SENSELESS WAR + UNBREAKABLE BONDS | First Time Couple Reaction to DIRE STRAITS - Brothers in Arms
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Got to do telegraph road a masterpiece, brothers in arms is haunting...
Particularly the live version, from Alchemy Live... but then the same goes for Brothers in Arms, Sultans of Swing, Private Investigations, et al... All stunning from that concert
@@AnthonyKellett Definitely the Alchemy live version of Telegraph Road. Filmed in 4K (in 1983!) and digital sound, the quality is outstanding and does full justice to an outstanding live performance.
Hes done the album version I think a while back
I agree about Telegraph Road and Sultans from Alchemy. I was at that gig
One of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces of all time.
This song was written from the perspective of a dying soldier with his brothers around him.❤
Mark wrote this as a tribute to the fallen soldiers of the Falkland conflict.
The more I listen to the song, the sadder it gets. As soon as I begin the song, I begin to cry.
Telegraph road Alchemy live and /or this song live at the Nelson Mandela 70th birthday tribute concert. Both are amazing! Fantastic reaction! Thank you and best wishes from the UK!
For me, the best version of this track is the live version from the Albert Hall London. It is called On The Night.
Telegraph Road is epic!
Definitely the "On the night" version for Brothers in arms.
@@Londoneye57 Agreed.
Telegraph Road is the only Anthem which rollercoasters though time depicting life.
Mark knopfler was born in Scotland, grew up in gosforth, Newcastle. He has a slate Geordie accent. He used to be a newspaper reporter. He is left-handed playing all right-handed guitar because he played violin in the school orchestra.
You confirm my assumption about his brilliant musicality (as if his guitar doesn't speak for itself).
Mark Knopfler sure looks like a right-handed guitar player playing a right-handed guitar.
Right-handed guitar players use their left hand on the frets.
Jimi Hendrix is an example of a left-handed guitarist playing right-handed guitars restrung for a left-handed person.
@@edwardlongshanks827 Knopler himself said in a documentary he is
left-handed, his sister gave him a RH guitar and told him to learn to play
it,and he did.
@@patverum9051 He may be naturally left-handed but he plays his right-handed guitars like a right-handed person.
@@patverum9051 Left -handed people can be rather strange.
My dad is left-handed. He writes and draws left-handed. He throws a ball left-handed.
But he swings a baseball bat right-handed.
Poet, storyteller, songwriter, musician, legend.
Private investigations and Telegraph Road are 2 other epic songs to listen too
Yes and yes
MK was born in Glasgow and raised just outside of Newcastle upon Tyne in England's North East
Glasgow is in Scotland.
So Mark Knofler was born i Scotland.
@@roykilgour9790 Yes, I know
@@bandycoot1896 So why only mention England when it is important to mention that Mark was born in Scotland because many people think Mark Knofler is from the USA and many others think he is from Ireland. It is important to mention where he was born. So from what you write, other people from other countries read that Mark Knofler was born in England because you only mention England and not Scotland. Does it matter, yes of course it matters that people's personal history is true.
Hav a good day 🙂👍
@@roykilgour9790his mother was English and his Father was Hungarian - he wasn't therefore Scottish
@@roykilgour9790 I assumed that people may know where Glasgow is however I wasn't sure if they would be aware of where Newcastle was. F**k me mate, you're blowing my initial comment out of all proportion. Are you bored or something?🤣🤣
The character singing that he will never return home hits so hard and the quiet delivery makes it personal. "We are fools to make war on our brothers in arms" Nothing is worth the death and destruction. Yes, do the long version.
My grandfather always loved Dire Straits. What a wonderful tune. Besos de Argentinaa!
Powerful anti-war music and lyrics.
There's so much to discover from Dire Straits. You've embarked on an entire album and you might think about reacting to the entire Alchemy Live concert. Pure musical brilliance from beginning to end.
Knopfler was born in Glasgow and brought up in a town called Blyth near Newcastle, England. Brothers in arms is one of the biggest selling LPs of all time! Classic.
Mark Knopfler was born in Glasgow, Scotland. The moved to North East England, not far from Newcastle Upon Tyne.
My sister bought this album for me when I was 12 years old. It became part of my life. To produce an album with not only this masterpiece but also Money For Nothing is just incredible.
Masterpiece. I cry every time I listen to it. Mark has such an unique guitar touch and tone. This song never aged and is still relevant today (hélas).
Try Telegraph road live 83 (Alchemy)
The studio version is longer and contains an storm intro.
