There's still loads of talent. You just can't be lazy and have to find it yourself as theres much more choice (and by that, more music you don't like.)
Music is subjective - what you like isnt what i like necessarily, so without knowing what you like im at a loss. But you know that. Secondly. Stop being lazy and get with the times. We cant rely on radio or TV to tell us what to listen to and think. Lastly, stop being lazy, thats the problem with older generations - always wanting spoon fed.
@@lcsmith11 Man, if you're not hearing great new music, you aren't even trying. This song is amazing, Mark Knopfler is crazy talented, but there's so much good music and great artists today, it's crazy!
If you watch his later versions of this song, you can see how his feeling about it changes. From hopeful, to indifferent, to regretful, to resigned nostalgia. There was a real person behind this song.
I can't do the talks like they talk on the TV And I can't do a love song like the way it's meant to be I can't do everything but I'll do anything for you I can't do anything except be in love with you And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be All I do is keep the beat, the bad company All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme Juliet, I'd do the stars with you any time The greatest verse ever written and I'm not having it any other way. Still brings a tear to my eye when I listen and think back, even 40 years later.
I got engaged to my first love Marci in1981. Between this song and Tunnel of Love I could and believe I still am in love with that beautiful Italian girl. This song is about her. I wish I could talk to her.
The first time I heard this my heart stopped for a second. Had never heard anything like it, it moved me so much. I was in my twenties and it was so emotional it took me decades to be able to hear it again. Music is sooo powerful.
I love this song & it reminds me, of a guy that I used to go out with year's ago & has since passed away... I always carried a torch for you Ed & this song reminds me of us & what we could of had, had we not been so young & reckless. 🙏
Romeo & Juliet and Tunnel of Love. two of the best songs ever by the only guy who can make a guitar talk. No other guitarist has ever mastered the instrument in this fashion.
He writes incredible love songs. Was my favorite band for a min in high school. 80’s. I now listen to knopfler more, and often. And now I’m overwhelmed when I hear songs like this. Hard not to cry.
I cry every time I hear this, and I'm a 48 year old man, Gulf War and Afghan vet, but jeeeez this is the greatest love song ever written and it'd take a harder man than me not to be moved - wishing you all a happy and healthy life x
Blows my mind to think that I'm as far away in time now from this song, this wonderful album, as my Dad was from his Tommy Dorsey and his George Shearing when I was listening to this originally back in 1980...where do the years go?
Tremendous lyric, arrangement, and of course masterful musicianship. There's everything in this that's supposed to be there if you wanted to pick it apart and study it. But you get all of that just listening to it.
I first heard this driving very early in the morning . I thought it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. Maybe it’s because I was sort of half sleepy, half driving and this magnificent piece on the radio. No other cars around, just me and Romeo and Juliet. I later found the song on Google.
A timeless classic. Most musicians today cant get near this. As a musician I can tell you why. No imagination, relying too much on technology, loop background sound, repetitive lyrics, shouting instead of singinging, over use of vocal gymnastics and a dull souless beat. The 60's produced some great music without a third of the stuff modern musicians have. Theees no magic, little feeling and maybe its just about the money and 5 minutes of fame. Sorry but the proof is Dire Staights and the way they got it all together.
Captures that feeling when a man truly loves a woman...even though he may know the time is wrong, yet the undying hope to reignite that spark pours out of the line - “you and me babe, how bout it?” Powerful...
One of Knopfler's loveliest songs, and maybe his all-around greatest composition. "Romeo and Juliet" bridges Shakespeare, West Side Story and a modern rock 'n' roll love story where fame, not family, is keeping the young lovers apart.
