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My dad played this for me when I was 8, and it was an epiphany. I really was too young to appreciate it. I listen to it every year around my birthday to appreciate it again.
A one hit wonder wouldnt have one of the GREATEST guitarist of all time, Mark Knopfler. :) Hope you've found more of their music! @@joaopedroandrade2576
Get a hold of Mark Knopfler live at The Royal Albert Hall 1996. One of the best live shows I've heard. Granted Dire Straits had parted ways, but Knopfler was still outstanding.
I never see the point of "reaction videos". If you want to listen to Dire Straights, why not just listen to Dire Straights? Why watch some bloke listening to Dire Straights?
@@JimboPrague Just a way to partially relive that first time listening to songs we consider legends and have heard hundreds of times. Even it’s it’s not the first time this guy has ever heard the tune, there is a difference when you actually sit down and pay attention to the music
@@JimboPrague No need to spell it wrong 3 times, especially when it's spelt out for you on the video title. Dire *STRAITS* To answer your question, it's interesting to see reactions from people who hear it for the first time. Here's a tip for you, if you don't like reaction videos, don't click on them.. Why the hell would you even click on something you don't like? Pretty pointless if you ask me.
I didn’t like this song as a teenager, now it’s one of my favorites!! My oldest sister, RIP Renee’, always told me my taste in music would change as I got older, she was sooooooo right about so many things! How I miss her ❤
This song was released in the US almost 4 months after I became a scientific glassblower apprentice. To this day, hearing it still reminds me of driving home after work, after I hung the torch up for the day. Last year in July, I semi-retired after 44 years blowing glass. Sultans of Swing is a fine addition to my songs of a lifetime playlist. And hearing it again while watching someone's first listen AND while blowing glass in my garage is a great way to spend my afternoon.
Now you are on the Dire Straits train, I recommend checking out Brothers in Arms and in particular the live version from Wembley Stadium in 1988 when the band headlined the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute Concert which was watched by 200m people worldwide. It was still a couple of years before Mandela would finally be released from his 27 year imprisonment by the South African government and Mark Knopfler, songwriter/singer/lead guitarist got quite emotional performing this one. Eric Clapton joined the band for this concert to play rhythm guitar because the wife of their regular guitarist at the time had just given birth.
I've just got to say that I really appreciate that you let the song play through in it's entirety and don't pause it all the time. Just vibing to it and letting it run.
Yea, It's even better if you listen to their album, because that's how Dire Straits come in wholesome fully rounded package packed with all the stuff including emotions and everything music can give an opened heart and therefore ears too. Enjoy Mamaan!
If I could only let you hear this song in the same context that I heard it the first time you might understand its emotional significance to us boomers. In an era when all the songs on the radio -- the AM radio -- were disco and early techno garbage, those of us who were being pummeled to death by rhythm machines and despairing over the disco-death of music, the complete dearth of real instruments and real melody, finally heard from out of the garbage heap of synthesized 16k noise, the glorious sound of that guitar. It was musical hope. This glimmer of hope said to us, "maybe there was still a spark of actual music left in the world. Maybe all is not lost." Even though this emerging new sound was all alone in the musical world, it was the sound of a new beginning, the very spark of new musical life in the world... it was the "Sultans Of Swing."
born in '79 here....I grew up listening to this kind of music - especially Dire Straights, cuz my dad LOVED them. when I rediscovered my music taste in my late teens, it wasn't until my early twenties I remembered I loved this and Money for Nothin' by Dire Straights. All of this music is iconic, classic. and I love watching You listen to these songs for the first time - it's great@!!!
I'll never forget hearing this for the first time when I was a kid and it hit the radio. Grabbed my attention for the rest of my life! One of the best guitar performances ever, such sweet fills.
Mark Knopfler is one of the great virtuoso guitarists, equal mix engineer, artist, architect, technician. The way he crafted amazing songs from real life occurrences is unmatched.
