Dire Straits - Ride Across the River

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  • @bit5729
    @bit5729 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Annoyingly underrated, this song is amazing

  • @Bella-bz7fq
    @Bella-bz7fq ปีที่แล้ว +13

    My uncle Terri died in Vietnam.😐He was only 23 years old.🙁🔔🇺🇸God bless u.s.!

    • @hendrikdebruin4012
      @hendrikdebruin4012 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was forced into the SADF at age 16 after school to fight the Cubans in Angola. My condolences to your family.

    • @Tommytucamoto
      @Tommytucamoto 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Respect to your family from uk x

  • @jeffrandallrozario
    @jeffrandallrozario 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    This is my Dad's all time favorite song ! I just love how he just vibes effortlessly when I play this song and fix him a whiskey on the rocks.

  • @randallfrank5682
    @randallfrank5682 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    The percussion on this song is absolutely amazing!

    • @flumpyhumpy
      @flumpyhumpy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The percussion and bass dance a beautiful dance like no other track I've ever heard. Totally amazing. Intertwined. Bliss.

  • @ariandel8917
    @ariandel8917 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    This song will forever held a special place in my heart...

  • @smokiebird06
    @smokiebird06 5 ปีที่แล้ว +205

    I don't know if he's the greatest guitarist of all time, but he sure as hell is my favorite guitarist of all time. He also comes in second and third.

    • @stephenprice9245
      @stephenprice9245 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Gutiarist mark it doesn't get BETTER

    • @swinginbeboptrio
      @swinginbeboptrio 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      He is mine too. I wanted to play guitar when I listened to Sultans of Swing. It sounded like how the guitar should be played.

    • @gerritpronk2196
      @gerritpronk2196 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I totally agree 👍

    • @MrCisco940
      @MrCisco940 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stephenprice9245 I agree with you sir..and his message is right and true

    • @Tommy1977777
      @Tommy1977777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In mind he's the greatest. Polished, practiced, mastered.

  • @knightonart8886
    @knightonart8886 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    This song is a very unique vibe. It makes me feel like I'm on a boat going down a river deep in the African jungle, probably because of the drums, flute, and crickets.

    • @jakethemistakeRulez
      @jakethemistakeRulez 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I like the descriptive terminology "unique vibe". Lol. I really like that M16 sound effect too.

    • @albertoportoalegre5391
      @albertoportoalegre5391 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I feel exactly the same !

    • @amarupa5248
      @amarupa5248 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A mi también!! (Me too) ;)

    • @mr.thomas6072
      @mr.thomas6072 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That is The Congo River you're riding, my friend

    • @smokiebird06
      @smokiebird06 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It always felt like South America to me.

  • @LaDawnaThompson
    @LaDawnaThompson ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My record player was right next my bed! This song was always on at bed time .. that and Sade 1984 .. so relaxing …

    • @ABDULQADIR-yy6qm
      @ABDULQADIR-yy6qm ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Diamond Life was about love, emotions & betrayal while this is purely Soldiers Anthem... but both Musicians/Singers are one of very few best..

  • @Yashiro-nene_dies
    @Yashiro-nene_dies 5 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    This album has better production quality compared to most albums of today.

    • @flumpyhumpy
      @flumpyhumpy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      It's the space. There's space for each instrument to be heard and to breathe. It's not a constant barrage. You can contemplate.
      Similarly, the albums back in those days had an appreciable gap between tracks. A silence for you to digest and in which to cleanse your aural palate before the next track started. Now music production is like being fucked by a 17-year-old bogan. All frenzied attack with no dynamic or nuance. And then it's over. And straight into the next assault.

    • @3clarkfamily
      @3clarkfamily 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      because it was the first DDD mass produced CD.

    • @JP-ec9rl
      @JP-ec9rl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You've gotta start with quality composition to begin with. You could have the best production money can buy, it will never change the fact that 99.9% of today's soulless music just sucks!

