I'm happy to have played a small part in this music video. I was one of the original software engineers on the Bosch FGS 4000 responsible for the animation editor. I moved to Paris in 1987 from Salt Lake City where the FGS 4000 was invented and continued to work on the animation editor. From time to time I visited London where Ian Pearson and Gavin Blair were working on the animation for Money For Nothing. The blocky extruded characters in Money For Nothing were about the best a modeler could do at the time so I began working on the Hyperspace Modeler that allowed artists with no 3D modeling experience to create freeform organic models. The rest is history 😊
@mikeblair25945 күн бұрын
Just a cog in the machine that keeps us all happy. Good on ya mate
@louisesteenkamp91365 күн бұрын
How fantastic!
@HocusPocus69694 күн бұрын
Love it!
@wootle4 күн бұрын
Wow, fantastic, thanks for sharing this! The vid made such an impact on me as a teen!
@NelsonStJames4 күн бұрын
It's takes all those small parts to create the magic. Regardless to what they say about the animation not looking like much today; it's the way I will always remember the video, and the only way I'd want to see it.
@robertodesimone28237 күн бұрын
The publisher wanting a percentage for a melody, against the author will; for a song titled Money for nothing... Case in point!
@stopthephilosophicalzombie90176 күн бұрын
She should have done another version with the melody to Have a Cigar.
@jimroland28606 күн бұрын
Incidentally I don't see them claiming over the same tune in Nelly Furtado's Maneater (repeatedly in the choruses!)
@Mr_Bouda5 күн бұрын
that same company made ReBoot and Beast Wars!
@user-qf7ud5de9h5 күн бұрын
Who needs a melody, I concur😅🎉please notify the authorities😅
@user-qf7ud5de9h5 күн бұрын
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017UR gonna go FAR
@krisoko11 күн бұрын
Don't disrespect the graphics in the video - they're iconic, they have character, and were made 30 years before the blocky graphics of minecraft were a thing.
@EtienneLawnga7 күн бұрын
The cheesy quality of the graphics is perfect. They add a faint sarcastic element that complements the lyrics. Forty years later they still hold up
@suzizuki7 күн бұрын
it was 1 of the few most perfect in continuity of design as it reflects the "factory" mind not the "ceo" mind
@glyph20116 күн бұрын
This , so much this. I wholeheartedly concur with your comment 👍👍👍👍
@lindabb6216 күн бұрын
EXACTLY!
@stan58486 күн бұрын
It's almost 40 years
@davecummings74774 күн бұрын
No mention of the badass drum solo at the beginning with the epic keyboards that build up the ultimate crescendo AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SONG. Usually that happens in the middle or near the end. It was genius to put it on the front and then go dead silent for that guitar. Incredible!!
@redphillips39242 күн бұрын
Genius, indeed!
@williammorris13842 күн бұрын
And the ONLY part of Terry Williams’s drumming, that was included on the whole album! The rest of Money for nothing and all the other songs on Brothers in arms , is actually Omar Hakim, completed in 2 days!
@davecummings74772 күн бұрын
@williammorris1384 Yep. I believe you are correct.
@themaestro59462 күн бұрын
lol. Thanks high school band teacher
@bugvswindshield2 күн бұрын
This was, and is, one of my stereo room tuning songs. So good.
@MaxStax18 күн бұрын
When this song came out i was actually working at an appliance store as a appliance repairman. One of my jobs was to deliver and install microwave ovens, the above stove type, and deliver TV's when they sold them. Needless to say i loved this song!
@yellowstoneloyal81866 күн бұрын
Similar here, I worked for a rental company, in our stock room, we were always moving refrigerators and color tv's
@MelindadelosSantos6 күн бұрын
Word!😄
@deanoverlie2246 күн бұрын
" INSTALL " microwave ovens ? I'm an old fart . Used them since they 1st came out . Had many in my time . Never " installed " a single one - just plugged them in . Sorta like ' installing ' a floor- lamp .
@andreasu.35466 күн бұрын
@@deanoverlie224 Installed microwave ovens come in custom kitchens.
@MaxStax16 күн бұрын
@@deanoverlie224 Those are counter top microwaves. The kind i was talking about that we installed are above the range microwaves. They are a combination microwave, vent hood exhaust fan and light. You have to install a mounting bracket into the studs in the back wall, then cut a hole for the vent duct. Also drill holes for the mounting bolts that go through the cabinet above to hold it in place. We also had to tap into the electric and install an electrical outlet that you could plug it into in the cabinet above. Most homeowners didn't want to mess with all that.
@keithharrison367811 күн бұрын
I tried learning this on guitar Using Mark's finger picking style instead of a pick Guess what happened ? I got a blister on my finger & a blister on my thumb !
@kingcassius25868 күн бұрын
I don't care that this comment is only 3 days old. It should still have a thousand 'thumbs up/likes' by now.
@lorrie28785 күн бұрын
I am a, or was, a huge Sting fan. I have everything Sting and it was so exciting for me to here him on this awesome song!
@jameskinchen21485 күн бұрын
@@kingcassius2586Only one thumb.
@raymitchell97365 күн бұрын
LOL... Ohhhh you didn't! That's so funny it made my day! Thanks!!!
@jimrebr5 күн бұрын
Yep, when I was learning how to finger pick songs on guitar, I got blisters, but I had already gotten blisters when I learned to play violin. 🎻
@LeviBulger13 күн бұрын
You missed a pretty massive part of the accidental guitar tone. The reason they thought it sounded so great was because they didn't realize there was a wah pedal in the chain that was inadvertently turned on and in a partially cocked position. It gave it a very mid-forward tone much like what Billy Gibbons would sometimes have. Without that, you don't get anywhere near the guitar tone as it was otherwise set up. When they said they couldn't replicate it afterwards, that was why. They hadn't realized for quite some time later that there was a wah pedal turned on. In fact they had already broken down all the equipment and finished recording the whole album before realizing the wah was in the mix of that particular song.
@steveshadforth879212 күн бұрын
Exactly he’s spouting the same mic placement bullshit, what a clown.
@davep822111 күн бұрын
Thanks. I saw a video with Mark mentioning that. But I've never been able to find it again, and *everyone* else told this same story. Finally, they *have* to let me out of my padded cell!
@andrewmize82311 күн бұрын
Thank you for pointing that out! I read that in a guitar magazine sometime around 1995, and you're the first person I've seen bring it up.
@davidkopec944210 күн бұрын
Correct. Frank Zappa used that same technique for years.
@mitchellmtb720210 күн бұрын
Nothing accidental about out of phase pickups.
@johnnyho876513 күн бұрын
The whole album is a masterpiece
@unprofound11 күн бұрын
It really is.
