This song is autobiographical. Mark Knopflerdated a girl in a punk band named Holly Vincent. They broke up and she said in an interview When asked about him said "I used to have a scene with him" the words he used in The song. Knopfler felt like she used him to become more well known and that's what the song was about at least partially
One night back in about 81 my soon to be wife and I were driving from Canberra to home in Sydney. This song was on a mix tape and I had to pull off the road because I was a blubbering mess so absolutely and completely in love with that girl. 43 years later and we're still married and this song still gives me goosebumps.
@stevenewcomer8837. You may have already seen this. Saw an interview with Mark Knopfler before his guitar collection auction recently. When asked about “Why Worry”, Mark said that he had written the song in too high a key for his voice - even back then and then dubbed his own tune “Why Bother”! I believe Mark wrote this song with The Everly Brothers (RIP) in mind. Don and Phil did actually sing the song on a show Mark did with Chet Atkins called “Certified Guitar Player” back in the last century. Stay safe and well.
Another super breakdown of a classic tune, Doug. Mark Knopfler is a wonderful songsmith. It would be great if you had a listen to "Private Investigations" on the Dire Straits album 'Love Over Gold' - it's a wonderful moody and dynamic piece which I'm sure you'll find very interesting🙂
You are mostly wrong The songs on Alchemy Live, for instance, are pale shadows of the studio versions. There are a few exceptions. The Mandela Concert versions of this and Brothers, for instance. I saw them live a couple of times. Mark had a disconcerting need to improvise everywhere without the cameras in attendance and ignored signature phrases that fans had travelled miles to hear. Studio versions all day for me.
@thunderroad5127 agree. They belonged to a race of rock musicians (nowadays almost extinct) that enjoyed playing around their songs in a live setting so they became something else. In the case of Knopfler & Co. they succeeded in improving them. For instance, there are some songs out of "Brothers In Arms" or "On Every Street" I never quite enjoyed in studio, and love their live counterparts in "On The Night", like "Your Latest Trick" or "Calling Elvis"
@RideAcrossTheRiver why is "baseless"? Because it differs to yours? Being a fan of their music, and attending two disappointing live shows, is all the license I need to voice my opinion. If you disagree, fine, but your comment was utterly narcissistic, much like the OPs.
Hi Doug, You should immediately follow this with Bruce Springsteen Jungleland. It starts with the same riff but on piano. Bruce's piano man Roy Bittan plays on both tracks. It's Bruces take on West Side Story which is Bernstein's take on Romeo and Juliet. Of course Mark closes the circuit by referring to Theres a place for us. Loved your analysis.
I still remember the girl I was with when this came out, something happened and she was in tears and I said we were forever...we weren't but for that moment we were. Can't hear this song without seeing her face. What more can you ask of art?
One of my all time favorites. Watched lots of reactions to this….You’re the first reactor that caught the West Side Story/There’s a Place for Us reference! Love that part!
The introductory guitar part is played on a 1930's era National Resonator Guitar. If you've ever had the privilege of holding one of these guitars, they are works of art. It's the same guitar as pictured on the Brothers in Arms album cover. Knopfler has since gone on record as regretting putting the guitar on the album cover, as it resulted in prices for original National Resonators climbing up into 6-figure territory. It's an incredibly distinctive guitar part. Played in Open-D tuning. An absolutely gorgeous song.
Agreed. Tunnel of love for me is one of their best tracks if not, THE best. The quiet section in the middle that gradually increases in loudness and tempo and then the fade out guitar that could go on for another 10 minutes for me and it would not be enough
"You'll fall for chains of silver. You'll fall for chains of gold. You'll fall for pretty strangers, and the promises they hold". Mark Knopfler the poet!
One of two songs that bring a tear to my eye. This for the loss of my first love and, Mike and the Mechanics’ The Living Years for the death of my father.
If you listen to the piano during the coda; he starts dropping the intro hook melody for "Love Over Gold" into that repeating 4 to 5 ostinato. They used to use that as a way to segue from one song to the other.