    • @Yashiro-nene_dies
      @Yashiro-nene_dies 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@JP-ec9rl If you're looking for modern music with some of the best production you should listen to porcupine tree. Glass arm shattering is a good song to listen to.

    • @swamifakkananda4043
      @swamifakkananda4043 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      And your comment is better than most comments. 😁😁😁

  • @RinpochesRose
    @RinpochesRose ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank goodness I finally found this as I couldnt recall the title or lyric, just that amazing riff. Sending me mad all day 🙄🙂

  • @Piotrus31492
    @Piotrus31492 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Mark Knopfler still astonishes me with his perfect productions - despite modern times, he and the band sound almost exactly like it was all 1977, the same climate, the same feeing they''re playing this song just for you and your friends, not for anybody else. that is called timeless music. a week ago i heard this song for the first time and fell in love with it immediately.

  • @choosetherightify
    @choosetherightify ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I didn't get to hear this as a child, even though I grew up during the time this was produced. However, my children WILL grow up with Mark's music. It's second to none. Incredible production, recording, and performance quality is hard to find in one artist/band. Incredible!

  • @kevinsayles7426
    @kevinsayles7426 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    we all know how great Mark's guitar work is on this track, but for me it's the trumpet that makes this my all time favorite Dire straits song

    • @cindytraylor4535
      @cindytraylor4535 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yes

    • @ariraki
      @ariraki 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Randy Brecker plays the trumpet

    • @BucksMusicJourney
      @BucksMusicJourney 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@ariraki I'm in good company here. You don't hear it often named as most favorite song, but this is my favorite too. It's magical.

  • @kmcel190
    @kmcel190 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Dire Straits, and Knopfler are on another level. I remember exactly what I was doing when I first heard this song. It was mesmerizing, as are all of the songs on this album.

    • @vegasbattleborn1594
      @vegasbattleborn1594 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This whole album never got the full play it deserves. Was listening to XM today & it came on. One of two favs from this album. Many an evening spent listening to this beside the lake here. Mark plays like no other. Your post about remembering where you were...me too.

  • @gathorash
    @gathorash 5 ปีที่แล้ว +416

    dire straits had 2 lead singers: Mark Knopfler and Mark Knopfler's guitar

    • @fawadmalik2477
      @fawadmalik2477 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Well said

    • @reefreacher2stevemiller24
      @reefreacher2stevemiller24 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Exactly, what a perfect way to put it. I’m going to play this again and again today. Great snow day song

    • @MrSurelysure
      @MrSurelysure 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      the thing is the first one was much worse than the second one.

    • @deancade114
      @deancade114 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly

    • @vageliskomninos2723
      @vageliskomninos2723 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      hahaaha very well put Gathor :)

  • @Simon-ft5ru
    @Simon-ft5ru ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was 17 just joined royal marines evryone had this album the best Dire straits I think

  • @STONEDARTphotos
    @STONEDARTphotos 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Reminds me of the early 70s crossing the Mekong river from Thailand into Laos. Love the song and hate it at the same time.

    • @teray45
      @teray45 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Thank you for your service.You are never forgotten 🇺🇸

    • @ghostmost2614
      @ghostmost2614 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You were never in Laos 😉
      Semp Fi

    • @jlhistory
      @jlhistory 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you for serving our country

    • @TrishBell1
      @TrishBell1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for your deep honesty.

    • @GreenElfMom
      @GreenElfMom 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm so sorry. :(

  • @markberman6708
    @markberman6708 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I still have the original vinyl i bought of this... rests and spreads across the soul of my lifetime.. too much war, too little peace, and too hard on all.

  • @straywolf77
    @straywolf77 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That semi-raggae tune.... Was so f'n epic. My favorite song by Dire.

  • @reneebrillant8061
    @reneebrillant8061 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    So talented. One of the most gorgeous antiwar anthems ever

    • @alabhaois
      @alabhaois 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Along with Brothers in Arms, of course

    • @swamifakkananda4043
      @swamifakkananda4043 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Renee, u r brilliant.

