I was almost nine when I first heard this. I wasn't a very happy kid. Some of the only times I felt free, exciting, and graceful were when I was skating. (though in my case, it was in rinks and the burbs, rather than the city) The girl in the video was like nothing I'd ever seen before. I wanted to BE her. Then I heard the lyrics, "And the music make her wanna be the story, And the story was whatever was the song", it was so profound to my child mind that I nearly cried.
Damn i was 17 when this video came out, had my first girlfriend, not a care in the world, music was fantastic, our country America was amazing, OMG where did the time go lol 0_0 !
I loooove this song! Oh how it brings back memories of such great times I had back in the day! Skating my heart out to all the totally awesome songs of this time and how this video and song represents the feel of what it meant to be in the 80's and getting excited to head to the local skate rink with your friends on a Friday night and skate the night away and fly around the floor like nobody's business and feeling so free! Just so darn free like you've never felt before or again! I miss it all!
Yep takes me back as well. Making Movies and Reo Speedwagon's High Infidelity were my first two Rock albums. Great music for great times. I miss the 80s!
THIS song takes me back to the days!!! "She toys with Taxi Drivers, just for fun...she says 'Toro toro Taxi, see you tomorrow paisan!' boom boom, honk honk~uh!" Mark Knopfler is a genius (and I'm sure I just spelled his name wrong, sorry man!) I just heard it on the radio last night ~ first time in the 8 years I've been here that I've heard it on the radio!!! Gads, Lubbock bites but Dire Straits rules!
It's odd that being this accomplished a skater, it would be mentioned somewhere in all the info I found online about Jayzik...never a word. This is serious good skating. I wonder if they used a double here.. there are so many shots you can't see her face very well. Just my opinion. I dearly love it anyway.
Hmmm: "The full original video. No audio modifications", says the very good author! In our mindless days of over-processing, remixing, retooling, & remastering to the zillionth degree, AcidFlashGordon has got it right! I too recorded miles & miles of historic early MTV footage, BUT Gordon here is the TRUE master, rolling his VHS machine or Video Capturing Unit in thousand-hour mode to give us some TRUE, ORIGINAL, RAW & UNCUT MASTER VIDEO MAGIC! I too, miss my very, very 'old' (and beloved) MTV.
This is a super well done, straight, none-computerized effects, crap-free video. Probably shot in film. If done today would have been ruined with all sorts of effects.
When this video first came out on MTV in 1980, I went right out and bought myself a pair of roller skates. I skated all that summer on the bike paths around Eugene, Oregon (Go, Ducks!), but never could do it as gracefully as she did. I was 34.
@DBMalone Yep, I believe you're right. I still had a great summer! I met the girl of my dreams on the foot bridge across the Willamette River at the east end of Alton Baker Park. I was on skates and I didn't make the sharp turn at the north end. Fell and landed right in her lap. Yep, that was a great summer!
Wow. I was born a month before the girl in this video. I have probably heard the sound a thousand times on the radio over the years, yet never even knew there was a video that went with it until tonight.
Ahhhhh, brings back memories:) Yeah made me a bit sad for my 'lost MTV youth' for sure. Funny how much they put into videos these days, it makes what started out on MTV seem so primitive but they weren't to 'Us' were they? They were all so amazing & cool weren't they? They usually told a story instead of just glitz, special effects, & ego's muggin' for the camera. Sure glad I came up in the world of the beginnings of the MTV era:)
A great song and video. Mark Knopfler is a true guitarist in my book, not a guitar "player". I remember reading years ago that he plucks the strings instead of strumming them with a pick. No flash. No frills.
Granted this was made in 1981, but Roller Girl is sexy and classy without having to look trashy. Yet everyone who posts a comment admires and respects her.
Bye Roller Girl. Say "hi" to my roller girl for me please. She also left this world too soon.
I love Dire Straits and looked up this video. Feeling a bit reminiscent tonight. Watched it and was curious about the beautiful lady in the video I hadn't seen in over two decades. Checked out Jayzik Azikiwe. What a beautiful lady. She's the Roller Girl!
I love Dire Straits and looked up this video. Feeling a bit reminiscent tonight. Watched it and was curious about the beautiful lady in the video I hadn't seen in over two decades. Checked out Jayzik Azikiwe. What a beautiful lady.