One of my Dire Straits faves. Thank you. May I suggest a track that (I humbly predict) you will love? Van Morrison singing Into The Mystic. It's very layered, with plenty to get your teeth into, including the beautiful piano that you really have to listen out for but which, once you've heard it, you feel is integral and the song would be hugely diminished without it.
The first time I heard this was a cover by Indigo Girls. While a bit overwrought, I felt the pain more in Amy Ray's voice than I do in Mark's, which has always struck me as a bit cold and monotone. Regardless, a great song!
"Mark Knopfler has an extraordinary ability to make a Schecter custom Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night, exhausted from being good all week, and needing a stiff drink, which is not strictly relevant since the record had not yet gotten to that bit, but there will be too much else going on when it does, and furthermore the chronicler does not intend to sit by with a track list and a stopwatch so it seems best to mention it now while things are still moving slowly." -- Douglas Adams ("So Long and Thanks For All the Fish") "...that bit" is either "Romeo and Juliet", or the guitar solo from "Tunnel of Love", also from the same album.
Mark wrote this about his relationship with Holly Vincent, she broke up with him after she signed a record deal and Mark felt like she used him, she said in an interview "Mark Knopfler?, yeah, I used to have a scene with him"
i really enjoy watching your videos!! i love pink floyd so it made me happy to watch your pink floyd videos. so i have a few requests for you to react to!! 1- gorillaz - demon days or plastic beach 2- rush - signals i don’t know if you’ve heard these songs or have reacted to them in the past, but i would really like seeing you react to them!
Started listening to dire straits aged 7 and still listening aged 47!!. Great to hear your thoughts. Knopfler great on guitar but also a fabulous songwriter.
Roy Bitton on keys .. on hiatus from Bruce’s estreeters.. he also did stellar work on meatloaf’s ’bat out of hell’ Bruce calls him the professor.. mark knoffler could play guitar, but could compose a great tune.. great sense of timing
Dr. Helvering, greetings from the UK. I wish to commend you not only for the fine choice of material you select for reaction but also for your thoughtful, attentive and intelligent approach to them. Moreover, unlike most Americans (if that is indeed what you are) you are able to talk without saying the word 'like' constantly and unnecessarily. Others might have said, "That was, like, F sharp major which is just above, like, F major, and like totally great and stuff." It is refreshing and a pleasure. Fine work, Sir. I thought a helvering was a fish of some sort but I'm not quite myself today.
This is just like Billy Joel's Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, in the way the protagonist's end up. Brenda and Eddie end up just like this version of Romeo and Juliette!
The brilliance of the words and MK's compositions aside, what the song is famous for is MK's use of the 1937 National Resonator Steel Guitar (borrowed at that time from his good friend Steve Phillips). The opening guitar chords give the unique sound of that acoustic steel Resonator guitar... Then, there's that heavenly drumming by Pick Withers. Classic!!
I just love "You and me, babe. How about it?" as the world's worst pickup line. But apparently it worked as Juliet responds "Whatcha gonna do about it?" Are you going to follow through with the bravado necessary to be that forward?
Kissed you through the bars of a rhyme classic songwriting! The live version at on the night in 1993 or in Australia 1986 are amazing and have 2 sax solos
The Romeo and Juliet story has had so many different variations on it and this is right up there with the best. If he were alive today I think Bill would approve!
Mark is a poet who d3veloped a picking style on a guitar, that is supreme. He is left handed, and changed to playing right handed early when his sister said that doesnt look right. Everybody plays the other way.
A great song from a great album. Doug did you saw them playing live ? It was one of my first concerts... all these songs were there... Romeo & Juliet, Tunnel of Love, Telegraph Road, Sultans of Swing...
It has been said that Rush would have been Shakespeare's favorite rock band, and I can't argue with that, but Mark Knopfler is a bard of the first tier. So many songs out there have lyrics which do not fit the tempo or energy of the music, or vice versa. Dire Straits songs are never so; the mood of the music is always a perfect match to the words of the story being told.
The song is sad. The guy loved a girl who didn't love him. In the end he has accepted she has rejected him, so he repeats the things he did before again and again with new strangers, bound to fail. Live versions are good, especially with the unusual chords that finish the song to go to Sultans of Swing or Private Investigations
Always loved this. The dobro guitar sound speaks of the aching heart, and Mark Knopfler's liquid lead phrases at the end are heroic and bluesy at the same time. You just can't escape the romance of this.