  • @Sabbathman1979
    @Sabbathman1979 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    After decades of knowing Dire Straits on the basis of their greatest hits, through MTV and radio and from compilations, I'm now listening to this song and this whole album from the beginning to the end, for the first time ever in my life, from vinyl. 🎸📺💸✨

    • @ant6541
      @ant6541 ปีที่แล้ว

      The two that got such radio/video play are ok, but by far the least greatest on this album. Kind of similar to Van Halen's 1984.

  • @jkev1122
    @jkev1122 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Dire Straits were indeed the sultans of swing.

  • @abdouabderrahmane9665
    @abdouabderrahmane9665 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This album is genius you can't choose the best song !

  • @larcanoincantatore6864
    @larcanoincantatore6864 6 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    I'm a soldier of freedom in the army of man
    We are the chosen, we're the partisan
    The cause it is noble and the cause it is just
    We are ready to pay with our lives if we must
    Gonna ride across the river deep and wide
    Ride across the river to the other side
    I'm a soldier of fortune, I'm a dog of war
    And we don't give a damn who the killing is for
    It's the same old story with a different name
    Death or glory, it's the killing game
    Gonna ride across the river deep and wide
    Ride across the river to the other side
    Nothing gonna stop them as the day follows the night
    Right becomes wrong, the left becomes the right
    And they sing as they march with their flags unfurled
    Today in the mountains, tomorrow the world
    Gonna ride across the river deep and wide
    Ride across the river to the other side

    • @neilisagum7623
      @neilisagum7623 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Class !

    • @stephaniewhite5644
      @stephaniewhite5644 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for the lyrics. Very well written!♥️

    • @cedricarnaud2563
      @cedricarnaud2563 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      merci

    • @nbuehster
      @nbuehster 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You left out something.
      I'm a soldier of freedom in the army of man
      We are the chosen, we're the partisan (alright)

    • @mohammadreza7265
      @mohammadreza7265 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      - Buehmann that's Mark's *alright* is so underrated!

  • @dokfalloul8660
    @dokfalloul8660 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    mark knopfler is simply the best guitarist in all time ride across the river amazing track thank you

  • @borisbelkine6605
    @borisbelkine6605 6 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    One of the most genius performances I've ever listened. Unforgettable.

    • @viktorhenrikes1
      @viktorhenrikes1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      In 1985, I was 14 years old, and on that summer afternoon, i was playing cards with my friend at his home... and suddently this Song came up on the radio. I Said: "Stop everything! What music is this?... Dire Straits?... I want this Record!!!"

  • @tpierce2155
    @tpierce2155 6 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    This album changed me profoundly. I grew up because of Mark Knopfler. Amazing amazing band.

    • @xmas8155
      @xmas8155 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      i hope this one didn't change you profoundly, i used to smoke dope to it way back when...

    • @camerongillespie9980
      @camerongillespie9980 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      A great compliment and so true

  • @donhanlon7121
    @donhanlon7121 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My favourite track off Brothers in Arms lovely reggae feel, so well constructed 🎸🥁🔥💯👍

  • @markholder6851
    @markholder6851 5 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    I absolutely love this track. I think it might be my favourite dire straits track

    • @you2ber252
      @you2ber252 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Same for me!

    • @danielsharon524
      @danielsharon524 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      So difficult to pick just one but...

    • @BucksMusicJourney
      @BucksMusicJourney 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mine too!

    • @andrewpetik2034
      @andrewpetik2034 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It is definitely in my top three.....
      Sultans of Swing
      Brothers in Arms
      Ride Across the River
      Not necessarily in that order.

    • @jamiecapes2644
      @jamiecapes2644 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This track, and the title track from Love over gold.

  • @davidleepaslay738
    @davidleepaslay738 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love everything they created. Can’t say that about any other band I know.

  • @lions679
    @lions679 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Dire straits has so many hits this is one

  • @kathycross770
    @kathycross770 7 ปีที่แล้ว +145

    Best guitar ever I'm 65 yrs old and this is still my go to music.

