяцев назад +16

    This was the unofficial anthem for the British Army for years, starting around the Falklands war. Breaks my friends heart when he heard it because he was a survivor of the sinking of H. M. S. Sheffield.

    • @dexstewart2450
      @dexstewart2450 5 месяцев назад

      A friend was on Galahad:they were shooting those they couldn't save from the flames...never over-rule a Royal Marines officer when it comes to landing ops...

    • @dxb8086
      @dxb8086 5 месяцев назад +1

      Then you clearly didn’t understand the meaning of the song. Like most Brits didn’t. It’s an ANTI war song. It does t glorify war or soldiery. It complains about the pointlessness of war. I doubt I’ll live long enough until the majority of people understand this.

    • @straightouttacornwall
      @straightouttacornwall 4 месяца назад

      @@dxb8086 I don't believe for one second you are being serious mate? I think even a blind chimpanzee could see that this song isn't about glorifying war.

    • @danyalmemish6309
      @danyalmemish6309 Месяц назад

      @@dxb8086did you serve??? If not, pipe down…..

  • @Festus171
    @Festus171 6 месяцев назад +19

    I've been a fan of Dire Straits since I got their first album on 8-Track in 1978. I know it was mentioned below, but Telegraph Road and Romeo and Juliet are further examples of how incredibly diverse and talented this band really is. As a veteran, this song really resonates with me on many levels. Great reaction, by the way.

  • @chrisharapa9009
    @chrisharapa9009 9 дней назад

    I've been listening to Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits all of my adult years from 1977 to 2024. Mark is the greatest guitarist I've ever heard. My play list has well over 150 tracks of his work. I listen to a dire straits or Mark Knofler song every day (and I mean every day) & have told my wife that at my funeral only his work will be played.

  • @rebajackson2369
    @rebajackson2369 6 месяцев назад +15

    The video is an artistic masterpiece as well as the music.

  • @KatsCats2619
    @KatsCats2619 4 месяца назад +8

    The live version is even better😊
    I love your reaction 🙂
    Mark has recently sold 100 of his guitars for charity at Christies auction for over £8 million and is donating 25% to charity

    • @straightouttacornwall
      @straightouttacornwall 4 месяца назад +1

      Really? What a fckin legend!

    • @PrinceBarin77
      @PrinceBarin77 3 месяца назад

      So many great versions. This is a particular favourite of mine: ruclips.net/video/EMRJT2ebvAk/видео.htmlsi=hM6V1t9Dptf6uQkM

  • @chipsterb4946
    @chipsterb4946 6 месяцев назад +11

    If you want a full appreciation of Mark Knopfler’s musical genius, listen to “Romeo and Juliet”. First the original version released in 1981 when he was 32, then the version from Real Live Roadrunnings 25 years later. It was a great composition to start with, but the later version just tears at your heartstrings.
    BTW I’ve thought for a long time that “Money for Nothing” came out of a visit to Circuit City 😜

    • @toastle8005
      @toastle8005 6 месяцев назад +1

      The story behind the writing of ‘Money for Nothing’ is hilarious

    • @AliceTurner-be5jh
      @AliceTurner-be5jh 5 месяцев назад +4

      I came here to say this. That song can leave me on the floor, sobbing and emotionally drained, but I still love it.

  • @CartePostale.
    @CartePostale. 7 часов назад

    I'm glad to see that you have decided to listen to more of Dire Straits. My husband grew up with & is still friends with Mark & David Knopfler, although he's closer to Mark as he's laid-back, like my husband & both of them loved to have a laugh at another local, "Sting" (Gordon Sumner) who was not as humble, or talented, as Mark. We spend half of our lives in the UK, the other half in the USA. We always kept an open door to anyone who needed a "roof" but especially marines & naval personnel. We lost too many ourselves, both civilians & special forces operatives, who were also either friends or family members. I have CPTSD from, among other things, being blown up by a 400lb IRA car bomb, aged four & so, it was a privilege to lay under our trees with those men & women, without needing to say a word. They were all homesick, needing a LONG call home & a home-cooked meal, especially the new recruits. The incredible guitar on the album front was one of Mark's own! We received a CD of "Brothers in Arms" from Mark when it was recorded with the simple words, "This is for you. XO". We listened to the whole album in one sitting & there wasn't a dry eye in the house.....