I first heard this song in the movie Can't Hardly Wait back in 98, and I insta fell in love! My girlfriend and I watched it in Cinema in Cincinnati, OH when we were still in high school. There's no mobile phones back then, I had to write the lyrics in a tissue paper when we ate at McDonald's after the movie. I was onloy able to write "romeo-juliet song with guitar". I found which song it was only in 2002. Now, it's in my spotify and in there forever. Thank you Jennifer Love-Hewitt.
this channel rocks! Have you ever thought about analyzing musicals? I would love to see your gears turn listening to the genius that is Stephen Sondheim or Claude-Michel Schönberg
Great pick! I first heard this song as a cover by The Killers and loved it immediately. Whenever you're feeling like gaming music again you should definitely check out Megalovania from Undertale (both the chiptune original and the orchestra version). Also, I would love it if you took a look at a great Canadian group, Walk off the Earth. I would recommend their original Farther We Go (acapella version), but what they're really known for is their amazing covers where they use a wide variety of instruments and every object to create an incredibly rich acoustic sound.
Love to see you cover Mark's greatest work, the Theme to Local Hero. I think the Night in London version is best, but regardless if you choose the mid-80's, early 90's, late 90's, mid 2000's or mid 2010's version - you get to see what an artist of this caliber sounds like after 30 years practice....
I would love to see you react to the "Dancing Mad" from the game Final Fantasy VI. There is a orchestrated version that is amazing (th-cam.com/video/jMFCM0SKbnY/w-d-xo.html). It is also from Nobuo Uematsu, the composer from "One Winged Angel" that you reacted sometime ago. Love your videos! Greetings from Brazil!
Love all of Knopfler's and Dire Straits' stuff. But this song has a special place, because even though Roy Bittan's piano gives Tunnel of Love and Hand in Hand a distinctly Springsteen vibe on this album, R&J is unabashedly Dylanesque in style and lyricism.
Would love to hear your review of "Industrial Disease" as well as "Private Investigations" both by dIRE sTRAITS. These songs don't get enough exposure in the review format and are both excellent although different from anything else done by the group. I'm sure you will enjoy them if you don't know them already.
There is something that resonates the soul in that opening and continuing guitar riff - just a simple variation of an arpeggio, but still so sweet and haunting... Anyway, Doug you should watch/listen to this live version which is much more developed and polished; and the piano intro is stunning: th-cam.com/video/vyI9flHHT2Q/w-d-xo.html ( Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - Romeo And Juliet (Real Live Roadrunning | Official Live Video) ) (actually EmmyLou Harris does not perform in this song)
I always put Mark Knopfler and Colin Hay in a similar category. In hugely popular bands in the late 70s/early 80s. Long singer/songwriter career which was probably less profitable, but highlighted the immense talent of the lead artists.
This song is about Mark’s high school crush. Holly Vincent used Mark to get ice cream in the school lunch cafeteria but dumped him after prom. He later wrote this to chronicle how she used him. Sad, young love.
This is a short list of songs from VERY VERY skilled bands with different genre Unexpect - Desert Urbania Unexpect - Megalomaniac tree Animals as leaders - CAFO Animals as leaders - Ka$cade Planet X - Quantum factor Planet X - Desert girl Pomegranate Tiger - Cyclic Jason Richardson & Luke Holland - Tendinitis Pomegranate Tiger - Entities (album) Snarky puppy - Outlier Cloudkicker - Beacons (album) Planet X - Ataraxia (just put it at 5:47 lol, its 3 times 15/16 followed by some wizard stuff lol)
I looked back through your history and didn’t see some notable fun to react to bands. Some Mark Tremonti music (Creed, AlterBridge, Tremonti) can be interesting due to Mark’s knowledge of music theory and unique guitar style. Avenged Sevenfold have some classical training and introduce a lot of unique sounds to their songs, like dual lead riffs with the notes that are thirds or fifths apart, piano melodies behind distorted guitars, and harmony vocals. Or the song Some Kind of Heaven having influences from oingo boingo and Danny elfman. Linkin Park’s singers Chester and Mike and their different styles that compliment each other, along with Chester’s absolute mastery of his vocals makes any of their basic four chord progression songs sound amazing and distinct among every other band in the genre. They were the Metallica of 90s nu metal but they grew as musicians over their 20 years of playing
I've seen you dip into some gaming music. I would highly suggest giving the Prologue of Shadow of the Colossus a listen, still one of my favorite introductions to a game ever.
