Taj Williams (00:38.195)
Welcome back to the Ultimate Playlist Podcast for Choice Tracks. I'm Taj!

Damon (00:44.085)
I'm Damon.

DW (00:45.469)
And I'm D-Trix.

Taj Williams (00:47.495)
All right, high energy everybody. I love it. I love it. So So Right So this episode is my episode to lead So we're covering an album. Are you guys ready for for my first album pick of the new season?

DW (00:54.399)
And then we gone right after, that was great.

Damon (01:12.018)
shit, is it your first?

Taj Williams (01:13.309)
It's my first. any guesses who I picked? Huh?

DW (01:20.169)
Thank you.

Taj Williams (01:20.203)
What was that? No, I didn't think that. didn't pick Madonna. I could have gone with Madonna. No, I didn't do Boy George. I didn't do Dido. I could have done Dido, but yeah, I didn't do that. I decided to go with something a little bit classy, a little bit rocky, a little bit jam band. I went for Dire Straits.

DW (01:23.623)
Like a virgin?

Damon (01:26.285)
For George to pick for George

DW (01:37.631)
Yeah.

Taj Williams (01:49.643)
Money For Nothing. So this album was released in 1987. It actually collects their greatest hits from 78 to 85. And so it was originally released on CD in 1988. So a little bit of history on Dire Straits as far as I know them. I had Money For Nothing on cassette. I also had Band of Brothers, or not Band of Brothers,

DW (01:51.209)
Bye.

Taj Williams (02:19.211)
I'm going to say that wrong. It's the Brothers in Arms. I had those two albums on cassette, but this was the one I always listened to. so Brothers in Arms came out right before 1985. So it came out two years before this album. The other interesting thing is by 1990, the band broke up or no, they broke up.

And then they got back together in like 1990. So it's interesting that they did like a Greatest Hits and then they took like a three year break and then came back together. But I really enjoy this album. I think it's really good album. I know it's a Greatest Hits, but it's interesting that it's not labeled Greatest Hits. It's just labeled Money for Nothing. So did you guys want to say anything about Dire Straits before we get into the album? Do you guys have any connection with Dire Straits?

DW (03:17.703)
None whatsoever. Yeah, this was this was a joy ride for me. So.

Taj Williams (03:19.048)
None whatsoever.

Taj Williams (03:23.997)
Okay.

Damon (03:25.449)
Yeah, I can't say that like so I liked how you said like this is an album you had

Taj Williams (03:32.235)
Mm-hmm.

Damon (03:33.197)
And I was playing this and I was kind of talking to my wife about the album, Robin. And she was mentioning, yeah, her cousin had this album and they would listen to it all the time. And she had, I won't go into the songs yet, but she had like one or two favorites from the album and it made sense. So I kind of like, I think they cross like genres almost.

in a way on this one album, even though it's the greatest hits, it doesn't really feel like a greatest hits album. And I think, know, like greatest hits albums are great too, obviously, because they're all the best songs that everybody likes. With that being said, I don't think that every song on this album was the greatest hit in my mind, but most of it was, and I've listened to it seven times. So if that gives you any idea of what I thought of it, but probably because of curiosity and

Taj Williams (04:23.627)
Right.

Damon (04:30.401)
partly because I think it was just like spot on for their hits. And I just didn't know that they even sang some of these songs. I was like, that was Dire Straits? Holy shit. that's kudos to the band for that. But as far as, ahead.

Taj Williams (04:48.063)
Yeah. What? no. Yeah. The other interesting thing that you kind of mentioned there is like, it's interesting because it's not all the studios, right? They throw in a couple of live tracks in here and you're like, yeah. And you're like, that's an interesting take for a great for a greatest hits album. It's like the studio hits and then some live track versions. So yeah.

Damon (04:58.839)
Alright, some live tracks, yeah.

Damon (05:10.637)
So they put this together, they acknowledge that live music sometimes does give it a vibe, you know? And it does. That's why I always encourage you listeners to go out and see a concert. If you've never been to a show before, go see a show. It doesn't have to be a band that you absolutely love, but just the experience of being out at a show is, it's a good thing, it's a life changer.

Taj Williams (05:15.243)
You

Damon (05:41.261)
Well, that's my, my.

Taj Williams (05:43.371)
OK. So all right. Well, we'll go ahead and jump straight into it. So this album starts with Salt and the Swing, originally released on their debut album of Dire Straits in 1978. I like it because it has a really great hook to it. Like it just goes and then it speeds up and then slow down and speeds up again. kind of the one thing you'll hear me say a lot.

as we go through this album is they are a jam band. And it's weird because I'm normally not a jam band artist. Like I do not like Dave Matthews band. Like I'm OK with them, but I'm not a huge Dave Matthews band. But Dire Straits is like a 70s, 80s version of that. And they're just a straight jam band on almost every one of their songs. But yeah, so the first song was a song Swings. What did you guys?

Think of that one or should I just keep going?

DW (06:45.631)
Nah, you're good. I mean, that's how you start stuff, right? Like that, you brought it up like they're a jam band, but at the same time, like they kept the rhythm going. They didn't fall short. They didn't switch over 1,500 times. Like it literally was, you know, a smooth ride all the way through. And I can just hear it riffs. As soon as you pulled this up, I did know this particular song.

Taj Williams (06:50.783)
Right.

DW (07:11.903)
And it was like, know, and the rest of it just, just keep on going and rolling. Kind of remind me a little bit of, kind of petty ish type vibes. but yeah, I definitely can see that I can see some Pink Floyd in there just a little bit. Like I can, I can make these judgments about these other bands because those are the ones that I really know of. But

I could see why people definitely like them. I could see why their legends had their own way. So I had no problem with it. It was a good damn way to start off this particular site.

Taj Williams (07:51.067)
Exactly. And it's interesting because they're kind of it's weird because they could be Bruce Spinks, they could be Billy Joel, they could be ZZ Top. Like there's times where they sound like other things, but they're still their own band for sure.

DW (08:03.033)
Mm-hmm. Yeah, they're uniquely them for sure. I had no problem with this particular first track. I was like, yeah, it's kind of a smooth groove ride. I could see this being played in a dive bar somewhere and everybody just kind of jamming out, drinking beer and chilling. So definitely liked it.

Taj Williams (08:21.419)
Right. So, OK. So, teacher, do you want to take away our second track?

Damon (08:28.715)
Whoa, whoa,

Taj Williams (08:31.758)
OK, I'm sorry, Damon. What did you think of?

Taj Williams (08:40.459)
DW (08:42.877)
Wow.

Damon (08:57.293)
Talks about Terry Williams, guitar John, he's got like his day job, but he likes to fucking jam the fuck out of a guitar. And he fucking does, you know what mean? The drums are just like subtle, simple, but like fucking effective. And then like in almost every song you hear kind like the off beat, you know, with the drums. And D-Truck might have more insight in that. I don't know, cause I'm not like.

Taj Williams (09:05.387)
Right.

Damon (09:23.969)
I played guitar before, have a couple of guitars, but I just don't know it studio-wise. don't know really where they came up with the off beats with the cymbals. just like all of sudden that happens. You a little... And then it just goes into... And then sounds like a weird other beat and then it just fucking works. And it makes me want to fucking play it over over again. It makes me feel cool, you know what mean? They did their job.

