maxmox
(Broome, Western Australia) | | Posted: May 01, 2013 - 15:07 | |
itaish wrote:The older I get the more I appreciate Dire Straits music (that's a complement...)
Compliment maybe? |
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itaish
(Berkeley, CA) | | Posted: May 01, 2013 - 15:05 | |
BazH wrote:I used to like them in the early 80s but find all their stuff Boring now.
I actually used to find their stuff boring during the 80's but learn to like them more and more now :) |
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BazH
(www) | | Posted: Feb 28, 2013 - 00:50 | |
I used to like them in the early 80s but find all their stuff Boring now.
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coloradojohn
(A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver) | | Posted: Jan 27, 2013 - 17:35 | |
Ah, yes...This made me pull over to listen when it first came out...I was driving along PCH near Huntington Beach with a tasty buzz on...sat there and laughed till I almost cried...Surely some of the funnest lyrics ever!
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kingart
(Brooklyn NY) | | Posted: Oct 25, 2012 - 15:54 | |
One of the very finest sing along and timely and spot-on songs ever. Brilliant! A rock solid 10.
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Euskadita
(MX) | | Posted: Aug 23, 2012 - 16:02 | |
Don't konw how did MK manage to do, so that Dire Straits songs never felt to be as lenghty as they really are.
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itaish
(Berkeley, CA) | | Posted: Aug 23, 2012 - 15:47 | |
The older I get the more I appreciate Dire Straits music (that's a compliment...)
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nagsheadlocal
(North Carolina, the new New Jersey) | | Posted: Jul 23, 2012 - 05:50 | |
"Two men say they're Jesus - one of them must be wrong"
One of my all-time favorite rock lyrics . . .
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Poacher
(Brighton, UK) | | Posted: Dec 14, 2011 - 06:50 | |
fredriley wrote:The verse about war is a direct reference to the Falklands/Malvinas war in 1982 - I don't know if this song was written before, during or after this nasty little pointless war, Hydrocarbons have now been found in reasonable quality offshore. . . |
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paranoidfloyd
(Saskatchewan, Canada) | | Posted: Dec 14, 2011 - 06:47 | |
Frater_Kork wrote:Farfisa!
Indeed! Great sound. |
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Dahlia_Gumbo
(San Francisco) | | Posted: Sep 10, 2011 - 12:47 | |
Good all the way around.
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(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas) | | Posted: Sep 10, 2011 - 12:46 | |
Cynaera wrote:I love this song - so delightfully cynical and snarky... Not vouching for the lyrics, but couldn't find anything totally accurate... Yes, you're right... I have felt ambivalent about this song, but you point out how good it really is... love it...
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Frater_Kork
(Uppsala, Sweden) | | Posted: Jun 08, 2011 - 03:52 | |
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iTuner
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fredriley
(Nottingham, UK) | | Posted: Feb 02, 2011 - 03:07 | |
Cynaera wrote:I love this song - so delightfully cynical and snarky... Not vouching for the lyrics, but couldn't find anything totally accurate...