I appreciate the happy interpretation but I always took the end to mean that Romeo was trying the come-on line with completely different person, Juliet having moved on and away.
This came out in 1980 when I was dating a girl that summer. But that fall she went away to college and my job took me away to another place. We met one last time before the final split. This is the theme song of our romance. It was just that the time wasnt right. And this song haunts me to this day.
Yep. This is why we have the good fortune for music like this to be the placeholders of these big events in our lives. Its what makes these songs so precious.
This song is autobiographical. Mark Knopflerdated a girl in a punk band named Holly Vincent. They broke up and she said in an interview When asked about him said "I used to have a scene with him" the words he used in The song. Knopfler felt like she used him to become more well known and that's what the song was about at least partially
"How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?" you can feel the intensity of how much that relationship stung.
F'ing brilliant.
Almost all of his songs are
MK: I can't do a love song, like the way it's meant to be.
Me: Mr. Knopfler, I beg to differ.
One night back in about 81 my soon to be wife and I were driving from Canberra to home in Sydney. This song was on a mix tape and I had to pull off the road because I was a blubbering mess so absolutely and completely in love with that girl. 43 years later and we're still married and this song still gives me goosebumps.
What can I say but AH!
It really is that kind of song.
Beautiful
"All I do is kiss you, through the bars of a rhyme" - brilliant!
Many years ago, I praised the writing in that bridge in another comment section and got told to "Take your meds, old man".
I read somewhere that when Bob Dylan heard that line he knew he wanted to enlist Marks help on his next album which became Infidels
a prison & paradise
Yes, one of my favourite lines of all time!
..and I bet and you exploded into my heart….is my favourite line. Genius
“Why Worry” by Dire Straits is one of the prettiest songs that you will ever hear.
@stevenewcomer8837. You may have already seen this. Saw an interview with Mark Knopfler before his guitar collection auction recently. When asked about “Why Worry”, Mark said that he had written the song in too high a key for his voice - even back then and then dubbed his own tune “Why Bother”! I believe Mark wrote this song with The Everly Brothers (RIP) in mind. Don and Phil did actually sing the song on a show Mark did with Chet Atkins called “Certified Guitar Player” back in the last century. Stay safe and well.
I totally agree. One of my absolute favorite songs.
Another super breakdown of a classic tune, Doug. Mark Knopfler is a wonderful songsmith. It would be great if you had a listen to "Private Investigations" on the Dire Straits album 'Love Over Gold' - it's a wonderful moody and dynamic piece which I'm sure you'll find very interesting🙂
or to love over gold (the song). That album is a masterpiece, from start to end
@@ivansanchez143The chords in Love Over Gold are crazy for a rock guitarist. Mark's one of a kind.
One of the greatest attributes of MK and Dire Straits-every song is even better live. Every single one.
You are mostly wrong The songs on Alchemy Live, for instance, are pale shadows of the studio versions. There are a few exceptions. The Mandela Concert versions of this and Brothers, for instance. I saw them live a couple of times. Mark had a disconcerting need to improvise everywhere without the cameras in attendance and ignored signature phrases that fans had travelled miles to hear. Studio versions all day for me.
@thunderroad5127 agree. They belonged to a race of rock musicians (nowadays almost extinct) that enjoyed playing around their songs in a live setting so they became something else. In the case of Knopfler & Co. they succeeded in improving them. For instance, there are some songs out of "Brothers In Arms" or "On Every Street" I never quite enjoyed in studio, and love their live counterparts in "On The Night", like "Your Latest Trick" or "Calling Elvis"
@@sillysausage4549 Thank you for your baseless opinion.