Taj Williams (09:45.233)
Right.

DW (09:53.821)
Yeah.

Damon (09:57.675)
too excited maybe.

DW (09:59.175)
Nah, nah, you good. You hit the point, bro.

Taj Williams (09:59.285)
No, no, no, no, you're fine. Yeah, and the interesting thing is like, and I still haven't figured it out in my head, but like the interesting thing is Sultan's of Swing, but they're they're a rock band for sure. And it's just kind of like it's an interesting concept, especially, guess, coming in the 80s saying that like swing band music is.

I mean, it is related to rock, but it's just kind of a weird like analogy to throw out there for a title. Sultan's A Swing.

Damon (10:33.485)
makes them be more badass and you hear the like you can see somebody moving swing style like someone just twirling his chick on the floor and smoking a cigarette with a whiskey and it's like fuck all right

Taj Williams (10:41.032)
Right, yeah.

you

Taj Williams (10:48.103)
you

DW (10:52.891)
Nah, it's definitely a good way to start off any project, let alone a compilation project. So no problems with that. As far as me bringing in mine, I picked this one really because of the intro. The groove of it, once it gets into the groove, is similar to Sultan's Swaying, right? But...

It takes a minute to get there. takes you on a little little crescendo ride, so to speak, in order to go into the actual track. And then once it gets there, you hear those guitar licks coming in and you hear everything like being put in play. It's like, OK, you just took me on a little ride right there. I was a little interested. I was a little intrigued. Let me see where this is going. And been right into their groove of a song. It's kind of like that mid to mid to up tempo track. And

That's where their groove is best at. Is that meant to be 88 to 92 beats per minute and just...

DW (12:02.079)
It's like it works. And for me, like this track really, really hit me really because of the intro and how everything was kind of building up to the actual song and when it's on drop, it was a smooth groove all the way through as well. So for those who don't know, because I don't think I said it, but I did. I said it again. I picked Down by the Waterline.

DW (12:40.553)
Yeah, you hit that pocket well.

Taj Williams (12:40.607)
Yeah.

For sure. And it's such a bluesy like guitar riff. The crazy thing, they do this with several songs, but this is the kind of the first one where there was times because I remember playing cassette or even CD where you're like. Is it still playing because it starts out so low, like it start? It's like classical music where it starts out so soft, but there's music playing.

Damon (13:02.061)
You

Taj Williams (13:11.901)
You can only hear if you have like the headphones on and cranked up to 11, right? But otherwise you're like, it's still playing and then it slowly builds up or in this case, it just hits like it comes in soft and then it just strums hard and it just takes off running. It's like you're coming out the water and then hitting land and running like, but when you're on the water, it's all like smooth. So yeah.

DW (13:15.679)
All right.

DW (13:38.763)
This almost has a Santana vibe to it and I think that's another reason why I'm of like involved or wrapped up in it because when you think about famous guitar players like Eric Clampton, Santana, you can literally feel the vibe and roll with it and it takes you on a little journey and this is exactly what this did for me. So it's like, damn.

They're really in their pocket when comes to their style and how they're putting the music out. yeah, see, Go ahead.

Taj Williams (14:09.675)
Yeah, and they have a close relationship with Eric Clapton too, is what I briefly saw.

DW (14:16.189)
Yes, yes they do. That's cool. Damien, what do think?

Damon (14:20.685)
That would be similar to the time that he was in Cream, right? This is like 78, so I think that's about when they were doing that. And they had that same style, kind of bluesy guitar. Clapton, one of my favorite blues guitarists, for sure. And I think that this kind of has a Dylan sound too. He definitely has a Bob Dylan sound to his voice. And I don't know if his...

DW (14:30.418)
Right.

DW (14:48.401)
Yes.

Damon (14:50.497)
They, I'm sure, have done stuff together and they're the same kind of era. Maybe he's a little bit younger or older, I'm not sure exactly, but these guys aren't from the States, right? They're from London. So it's kind of like a, you know, that makes sense too. I think their sound is unique. What's that?

DW (15:09.161)
But it sounds like it's from the states. They sound like they're homegrown.

Damon (15:15.778)
yeah, they sound like they grew up in a biker bar in Minnesota or some shit.

DW (15:19.223)
Literally, it's like it. Yeah, I hate to put this comparison out there, but if like Dylan and you were literally sitting down as best friends and growing together, they'd have the same sound. This is what it comes out as. So yeah, it's right there.

Taj Williams (15:32.511)
You

Damon (15:32.587)
Yeah. hell yeah. It definitely would be that. Yeah, I think this is like a great song and it's not one that I didn't like. So I'll throw that out there. And I think in the middle, like it starts out really weird to me at first, but then I like how it just like does it change up real quick. And then it's like, I like this song. And then in the middle of the song,

DW (15:44.831)
in fact, right.

DW (15:51.316)
Mm-hmm.

DW (15:56.499)
Yeah, I'm so, I feel like I've. Start.

Damon (16:01.79)
Yeah, yeah, and then you know like that I think it's the solo like we were just listening to that's like fucking cool I like that shit that carries me away Let's me forget about all the bullshit

DW (16:08.168)
Mm-hmm.

DW (16:11.688)
Mm-hmm.

Taj Williams (16:15.296)
Right?

DW (16:17.129)
like bills and wives and everything else.

Damon (16:22.253)
Everything else. Yes, exactly.

Taj Williams (16:23.221)
right?

DW (16:27.77)
Great.

Taj Williams (16:30.315)
So yeah, so but yeah, for sure. I like that this was on my short list of one I picks for sure. And I'm glad that you picked it. But yeah, but I do get the whole it's like Salt and the Swing. just so people know, it does come off the same album. So at 1978, so those are probably those are the only two that they did off of that first album. So it kind of makes sense why they.

DW (16:49.769)
Mm-hmm.

Taj Williams (16:59.615)
they sound a little bit similar.

DW (17:02.845)
All good.

Taj Williams (17:03.659)
But all good. All right. So now we get to song number three, which is Portra Bella Bell. This is their first live track. So the song was released on their album Communi-chi? Communi-ki? I think they're trying to make fun of Albuquerque, but with a communi-ki in front of it. Came out in 1979. And so the track...

So the song itself released in 79, this particular track was unreleased and was an outtake from a live album from 1984. So this one has horns. It's the first time we have here horns in a song that they do has a piano really gives off a lot of Billy Joel vibes. But it has some of the most it's one of the first ones where like.

as memorable lyrics. And that's one of the other reasons why I really liked Dire Straits is because some of the lyrics, I don't know why, but it just poetry and sticks in your head. but the, you know, the main one that everybody knows kind of is that, how am I think drawing a thing? It's the, she's no English Rose, right? Yeah, she ain't no English Rose. For some reason that line,

DW (18:27.955)
Mm-hmm.

Taj Williams (18:31.851)
It's a weird sentence, but it just stands out in your head.

What did you guys think of their live track? Portobello.

Damon (18:47.589)
I it opens up the music a lot for people that haven't heard Dire Straits. I could picture this being a good summer concert. I guess a winter concert too, whatever. I like to think of concerts in the summer when you're outside and having a beer in whatever venue. Say they got a lawn area, this is that kind of show. It does remind me of concerts back in the day as well. I did do some shows in

90s.