    • @mikemustang3791
      @mikemustang3791 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I am 55, damn we are so lucky to have lived through this. Mark is one of the last of the dying breed, literally unfortunately....

    • @AndieBlack13
      @AndieBlack13 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      62 yrs here, had this album on vinyl...then CD, now online...just as spectacular as it was..and still is...Those drums altering side to side sounds wonderful on headphones...

    • @icemule
      @icemule 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is a BASS guitar song Kathy.

    • @AndieBlack13
      @AndieBlack13 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@icemule Mark King of Level 42 does great bass-guitar stuff..."Man" for example...2009 live version in Holland

    • @ImYourHuckleberry_29
      @ImYourHuckleberry_29 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mikemustang3791 I'm 46 and I am lucky to have lived in the time this was released.

  • @russ8889
    @russ8889 7 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    Great album.....but this is one fantastic track....standing ovation 👏

  • @stevec1972ad
    @stevec1972ad 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I am a hundred percent convinced that Knopfler was sent by God so he could translate to us earthlings the magical sounds that abound in heaven.
    Hallelujah

  • @donjoe5940
    @donjoe5940 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    When I'am listening to music just after sun goes down, I start with this most of the time. Also helps me to walk down the memory lane.

  • @luciacintra2128
    @luciacintra2128 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    He is brilliant ❤️

  • @karimousaad453
    @karimousaad453 5 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    Brilliant song, true lyrics and sensational music. The guitar is weeping.... Thanks maestro !

  • @jirigillespie1782
    @jirigillespie1782 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    A guitarist that was highly underrated! The man was undoubtably a great guitar player that never got the recognition he should have!!!

  • @thearchiveofmylife
    @thearchiveofmylife 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    1986
    No.1 ALBUM:
    Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
    After all the miscellaneous greatest hits albums that marked quite a few of my birthdays in the deep dark Seventies, the Eighties were now making up for that with some truly iconic releases which last even up to now.
    I had ‘Brothers In Arms’ on cassette which meant it was one of those albums which was in my Walkman while cycling around on my black and gold Raieigh Burner.
    This was a good move as, if I’d had the vinyl edition then half the tracks would have been hacked to pieces to make them fit on that format.
    The CD age was dawning and this was one way they could bolster the sales of this new magical sorcery.
    At this point, CD players would have cost this arm and that leg. I would have to wait a few more years before I got the chance to own one.
    So I got the full versions without the expense, even though half of side 2 was blank so had to constantly fast forward to the end before flipping it back over.
    The album itself was musically immense, and even though the big hits got a bit tiresome due to constantly being rammed through the radio speakers on the airwaves, the other tracks made up for it.
    #mymusicalroadto50

  • @swarfmaster
    @swarfmaster 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I flipped my new CD into my player while backpacking in Silver Creek in the Sierra in 86. I had not listened to it yet. I was so mind blown I had to sit and listen to the whole thing again.. this song took the prize. Especially the solos.

  • @rejmons1
    @rejmons1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    "Nothing gonna stop them as the day follows the night
    Right becomes wrong, the left becomes the right
    And they sing as they march with their flags unfurled
    Today in the mountains, tomorrow the world"
    Very wise words

    • @fernandogross3484
      @fernandogross3484 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think it actually is "tomorrow the roads"

    • @MultiStrickland
      @MultiStrickland 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fernandogross3484 No

    • @pauluzzzzzz
      @pauluzzzzzz ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@fernandogross3484nope

  • @Guitarmaster7272
    @Guitarmaster7272 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This song is absolutely beautiful. Not a single flaw.

  • @wills.1978
    @wills.1978 6 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Too good. Makes you want to find a river and ride across that thing. Knopfler was incredible.

    • @rhondawebb7985
      @rhondawebb7985 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      IS still INCREDIBLE!! Going to see him Sept 7th in Sugar Land, TX.

  • @deadstar44
    @deadstar44 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    A guitar tone and a touch to die for.