@martinportelance1387 күн бұрын
I was some kind of audiophile back in the mid eighties when it came out, and I can tell you *every* audio shop or departement had this album on hand to showcase their sound systems. It was one of the very first 'DDD' album, entirely digital. We do know that analog sounds better today, but at the time digital was quite the revolution.
@glyph20116 күн бұрын
It really is. 👍
@gregoryk71146 күн бұрын
Completely agree. I took my mother's cassette and could not stop playing it when I was a kid. I remember going to my sister room when she was not here so I can use her piano and found the descending notes in "Why Worry?" :)
@haplessasshole96155 күн бұрын
@@martinportelance138 Interesting. It was in the mid-80s when I heard the state-of-the-art CD played over state-of-the-art equipment by a friend who worked in a stereo store. It made me decide to buy a turntable. I have exceptional hearing (even at 68), and digital just sounded wrong to me. The tech is better now, so the "wrongness" (and I'll be danged if I know how to describe it) is reduced, but I think it'll always be there. Oh, and I still have the turntable I bought -- Sony made great ones. It still works like a champ. And, after years of wishing for it but always having other places to put my money, I finally got _Brothers in Arms_ on vinyl. Lordy, but I love blasting "Money for Nothing" over my husband's 60s-era floor speakers!
@Mrmumps-tb4no16 күн бұрын
To anyone who doesn’t know, better help were caught selling their customers data, don’t use them
@Herfinnur16 күн бұрын
Among other things
@davidhartley9416 күн бұрын
I've removed the ad and cancelled the sponsorship, thanks for the comment.
@Mrmumps-tb4no15 күн бұрын
@@davidhartley94 that’s cool I’m glad you didn’t just ignore it
@rossforrest15 күн бұрын
@@davidhartley94thank you, many creators don’t care.
@samwilson280515 күн бұрын
@@davidhartley94 I really respect this. They seem to be one of the most common sponsors and I see so many creators ignore or even delete comments talking about betterhelp's bad practices. Class act.
@michaelg.2945 күн бұрын
Can you imagine being that guy who worked in the appliance store, one day hearing and seeing Money For Nothing while at work, and realizing "Wait a tick, that sounds like something I'd say!"
@JohnPreston8884 күн бұрын
On one hand, I would be pleased that a pragmatic look at life became a hit record. On the other, Mark Knopfler describing me as a "bonehead" would be f**kin' insulting, and borderline defamation...
@alwa69544 күн бұрын
Yeah, and he's still making little more than minimum wage while the guy with the earing and the makeup is making a million dollars off his words.
@demoman1596sh3 күн бұрын
@@JohnPreston888I think it’s more of a “typical” look at life than a “pragmatic” one. Dude tosses out a ton of stereotypes during the song which are certainly common even today forty years later, but not always all that true or reasonable.
@dreece20003 күн бұрын
Dude I thought the same thing. I bet he is fucking really pissed . Since he now sees that the guy that he was bitching too about the banging on the bongles like a chimpanzee. Is now not working on MTV using his sayings. Double fucked
@marvin_james3 күн бұрын
@@JohnPreston888 I can imagine that person going: "Mark Knopfler called me a bonehead... THAT IS SO AWESOME!"
@Zacabeb12 күн бұрын
Of note regarding the CGI in Money for Nothing video is that the Bosch FGS-4000 video graphics system used could produce more complex graphics (though obviously still extremely primitive by today's standards) and the boxy style seemed to be a deliberate aesthetic choice. I think that because of its extreme simplicity it's aged incredibly well compared to much other CGI.
@jamesslick479012 күн бұрын
It predicted "Minecraft" graphics LOL.
@Paul_Grace12 күн бұрын
The video was done at Rushes, Old Compton St, London, where I worked. The Bosch FGS was still in our storeroom until the mid 1990's until we gave it away to a college.
@The_SOB_II9 күн бұрын
I'm looking at the demo for the FGS-4000 and it's not really noticeably better... haven't found anything else from it yet
@alanhilder18839 күн бұрын
I came down here to say that the "Primitive" graphics seemed to me to be deliberate, It was staying with the mocking of music videos. You go here first.
@billkeithchannel9 күн бұрын
Minecraft Aficionado: This
@danstephensen90325 күн бұрын
I’m just a drummer who has performed for 60 years. Money 4 NUTHIN’ has been one of my ALL TIME tunes to play. I play in 4 bands and 2 of them have it on their Set List. Always a Pleasure. Thanks MARK🥁🎸🥁🎸🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
@themadmallard4 күн бұрын
working drummer, too?
@danstephensen90324 күн бұрын
@@themadmallard still booking on a regular basis. It’s in the Blood. 🤣🤣🥁🎸
@themadmallard4 күн бұрын
@@danstephensen9032 Respect to the grind. ~~
@addyhizler66753 күн бұрын
Playing for the love of music. *tip of the hat
@user-qg9co8yp4k3 күн бұрын
Wow, "just a drummer " me too since 1987. I play some guitar also. If most people knew what it was like being a drummer that statement would not be thrown around. I just don't like hearing that because We know that a band is only as good as their drummer
@jonathanhill974810 күн бұрын
The iconic album cover was another accident. There was a bad storm during the time they were recording that did some damage to the building. After it passed, the sky was spectacular. Knopfler was carrying the National resonator guitar near the swimming pool and held it up to the sky for their photographer, who was snapping the view. The result was so good, they made it the album cover. A few attempts were made to reshoot it better, but nothing worked as well as the first quickly snapped shot. That’s how John Isley told it.
@ylekiote999996 күн бұрын
That was the Brothers in Arms cover.
@Dibbdroid6 күн бұрын
@@ylekiote99999 the album with Money for Nothing on it
@VivAnandКүн бұрын
@@ylekiote99999that’s the very album that Money for Nothing was first on.
@lakewall305414 күн бұрын
When I was little my dad was a truck driver, and one day he heard this tune for the first time on the radio and it so happened he was moving a truckload of refrigerators.
@crapmalls13 күн бұрын
❤😂
@jamesslick479012 күн бұрын
Love it, In 1986, I was installing microwave ovens (and convection ovens too).
@sn1000k11 күн бұрын
I've had synchronistic moments w music like that. Nothing feels better.
@SewerTapes3 күн бұрын
When I was 17, one of my friends tried to tell me Money for Nothing's guitar riff is one of the best in Rock history. Now that I'm 44, and my taste in music is no longer limited to only metal, I totally agree with him. This song fu-king rocks. I also happen to love the primitive CGI and have been losing my mind trying to get a similar look from Blender.
@worksbydandeprez15 күн бұрын
I've heard comments from people who hadn't been born yet when this song came out wondering "where they got that unusual animation" or simply, "That's so cute." I guess only those of us who there look at it now and notice how drastically different it is. If you don't know how limited computer animation was back then you would assume that all the options of today were available then and that the style was deliberately chosen.