DW (19:21.631)
This gives me bluegrass vibes. This is sitting on the lawn, listening to a band play, and just chill out and having a good time. That's the vibe that I got from this song. I never heard it before. So the fact that I'm hearing it now definitely takes me to that point. And I love music that can take you on a journey.

Taj Williams (19:21.643)
So, yeah.

Okay.

Damon (19:26.817)
Yeah.

DW (19:45.213)
But it does not have to be fast. was like by the way it was album in the way that everything mapped out. This was one of the first songs that did not have that up tempo. We did not have the we're going to jam. This felt like it had a purpose. And when you have songs that feel like they have a purpose, those songs are the ones you tend to gravitate towards. And this had a smooth mellowed out track.

and it was definitely an outdoors, like you said, summertime vibe where you just sit on the grass hill in the sunset and listen to the band play as the sun goes down. That's what I got from those.

Damon (20:27.147)
And you get a little Dave Matthews in there too, because there's fucking horns like crazy.

Taj Williams (20:27.221)
Catch it.

Taj Williams (20:30.891)
And so.

DW (20:31.124)
yeah, that's it.

Damon (20:33.941)
or saxophone.

DW (20:35.795)
Full 18 piece band at Austin H1.

Taj Williams (20:36.435)
So. So, but yeah. OK. So track number four is Twisting by the Pool, which is a remix. So it was originally came out in 1983 on not even one of albums. It was like a

Extended Dance Play album. So basically for me, it's just an 80s version of a sock hop song with a wall of sound. It's a good, feel good song, but like it's... I like it, don't get me wrong, but it's not special. It's nothing new, but it's really good though. It's like an 80s version of a 50s sock hop.

Damon (21:33.271)
Okay, so this is one of the songs I don't like. And it's like, kind of because it's because it sort of feels like it's thrown into the mix of like a bunch of really great songs. Portobello, Portobello Bell is like almost in that category, but yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't suck. It's just slower, you know, it's live. it's, you know, it throws you off, but took some of the pull.

reminds of something that you'd see in a play, know, like in some like random scene and then it goes away. And they're literally twisting by the pool. It's like some kind of sock hop musical is what it reminds me of and I can't say like.

Taj Williams (22:11.456)
Right.

Taj Williams (22:17.675)
What I really think it's there for is for the next song. I think it's an intro for the next song. Because the two of them have a lot in common. And so, yeah.

Damon (22:26.944)
Right.

Damon (22:31.649)
They put it together that way.

Taj Williams (22:33.215)
Yeah. What do you think of Twisted by the Pool, did you? Skip. Okay.

DW (22:37.595)
skip well it wasn't bad it took me back to those what are those 80s disney films when they're out by the beach and and there you go that part it's like a little a elvis yeah i know it's that sock hop situation but it's just

Damon (22:41.165)
What's city do down there?

Taj Williams (22:52.819)
beach blanket bingo? Exactly, yeah.

Damon (22:56.351)
some kind of Elvis Elvis movie or some shit

Damon (23:03.543)
Donnie Marie or whatever the fuck their name

DW (23:06.251)
They literally like... I put it this way. If it came on while I was at a pool party, I would be cool with it. If I haven't gotten to the pool party yet, I'm like, what the fuck is this? That's also my thought. Because I didn't have to see... Right, I didn't expect it from this band, so to speak. Like they wanted to go the Beach Boys route one time just to see how it would work.

Damon (23:21.857)
this man if this came on during a yeah

BLEH

DW (23:34.09)
and I wouldn't feel in it so

Taj Williams (23:38.507)
So yeah, so all right, so then I'll go to the next one. what I remember, okay, so there's a reason why I'm gonna do this weird tie-in. So from what I remember from the 80s, you had a lot of Heartbreak Hotel, Pink Cadillac, even Flashback. There was a lot of stuff in the 80s where they showed the 50s as nostalgia, right? They would play a 50s track.

And then they would update it to an 80s version, right? With some synth, you know, but it was this kind of thing where like we love the 50s, but we're going to make it 80s, right? And that's where I kind of feel like Twisting by the Pool and then Tunnel of Love. Tunnel of Love is the 80s version of Twisting by the Pool, but they upped it, right? They revamped it, added some stuff. And, you know, it has a great guitar in it. There was a critic that said that this was

DW (24:04.381)
Mm-hmm.

DW (24:13.609)
Yes.

Taj Williams (24:34.249)
Dire Straits fourth best song just because of the guitar solo. And so, yeah, I feel like Tunnel of Love is like a total 80s track, it's a revamped version of a 50s track. yeah, so would you?

DW (24:51.551)
Yeah, it was like this was with her guys straights and Mark Knopfler, right? So this added feature that was involved with it. actually like this one. I guess it's kind of funny because they have their own pocket and this fit right in the pocket.

Like this goes back to what we were talking about before, anywhere between that 88 to 95 beats per loop where they actually jump in and do stuff. Like to me that works. You know what saying? And because that works, I think it was easier for me to just catch in the vibe and go with it. Yeah, it may have been a follow up to Twistin' Butter Poop, but this one had its own lane. It actually felt...

better in its own lane and it was literally hitting them in their pocket. You could hear the jam session, could hear the guitars, could hear the bass lines and the drum beats, like simplistic, but it works. And it was more of a rock jam session than it was a tribute to anything, which is right where they need to be.

Taj Williams (26:01.663)
Right. So.

Yeah. And so this, I'm not sure why I made note of it, but this song had two music videos. they had, some songs had music videos, but this is the one that had like two music videos for it. The other thing I was going to ask you guys, I know Damon, still got to go, but the other thing I was going to ask is, do you think we have to explain for the modern generation what tunnel of love is?

It's like it's a tunnel of love used to be an actual like riot that people took in like the 50s and 60s and 70s. And I don't think any of them exist anymore.

DW (26:44.416)
No, not here. Not like that.

Taj Williams (26:46.379)
Not like that. So, okay.

DW (26:49.379)
No, if we say tunnel of love nowadays, people go to the far of the situation or the grind.

Taj Williams (26:57.215)
Right. Because because the way I always I've never been on one. But the way I always knew it was like from the the classic cartoons where it's like it's a boat ride with you and your sweetheart. Right. And you go into the tunnel so that you can do smooching and come out. So nowadays we have haunted houses so people can go and get their ass scared and cling to each other and fear and come out. But like back in the day, like they didn't do haunted houses in February. They did.

Damon (27:01.805)
Alright.

Taj Williams (27:26.345)
It's of loves. And it's excuse to hide from the public so you can get a kiss and then come out.

Taj Williams (27:35.829)
Basically, right?

DW (27:37.853)
Basically, yeah, I mean they don't exist here in the United States anymore. think we've won Ukraine yeah, Ukraine actually has an actual tunnel of love that still exists Yeah If I remember correctly, yes, Ukraine actually has a tunnel of love that's still out there and people could actually go through and ride links with the horse ship

Taj Williams (27:39.751)
you

Taj Williams (27:52.936)
really? Okay.

