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Dire Straits — Ride Across The River
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1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California)
Posted: Apr 12, 2013 - 13:22
 
I wish I could turn up the volume of just the horns in this song

hugogdt
Posted: Mar 12, 2013 - 02:33
 
Not the best song of the album, and even though a great song. I agree, all this CD is good vibrations ...

timelessart
(London,ON)
Posted: Nov 22, 2012 - 00:58
 
I bought this CD at least 4 times. Every time some one  "borrowed"  it from me I replaced it. I never got it back. I love this CD. It has a great vibe. 

jeremyleo
(Canada's Capital City)
Posted: Oct 25, 2012 - 12:10
 
Theme from 'Breaking Bad' kind reminds me of this.

My fav off Brother in Arms.  I love the groove.

somli
(Orlando)
Posted: Sep 21, 2012 - 07:34
 
Feeling it today.  9 > 10 

Talula
(Connecticut)
Posted: Aug 04, 2012 - 05:30
 
Love.

richlister
Posted: Jul 19, 2012 - 05:55
 
 bc wrote:
I think Calexico wrote this song.

Then they put it in a time machine and sent it back 20 years.

Thankfully, they sent it to Dire Straits and not Def Leppard.
 
You're welcome.
 
 
Apparently, Def Leppard declined the offer they were too busy working on a project having just returned from post apocalyptic 2045 to be bothered about Calexico.

Tippster
(Washington, DC)
Posted: Jun 17, 2012 - 16:16
 
Arguably my favorite song.  Period.

Unbelievably great guitar work on this - even better than on "Brothers in Arms."

bc
(It's everything. Location, Location, Location.)
Posted: Apr 12, 2012 - 15:22
 
I think Calexico wrote this song.

Then they put it in a time machine and sent it back 20 years.

Thankfully, they sent it to Dire Straits and not Def Leppard.
 
You're welcome.
 

PA1749
(Room 106)
Posted: Mar 30, 2012 - 11:47
 
This entire album is a time machine that takes me back to my senior year in high school. If I only knew then...

Alastair
(Glossop, Derbyshire, England)
Posted: Jan 27, 2012 - 03:23
 
Dire Straits most under-rated song. Sounds like they were lying in hammocks when they recorded it.  

mcnab
(Australia)
Posted: Jan 10, 2012 - 23:56
 
 daveshel4 wrote:


Totally — I've always thought of track 4, "Your Latest Trick" as the ultimate speaker auditioning song because of the range of sounds (and it's a good song too)
 
Funny you should say that - when I went shopping for a good set of hi-fi speakers 15 years ago I brought this CD along with me and used "Your Latest Trick" as one of the test tracks. Great song on a great album.



bluedot
(Long Beach, CA)
Posted: Jan 10, 2012 - 23:26
 
 h8rhater wrote:

I'm amazed at your commentary.  You are clearly an artist and not merely a technician but I do understand your unpopularity. 

 
Haha, good point...


bluedot
(Long Beach, CA)
Posted: Jan 10, 2012 - 23:22
 
 MiracleDrug wrote:
this was SO well recorded...
  excellent observation.



abbey_normal
Posted: Nov 08, 2011 - 11:45
 
Once I have a sound system sorted in my current car, I put this track on.  I think it's a great test track.


Cynaera
(Kenneth's Frequency)
Posted: Sep 06, 2011 - 13:39
 
{#Curtain} Little-known factoid:  The National Steel (Reso-phonic) guitar was invented by John Dopyera in Los Angeles in the mid-1920's for playing Hawaiian and Jazz music. When the electric guitar was invented in the 1930's, the National Steel guitar fell out of favor. Dopyera also invented the Dobro.

Amazing what you can learn from the Internet, innit?  It adds one more layer to the saga of why I love Dire Straits and the National Steel guitar... {#Cheers}

megaboogieman
(Russia, Gulag Archipelago)
Posted: Sep 06, 2011 - 13:30
 
Great band of all times!

MiracleDrug
(Earth)
Posted: Sep 06, 2011 - 13:28
 
this was SO well recorded...

daveshel4
(Seattle)
Posted: Jul 21, 2011 - 16:23
 
 Dave_Mack wrote:
This is beautiful song from an awesome album.  When I got my first CD player, my first CD was Aqualung, an all-time fave album, but the CD sounded terrible with tons of noise.  Not long after that, fortunately, "Brothers in Arms" came out — digitally recorded!  Now THAT'S what I was hoping for.  So clean, you can turn it up to maximum volume and it's totally noiseless.  I used it for auditioning speakers for years.
 