@stucat06 I told my Dad way back when that I would pass on a high school class ring for a Walkman instead. I think he sort of regretted that deal when he would holler through the house wondering where I was only to find me lying on my bed listening to music and completely oblivious to his yelling. *L*
My favorite MTV video! Not sure why, I guess a combination of the music and roller girls incredible moves! There is something about this video, it just reaches out and grabs me!
You said it! I was up that night 8/1/81, when MTV started, I was in the sixth grade but I had an older brother of 15 years and he said this is going to the next level!!
@WiccansEatShit Yes, some people are gay. So what? Should they date girls, to appease you? That little faggot's got his own jet airplane. Is penis some kind of forbidden fruit to you, stimulating you into presuming that you have the right to dictate how others seek happiness? No offense.
There's 1 "dislike" on this page and 1 "dislike" on the page with just the audio from the album. Anyone think it might be the same person finding Skateaway just to click "dislike?"
tonight is the first time I saw the video for this song. I've had it on vinyl, tape and cd. still play it a lot...now on my ipod machine. Excellent jam.
p.s. chicks today don't know how to rollerskate. Just saying. Shalla Shallay.
"She says 'Toro Toro taxi...see you tomorrow my son' ~ then she let a big truck graze her hip...shwee shwee,beep beep, oh oh..." HELL YEAH!!! This song is SO me and my BFF ~ Shastie, this one's for us gurl!!! Let's go get our skates, lol ;D
With this lovely girls' passing a part of my youth is also gone forever. As a young fellow watching MTV in the 80s I always wondered what it would be like to do on a date and roller skating in Central Park with this girl and I never even knew her name until now. Something sad about that. My favorite part of this video is 4:49 to 4:53 when you actually see her cute smile.
Dire Straits needs to reunite...Was lucky enough to see them on the Brothers In Arms tour...Admire Knopflers solo stuff,but it isn't near as good as Straits,at least for my tastes...
This is the song I thought of when I first read Douglas Adams' line (Zarquon rest his gentlemanly soul) in "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" about Mark Knopfler's "amazing ability to make a Fender Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night".
In the 80's I actually enjoyed watching MTV. At some point though they quit showing the heavy metal and pop music videos and started replacing them with these lame ass rap videos and horrible reality shows. That was when I stopped watching MTV.
I truly love Dire Straits. Seen them in person. Phenomenal. I think this is one of there best song even though they have so many phenomenal ones. Just listen to that guitar. He gets it to cry. Thanks so much for posting.
@truemetalist89 I agree with you, the outro on this song gives me a sense that the song took me somwhere and its saying goodbye in a very sweet way. The volume swells Mark does on his guitar are so choice.
So fabulous! Didn't hear them til college 82, what for being oppressed by my father who couldn't stand to hear anything hip... No regrets, I've loved this music now for 28 yrs??! Indeed, where did all the fab music go!!!??
@SteveD328 - Thanks for sharing that. I had no idea who she was.
This song and video are fantastic. We used to watch MTV for hours on end in the first couple years of its existence. Then it went ultra-commercial and the more obscure artists got pushed aside for the popular stuff that had to be heavily repeated in the video rotation. *YAWN* By 1984/85, MTV was dead, as far as I was concerned.
@ruleta74835 I watched the very first video they put out - Video Killed The Rdio Star. Black and white portable tv. It was electrifying, something big was coming. Sad to see what evolved to. I had such high hopes. Skateaway was one of the first vids offered also, late at night... oh those were the days.
Skateaway is one of the rare videos that improves on the song alone; it’s hard to believe that it was made by the same people as the awful ToL and R&J videos. I think the difference proceeds from the fact that ToL and R&J have such visually and emotionally stronger verbal images/metaphors and story arc that the film makers have no choice but to turn them into hilariously literal images that no one cares about.