@ctbadger14 күн бұрын
As a 17 year old at the time the animation blew me away. It was really novel and we’d never seen anything like it.
@57WillysCJ13 күн бұрын
They need to watch some Max Headroom from the same year. Actually I am surprised someone hasn't revised him for modern comentary.
@anthonypeterson42813 күн бұрын
Limited but stylistically effective.
@ValdemarDeMatos13 күн бұрын
Not only the 3D. The painting of those bright color strokes over the video image were also a novelty.
@originalsusser12 күн бұрын
@57WillysCJ Max Headroom may do a comeback, worst sh!t has. But he was a product of his time & would be difficult to do today with any relevance to today's world
@ForgottenTasmania15 күн бұрын
The song was an anthem for people selling HiFi in the 80s. And the thrill of that guitar riff played loud sold a lot of systems. Fond memories.
@p_e_t_e15 күн бұрын
check farther down in the comments. there's a former hi fi store owner who was not fond of the song! 😀
@frackjags13 күн бұрын
That and Blue Monday.
@originalsusser12 күн бұрын
@p_e_t_e I'd moved on by the mid 80s from selling hi fi into more lucrative selling, but I fully agree that pumping 'Money for Nothing' through a top qual stereo of the day would sell units. Funny enough my vinyl copy of Brothers in Arms is a Direct to Disc master recording that sounds just as good through my Linn Sondek, Naim amp & Dyna Audio speakers as any cd could dream of
@originalsusser12 күн бұрын
@@frackjagsand New Order too
@mareker12 күн бұрын
Money for nothing
@Besmertnic14 күн бұрын
I lived in Montserrat in 2008, I met George Martin and visited what was left of Air studio after the volcano. I was there planning an aquaponic project, Sir George wanted me to convert the swimming pool into a fish pond. I didn't know this song was recorded there, beautiful place, tragic what the volcano did, the studio was basically a shell when I was there. A lot of great music was made there; Synchronicity, Steel Wheels, Too Low for Zero...
@Besmertnic14 күн бұрын
The conversion of the pool wasn't the project I was there for, we met at one of the few remaining restaurants, got to talking, and he invited me to tour the studio and talk about converting the pool, which was no longer working due to the ash.
@noblejonson13 күн бұрын
I've visited a few times, I got up as close as the steel fence surrounding Air, but it was sad to see a derelict building where so many great albums were made. Montserrat is a paradise
@chuckwagon65653 күн бұрын
My parents are from Montserrat and I used to spend summers there. My neighbors older brother worked at air Studios and gave him a bunch of albums that influenced my musical tastes including albums by America and George Harrison amongst others.
@123mathtutorabc48 күн бұрын
100 years in the future, kids will be asking "what's mtv" while they jam out to Money for Nothing
@LilyGazou6 күн бұрын
Money won’t exist
@123mathtutorabc46 күн бұрын
@@LilyGazou are the chicks are still free?
@lorrie28785 күн бұрын
@@123mathtutorabc4 i bet my grandchildren don't know.
@lorrie28785 күн бұрын
@@123mathtutorabc4 if you play and sing well enough...
@tomowenpianochannel5 күн бұрын
LOL
@mikewazowski3504 күн бұрын
"Mtv is not what it once was..." is an understatement. To have been a part of that generation where Mtv and even Vh1 were actually about music was an exciting time. We used to have music video parties on the weekends. People would tape on VHS, their favorite or popular videos. You could get 8 hrs of videos on tape, then setup multiple VHS players in several rooms. Everything else would be a normal party, but you wouldn't need anyone to DJ.
@terrygray74652 күн бұрын
But as the MTV network execs have famously said, VIEWERS STOPPED WATCHING just after the 80's heyday. They had to pivot to animation (Beavis and Butthead, Liquid Television), reality (Real World, Road Rules) and TRL just to keep the lights on. Other than Yo' MTV Raps and Headbangers Ball, no one was watching. We grew up and moved on, but we love to say that MTV changed. They did because our generation graduated college, got jobs and started families.
@JP-xd6fmКүн бұрын
I'm from '85 and I think I have clocked waaay more VH1 hours than Mtv's ... I remember in Vh1 watching Hotel California from the eagles and so many great classics.
@knirbnosaj1158Күн бұрын
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky, we know Major Tom's a junkie...
@basketballjones678220 сағат бұрын
@@terrygray7465 Except we stopped watching BECAUSE of that crap - they just got upset because they saw typical fluctuations of their ratings as "OHMYGOD! everyone is tuning out!" because they had some consultant tell them that's what was happening. Our whole MTV generation would have never permanently switched it off had they not gone in the shitter with whatever crap they continue with today.
@terrygray746520 сағат бұрын
@@basketballjones6782 I've spent my career working in television, largely due to watching MTV as a kid, and I can assure you that no one (in my 30+ years in the game) walks away from a winning formula. It's advertiser driven. If people aren't buying the products in the ads, network revenue goes down. That's what happened. It was also the beginning of the media cooperate merger era as well. They turned to the alternatives out of desperation - some worked, some didn't. If you noticed, TRL worked like gangbusters for years - until THAT audience grew up and left. It's all cyclical. We can argue if it was a chicken/egg thing, but ultimately, it was a money thing.
@imacmill14 күн бұрын
Back in the 80s, I created Halloween costumes of the two guys in the MFN video. Spruce framing with colored bristol board, and cloth joints. My girlfriend wore the short guy suit, and I wore the tall guy. We went to a nightclub on Halloween night and won first place in the costume competition...$200, not chump change for a late-teens guy working as a short-order cook at the time. Great memories! EDIT: I added a short clip on my KZfaq channel that shows the costumes. First video I've ever added to my YT channel...no audio 😊
@tigergreg813 күн бұрын
That's very cool, great story. 👍
@malthus1019 күн бұрын
cool story!
@imacmill9 күн бұрын
@@malthus101 I'm thinking I'm gonna add a photo to my YT channel with the 'receipts'.
@imacmill9 күн бұрын
@@malthus101 Short video added to my channel. I hope it works.
@5000rgb9 күн бұрын
Those costumes are awesome!
@Soren_Skarsgard14 күн бұрын
My dad bought the first CD player that came to town. It was a Philips portable. With that, he also bought the first CD - Brothers in Arms. That was the first ever CD I've listened to. With headphones. I was blown away.
@BrianStDenis-pj1tq10 күн бұрын
When I bought my first CD player, there were two brands, Phillips and Sony. I think I paid over $300 for the lower end Sony, while higher end units were near $1000. I think CD player prices have come down a bit.