My son and I were in a Hotel in Luxor,Egypt a few years ago when a resident guitarist started to play and sing this and no offence to Dire Straits it was the best version I ever heard. Made me cry I could barely eat. I wish I'd found out more about him!💕🥲
La mia adolescenza ormai perduta...sono passati gli anni...sono passati i sogni. Resta solo il ricordo di momenti indimenticabili e una vita piena di rimpianti.❤😢
I truly love this. Any of you guys watch the show with mark and the AC/DC guy? Class programme. This song is legendary. He spoke and sang this. Certainly a different style. Legendary music. There will never be anything like this kind of music again.
Brings back memories of someone who was very special, I do realise the time was wrong, too much crap going off in my life that as a 15 year old I couldn't voice to a 17 year old boy 😢 The dice was definitely loaded against us, I'm so sorry
Faz tanto tempo que eu a ouvi, mas até hoje sinto o mesmo que na primeira vez. Parece que essa canção tem alma.🎶A love struck Romeo sings the street so serenade 🎶.
2024 still my favourite song of all times
Totally agree...its mind blowing!
Remember MUSIC? Remember real talent? I do. Thank God we still can listen to this to this day.
Glad I'm not the only one who feels that way
There's still loads of talent. You just can't be lazy and have to find it yourself as theres much more choice (and by that, more music you don't like.)
@@Ryan-vg4wn Please enlighten us, I'd love to hear some of this great new music
Music is subjective - what you like isnt what i like necessarily, so without knowing what you like im at a loss. But you know that.
Secondly. Stop being lazy and get with the times. We cant rely on radio or TV to tell us what to listen to and think.
Lastly, stop being lazy, thats the problem with older generations - always wanting spoon fed.
@@lcsmith11 Man, if you're not hearing great new music, you aren't even trying.
This song is amazing, Mark Knopfler is crazy talented, but there's so much good music and great artists today, it's crazy!
If you watch his later versions of this song, you can see how his feeling about it changes. From hopeful, to indifferent, to regretful, to resigned nostalgia. There was a real person behind this song.
You know its true
Can you blame him though !
the Alchemy "live" version is quite perfect
you promised me thick and thin, wow
j
Yes there was
It is a beautiful song. Well played.
Hard to find a love song like this today.
This song is the best love song that's ever been written!
I get tears in my eyes every time I hear this song. Classic love song. A masterpiece
In my opinion, the best song ever written. Thats a big statement.
It's a great song
A story Springsteen might have written, with virtuoso guitar playing (simple, but so sweet)
A great song
Thats not your only opinion. Me too !! 😂🎉
I can't do the talks like they talk on the TV
And I can't do a love song like the way it's meant to be
I can't do everything but I'll do anything for you
I can't do anything except be in love with you
And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be
All I do is keep the beat, the bad company
All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme
Juliet, I'd do the stars with you any time
The greatest verse ever written and I'm not having it any other way. Still brings a tear to my eye when I listen and think back, even 40 years later.
❤🙏
You are in love sir,those feeling wont last..so tht those whom you love..theres certain time they d be called
I got engaged to my first love Marci in1981. Between this song and Tunnel of Love I could and believe I still am in love with that beautiful Italian girl. This song is about her. I wish I could talk to her.
Who ever is watching this is an absalout legend!!!!!!
Why, yes. Yes I Am.
😎
tanks!
Yes indeed
There is something about 80’s, was magic!
Concordo con te...eravamo giovani e sapevamo sognare...eravamo semplici e felici. E forse non sapevamo di esserlo. Oggi ci restano solo i ricordi. 😢❤
40 years later , still love this
Takes me back to a very simple time in my life ...
The first time I heard this my heart stopped for a second. Had never heard anything like it, it moved me so much. I was in my twenties and it was so emotional it took me decades to be able to hear it again.
Music is sooo powerful.
One of the best songs of all time
I absolutely love this song. Lyrical perfection.
One of my favourite Dire Straits songs! love it.
Mine too Kevin!!