  • @primejudicator7817
    @primejudicator7817 2 месяца назад +2

    I play "Brothers in Arms" followed by Chris Rea's "Curse of the Traveller" on repeat when things get real dark. But somehow, I always emerge feeling a little better about the world when the last notes fade.

  • @neilshayler3119
    @neilshayler3119 6 месяцев назад +21

    Mate as great as that song is it's blown away by the Mandela concert or on the night live versions both are simply goosebumps level haunting but comforting. Anything they do live is taken to another level
    Possibly the greatest finger picking guitar player of all time

    • @simonashworth8825
      @simonashworth8825 6 месяцев назад +4

      I'd give your comment 10 upticks if I could Neil.

    • @charlesm9929
      @charlesm9929 6 месяцев назад +2

      You say possibly the greatest finger picking guitar player ever. I say one of the best ever. You need to listen to Chet Atkins, from whom Mark Knopfler took guitar lessons.

  • @Edward-tm1dm
    @Edward-tm1dm 6 месяцев назад +8

    This song makes a lot of us vets shed a tear because we really relate to the song. Semper Fi to my brothers and sisters. USMC TILL I expire!

    • @dxb8086
      @dxb8086 5 месяцев назад +1

      Then clearly you didn’t understand the meaning of the song. It’s an ANTI war song. It complains about the pointlessness of war.

  • @Jade12568
    @Jade12568 Месяц назад +2

    So powerful, pulls the deep feelings right out of you. Thank you, as I sit here in a puddle.

  • @brucematzen4678
    @brucematzen4678 2 месяца назад +4

    For those of us who remember a television show Miami Vice, the song was featured, it was so impactful. Heart wrenching actually.

  • @johnsullivan5260
    @johnsullivan5260 6 месяцев назад +11

    Dire Straits are the greatest band I’ve ever seen live..by far. I loved your reaction to this Polo. You have a very calming demeanour and you’re a good man. I saw them live in Brisbane Australia in the mid nineties.

  • @blastingweevil2968
    @blastingweevil2968 5 месяцев назад +4

    the song is about the falklands war between The U.K and Argentina in the 80's as someone who has served in the UK armed service this song is very emotional for me.

  • @LouiseTennant-fw7pb
    @LouiseTennant-fw7pb Месяц назад +5

    Romeo and Juliet is awesome

    • @markbommarito1300
      @markbommarito1300 13 дней назад +1

      Quite possibly the best song ever written and recorded.

  • @traypaquette7887
    @traypaquette7887 6 месяцев назад +9

    Thank you, Polo ❤ my son is in the military. Your regard for the sacrifice means a lot to me. This song kills me

  • @yvesbarriere2922
    @yvesbarriere2922 6 месяцев назад +13

    One of their best songs. The guitar is outstanding (with some hints of David Gilmour) 'Telegraph Road' is another gem.

  • @jamestaggart2663
    @jamestaggart2663 3 месяца назад +4

    There's a scene in The West Wing where president Bartlet is about to announce he's running again for another 4 years. It's night time. It's raining. And this music starts playing as he walks from his office to the podium to let the world know.
    It gets me EVERY time.
    One of the most beautiful songs ever written. 😢

  • @interestedbystander196
    @interestedbystander196 2 месяца назад +2

    That is one of _THE_ songs. Ever. Just powerful and perfect.

  • @13scubapro
    @13scubapro 6 месяцев назад +7

    I’m not a huge Dire Straits fan but I really enjoy your reviews which are honest and often insightful. But you seem like a genuinely nice guy. Keep it up.

  • @user-fq4xi1kn6v
    @user-fq4xi1kn6v 5 месяцев назад +5

    They were just brilliant, please listen to Romeo and Juliet.

  • @christianm7220
    @christianm7220 6 месяцев назад +12

    Telegraph Road is a must!

  • @Arckivio
    @Arckivio Месяц назад

    He tells the story with words & you feel it in his guitar!!! You are absolutely right that he can make his guitar cry. In this you hear the difference in sound after these fields of destruction & baptisms of fire. Listen to sultans of swing again with that in mind & you'll hear how many times his guitar mirrors his words!!! He is amazing!!!

