I remember listening to this for the first time with my best friend and I was bored silly by the length of it. I was immature and only 11 or 12 at the time. I have learned that, actually, this is a good portent - most songs that I like straight off are like acquaintances with little in common, but ones I do not like at first turn out such classics! On subsequent plays, I was hooked and I have loved it and listened to it in every of the last 30 years! Thank you to Dire Straits & Mr. Knopfler.
This one is the ultimate stationery bike ride chalIlenge! Make it to the end of Telegraph road with enough energy left over to thank Maestro Knopfler for such an awesome work-out...and then do it again the next day every day for the entire week ahead!
Imagine if someone tried to release this nowadays...it would be shunned to one side immediately. Today music is about money and hype, rather than quality, emotion and LIFE. There is good stuff which has been released recently, but none of it can hold a candle to works like this.
I found out that you cannot surf the net and listen to this at the same time. The wizardy of Knopler's music just takes over your mind. The emotions, the music, the history contained in the lyrics combine to capture your conscious mind. Just a wonderful piece of music performed my a master musician.
I first hear this song in a concert in Melbourne, before the album came out. Knopfler said, and I still can't really believe it, this is the second time we've played this song, and then they settled into it. And wonder arced, and ached, and rang and ran.
it's the same for me, it was my first tape i bought when i was 9years old. I know every parts of this song and it's so good to listen it sometimes, i can smell certain flavour of this time
Amazing that with all the exhibitionists performing today none of them have a patch on the guys from the 70's and 80's who did not have the technology of today.
Mark sings and plays life itself. His and yours and mine. He plumbs the life experiences of each of us and allows us to know that we're neither alone nor insignificant. Vicariously, he gives each of us a harmony to accompany our recollections of living. Thank you Mr. Knopfler.
That feel when you father shows the song and you have heard it before at the age of 4-5 many times xD :Cold shivers Dire Straits are some of coolest bands in world. l love this song.
the perfection in witch this has been put together with, the time it must have taking. to create a work of art like this, , , no auto tune crap,, just passion . an true skill . so relaxing , every time i hear it. it takes me back. even tho i wasn't there.
@ireland867 I wouldn't consider it to be solely 'one' city. Telegraph Road stretches through many towns in Michigan and suburban sections of Detroit. (I lived in Windsor).
This brings the memories of the SA border war. Sitting on the cut line between Angola and SA..someone smuggled the "tape" and we all sat listening to it...good memories..- of the music..not the war
this remains a perfect track for me. i love house techno etc but I still hold a love for dire straits having seen them live a number of times this will always be the track for me
Once I've passed my Driving test, I'm going to go on a Road trip, with this playing. One day people will realise the crap they listen to is just that and will revert back to proper music! Thanks Mark Knopfler.
Mark Knopfler IMHO is one of the top musician and song writer................. He is an amazing person, just go to Wikipedia and see all the songs he has written and all of the artist he has been the producer on their songs. I wore out two 8 track tapes of his in 1978-79 while hauling Dynamite and various other explosives all over the US. This is one of my Favourites, of course back in the day it was Sultan's of Swing............ Long Live Rock!!!!
I absolutely love this song, it reminds me of when I was younger and me and my mates first learned to drive. Driving along to this song, I thought it was the best feeling in the world. Young people today have really missed out. What do they drive around to now, some rap rubbish all about prison and violence etc. I wish there was more music around like this. This is one of my favourite songs of all time along with Tunnel of Love.
Has anyone else ever created an entire music video for this amazing track in their mind as it plays or is it just me? One of the finest tracks ever and a benchmark for all new artists to measure up to. You can never hear this too many times :)
@SteveMooreExeter Oh you're so right! this song just screams video. Both lyrics and music paints thousands of images, both still and moving in one's mind. This is the only 14+ minute song that holds my attention from beginning to end. So much going on here. Truly an epic masterpiece in my mind, and probably my all time favorite Dire song - but so many of Knopfler's songs causes one to emote. Most disturbing to me is that most of today's youth would dismiss/dislike this song.
Very nice. I know this song sai 23 years. I first heard her cover version performed by the Czech country band Poutníci (Travelers). It has a good text and music is colored by banjo. It is also very interesting enrichment.