DW (28:07.593)
to say anything wrong. don't want to any you grandmands, but when it comes down to it, yes, I would love to go under a tunnel of love ride and be smooching underneath like Pepe Lepue when he tried to, the cats and the females or when Bugs Bunny would go in trying to smooch on the female bunny and come out just in a carrot. I thought that was the best time ever.

Taj Williams (28:11.979)
All right.

Taj Williams (28:20.555)
you

Taj Williams (28:29.708)
Yeah

Taj Williams (28:33.792)
Right?

DW (28:34.86)
man, they are what you think, bro.

Damon (28:39.181)
Definitely an improvement. If you're saying that this is like an extension of Twisted by the Pool. Yeah, this is like, this is what I'm expecting to hear on this album. The greatest sense is this kind of goes along with the style of all the stuff on this album that I like. So yeah, the drum beats, it's a little slower, but it's cool. It's good slow. Good vibe. I've never been to a tunnel of myself.

Probably it would fall in the water, they'd have to fucking save me. Never get a kiss or anything out of it. I'd be fucked up. yeah. That's how that would.

Taj Williams (29:09.411)
you

DW (29:17.855)
I think the craziest kiss I ever had was at a Porta Potty. At a carnival, literally. We jumped off. We were at the carnival early so it wasn't like a whole lot of people there. And this female, like me, I liked hers, pulled me into the Porta Potty with her and she had to use the restroom and we got a quick kiss in before she kicked me out. I was like, interesting.

Damon (29:25.3)
Shit, literally.

Damon (29:48.237)
She's like, leave, now I gotta take a shit.

DW (29:50.986)
I got a tinkle. I like, okay, I can sit right here. You can take a little way out.

Damon (29:57.814)
Sure, it's a twinkle. I don't want anything to do with porta potties unless I'm just taking a piss.

Taj Williams (30:00.061)
You

DW (30:03.167)
No, no, no, no. I actually started thinking about it after the fact. was like, yeah, it's probably not the best place to kiss me. So we made up for it in the back of somebody's car. So it was off it.

Damon (30:17.613)
It's kind of like the last two songs. It goes from port-a-potty to the back of a car. There you go.

Taj Williams (30:22.731)
that's rough.

DW (30:24.723)
Water party backseat. Party water backseat.

Taj Williams (30:29.643)
All right, so we're at the we're kind of at the halfway point. So Damon, now what's the next song there?

Damon (30:37.805)
So the next song on this album is number six. Number six. And this is probably one of the songs that I didn't think was Dire Straits. I totally didn't think it was and I forgot that I had said that before too when I first heard it in a movie. Can't hardly wait. That they actually played it in that and I thought it was awesome. I was like, who is this? Like Elvis Costello? No, it's Dire motherfucking Straits, bitch. So.

Taj Williams (30:44.363)
All right.

Taj Williams (30:50.622)
Hahaha!

Damon (31:08.363)
Yeah, the song is Romeo and Juliet.

Damon (31:30.465)
Yeah, there you go. You got the Bob Dylan sound again, and Elvis Costello, everybody that I didn't think was Dire Straits. But I didn't know Dire Straits that well when I first heard this either. And I almost thought for a second when I was younger, is Dire Straits, isn't that ZZ Top or something? Like I kept thinking ZZ Top. I know they're not the same band, but they have a little bit of the same showman vibe. Yeah.

Taj Williams (31:33.003)
Right?

Taj Williams (32:01.151)
Yeah.

Damon (32:01.473)
But yeah, this is a great song.

Taj Williams (32:04.011)
And I guess I didn't realize when I did some research for this, like he borrowed a lick from Bruce Springsteen's Board to Run. So he had written the same guitar lick for Born to Run, but they borrowed it for Romeo and Juliet. So it's like, and that kind of makes sense why sometimes like they sound Bruce Springsteen-y. So, yeah.

Damon (32:30.411)
Yeah, no that's and you can definitely hear that too. The E Street band is kind of little sound in there.

Taj Williams (32:35.05)
Right?

Taj Williams (32:39.189)
So, yeah.

DW (32:40.927)
Now I kind of got a nostalgic vibe to it, like sitting on a runaway train type situation, just sitting back watching the leaves go by and the grass and the corn fields and the whole lot. That goes, they're tying back to that bluegrass field.

I don't really know how else to explain it other than just it it brings you kind of close to home it's got that home vibe to it yeah that's all I can really say about it you know what I've noticed about this band as eclectic as they are they do have a poplite and when they're in there you can listen to them for days

Honestly, so I think this is a good pick over Ronald Fighter.

Taj Williams (33:41.279)
Yeah. And it's interesting because it's a ballad, but it's not like a detailed ballad. Like they do this thing, especially with like Portobello Bell and like this is like it's a ballad. Like it's telling a story, but it's not like a super detailed ballad. It's like a Hemingway ballad where it's like it's short on the details, but you still get the story.

Damon (34:04.365)
It's like, yeah, I love you, now give me a whiskey.

Taj Williams (34:06.507)
Exactly. But I'm pretty sure this is the one that has the line. I can't find. But I want to say Romeo and Juliet. It has one of the best lines, which I like. It's like we can fall for dreams of silver or your fall for chains of gold. You're like, shit, like those two lines are like amazing together lyrically for me. But yeah. Because I think it's yeah.

DW (34:07.607)
And.

DW (34:31.967)
Mm-hmm.

Taj Williams (34:36.063)
So, but yeah, this was on my short list for songs as well, but I think this is one that.

OK, there's one other song that's probably most popular, but this has to be up there. This has to be in their top three most popular songs is this one. Yeah.

Damon (34:54.733)
You used a lot, yeah, used a lot in film. I mean, that's, and yeah, I can see that you didn't maybe even remember that it was in Kennerly Way, but it was in other stuff that you knew of too. like that's definitely like, it's reaching a wide audience of people that didn't know it was Dire Straits.

Taj Williams (35:14.655)
Yeah, and it's totally the other thing like is that it's a realistic version of Romeo and Juliet, right? It's not like the total star carousel lovers that just commit suicide. It's just like because he has the lines like, yeah, I used to know that guy. Like, yep, that's that's most average everyday high schoolers romance, right? They fall fast and hard and then break up and then they're like, yeah.

Damon (35:28.364)
Yeah.

Taj Williams (35:44.139)
We did last year. Right. Yeah. Yeah. The whole I would have taken poison from him, but we broke up. I've seen somebody else. Yeah, exactly. So.

DW (35:46.323)
Right? Two weeks is like six months to a high school.

Damon (35:52.461)
It's like the modern version of it for sure. But the lazy kind of version.

DW (35:56.073)
Definitely.

Damon (36:08.151)
But fuck that. Yeah.

Taj Williams (36:14.623)
bit. Okay. So I will go to the next one if that's okay. So the next one was, so there's only two songs on here that I respect but I don't like. And this is probably my bother most one is, where do think you're going? So it's an alternative remix.

So just go back real quick. So Tunnel of Love and Romeo and Juliet were on their Making Movies album released in 1980. Where Do You Think You're Going was a previously unreleased mix on the CommuniCai from 1979. It's a...

DW (36:50.206)
Mm-hmm.

DW (37:01.627)
I it was coming to me.

