Mark Knopfler - Kill to Get Crimson
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Artist: Mark KnopflerEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-09-18
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- True Love Will Never Fade
- The Scaffolder's Wife
- The Fizzy And the Still
- Heart Full Of Holes
- We Can Get Wild
- Secondary Waltz
- Punish the Monkey
- Let It All Go
- Behind With the Rent
- The Fish And the Bird
- Madame Geneva's
- In the Sky
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Free Music Review: Nobody's going to kill to get this one
Hit: 3 Stars
I really like most of Knopfler's solo works, but Kill To Get Crimson is just too bland. The lyrics tell some interesting stories, but musically, the tunes are neither catchy nor memorable, and the tempos are too homogenous (with the lone exception of the more upbeat "Punish The Monkey"). Perhaps more egregious is that none of the songs highlight Knopfler's uniquely stellar guitar skills, nor do any showcase his ability to rock. There's nothing outright bad on this disc, but it lacks spark. Nobody's going to kill to get Kill To Get Crimson.
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Three decades after Dire Straits broke onto the scene with their remarkable debut, Mark Knopfler remains an iconic figure in popular music, his graceful guitar playing equaled only by his genial baritone and a novelist's ability to create distinct characters and themes in his songs. His fifth solo album since he pulled the plug on the band in 1995, Crimson reflects on a torrent of narratives, from the gracefully aging spouse in the flute-powered ballad "The Scaffolder's Wife" to the valiant down-and-outer in the Scottish folk song "Heart Full of Holes." Employing accordions, fiddles, and horns as majestic accompaniment, Knopfler drifts into the Celtic-tinged melodies of his past, explicitly in the whiskey-soaked singalong "Secondary Waltz," the busker's saga "Madame Geneva's," and "The Fish and the Bird," with its vagabond pensiveness. Clocking in at just under an hour, the album--without any page-turning epic--plays instead like an anthology of written works, every personification crisp in definition, every story exquisitely told. --Scott HolterBuilding on last year's Grammy?-nominated All The Roadrunning collaboration with Emmylou Harris, his highest charting non Dire Straits album to date Top 20 Pop, scanning 400,000 copies in the U.S. acclaimed singer-songwriter guitarist Mark Knopfler unveils his fifth solo album, Kill To Get Crimson. While certain to appeal to his loyal fan base, the album's artful guitar rock will also entice new fans to Knopfler's signature sound (he's #27 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time), instantly recognizable vocals and smart lyrics. A multiple-Grammy winner who has sold more than 110 million albums worldwide, Knopfler remains one of rock's most admired artists.
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Building on last year's Grammy?-nominated All The Roadrunning collaboration with Emmylou Harris, his highest charting non Dire Straits album to date Top 20 Pop, scanning 400,000 copies in the U.S. acclaimed singer-songwriterguitarist Mark Knopfler unveils his fifth solo album, Kill To Get Crimson. While certain to appeal to his loyal fan base, the album's artful guitar rock will also entice new fans to Knopfler's signature sound (he's #27 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time), instantly recognizable vocals and smart lyrics. A multiple- Grammy winner who has sold more than 110 million albums worldwide, Knopfler remains one of rock's most admired artists.
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