  • @Reenee_E
    @Reenee_E 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Awesome music. Still listening...and loving 😍😊

  • @ginog9684
    @ginog9684 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    In 1985 or '86 DS played outdoors in Cleveland, OH. Took a break, came back for the second half. This was the first song, and amazingly the humidity had risen as dark came on, and so a natural fog accentuated the fog machine and that intro began … eerie, chilling, magical.

  • @meenakshishah3090
    @meenakshishah3090 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Fantastic track! I was little when my dad used to play this song. My favourite guitarist!!!!

  • @fauxmanchu8094
    @fauxmanchu8094 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Listened to this track over and over again whilst traversing through thick jungle canopies on one side and the precipitous cliff on the other plunging onto a raging river below in the 80's through the Wild West of Asia. It was a hellhole of bandits, guerrillas, paramilitary, the military, loony deserters reminiscent of colonel Kurtz, Maoist rebels and secessionist groups fighting the government supported by the U.S. It was dangerous, it was unforgettable and this song brings me back to those days. Mark knopler has captured the surrealism of those times with this song. He's a genius.

    • @17henke
      @17henke 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You ex CIA 😂😂😂

    • @stevestevenson5906
      @stevestevenson5906 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yep, reminds me of Biafra...

  • @jaads7910
    @jaads7910 7 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Great guitar from the master

  • @normsmith5277
    @normsmith5277 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Takes me back to Honduras late 80s…great song.

  • @1gravityann
    @1gravityann 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    great song. the whole album is as good too.
    my heart sinks remembering wondering if my daddy will be one of those that make it home from the war. it was many moons ago but you always remember that feeling deep down in your gut. 😶

  • @rhondawebb7985
    @rhondawebb7985 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Simply one of the most brilliant artists around!! Love you Mark Knopfler....You sir, are a Guitar God!

  • @dyar1978
    @dyar1978 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This song reminds me of 'nam, just glad to be home.

  • @gemmieryan2967
    @gemmieryan2967 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    My Dad had this AMAZING Album in his car also Rumours Fleetwood Mac....childhood

    • @kellywatkins6409
      @kellywatkins6409 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, I was that dad as well. My kids are always amazed when they here a song like this in a movie or video game. Takes en right back to riding with dad blasting tunes in the car.

    • @straywolf77
      @straywolf77 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Man I feel old...

  • @E.N.E.
    @E.N.E. 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    +30 years and everybody got different meanings from this song. Master class

  • @Spaz12isHipAimedFagg
    @Spaz12isHipAimedFagg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The ending with the crickets and the smooth guitar

  • @Blisstew
    @Blisstew 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Used to always play this song as I rode over a bridge going south or north over the Colorado River near Moab, Utah. As a salesman I was always on the road or in an airplane. Loved this, would think of my horse and splashing him through water. He was too often waiting in the pasture for our adventures.

  • @sebasdebordeaux8347
    @sebasdebordeaux8347 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This song as well as Telegraph road is OUT OF RANGE.. TOO strong and meaningful

    • @ArbenDubova
      @ArbenDubova 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      + Brother in Arms

  • @Afrikitty
    @Afrikitty 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've been a fan of Dire Straits since their debut album came out in the late 1970s. They never put a foot wrong. (^_^)

  • @Fandango711
    @Fandango711 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Brilliant, thank you Mark, thank you Dire Straits!

  • @richr7604
    @richr7604 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Classic rock at it's best, great then still great now..

  • @peterchan3887
    @peterchan3887 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is absolutely a wonderful song. everything is perfect! Love ever lasting!

  • @jhatter67
    @jhatter67 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love this song! For me it has a Listening Wind (Talking Heads) vibe to it!

  • @mucy2807
    @mucy2807 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Still amazing - I remember this album playing in our family car when I were 13-15. I had my whole life ahead of me….

    • @chrisperrien7055
      @chrisperrien7055 ปีที่แล้ว

      So you stole the family car and got high?

    • @mucy2807
      @mucy2807 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@chrisperrien7055 Nope. I think you’re high.