@RideAcrossTheRiver why is it "baseless"? Because it differs to yours? I saw them live. Twice. They were crap both times. So grow the fuck up.
@RideAcrossTheRiver why is "baseless"? Because it differs to yours? Being a fan of their music, and attending two disappointing live shows, is all the license I need to voice my opinion. If you disagree, fine, but your comment was utterly narcissistic, much like the OPs.
Hi Doug, You should immediately follow this with Bruce Springsteen Jungleland. It starts with the same riff but on piano. Bruce's piano man Roy Bittan plays on both tracks. It's Bruces take on West Side Story which is Bernstein's take on Romeo and Juliet. Of course Mark closes the circuit by referring to Theres a place for us. Loved your analysis.
I never listened that closely to Jungleland to get the West Side Story reference, but I definitely agree that Doug should listen to it.
Didn’t think of that!!!
Used to work in a kitchen at an Australian footy club as a teenager. The publican on Friday nights played this album without fail.
Agreed. For me these lyrics are some of the smartest you'll find in rock. Brilliant poetry.
"When we made love, you used to cry." What an amazing line.
An absolute all timer. The Indigo Girls version is spectacular also.
I still remember the girl I was with when this came out, something happened and she was in tears and I said we were forever...we weren't but for that moment we were. Can't hear this song without seeing her face. What more can you ask of art?
One of my all time favorites. Watched lots of reactions to this….You’re the first reactor that caught the West Side Story/There’s a Place for Us reference! Love that part!
The West Side Story reference, both musically & lyrically always jumps out at me &lifts the song too.
making movies is a real classic album. another underrated song from it is 'Skateaway' and 'Les boys
The introductory guitar part is played on a 1930's era National Resonator Guitar. If you've ever had the privilege of holding one of these guitars, they are works of art. It's the same guitar as pictured on the Brothers in Arms album cover. Knopfler has since gone on record as regretting putting the guitar on the album cover, as it resulted in prices for original National Resonators climbing up into 6-figure territory. It's an incredibly distinctive guitar part. Played in Open-D tuning. An absolutely gorgeous song.
Absolutely. Duolian resonator from National ( i owned one in 2014, not from 34’ of course)
Mark played this in Open G with a capo at the 3rd fret putting it into B flat.
You’d LOVE Telegraph Road, it’s long and complex and just poetry
The version of this song in their live performance "On the night" is the absolute best.,
Oh yes! Totally awesome.
My fave is the version at the Mandela concert -- killer sax solo.
That sax solo…
I have no idea why, but this song makes me cry hard every time I hear it. I'm not even a fan of Dire Straits. It's just gorgeous ❤
"I can't do everything, but I'd do anything for you." -- One of the best lines ever written.
The live version, from "Alchemy", is much better!
Flip to 'Tunnel of Love', the guitar 'solo' by Knopfler at the end is just unparalled in its build break and beauty...
Agreed. Tunnel of love for me is one of their best tracks if not, THE best. The quiet section in the middle that gradually increases in loudness and tempo and then the fade out guitar that could go on for another 10 minutes for me and it would not be enough
Greatest A side in music history.
I've been in love with this song for some decades now. Great to know your thoughts on it.
On Live Alchemy, the song stretches to about 8:30. Most everything on that record takes its time getting there, and for good reason.
"You'll fall for chains of silver. You'll fall for chains of gold. You'll fall for pretty strangers, and the promises they hold". Mark Knopfler the poet!
One of two songs that bring a tear to my eye. This for the loss of my first love and, Mike and the Mechanics’ The Living Years for the death of my father.
If you listen to the piano during the coda; he starts dropping the intro hook melody for "Love Over Gold" into that repeating 4 to 5 ostinato. They used to use that as a way to segue from one song to the other.
Are you sure?
One of my Dire Straits faves. Thank you. May I suggest a track that (I humbly predict) you will love? Van Morrison singing Into The Mystic. It's very layered, with plenty to get your teeth into, including the beautiful piano that you really have to listen out for but which, once you've heard it, you feel is integral and the song would be hugely diminished without it.
the pinnacle of their work. doesn't get better than this
"A Place For Us" was a song in West Side Story
Which is based on Romeo and Juliet by The Bard.