@Soren_Skarsgard10 күн бұрын
@@BrianStDenis-pj1tq Philips (single L, yeah) and Sony made it happen and patented it, so yeah. Now, buckle up and hang tight, my American friend, cause here we go: My Philips CD player model was D6800, with a small jack audio out, and 2 (A + B) headphones outs. I've taped A LOT of Cr02s, back then. 1989 is the year, I guess, and Split (I know) Croatia, then Yugoslavia, is the location. We have pre-war YU dinars, then temporary HR dinars, then HR kunas, aand Deutsch Marks as a reference. The D6800 portable was the same price as the standalone low-tier deck unit, I'm guessing about 1000 DM (Deutschmarks), which was about 1 mid-range monthly salary in Croatia. You, Yanks, had higher standard, and cheaper tech always. Now, the fun fact part: in 1985. (I was too young to know or care), Dire Straits appear in my town Split, with 12 semi trucks, and stay here for a month to prepare for their upcommig world tour, and have their first gig here.
@Soren_Skarsgard10 күн бұрын
@@BrianStDenis-pj1tq Philips (single L, yeah) and Sony made it happen and patented it, so yeah. Now, buckle up and hang tight, my American friend, cause here we go: My Philips CD player model was D6800, with a small jack audio out, and 2 (A + B) headphones outs. I've taped A LOT of Cr02s, back then. 1989 is the year, I guess, and Split (I know) Croatia, then Yugoslavia, is the location. We have pre-war YU dinars, then temporary HR dinars, then HR kunas, aand Deutsch Marks as a reference. The D6800 portable was the same price as the standalone low-tier deck unit, I'm guessing about 1000 DM (Deutschmarks), which was about 1 mid-range monthly salary in Croatia. You, Yanks, had higher standard, and cheaper tech always. Now, the fun fact part: in 1985. (I was too young to know or care), Dire Straits appear in my town Split, with 12 semi trucks, and stay here for a month to prepare for their upcommig world tour, and have their first gig here.
@Soren_Skarsgard10 күн бұрын
@@BrianStDenis-pj1tq Philips (single L, yeah) and Sony made it happen and patented it, so yeah. Now, buckle up and hang tight, my American friend, cause here we go: My Philips CD player model was D6800, with a small jack audio out, and 2 (A + B) headphones outs. I've taped A LOT of Cr02s, back then. 1989 is the year, I guess, and Split (I know) Croatia, then Yugoslavia, is the location. We have pre-war YU dinars, then temporary HR dinars, then HR kunas, aand Deutsch Marks as a reference. The D6800 portable was the same price as the standalone low-tier deck unit, I'm guessing about 1000 DM (Deutschmarks), which was about 1 mid-range monthly salary in Croatia. You, Yanks, had higher standard, and cheaper tech always. Now, the fun fact part: in 1985. (I was too young to know or care), Dire Straits appear in my town Split, with 12 semi trucks, and stay here for a month to prepare for their upcommig world tour, and have their first gig here.
@Soren_Skarsgard10 күн бұрын
@@BrianStDenis-pj1tq Philips (single L, yeah) and Sony made it happen and patented it, so yeah. Now, buckle up and hang tight, my American friend, cause here we go: My Philips CD player model was D6800, with a small jack audio out, and 2 (A + B) headphones outs. I've taped A LOT of Cr02s, back then. 1989 is the year, I guess, and Split (I know) Croatia, then Yugoslavia, is the location. We have pre-war YU dinars, then temporary HR dinars, then HR kunas, aand Deutsch Marks as a reference. The D6800 portable was the same price as the standalone low-tier deck unit, I'm guessing about 1000 DM (Deutschmarks), which was about 1 mid-range monthly salary in Croatia. You, Yanks, had higher standard, and cheaper tech always. Now, the fun fact part: in 1985. (I was too young to know or care), Dire Straits appear in my town Split, with 12 semi trucks, and stay here for a month to prepare for their upcommig world tour, and have their first gig here.
@greenthumb82663 күн бұрын
Thank you so much for posting this video. Love Dire Straits, and The Police~ Sting, right up there with Jethro Tull, Cat Stevens, Fleetwood Mac, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Pink Floyd, good days, when music was full of body and soul.
@ferenclucas28427 күн бұрын
The computer animation is fantastic wouldn't change it
@NelsonStJames4 күн бұрын
Exactly. Considering how the majority of animation today looks so generic, The videos animation now makes it look unique.
@LookeeLou______4 күн бұрын
I was a stoner at that time period. It made us say "Whoa"
@freewheelburning88348 күн бұрын
I think the vintage animation is very artistic and humorous
@Cartier_specialist11 күн бұрын
My favorite line from the lyrics on this song is: "maybe get a blister on your little finger, maybe get a blister on your thumb" that's pure gold there.
@DilbiWilber7 күн бұрын
my favorite line has mysteriously come up missing?
@danmang9237 күн бұрын
I thought he said “tongue”.
@nkronert6 күн бұрын
And I thought he was singing about a pistol on his thumb, which I thought was a bit strange, but whatever 😊
@ctt79716 күн бұрын
What about ‘that little faggot is a millionaire…..’ Imagine THAT line being written 2024
@JohnPreston8884 күн бұрын
Yeah, great line. Out of context, it seems pretty mundane, but it fits the meter perfectly, and perfectly emphasises the contrasts.
@tonybroken63536 күн бұрын
the guitar sound is from a cocked wah pedal. I never realised " i want my MTV" had the "don't stand so close to me" melody, that's clever. Money for Nothing is a classic for sure.
@ArchieBC7 күн бұрын
I never caught the melody for Don’t Stand So Close To Me! What, 38, 39 years later? Great video!
@dariusanderton37603 күн бұрын
I definitely noticed it back when the song was new.
@compugasm2 күн бұрын
And they still use Stings vocals in the MTV commercials.
@trashyraccoon261515 күн бұрын
Not really about “salesmen”, the song is from the point of view of the installation guys.
@@BWater-yq3jx I remember when I realized that later in life, too. “That ain’t workin” is such a clever lyric
@RandomButBeautiful14 күн бұрын
yes, they assumed it was easy street and had no idea of the insane workload, Dire straits did 248 gigs in one year on the brothers in arms tour, unimaginable.
@trashyraccoon261514 күн бұрын
@@RandomButBeautiful ok that’s literally insane wow
@JJ-jn5lr13 күн бұрын
do you think the story about microphones being all misplaced was true? sounds like BS to me. that's what the song is about - some guy who thinks its easy
@TheKitchenerLeslie9 күн бұрын
Weird Al Yankovic parodied the song and video in his movie UHF in 1989. The song is called Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies. Mark Knopfler gave him permission, but only if he were allowed to play on it. When you hear it, you'll know it's him.
@herseem6 күн бұрын
I was going to say, that bit of the story was completely omitted.