@sunman1963 youtube.com/watch?v=Sey2rntAiKM - an interesting version sung well by a guy who appears to feel just what Mark Knopfler was when he sang it. Banjos a bit weird though....kept thinking of Deliverance! lol
I first listened to this song at about four in the morning, I was on holiday in Spain, I couldn't sleep, I had recently bought Love Over Gold, I put it on shuffle, and sat on the patio of the villa my parents had rented, with a six pack of coke on ice, and all of a sudden Telegraph road comes on, and it synced up PERFECTLY, with the rising of the sun, never forgot that moment, never will
@Cptjackjacky That doesn't happen often. Indigo from Patrick O Hearn- I had the 2nd track, Sacrifice, on, and I was driving in my Corvette through a canyon road in California at night, and there was this odd random sound in the song that hit every time I hit a little pocket of fog. It was very cool. That said, No one is better than Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler- some of his fans still don't know the Golden Heart CD 96, which is excellent! So many people don't know Knopfler, and they'd all love it!
I grew up adoring Dire Straits. Then aged 15 or so I discovered grunge and alternative and decided i couldn't listen to them anymore. Recently in my 30's i've got back into them.. thousands of memories flooding back, particularly this song. I listened to this song so much i wore the tape out. I know every word, every piano passage, every chord and every note of each solo. Amazingly it stayed with me. Feels like welcoming an old friend back into my life.
@Nickgreek123 agree with u.im forty now listening to this since i was ten year old.although like you found my own stuff that i thought was good.crap really.the dires will never get lost with the age thing,classic they are
@Nickgreek123 My story is exactly the same as yours! I wonder how many others out there have secretly admired Dire Straits through the years? Too 'middle of the road'/'middle aged man' to ever admit to liking, but if you really listen to them, I don't think musically, there has been a band since that has even come close. First there was Led Zep, then Pink Floyd and then Dire Straits - These are the British Supergroups.
@Nickgreek123 yeah i dont like grunge anymore, grunge killed glam metal which i hated and the fact was glam metal was better but its back now so its all good
@davidhinson0369 I don't think we have to go back to the roots. But it might be usefull to remember those roots, which make live worthy to life. In the music-world its the sound that wears the personal character of those who created an played it. Like this song who carries the signature of Dire Straits! - So take with you the good things, the unworthy one leave behind!
quality music, i grew up with dire straights they were the first albums i brought on vinyl and i still have them, just no record player lol, i have them doubled on cd's as i still listen to them, this is my most favoured track although they are all bloody brilliant, i find it sad because the youth of today will be deprived of the chance to hear bands like these start a carear and continue for many years producing quality that is timeless, unlike the x factor shite manufatured rubbish.
“You had your head on my shoulder, you had your hand in my hair”. Dergelijke bijna terloopse tussentekstjes in Telegraph Road verbinden de grootse dramatiek van Amerika met het universele menselijk universum. Dat maakt het nummer van gewoon mooi naar schitterend. Amerika is het land van diepzinnige oppervlakkigheid. Dit mysterie zit ook in Telegraph Road.
somehow that album cover always reminds me of the album cover of king crimson's ''Islands'', and i don't know exactly why, since this here are clouds, islands cover is supernova-space-type-thing
I can honestly say that no other record i have ever driven too has the power to make the hairs stand up on my neck as this did that night, the road, the car, the landscape, the times we lived in, it all came together as if it was meant to be, a feeling so intense it will live with me for ever, hard to describe but about as close as i ever felt to being alive and free, youth !!! ............don't waste a single second of it....................
If you say Dire Straights to many people of a certain age they always seem to acquaint them with Money for Nothing, but for those that were of a certain age or mindset hearing this track for the first time (especially if you were lucky enough to hear it at an extraordinary moment) it meant something sort of special and stuck in your memory for life.... For me, i had just landed at LAX international airport for the very first time, as i came out of the rental car lot onto the freeway this came on
@WheresMarkKnopfler Nope ! didn't have a clue, was on my way out to Arizona, this was way way back in late 1982, the start of my love affair with America, been back many times since and there is always something to blow me away, the land of the free?..............Happy Holidays
used to listen dire straits, genesis etc as they would tell you a story to music and they would actually play the instruments oh the good old days i am getting old
Dire straits are amazing they seem different to every other band out there, i feel like their from the desert and miles of countryside. i dont know what makes their songs so unique! and every time i go to spain on my holiday theirs always Dire straits songs being played its great :D yeah im 17 and hate current music and most likely in the future.
I heard this on the radio and never paid any attention to it, then one night I was at a friends house smokin' some greens and he put this song on. I was like... completely floored. Been a fan ever since. Greens do that to you though ;-) This was around 83.