The first time I heard this was a cover by Indigo Girls. While a bit overwrought, I felt the pain more in Amy Ray's voice than I do in Mark's, which has always struck me as a bit cold and monotone. Regardless, a great song!
"Mark Knopfler has an extraordinary ability to make a Schecter custom Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night, exhausted from being good all week, and needing a stiff drink, which is not strictly relevant since the record had not yet gotten to that bit, but there will be too much else going on when it does, and furthermore the chronicler does not intend to sit by with a track list and a stopwatch so it seems best to mention it now while things are still moving slowly." -- Douglas Adams ("So Long and Thanks For All the Fish")
"...that bit" is either "Romeo and Juliet", or the guitar solo from "Tunnel of Love", also from the same album.
This is one of the best drums ever recorded! Playwise and soundwise..
It’s unresolved, as is the story….pretty simple.
I think this is my favorite Dire Straits song.....endlessly jockeying for position with Sultans of Swing.
Mark wrote this about his relationship with Holly Vincent, she broke up with him after she signed a record deal and Mark felt like she used him, she said in an interview "Mark Knopfler?, yeah, I used to have a scene with him"
i really enjoy watching your videos!! i love pink floyd so it made me happy to watch your pink floyd videos. so i have a few requests for you to react to!!
1- gorillaz - demon days or plastic beach
2- rush - signals
i don’t know if you’ve heard these songs or have reacted to them in the past, but i would really like seeing you react to them!
Started listening to dire straits aged 7 and still listening aged 47!!. Great to hear your thoughts. Knopfler great on guitar but also a fabulous songwriter.
Roy Bitton on keys .. on hiatus from Bruce’s estreeters.. he also did stellar work on meatloaf’s ’bat out of hell’ Bruce calls him the professor.. mark knoffler could play guitar, but could compose a great tune.. great sense of timing
The live version from the album on the night is 100 times better than the studio version
Dr. Helvering, greetings from the UK. I wish to commend you not only for the fine choice of material you select for reaction but also for your thoughtful, attentive and intelligent approach to them. Moreover, unlike most Americans (if that is indeed what you are) you are able to talk without saying the word 'like' constantly and unnecessarily. Others might have said, "That was, like, F sharp major which is just above, like, F major, and like totally great and stuff." It is refreshing and a pleasure. Fine work, Sir. I thought a helvering was a fish of some sort but I'm not quite myself today.
This is just like Billy Joel's Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, in the way the protagonist's end up. Brenda and Eddie end up just like this version of Romeo and Juliette!
My favourite DS song. There's just something about it that plucks my heartstrings the right way ...
The brilliance of the words and MK's compositions aside, what the song is famous for is MK's use of the 1937 National Resonator Steel Guitar (borrowed at that time from his good friend Steve Phillips). The opening guitar chords give the unique sound of that acoustic steel Resonator guitar... Then, there's that heavenly drumming by Pick Withers. Classic!!
You need to react to Mark Knopfler's new stuff....especially Ahead of the Game.
I just love "You and me, babe. How about it?" as the world's worst pickup line.
But apparently it worked as Juliet responds "Whatcha gonna do about it?" Are you going to follow through with the bravado necessary to be that forward?
Kissed you through the bars of a rhyme classic songwriting! The live version at on the night in 1993 or in Australia 1986 are amazing and have 2 sax solos
The Romeo and Juliet story has had so many different variations on it and this is right up there with the best. If he were alive today I think Bill would approve!
Mark is a poet who d3veloped a picking style on a guitar, that is supreme.
He is left handed, and changed to playing right handed early when his sister said that doesnt look right.
Everybody plays the other way.
If you want something different from Mark Knopfler try his solo song Cannibals, or Poor Boy Blues with Chet Atkins🇨🇦🇨🇦
What?! Not "Romeo & Juliet" by Emerson, Lake & Palmer? (Come on ! It's by Prokofiev!) I'll be back when you do that one.
it's a crime you should have reacted to the On the Night Version... it's a whole different song
It really is a shame. It's the best version. I get goosebumps every time.
