first time hearing Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms (Reaction!!)
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Do watch The Royal Marines version with Cpl Sammy McIndoe singing it !
YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO THE ALBUM TRACK! This is faded out early - there's a massive chunk missing from the end!
Constantly getting the Wanna Contact You, scamper, scamper
get them all the time you right click them and report it as spam to youtube/google
This song destroys me every time I hear it.
There's a reason why the album "Brothers in arms" is one of the best selling albums of all time. It's a masterpiece
It truly is. Definately a top 10 if not the best album of all time.
I'd put "Making Movies" next to it
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.
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
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.
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.
And "The Troubles" were more savage than ever during that time. Thatcher was a busy woman back then.
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.
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.
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.
Thinking of you and ALL our men and women in uniform....freedom is never free
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It is absolutely heartbreaking and beautiful. 🕊️
It has heart & soul pouring over every note 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Mark is now 74 years old and has a new album coming out in April.
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."
I concur. But terrorists are not "brothers in arms", they are terrorists end of story!
As a veteran.. This song holds in my soul..
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.
Well... MK wrote a song about the First World War,
Remembrance Day... One about the Napoleonic War, Done with Bonaparte... you'll like it.,,
Great man. So sad.
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
😢on a be in the Gloucestershire z....but got erased...oh well.....
I thought he was half Hungarian Jew.@@penderyn8794
🎼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.☮️💟
Yes, the alchemy live version. 👍
Agreed. Telegraph Road is EPIC!
My choice for next, too. Alchemy or album either one.
You would enjoy the album Neck and Neck with Chet Atkins, who was his inspiration.
He’s simply amazing!
As a combat veteran, this song always gets me - brings back some very tough memories.
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!!
Mark is one if the GOATS.
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.
He really, really isn't
It's a temporary Song. Will never get old. See whats happening in the world now 2024. Sad very sad
Agreed!
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.
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.
This piece is extraordinarily beautiful and painful at the same time.
A Vietnam War veteran, hits me right in my heart.
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!!
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. 🙏🏻🫶🏿
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.
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...
Quotable quote.
You're right! Only later LIVE versions of this song!
Bless you...
Few guitarists can squeeze tears out of a guitar quite like Mark Knopfler. He’s a genius in both playing and writing.
One of the Top Guitarists of all time.
Probably the most underrated English band ever.
"English" ? Knopfler is Scottish by birth...
wow... I wouldn't call them underrated. They were huge in their time and are still highly respected.
English mother, Hungarian father, born in Glasgow but raised in Northern England. It's a stretch to call him Scottish.
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.
@@targetglenidiot he's a geordie
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.
The words “ now the sun has gone to hell” sends shivers and goose bumps every time I hear it
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'.
A great human being
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.
Yes, such a good solo!
What are the other two? I'd assume Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb is one of them?
You're right about Comfortably Numb. The third is Carlos Santana - Black Magic Woman.
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
Wow amazing and sad at the same time. That man is beyond great.
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.
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!
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!!
RTTW
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
Would you join up today George if you was a young man?
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.
This song makes me cry no matter how much I listen to it.
Stunning
Also... The guitar in this song, sounds like it's singing back to Mark, like a duet with his guitar!
Me too. If it doesn't touch you, you are souless.
The best guitarist in history. Takes it to another level beyond Genius.
John Martyn is recognised by most guitarists including Page and Gilmour rate as best. th-cam.com/video/tu444rkY8nQ/w-d-xo.html
The animator of this video also deserves recognition too.
Mark wrote this song when the UK went to war with Argentina in the Falklands in 1982
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.
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.
All of Mark's songs have meaning often very deap and sincere.
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.
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.
No whistles and Bells just Dire Straights doing their beautiful haunting best. Amazing Band and Knopfler is a poet and guitar genius
Mr Knopfler provides the backup to his own guitar's lead vocals for this song.
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.
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.
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
Great, break down
What an apt description of his performing. So true.
P man I been listening to this since I was 13 and im 60 now. still blows me away
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
Telegraph Road is by far my favorite track by Dire Straits. Great guitar solo
The Alchemy live version of Telegraph Road is on another level. ALL the band members get to show what superb musicians they are.
@@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.
@@paulsiebeneicher4536 Absolutely - although that live version of "Tunnel of Love" is epic
@@simonashworth8825so true
It’s a masterpiece
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.
This song is one of the greatest Anti-War songs that at the same time has nothing but respect and compassion for those who have served in the armed forces on all sides.
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. 😢
Respect given to the brave men and women who defend freedom.
And who exactly is threatening your freedom? And how do they do that? Wars are always about power, money and influence.
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.
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.
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 ❤
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!!!!!
my favorite warsong. cry a cup, every time.
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.
They were just brilliant, please listen to Romeo and Juliet.
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.
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...
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.
@@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.
@@dxb8086did you serve??? If not, pipe down…..
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!!!