I aboslutely love Dire Straits and im almost convinced Mark Knopfler is some kind of guitar god or muse or something of that. I gotta say...im born 1981 i remember when is was a kid how my dad used to make me stand on his feet and he started to dance to this right here song. Its like imbedded in my dna and also whats weird is that i gained the rytm of music too from dancing to this music. Cheers from Sweden :P
Sultans of Swing we’re an actual real band that he is singing about. Spirit and soul of blues, swing, southern modalities from about late30’s to beginning of Rock in 1952. By rock I really mean R&B Juke Joint
i think the story was they saw the band playing in a bar and couldn't believe they were just amateurs. They were playing as good as any professional band and they were going to day jobs after the weekend was over.
That was so awesome my friend 🩷 I absolutely loved your reaction to this song, I would do anything to hear it for the first time again but by seeing you hearing it: It made me happy & it made me smile 😊 All the best from 🇸🇪👋🏻
I've been listening exclusively to the Alchemy version for so long I actually forgot what the studio one sounded like. Hah. Highly recommend checking out the Alchemy live performance. Brilliant stuff.
Good Luck,My Friend but you have just missed an ICONIC LIVE London performance @ Alchemy. The last reactor said THIS was good but the Live version is totally different class. Please watch and enjoy it:)
God damn. I remember hearing this for the first time. Dad took me to Homebase to pick up some tools, and he had just purchased the cassette tape of 'Money for Nothing' (the one with Mark Knopfler's head and hands missing playing guitar). We played it over and over. I still get chills on the last verse. He still loves that tune! 🎸
Been scrolling through videos. Should definitely try some Iron Maiden if Metallica got you bumping! The Trooper or Phantom Of The Opera would be a great start. Dance of Death or Fear of the Dark are amazing too!
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You should listen to Sultans of Swing Alchemy live version
Wish i could hear this for the first time again
My dad played this for me when I was 8, and it was an epiphany. I really was too young to appreciate it. I listen to it every year around my birthday to appreciate it again.
Facts💯
This group and the Eagles, always reminds me of my dad.
nostalgia and good music = perfection.
randomly came across this song through a cover i got recommended on youtube. just a guitar cover but i loved the song so much
Honestly I wish that for so many songs
The live version at alchemy is ten minutes of pure brilliance.
Exactly my thoughts, if people have to react to one version, it has to be the 10 min live performance. True masterpiece.
That buildup to the solo single handedly inspired me to start playing the guitar
transcendent
I used to like getting high and watching live version on TH-cam. Wonderful!
@@dl6025 I still like getting high and watching the live version on youtube ;)
Honestly one of the best songs ever recorded IMO.
Genuinely agreed. Just perfect.
Imagine being a member of the sultans of swing, some band makes a song about your band and it's one of the all time great songs.
And then live, they did the opposite of ruining it.
Mark Knoffler's finger picking is an iconic sound.
I like the Live at Alchemy version.
Mark Knopfler just saying
Yep, finger pickers like Mark Knopfler have that little extra magic.
Dire straits are hugely underrated and yet they are still very highly regarded
I started thinking they were a one hit band with this music, but now they are probably my favorite band
This makes no sense, and yet makes perfect sense
A one hit wonder wouldnt have one of the GREATEST guitarist of all time, Mark Knopfler. :) Hope you've found more of their music! @@joaopedroandrade2576
@@joaopedroandrade2576 just listen to dire straits on the night. mind blowing!
@@joaopedroandrade2576 They've got some absolute gems in their catalogue. Money for nothing was huge but really isn't their best song.
Every time that last solo rolls off I think, "man, I could go for 10 more minutes of that"
And it does, in the live recordings from Wembley!
Da bietet sich doch Telegraph Road an!Das ist ein musikalischer Orgasmus 🙈
Get a hold of Mark Knopfler live at The Royal Albert Hall 1996. One of the best live shows I've heard. Granted Dire Straits had parted ways, but Knopfler was still outstanding.