  • @danielburns987
    @danielburns987 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    this song went to #21 on the mainstream rock charts in 1986!!!

  • @ecabernet
    @ecabernet 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I love the 3rd verse, the opening is so good. Just the whole transition from the guitar solo into that verse is just so smooth. Takes a tiny break, and then... I mean how can you not sing along to that?

  • @andrewberridge1629
    @andrewberridge1629 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    🎸 BROTHERS IN ARMS 😎 FANTASTIC ALBUM. 🎸

  • @nathanmillet6257
    @nathanmillet6257 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Knofler is a new realm of music

    • @darreldarrel3681
      @darreldarrel3681 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He has always been in the top. now 30+ years proves it.

  • @neiltonks
    @neiltonks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    36 years on. And it STILL holds up to the rubbish pumped out today

  • @donaldkamei
    @donaldkamei 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Amazing voice Amazon guitar sounds!! Awesome 👍👍👍

  • @swinginbeboptrio
    @swinginbeboptrio 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is my favourite song ever. No exaggeration. It has my favourite solos by Mark and I love the sound of the band on this album. Dire Straits never sounded better than on Brothers in arms in my opinion (Love over Gold runs a close second).

    • @swinginbeboptrio
      @swinginbeboptrio 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Damn, I have to say I love on every street too. You and your friend, on every street, and other songs on the album sound great too.

  • @thomasingersoll2574
    @thomasingersoll2574 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Simply EXTRAORDINARY.....
    brings to life a STORY....
    I imagine a Central/ South American guerilla every time...
    AMAZING guitar and effects/ composition

    • @happentodie
      @happentodie 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thomas Ingersoll ii imagine exactly the same , this is some che guevara shit right here

    • @swamifakkananda4043
      @swamifakkananda4043 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And I imagine cia operatives overthrowing another government somewhere in the world.

    • @smokiebird06
      @smokiebird06 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      To Thomas Ingersoll. Perfectly said.

  • @sharonbethell9808
    @sharonbethell9808 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Favorite album... saw them perform this live...one of my favorite life experiences!

  • @wakcackle3555
    @wakcackle3555 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This album was pretty fresh in 1986, and I was riding a tour bus up the coast of Peru to Trujillo. Watching the sand dunes, and pyramids as we were driving by. It was so surreal. This music was familiar company by the time the trip was up.

  • @TheRokko66
    @TheRokko66 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I bought the cd version back in 1985. This song is one of the best! I wonder if this is some mercenaries on a patrol boat across the Mekong river? You can hear the echoing sound of rifles firing in the background. There is the sound of an asian flute

  • @shawnbrecht785
    @shawnbrecht785 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    in my 56 years of rock and roll brothers in arms is my favorite, dire straits nailed this one

  • @dangeroustoys5668
    @dangeroustoys5668 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The brothers in arms album has always been my favorite , bought the tape n wore it out n bought the cd, amazing music.

  • @aldendado8461
    @aldendado8461 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This song I always listen on big speakers, only then You can feel the real base sound, on small speaker it sounds little harsh. I love the production of Dire Straits because every instrument has its own space and clarity. I don't know how record the tracks, every instruments on its own channel or in group, but it's really great.

  • @1stblackmanonthenet
    @1stblackmanonthenet 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Who's here from the series "The Ship?" Had to revisit youtube for this classic. Memories, 3am, smokin and drinkin at Eastern Michigan University in 1986🍺🚬 and the good stuff of course 💨

  • @MarkYohanna-ju5ug
    @MarkYohanna-ju5ug 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The build-up and then that long chord at the end, strikes me to the core.