Is that the E street band? It's amazing how much better those guys sound playing Knopfler's or Ian Hunters music. Just sayin'. I'm not a big fan of "the boss". LOL
Knopfler's talent shines and that piano player certainly is no slouch. Actually, the work of all the musicians in this piece is just outstanding. This song is a work of art but what they gave us during those last 4 minutes is pure brilliance. I can't say how many times I replayed that section. It gave me goosebumps.
@timeshiftersvk I'm weak. I didn't even make it 15 minutes. I replied to your comment, played the song from the beginning and then played the last 4 minutes about 5 times. What can I say except that is some incredible music. The talent is mind boggling and I just can't help myself:)
@Tiimutaamu Brilliant music being played and this is the best comment you can come up with? So what's your deal. Are you 11 years old or homophobic? I'm so sick of seeing people use the word "faggot" as if it were the worst insult you could direct towards someone. I find it old, tired and completely offensive, and I'm guessing I'm not the only person of this opinion. In the grand scheme of things, how important is it that 14 people disliked a song? Try some thought and originality
I'm sure Mark Knopfler was from Newcastle. I was watching him on an interview type programme a few weeks ago. And he was going on about the place, and sang about it in "The Tunnel Of Love" and I think I remember him saying he started out as a newspaper reporter. Correct me if I'm wrong.
To this day, the greatest piece of music to grace this earth. Funny thing is that track 2 off this album has an instrumental (acoustic) guitar piece that would have Beethoven and Mozart sitting in the front row going off like teenage girls LOL.
I loved this era of Dire Straits, AMAZING music. I hope I don't upset anyone here, but they went very country and western later on, I thought it spoiled their uniqueness.
Stupendo ma a parere mio eccessivamente lungo....mi domando come faccia quel MOSTRO di Mark Knopfler che tra l'altro ho visto suonare ben due volte live ad adottare una tale tecnica, a parer mio unica nel suo genere
Picked up Love over Gold vinyl this morning for £2, played it on my nice big hi-fi, speechless for 14 minutes. Mark Knopfler is a brilliant song writer and guitar player. Its a pity I'm too young to have have seen them live
"We English etc." must exclude Mark Knopfler. FYI he is Scottish; he was born in Glasgow and spent the first 7 years of his life there. Still, we're more than happy to share his genius with the rest of Britain.
Damn, all this time I was thinking that I have listened to all of the best stuff from dire strait until I read a website that told about this song, and when I listened to it : how could I miss it???EPIC
I remember listening to this for the first time with my best friend and I was bored silly by the length of it. I was immature and only 11 or 12 at the time. I have learned that, actually, this is a good portent - most songs that I like straight off are like acquaintances with little in common, but ones I do not like at first turn out such classics! On subsequent plays, I was hooked and I have loved it and listened to it in every of the last 30 years! Thank you to Dire Straits & Mr. Knopfler.
QuietLeni 1 hour ago
GENIO come pochi
technicmen 8 hours ago
MERAVIGLIOSA
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This one is the ultimate stationery bike ride chalIlenge! Make it to the end of Telegraph road with enough energy left over to thank Maestro Knopfler for such an awesome work-out...and then do it again the next day every day for the entire week ahead!
guitarfantamagasmic 2 days ago
i m on another planet when listen this music ... a better planet called feelings ....
Gioagla 4 days ago
masterpiece
draganmtr 5 days ago
love this song wish this band didn't break up
Zelmquist 5 days ago
Imagine if someone tried to release this nowadays...it would be shunned to one side immediately. Today music is about money and hype, rather than quality, emotion and LIFE. There is good stuff which has been released recently, but none of it can hold a candle to works like this.
adamh9312 6 days ago 2
I found out that you cannot surf the net and listen to this at the same time. The wizardy of Knopler's music just takes over your mind. The emotions, the music, the history contained in the lyrics combine to capture your conscious mind. Just a wonderful piece of music performed my a master musician.
EdArmstrong1 6 days ago 4
How can anyone go trough the trouble and not like this????
GG74man 1 week ago
@GG74man
you think listening to this song is going through trouble?
siddharthjoshi91 6 days ago
@siddharthjoshi91
Eeh,I meant that not liking this was going through trouble. Sorry for the misunderstanding,my bad.
GG74man 6 days ago
19 people are deaf
Aloisius3Aloisius3 1 week ago
I love this song when I'm high .
Hassanlaassou 1 week ago
@Hassanlaassou You mean, you love this song even more when you're high!
StonerLifeTV 5 days ago
it's one of the best songs I've ever heard!
