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Mark Knopfler — Coyote
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hayduke2
(Southampton, NY)
Posted: Jun 09, 2013 - 06:27
 
 mindless wrote:

Too much Knopfler for me too.

 
yes, TMK

He is great and all, but it is more than a bit much 

cShaggy
(..inna state of being..)
Posted: Jan 03, 2013 - 03:21
 
 adamdbenson wrote:
Possibly my most favorite non-porn base line. Just groovin'
 



..which begs the question: what's your fave porn bass line?..Debbie Does Disco?..

blackjackshellac
(Montreal)
Posted: Aug 30, 2012 - 11:14
 
I feel like I'm stoned listening to this and the song sounds to be going too slow.  Maybe I am.

railroadwail
(Deep in Penn's Woods)
Posted: Jul 11, 2012 - 14:48
 
There's simply not enough Mark Knopfler in the world today!   Play on, Bill.  I count on RP for my Dire Straights fix.

mindless
(Auckland City, New Zealand)
Posted: May 27, 2012 - 17:33
 
 allabout wrote:
Totally agree, see my post, come Bill are you reading these comments... lshinkawa wrote:
Why is it that every single time I turn on RP, it's either Mark Knopfler or Dire Straits.  I got interested in RP initially of the variety. Where is it?
 
 
Too much Knopfler for me too.

adamdbenson
([rock] me [hard place])
Posted: Mar 06, 2012 - 17:34
 
Possibly my most favorite non-porn base line. Just groovin'

coy
(san antonio)
Posted: Feb 22, 2012 - 13:59
 
that's good poetry uyup
and it's got guitars too 

ziakut
(Unmoon)
Posted: Feb 22, 2012 - 13:58
 
Yep...this is cool. Lovin' it....woo hooooooo!!!!   {#Bananasplit}

bluecshells
(EARTH)
Posted: Dec 02, 2011 - 11:44
 
Damn gorgeous cover photo.....{#Clap}

ThePoose
(Ottawa, capital of Canada)
Posted: Dec 02, 2011 - 11:41
 
 tinamarie wrote:

Seen any of the Nottingham Hillbillies lately?

 

Don't you mean ''Notting Hillbillies''?

RawFishtails
Posted: Oct 18, 2011 - 19:16
 
Awesome song. Excellent choice{#Bananapiano}
Don't mind the critics. There isn't enough Mark Knopfler played!!!



allabout
(Perth Western Australia)
Posted: Oct 18, 2011 - 19:16
 
Totally agree, see my post, come Bill are you reading these comments... lshinkawa wrote:
Why is it that every single time I turn on RP, it's either Mark Knopfler or Dire Straits.  I got interested in RP initially of the variety. Where is it?
 



Cynaera
(Kenneth's Frequency)
Posted: Aug 16, 2011 - 19:41
 
 JsDad wrote:

Local Hero - on a very short list of my favorite movies of all time.  I remember being blown away by the soundtrack when I first saw it and finding out Knopfler wrote it, with my friend and I saying "of course."


 Cynaera wrote:


It's worth the effort. I agree - Sultans of Swing STILL gets played to death here - it's like that's the only song Dire Straits ever did! There are a lot of other, better songs from Dire Straits - I hope you'll give them a chance. Knopfler wrote the soundtrack to a little-known movie called "Local Hero," and apart from being a delightful movie, the music is rather awesome. (And he doesn't sing. LOL!)

 

 


 
I have "Local Hero" queued up on my DVD player for when I have a day off.  BTW - roadrunners have a "solar panel" on their backs, between their wings, and they have to charge their solar panels to make them fast. Otherwise, they're sluggish, clumsy, and easy to catch. (I learnt this from a visit to the Sonora Desert Museum in Arizona.)



TerryS
(Another SW)
Posted: Aug 16, 2011 - 19:30
 
J.J. Cale is alive and well.

Aud
(lost in lakecity)
Posted: Aug 14, 2011 - 04:09
 
 fitzworld wrote:
Okay, now I'm funkin' out and puttin' on da groove...
 