@swish0075 күн бұрын
I heard that Yankovic asked Mark to play it because he couldn't find anyone that could get it right and Mark said yes. By the time that Mark recorded the guitar part for Yankovic's version, Dire Straits had been touring a while and Mark had refined the riff quite a bit. You can hear a difference in the Yankovic version.. still sounds like him, but definitely sounds like he'd played it a million times hah. I first heard the Yankovic version as a kid before hearing the original so I always preferred that version of the riff but I could understand why people would disagree. There's a sweet little vibrato though in the yankovic version that's more pronounced and I always loved
@herseem5 күн бұрын
@@swish007 I thick it was the other way round. Mark said he would only give his blessing if he was allowed to play the guitar part himself. I prefer it straight in the original without the wobble
@andyto6295 күн бұрын
@@herseemthat’s what I had heard out of Al’s mouth
@herseem5 күн бұрын
@@andyto629 ok, you win!
@karatefella2 күн бұрын
Money For Nothing is one of my favourite records. I never realised until now that "I want my MTV" is the same tune as "Don't Stand So Close To Me" !
@mikosoft13 күн бұрын
There's one more story about this song (and the whole Brothers in Arms album for that matter), the drummer you hear is not the Dire Straits drummer Terry WIlliams, it's Sting's drummer Omar Hakim. He rerecorded every track from the album on Knopfler's request as he didn't like Terry's takes. But there is one surviving piece of Williams' drumming on the album and it's actually the intro drum fills on Money for Nothing.
@gabrieldotterweich738812 күн бұрын
I miss Pick Withers
@Lozzie7412 күн бұрын
How did Terry take this?
@foto2112 күн бұрын
You know what, that's why it sounds like China Girl by Bowie. Same groove, similar fills.
@mikosoft10 күн бұрын
@@Lozzie74 according to internet he was also not happy with his takes so I guess not so badly
@callingchristiano8 күн бұрын
@@gabrieldotterweich7388top drummer, lot of taste
@KRAZEEIZATION9 күн бұрын
Mark loved the sound of the Eliminator album by ZZ Top from 1983. The distortion on Money For Nothing was influenced by Gimme All Your Lovin’. Unmentioned here is the fact that in the studio the cocked Wah pedal was the crux of the sound.
@McHale7214 күн бұрын
Brothers in Arms was NOT one of the first CD's released. They'd been out for three years (1985 vs 1982). It *WAS* one of the first (if not the first) CD's to be pure digital - DDD. It was recorded and mixed in pure digital. Most audio CD's at that point were AAD (analog recorded, analog mixed, digital release) with a few being ADD.
@svenlabots186914 күн бұрын
All true, plus, the reason why Brothers in arms got so much fuzz on cd, is that it became the first million seller on cd. Manufacturer Phillips regretted immediately that they hadn't patented the cd format as a whole. They never thought the cd would become so successful.
@mateuszorlinski733413 күн бұрын
@@svenlabots1869 The no-patent thing was their idea from the beginning, they wanted as many HiFi manufacturers and music labels to opt-in
@PeterGrew13 күн бұрын
Brothers in Arms was used as part of Philips CD Player campaign with the DDD argument and was often bundled free with the player (I got it with my Philips CD-304). The path from initial idea to the CD took approx 25 years. David Paul Gregg invented the optical storage in the late 50s and James Russell how to put digital signals on optical storage in the 60s so Sony and Philips licensed the patents when they developed the CD format.
@mateuszorlinski733413 күн бұрын
@@PeterGrew Don't forget LaserVision, that's what put Philips on the route towards Compact Disc. And the thing about owning half the phonographing industry popably helped too.
@MiloJonesKidd3 күн бұрын
It was one of the first rock DVDs that was DDD. There were many classical DVDs out that were digitaly recorded and mastered before Brothers in Arms.
@SteveSingsThings14 күн бұрын
Artists getting stupidly rich imitating real life Joes mocking artists getting stupidly rich. That's the way ya do it! Mark told ironic stories that people could relate to. Sultan's of Swing is another example. Poking fun at the dive bar music scene while simultaneously paying tribute to the spirit of playing live music just for the love of it. Brilliant.
@Lozzie7412 күн бұрын
*Sultans of Swing. There was more than one sultan and there was nothing possessive.
@wordup89712 күн бұрын
@Lozzie74 womp womp
@jfv657 күн бұрын
Sultans of Swing was my first ever own LP-record. Before that i got Rumours on cassette. Some pretty epic music was made in those years.
@BillPeschel5 күн бұрын
I love the way he mixed the descriptions. "Brown baggies and their platform soles / they don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band." He wasn't aiming at any one group (brown baggies when I went to college were the frat boys who favored kahki shorts. They wouldn't have been caught dead in platform shoes).
@Wakeywhodat8 күн бұрын
We were the class of 1984 and a very close friend lost his life when this song first hit. We were all piled in a car, headed to his mother’s house when this song came on and I’ll never forget it. RIP Tony. Our 40th HS graduation ceremony is in September and the band better be able to play it or we’re going to spin a CD 😂
@williammorris13842 күн бұрын
Sorry to hear that:( Nice way to mark Tony’s 40th anniversary 👍
@TheNedH7 күн бұрын
Just a small, nitpick note: "I want my MTV" wasn't so much the network's slogan. It was their marketing push in the days when MTV was relatively new and not all cable providers had it in their line-up of available channels. The pitch was, basically, "Call your cable operator and tell them 'I WANT MY MTV!'."
@ChescoYT12 күн бұрын
1986 was a MONSTER of classic hits!!!
@aleisterseverusgrey37789 күн бұрын
And movies!
@box1u8 күн бұрын
all the 80's where full of really fantastic music. Not sure what happened to today's music. but glad I lived through that decade .🤘
@philsurtees7 күн бұрын
@@box1u The 80's was the *WORST* decade for music *BY FAR.*
@bobnewby91297 күн бұрын
@@philsurtees Worse than 2010 to the present? No way.
@thecustommuffler4 күн бұрын
Jan 1, 1986, on that day I shipped out for basic training in New Jersey. I left New Orleans with a Levis blue jean jacket just incase it was cold.
@drothberg310 күн бұрын
When this song came out, I was in graduate business school and wrote a parody called “Money for Nothing/I Want My MBA.”
@brucehansensc8 күн бұрын
No irony there friend, its just true.
@nathanhubbard10415 күн бұрын
And ?
@MrmelodyUs4 күн бұрын
This song was in great part- #RIPPEDOFF!!! #Sting and #KNOPFLER are jackasses. More details to anyone who wishes to know...
@cidmontenegro82255 күн бұрын
It's always great when someone hears something you already know and has an appreciation for it. It's like watching modern reactions to a song you loved 20 years ago and heard '1 thousand' times. It makes you relive the feelings you had when you first heard it and the song, or story, is fresh again. So good.