Milowfan1234 1 week ago
great song.....pointing to what created our collective hardship....everything but our beloved central bank!
echelonexcursions 1 week ago
Perfect... There is nothing better!!!!
benroot100 1 week ago
money men in suits always fuck it up
simonsrd100 1 week ago
you had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair ♥
kasper88881 1 week ago
Normally i don't use the word 'epic' unless i'm sarcastic, but yea, this is epic ♥
kasper88881 1 week ago
That &#%*$ thing from 9:34 to the end is nothing short of EPIC AWESOMENESS.
Thank you Mark.
FropAtTheTop 1 week ago
I first hear this song in a concert in Melbourne, before the album came out. Knopfler said, and I still can't really believe it, this is the second time we've played this song, and then they settled into it. And wonder arced, and ached, and rang and ran.
ZingzAlong 1 week ago
it's the same for me, it was my first tape i bought when i was 9years old. I know every parts of this song and it's so good to listen it sometimes, i can smell certain flavour of this time
mate22300 1 week ago
my kids hate this xu2 327 chev super syd nasho 14 nim so hard go dire go adgas
rjrcraven 1 week ago
This song is awsome!
luke19ukok 2 weeks ago
This Song can you take you somewhere in this country and leve you thinking ,Oh Magic music!!!
davidhinson0369 2 weeks ago in playlist Liked videos
From the time when music was M U S I C ---- not butt shaking or any casting show
Wolga0811 2 weeks ago 6
Wow. I want to do one thing as amazing as this.
flippertygibbet07 2 weeks ago in playlist Liked videos
Amazing that with all the exhibitionists performing today none of them have a patch on the guys from the 70's and 80's who did not have the technology of today.
planet640 3 weeks ago
Best song ever, pure life experience and emotion
ESMARIA11 3 weeks ago
The best song EVER! It gives me the impression of several photos passing by in front of me...
thanksgiving1000 3 weeks ago
Mark sings and plays life itself. His and yours and mine. He plumbs the life experiences of each of us and allows us to know that we're neither alone nor insignificant. Vicariously, he gives each of us a harmony to accompany our recollections of living. Thank you Mr. Knopfler.
greasegun49 3 weeks ago
There were only five songs on this album but it was still a very good album.
poughkeepsiejohn1 3 weeks ago
this is the song I was trying to find for long time ,,,truth in every thng music &lyrics
MrSalahedien 3 weeks ago
That feel when you father shows the song and you have heard it before at the age of 4-5 many times xD :Cold shivers Dire Straits are some of coolest bands in world. l love this song.
akseli10000 3 weeks ago 2
I was introduced to Dire Straits by the older brother of a good friend. I need to thank the whole family.
crashmat 3 weeks ago
...one of the best groups of the 80s....
spiddy1969 3 weeks ago 2
fireworks starts at 9:33
hendrik1915 3 weeks ago 4
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so few dislikes... what is wrong with people? ha ha.
carthagevisors 3 weeks ago
the perfection in witch this has been put together with, the time it must have taking. to create a work of art like this, , , no auto tune crap,, just passion . an true skill . so relaxing , every time i hear it. it takes me back. even tho i wasn't there.
MrRMM2 3 weeks ago
It is about a US highway in Michigan. US 24. I drive several miles of it on my way home from work each day. The song is so fitting.
amgirl1956 3 weeks ago
Means as much now as it did in '82. Knopfler's ultimate classic.
Panthur6502 3 weeks ago 2
i loved this song since i was a kid ''im 36 now'' but i only found out last year that its about a city in michigan
ireland867 3 weeks ago
@ireland867 I wouldn't consider it to be solely 'one' city. Telegraph Road stretches through many towns in Michigan and suburban sections of Detroit. (I lived in Windsor).
Maxmulham 3 weeks ago
this is nice
i learn it for myself at guitar :D
Bitelon5 4 weeks ago
I´m 62 years old and Dire Straits is my favorits I´t cant bee better.
bimbo12381 4 weeks ago
wonderfull song there..
grotezakhooi 1 month ago
This brings the memories of the SA border war. Sitting on the cut line between Angola and SA..someone smuggled the "tape" and we all sat listening to it...good memories..- of the music..not the war
garnettb 1 month ago
this remains a perfect track for me. i love house techno etc but I still hold a love for dire straits having seen them live a number of times this will always be the track for me
kraftwerk526463 1 month ago
In a class of it's own !
123ThisIsMe 1 month ago
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Once I've passed my Driving test, I'm going to go on a Road trip, with this playing. One day people will realise the crap they listen to is just that and will revert back to proper music! Thanks Mark Knopfler.