Every time Mark Knopfler plays the solo it's a lil bit different than the last time he played. He's so talented.
My dad blasted this on the speakers at home the other day. It’s the most beautiful thing I have ever heard
Guitar work gives you chills, doesn't it?
That solo at the end there is in my all-time favs.
Mark Knoffler, one of the greatest guitar players. Just simplicity at its finest! He was proper vibing 😄
Knopfler*
This guy cracks me up, he always plays good songs. Hard to believe that's his first time hearing though!
exactly, but it doesn't surprise me because there are songs from queen, Guns n roses etc that I discovered less than 2 years ago
I never see the point of "reaction videos". If you want to listen to Dire Straights, why not just listen to Dire Straights? Why watch some bloke listening to Dire Straights?
@@JimboPrague Just a way to partially relive that first time listening to songs we consider legends and have heard hundreds of times.
Even it’s it’s not the first time this guy has ever heard the tune, there is a difference when you actually sit down and pay attention to the music
@@JimboPrague No need to spell it wrong 3 times, especially when it's spelt out for you on the video title. Dire *STRAITS*
To answer your question, it's interesting to see reactions from people who hear it for the first time.
Here's a tip for you, if you don't like reaction videos, don't click on them..
Why the hell would you even click on something you don't like?
Pretty pointless if you ask me.
he did not know he was going to run into one of the best under rated guitar solos ever , i like his vocalizing through the whole song and his end rap
Dude, you are one unique cat. Thank you for an enjoyable reaction.
I didn’t like this song as a teenager, now it’s one of my favorites!! My oldest sister, RIP Renee’, always told me my taste in music would change as I got older, she was sooooooo right about so many things! How I miss her ❤
Yea, I tolerated The Eagles in the 70s, now I dig them. She was right.
One of the best songs ever, and best song to hear while mildly drunk
I grew up up with my dad playing Dire Straits. Great classic rock music 🎶
Same ❤
This song was released in the US almost 4 months after I became a scientific glassblower apprentice. To this day, hearing it still reminds me of driving home after work, after I hung the torch up for the day. Last year in July, I semi-retired after 44 years blowing glass. Sultans of Swing is a fine addition to my songs of a lifetime playlist. And hearing it again while watching someone's first listen AND while blowing glass in my garage is a great way to spend my afternoon.
You sound chill as hell
Now you are on the Dire Straits train, I recommend checking out Brothers in Arms and in particular the live version from Wembley Stadium in 1988 when the band headlined the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute Concert which was watched by 200m people worldwide. It was still a couple of years before Mandela would finally be released from his 27 year imprisonment by the South African government and Mark Knopfler, songwriter/singer/lead guitarist got quite emotional performing this one. Eric Clapton joined the band for this concert to play rhythm guitar because the wife of their regular guitarist at the time had just given birth.
Brothers in arms is such a nice fkg song! Also common used in military funerals such a beautiful song
I've just got to say that I really appreciate that you let the song play through in it's entirety and don't pause it all the time. Just vibing to it and letting it run.
Dire straits are so good, timeless music
Yea, It's even better if you listen to their album, because that's how Dire Straits come in wholesome fully rounded package packed with all the stuff including emotions and everything music can give an opened heart and therefore ears too. Enjoy Mamaan!
If I could only let you hear this song in the same context that I heard it the first time you might understand its emotional significance to us boomers. In an era when all the songs on the radio -- the AM radio -- were disco and early techno garbage, those of us who were being pummeled to death by rhythm machines and despairing over the disco-death of music, the complete dearth of real instruments and real melody, finally heard from out of the garbage heap of synthesized 16k noise, the glorious sound of that guitar. It was musical hope. This glimmer of hope said to us, "maybe there was still a spark of actual music left in the world. Maybe all is not lost." Even though this emerging new sound was all alone in the musical world, it was the sound of a new beginning, the very spark of new musical life in the world... it was the "Sultans Of Swing."
born in '79 here....I grew up listening to this kind of music - especially Dire Straights, cuz my dad LOVED them. when I rediscovered my music taste in my late teens, it wasn't until my early twenties I remembered I loved this and Money for Nothin' by Dire Straights. All of this music is iconic, classic. and I love watching You listen to these songs for the first time - it's great@!!!