Such a great song… lots of emotional layers, smart lyrics, and the playing is stellar as you’d expect with Dire Straits
A great song from a great album.
Doug did you saw them playing live ? It was one of my first concerts... all these songs were there... Romeo & Juliet, Tunnel of Love, Telegraph Road, Sultans of Swing...
Always reminds me of my not-quite-girlfriend in college back in the late 80s
It has been said that Rush would have been Shakespeare's favorite rock band, and I can't argue with that, but Mark Knopfler is a bard of the first tier. So many songs out there have lyrics which do not fit the tempo or energy of the music, or vice versa. Dire Straits songs are never so; the mood of the music is always a perfect match to the words of the story being told.
I'd love you to look at Killers 'Human'
The song is sad. The guy loved a girl who didn't love him. In the end he has accepted she has rejected him, so he repeats the things he did before again and again with new strangers, bound to fail.
Live versions are good, especially with the unusual chords that finish the song to go to Sultans of Swing or Private Investigations
Always loved this. The dobro guitar sound speaks of the aching heart, and Mark Knopfler's liquid lead phrases at the end are heroic and bluesy at the same time. You just can't escape the romance of this.
Can you do a reaction to Thunderclap OST of Jujutsu Kaisen. It just hits the spot.
…the amount of times I had to play this song on the guitar at the request of a girl at a party (Dust in the Wind and others as well of course)… 🤣
This my favorite Dire Straights song. The feeling of pain, loss and resignation in it is palpable.
Like the show but you kept talking over some of the best lyrics. Gotta watch out for that.
This song gives me the chills.
I first heard this song in the movie Can't Hardly Wait back in 98, and I insta fell in love! My girlfriend and I watched it in Cinema in Cincinnati, OH when we were still in high school. There's no mobile phones back then, I had to write the lyrics in a tissue paper when we ate at McDonald's after the movie. I was onloy able to write "romeo-juliet song with guitar". I found which song it was only in 2002. Now, it's in my spotify and in there forever. Thank you Jennifer Love-Hewitt.
where I first heard it too. Thank you to that movie for introducing me to this masterpiece.
Have you heard or reacted to Viva la vida of coldplay? If not, please do.
not sure you appreciate the guitar work, seen it before with other players
Speaking through the music is not a good idea.........
this channel rocks! Have you ever thought about analyzing musicals? I would love to see your gears turn listening to the genius that is Stephen Sondheim or Claude-Michel Schönberg
Love the live version with Emmylou Harris brilliant
My favorite version.
The Alchemy Live version is wonderful
She used him to further the progress of the band she was in
Oh Doug. Their story is absolutely over.
Love these videos - please do Skateaway
The Killers do a good live turn of this tune
Great pick! I first heard this song as a cover by The Killers and loved it immediately. Whenever you're feeling like gaming music again you should definitely check out Megalovania from Undertale (both the chiptune original and the orchestra version). Also, I would love it if you took a look at a great Canadian group, Walk off the Earth. I would recommend their original Farther We Go (acapella version), but what they're really known for is their amazing covers where they use a wide variety of instruments and every object to create an incredibly rich acoustic sound.
The finest love song of all time......Genius
Storytelling by a genius musician….
I prefer the On The Night version. More mature
Best love song ever, try the live version, is even better
You should do my chemical romance , ghost of you
A truly bittersweet symphony.... I was a big fan of Pick Withers' drumming. And Roy Bittan was borrowed from Springsteen's E Street Band....
OZZY OSBORNE - SUICIDE SOLUTION (off the live album "TRIBUTE". Features RANDY THE SOLO
Love to see you cover Mark's greatest work, the Theme to Local Hero. I think the Night in London version is best, but regardless if you choose the mid-80's, early 90's, late 90's, mid 2000's or mid 2010's version - you get to see what an artist of this caliber sounds like after 30 years practice....
I would love to see you react to the "Dancing Mad" from the game Final Fantasy VI. There is a orchestrated version that is amazing (th-cam.com/video/jMFCM0SKbnY/w-d-xo.html). It is also from Nobuo Uematsu, the composer from "One Winged Angel" that you reacted sometime ago. Love your videos! Greetings from Brazil!