TopGearFan09 1 month ago 2
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TopGearFan09 1 month ago
A new defenition of epic has been made :D
clanc789 1 month ago 3
@clanc789 no. it was defined 30 years ago and it is yet to be redefined
Thakar98 1 month ago
Mark Knopfler IMHO is one of the top musician and song writer................. He is an amazing person, just go to Wikipedia and see all the songs he has written and all of the artist he has been the producer on their songs. I wore out two 8 track tapes of his in 1978-79 while hauling Dynamite and various other explosives all over the US. This is one of my Favourites, of course back in the day it was Sultan's of Swing............ Long Live Rock!!!!
clifcraft 1 month ago 4
I just wish I was good enough to play his songs on the guitar
Thakar98 1 month ago
This is probably the best song ever written. Thanks for sharing this original version.
TBearaug 1 month ago 3
I absolutely love this song, it reminds me of when I was younger and me and my mates first learned to drive. Driving along to this song, I thought it was the best feeling in the world. Young people today have really missed out. What do they drive around to now, some rap rubbish all about prison and violence etc. I wish there was more music around like this. This is one of my favourite songs of all time along with Tunnel of Love.
blueboyjohn 1 month ago 2
Has anyone else ever created an entire music video for this amazing track in their mind as it plays or is it just me? One of the finest tracks ever and a benchmark for all new artists to measure up to. You can never hear this too many times :)
SteveMooreExeter 1 month ago 4
@SteveMooreExeter Oh you're so right! this song just screams video. Both lyrics and music paints thousands of images, both still and moving in one's mind. This is the only 14+ minute song that holds my attention from beginning to end. So much going on here. Truly an epic masterpiece in my mind, and probably my all time favorite Dire song - but so many of Knopfler's songs causes one to emote. Most disturbing to me is that most of today's youth would dismiss/dislike this song.
greenwich1754 1 month ago 3
How can you dislike this song?! What a great meaningful lyrics and incredible music!! Especially piano at the end!
Kasiuulek90 1 month ago 2
I love this song !
SQ3OPI 1 month ago
Very nice. I know this song sai 23 years. I first heard her cover version performed by the Czech country band Poutníci (Travelers). It has a good text and music is colored by banjo. It is also very interesting enrichment.
sunman1963 1 month ago
@sunman1963 youtube.com/watch?v=Sey2rntAiKM - an interesting version sung well by a guy who appears to feel just what Mark Knopfler was when he sang it. Banjos a bit weird though....kept thinking of Deliverance! lol
SteveMooreExeter 1 month ago
I grew up with Mark Knopfler songs, I play guitar now, hope to play this song one day
Trissie188 1 month ago 4
pour toi Michel je pense toujours a toi mon poto
xtemplarx80 1 month ago
One of most greatest songs ever , its perfect , and so brilliant god thank you for Dire Straits .
epivaughan 1 month ago 8
I first listened to this song at about four in the morning, I was on holiday in Spain, I couldn't sleep, I had recently bought Love Over Gold, I put it on shuffle, and sat on the patio of the villa my parents had rented, with a six pack of coke on ice, and all of a sudden Telegraph road comes on, and it synced up PERFECTLY, with the rising of the sun, never forgot that moment, never will
Cptjackjacky 1 month ago 70
@Cptjackjacky agrees that music has its charm, when you listen to it late at night or at dawn
epivaughan 1 month ago 3
@Cptjackjacky I'd say the caffeine from 6 cokes had something to do with it!
JX1900XJ 1 month ago
@Cptjackjacky What a great story. Terrific track off their progressive effort... Though I shall never understand what "Industrial Desease" was for...
felsner1 3 weeks ago
@Cptjackjacky That doesn't happen often. Indigo from Patrick O Hearn- I had the 2nd track, Sacrifice, on, and I was driving in my Corvette through a canyon road in California at night, and there was this odd random sound in the song that hit every time I hit a little pocket of fog. It was very cool. That said, No one is better than Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler- some of his fans still don't know the Golden Heart CD 96, which is excellent! So many people don't know Knopfler, and they'd all love it!
HowdyDooby 2 weeks ago
@HowdyDooby That's pretty damn sweet, and I get what you mean, they were an untouchable band, never heard another group like 'em, never will
Cptjackjacky 1 week ago
@Cptjackjacky a moment in life to remember..music dose that sometimes==}}
THENITEGHOST1001 1 week ago
I grew up adoring Dire Straits. Then aged 15 or so I discovered grunge and alternative and decided i couldn't listen to them anymore. Recently in my 30's i've got back into them.. thousands of memories flooding back, particularly this song. I listened to this song so much i wore the tape out. I know every word, every piano passage, every chord and every note of each solo. Amazingly it stayed with me. Feels like welcoming an old friend back into my life.