I'm feeling it too

keidse
Posted: Jul 29, 2011 - 09:04
 
 coyote620 wrote:
For me, listening to this song is like listening to nails be pulled across  a blackboard.
 
Original.


lshinkawa
(Berkeley, CA)
Posted: Jul 13, 2011 - 19:18
 
Why is it that every single time I turn on RP, it's either Mark Knopfler or Dire Straits.  I got interested in RP initially of the variety. Where is it?

JsDad
(Chapel Hill, NC)
Posted: Jun 14, 2011 - 18:24
 

Local Hero - on a very short list of my favorite movies of all time.  I remember being blown away by the soundtrack when I first saw it and finding out Knopfler wrote it, with my friend and I saying "of course."


 Cynaera wrote:


It's worth the effort. I agree - Sultans of Swing STILL gets played to death here - it's like that's the only song Dire Straits ever did! There are a lot of other, better songs from Dire Straits - I hope you'll give them a chance. Knopfler wrote the soundtrack to a little-known movie called "Local Hero," and apart from being a delightful movie, the music is rather awesome. (And he doesn't sing. LOL!)

 



fitzworld
(The Big A)
Posted: Jun 14, 2011 - 18:14
 
Okay, now I'm funkin' out and puttin' on da groove...

fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: May 27, 2011 - 07:32
 
 nerakdon wrote:
We had a roadrunner in our house one time.  Those things are friggin' fast, man.  My parents got it cornered in the bedroom and made a barricade out of shoes and cardboard boxes, to try to herd it out onto their patio.  It was working pretty well at first, but everything got out of hand once my dad dragged out the piano and the anvil.
 
{#Roflol}{#Clap}

ziakut
(A place with air, water and chocolate.)
Posted: Apr 12, 2011 - 13:20
 
Good tune...nice feel. I can also hear a gravely voiced Chris Isaac singing with this music. Imagine it. Glad it's Knopfler though...fits the piece.

fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Mar 09, 2011 - 09:41
 
 tinamarie wrote:

Seen any of the Nottingham Hillbillies lately?

 
'Kin right! I used to live amongst them in Bilborough.


rp1125
(nola)
Posted: Jan 21, 2011 - 11:12
 
hear a lot of steely dan on that one

tinamarie
(Morgan Hill, CA (grew up in Los Angeles))
Posted: Nov 03, 2010 - 11:23
 
 fredriley wrote:

It's not often that someone writes a song about a cartoon, and I was a big fan of RR & C back in the day (much too violent for TV these days, sadly). This one is cool and way smoooooth, typically Knopfler. 7 and a "beep-beep!" from the Nottingham jury.

 
Seen any of the Nottingham Hillbillies lately?


tinamarie
(Morgan Hill, CA (grew up in Los Angeles))
Posted: Nov 03, 2010 - 11:22
 
 jtarp wrote:
Gotta love the bass line.

 
Oh yeah, get's me moving every time.


tinamarie
(Morgan Hill, CA (grew up in Los Angeles))
Posted: Nov 03, 2010 - 11:21
 
Love this guy!

peter_james_bond
(West Of The Burg)
Posted: Oct 05, 2010 - 11:57
 
 nerakdon wrote:
We had a roadrunner in our house one time.  Those things are friggin' fast, man.  My parents got it cornered in the bedroom and made a barricade out of shoes and cardboard boxes, to try to herd it out onto their patio.  It was working pretty well at first, but everything got out of hand once my dad dragged out the piano and the anvil.
 