I'll never forgive Mark Knopfler from sacking his brother David, author of a beautiful song called The Siren that really worths a call.
Love all of Knopfler's and Dire Straits' stuff. But this song has a special place, because even though Roy Bittan's piano gives Tunnel of Love and Hand in Hand a distinctly Springsteen vibe on this album, R&J is unabashedly Dylanesque in style and lyricism.
One of the saddest love songs ever written...
If possible, I'd like to see a reaction video of the track "You Say Run" from the anime series 'My Hero Academia' by composer Yuki Hayashi
Would love to hear your review of "Industrial Disease" as well as "Private Investigations" both by dIRE sTRAITS.
These songs don't get enough exposure in the review format and are both excellent although different from anything else done by the group.
I'm sure you will enjoy them if you don't know them already.
There is something that resonates the soul in that opening and continuing guitar riff - just a simple variation of an arpeggio, but still so sweet and haunting... Anyway, Doug you should watch/listen to this live version which is much more developed and polished; and the piano intro is stunning:
th-cam.com/video/vyI9flHHT2Q/w-d-xo.html ( Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - Romeo And Juliet (Real Live Roadrunning | Official Live Video) ) (actually EmmyLou Harris does not perform in this song)
I always put Mark Knopfler and Colin Hay in a similar category. In hugely popular bands in the late 70s/early 80s. Long singer/songwriter career which was probably less profitable, but highlighted the immense talent of the lead artists.
This song is about Mark’s high school crush. Holly Vincent used Mark to get ice cream in the school lunch cafeteria but dumped him after prom. He later wrote this to chronicle how she used him. Sad, young love.
This is a short list of songs from VERY VERY skilled bands with different genre
Unexpect - Desert Urbania
Unexpect - Megalomaniac tree
Animals as leaders - CAFO
Animals as leaders - Ka$cade
Planet X - Quantum factor
Planet X - Desert girl
Pomegranate Tiger - Cyclic
Jason Richardson & Luke Holland - Tendinitis
Pomegranate Tiger - Entities (album)
Snarky puppy - Outlier
Cloudkicker - Beacons (album)
Planet X - Ataraxia (just put it at 5:47 lol, its 3 times 15/16 followed by some wizard stuff lol)
I looked back through your history and didn’t see some notable fun to react to bands.
Some Mark Tremonti music (Creed, AlterBridge, Tremonti) can be interesting due to Mark’s knowledge of music theory and unique guitar style.
Avenged Sevenfold have some classical training and introduce a lot of unique sounds to their songs, like dual lead riffs with the notes that are thirds or fifths apart, piano melodies behind distorted guitars, and harmony vocals. Or the song Some Kind of Heaven having influences from oingo boingo and Danny elfman.
Linkin Park’s singers Chester and Mike and their different styles that compliment each other, along with Chester’s absolute mastery of his vocals makes any of their basic four chord progression songs sound amazing and distinct among every other band in the genre. They were the Metallica of 90s nu metal but they grew as musicians over their 20 years of playing
I've seen you dip into some gaming music. I would highly suggest giving the Prologue of Shadow of the Colossus a listen, still one of my favorite introductions to a game ever.
Would highly recommend works by Yuki Kaijura (such as Mezame)
She has a whole reprise set of videos!
I appreciate the happy interpretation but I always took the end to mean that Romeo was trying the come-on line with completely different person, Juliet having moved on and away.
Hey Doug o/, can you do the Reaction/Analysis of The Song of Hope from Octopath Traveler 2 ?
Oddly enough, Romeo and Juliet is - as I understand it - mostly about getting over an old love and moving on. Happy Valentine's Day!
This came out in 1980 when I was dating a girl that summer. But that fall she went away to college and my job took me away to another place. We met one last time before the final split. This is the theme song of our romance. It was just that the time wasnt right. And this song haunts me to this day.
43 years ago and I can feel your emotion reading that 😢
Yep. This is why we have the good fortune for music like this to be the placeholders of these big events in our lives. Its what makes these songs so precious.