@zoltanmizsei85158 күн бұрын
And one additional story - from the Hungarian point of view - regarding the music video itself: The two additional music videos in the video (at 1::50 and 3::00 in the official music video) were taken in Budapest while Dire Straits were touring in Hungary. The director, Steve Barron - knowing that Knopfler isn't into music videos at all - traveled to Budapest to convince Mark about the concept of the music video. According to reports, Mark was not at all impressed with Barrett traveling so much for him. So here is how it happened that the first ever Hungarian pop band having been shown on MTV (in the later award winning Dire Straits video) was the pop group "Első Emelet" ("First Floor" in English). In the other video (Ian Pearson Band) you see a Hungarian model-actress and yes, the fictional band was named after one of the CGI artists of this masterpiece.
@carlcushmanhybels81595 күн бұрын
Thanks for your revealing story. And Mark Knopfler as you probably know is part Hungarian (His parents left Hungary for England.)
@madacsg2 күн бұрын
Yes, thank you! These should be mentioned in the video! Ezt vártam, hogy végre megemlítse a beágyazott videót, és az Első Emeletet, de csak nem jött össze neki...
@ChescoYT12 күн бұрын
all these decades and i never knew Sting was on the track loooool
@two-sense3 күн бұрын
Same. How strange.
@simongregory311413 күн бұрын
I'd really like to know if the 2 sales guys ever found out they were the inspiration for the song. It's quite possible they did. That would be a cool thing to realise. Maybe they'd want a writing credit too!
@Abbecskin11 күн бұрын
As a highly impressionable kid in his senior year in 1985 when Brothers in Arms came out on cassette and the cassette was the very first clear cassette I'd ever seen, I think I burned through four or five of them replaying it over and over again and my mom's 1979 Mustang. Just because of that clear cassette and that awesome guitar riff!
@gregjameson214115 күн бұрын
You can add to this story the fact that Mark Knopfler really loved what ZZTOP did with their guitar sound, but Mark didn't know how they did it. So Mark contacted zztop and asked them, but they didn't want to share their secret, and they did not let Mark know how they did it
@RandomButBeautiful14 күн бұрын
hehe!! Yeah Billy's guitar tone was off the charts and probably took a ton of experimentation to get that secret sauce, why would he just give that to the competition?
@jk-7613 күн бұрын
Black Face Twin and a TS808
@keithklassen532013 күн бұрын
@@jk-76Lol, that's it boys, pack up and go home! Surely tho there's a lot more to it than that.
@poindextertunes13 күн бұрын
@@RandomButBeautifulgatekeeping is so cringy
@RandomButBeautiful13 күн бұрын
@@poindextertunes The only thing that is cringy is acting entitled: Free handouts are for children, not adults. Gatekeeping would be saying 'You can't have a guitar'. By telling someone to get their own sound rather than lazily copying his, he's absolutely not preventing him from doing anything. Anyway Billy Gibbons is a legend and a blues man pays his dues in road miles, Mark should know this and it's pretty disappointing he would even ask for such a trade secret tbh, hoping the story isn't true.
@originalsusser12 күн бұрын
Great scoping of the greatest hit of the mid 80s. I was a fan of the Police & Sultans of Swing, but Money for Nothing was a mind blower
@wyatt-rocks13 күн бұрын
In my top 10 songs of all time. I got the cassette tape in 1985 when I was 10 years old and listened to this album 5000 times.. a massive inspiration for my own music career. The 80s were King.
@SeanFlora11 күн бұрын
What saddens me is when people who have ONLY ever heard this one song - a novelty toss-off- from Dire Straits say that they dislike Dire Straits, because they misunderstand and think Money For Nothing is representative of the band's entire body of work. It's a fun song, but even the irony flies over the heads of so many people. The rest of Brothers in Arms runs much deeper (though I could do without Walk of Life), and all the previous records are outstanding! Love Over Gold, Making Movies, Communiqué... and Dire Straits. Such great stuff!
@gary644915 күн бұрын
No mention here (yet) of how the lyrics of this song were changed a few yrs ago on the radio-friendly version to appease a certain segment of the population. Removed an entire verse: "That little ------ with the earing and the make-up (yeah buddy -that's his own hair) That little ------ 'got his own jet airplane, That little ------ he's a mill-ion-aire ! "
@slaytallica13615 күн бұрын
It's an awful verse that adds nothing substantive or interesting--just hateful slurs.
@p_e_t_e15 күн бұрын
@@slaytallica136 yet historically it's not exactly been uncommon for young male musicians to hear. that was meant to make the person who's views are being expressed in the song look bad.
@slaytallica13615 күн бұрын
@@p_e_t_e Yes I am familiar with ribbing someone by making them seem uneducated/backward/out of touch (See Blazing Saddles). Doesn't mean it is unreasonable to remove a verse of a song that sounds awful out of context and adds little to the conversation in context.
@YAWN....15 күн бұрын
@@slaytallica136 lol, music today is far worse and most of the new music is sh!t. Jesus must be so proud of your comment...
@p_e_t_e15 күн бұрын
@@slaytallica136 well, they weren't exactly having an intelligent discussion, just bad mouthing musicians! but maybe that was a bit too jarring in context? i respect your opinion. generally for me, when it's clear that there's no intent to harm, but to actually ridicule the offensive position it doesn't bother me. i grew up with things like Blazing Saddles and All in the Family, was about 20 when this song came out and had heard that slur and much more from countless teenage males. so they lost a lot of their impact when i heard them in the media. but it's been a long time and people are different so i do respect your opinion.
@tonyrauls194113 күн бұрын
My dude picking up that the riff was a banjo style riff is rad
@jamesslick479012 күн бұрын
👍👍
@EtienneLawnga7 күн бұрын
Makes you wonder if bluegrass and country music might be tolerable if they ran it through a distortion pedal.
@TheLetterJ17 күн бұрын
@@EtienneLawnga could be something new. You could try it.
@victorcurtis64005 күн бұрын
My head just exploded! How did I never put together that Sting was singing I want my MTV to the same tune of Don’t stand so close to me. I’m feeling rather daft.
@mikeblair25945 күн бұрын
Naw, dont worry about it. You are daft😉
@NorvilleRising3 күн бұрын
Ironic he didn't like music videos, but made one of the most iconic music videos in the entire 20th century.
@erikkibler346615 күн бұрын
I love the pauses in the guitar riff at the beginning.it really demonstrates how important those rests are and how dynamic they can make a song.Mark is super creative and I love it😊
@drothberg310 күн бұрын
The riff sounds fantastic clean. I never thought of that!
@janmartens795412 күн бұрын
I think the fact that the crisp and unusually clear sounds on a flawless CD makes that everybody who had money to buy a cdplayer (my uncle worked at Philips eindhoven at that time) bought this album. We (the family) where brown away!!! Mind you we were used to crackling records and muffles tapes with Dolby surpressing……. WHAT A SOUND!!! AAAAAAAAA!!. like that. This cd was an instant succes….. and the music turned out to be perfect throughout the years
@Cartier_specialist11 күн бұрын
There's no telling how many times I listened to that song before I realized that Sting was singing along as well. After I heard him it's like wow, you can't miss it.
