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!
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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.
🎼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!
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
Mark is now 74 years old and has a new album coming out in April.
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
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
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.
This piece is extraordinarily beautiful and painful at the same time.
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!!
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...
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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.
As a veteran.. This song holds in my soul..
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.
The words “ now the sun has gone to hell” sends shivers and goose bumps every time I hear it
One of the Top Guitarists of all time.
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
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. ua-cam.com/video/tu444rkY8nQ/v-deo.html
As a combat veteran, this song always gets me - brings back some very tough memories.
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.
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!
Mr Knopfler provides the backup to his own guitar's lead vocals for this song.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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?
Mark wrote this song when the UK went to war with Argentina in the Falklands in 1982
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.
No whistles and Bells just Dire Straights doing their beautiful haunting best. Amazing Band and Knopfler is a poet and guitar genius
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.
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.
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
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.
The animator of this video also deserves recognition too.
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
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 ❤
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.
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.
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.
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
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
"And though they did hurt me so bad...". It's a song about God and His suffering servants! Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem !
Mark Knopfler makes his instrument sing. It's another voice in all of his songs
A Vietnam War veteran, hits me right in my heart.
For those of us who remember a television show Miami Vice, the song was featured, it was so impactful. Heart wrenching actually.
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.
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. 😢
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!!!!!
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.
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. 🙏🏻🫶🏿
I’m a veteran, this is a tough one to get through….
Ditto.
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.
"Her latest trick," another good one...
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."
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 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.
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: ua-cam.com/video/EMRJT2ebvAk/v-deo.htmlsi=hM6V1t9Dptf6uQkM
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.
ohhhh the guitar playing of mark knopfler just pure brilliance
Thank you, Polo ❤ my son is in the military. Your regard for the sacrifice means a lot to me. This song kills me
This one ❤ and comfortably numb ❤by pink Floyd ❤ peace ✌️ Polo.grandma still up ❤
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.
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.
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.
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!
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 🇬🇧
Telegraph Road is a must!
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. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Beautiful song. My favorite song by Dire Straits is still, Telegraph Road. The intrinsic visualizations are wonderful. Good review Polo.
One of their best songs. The guitar is outstanding (with some hints of David Gilmour) 'Telegraph Road' is another gem.
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.
The video is an artistic masterpiece as well as the music.
Dire Straits. I’ll never forget their concert at Wembly Arena 40 yrs ago. They were amazing and unforgettable. Great memories ❤️
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.
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.
Anyone see the skulls in the crashing waves..? Amazing song & reaction #DireStraits
Beautiful cinematography.
and also after the first wave crashes and then is building, people are depicted in the water, raising their arms.
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
Dire Straits are the greatest band I’ve ever seen live..by far. I loved your reaction to this Polo. You have a very calming demeanour and you’re a good man. I saw them live in Brisbane Australia in the mid nineties.
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.
Telegraph Road is another must listen to Straits track
Simply... Mark Knopfler is a genius ! The first album I every bought was as a young man was Brother's in Arms, with this being the title track. I'm in my 50s now and great to see someone from a younger generation absolutely appreciate this amazing band. Thank you for your reaction to this song.
From 1985! Still coming back! Thank you Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits!!! And thanx for video! ❤❤
Great reaction Polo! Not ashamed to admit, this song gets me teary every time I hear it. The emotion in the guitar & lyrics is off the chart. Knopfler really captured the futility of war and how it doesn't matter which 'side' you're on - the combatants mostly want one thing - to be home, to live their life, and live it in peace! Cheers!
We are fools to make war on our brothers in arms, that always tares me apart simply because it is so true.
I recommend Telegraph Road on the Album Love Over Gold! Great proggy sounding Dire Straits
I remember the first time I heard this song. It was in an episode of Miami Vice..
❤ THE REAL EMOTIONAL SONG CREATED BY BRITISH BAND . 🎉
The His Magistys Royal Marines Band does this justice too.
This song belongs on a goat song list.
I cry every time I hear Mark Knopler play this its such a heart touching song/ guitar playing ❤
I always liked Dire Straits yet after going to war and back, now for me, this song always wells up intense emotion via lyrics and sound.
Entire LP is worth the 4runner! First album my son requested. (He got it for maybe his 6th or 7th birthday, it was a long time ago) it's so good, we wore it out and eventually the CD.
For me, when Mark sings, he sounds just like he's being matter of fact about war, but his guitar just cuts through with the real emotion of how someone feels. And it's a great example of how you can convey so much emotion and imagery with just so few words.
Mark’s guitar is another voice in the band!
Mark Knopfler just sold his guitars at auction , well worth a watch.