Nickgreek123 1 month ago 39
@Nickgreek123 agree with u.im forty now listening to this since i was ten year old.although like you found my own stuff that i thought was good.crap really.the dires will never get lost with the age thing,classic they are
popy797 1 month ago
@Nickgreek123 My story is exactly the same as yours! I wonder how many others out there have secretly admired Dire Straits through the years? Too 'middle of the road'/'middle aged man' to ever admit to liking, but if you really listen to them, I don't think musically, there has been a band since that has even come close. First there was Led Zep, then Pink Floyd and then Dire Straits - These are the British Supergroups.
andeegreen 1 month ago
@Nickgreek123 yeah i dont like grunge anymore, grunge killed glam metal which i hated and the fact was glam metal was better but its back now so its all good
Rorschachxx1985 2 weeks ago
this track was great to put on in the pub last thing before going home,14 mins really got your moneys worth :)
jaytol1 1 month ago
@davidhinson0369 I don't think we have to go back to the roots. But it might be usefull to remember those roots, which make live worthy to life. In the music-world its the sound that wears the personal character of those who created an played it. Like this song who carries the signature of Dire Straits! - So take with you the good things, the unworthy one leave behind!
A blessed 2012 to everyone!
cbrtr1 1 month ago 2
Dire straits = my youngness
stonehearted1 1 month ago
Great music ,Knopfler at his best .....!
davidhinson0369 1 month ago
i m allways pulled in the land of joy while listening this music !
Gioagla 1 month ago
thumbs up
vicebrutmeister 1 month ago
you dont see this music anymore on youre mtv, i miss the bands that really can play a instrument and are willing to work for a deal!
wanted1974 1 month ago
thubs up if vocaloid 1 or 2 brought u here
MultiAnime1000 1 month ago
I listen to this song when im feelin' down... It just makes me feel wonderful! Dire Straits is awesome!
Eksto 1 month ago 2
I love that song!
MrBeanMeUp 1 month ago
quality music, i grew up with dire straights they were the first albums i brought on vinyl and i still have them, just no record player lol, i have them doubled on cd's as i still listen to them, this is my most favoured track although they are all bloody brilliant, i find it sad because the youth of today will be deprived of the chance to hear bands like these start a carear and continue for many years producing quality that is timeless, unlike the x factor shite manufatured rubbish.
Antapril 1 month ago 2
@Antapril "Dire Straits"
TimtotheTam 1 month ago
this is a masterpiece.. if you do not like it that is on you
hoodus61 1 month ago 3
@hoodus61 You got that right ,butt it;s like that today we need to go back to the roots
davidhinson0369 1 month ago 2
the guitar at 09:38 makes my bum wink...
HorridFroth 1 month ago
Masterpiece. Great stuff. Last 4 minutes are truly spine tingling.
ACDCJAKEKISS 1 month ago 2
Mark Knopfler's greatest masterpiece. Just an incredible song.
azapro911 1 month ago 8
09:33 Shit just got real xD awesome
spongepedro 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos 3
Holy shit those last 4 minutes are absolutely sensational!
MrAgentGreeny 1 month ago 3
“You had your head on my shoulder, you had your hand in my hair”. Dergelijke bijna terloopse tussentekstjes in Telegraph Road verbinden de grootse dramatiek van Amerika met het universele menselijk universum. Dat maakt het nummer van gewoon mooi naar schitterend. Amerika is het land van diepzinnige oppervlakkigheid. Dit mysterie zit ook in Telegraph Road.
flcamembert 1 month ago 2
@flcamembert diepzinninge-oppervlakkigheid :O dat klinkt geniaal ..
93lizzy 1 month ago in playlist JC 2
There's a Telephone Road where I live.
mpjgbx 2 months ago
dit moet je mooi vinden ..........
jeannyxxxx 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
somehow that album cover always reminds me of the album cover of king crimson's ''Islands'', and i don't know exactly why, since this here are clouds, islands cover is supernova-space-type-thing
hellyfornication 2 months ago
I can honestly say that no other record i have ever driven too has the power to make the hairs stand up on my neck as this did that night, the road, the car, the landscape, the times we lived in, it all came together as if it was meant to be, a feeling so intense it will live with me for ever, hard to describe but about as close as i ever felt to being alive and free, youth !!! ............don't waste a single second of it....................