In contrast, the Skateway lyric’s images are much weaker and more abstract,
so there is room for visual interpretation that we accept: “But Rollergirl, she’s taking chances” is conceptual not visual, so when Jayzik swings on the bus’s hand grip and sashays backwards, the image becomes part of our experience of the song. Likewise, we know conceptually what is going on in Halleluja! Here she comes! Queen Rollerball! “En enchanté! “What can I say? “…(She don’t) care at all.”
but the dude’s Gallic shrug at the brush-off is the perfect image.
performances of Skateaway and R&J on the “Friday Live – 80” show. Listen to the lyrics but don't think of the videos. Although the band obviously enjoys playing it, Skateaway is abstract, fragmentary, and aloof. R&J is much more emotionally evocative and gets a stronger reaction from the audience. I suspect MK may have his reservations about Skateaway. Unlike the other two, he stopped playing it, and it’s not in the compilations, except as a substitute in the US release of the 2005 compilation.
I miss real music that actually meant something. I haven't heard this song in almost 7 years. Being in Radio one would think I would hear it all, but I'll tell you this. I'm not only a lover of music and a guitar player, this, this video and this BAND, brings me back to why I do what I do. LOVE THIS SONG and the band
One of the best!
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I was almost nine when I first heard this. I wasn't a very happy kid. Some of the only times I felt free, exciting, and graceful were when I was skating. (though in my case, it was in rinks and the burbs, rather than the city) The girl in the video was like nothing I'd ever seen before. I wanted to BE her. Then I heard the lyrics, "And the music make her wanna be the story, And the story was whatever was the song", it was so profound to my child mind that I nearly cried.
DizzyTheWyldesage 4 days ago
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DizzyTheWyldesage 4 days ago
This is arguably one of their best songs.
southport97 1 week ago
you notice no other group can even come close to doing this these days, such great great storytelling and passionate playing.
dingodingo82 2 weeks ago
great use of gated reverb on the bass drum, without it the song wouldn't have been the same. Great drummer, great song!
dragonsandkelts 2 weeks ago
From back when the world made sense.
Thank you!
IAmAWealthyGirl 3 weeks ago
Damn i was 17 when this video came out, had my first girlfriend, not a care in the world, music was fantastic, our country America was amazing, OMG where did the time go lol 0_0 !
usaSAVAGE 4 weeks ago
YEAH! My favorite Dire Straits track! And with it's original video!
sneeyize45 1 month ago
this vid is understated in it's slickness
InterMadness 1 month ago
I loooove this song! Oh how it brings back memories of such great times I had back in the day! Skating my heart out to all the totally awesome songs of this time and how this video and song represents the feel of what it meant to be in the 80's and getting excited to head to the local skate rink with your friends on a Friday night and skate the night away and fly around the floor like nobody's business and feeling so free! Just so darn free like you've never felt before or again! I miss it all!
thecarebearhideaway 1 month ago
killer guitar at end of song-LISTEN!!
PLANB1SKATEKIDD 1 month ago
old skool kool...!!!
thepredsrule 1 month ago
I wish this group would get back together. It's been a looooong time. But it sounds like Mark Knopfler just doesn't want to.
qthelost 1 month ago
i remember Dire Straits 1st album , wow. good song here also.
eddie14700 1 month ago
love it, but feeling my age, lol.
eddie14700 1 month ago
Yep takes me back as well. Making Movies and Reo Speedwagon's High Infidelity were my first two Rock albums. Great music for great times. I miss the 80s!
RobertKaydoo 2 months ago
1:12 anyone else think the middle shadow is Stephen Fry?
emmers57 2 months ago
I've always loved this song and Dire Straits
Mythy1 2 months ago
Five dislikes should just skateaway! Seriously, how could you not like this song?
sidDkid87 2 months ago in playlist Dire
Dire Straits are so underrated!
bookrt 3 months ago
I worked at Specs Dade Land Mall when this lp came out...
Patsyjo37 3 months ago
THIS song takes me back to the days!!! "She toys with Taxi Drivers, just for fun...she says 'Toro toro Taxi, see you tomorrow paisan!' boom boom, honk honk~uh!" Mark Knopfler is a genius (and I'm sure I just spelled his name wrong, sorry man!) I just heard it on the radio last night ~ first time in the 8 years I've been here that I've heard it on the radio!!! Gads, Lubbock bites but Dire Straits rules!
RedFreya13 3 months ago 2
so true.
etal431 3 months ago
Absolutely LOVE this Dire Straits tune !!! Why doesn't this get radio airplay ??