Try a live version.... either Nelson Mandella 70th birthday (with Clapton on rythem guitar) or (my preference) from the On the Night album
Knopfler liked to high gain his amp, so when he played delicately there was still a lot of drive and plenty of headroom for dynamics, so with a bit of compression to help, those little touches still cut through and along with those swells, made the guitar sing. Takes someone with his touch to tame a sound like that.
The Brothers in Arms won the Grammy Award for Best Music Video.
One of the most beautiful tributes to brave soldiers ever. I have played this song every Veteran's day since it was released. Great reaction folks. Later...
Mark Knopfler is from Scotland, he is in my top 3 best guitarists of all time, true master of emotion.
Thank you for showing us your hearts and souls.
Fantastic song. Everything about this song is so original.
Everything on this album is immaculate. Please do it all, either individually or as a whole album. This was one of the first CDs, coming out right around the beginning of that technology, and it sold an insane number of copies on CD. And it sounds SOOOO good!
just like comfortably numb... the guitar makes me so emotional.... every time!... then add in the images on the video and sentiment of the words its enough to make anyone cry
Nobody can make a guitar cry like that ❤
A very aprepo song since REMEMBRANCE DAY is fast approaching. NOVEMBER, 11.
ON THE 11TH DAY, 11TH HOUR...
Every time I hear this song, it takes me back to one night in 1985, not long after I bought the CD. There was a thunderstorm that caused a power outage, but luckily, my boom box had batteries. I sat with the window opening, cool Summer nighttime breeze, thunder rumbling, rain falling, and "Brothers In Arms" playing in the background. The moment was sealed in my memory for life.
This was just the best song of Dire Straits of all, remember when I purchased that album in 1985.
Mark Knopfler did a couple of very good solo albums as well.
Ten excellent solo albums....
And some very good EPs... and 2 fantastic duet albums, one with Chet Atkins and one with Emmylou Harris... and 9 movie soundtracks including Local Hero and The Princess Bride
The guitar cries and it makes me cry... I LOVE THIS SONG!
"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, For he who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother." King Henry V to his soldiers, from Shakespeare's Henry V
A very emotional song played with incredible control. Mark has been firmly on my Mt. Rushmore of great guitarists for me along with Hackett, Howe, Vaughan, and Hendrix.
This is why peace through strength must be our stance. No more endless body bags.
Love Over Gold is an excellent album; from the early 80s - several brilliant tracks on there.
You must listen to the live performences of the guys. Every part of their liveshows are unbelievable.
Agree
I am a US Marine veteran of the Cold War. I just visited Washington D.C. on an Honor Flight with other veterans. At Arlington National Cemetery, from my view atop a hill, a virtual sea of white head stones. Over 400,000 of them, for as far as the eye can see. And the cemetery is being expanded to accommodate even more. It is difficult to wrap one's mind around the amount of sacrifice and suffering our soldiers have experienced so that we can have the country we have today. This song just reinforces what I felt atop that hill, looking down upon my brothers in arms.
Thank you for your service, sir! This great freedom we enjoy is not free. 🇺🇲
Thank you for the sacrifices you and your family made in your service to our country.
My father in law served in WW2.
He was able to make the same trip at 92 yo. He was so honored and told us it was one of the best moments of his life. I wish I'd thought to play this song for him. He was such a humble man.
RIP Papa.
@@juliecrane9647 Thank you. I do come from a military family. My father served in the Army Air Corps during WW2 and my older brother served in the Marine Corps during Vietnam. I wear my brother's dress blues uniform a couple times a year, to honor him.
Many thanks to you and yours
One of my favourite "goose bumps" song.
A brilliant piece of music from Mark as well as the lyrics. My favorite song on the album.
best album they made, is alchemy live, pinnacle of their playing. start there.
There is a recent live version of him doing this song now that he's much older that's very moving.
Mark is from Northumberland via Scotland. His father is Hungarian, having fled his native land following the Soviet repulsion of the anti-Russian uprising in October 1956. His mother is native to Scotland. Dire Straits literally took the bands name from their shortness of monetary assets when arriving in London seeking fame and fortune and asked by a local DJ, what name was the name the band was known by. Their first single hit was Sultans of Swing, written by Mark. And the rest is history!
My favorite song by them from my favorite album of theirs. Check out a live version of this from the Nelson Mandella Birthday concert.
Telegraph Road Alchemy live 1983. Incredible performance of an epic song!
WOW! finally. This is one of the most important and well developed songs ever written in Rock. The video is so well done to illustrate the haunting melancholy lyrics. Epic. Yes, indeed.
