One of my handy topics for a last-minute open thread: Your favorite musician(s), then and now (or, well, later).
I have a lot of favorites, but here is one of the best: Mark Knopfler, doing "Water of Love" back in the Dire Straits days, and then again a couple of decades later. "Water of Love" is a great song, and I honestly cannot decide which version I like better because both are great. Mark Knopfler is amazingly gifted and he just keeps getting better and better.
1979:
1996:
Got any favorites?
Comments
Joni Mitchell
Cat Stevens~
Neil Young:
from 1970:
from 1992:
and he's still going... :D
what I like by him...
Thank you for mentioning Knopfler
I would put him right at the top. I know few people who feel this way. What I feel goes under-appreciated is his songwriting. Beautiful, profound songs. I could probably list ten examples off the top of my head. I'd start with People's Parties, because it's hilarious while quite bitter.
One of my favorite songs of all time, "5:15 AM", in which the ghosts of hard-working miners hover about a car parked near their cemetery. There is dead man inside, murdered from being involved in the businesses of organized crime which have taken over the previously honest hard-working town. It's both a tribute to the mining dead and rueful commentary on the present. Then the entire album, The Ragpicker's Dream, an ode to the working man with one great song after another. The title song has to be the best hobo song ever written. There's also Quality Shoe:
Done With Bonaparte, Nobody's Got the Gun, . . . don't get me started.
5:15 AM
Duh to me. When I eyes latched on to 5:15, I'm thinking
for maybe three seconds at the most, what's happening, why is the clock off.
I do need a vacation, but one this time that's really a vacation.
PLEASE PLAY THIS ONE INSTEAD
that version ends early. I wish I had deleted before you commented, Mbel. Anyway, that is a funny comment, In a sad kind of way, so it should remain. Here's the whole song. What happens with that that one being cut off should be a crime. At the very least, go listen to the end on this version if you were playing that one:
Thank you.
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Oh, I'm a huge fan.
I can still remember *exactly* where I was and what I was doing the first time I heard "Sultans of Swing", back in 1978.
Two more that I absolutely love:
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