TheMichaelmc99 3 months ago
@TheMichaelmc99 and it didn't make the best of album! Yeah I know!
teedoffatu 3 months ago
5 people accidently hit the dislike button.
392ih 3 months ago
The natural of naturals, Mark Knopfler. She has wheels on her feet!
Hilux244 3 months ago
The natural of naturals, Mark Knopfler.
Hilux244 3 months ago 2
reminds os Neal Diamond a little
jvhorne810 4 months ago
anyone remember the very first video MTV aired?:) that will bring a lot of memories
sds3306 4 months ago
@sds3306 the buggles, video killed the radio star.........why didn't that tune get much radio play???
orbit15 4 months ago
Ah the good ol days...I wish I had it to do over again...
warhammer2000 4 months ago
Roller girl, she's taking chances.......
plushlush 4 months ago
This song puts me in a such a place where I feel very melow dramtic. I see images and emotions run deep.
Just briliant.
marcusdolby1 4 months ago
So many of Dire Straits' songs have the driving rythym, perfect for listening to when rolling down the highway. This being one of them.
ralphyboy25 5 months ago
Who is the girl in this video?
skipper020406 5 months ago
@skipper020406 Jayzik Azikiwi, she passed away recently.
marcusdolby1 4 months ago
@marcusdolby1 Oh...sad.
jmeredith44 3 months ago
JUST Great
thararah 5 months ago
Jayzik, RIP Rollergirl I had A big crush on you !!!
Edward110971 5 months ago
Such a beautiful girl. Love this song and will now think of rollergirl when I hear it. Skateaway Angel!
119velvet 6 months ago
Thank you for posting this. One of my favorites.
jerryncassie 6 months ago
2:59 is the pigsqueal and it rocks!
preshuz1169 6 months ago
It's odd that being this accomplished a skater, it would be mentioned somewhere in all the info I found online about Jayzik...never a word. This is serious good skating. I wonder if they used a double here.. there are so many shots you can't see her face very well. Just my opinion. I dearly love it anyway.
2otaku 6 months ago
Cool, smooth song, one of the first videos I saw on MTV and to me it's a classic.
Jordi1962able 6 months ago
Hmmm: "The full original video. No audio modifications", says the very good author! In our mindless days of over-processing, remixing, retooling, & remastering to the zillionth degree, AcidFlashGordon has got it right! I too recorded miles & miles of historic early MTV footage, BUT Gordon here is the TRUE master, rolling his VHS machine or Video Capturing Unit in thousand-hour mode to give us some TRUE, ORIGINAL, RAW & UNCUT MASTER VIDEO MAGIC! I too, miss my very, very 'old' (and beloved) MTV.
BolsaChicaRadio 6 months ago
I Have endured to The End.
Baphometxii 7 months ago
"Toro, toro taxi see ya tomorrow my son...she made a big truck graze her hip..." classic line.
rowdymax1 7 months ago 2
This is a super well done, straight, none-computerized effects, crap-free video. Probably shot in film. If done today would have been ruined with all sorts of effects.
goginetTV 7 months ago
When this video first came out on MTV in 1980, I went right out and bought myself a pair of roller skates. I skated all that summer on the bike paths around Eugene, Oregon (Go, Ducks!), but never could do it as gracefully as she did. I was 34.
Nephthalem 7 months ago
@Nephthalem Ummm... MTV didn't begin broadcasting until August, 1981. You're off by about a year.
DBMalone 4 months ago
@DBMalone Yep, I believe you're right. I still had a great summer! I met the girl of my dreams on the foot bridge across the Willamette River at the east end of Alton Baker Park. I was on skates and I didn't make the sharp turn at the north end. Fell and landed right in her lap. Yep, that was a great summer!
Nephthalem 4 months ago
@Nephthalem I fell in love in Oregon...can't help it. Oregon is for lovers.
jmeredith44 3 months ago
Wow. I was born a month before the girl in this video. I have probably heard the sound a thousand times on the radio over the years, yet never even knew there was a video that went with it until tonight.
puppetmasterblaster 8 months ago
Just then a big truck grease him
james747300 8 months ago
I didnt know Joan Jett could skate so well....