Let me guess, your dad somehow ended up in the piano as it careened off a cliff with the anvil in hot pursuit.  Meanwhile the roadrunner sped off into the sunset.



coyote620
(Near the river, USA)
Posted: Sep 03, 2010 - 11:48
 
For me, listening to this song is like listening to nails be pulled across  a blackboard.

fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Aug 02, 2010 - 11:42
 
 treehugger wrote:

With all the references in this thread to the Roadrunner I felt compelled to include a picture (from wikipedia) of a Roadrunner Superbird: 
 
 
I'll see your picture with one of the cartoon:



treehugger
Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 14:40
 
 bindi wrote:

Roadrunner - like that winged Landbarge they were selling in the 70's (that for some reason in worth a fortune now?)  Or was it a race car with the same name?  Yeah, I remember Jim Hall and Bruce Mclaren back in the golden days - what I wouldn't give to see them tearin' up Laguna Seca back in the day.  I still think the song is about the cartoon!  :-)
 
With all the references in this thread to the Roadrunner I felt compelled to include a picture (from wikipedia) of a Roadrunner Superbird: 
 

olesonb
(Westminster, CO)
Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 14:36
 
 nerakdon wrote:
We had a roadrunner in our house one time.  Those things are friggin' fast, man.  My parents got it cornered in the bedroom and made a barricade out of shoes and cardboard boxes, to try to herd it out onto their patio.  It was working pretty well at first, but everything got out of hand once my dad dragged out the piano and the anvil.
 

PETA don't know, do they? :)

nerakdon
(Colorado)
Posted: Jun 28, 2010 - 23:18
 
We had a roadrunner in our house one time.  Those things are friggin' fast, man.  My parents got it cornered in the bedroom and made a barricade out of shoes and cardboard boxes, to try to herd it out onto their patio.  It was working pretty well at first, but everything got out of hand once my dad dragged out the piano and the anvil.

bindi
(North Carolina)
Posted: May 30, 2010 - 18:43
 
 jagdriver wrote:

Oh, gosh.... there was a Roadrunner many years ago, back in the days of USRRC competition (when Jim Hall—of Chaparral fame—Roger Penske and Carroll Shelby raced against one another). But in this case I think he just made it up, as there was no Roadrunner chassis in the CART series.
 
Roadrunner - like that winged Landbarge they were selling in the 70's (that for some reason in worth a fortune now?)  Or was it a race car with the same name?  Yeah, I remember Jim Hall and Bruce Mclaren back in the golden days - what I wouldn't give to see them tearin' up Laguna Seca back in the day.  I still think the song is about the cartoon!  :-)


Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: May 30, 2010 - 18:42
 
 jessfine wrote:
I realize that Knopfler rates highly with RP listeners, but I still can't enjoy his voice.  Maybe I'm still experiencing nauseous flashbacks to the late 1970s, when "Sultans of Swing" over-saturated the airwaves.  I guess I'll just try harder.
 
It's worth the effort. I agree - Sultans of Swing STILL gets played to death here - it's like that's the only song Dire Straits ever did! There are a lot of other, better songs from Dire Straits - I hope you'll give them a chance. Knopfler wrote the soundtrack to a little-known movie called "Local Hero," and apart from being a delightful movie, the music is rather awesome. (And he doesn't sing. LOL!)


jagdriver
(Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise)
Posted: May 12, 2010 - 09:37
 
 bindi wrote:

Thanks for the insight - so, in CART, which car is Mark referring to as the roadrunner? 
Does this Roadrunner beat the Coyotes a lot?  The only Roadrunner cars I ever knew about were not racecars, but kind of looked like a late 60's version of what "Supercar" would look like - like in the late 60's - kind of a tank. . .
It still reminds me of the cartoon.

 
Oh, gosh.... there was a Roadrunner many years ago, back in the days of USRRC competition (when Jim Hall—of Chaparral fame—Roger Penske and Carroll Shelby raced against one another). But in this case I think he just made it up, as there was no Roadrunner chassis in the CART series.



jtarp
(Dublin, Ireland)
Posted: Apr 26, 2010 - 10:36
 
Gotta love the bass line.


bindi
(North Carolina)
Posted: Feb 24, 2010 - 21:20
 
 jagdriver wrote:

The song is actually about the former CART (Championship Auto Racing Teams) series. Coyotes were the name given to those cars built and fielded by the legendary A.J. Foyt.
 