@vaskylark5 күн бұрын
This was a such a huge hit at the time and the video was cutting edge for sure! I remember seeing it for the first time and everyone was talking about it. Dire Straits were massively huge when MOney for Nothing came out. To this day it has one of the catchiest, coolest guitar licks of all time.
@ProctorSilex12 күн бұрын
8:23 The video still looks awesome. I never thought of it as a technical issue but a style.
@KaiPonte6 сағат бұрын
Thank you for this great video. Money For Nothing was one of my favorite songs from that year (along with Brothers in Arms) and I was fascinated by the computer processing needed to make the workers.
@PatrickHenryLibertyorDeath3 күн бұрын
Mark said he asked ZZ Top front man how to get that sound out of the guitar. It was a true collaboration of artist who just love music.
@atomicsmith13 күн бұрын
Dire Straits was such a great band, but everything sting touched in that time turned to gold. Except Dune maybe…
@paulf28989 күн бұрын
He played a good part in dune,same in quadrophenia and brimstone and treacle 😂
@peterherrera75664 күн бұрын
@@paulf2898 Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels.
@TheAdultInTheRoom747 күн бұрын
They’re not salesmen! They’re the delivery guys. I mean Jesus, it’s right in the lyrics!
@finished62673 күн бұрын
it's blatantly obvious in the video too.
@DejayClaytonКүн бұрын
That's the way you do it.
@54fighting510 күн бұрын
There are a lot of good points made in the comments here. My take initially was the fact that a Les Paul with humbuckers was used instead of the guitar Mark was known for...the Strat with single coils. The video mentions a Billy Gibbons sound so that would explain the LP. I think the rest of the sound can be attributed a combination of luck, the studio setup and most of all the genius of Mark Knopfler.
@GlenwoodMediaКүн бұрын
Glad you're on the mend, Rick. As a pro musician I enjoy all the aspects of your channel, but it was the "what makes this song great" that drew me in. Keep those coming...but love the interviews too.
@JudeOneThree6 күн бұрын
The alterations and omissions of this song’s 2nd verse represent one of the earlier examples of cancel culture before there was a cancel culture.
@elizabethsullivan71765 күн бұрын
"Cancel culture" has been around for decades, it's just that now it's been given a name.
@timothydavis31545 күн бұрын
And a dang freaking shame, too. When juxtaposed against the video excerpt-of which I’ve never found-in the main video, it gives some extra bite and meaning to the song(of course, it goes with out saying this song was SO made for being a video).
@timothydavis31545 күн бұрын
@@SelfEvidentagreed. Same.
@alexsf42484 күн бұрын
What was the omissions?
@reshpeck4 күн бұрын
@@alexsf4248Go find the original and listen to it. You'll understand immediately.
@billkeithchannel9 күн бұрын
When this song came out it was the quintessential song for the end of the summer of 1985. It was a game changer and kicked off the second half of the decade moving music into an epic direction. I was so impressed with it I recorded it off of the radio twice in a row on that tape. I repeatedly listened as I rode my bike to the local Putt-Putt arcade. When I arrived it was "the" talk of my friends there.
@williammorris13842 күн бұрын
Absolutely. It’s a song of its time and that summer of 85, was epic . Running up that hill , everybody wants to rule the world, into the groove , move closer , a good heart , fortress around your heart , run to you , St Elmo’s fire etc ! Brilliant!
@billkeithchannel2 күн бұрын
@@williammorris1384 _Fortress_ was definitely epic. MTV didn't play the video too often but once I got the audio of it recorded to my mix tape I had it in rotation and still have it on that tape. Look for the "November 1985" playlist on my channel to see what songs I was able to capture around it.
@williammorris13842 күн бұрын
Cool stuff . Will do ! Cheers! 👍
@kelleykelley223 күн бұрын
Your channel is wonderful. I deliver for Amazon & spent much of my day listening to your channel. Your voice is pleasant, you aren’t a bot & I learned things I never knew & musically I know a lot, im old AF. Keep up the great content. I appreciate you 💪🏼🤘🏼
@eeedee12983 күн бұрын
One of my favourite tracks ever!!! Brilliant... So Brilliant!!!!.. and Sting on it is another great touch!
@deanwishart998115 күн бұрын
I was 24 when this single & this record came out… it was huge in Australia, played every party over and over again, and the animation looked so cutting edge and cool in a video
@daz462714 күн бұрын
96FM in Perth flogged this song to death... and none of us minded a single bit!! 🙂
@originalsusser12 күн бұрын
From a fellow Aussie I concur. There were hits that were huge often during the 80s but this one stood out as the 'Greatest'. Others came after, maybe bigger, but none had the impact of THIS song on pop culture. It truly was a world wide hit of the type that cannot be done today
@wordup89712 күн бұрын
I was 19 and will never forget hearing it for first time on the radio, sting's unique voice then that fkn awesome guitar riff followed by the drums! I can still feel it.
@007ndc10 күн бұрын
Gen X kid born 1964. Summer of 85 was epic. When CDs first came out we realized that there were a few albums that must be bought on CD: Brothers in Arms, Avalon by Roxy Music and Aja by Steely Dan, and with good reason
@noserly6 күн бұрын
GenX starts in ‘65. You’re a boomer.
@Youtube.Commen-tater5 күн бұрын
@@noserlyJonses aren't boomers
@scottbeck77625 күн бұрын
@@noserly let's compromise ....BoomX
@lostbuffalo196Күн бұрын
Very informative. I'm 76, and have always liked the music of this song. Now with your explanation of how some of the lyrics were formed, it's very cool. Thanks
@ppgwhereeverett44123 күн бұрын
I'm seventy years old and raised in Los Angeles. MTV was novel at the time, but so was the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, at the time ! The place we are Compared to the place we were ! An amazing musical trip from One Track recording to MTV. And now......Great Video !!
@powerdither730915 күн бұрын
Both sting and knoffler humble boys from north of England...both defining unique talent. They are unassuming and modest, both of them, and how much richer is the world for their vision.
@johnnyxmusic15 күн бұрын
I’m not sure anyone has ever called sting modest. Not that he needs to be. If he wants to be arrogant, he’s earned it. He is a fantastic musician as composer, player, singer, and performer.
@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx14 күн бұрын
"unassuming and modest" to a video in which Knopfler describes the domestic appliance salesman from which he took part of the song's lyric as a "bonehead".
@powerdither730914 күн бұрын
@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx I can only assume that you come from a long line of appliance salesmen, and feel the need to stand up for their much maligned profession. How culturally insensitive of knoffler to use that most egregious term "bonehead" to such a beloved profession. I'm sure the world stands behind you and your cause of keeping the term bonehead from degrading the dignity of all salesmen of any white goods. Keep up the good fight.