Thank you guys, excellent as usual, try the full version of the album and enjoy the hammond organ and guitar solo, which unfortunately have been edited out of the video.
Simply beautiful and haunting song.
this song conveys so much emotion with very few notes on the guitar it is amazing..
nope born in scotland and thats why there was a scottish highland feel at the start of the song, but lived in England almost all of his life.
Played at many military funerals.
Much as I love most of this album, their finest offerings are Making Movies (1980) and Love Over Gold (1982), IMO
Whether you’re a fan of Dire Straits or not you cannot listen to this and not conclude it’s one of the greatest songs ever recorded.
The version you should really listen to is the live performance from the Nelson Mandela birthday concert
So hauntingly beautiful loved it when it was first released
Brothers in arms nelson mandela concert is an absolute must
The video looks the same style as the famous AHA video for their song "Take On Me". That one was done on a machine called a "Rotoscope".
Saw them perform this live at the Hammersmith Odeon in ‘85 I th8nkmitvwas.
The backdrop was scenes of war and very emotional.
Great stuff.
I saw them in Shepton Mallet in 85. They were magnificent.
Thank you both for a great reaction. Really enjoy your videos and how much joy music clearly gives you both.
It still gives me goosebumps to listen & watch this track after listening to it so many times over the years. The way the guitar wails with the keyboard is pure instrumental gold and Knopfler's understated lyrics just top off a perfect song.
The original line up of DS was Mark Knopfler, his brother David ( he left the band in 1980 during the recording of Making Movies and repaced with Hal Lindes) John Illsley on Bass and Pick Withers ( real name David but that would've been two Davids) who left after the 4th Album. BIA album saw Terry Williams on drums.
a group with a well-deserved reputation.
-We can see a classic scene with this song, on the TV show "Miami Vice" in the 1980's, (in last scene of the episode: 'Out Where the Buses Don't Run')
It was written from the view point of a fatally wounded British soldier whose mates stayed with him as he realised he wasn’t going home.
I'm not crying - You're crying. Masterpiece
i get chills everytime i hear brothers in arms. Its a stunning song
Please do the live version... It'll blow you away ❤
Another thing about war that most people do not know is the actor that played Scotty on TV's Star Trek was in Canadian military with Artillery and was shot and injuried on Juneau Beach on D-Day during War World 1
Check out the other live video of this song, The animation video is a short version of Money For Nothing.
One of the most poignant and beautiful while haunting songs ever written. The track is best listened to live 'On the Night' or the 'Nelson Mandela' live gig with Eric Clapton backing on Rhythm guitar. While watching the 'On the Night' live performance take in the 'Private Investigations' and 'Romeo and Juliet' tracks. Also must review' 'Telegraph Road' and 'Tunnel of Love' from the Alchemy live performance. So much and all brilliant.
Que buena canción. En mí juventud tuve este "CD". Que discazo! 🇦🇷🎼🎼🎼
first time watching you, nice reaction lovely couple with nice personalities
love this song so much! so haunting and so sad but yet beautiful!
I wish I could listen to this song for the first time again. That guitar just cuts right into your soul. I second the Telegraph Road, you've got to do that one next!
Great comment, Lex, about the sunrise/sunset color at the end of the video.
The man's too big the man's too strong is right up there from this album 🔥🔥
Still remember the first time i heard this... Miami vice show on tv in 85 i think :) Stayed with me all these years
The Whole Brothers IN ARMS Album is Incredible. Almost Every Teenager Got It When It Came Out Myself Included
21K in 4 days! 3,000 more than 1 day ago.
Amazing how people always tend to listen to songs they already know and heard countless times and yet won't step outside the box and try something they never heard of even when they don't have to pay for anything. Just amazing to me. Seems to be a popular music thing for the masses.
The thing about Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits is there is the single version, the album version and the live version, so, I advise the the album version 1st then the live version, the live version of this you should watch is from the On The Night concert.
Highly recommend the live version of Private Investigation from the On The Night concert. Amazing.
Incredible that you’ve heard “Money for nothing” from the album, and haven’t heard the rest.
This is one of my favorite album by the band! It’s definitely worth a place in your library next to the other one. Other songs on there are often disregarded because of the hits, but do check them out - on or off camera.
Best regards from Sweden.
Other songs about war to check are "Five Finger Death" - Wrong Side of Heaven which points out data and info they also have more war related songs "Dixie Chicks" -Travelling Soldier
"Stan Ridgeway" - Camouflage before going solo he was with group Wall of Voodoo(Mexican Radio - their hit) and "Warren Zevon " - Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
It is their most important song. Most impactful. To me anyway. Me personally.