Totally — I've always thought of track 4, "Your Latest Trick" as the ultimate speaker auditioning song because of the range of sounds (and it's a good song too)

bluecshells
(Texas)
Posted: May 19, 2011 - 08:42
 
Love this....great music.  Love you RP!

CoYoT51
(Lima, Perú)
Posted: May 03, 2011 - 13:58
 
 Welly wrote:
I'll never forget this being the last song played on the sound system before David Bowie took the stage on  tour. This sounded unbelievable on a giant sound system that was very clear, as the lights slooooooowly went down.

 
David Bowie + Dire Straits!!! What a GODLIKE mix.
Great moment you lived there.

Dave_Mack
(Kicking out the jams)
Posted: Mar 17, 2011 - 08:13
 
This is beautiful song from an awesome album.  When I got my first CD player, my first CD was Aqualung, an all-time fave album, but the CD sounded terrible with tons of noise.  Not long after that, fortunately, "Brothers in Arms" came out — digitally recorded!  Now THAT'S what I was hoping for.  So clean, you can turn it up to maximum volume and it's totally noiseless.  I used it for auditioning speakers for years.

gabrielle7nt
(Under DRM's Desk)
Posted: Mar 17, 2011 - 08:10
 
 sirdroseph wrote:
Always been my favorite Straits tune!{#Clap}
 
Me too.


cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Feb 13, 2011 - 23:38
 
Pinging: Cynaera wrote:

Echoing Johnny_Wave, too - Great tune, great album.  Something about that floating National Steel guitar just makes me shiver in awe... I fear that should I ever have the honor to hold one, I'd prolly drop it and it would shatter, and there'd go my chances at a hereafter...

Mark Knopfler is one of my top five guitarists, and this album/CD is one of my all-time favorites. {#Bounce}
 



Raechel
Posted: Nov 11, 2010 - 10:42
 
This sounds like the sountrack from Legend.

Go Tim!



swinghamer
(live music capital of the world gone mile high city)
Posted: Oct 26, 2010 - 12:12
 
this song (read: album) just never gets old

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Aug 23, 2010 - 19:47
 
 bachbeet wrote:
Yet another excellent song from an excellent album.
 
Echoing Johnny_Wave, too - Great tune, great album.  Something about that floating National Steel guitar just makes me shiver in awe... I fear that should I ever have the honor to hold one, I'd prolly drop it and it would shatter, and there'd go my chances at a hereafter...

Mark Knopfler is one of my top five guitarists, and this album/CD is one of my all-time favorites. {#Bounce}


Johnny_Wave
(California, baby)
Posted: Aug 07, 2010 - 22:57
 
Great tune, great album

bachbeet
Posted: Jul 22, 2010 - 20:32
 
Yet another excellent song from an excellent album.

Sjaaks
(Horst, Netherlands)
Posted: Jul 07, 2010 - 02:02
 
 bubink wrote:
Someday I *will* see this band live....  
 

Quite a bold statement there... Especially since Dire Straits broke up in 1995. The possibility of MK visiting your place isn't too small, but you'll have to wait till his next album release, he's now in Europe and almost finished with his "Get Lucky" tour...

If you ever get to see him, don't expect him to play this song or any of the other less known Dire Straits songs, normally he only plays the well known songs, the "hits". Sultans Of Swing, Romeo And Juliet, Money For Nothing etc.

bubink
(Bellevue, Nebraska)
Posted: Jun 20, 2010 - 23:39
 

Someday I *will* see this band live....  I hope!   MK, if you are listening, you need to come to Omaha, Nebraska USA...  we have a wonderful venue here!  Neil Young and Rogher Waters and many significant other folks have played here to sold out houses!  You could do well here!  Heart of Amerca's midlands, and all that!! Perfect stop between Chicago and Kansas City or Denver!! (this shameless plug/home-town promotion is now over... thanks everyone for your understanding!)



Sjaaks
(Horst, Netherlands)
Posted: May 20, 2010 - 04:27
 
 panlad wrote:
Absolutely exceptional guitar work by Knopfler.
I never get tired of listening of the way he moves through the spaces in this song.  It's as if he's letting the song guide his fills and silences.  As other's have commented it is very surreal and transporting.
Perhaps some of his best and most inspiring playing. 
 

Totally! I have the same feeling, although i must say that the guitar work from his latest albums to me sound less inspired than of his early work, nowadays it's more storytelling and the whole concept...

As for this song, besides the somewhat cheap-sounding synth's it has a great atmosphere and it always makes me stop and listen...

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panlad
(Serenity)
Posted: May 04, 2010 - 12:55
 
Absolutely exceptional guitar work by Knopfler.
I never get tired of listening of the way he moves through the spaces in this song.  It's as if he's letting the song guide his fills and silences.  As other's have commented it is very surreal and transporting.
Perhaps some of his best and most inspiring playing. 