  • @WorldSpectator705
    @WorldSpectator705 Месяц назад +2

    Mark does something at many points in this song that make the guitar playing so expressive and emotional filled - he does what another favorite player Jeff Beck did a lot - he plays a note, and then as the note is sustaining, he rotates the volume knob slowly upwards so the volume increases.
    So like the human voice, that can start softly, and then increase in intensity, this allows the guitar to "sing". It's truly a beautiful effect. Normally, you play a guitar note, and the highest volume is at the start, and the volume then tapers down, but when a note starts softly, and then slowly increases in volume, it sound like a human voice in it's expressiveness, and of course with a master guitarist like Mark or Jeff, they are also playing wonderful notes and bends at the same time they are modulating the volume in this way.
    I can see why with the powerful lyrics, and the emotion filled guitar parts, and the reverent keyboard parts in the background, this song often brings men you have lost friends in combat to tears, it's just so powerful, so sad, but so beautiful. Thank you Dire straits for this masterpiece.

  • @cappaman73
    @cappaman73 6 месяцев назад +6

    Simply... Mark Knopfler is a genius ! The first album I every bought was as a young man was Brother's in Arms, with this being the title track. I'm in my 50s now and great to see someone from a younger generation absolutely appreciate this amazing band. Thank you for your reaction to this song.

  • @EchoesDaBear
    @EchoesDaBear 6 месяцев назад +6

    Great reaction Polo! Not ashamed to admit, this song gets me teary every time I hear it. The emotion in the guitar & lyrics is off the chart. Knopfler really captured the futility of war and how it doesn't matter which 'side' you're on - the combatants mostly want one thing - to be home, to live their life, and live it in peace! Cheers!

  • @AnnMcKinlay-zp2ef
    @AnnMcKinlay-zp2ef 3 месяца назад +2

    There was one video clip of a performance of this where he has tears running down his face! It has always made me cry; as you said, the guitar weeps as well.😢

  • @michalwintz7083
    @michalwintz7083 3 месяца назад +3

    This song always makes me feel like crying. My late husband was a Vietnam Veteran and I think of him every time I hear this song. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @Rhinedragon
    @Rhinedragon 6 месяцев назад +3

    I´ve never had to fought in a War, but I do my time in the German Army in ´84-`85 and all I can say is..... We are always Brothers in Arms!

  • @jacobbeer1
    @jacobbeer1 4 месяца назад +2

    From 1985! Still coming back! Thank you Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits!!! And thanx for video! ❤❤

  • @dericktrx7573
    @dericktrx7573 День назад

    I’ll got so many memories from listening to this song. Love it!

  • @barbd5607
    @barbd5607 4 месяца назад +4

    Dire Straits. I’ll never forget their concert at Wembly Arena 40 yrs ago. They were amazing and unforgettable. Great memories ❤️

  • @GayleKazanis
    @GayleKazanis 2 месяца назад +3

    This one ❤ and comfortably numb ❤by pink Floyd ❤ peace ✌️ Polo.grandma still up ❤

  • @user-qq2mo1ek2r
    @user-qq2mo1ek2r 18 дней назад

    Haunting track, so meaningful and brings tears to my eyes every time i play it.

  • @danw331
    @danw331 5 дней назад

    My mate was a Royal Marine in the 90s, they all got a tape after they passed out, a montage of them in action during training etc, this song is playing over the top of it.

  • @bigtom1001
    @bigtom1001 5 месяцев назад +5

    My goodness ❤❤this is truly one of the greatest songs of all time, been listening to it since 1985 and it's even more emotional to me now than it's ever been 😢a lot of songs make me cry, but none as much as this one 😢😢I can't even listen to the song all the way through, it's too much to handle emotionally, absolutely incredible ❤️the live versions are even better 😮85 Wembley and 92 Nelson Mandela concert. I only discovered polo yesterday, he is genuinely moved by the songs he's hearing for the first time 😢❤

  • @ericpiazzi3444
    @ericpiazzi3444 6 месяцев назад +7

    I recommend Telegraph Road on the Album Love Over Gold! Great proggy sounding Dire Straits

  • @lindalala5813
    @lindalala5813 3 месяца назад +2

    Listen to the whole album...it's Epic!

  • @MelindadelosSantos
    @MelindadelosSantos 2 дня назад

    Seventy-four years young? He’s so smooth!🌟