Broomehall 2 months ago 3
If you say Dire Straights to many people of a certain age they always seem to acquaint them with Money for Nothing, but for those that were of a certain age or mindset hearing this track for the first time (especially if you were lucky enough to hear it at an extraordinary moment) it meant something sort of special and stuck in your memory for life.... For me, i had just landed at LAX international airport for the very first time, as i came out of the rental car lot onto the freeway this came on
Broomehall 2 months ago 4
@Broomehall You'll probably not know this then that there actually is a Telegraph Road in Greater Los Angeles! Ha!
WheresMarkKnopfler 2 months ago
@WheresMarkKnopfler Nope ! didn't have a clue, was on my way out to Arizona, this was way way back in late 1982, the start of my love affair with America, been back many times since and there is always something to blow me away, the land of the free?..............Happy Holidays
Broomehall 2 months ago
I couldn't see the picture at all because of the snow ... That shows how much this song is amazing !!
KnopflerMr 2 months ago
The greatest Song ever :)
Orbisonlover 2 months ago 5
used to listen dire straits, genesis etc as they would tell you a story to music and they would actually play the instruments oh the good old days i am getting old
yiddz 2 months ago
Dire straits are amazing they seem different to every other band out there, i feel like their from the desert and miles of countryside. i dont know what makes their songs so unique! and every time i go to spain on my holiday theirs always Dire straits songs being played its great :D yeah im 17 and hate current music and most likely in the future.
nufcadamc1994 2 months ago
when ı am in the middle of pasific ocean ı heard that song surprisingly in short wave radio.it was great
odemcel 2 months ago
@odemcel I can think of fewer places so brilliant, lucky you, how fantastic !!...............
Broomehall 2 months ago
I heard this on the radio and never paid any attention to it, then one night I was at a friends house smokin' some greens and he put this song on. I was like... completely floored. Been a fan ever since. Greens do that to you though ;-) This was around 83.
ozBiz2 2 months ago
pretty great for a guy who was naturally left handed and his guitat teacher forced him toplay right handed!
pyschobabble101 2 months ago
You just don't get songs like this anymore
zambeas 2 months ago
@zambeas at least not until the next knoffler cd or the newest stones
keep the faith
platter1000 2 months ago
Mark Knopfler είσαι άρχοντας της κιθάρας κ έκανες κομματάρα....from a Greek fan....
MrPolymeneas 2 months ago 2
GEANT , GRANDIOSE
JMT21120 2 months ago
Saw this live at Footy park in Adelaide way back when, still the most awesome show and song!
thommo2632 2 months ago 3
<3 IO & TE ! tmbs <3
tcrepdmazt 2 months ago
postings shit keep getting error
yiddz 2 months ago
I gave my wife(girlfriend at time) 5 orgasms during this song. Nothing like a good tongue lashing.
Love4F1 2 months ago
Well it is a long song! Good job. No wonder she married you!
basteph1977 1 month ago
They touch u inside somehow and make some sort of 'thrill'
MCB400100 2 months ago
Best non BiA track there is ... supberb live as well ...
edjparrott 2 months ago
BEST SONG EVER!
JonasPiot 2 months ago 2
What would make you think that this was the E Street band??
jazz1944 2 months ago
Is that the E street band? It's amazing how much better those guys sound playing Knopfler's or Ian Hunters music. Just sayin'. I'm not a big fan of "the boss". LOL
jtomanthony 2 months ago
Knopfler's talent shines and that piano player certainly is no slouch. Actually, the work of all the musicians in this piece is just outstanding. This song is a work of art but what they gave us during those last 4 minutes is pure brilliance. I can't say how many times I replayed that section. It gave me goosebumps.
Msdistarr 2 months ago 42
@Msdistarr ı am totally agree with you
odemcel 2 months ago
@Msdistarr YOU SHALL NOT replay only part of the song! :D
timeshiftersvk 1 month ago 3
@timeshiftersvk That will be my New Years resolution!
Msdistarr 1 month ago
@timeshiftersvk I'm weak. I didn't even make it 15 minutes. I replied to your comment, played the song from the beginning and then played the last 4 minutes about 5 times. What can I say except that is some incredible music. The talent is mind boggling and I just can't help myself:)
Msdistarr 1 month ago
@Msdistarr well, I can live with it. One can not simply resist the power of beautiful music...
timeshiftersvk 1 month ago
@Tiimutaamu Brilliant music being played and this is the best comment you can come up with? So what's your deal. Are you 11 years old or homophobic? I'm so sick of seeing people use the word "faggot" as if it were the worst insult you could direct towards someone. I find it old, tired and completely offensive, and I'm guessing I'm not the only person of this opinion. In the grand scheme of things, how important is it that 14 people disliked a song? Try some thought and originality
Msdistarr 2 months ago 5
Esos 15 que no le gusta esto,con todos los respetos.................nuse....sabeis quien es Mozart?
una pista,no es tu padre.