TheDavey222 8 months ago
I could listen to this song 24 / 7 /365!!!
sidDkid87 8 months ago 3
I sure miss the 80's! I wish I could go back to that time! It was a much better time! I guess this is my idea of what I wish heaven could be like!
thepaddywagonishere 9 months ago in playlist JK 2
-- I wanted her sooo bad when this video came out!! She kept skating away from me.....rollergirls! "Enchante'!! What can I say??"
63weezer 9 months ago 4
@63weezer I wanted to be her. at 40 years old I'm still envious!
jimidork 8 months ago
Thank you so much for finding this! This was one of the first videos I saw on MTV and it still sticks with me to this day. So much fun to watch.
asloan88 10 months ago
The ORIGINAL Rollergirl.
cythera431 10 months ago 7
Ahhhhh, brings back memories:) Yeah made me a bit sad for my 'lost MTV youth' for sure. Funny how much they put into videos these days, it makes what started out on MTV seem so primitive but they weren't to 'Us' were they? They were all so amazing & cool weren't they? They usually told a story instead of just glitz, special effects, & ego's muggin' for the camera. Sure glad I came up in the world of the beginnings of the MTV era:)
jlalewicz 10 months ago 22
@jlalewicz
me to, nowadays it's just hoochie rock, or someone rappin about how bad they are.
jvhorne810 4 months ago
A great song and video. Mark Knopfler is a true guitarist in my book, not a guitar "player". I remember reading years ago that he plucks the strings instead of strumming them with a pick. No flash. No frills.
Granted this was made in 1981, but Roller Girl is sexy and classy without having to look trashy. Yet everyone who posts a comment admires and respects her.
Bye Roller Girl. Say "hi" to my roller girl for me please. She also left this world too soon.
MaskedMarauderWIS 11 months ago 4
This song came out before the was an MTV...
frostedhead 11 months ago
@frostedhead exactly.. thank you. true. early 1979 right?
futuristfood 9 months ago
that guitar is the best
colaman1220 11 months ago
stumbled upon this this week and I am in love with this video I totally relate to Rollergirl
reecolor 11 months ago 3
Ive learned you can make nobody happy.you can choose to be happy.That thought lead me to look up this video.
MrDeerecub1977 11 months ago
This reminds me of my skating days......I was actually pretty good......I love this song and can really relate....sexy......
unchainedmelody1 11 months ago
I love this video, and I never saw if before until recently. Rollergirl is cute as heck! Nobody roller-skates anymore :(
TurboVW2004 11 months ago 2
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I love Dire Straits and looked up this video. Feeling a bit reminiscent tonight. Watched it and was curious about the beautiful lady in the video I hadn't seen in over two decades. Checked out Jayzik Azikiwe. What a beautiful lady. She's the Roller Girl!
joant1221 11 months ago
I love Dire Straits and looked up this video. Feeling a bit reminiscent tonight. Watched it and was curious about the beautiful lady in the video I hadn't seen in over two decades. Checked out Jayzik Azikiwe. What a beautiful lady.
joant1221 11 months ago
Love the Walkman on her hip. Cutting edge back then.
stucat06 11 months ago
@stucat06 I told my Dad way back when that I would pass on a high school class ring for a Walkman instead. I think he sort of regretted that deal when he would holler through the house wondering where I was only to find me lying on my bed listening to music and completely oblivious to his yelling. *L*
MaskedMarauderWIS 11 months ago 4
My introduction to Dire Straits and I will always love this song and video. Thanks for posting it.
wolfinboots 11 months ago
Is it true that the girl in this video passed away?
smokiebird06 11 months ago
I miss 1981 and music like this...
CComb501 1 year ago
My favorite MTV video! Not sure why, I guess a combination of the music and roller girls incredible moves! There is something about this video, it just reaches out and grabs me!
BigErnMcCracken1 1 year ago
Masterpiece. Classy, cool and timeless. I miss old MTV.
vidiot9 1 year ago 45
@vidiot9
You said it! I was up that night 8/1/81, when MTV started, I was in the sixth grade but I had an older brother of 15 years and he said this is going to the next level!!
patent4u100 9 months ago
@vidiot9 I miss the old MTV too, I loved video music...