Thanks for the insight - so, in CART, which car is Mark referring to as the roadrunner? 
Does this Roadrunner beat the Coyotes a lot?  The only Roadrunner cars I ever knew about were not racecars, but kind of looked like a late 60's version of what "Supercar" would look like - like in the late 60's - kind of a tank. . .
It still reminds me of the cartoon.


fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Feb 22, 2010 - 05:56
 
 cosmiclint wrote:
 Otomi wrote:

That may be true, but the Warner Brothers cartoon was obviously in the Knopfler's mind when he wrote the lyrics

I'm with you. CART may have licensed the song, and it may have even been commissioned by them FAIK. But the lyrics are most definitely from the POV of the Road Runner, taunting the Coyote
 
It's not often that someone writes a song about a cartoon, and I was a big fan of RR & C back in the day (much too violent for TV these days, sadly). This one is cool and way smoooooth, typically Knopfler. 7 and a "beep-beep!" from the Nottingham jury.


cosmiclint
(Vancouver BC)
Posted: Jan 24, 2010 - 10:11
 
 Otomi wrote:

That may be true, but the Warner Brothers cartoon was obviously in the Knopfler's mind when he wrote the lyrics

I'm with you. CART may have licensed the song, and it may have even been commissioned by them FAIK. But the lyrics are most definitely from the POV of the Road Runner, taunting the Coyote



Otomi
(La orilla de la civilización)
Posted: Jan 22, 2010 - 07:00
 
 jagdriver wrote:
The song is actually about the former CART (Championship Auto Racing Teams) series. Coyotes were the name given to those cars built and fielded by the legendary A.J. Foyt.
 
That may be true, but the Warner Brothers cartoon was obviously in the Knopfler's mind when he wrote the lyrics:

     Once again the roadrunner
     Leaves the coyote in the dust
     You've got another plan of action
     But we all know it ain't never gonna work
     It must be hard having dog dreams
     That never come true.

jessfine
(exiled to Wisconsin)
Posted: Jan 21, 2010 - 20:04
 
I realize that Knopfler rates highly with RP listeners, but I still can't enjoy his voice.  Maybe I'm still experiencing nauseous flashbacks to the late 1970s, when "Sultans of Swing" over-saturated the airwaves.  I guess I'll just try harder.

Sjaaks
Posted: Jan 06, 2010 - 02:35
 
 calypsus_1 wrote:


Mark Knopfler - Coyote     ==>    Widespread Panic - Little Lilly
 

Again today! Nice transition, it's as if i heard a previously unreleased version of Coyote :).

choiceimage
(I may not look stupid)
Posted: Dec 05, 2009 - 17:48
 
 jagdriver wrote:

The song is actually about the former CART (Championship Auto Racing Teams) series. Coyotes were the name given to those cars built and fielded by the legendary A.J. Foyt.
 

Really!?.....thanks for the little tid-bit, makes it that much more enjoyable to listen to.

bindi
(North Carolina)
Posted: Nov 22, 2009 - 14:12
 
There are a few artist that can do no wrong in my book - Mark tops the list.  {#Sunny}

paulmack
(the hissing swamps)
Posted: Nov 22, 2009 - 13:57
 
 DDB61 wrote:
It has the feel and tempo of a J.J.Cale piece.
 

Not only that, I'd say Mark Knopfler was consciously trying to imitate J. J. Cale's guitar style.

DDB61
Posted: Nov 04, 2009 - 08:33
 
It has the feel and tempo of a J.J.Cale piece.

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Nov 04, 2009 - 08:32
 
 wrangler wrote:
calypsus_1 wrote:

Mark Knopfler - Coyote     ==>    Widespread Panic - Little Lilly
 

yeah, no kidding.  {#Cowboy}
 
Third that.


buzmaggie
(AZ, US)
Posted: Nov 04, 2009 - 08:30
 
sweet crusin music. coool now we have a tune this morning thanx rp.{#Drummer}{#Cowboy}{#Motor}{#Bananajam}{#Music}{#Whipit}

sharkartist
Posted: Sep 20, 2009 - 14:23
 
Extra cool, laid back Knopfler.

Felix_The_Cat
(Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Posted: Sep 02, 2009 - 07:09
 
Look at that yo-yo...{#Wink}{#Bananasplit}