STRAITS PLEASE
This is a high class and good taste music bro, regardless of your age, my millennials children love 70's and 80's classic Rock...
"This is smooth, I like this". Love it. Had you bopping from the get-go. This song definitely does that
Loving this! It’s amazing hearing quality music for the first time , regardless of the genre!
The studio version is clean and amazing. The Alchemy Live video of this is sheer Magnificence. One of the best live rock performances ever.
Keep them coming man! Your videos are great, I found you on TikTok
I got chills the first time hearing this
I'll never forget hearing this for the first time when I was a kid and it hit the radio. Grabbed my attention for the rest of my life! One of the best guitar performances ever, such sweet fills.
Final guitar solo just melted it 🔥🔥🔥🤘
Sultans of Swing sounds like a tribute to Bob Dylan, John Wesley Harding era. Great track!
Mark Knopfler is one of the great virtuoso guitarists, equal mix engineer, artist, architect, technician. The way he crafted amazing songs from real life occurrences is unmatched.
I aboslutely love Dire Straits and im almost convinced Mark Knopfler is some kind of guitar god or muse or something of that. I gotta say...im born 1981 i remember when is was a kid how my dad used to make me stand on his feet and he started to dance to this right here song. Its like imbedded in my dna and also whats weird is that i gained the rytm of music too from dancing to this music. Cheers from Sweden :P
You can read his story.
He always wanted a red Stratocaster and this was the first sing he wrote on it and it's the song that made him famous.
People who listen and grew up with this band are the true and real men
Thanks to my dad who made me a dire straits lover❤❤
Sultans of Swing we’re an actual real band that he is singing about. Spirit and soul of blues, swing, southern modalities from about late30’s to beginning of Rock in 1952. By rock I really mean R&B Juke Joint
i think the story was they saw the band playing in a bar and couldn't believe they were just amateurs. They were playing as good as any professional band and they were going to day jobs after the weekend was over.
That was so awesome my friend 🩷
I absolutely loved your reaction to this song, I would do anything to hear it for the first time again but by seeing you hearing it: It made me happy & it made me smile 😊
All the best from 🇸🇪👋🏻
This song never gets old.. feels like the first time listening every time I hear it
can you do a reaction of Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits. pleaseee thankss
This is my first time watching Nathan Browne listening to Sultans of swing for the first time.
Or do you mean Sultan Of Swings, as Nathan repeatedly said?🤣
You should deffo check out «Lady writer» by Dire Straits! Awesome riff and awesome song!
Top 15 guitar solos OAT
I've been listening exclusively to the Alchemy version for so long I actually forgot what the studio one sounded like. Hah. Highly recommend checking out the Alchemy live performance. Brilliant stuff.
Literally 80% of the music he hears for the first time is the music I grew up with!
English, bro.
Romeo and Juliet, bro.
You can rap it to your girl, bro.
You’ll thank me later, bro.
The story of Sultans of swing was inspired by a performance of a Dixieland Jazz band in Deptford, South London.
Cool!
It was more than just inspired by that, it tells the whole story of when they played in the pub and nobody was listening to them. (except Mark)
This is the proper reaction to this song. I still make those faces sometimes, even after the 600th time of listening to the song.
Nate the Great. Now watch how Mark plays that guitar like a Banjo.
That looks like The Kennington, South East London Estates which I was,originally,from...:)
To be a decent reactor you need to be honest and expressive above all. You've got that down.