Did you transcribe the lyrics?? You must have a lot of time on your hands ;) The lyrics take me back a couple of decades as they obliquely reference the state of the UK back in the Thatcherite 80s when the Tories were actively carrying out class war against the labour movement, and the movement was trying to fight back, with economy and society as 'collateral damage' (as they say these days). The verse about war is a direct reference to the Falklands/Malvinas war in 1982 - I don't know if this song was written before, during or after this nasty little pointless war, but Thatcher soon after 'victory' (at the cost of 2000 lives) talked freely of "the enemy within" by which she clearly meant striking workers. The war cemented her regime's power and led to its eventual victory in the class war it had started. This isn't so much a song as a piece of social history. |
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Sjaaks
(Horst, Netherlands) | | Posted: Feb 02, 2011 - 03:04 | |
Nice proof that Mark's also quite a poet...  |
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Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal) | | Posted: Aug 27, 2010 - 20:57 | |
I love this song - so delightfully cynical and snarky... Not vouching for the lyrics, but couldn't find anything totally accurate... Warning lights are flashing down at quality control Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down There's a meeting in the boardroom they're trying to trace the smell There's leaking in the washroom there's a stinkin personnel Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze Goodness me, could this be industrial disease? Caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post
They're refusing to be pacified it's him they blame the most
The watchdog's got rabies the foreman's got fleas
Everyone's concerned about industrial disease
There's panic on the switchboard tongues are ties in knots
Some come out in sympathy some come out in spots
Some blame the management some the employees
And everybody knows it's the industrial disease The work force is disgusted downs tools and walks
Innocence is injured experience just talks
Everyone seeks damages and everyone agrees
That these are classic symptoms of a monetary squeeze
On ITV and BBC they talk about the curse
Philosophy is useless theology is worse
History boils over there's an economics freeze
Sociologists invent words that mean 'industrial disease' Doctor Parkinson declared "I'm not surprised to see you here
You've got smokers cough from smoking, brewer's droop from drinking beer
I don't know how you came to get those Betty Davis knees
But worst of all young man you've got industrial disease"
He wrote me a prescription he said "you're not depressed
But I'm glad you came to see me to get this off your chest
Come back and see me later - next patient please
Send in another victim of industrial disease" I go down to speaker's corner I'm thunderstruck
They got free speech, tourists, police in trucks
Two men say they're Jesus - one of them must be wrong
There's a protest singer singing a protest song - he says
"they wanna have a war to keep us on our knees
They wanna have a war to keep their factories
They wanna have a war to stop the spying Japanese
They wanna have a war to stop industrial disease
They're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind
They wanna sap your energy incarcerate your mind
They give you rule Brittania, gassy beer, page three
Two weeks in España and Sunday striptease"
Meanwhile the first Jesus says "I'd cure it soon
Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons"
The other one's out on hunger strike he's dying by degrees
How come Jesus gets industrial disease |
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robbeek
(the foothills above El Lay....) | | Posted: Jul 26, 2010 - 20:53 | |
Nice tune from a GREAT album.
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Dillinquent
(Hertford, UK) | | Posted: Feb 18, 2010 - 06:12 | |
gregr79 wrote:2 men say they're Jesus - One of them must be wrong  |
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Johray63
(The Lowlands) | | Posted: Feb 18, 2010 - 06:11 | |
Nice, reminds me of Dylan's Highway 61.
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PLezam9109
(Lost in space) | | Posted: Oct 15, 2009 - 13:57 | |
gregr79 wrote:2 men say they're Jesus - One of them must be wrong
Abolish monday mornings and friday afternoons
The other one's on a hunger strike he's dying by degrees
How come jesus gets industrial disease
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crockydile
(I miss Excelsior!) | | Posted: Oct 15, 2009 - 13:47 | |
jjbix wrote: there is a reason no one plays it, it sucks, album filler tune
This is a great, fun song. Amazing album. |
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bpkengor
(York, Maine, USA) | | Posted: Aug 13, 2009 - 12:22 | |
echoes wrote:Always dug this groovy little diddy
agreed! DS and Knopfler don't do much for me anymore but this is still fun.. |
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gregr79
(If you chooose not to decide you still have made a choice) | | Posted: Aug 13, 2009 - 12:19 | |
2 men say they're Jesus - One of them must be wrong |
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echoes
(Danbury, CT) | | Posted: Aug 13, 2009 - 12:16 | |
Always dug this groovy little diddy
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Govi
(Left Coast) | | Posted: Jul 12, 2009 - 20:52 | |
The organ playing in this sounds like Question Mark and the Mysterions' "Ninety-six Tears," doesn't it?
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Sadfish
(Lancashire, England.) | | Posted: Jun 11, 2009 - 01:22 | |
HAha love it Bill, got this album first time around , I think I was only about 11!!!
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monemose
(Istanbul) | | Posted: May 10, 2009 - 07:54 | |
"innocence is injured, experience just talks"
GREAT SONG!!!
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gjeeg
(Syracuse, New York) | | Posted: Apr 08, 2009 - 18:12 | |
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jagdriver
(Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | | Posted: Feb 04, 2009 - 16:02 | |
cirruss wrote:cannot stand Dire Straits
But you award multiple 9s to Talking Heads tracks??????????? Go figure. |
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