Moontanman 7 months ago in playlist 70's
This song goes great to a hot July summer day with the skaters rolling up and down the streets in Manhattan NYC!!!
stork0112 1 year ago 2
the music make her wanna be the story and the story was whatever was the song what it was <3
dooti 1 year ago 3
Oh baby!!!!!
jeffreyad1 1 year ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
All the members of Dire Straits were queer especialy Mark Knopler.
WiccansEatShit 1 year ago
@WiccansEatShit Who are you to say such a thing? You're probably someone who is very alone and has no friends.
percyroxs 1 year ago
@percyroxs your dad liked to masterbate to Queen in concert.
WiccansEatShit 1 year ago
@WiccansEatShit hmmmm a troll perhaps yes you are.
cod3423 11 months ago
@WiccansEatShit Yes, some people are gay. So what? Should they date girls, to appease you? That little faggot's got his own jet airplane. Is penis some kind of forbidden fruit to you, stimulating you into presuming that you have the right to dictate how others seek happiness? No offense.
TrueArtNow 1 year ago
IMO, the best ever music video.
DBear87 1 year ago
Is it Just me that wants her HeadPhones?
ryosvet 1 year ago
Love this one!
Peoria3165 1 year ago
According to this article, she died of pneumonia in Gambia in early 08. So sorry.
RIP Rollergirl!
The system will not allow me to post the link, but it was from Nigerian-Newspaper if one wants to Google it.
WarriorSpirit3a 1 year ago
@WarriorSpirit3a don't be sorry...she lived a great life
beckert1021 1 year ago
Awesome video. Better than 99% of the million dollar videos they make today. Stylized, sexy and easy on the eyes. Good song too.
mozartfx1 1 year ago
She's making Movies on location...She don't know what it means.
78rohan 1 year ago
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logomachon 1 year ago
There's 1 "dislike" on this page and 1 "dislike" on the page with just the audio from the album. Anyone think it might be the same person finding Skateaway just to click "dislike?"
rko815 1 year ago
I love this video...it has a distinct FIORUCCI flavor to it.
LENTICULARPLASTIC 1 year ago
Screw the one numbnuts that disliked this.
Live4Pin 1 year ago 2
Back in the day when great rock groups made great
rock'n'roll music....not this computerized crap we
are bombared with today.
superbulldog81 1 year ago 2
One of My Absolute Favorite Videos ! ! ! !
THEIMPERIALDUCK 1 year ago 2
tonight is the first time I saw the video for this song. I've had it on vinyl, tape and cd. still play it a lot...now on my ipod machine. Excellent jam.
p.s. chicks today don't know how to rollerskate. Just saying. Shalla Shallay.
lola9343 1 year ago
Thanks for posting, Always looked for this under Rollergirl. Sad to hear that she past away. Brings back the 80's when I graduated from h.s.
MrTotter12 1 year ago
"She says 'Toro Toro taxi...see you tomorrow my son' ~ then she let a big truck graze her hip...shwee shwee,beep beep, oh oh..." HELL YEAH!!! This song is SO me and my BFF ~ Shastie, this one's for us gurl!!! Let's go get our skates, lol ;D
RedFreya13 1 year ago
love this songs remind me of visiting jersey when I was a kid back in the late 70's
TheMetalVagabond 1 year ago
With this lovely girls' passing a part of my youth is also gone forever. As a young fellow watching MTV in the 80s I always wondered what it would be like to do on a date and roller skating in Central Park with this girl and I never even knew her name until now. Something sad about that. My favorite part of this video is 4:49 to 4:53 when you actually see her cute smile.
Until the next dimension roller-girl!
Love, Tim
mosihasteen 1 year ago 29
@mosihasteen You are right she has a dam cute smile.
lairt357 10 months ago
@mosihasteen Her real name was Jane but she changed it when she moved to Gambia, Africa.
sundevilpoolsinc 9 months ago
@mosihasteen well said,Tim
jp420dunwoody 5 months ago
Dire Straits needs to reunite...Was lucky enough to see them on the Brothers In Arms tour...Admire Knopflers solo stuff,but it isn't near as good as Straits,at least for my tastes...
BIGROCKER620 1 year ago
coolest vid ever
MrDeerecub1977 1 year ago
Best video ever!Song rips too
mattstein70 1 year ago
i always felt this should be on Dire Straits Greatest hits.
rxlex1 1 year ago 2
Jazik is missed, I will never forget this vid and this song... Skakeaway.... Thats all...
