Screenplaying (Mark Knopfler)
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This is one of the earliest soundtrack CDs I ever got, I think, but then I sadly traded or sold it off at some point.
I was a big Dire Straits fan as a kid in the 80s, but it wasn’t “hip” with my my contemporaries, especially not as we entered the grungey 90s, so I tried to keep it to myself. But the love never died, and I can now proudly embrace my fandom of both Dire Straits and Knopfler’s solo work. But anyway, as both a Dire Straits and film music fan, I picked this compilation CD up at the local music store when it came out in 1993. I had an uneven relationship to it. Some of it was lovely, some of it was too hardcore “Gaelic”, some of it didn’t have the dramatic punch of the other film music I listened to at the time. So I sold it, which I’ve regretted ever since.
In my 20s, I was this pompous, arrogant young kid that said artists from the pop world rarely knew how to do film music; they just substituted the studio album recording with a film music recording, without any finesse. Such a ridiculous notion, because it’s the “independent” nature of these compositions that make them so listenable. They don’t have to have oodles of mickey-mousing and other film-specific gimmicks.
Anyways, long story short, I recently got a digital version of the album, which I’m listening to now and really enjoying. Knopfler is a genius!
Was not really direct fan but always liked Dire Straits, had and have a best of LP of them (around Brothers In Arms times I think). Don’t know this album but I always liked his LOCAL HERO score (and the movie, too) although it is a bit mixed in structure (besides having one central theme). The other scores never grabbed that much – remember WAG THE DOG had a nice theme but that isn’t on this album I think. Probably I should revist them at some time…
Yeah, it was before WAG THE DOG came out.
I’ve also had a good time with the Dire Straits studio albums in recent years, as well as a selection of his solo albums. A Knopfler ressurection!
In the 80s I was doomed to spend a lot of time with Dire Straits fans in a car, so I heard it a lot without liking it. The compromise was always the live double album which I found ok because at that time I was a fan of live double albums in general and in places the live album moved away from that typical truck driver sound of them that I disliked so much.
Anyway, from Kopfler’s film music I am just awäre of Local Hero. One of those albums that was omni present at the time. And I remember liking the move and the music in it but don’t remember much of the plot anymore.
In the 80s I was doomed to spend a lot of time with Dire Straits fans in a car,
Sounds like my kind of crowd! 😉
Sounds like my kind of crowd!
I am sure, you would have got along very well. But they were no soundtrack geeks. But one of them was a big Vangelis fan as well. 🙂
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