Taj Williams (37:05.129)
Or Communique. Yeah, Communique. 1979. Yeah. So this one, it's a it's a real rough. It's like gritty bluesy song. Right. So you think I'd like it. It's I think its placement makes most sense here after Romeo and Juliet. But there's some just in modern terms and me probably being oversensitive. I just some of the.

verbiage or imagery of the song I don't like. It kind of feels like, you know, worst case scenario, he's kidnapping somebody. Best case scenario, like it's like, you know, we both hit dead end jobs. Let's just get out of here. It's type of thing. I don't know. But I think its placement works best after Romeo and Juliet. And if you age him up like 30 years, you're like, you know, Romeo and Juliet ended and then like 30 years later, like they run into each other and he's like.

Do you want to leave this, you know, po down town? They come with me. But yeah, so I don't know. What did you guys think?

Damon (38:18.349)
thought it was pretty fucking solid really. I like this song a lot. So fuck you, Tosh. Where do think you're going, man? No, I'm just kidding. But yeah, I think it was a good song. and I like the tone. His voice really works well with the story here. And I think it's like, you could, I mean, okay, for one.

DW (38:18.399)
Thank you.

Taj Williams (38:21.419)
I don't know!

Damon (38:46.471)
drum beat and this is fucking excellent and it's just another it's very simple but like dude they fucking hit right on point and maybe this is the part of the late 70s early 80s that i like i don't know like this is the shit that works for me and you do maybe even hear a little bit of fucking bob seeger kind of bebop here but yeah no that's good it plays well

Taj Williams (38:48.915)
Right.

Damon (39:15.863)
Where do think you're going? It's kind of like, I think it's almost like about where it should be about, like where are you going in life? It's maybe someone talking to themselves. This is like someone thinking about their life.

Taj Williams (39:29.791)
Right. But then the next line is like, I'm going to take you come here with me. Like the next line is like, where do you think you're going? And then the next line is like, come here with me or I'm going to take you here with me. You're like, so it's like he's talking to somebody else. Like if he was talking to himself, that'd be fine. Right. But like this is like, where do you think you're going? Get over here. It's almost like it's almost like the Christmas story. Like, get over here. Scott Farkas, he had yellow eyes. Swear to God.

DW (39:46.471)
Right.

DW (39:50.687)
Bye.

Damon (39:51.597)
What do think you're going?

Taj Williams (39:59.231)
Yellow eyes!

DW (40:00.423)
I like the follow up line is, know, don't you know it's dark outside? Like, you're going to hit me with that? Is that going to try to keep me from leaving? No, I'm still going to go.

Damon (40:01.175)
Thanks.

Damon (40:13.316)
yeah, okay, shit.

DW (40:15.837)
Right.

Damon (40:18.879)
I think this is really a song about Scott Ferkus.

Taj Williams (40:22.411)
Yeah

Right. So all right. So I'm going to go on to the next one. So next one is another one that was on my short list. But yeah, I would easily put this as number three for my most favorite song of theirs. Well, I didn't so far. You can tell I didn't pick. But anyways, it's Walk of Life. So I originally released

DW (40:35.423)
Yes, sir.

Taj Williams (40:55.719)
on the Brothers in Arms album in 1985. So the story behind it is that it was, I'm getting it confused, but the story is like he saw a picture amid a kid in a subway that was tuning a guitar with his ear against a wall. so it's kind of, that imagery is kind of what caused him to write the song. And then it references a bunch of different

other 50 songs in it. But like, it's just an amazing, happy song. Like, you can't get more happier than this song. Like, like this is like, inspiring, you want to be happy. You know, Walk of Life, I feel is a great song for that.

DW (41:47.017)
So this is the most popular song to me that they came out with and this is the one that I recognized from the 80s. Definitely or like I said when I say I recognized, I mean I recognized seeing the video on MTV and know the song in and out and then so for me actually having been a part of this particular ride like this I get.

Taj Williams (41:50.703)
really? Okay.

DW (42:16.159)
Like the other other albums other stuff. I was kind of like so so so so this right here Would have been my actual pick. I just thought that this is too popularized to pick it otherwise Yeah, otherwise I would have been right there with it because this is the one that I definitely know I'm growing up as a kid and just listening to it loving it and feeling like like you said it did feel good song When you say hey the boy can't play like this

Taj Williams (42:27.012)
gotcha.

Taj Williams (42:44.949)
You

DW (42:45.567)
It literally references what he saw on the subway with somebody putting their ears in a wall and turning their guitar and getting the vibes off the wall and able to understand what the strings and the chords are supposed to be like. That is the key to life because when you're able to sync harmony or harmonically with life and you do it your own like unique way, it works. It works and this shocks a lot of people but

Life was really not hard to tap into if you open your ears to doom. So I definitely love this chart.

Taj Williams (43:23.795)
Okay. What'd you think, Damon?

Damon (43:28.717)
It's definitely one of the biggest songs they have. I agree. I definitely think of baseball and that's how I remember it. But every baseball game I went to, this was playing at some point when somebody would get walked. yeah, was, definitely, I guess, I don't mean, I didn't really know Dire Straits growing up. And that's why this was such a like a

Taj Williams (43:38.731)
You

Damon (43:58.055)
fun album for me, the greatest hits to listen to because all this stuff was new to me and old. And this is a throwback that my wife really liked. This was one of her favorite songs. So that's what she remembers from growing up in the eighties and all that. And, you know, this is like a treasure now too, but the nineties, it was big played as, you know, sports games. I think it still is played at baseball games. So.

DW (44:26.163)
Yes.

Damon (44:27.351)
There you go, they won it. They won.

Taj Williams (44:31.83)
That's great. I didn't think of that. I didn't know that this was played at baseball games. It makes sense when you say that.

Damon (44:32.119)
Yeah.

Damon (44:38.763)
Yeah, yeah, in movies too, this is in movies for sure.

Taj Williams (44:41.747)
Yeah, for sure. So OK. So I'm just going to keep on trucking. So the next song on here is Private Investigator. And so this one came off of their Love Over Gold album in 1982. This is my second least favorite song on the album. But even with that, like,

I can acknowledge the guitar solo on this is crazy. It makes a lot more sense knowing that they wrote this song as a movie score credit like they wrote it as a song for a movie score now, because now that I know that, like I can kind of understand the pacing of the song and the lyrics and all that. But initially, it's just like it's it's one of those really slow songs has, if I remember good like

What has that Spanish guitar? I made a weird analogy here. So you know how Chet Atkins and Les Paul are like, thought to be like, like up there, like great guitarists, right? And they're, they're thought like they've done like Spanish flamenco stuff. And they're like, like, you can't get better guitar playing to that. That's kind of what this round like, it's like, okay, I'm going to try some Spanish flamenco.

Spanish riffs or scales, you know, in a song. And so I appreciate it because I think it pulls it off. But like, it's just. I don't know that the song works as a movie score, but I don't know that it works as a song. But yeah. But what did you guys think of private investigations?

Damon (46:31.049)
I someone needs to put a private investigation into the reason why they made this song. No. No, it's not that bad. It's not like a piece of shit. it is like, like you said, it's definitely like for a score. So this like on its own, I mean, yeah, it's not working out. It's not working out.

Taj Williams (46:33.835)
Taj Williams (46:58.379)
Okay.

Damon (47:01.505)
But it sounds good and definitely is like for the cinematic part of it. Yeah, sure. It's awesome.

