Classical Composer REACTION/ANALYSIS to Telegraph Road (Dire Straits) | The Daily Doug (Episode 433)

Please, don't you ever shut up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mark's guitar playing is so good a style different from all others.

😍😍😍😍

I don't know if there's ever been a tighter live performance.

The lyrics are so impressive. all of them.
like: "When life was just a bet on a race
Between the lights"
Reminds me of the lyric in Romeo and Juliet
"And all I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme."
- the bars being the musical score, where the technical term for the line between measures is bar.
Beautiful job with the lyrics Mark.
and I see this in so many of his songs.
Does anyone know where the line "The most dangerous angles that you ever saw" comes from?

I consider the Basel 92 the best version

Seen them life, it was this good too..

Telegraph road and Dr. Seuss’ “the Lorax” for me are synonymous and beautiful to listen and read to children about development and the woes of that industrial development!!!

Bloody terrible reaction, wont be coming back!

Why oh why do you so called reactors bloody talk over all the best sections???!! Shut up listen and watch the performance then bloody well react! SHUT UP!!!

When you consider that this is the closing number in a LOONG concert, it’s incredible how tight they are. Everything is perfection. There’s nothing you can fault in this performance! I bought the Tape Cassette of this back when it first came out and it has always been my absolute favourite DS album. Every song on the recording is as good as the rest. I’d love to know what songs from that concert they left off the recording, but what an absolute blast that concert must have been!

I think the song is about the experience of the person who possibly left all this industrialization behind to live in the wilderness based on the teachings of The Growth Of The Soil, but the modernization followed him and brought with it all the things he was trying to escape from. It feels to me like the song sheds a light on the disadvantages of industrialization. I also believe that the outro and the galloping feel of the bass depicts being on the telegraph road running away from it to seek another wilderness and start over.

I was 17 when I found this song and it brought me to the world of audio quality. Before this song, to me, sound was sound; a pair of cheapo earbuds was good enough for me. That was no longer the case as I desperately sought to submerge myself deeper and deeper into this song. I am in love with it.

Most of Dire Straits I preferred the live versions, but for Telegraph Road I like the studio version better. I really like how they alternate between guitar & piano after the vocals have finished.

The greatest compliment lve ever heard given to Dire Straits, is the greatest rock and roll orchestra.

Correction….the drummer is Terry Williams! Pik Withers was the bands original drummer.

Just FYI, you name the drummer as Pick Withers. While he was the drummer on the studio version, it was Steve Williams on the Alchemy tour.

Man, I will never get tired of listening to Mark spin his masterful stories. I was born in Western Michigan back in '68. Dad enlisted in the Air Force 3 years later. Mom and I just moved back to a small town about 20 miles west of Pontiac. I delivered at least 200 trailers worth of automotive parts all over the Detroit metro area when I was driving long-haul 18 wheelers form 91-01. I wish Mark would do a version of this song with Bob Seger. This song perfectly grabs the soul and history of Detroit. Bob Seger, imo, is the true voice of Michigan (for R&R).

I am enjoying your analysis of Mark Knophler's songs.
I would like to suggest analyzing Sailing to Philadelphia. It is inspired by the guys who were brought from England to survey the Mason Dixson Line. Wonderful thought-provoking song. Same for Industrial Disease.....

Telegraph Road is to Dire Straits what Aja is to Steely Dan and Xanadu is to Rush: a career defining 12+ minute epic showing off each band’s amazing skills.

Much too talkative!
It shows a lack of respect for this work, which is far more important than these overblown comments.
From France.

The most awesome song ever 😊😊👍

I work of art

Drive a long road to this, it's hypnotic. Follow it with Private Investigations

This. Is. Dire. Straits... and this is a masterpiece... I think last part is absolutely improvisation... they could be doing and doing it... but then decided to end... "this was enough"...

Whenever I see a technical analysis of mark knophlers music I wonder if he understands it. He doesn't read music

Telegraph Road : 123-1. The power of that.

For me this song is about how it all falls together so nicely. The rhyme, the hook, the melody, it's a divine many-dimensional fit.
If it's inspired by a Nobel winning book, the sing might well be a greater masterpiece. The author would be proud.

If Mark Knopfler's music doesn't move you, you're emotionally bankrupt.

This Alchemy live version is better than the original in my opinion.

Absolute masterpiece, but masterpiece is not the correct translation of my thinking. In Italian we say "CAPOLAVORO ASSOLUTO", like Giotto, Raffaello, Michelangelo, Leonardo, etc.

Why don't you shut up and listen to a piece of art

…You are absolutely right, this great song is in d-minor. And like in almost all music, songs usually include minor and major cords…
But I’m not sure if people appreciate this ”now it’s minor… and now it’s major…
…G, I think” -stuff…
Of course, I may be wrong….
Anyways, keep up the (otherwise) good work 👍
Sorry my bad English skills!

Hi! Why are you repeating the lyrics?

one word.....
MASTERPIECE!!!!!!

This song is so emotional and beautiful.

With any of Mark's music try the live version first . He is one of those musicians that perform to an audience better than in a lab .

That guitar is called Dobro (DOpiera BROthers), invented by Dopyer brothers, sons of immigrant from Slovakia.

The most beautiful solo

My favoritte Dire Straits song was "Postcards from Paraguay"

Private investigations is like watching an old black and white film noir detective movievfrom the 50s

This is my go to concert the DVD is virtually worn out!! And the absolute amazing Terry Williams on drums!!! I throughly recommend you watch this!!

Thanks! Listen to the Alchemy live versions! Amazing guitar riffs!

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Doug only discovered your videos today..love what you do and the way you talk us through the music..👍

love this track, the albums alchemy and love over gold

We all know about Mark, but it is the piano that makes this song so fantastic, IMO. Just unreal playing.
Great analysis, BTW!