TheSonBanya 2 months ago
Fantastic album.... magic guitar!
TheNellamaria 2 months ago
esagerato il pezzo finale strumentale. superbo
68lucabonelli 2 months ago
The entire U.S. history in one song.
Zappygunshot 2 months ago
Beautiful. This is humanity put into words. I feel my own skin listening to this. I am alive.
crashmat 2 months ago
Well, here we are again:
"they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed"
"I've seen desperation explode into flames"
nearly 30 years on and we're back in the same hole.
F'in bankers
madanglian 2 months ago
3:48 the greatest chords ever played by piano
rautibo 2 months ago
@yuribobag.
I'm sure Mark Knopfler was from Newcastle. I was watching him on an interview type programme a few weeks ago. And he was going on about the place, and sang about it in "The Tunnel Of Love" and I think I remember him saying he started out as a newspaper reporter. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Excellent piece of music though
minislayer2010 2 months ago 2
@minislayer2010 I was pretty sure his nationality was scottish.
twseel 2 months ago
@minislayer2010 Born in Glasgow, moved to Northumberland when he was 7.
Yes, he mentions Whitley Bay {North Tyneside} and its fairground The Spanish City in 'Tunnel of Love'.
SilverWolfMoon 2 months ago
To this day, the greatest piece of music to grace this earth. Funny thing is that track 2 off this album has an instrumental (acoustic) guitar piece that would have Beethoven and Mozart sitting in the front row going off like teenage girls LOL.
T42please 2 months ago
I loved this era of Dire Straits, AMAZING music. I hope I don't upset anyone here, but they went very country and western later on, I thought it spoiled their uniqueness.
fitnessisgood4u 3 months ago
Stupendo ma a parere mio eccessivamente lungo....mi domando come faccia quel MOSTRO di Mark Knopfler che tra l'altro ho visto suonare ben due volte live ad adottare una tale tecnica, a parer mio unica nel suo genere
len6607 3 months ago
Picked up Love over Gold vinyl this morning for £2, played it on my nice big hi-fi, speechless for 14 minutes. Mark Knopfler is a brilliant song writer and guitar player. Its a pity I'm too young to have have seen them live
RickyBalboa04 3 months ago
springsteen tries to do something like this song, but fails miserably. knopfler and the boys know how to truly rock
jferkfjkj 3 months ago
@jbenno10
"We English etc." must exclude Mark Knopfler. FYI he is Scottish; he was born in Glasgow and spent the first 7 years of his life there. Still, we're more than happy to share his genius with the rest of Britain.
Yuribobag 3 months ago 4
Dire Straits...
What more can I say...
EpicArabianPony 3 months ago
I just love the part 5:20-6:30 !!!
pooperer321 3 months ago 3
I think everyone loves...
Kasander11 3 months ago
@pooperer321 I think everyone loves... :)
Kasander11 3 months ago
Quite possibly my favourite track of all time, try getting a radio station to play it though!
bazzateer 3 months ago
i heard this song my first time and i like it alot! Very great music
Cyrus99 3 months ago
some people get stoned to enjoy music , i listen to this song and all dair straits songs to enjoy weed * *
simoojouama 3 months ago
@simoojouama good job man
VocalCuttsDiamonds 3 months ago
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VocalCuttsDiamonds 3 months ago
A beautiful song.......
mlbrown013 3 months ago
Best song from Dire Straits ever!!!!
blente1 3 months ago 4
stoned song blinder
denistong 3 months ago
the ultimate song to chill together with a young blond girl
welshoffroad 3 months ago 2
@welshoffroad
What if she's ginger? I mean should I enjoy the music and ignore her? (PS she's got nice tits) Thanks
oily8mutt 3 months ago
listen this is wot life is all about
peter72ist 3 months ago
Damn, all this time I was thinking that I have listened to all of the best stuff from dire strait until I read a website that told about this song, and when I listened to it : how could I miss it???EPIC
aldee1003 3 months ago 2
best guitar solo in the WHOLE fucking world YEAH!
xxchrisxx76 3 months ago
First time i listen to this song, can´t say anything more
Mrplazalonso 3 months ago