  • @tv2109
    @tv2109 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    My God how have I never heard this amazing song

    • @connorlachs3871
      @connorlachs3871 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Welcome to the other side 🙏🏻

  • @dirtygnome
    @dirtygnome 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Have loved this song since it’s release and continue to love it in 2021. One of the all time greatest songs I’ve added to my life list
    ✨❤️✨

  • @hibbihassan63
    @hibbihassan63 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Grand poète,Grand chanteur, Grand guitariste,l'un des meilleurs compositeur de ce siècle au côté des pink floyd,le non, Dylan

  • @ronbarrett7724
    @ronbarrett7724 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Soldier of fortune and dog of war. When you understand that, you got it. He is talking about life and death

    • @jebangelacox9279
      @jebangelacox9279 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Or you have been a "contractor" . I have been, I served 4 years in the Marines and then went back as a contractor. Our own troops called us mercenaries or soldiers of fortune.

  • @sharonShazzy455
    @sharonShazzy455 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Still sounds good in June 2019 great band

  • @danmay1808
    @danmay1808 7 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Thank YOU, Dire Straits!!!! :D .... SO many amazing memories of being a kid listening to this! Flipping Love it!! x

    • @lazybones69
      @lazybones69 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My folks used to play this album in the car when I was a kid, and it annoyed the f**k outta me. Decided to give it another try a few years ago and it's become one of my favourite albums of all time.

  • @AllSam72
    @AllSam72 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Впервые услышал этот трек в 1987-м году. С тех пор поклонник Dire Straits и Марка Нопфлера. Узнаю его уникальные гитарные пассажи пальцами по струнам с первых нот.

  • @chrisperrien7055
    @chrisperrien7055 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Truely "spooky" song . Added with Brothers in Arms, it hits among vets from back in the day.
    Salute/Toast/Brost to my Brothers in Arms. I am drinking the best Margarita in the land right now.

  • @patb5266
    @patb5266 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "World Music" vibe to this classic, a decade when World Music came into being. so many great artists from around the world introduced to the "west".

  • @GreenElfMom
    @GreenElfMom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In addition to the magic of Mark Knopfler's guitarwork, there is the magic of the flute-work in this song. Those two factors, along with the other musical ingredients that make up "Across the River," make listening to it an mind-expanding experience.

  • @atbibfatimazohra6287
    @atbibfatimazohra6287 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mark is à god among musicians..there´s no other words to say

  • @1961hendog
    @1961hendog 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    his songs can inspire the uninspired!!!!

  • @beverageman42
    @beverageman42 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Crockett and Tubbs blasting across the ocean. In a cigar boat!

    • @1BigCREE1Redtail
      @1BigCREE1Redtail 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      beverageman42 Yup!! Miami Vice.

    • @17henke
      @17henke 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The last ship! Fantastic piece were the songs introduced into the scene

    • @zg6766
      @zg6766 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Knock, Knock... Who's There?" is the twenty-first episode of Miami Vice's third season. It premiered on March 27, 1987

  • @robertotimo8504
    @robertotimo8504 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Mark..Past, present and future.

  • @mitchellleith4969
    @mitchellleith4969 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can you imagine what you hear? A great song for a metaphysical experience within your mind.

  • @TheFedeforca
    @TheFedeforca 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Rosario, patrimonio de todos.

  • @michaelwurtz2817
    @michaelwurtz2817 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A beautiful song of the master
    Of the master Markus 😉

  • @riffmon
    @riffmon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Saw him again Aug 27th. The boy's still got it!

  • @blueskeleton7744
    @blueskeleton7744 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Been listening strong since the first album.. "Fond memories is the inner strength to make the backbone to ones future"... This kind of music goes through the soul and into the marrow for one to leave the future, and bless the past memories and though to continue on... Amen to you brothers and sisters.. stay on your path.. don't wander off. Abatar

    • @009ayhancan
      @009ayhancan 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wonderful musical.

    • @vratarportirgolman
      @vratarportirgolman 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's perfectly fine to stray as long as you have the path in sight.
      Heck, you may even lose the path from the pupil and know where it is nonetheless.

  • @geofftuckfrump9891
    @geofftuckfrump9891 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    “I’m a soldier of fortune, I’m a dog of war; and we don’t give a damn who the killing is a’for.”

    • @davesmith6661
      @davesmith6661 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lma0. No, Tuck gee-off. Trump 2020.