And that's how to play a dead clean Strat.... Sweet as!
dire strats
Dad rock and boat Rock might be the two genres that transcend race the best. Black, white, brown, Asian no matter what. You’re dancing.
‘ my brother say I need to listen to a new tune : Sultan of Swings ‘ lol
One the best riffs.. such a great tune
Im gonna be here until Fire Woman by The Cult 😎
In all seriousness Its very heart warming to see someone enjoy the music i was raised on
Good Luck,My Friend but you have just missed an ICONIC LIVE London performance @ Alchemy.
The last reactor said THIS was good but the Live version is totally different class.
Please watch and enjoy it:)
WHAT KIND OF MUSIC LIKE YOU, MAN?
LOVED the way you reacted and felt this great tune..much enjoyed!!
I really love your reactions
I got chills the entire song
Alchemy version live, brilliant.
God damn. I remember hearing this for the first time. Dad took me to Homebase to pick up some tools, and he had just purchased the cassette tape of 'Money for Nothing' (the one with Mark Knopfler's head and hands missing playing guitar). We played it over and over. I still get chills on the last verse. He still loves that tune! 🎸
What a great song 🎵❤
Just recently found your channel bro keep crushing it
This guy cracks me up....me people 😂
i was not expecting this one 😂 glad u did it tho 👌
Watched this video when I studied in London for a semester. Just made sense .
This amazing song is a story of the writer listening to a horn dixieland band in a small pub or place.
Life is Cool
U can’t help but feel it buddy 😁🤘
The first time I heard this or like actually paid attention to it was on guitar hero 🤣 and I immediately fell in love and played it over and over 😃
need to watch live Alchemy Sultans of swing
Dude it's just not possible you're from England and never heard this song 😂 unless you're from a different dimension I don't believe it.
Mark knopfler total guitar genius the man is a total legend!! It's sultans of swing by the way.. Just saying 😉
You did very good ❤❤❤
Been scrolling through videos. Should definitely try some Iron Maiden if Metallica got you bumping! The Trooper or Phantom Of The Opera would be a great start. Dance of Death or Fear of the Dark are amazing too!
nathan got in a trance from the 1st note
The way you enjoyed and felt the music is precisely what I experienced myself when I listened to this awesome song, your reaction is top notch.
Best Dad rock tune ever..
Tunnel of Love and Telegraph Road Alchemy live are 2 of Dire Straits’ best performances
👍👍👍👍Jepp! Telegraph Road !Gibt nichts besseres!!!!
When I first heard this in the radio I thought it was a new song by Bob Dylan. GREAT SONG!!
I would love to see your reaction to Grateful Dead's Shakedown Street ⚡️ living for this series, btw.
🔥🔥🔥
Telegraph Road. You definitely have to react to that. Also by Dire Straits. Long, but worth it!
Need to hear metalica: for whom the bell tolls
Bro is spazzing out for 6 minutes
sick
Now hear Live@ Alchemy and see the massive difference, my friend:)
You need to hear long cool woman in a black dress
This is such a classic!
Mark Knopfler, a Strat, and no pick. Unreal
You gotta here the live version bro!
I remember the first time I heard this song. I remember feeling great and just loving it. I remember where I was and who I was with. 😊
Sam Lawrence is correct. You have to see the Alcemy Live version!
Still one of the greatest guitar riffs ever was...
Mark Knobler unbelievable musician...
I heard this for the first time as a 7 year old....my dad love this song, played it constantly in 79... To this day this is a top 3 band to me yeh!
Ryan Bingham - Southside of heaven.
Legit vibing here...I don't know anyone who didn't react exactly like this when they first heard this song.
React to megadeth- tornado of souls bruv
BUT YOU´RE MAKING ME LAUGHG IN GOOD SENSE A IMEAN.
Mark Knopfler is a definite Guitar God!
Run, run, run, jump, jump and flyyyyyyy 😅😂❤❤