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  1. 02-10-2021 #1
    Kum Ruzvelt
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    Your top 3 Dire Straits songs?

    My picks:
    Telegraph Road
    Brothers in Arms
    Down to the Waterline

    Your picks?
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  2. 02-10-2021 #2
    the ferret
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    Lots of possibilities but for today I'll go with:

    Water Of Love
    Skateaway
    Romeo & Juliet
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kum Ruzvelt View Post
    My picks:
    Telegraph Road
    Brothers in Arms
    Down to the Waterline

    Your picks?
    I might go with Once Upon A Time In The West instead of Brothers in Arms.
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    Brothers in Arms
    Private Investigations
    Ride Across the River
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    1) Skateaway
    2) Down to the Waterline
    3) Sultans of Swing

    Haven't come close to hearing them all though.
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    Skateaway
    Tunnel Of Love
    Sultans Of Swing (live, 10 minute plus arrangement, as per Alchemy, Live Aid, etc)

    More guitar solos, less singing, Mark.

    Edit: Well if everyone's gonna list more than three, than I'm throwing in Telegraph Road and that instrumental prelude they do before Tunnel Of Love on Alchemy.
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    One Upon A Time In The West
    So Far Away
    Down To The Waterline
    "Frozen flaking fish raw nerve...In a cup of silver liquid fire" - Jethro Tull
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    Heavy Fuel
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    impossible to name just three and list them in order of preference

    Sultans
    Six Blade Knife
    Gallery
    Waterline
    Investigations
    Telegraph
    Man's Too Strong
    Brothers
    Obe World
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    my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
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    Romeo and Juliet
    Skateaway
    Tie: Industrial Disease/Telegraph Road
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    since people are now starting to *cheat* on this :
    In The Gallery
    Wild West End
    can't go without 'side 1' of Making Movies (Tunnel Of Love/Romeo & Juliet/Skateaway)
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    One World
    Industrial Disease
    Skateaway

    And, since Three's Company, but 5's a crowd
    Brothers In Arms
    Once Upon A Time In The West
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    Sorry but I gotta go with a lot of the same picks as others here

    Sultans of Swing
    Brothers in Arms
    Down to the Waterline

    I know Sultans of Swing has been overplayed, but the song is masterfully created, and for anyone old enough to have been around at the time, our first exposure to Marks weaping guitar...!
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    chronologically,

    Sultans of Swing
    Telegraph Road
    Brothers in Arms
    "The world will soon be right again,
    Innocence and undying love will reign."     - Transatlantic
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    She Said She Was a Dancer
    Farm on the Freeway
    Budapest
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    Hmmm...tough to pick only 3...
    sultans, tunnel, once upon atitw
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    Quote Originally Posted by chalkpie View Post
    She Said She Was a Dancer
    Farm on the Freeway
    Budapest
    Huh?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Camelogue View Post
    Huh?
    You know, Camelogue, the old Ian sounds like Mark as time passes theory. Kinda silly, really, since I never made even a vague connection between Dire and Tull. No accounting for tastes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SunRunner2 View Post
    You know, Camelogue, the old Ian sounds like Mark as time passes theory.
    On sounding like Mark: a vocal performance that has definitely tried and succeeded:
    https://youtu.be/ta9Ve7sD_uA
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    Skateaway
    Telegraph Road
    live arrangement of Sultans Of Swing (with the extended instrumental ending)
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    Quote Originally Posted by SunRunner2 View Post
    You know, Camelogue, the old Ian sounds like Mark as time passes theory. Kinda silly, really, since I never made even a vague connection between Dire and Tull. No accounting for tastes.
    Its a joke. However I'm not the only person out there that thinks Ian had a 'Knopfler' type timbre vocally on Crest of a Knave, especially on "She Said She Was a Dancer."
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    Quote Originally Posted by chalkpie View Post
    Its a joke. However I'm not the only person out there that thinks Ian had a 'Knopfler' type timbre vocally on Crest of a Knave, especially on "She Said She Was a Dancer."
    As a matter of fact I geeked a buddy of mine into thinking that was a Dire Straits song so good call and funny post. I lollered.
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    Sultans of Swing
    On Every Street
    Lady Writer
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    Sultans of Swing.... cant think of any more.
    'I would advise stilts for the quagmires"
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    Quote Originally Posted by syncopatico View Post
    since people are now starting to *cheat* on this :
    My Euchre buddy's moto at high school:

    Win if you can, lose only if you must, but cheat always.

    Never had to do it, since he took care of it.
    my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
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