Bocephus
(Boulder, CO)
Posted: May 04, 2010 - 12:44
 
So overplayed...I might like it more if I hadn't already heard it 10,000 times.

Tippster
(Washington, DC)
Posted: Apr 18, 2010 - 10:06
 
One of the greatest songs ever recorded, IMHO.

sirdroseph
(Tokyo)
Posted: Apr 18, 2010 - 10:02
 
Always been my favorite Straits tune!{#Clap}

jersey_birdman
Posted: Mar 02, 2010 - 05:59
 
a great song from a decent period: the live performances during the tour were very good....  sure, I Want My MTV was a bit over the top but the touring band and live set were something else.{#Yes}

h8rhater
Posted: Oct 27, 2009 - 13:19
 
 Limpopoking wrote:
I'm surprised at the rating for this. Admittedly, this is one of their better albums, but I've always considered Mark Knoffler a bit of a technician rather than artist. I understand their popularity, I'm just amazed that the RP listeners (I consider RP to NOT be poular/mainstream) voted this an 8.1 {#Ask}
 
I'm amazed at your commentary.  You are clearly an artist and not merely a technician but I do understand your unpopularity. 


CamLwalk
(Albany NY)
Posted: Oct 27, 2009 - 12:42
 
Naboo: This is Liquid Music.
Howard Moon: Whats in it?
Naboo: The tears of Mozart...

Naboo: ...mixed with the urine of Mark Knopfler.




flatpicker
(Toronto, Canada)
Posted: Oct 11, 2009 - 12:05
 
so nice!

Brothers in Arms will remain one of the best records ever (in my books at least).
Not one weak track on it.

It's funny though that, to me, Money For Nothing (as good as it is) seems out of place on this album.
The feeling I get from Ride Across The River is more in tune with the vibe I get from whole disc (aside from MFN).



On_The_Beach
(Vancouver BC, Bud)
Posted: Sep 25, 2009 - 23:04
 
Knopfler's tasty Strat' licks make the song, as usual.


bknv
(Vancouver, BC)
Posted: Aug 25, 2009 - 11:04
 
 countyman wrote:

This was the opening song (at least in Pgh) during the tour in 85-86. The opening riff went on for about a minute before the curtain fell to the floor.  Excellent entrance.
Still have the concert tee.  (doesn't fit)


 
Also the opening song at the Toronto show at Varsity Arena in '85.  Stevie Ray Vaughan was the back up band that night.  Amazing!


Brooky
(Upstate NY, where at all nothing makes sense)
Posted: Aug 25, 2009 - 10:51
 
Better with time —

calypsus_1
Posted: Aug 10, 2009 - 15:11
 


"Telegraph Road" - Mark Knopfler - Live at the Royal Albert Hall (2005):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjJzlIedCuo


countyman
(09 Stanley Cup Champs and Sixburgh)
Posted: Aug 09, 2009 - 11:07
 
 Welly wrote:
I'll never forget this being the last song played on the sound system before David Bowie took the stage on  tour. This sounded unbelievable on a giant sound system that was very clear, as the lights slooooooowly went down.

 
This was the opening song (at least in Pgh) during the tour in 85-86. The opening riff went on for about a minute before the curtain fell to the floor.  Excellent entrance.
Still have the concert tee.  (doesn't fit)



Welly
(Vangroovy)
Posted: Jul 08, 2009 - 19:00
 
I'll never forget this being the last song played on the sound system before David Bowie took the stage on  tour. This sounded unbelievable on a giant sound system that was very clear, as the lights slooooooowly went down.


RedTopFireBelow
(Jersey shore, USA)
Posted: Jun 07, 2009 - 00:15
 
{#Smile}sounds like a jackson browne song i remember.   love dire straights.  they rank up there with steely dan and tull.



Patti
(the 'burbs of so cal)
Posted: May 22, 2009 - 08:59
 
Wow, haven't heard this song in a long time!  Must remember to get this on CD to replace my much played cassette. :)

bpkengor
(York, Maine, USA)
Posted: May 22, 2009 - 08:58
 
Huge Dire Straits from long ago.     Unfortunately, this and most other songs of theirs are just not aging well to my ears. 

I used to enjoy that one could recognize Knoffler's playing in one or two notes.  Now i find it pedestrian.     Try a different sound, Mark!  It won't hurt!  

Tim_in_N_FL
(Florida)
Posted: May 22, 2009 - 08:54
 
Brilliant...one of my favorite Dire Straits tunes.  {#Music}{#Guitarist} 10/10!