So powerful, pulls the deep feelings right out of you. Thank you, as I sit here in a puddle.
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.
He performed it beautifully at the anti-apartheid 1988 concert for the still imprisoned Nelson Mandela. Such a powerful event, and a perfect song for the occasion broadcast in 67 countries and viewed by some 600 million worldwide.
This song belongs on a goat song list.
This is a cut-down version of the song. Listen to the uncut version with no one around. One of the most moving songs ever written! His playing is absolutely perfect! Every note is for a reason, not just a flow of mindless madness. Back then, I compared him to the "shredders" and "tappers" with the saying that there are people who can play a million notes a minute, but you won't remember a single motif. Then, there are songs like this and everything he plays, with "stick to your ribs" kind of melodies.
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
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.
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.😢
Mandela
Listen to the whole album...it's Epic!
ohhhh the guitar playing of mark knopfler just pure brilliance
For those of us who remember a television show Miami Vice, the song was featured, it was so impactful. Heart wrenching actually.
Israel, Palestinian, Iran, Ukraine, infighting on our own streets...😢😢😢😢😢 what a horrible thing we do to each other 😢....on and on and on...
You closed your eyes ... Tis indicative
Telegraph Road is a must!
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
Really? What a fckin legend!
So many great versions. This is a particular favourite of mine: th-cam.com/video/EMRJT2ebvAk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=hM6V1t9Dptf6uQkM
It's a master piece of recording damm you Mark Knopler
The 1st time i heard this was on a school trip to France from.the UK. 83-84. The kid next to me had a cassete player & lete.listen to the album. Still blows me away now
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.
I’m a veteran, this is a tough one to get through….
Ditto.
That is one of _THE_ songs. Ever. Just powerful and perfect.
Mark Knopfler might not be a shredder or flashy van halen style guitarist, but I honestly think he's one of the most creatively inventive and yet supremely tastefuls guitarists since the old bluesmen of yesteryear.
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 🇬🇧
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.
The poignance of the lyrics and the use of images here is outstanding. When you look at the millions that died in WWI, fighting for four long years over a small part of northeastern France, and when it all ended, the boundaries were the same as they had been, but so much of Europe's future was lost. The way things ended surely brought on WWII, but it was all based on a hair-trigger response and once released it could not be recalled.
Thank you, Polo ❤ my son is in the military. Your regard for the sacrifice means a lot to me. This song kills me
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.
Beautiful song. My favorite song by Dire Straits is still, Telegraph Road. The intrinsic visualizations are wonderful. Good review Polo.
Not ex-Mil myself but having worked with many over the years after they left the forces I know how much this song means to them.
I get goose bumps on the first word and keep them the entire song. I can't listen to it randomly. I have to plan and prepare myself first.
The video is an artistic masterpiece as well as the music.
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 😜
The story behind the writing of ‘Money for Nothing’ is hilarious
I came here to say this. That song can leave me on the floor, sobbing and emotionally drained, but I still love it.
Gives me chills all the time. Great reaction!
Mark Knopfler makes his instrument sing. It's another voice in all of his songs
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. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
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!
Then clearly you didn’t understand the meaning of the song. It’s an ANTI war song. It complains about the pointlessness of war.
I've tripped out on this song so many times, and since I was never in the military, I wondered where the emotion comes from. The artistry speaks directly to the exploited worker in me who, with my fellow workers, feel a solidarity that goes beyond the workplace. and to the disenfranchised whether by economic reasons, reasons of emotional stability, racial injustice, or whatever. We are all brothers in arms and fools to make war. Glad you were moved by it.
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.
This one ❤ and comfortably numb ❤by pink Floyd ❤ peace ✌️ Polo.grandma still up ❤
I first heard this song in 1985 and fell in love with the organ first. I wanted to learn the organ after hearing this. Then a month in I discovered the guitar in this song. Ever since then I've played guitar.
This has been my favourite song since 1985, followed by Tunnel of Love (aLCHEMY version).
"Her latest trick," another good one...
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
I'd give your comment 10 upticks if I could Neil.
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.
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!
I once had the privilege to attend a very very small concert 'in conversation with' Mark Knopfler at the Chalke Valley History Festival in England.
(Highly recommend attending the week-long event at the end of June if you can - talks, living history etc)
He talked about, and with a couple of his bandmates played (acoustic) songs to illustrate, how historical stories/novels had influenced his songwriting.
For example (based on the book Diary of a Napoleonic Soldier) a soldier in battle running away but seeing and opportunistically grabbing a tin of peas to eat on the run due to starvation.
It was the most extraordinary gig I have ever experienced and will live with me forever.
It isn't often that you get to immerse in the thought processes, and musical expertise, of such genius.
Brothers in Arms remains one of my all time favourites. Amazing restraint and unfettered emotion with fabulously evocative guitar in duet with that voice .
Telegraph Road is another must listen to Straits track