Taj Williams (47:07.146)
Okay.

DW (47:09.535)
Yeah, this shit kinda threw me out. This is like six songs put into one. They couldn't make up their mind which one wanted to go with the score so they just said, fuck it, we're just gonna throw everything in and everybody has to say so and then what do you think is gonna happen and whatever comes out of it, hey, fuck it, we got paid. that's where this is coming from for me. And for it be on...

Taj Williams (47:13.801)
Yeah.

Taj Williams (47:17.995)
you

Damon (47:21.684)
Yeah.

Damon (47:33.385)
Yeah, this funded the album.

DW (47:35.079)
Yeah, this particular, you know, collection of stuff, like it, I'm not, well, yeah, I'm going to say it. really did not fit to me.

I think they have so many other songs that they could have chosen that would have actually fit would have actually gone with the theme of the actual album as a collective and I think this this shit was just them trying to be eclectic again not really knowing you know what to do with stuff and just kind of throwing something out there and seeing what stuck and all that shit slid down the wall nothing stuck so it's all right

Taj Williams (48:11.082)
Okay. So at least I'm not crazy. That's what I'm hearing. So I at least feel seen and heard.

Damon (48:24.493)
the real slider.

DW (48:24.639)
I mean, yeah, we've heard movie score soundtracks before where songs were there were genuine songs that were made for movie and actually still were considered songs, so to speak. I can't put this up there with that.

Taj Williams (48:30.303)
Right, yeah.

Taj Williams (48:43.115)
Yeah, but it's interesting. mean, because like your one, I kind of wonder, like, is it the song or is it that wasn't in a popular movie? Like, could this have been, you know, my private? I know it's a weird analogy, but like, could this have been like my private bodyguard or, you know, I'm trying to think of songs back into like, you know, late 80s, early 90s. Like, was this the start of that? And then we started getting like

really popular songs for movie scores. It's hard to say, is it the movie that made the song or the song that made the movie?

DW (49:19.847)
One more video.

Taj Williams (49:22.631)
This one, it was on a Mark Connough movie, no, sorry, no, Bill Forsyte, Comfort and Joy was the movie. yeah, I don't know the, yeah. So, and then it was used against all odds in 1984, so. But the problem was the scenes were deleted.

Damon (49:32.621)
One that we don't know.

Damon (49:38.381)
ever saw that. This is a good

Taj Williams (49:52.435)
So it was in the movie and then they cut the scenes from that. it's like, it's, yeah.

DW (49:53.001)
Yeah.

Damon (49:57.495)
Damn. Okay. Well, I think it's like.

DW (50:00.169)
So they really did just collect the tech.

Taj Williams (50:03.375)
Yeah.

Damon (50:04.109)
Yeah, yeah, get that money. I think it's like a somewhat it's another one of those. this is dire straights, but like in a bad

Taj Williams (50:13.099)
Hmm.

Damon (50:14.733)
Not the excited way like, man, this awesome. Like, it's not like, shit. That's, I are fucking straight? That's more like-

Taj Williams (50:20.683)
All right.

DW (50:24.531)
Yep.

Taj Williams (50:27.243)
All right. Well, so then we'll move on. So my next track is number 10, which is actually my pick. I went back and forth. I really love this song. Is there another live track? think it's their what's the only other live track, right? Because there was Porta Bella Bella and then yeah. So this is the only other live track.

It's also their longest song on the album. And I just love it a lot, but it's Telegraph Road.

Taj Williams (51:18.443)
So this was originally released on Love River Gold in 1982. And then this same version was released on a live album. So Telegraph Road is actually a railroad. It's major north-south 70-mile road in Michigan. So it actually exists. But this song.

I like it because it's like a song about progression. Like it starts with things like it starts with the progression of like an area in a town and then it does slowly get more personal. It talks about individual person, but they jam out between each stanza almost. And like it's just a crazy song that I don't know. Like the melody continues and I just love it. It talks about moving on and progressing.

Yeah. It's hard to say. Put my finger on everything. But it's like a culmination of all dire straits I love in this life. But yeah.

What did you think, Damon?

Damon (52:33.581)
I think it's a really good song. has the sound that I'm expecting on here, but the in-between sound. It's not my favorite song on here, but he's like a poet too. A poet didn't know it, or he did know it, and he likes to be weird. Weird with the music. I think they're good musicians because they can change their sound so much.

Taj Williams (52:47.175)
Yeah.

Taj Williams (52:56.435)
Right?

Damon (53:03.565)
Definitely doing the Bob Dylan thing here. I just think he has that sound. I think that's not a bad thing, there are two, three, four different bands here. The story is great. His lyrics, all the music is good. So I can appreciate that that's your pick for sure.

Taj Williams (53:26.055)
OK, thank you.

DW (53:28.831)
Yeah, I left it as a pick because it's got that wholesome vibe to it. It's a little bit bluesy, a little bit rock, a little bit country, and it kind of blends all those zongos together, right? So I definitely don't mind it at all. Am I going to bang it 25 times? No. But when I listen to it, it come on? And will I not change the channel? Yes, because it is a validated song. So I have no problem.

Taj Williams (53:47.72)
You

Taj Williams (53:56.765)
Okay. No problems. Okay. All right. Well, we'll move on down the road to what I think is probably going to be Dire Straits number one song, but I don't know that they, I feel like sometimes they shy away from the song, but it's going to be Money for Nothing, which is the name of the album. So Money for Nothing.

DW (54:00.351)
Go.

Taj Williams (54:26.315)
is so first of all, it's one of the most known things because it talks about MTV. It's also one of the earliest 3D computer animation music videos. And it is it's amazing poppy song. What's crazy is that I guess there's mention of ZZ Topps, but then I got to thinking while we were recording here, it's like it is a similar similar thing where it's like.

ZZ Top had what addressed their main pop song, right? But like none of their other music was like their main pop song. Like that's what Money for Nothing is. Money for Nothing is Dire Straits' main poppy song. And so, but yeah, that's that. The other. OK, the other big thing that I have to talk about the elephant in the room with Money for Nothing is

It uses a word in the first stanza, first or second stanza, that was, has come to be termed, you know, it uses the F word for gay people. And so it's been frowned upon for likely reasons. But the thing is, is at the time that they were using it, it's kind of...

It could have been replaced with NEPO babies, basically, because they're trying to refer to it. They're trying to refer to somebody that does, that has money for TVs and refrigerators, but doesn't do anything for it, right? And so our term nowadays for that is a NEPO baby, right? But they use an old English term in the sense that over the years, over the 80s and 90s is no longer accepted. And it's interesting because they kind of keep the word in there, but mumble it.

when they do new live versions of the song. so, yeah. So, but it's just one of those things where it's like, it's almost a reason for them to be canceled, but they shouldn't be because like, I don't know, they weren't using it in the negative way. You know, they were just using it in a, try and describe a NEPO baby. So, but at the same time, it's hard to say that this is not.

Damon (56:23.649)
Ha, okay.

Taj Williams (56:48.887)
amazing pop song that should never be listened to again. especially its link to MTV just makes it like, it makes it hard to deny this song its popularity, right? And to write it completely off. But yeah. So what do you guys think of Money for Nothing?