I love this song & it reminds me, of a guy that I used to go out with year's ago & has since passed away... I always carried a torch for you Ed & this song reminds me of us & what we could of had, had we not been so young & reckless. 🙏
Best song ever was my dad's favourite song 2 dire straights sheer brilliance real music amigos
Romeo & Juliet and Tunnel of Love. two of the best songs ever by the only guy who can make a guitar talk. No other guitarist has ever mastered the instrument in this fashion.
He writes incredible love songs. Was my favorite band for a min in high school. 80’s. I now listen to knopfler more, and often. And now I’m overwhelmed when I hear songs like this. Hard not to cry.
I cry every time I hear this, and I'm a 48 year old man, Gulf War and Afghan vet, but jeeeez this is the greatest love song ever written and it'd take a harder man than me not to be moved - wishing you all a happy and healthy life x
Hard? Try impossible. #StaySafe
Mk is a walking talking singing legend.
Absolute poetic and musical genius...
“You and me babe, how about it?” 😍🥰😘
You shouldn’t come around here, singing up to people like that ❤️
How about it
@Mis Tery juliet
@@julieberry8523 anyway, what you gonna do about it?
Blows my mind to think that I'm as far away in time now from this song, this wonderful album, as my Dad was from his Tommy Dorsey and his George Shearing when I was listening to this originally back in 1980...where do the years go?
Probably the best live version for me,so emotional 🎸🎶❤️💯
Tremendous lyric, arrangement, and of course masterful musicianship. There's everything in this that's supposed to be there if you wanted to pick it apart and study it. But you get all of that just listening to it.
I first heard this driving very early in the morning . I thought it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. Maybe it’s because I was sort of half sleepy, half driving and this magnificent piece on the radio. No other cars around, just me and Romeo and Juliet. I later found the song on Google.
Listened to this full blast every day when i was 16 🥰
Such a romantic song. I want that love.
Yes, but look what disaster befell the real Romeo and Juliet !
The complete song! Amazing lyrics, amazing guitar, emotions. Wow!
You snd me babe , how about it ? Brilliant in its simplicity . Great lyrics overall !
I sang this everywhere...... those days were memorable. Got all Straits albums.
Tmb tenho todos os álbuns do Dire Straits.
just that the time was wrong. Love this line
The greatest love song ever written. Please give me another chance my Irish beauty, the love of my life....
This album has a massive poignant significance in my life. Wow!
I saw them in 81 in Germany! Awesome live!
Oh my word, as soon as i hear that very first picking.......🎉🍃🌱☕️💗
My favorite Dire Straits song. When this song was being played on the radio in the 80s, I was in love, but the time was wrong.
Brings back a lot of memories.
Yep, me too. A special occasion for a 16 year old me........ I wonder how Joyce is x
One of the best songs ever made . Rip chaza
A timeless classic. Most musicians today cant get near this. As a musician I can tell you why. No imagination, relying too much on technology, loop background sound, repetitive lyrics, shouting instead of singinging, over use of vocal gymnastics and a dull souless beat.
The 60's produced some great music without a third of the stuff modern musicians have. Theees no magic, little feeling and maybe its just about the money and 5 minutes of fame.
Sorry but the proof is Dire Staights and the way they got it all together.
Captures that feeling when a man truly loves a woman...even though he may know the time is wrong, yet the undying hope to reignite that spark pours out of the line - “you and me babe, how bout it?” Powerful...
Amen brother...
My favorite song by them
An amazing and underrated guitar player
Absolute masterpiece
One of Knopfler's loveliest songs, and maybe his all-around greatest composition.
"Romeo and Juliet" bridges Shakespeare, West Side Story and a modern rock 'n' roll love story where fame, not family, is keeping the young lovers apart.
My son and I were in a Hotel in Luxor,Egypt a few years ago when a resident guitarist started to play and sing this and no offence to Dire Straits it was the best version I ever heard. Made me cry I could barely eat. I wish I'd found out more about him!💕🥲
When my 1month old baby won’t sleep in the middle of the night, I would play this song in the background to gently make him sleep ❤❤❤
Wow fantastic song Romantic love this Song....
