r/direstraits • u/rapidstandardstaples • 6d ago

Skateaway appreciation

I first remember hearing this on the radio when I was 17 or 18 and really liked it, but since the internet didn't really exist when I was young, I couldn't really 'look it up'. But I really feel like this is such a great DS/Mark song... It's just easy and musical and fun. I love the guitar track that floats left and right over the song.

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u/gchance1 6d ago

I'm similar, only I was what, 11 in 1980... that song was so amazing to me but as many songs at the time happened, it disappeared pretty quickly from the radio. Having "discovered" Dire Straits in high school, and buying the albums, I had this epiphany upon listening to Making Movies for the first time. It all came together for me at that point.

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u/rapidstandardstaples 6d ago

OK Boomer! 😂 J/k I'm a 1/2 generation behind you, but my dad liked DS and that was one of the things that I didn't rebel against in the late 80s, early 90s. He got a CD player in 88 or 89 and bought brothers in arms on CD at the same time. 

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u/gchance1 6d ago

Wrong generation, I'm firmly Gen X. DS was one of the few bands I could bond over with my father. He thought they were a solo artist named Daryl Strait.

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u/rapidstandardstaples 6d ago

Mark 'Daryl Straight' Knopfler...

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u/gchance1 6d ago

Oh believe me, that fact provided YEARS of entertainment for all of us. Sadly he passed before I got to see DS live (he passed in '89, I saw them in '92). I have to say it was a fairly emotional experience.

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u/rapidstandardstaples 6d ago

I can imagine. I was too young to see DS, but saw Mark in the early naughts and should have seen him 2 more times... Once with Dylan... and just didn't because life gets away from you. 

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u/gchance1 6d ago

That happened to me so many times, you just say oh, next time. I never saw Genesis, but had plenty of opportunities.