Damon (57:12.621)
No, it's funny, that did stand out. The derogatory term for gay person, like, stood out to me. I was like, did they really say that? And it's not that I hadn't heard this a lot of million times.

Taj Williams (57:18.537)
Yeah.

Taj Williams (57:21.928)
Yeah.

Taj Williams (57:27.82)
You

Damon (57:28.257)
I can just see a lot of people rocking out to this like, this is cool, whatever this for. And then that comes on, they're still rocking out, but like looking at each other like, what the fuck? And then why do I like this still? Because they didn't know what they're doing, I guess. I don't know. I don't know really what they meant by it. Like it's so it's an old term, English term for like a cigarette, right?

Taj Williams (57:31.092)
you

Taj Williams (57:36.475)
Yeah. Right.

Taj Williams (57:44.203)
Right?

Taj Williams (57:54.141)
No, they meant, so have you ever read or watched the old man in the sea?

DW (57:56.543)
It is, but you know.

Damon (58:02.039)
I haven't watched it. I know the story.

Taj Williams (58:04.235)
OK. What should the boy write? The boy gets left behind by his father and needs he's left on a sailing ship with these guys, right? And he's he's a nephew, baby, right? His father used to provide stuff. They used to have a whole crew and there he's left on the sailing ship. He's like, so who's going to feed me? And everybody's on the boat like nobody's going to feed you like, know, where do I get water? You get your like it's that total thing, right? And it's and that's

Damon (58:28.8)
shit.

Taj Williams (58:33.747)
Yes, the term was used to express gay people as weak or inferior, but the original kind of old English version is like, you're not pulling your own weight, right? You're not even trying to pull your own weight. Right, exactly.

DW (58:50.791)
You're a punk. At the time you're a punk, you're a sissy, not standing up as a man, you're not doing what you need to do, you're a baby. In other words, like, it's, I could definitely see them getting canceled nowadays. I can definitely see them getting drawn out of the country, so to speak, if they try to perform it and those lyrics. I'm pretty sure they've changed up those lyrics since coming into the game.

Damon (58:50.989)
It wasn't derogatory at the time.

Taj Williams (59:01.397)
Right.

Taj Williams (59:07.101)
Yeah.

Taj Williams (59:10.965)
Yeah

Taj Williams (59:17.314)
yeah, they changed it to Queenie. That's right. I forgot that they did. Yeah.

DW (59:19.473)
you see and that's and that's that's even worse in the situation because you know they deliberately meant what they say when they said it. Yeah this this is iconic for a couple of reasons. One they were fighting not only the the lazy kids coming up but they were also fighting against all the changes that were coming to

Damon (59:24.887)
Yeah

DW (59:45.303)
America as we knew it. They were fighting against the microwave ovens. They were fighting against the colored TVs. They were basically putting out there, they were making all these changes and were making it easier for people when we don't necessarily have to. And yeah, it was funny because MTV took that and ran with it and played with it and put it in their titles, they put it in their videos, they put it in their commercials.

Like they even play it now, like you got MTV productions or movies coming out. Like that's still played at the beginning where it shows the moon man on the moon before it goes into the movie. So it's solidified MTV even though they were making fun of MTV. So they took an ironic situation or somebody being facetious and actually made their living off of it.

Damon (01:00:33.825)
Yeah

DW (01:00:42.279)
Even the music video was funny in the band playing and you see all the early type of cinematography going on and the neon lights and street lights going around everywhere like in the big glasses and the 3D model of the gear walking like all that stuff literally was them talking about the future and how things are changing and you know it's funny how MTV took that and ran with it and nowadays

you don't see music on there for nothing. But it was part of that growth change that maybe they saw back in the day that we didn't necessarily see as kids growing up, but we see it now. So hats off to them that gave them longevity long beyond their years, long when the band is gone, you know, they still have this one song that that's gonna be played to the masses in some way, shape, form, or fashion. And everybody still knows what MTV is based off of them. So.

Taj Williams (01:01:40.533)
Yeah. And the crazy thing that I didn't realize is like they played this song at Live Aid. Right. So like it. And they've also played it during Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday party. So you're like it. That's why it's hard. It's hard to argue that this is not their most popular song because like they played it everywhere. And even for all the problems that one could have with the lyrics.

DW (01:01:40.841)
Fuck you, though.

DW (01:01:47.518)
Yes.

DW (01:01:55.529)
huh.

DW (01:02:01.767)
Right.

Taj Williams (01:02:08.907)
Like they still play that live. You're like somebody didn't see it as a problem at the time. Right. Yeah. But yeah, so.

Damon (01:02:17.549)
They get that badass fuckin' open riff, dude. Just like, shit, he's rippin' on the guitar! Fuck, let him play! Little beep! You know, they're bleepin' the fuck out of him, but For the other F-word. Yeah.

DW (01:02:20.947)
Yeah.

DW (01:02:34.806)
Don't mind me, I'm just listening to the riff of the background. Not, I hear it in my head, that's how embedded it is in my brain. I don't even need to play it. I can sing the whole damn thing, which is all the way through in this song. But yeah, that in itself is iconic. You are correct. This probably is the most popular song, even with the

Taj Williams (01:02:38.441)
Yeah.

Damon (01:02:39.671)
We shouldn't.

Taj Williams (01:02:49.439)
Yeah.

Damon (01:02:51.032)
yeah.

DW (01:02:59.724)
the crazy stuff that's in there now in consideration of how it was back in the day. Like, yeah, this has to be it.

Taj Williams (01:03:10.591)
Okay.

Damon (01:03:12.021)
Yeah, let's listen to it a little bit.

Damon (01:03:16.64)
just a little taste.

DW (01:03:18.161)
Yeah, I the intro too.

Taj Williams (01:03:18.315)
You got a little bit.

Taj Williams (01:03:22.335)
Really?

DW (01:03:26.313)
I like the best part of it. Literally. Yes. Yeah, it was.

Taj Williams (01:03:29.215)
What puts it makes you want to be a rock song? Money for nanny, and chicks for free.

Taj Williams (01:03:38.313)
That's a jam, yeah.

Damon (01:03:41.559)
Did you all hear that?

Taj Williams (01:03:42.4)
Uh-huh.

DW (01:03:42.6)
Yep.

Damon (01:03:44.845)
Okay, this is what we're talking about. This is what you fucking know.

Taj Williams (01:03:48.877)
it's just melting my face right there.

Taj Williams (01:03:57.962)
Right?

Taj Williams (01:04:03.231)
then that drum comes in at the moment.

Damon (01:04:11.309)
This is like right before they became like bigots.

Taj Williams (01:04:14.193)
Hahaha

Damon (01:04:17.537)
Yeah, yo-yos. Okay, that's fine. No more of that. Anyway, goosebumps.

DW (01:04:17.843)
you

Taj Williams (01:04:20.628)
Right. But yeah. But yeah, so but yeah, it's still so and I, Diedrich, I'm not sure if you caught me, but I was like trying to compare it to like this is their most poppy song versus like ZZ Topps. What? can't think of not dress for success, dress for.

DW (01:04:22.055)
Dan Collins.

Taj Williams (01:04:46.665)
What's their most popular song? then like in the 80s, but then all their stuff before is like really bluesy. Like that's why I kind of feel like Money For Nothing is their like most poppy song.