Edward110971 1 year ago
like only one of the greatest songs ever!
jahblessing11 1 year ago
I want her
MrJudge38 1 year ago
same set as romeo and juliet video? i think so...
TheIslandersMusic 1 year ago
@TheIslandersMusic It's a whole video... movie I guess? That's what they did in the '80s :)
frostedhead 1 year ago
Good Lordy, Jayzik was a complete doll. Think I'll name my next guitar "Skate-A-Caster". Already got 2 Strats, so what the hey-hey.
Rollergirl, you will never be forgotten by your kindred spirits, be-it we strap on Fenders and/or skates. Mr. Knophler, you da man.
dreamtheater9352000 1 year ago
This is the song I thought of when I first read Douglas Adams' line (Zarquon rest his gentlemanly soul) in "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" about Mark Knopfler's "amazing ability to make a Fender Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night".
aberrantube 1 year ago
Love this song...Rollergirl......RIP
nebraskaomaha07 1 year ago 2
RIP rollergirl.
TheMate01 1 year ago
Timeless.
artrock101 1 year ago
In the 80's I actually enjoyed watching MTV. At some point though they quit showing the heavy metal and pop music videos and started replacing them with these lame ass rap videos and horrible reality shows. That was when I stopped watching MTV.
Icarus1967 1 year ago 2
I truly love Dire Straits. Seen them in person. Phenomenal. I think this is one of there best song even though they have so many phenomenal ones. Just listen to that guitar. He gets it to cry. Thanks so much for posting.
Lobsterlady2362 1 year ago
I love chicks on rollerskates. This one and Rollergirl from Boogie Nights. What more could you ask for.....
Andreas748 1 year ago
My 10 year old daughter wants me to play this video when I turn on You Tube
thepaddywagonishere 1 year ago
time to go cruise the strip...this is a perfect cruising tune!
94cadillacfleetwood 1 year ago
What the Hell happened to MTV? do they even play Music Videos anymore? Haven't watched it since 1987.....so sad....RIP
nosferatu388 1 year ago
Rollergirl is early 80's hotness. Great band, great song!!
Boberatzi 1 year ago
Loved going to skate arenas back then. Great memories Thank You
kalif404 1 year ago
i always liked the outro of this song
truemetalist89 1 year ago
@truemetalist89 I agree with you, the outro on this song gives me a sense that the song took me somwhere and its saying goodbye in a very sweet way. The volume swells Mark does on his guitar are so choice.
marcusdolby1 1 year ago
Mark Knopfler, no doubt one of the best!
No, THE best.
Incomparable talent.
mowntainmancr 1 year ago
Mark Knopfler, no doubt, one of THE best!
No, the Best, incomparable talent.
mowntainmancr 1 year ago
Music is going a tad to fast.
aitraining 1 year ago
@aitraining
More than a tad. Any faster and it would be chipmunk territory. Poster: Can you fix the speed and re-post it?
Ken5244 1 year ago
Toro toro taxi! See you tomorrow, my son.
Good quality, thanks for posting.
wilsonclan 1 year ago
Dire Straits rocks and rolls right into your soul. Best band ever.
broncobra 1 year ago
LOve this song!!!
Ponygirlification 1 year ago
I didn't know who she was, but Jayzkik was one of the most memorable images I have seen in a video. RIP.
martinjsxx 1 year ago
So fabulous! Didn't hear them til college 82, what for being oppressed by my father who couldn't stand to hear anything hip... No regrets, I've loved this music now for 28 yrs??! Indeed, where did all the fab music go!!!??
fifthworld 1 year ago
Why did they allow that geeky drummer to come in there and ruin this master piece of a video by doing that pathetic leg dance?
xxmickeyzeroxx 1 year ago
Jazik was beautiful inside and out!!
thundersteve1566 1 year ago
It's a shame this song is fairly obscure nowadays.
GoGoGadgetBeer 1 year ago
This is one of my favorite songs ever.