La mia adolescenza ormai perduta...sono passati gli anni...sono passati i sogni. Resta solo il ricordo di momenti indimenticabili e una vita piena di rimpianti.❤😢
The most beautiful song ever. There is a live version with Clapton. Don't take that off your bucket list. It is truly amazing! Makes me cry...
Maria Vlahon-Elgin makes me cry too. I can literally see their tragic love story thru this song.
This song affects me to this day...makes me think of love and loss..
Just listened to it, thank you
Dire straits forever!
Wiw everytime i listen this song i fall in love❤
Romeo and Juliet..... l' amore puro, che non conosce limiti... l' amore eterno.
Brano che entra nel ❤.😢
2024 and still listening
I truly love this. Any of you guys watch the show with mark and the AC/DC guy? Class programme. This song is legendary. He spoke and sang this. Certainly a different style. Legendary music. There will never be anything like this kind of music again.
Flawless..just perfection.
What a beautiful song! Do I need to say no more?xx
Great lyrics but the music is even more beautiful.
Stirs me every time, love it
I listen to this every day , what a classic
came up to play this song at a wedding - love the song since then and love the wedding couple for having me play this song :-)
Beautiful song, always loved it. 💕🌹🎶
Brings back memories of someone who was very special, I do realise the time was wrong, too much crap going off in my life that as a 15 year old I couldn't voice to a 17 year old boy 😢 The dice was definitely loaded against us, I'm so sorry
Hard to pick a 'best song' by Dire Straits... but this would come close to being just that... So many brilliant songs.
There's no best Dire Straits song in my view. So many incredible songs they made - impossible to choose just one.
@@captainteach007 A very true comment.
Ouvi a primeira vez no rádio em 1980. Talvez eu tenha chorado com o toque de guitarra do final... Eu tinha 6 anos...
Great tune ❤
The background song of anyone growing up in 80s
Makes me cry every time 💘
Faz tanto tempo que eu a ouvi, mas até hoje sinto o mesmo que na primeira vez. Parece que essa canção tem alma.🎶A love struck Romeo sings the street so serenade 🎶.
Masterpiece
Reminds me of my first love Lea IRELAND never stopped loving him
Great poetry. Love the strings. First heard this song in my high school friend's home and always Loved it.
I love the tune🎶. It stuck up in my head.. And i feel 😭
I will never forget the first time I ever heard this song. Moved my heart and still does.
Love this song so much . You and me babe how about it!!! ❤
lyrics just beautiful.
This is still my favourite song ever
Finally found him again and been through alot in my life and thought I'd go through this all my life
Glad we are together again and in love more than ever xxx
Saw them live awesome
Masterpiece song will be forever in our hearts ♥♥♥
2022, ho 43 anni e sono fiera di sapermi ancora commuovere con questa canzone come quando ero ragazzina....
Pura poesia....
அருமையான பாடல் Im 62 now it was the fantastic memory 80s
Que hermosa está canción , nostalgia pura
to feel that passion
A TIMELESS MASTERPIECE
Brendan O'Dell ❤❤
Loved and missed so much!!
Real music 🤌
I loved him best with his brother.
My most favourite song...ever
Absolutely Incredible tune
A te fratellone mio, che me li hai fatti ascoltare all'infinito... grazie anche per questo ❤
Ed è vero gli somigliavi, ma tu... infinitamente più bello! 😉
IO E TE PER SEMPRE 💚
Incredible lyrics.
Fantastic still
Great I love this song.
Love this song makes me cry,!x
Wow what a hidden gem
2024 still a classic...saw them in Paris 1982 I think ...❤
❤era gia al massimo cosi giovane la sua bravura è diventata unica inconfondibile grande Mark il migliore in assoluto ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Beautiful.❤
My favourite song of forever
Oh man, beautiful xxx
Dire straits never forget