DW (01:04:58.072)
Thank you.

Damon (01:04:59.757)
Well the funny thing is I thought this was easy top when I was a kid. this whole damn album I thought was another band. Different bands. Anyway.

Taj Williams (01:05:02.578)
You

Taj Williams (01:05:09.164)
Right. Okay. Well, I'll bring us to our last song. So the last song is Brothers in Arms. This is the radio edition. But it is the one that originally released on the Brothers in Arms album in 1985. So as you can tell, there's three songs.

DW (01:05:29.033)
You were thinking of Sharp Dress Man. Sorry. I had to throw that out there. Sharp Dress Man.

Taj Williams (01:05:33.821)
What was that?

sharp. Yeah, that's what it was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's easy to talk. But yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So but yeah. So they put three of their most popular songs on this album from the last album. Right. But Brothers in Arms is. I this was my second pick. If I. Yeah, if I didn't pick Telegraph Road, I almost picked Brothers in Arms.

Damon (01:05:38.034)
yeah, that's what it is. That's DZ Time.

DW (01:05:38.921)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Taj Williams (01:06:06.539)
It's weird. Like it's a rock song, but it's emotional. And especially with Veterans Day coming up here. it's I know it's there in the title and sometimes I lose it in the lyrics. But like you can feel the emotion in this song. And it's such such good talking about veterans. And I don't know. It's weird to say like. I just love it a lot, but it's.

And it's not quite a ballad. It's but it's just a. Yeah, I don't know. I'm rambling. I'm running out of words for their streets, but what did you?

Damon (01:06:46.999)
Well, since you're running out of words, let's just hear the beginning of that song too. Since it's the last song on the album.

Taj Williams (01:06:50.367)
Okay.

gotcha.

Damon (01:07:01.883)
little smooth guitar going on there.

Taj Williams (01:07:03.721)
Right?

Taj Williams (01:07:11.007)
But that reverb is just so melancholy.

Damon (01:07:16.874)
start out very slow.

Taj Williams (01:07:18.356)
Yeah.

But they like doing that. Like, this is the fourth song that starts out slow like this.

DW (01:07:25.307)
Yeah, but it's this to me is still a ballot. I don't care what anybody says. This is a balance of me

Damon (01:07:26.445)
that all of a sudden.

Damon (01:07:34.029)
It's like an Irish folk song, right? Yeah.

Taj Williams (01:07:37.484)
like a dirge? I could see that.

DW (01:07:38.333)
That's literally what it's like, yes.

Damon (01:07:41.965)
I called that shit.

Damon (01:07:48.234)
I respect it for that.

Damon (01:07:52.493)
Yeah, and it just continues that way. But good way to end. think it's a way to end the album. But they like definitely threw some weird shit in there. The tunnel of love is weird. thought. No, not tunnel of love, twisting by the pool. It makes sense how it it melted into tunnel of love. Tunnel of love was better for sure. You know, then private investigations was kind of off for me as well.

Taj Williams (01:08:07.307)
Just imbedible.

Taj Williams (01:08:13.13)
Right.

Taj Williams (01:08:21.437)
Right. So. But yeah, so that's been the whole album. What did you know that you guys listen to it like? Do you think you'll listen to more dire straits or less or you're like, I'm good with this?

DW (01:08:35.281)
for sure. Nah, I definitely listen to more. They caught my ear. Just that point in the Skilesville, but then it's also the point of exploring new songs that they came out with and just to see where that's going. So yeah, you got my vote.

Taj Williams (01:08:54.355)
Okay.

Damon (01:08:57.037)
Yeah, definitely. mean, I can't stop here. I got to see what else I hear that I thought was somebody else, you know. Be surprised. Yeah, I got to check out the other stuff. That's really good.

Taj Williams (01:09:11.915)
was really good. Okay. Well, I'm glad. I'm glad I did a good first pick for the new season.

Damon (01:09:20.297)
it was like fucking it was like you picked like an extraordinary pick. I think that it was almost like, wow, that was over the top shit. Really pleasantly surprised with that one.

Taj Williams (01:09:24.542)
Okay

DW (01:09:24.861)
Yes.

Taj Williams (01:09:27.819)
Okay, you know.

DW (01:09:31.325)
And someone's like, is that really a Taj pick? okay.

Damon (01:09:36.183)
Is he fucking channeling somebody else on this show? I don't know.

Taj Williams (01:09:37.771)
you

DW (01:09:40.6)
Be honest, this was a caring pig, right? Okay.

Taj Williams (01:09:43.959)
No, no, this is my favorite. My backup was the Viomancy album.

Damon (01:09:47.478)
This is Karen's jam, dude.

DW (01:09:49.523)
Yes.

Damon (01:09:51.681)
Peace.

DW (01:09:55.305)
See, that's mortage. That's mortage right there. That's the length we know that this is a caring pig. I'm not even gonna try to fight those odds on the situation. I just automatically understand. It's okay, Karen, we got you. We got you.

Damon (01:09:55.679)
Okay.

Taj Williams (01:10:00.478)
You

Yeah

Taj Williams (01:10:07.435)
you

Yeah

Damon (01:10:12.885)
you're gonna pick yeah I thought Taj was gonna pick like Sesame Street Live volume 2 or something I couldn't

Taj Williams (01:10:18.255)
Yeah

DW (01:10:19.889)
I actually thought about that.

Damon (01:10:23.745)
Yeah, alright.

DW (01:10:24.519)
Not even gonna lie to you. Yeah, I can hear the pauses and like really? But that would have been a shocker. More student Taj picking this one, yeah.

Damon (01:10:31.937)
The horns and all that. Well, fucking good pick, man.

Taj Williams (01:10:34.315)
Right?

Taj Williams (01:10:41.087)
Thank you. Thank you very much.

DW (01:10:42.075)
Excellent day. Yes, sir. Compliments to the chef, aka Karen.

Damon (01:10:44.044)
Yeah.

Taj Williams (01:10:45.227)
All right.

I'll let her know that was my pick, but I'll still let her know. I was going to wrap this show up with our standard verbiage channel or border or plating that we put on there for the legal department. So. Right, exactly. So.

Damon (01:10:48.717)
Yeah, this is all Karen.

DW (01:10:54.476)
I'm ready.

So what's next on the Doc there, boss?

DW (01:11:09.821)
That was good.

Damon (01:11:11.437)
That's true. Our lawyers have asked us to do this.

Taj Williams (01:11:17.321)
Well, this has been Trace Tracks. You can find this at tracetracks.gmail.com. You can email us there or find this at tracetracks.com. Both of those end with a Z. And we ask that you please subscribe and listen to our past and future episodes. Let's go and sign out. I've been Taj.

Damon (01:11:37.715)
and I want money for nothing and chicks for free. Damon.

DW (01:11:43.019)
I just want to smoke a cigarette and then knock out the derogatory term. So, you know, this is what it is. But I'm Dietrich and we're going to pick up the needle, but y'all keep spinning those voice tracks.

Taj Williams (01:11:47.467)
Hahaha

Damon (01:11:56.055)
How abstract of you. Okay.

DW (01:12:27.176)
I want my MTV.

DW (01:12:34.973)
Hmm

DW (01:12:42.163)
That's it,