12gagedan 1 year ago
This was video and Song.... where did all the good songs go? besides to rap.
stormember1 1 year ago
i could watch that girl skate all day. i could be going out the door and this video come on i'd have to stay and watch
VenusMonkey 1 year ago 2
IF YOU DO NOT THINK THIS IS THE SHIT, I WILL FIGHT YOU!
Great tune and I love the how gracefully that young lady moves on those skates.
xxmickeyzeroxx 1 year ago 2
This Is Still One The Coolest Videos Ever!!! Musically And Visually. Long Live Dire Straits, RIP Sweet Roller Girl.
marijuanaisgreat 1 year ago 4
When MTV played videos those were the days! I sure miss the 80's. I remember seeing MTV back in 82 what a time it was. Those were the days!
thepaddywagonishere 1 year ago 4
"She's makin' movies on location, she don't know what it means."
jimyjam99 1 year ago
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SOUNDCHASERX 1 year ago
RIP THE ROLLERGIRL
SOUNDCHASERX 1 year ago
Jazik Azikiwe, May 12, 1958 - January 31, 2008. RIP Lovely Rollergirl and Skatewaway with the angels.
SteveD328 1 year ago 77
@SteveD328... Wow, that's sad to hear. Thanks for posting this info. She had tasty legs and beautiful face.
Gerkinstock 1 year ago
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mosihasteen 1 year ago
@mosihasteen Yeah, I read it. I agree with her legs, but not every..
bigjoeblueeyes 1 year ago
@SteveD328 - Thanks for sharing that. I had no idea who she was.
This song and video are fantastic. We used to watch MTV for hours on end in the first couple years of its existence. Then it went ultra-commercial and the more obscure artists got pushed aside for the popular stuff that had to be heavily repeated in the video rotation. *YAWN* By 1984/85, MTV was dead, as far as I was concerned.
ruleta74835 1 year ago
@ruleta74835 I watched the very first video they put out - Video Killed The Rdio Star. Black and white portable tv. It was electrifying, something big was coming. Sad to see what evolved to. I had such high hopes. Skateaway was one of the first vids offered also, late at night... oh those were the days.
broncobra 1 year ago
@SteveD328 ...what happened to her......?
signalsyyz 1 year ago
@SteveD328 Met her back in1991. She was the most down to earth,friendliest person i ever met. So sad she is gone. Miss her much!!
mec441 1 year ago 2
@SteveD328 I never even knew her name until now. Such a beauty; may she indeed rest in peace.
MaskedMan66 1 year ago 3
@SteveD328 I'm so sad to learn of this. I've love this song and video since it first came out. I can't listen to this song without picturing her.
liquidgee13 1 year ago 3
Skateaway is one of the rare videos that improves on the song alone; it’s hard to believe that it was made by the same people as the awful ToL and R&J videos. I think the difference proceeds from the fact that ToL and R&J have such visually and emotionally stronger verbal images/metaphors and story arc that the film makers have no choice but to turn them into hilariously literal images that no one cares about.
In contrast, the Skateway lyric’s images are much weaker and more abstract,
logomachon 1 year ago
so there is room for visual interpretation that we accept: “But Rollergirl, she’s taking chances” is conceptual not visual, so when Jayzik swings on the bus’s hand grip and sashays backwards, the image becomes part of our experience of the song. Likewise, we know conceptually what is going on in Halleluja! Here she comes! Queen Rollerball! “En enchanté! “What can I say? “…(She don’t) care at all.”
but the dude’s Gallic shrug at the brush-off is the perfect image.
Compare the live
logomachon 1 year ago
performances of Skateaway and R&J on the “Friday Live – 80” show. Listen to the lyrics but don't think of the videos. Although the band obviously enjoys playing it, Skateaway is abstract, fragmentary, and aloof. R&J is much more emotionally evocative and gets a stronger reaction from the audience. I suspect MK may have his reservations about Skateaway. Unlike the other two, he stopped playing it, and it’s not in the compilations, except as a substitute in the US release of the 2005 compilation.
logomachon 1 year ago
I miss real music that actually meant something. I haven't heard this song in almost 7 years. Being in Radio one would think I would hear it all, but I'll tell you this. I'm not only a lover of music and a guitar player, this, this video and this BAND, brings me back to why I do what I do. LOVE THIS SONG and the band
RiffRage2000 1 year ago