Good afternoon, dear friends. This song “Brothers in arms” is dedicated to the Falkland Islands war between Argentina and England between May and June 1982. These brothers in arms are Argentinians and British killing each other for interests beyond their own. A sad song about something that should not happen, but there are always “reasons”, usually economic or political or strategic that are thought to be superior to human life. Best regards
Telegraph Road from the Alchemy Live tour. The peak of Dire Straits showcasing their musical genius.
First CD I brought when it took over from vinyl for that period here in England Mark was Scottish not Irish Born in Glasgow 1949
Superb
Nik and Lex, this is one of my favourites from Dire Straits. Also a very timely reaction considering Remembrance Day is on November 11th, commemorating the Great War and WWII. Unfortunately less and less people are wearing poppies these days. It's still an important day here in Canada, especially in Schools.
Rock on
Tom from Toronto
p.s Saw this tour in the University of Toronto Arena in 1985.
Telegraph Road Alchemy Live is a genuine masterpiece .
The Nelson Mandela birthday concert version of Brothers In Arms is an absolute must . You should also check out Mark's guitar duet with Chet Atkins an incredible guitarist and one of Mark's major influences as well as favourite guitarists , its amazing. An absolute must watch is... Guitar Stories Mark Knopfler Sky Arts 1 ... an intimate interview by Dire Straits bass player John Illsley who meets up with Mark visiting special places in Mark's guitar journey and charting his life influences as well Mark's 6 favourite guitars, very special .
Song used alot at funerals military service personal ,be it u.s. ,British, etc, song gives me chills, he had a friend, who list his life in the Falklands war, his unit didn't leave him behind, I've been to a friend's funeral who passed in Iraq..atb craig
The live version, Wembley 1988 on the occasion of Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday, has a much more extended lead break, and the performance is epic in every way. Recommended.
Making movies album Is great : Tunnel of Love and Romeo and Juliet are great their classic
You might want to take a listen the soundtrack to the film "Local Hero" by Mark Knopfler...
Yes! I was about to make the same recommendation. While they are at it, might as well watch this classic 80s flic!
@@JamesCormier Very underrated film...
And then listen to the new version of Going Home, the Theme of the Local Hero, by Mark Knopfler's Guitar Heroes. 60+ music legends coming together to raise money for teenage cancer charities all expertly blended together by Guy Fletcher, former Dire Straits member and Mark's longtime collaborator who was also a member of his other band The Notting Hillbillies and remains a member of his solo band The 96ers.
just wow
É de chorar de tão lindo!
My favourite version of brothers in arms is from the album on the night so emotional
Oh, thank you so much for doing this reaction. I emailed you recently about how to request (your gmail) but I guess it went to your spam. I was so hoping that you would react to this song. Thank you so very much.
Another Dire Straits masterpiece
There is an episode of the classic TV series Miami Vice that includes this song during the last scenes that give me goosebumps every time. It's called "Out Where the Busses Don't Run". You should watch the best live version from the concert for Nelson Mandelas birthday. It's very emotional.
Funny. He's just a tired old man.
Guess he's kind of relieved it's over.
@ That's the one. And he read him his rights. My favorite part is one headline on the newspaper about Nixon and the "tapes". Classic episode of a classic series.
Did you know the other singer on "money for nothing" is Sting.
😮!!!! Whatttt did not know that!!
@@NicknLex the "I want my MTV" lines are sung to the tune of "Don't stand so close to me" that Sting wrote and performed when he was with The Police. He has a co-writing credit for Money For Nothing as a result, although it was Mark who had the idea. Apparently it was Sting's record company who insisted on the writing credit rather than Sting himself.
Dire Straits were recording the Brothers in Arms album at the studio owned by George Martin (who produced The Beatles albums) on the island of Montserrat. Mark casually said wouldn't it be great if they could get Sting to sing the lines on Money For Nothing only to be told that Sting was vacationing on the island! They reached out to him and he came over to the studio. The rest as they say is history!
Sting performed the song with Dire Straits at Live Aid and also with Mark, Eric Clapton and Phil Collins at the Music For Montserrat concert held at the Royal Albert Hall to raise money for the island after it suffered a terrible volcanic eruption. The latter is particularly with checking out, as is the whole concert which also featured the likes of Elton John and Paul McCartney amongst others. One of the songs Mark performed was Brothers in Arms with a full orchestra.
There is a live version, at Wembley Stadium, in 1988, of celebration of Nelson Mandela's liberation. It's on UA-cam and the dialogue between the guitar and the lyrics of the song is impressive.