@poindextertunes13 күн бұрын
@@powerdither7309yeah lets shxt on the common man lmao
@reshpeck4 күн бұрын
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xxPerhaps it was the words the "salesmen" (they were deliverymen) used that warrants their being called boneheads. Quite charitable of Knopfler, actually. You should look up the original lyrics, which are now heavily edited on the radio and KZfaq; the presenter in this video just sidesteps that whole modern controversy entirely.
@garrettstupperware375414 күн бұрын
Is there a "how this song was made" story that doesn't include Sting somehow getting royalties? lol
@fraa888grindr66 күн бұрын
My first jobs after high school (1985) were delivering furniture by day and washing down a fish processing line by night. I played the hell out of this song via cassette & cd. It was a great song and a great time to be alive.
@elmadi73913 күн бұрын
I still have the CD & one my favourite to play in my hifi sound system, the recording was so clear. I do not know the story behind until I watch your video today. Thank you for sharing 🙏🇺🇸
@orendungan345515 күн бұрын
MFN was the song that turned me on to Dire Straits. Great hook, great rhythm, amusing lyrics, and still not even in their top 5 songs, at least to these old ears. Check out the re-issue of a bunch of their live recordings that just came out. On The Night now has a full 2-disc run time, if you're into that sort of thing. Sting was super busy, or just in a lot of places in 1985. He guest starred with this song, he did a song with Phil Collins on No Jacket Required, and with Arcadia (Duran Duran side project) on So Red The Rose.
@rachelar15 күн бұрын
So Red the Rose, The Promise good one
@adriantallent855711 сағат бұрын
Sting is one of those guys who owes some measure of his notoriety to being literally everywhere back then. Such a great music scene!
@SaccoBelmonte11 күн бұрын
I was absolutely mind blown when I saw those computer animations. There was nothing like it before. Perhaps TRON but that was it.
@cimbakahn7 күн бұрын
I really miss the MTV music videos of the 80's! It would be excellent if they could bring them back on a channel that is dedicated just for them, and commercial free.
@The_Pariah2 күн бұрын
Genuinely entertaining video with a lot of fun facts and not a lot of filler or bs. Good content is getting harder and harder to find. This is good content.
@phillhuddleston94455 күн бұрын
Ironic how the song mocking MTV lasted longer than MTV itself. MTV maybe technically still a thing but not really, it was extremely popular when it first came out now it's just a low budget reality tv station.
@AD-kv9kj8 күн бұрын
Nobody ever points out that none of these masterful riffs, songs and musicians themselves overanalyzed and obsessed over the music that came before them like this. They weren't just copycats and obsessed with the same old things that had already been done. Same with Hollywood, all the brilliantly original and great films still worshipped to this day were so great and still set the standard because there were actual artists and passionate craftspeople working tirelessly to get original visions through the studio. Now the industry 100% controls everything with software technology and has no need for real artists, just corporate dogbody types who'll do what they're told to do according to "the data"...which obviously will only ever tell us that what will sell best is stuff that's already been done...
@MrmelodyUs4 күн бұрын
This song was in great part- #RIPPEDOFF!!! #Sting and #KNOPFLER are jackasses. More details to anyone who wishes to know...
@justinmayfield65793 күн бұрын
I was a small child when this came out. I loved it and whenever it came on the radio, my mom used to say, “Here’s your song!”
@jauwn5 күн бұрын
Just discovered your channel a few weeks ago but have been loving your content. Concise, no bullshit essays on great topics. Keep up the hard work!!!
@finjakke15 күн бұрын
Sting getting royalties for a song he had next to nothing to do with. I bet he never had such luck again.
@simonablett861315 күн бұрын
😂😂
@rsmith0215 күн бұрын
Wasn't it his label getting royalties?
@user-gp5kh5tu4k14 күн бұрын
Ask P Diddy about that...but maybe you are alluding to this...
@paulf28989 күн бұрын
Same with Englishman, Jamaican, African....in new York lol😂
@ksafe36047 күн бұрын
Money for nothing ... ?
@Sonnell13 күн бұрын
At 8:33 I just noticed that is not random noise on the screen, that is the digital sound on a videotape they used back then. The earliest digital sound storage and transport used U-matic video system, meaning they stored the audio in video format. (the amount of data was too much for anything else, so this was a genius idea) So if you played back the audio tape visually you could see that. This was the medium a master tape had and which have been transferred to the CD manufacturing plant as well. I wonder if that is the actual song :) Someone could write a script decoding the audio seen here :) I do not have the time to do that.
@jamesslick479012 күн бұрын
Yep! Digital audio recording was recorded to videotape! (could not get the needed bandwidth otherwise then).👍👍
@steveshadforth879212 күн бұрын
F1 was the name of that format.
@chickenfizz2 күн бұрын
That is an AMAZING spot!
@jamied157911 күн бұрын
During the early days of CD, when it was still an emerging format, you couldn't go anywhere without hearing this song played in stereo/appliance stores, CD/electronics industry expos and of course the massive saturation play on radio and TV. It was quite literally everywhere...
@ohar72378 күн бұрын
Honestly, I think the best part of the video is how perfectly it captures the moment.
@mattstopa943614 күн бұрын
Just as an aside the video was incredible for it's time. The 3d was fantastic for it's time
@ModularMemories7 күн бұрын
That was the first year I had cable and MTV. This song was on all the time!
@youtubeguy224 күн бұрын
No doubt. That's why it says "heavy rotation" on the microwave in the video
@MarkBurkenbine6 күн бұрын
The entire message made it through. That, in itself, is amazing.
@berjo774 күн бұрын
I’m no musician, but as a young teen on the day MTV went on the air, I know damn well I was witnessing greatness. If only something like that could ever happen again.
@mikeyerian256215 күн бұрын
When I was 10, I air guitared this every day
@drosophilamelanogaster395713 күн бұрын
Eastern Block 1988. I saw a guy air guitar-ing this riff and I was mesmerized. I'm 52 ad I still have this vivid memory.
@lichtfilme16 күн бұрын
Thanks that was real interesting
@Alster7634 күн бұрын
What a great song and an amazing story, thanks David for telling it you have earned my subscription.
@fellowcitizen15 күн бұрын
I thought the song and filmclip sucked, but over the years discovered that Knopfler had composed all these fantastic scores, and I realised that I'd dismissed Dire Straits completely out-of-hand before giving them any presence of mind. Fantastic artists. Suggestion: Joan Armatrading
@evanwalters6310 күн бұрын
He also wrote Private Dancer for Tina Turner which was originally a dire straits song called Love Over Gold.
@fellowcitizen10 күн бұрын
@@evanwalters63 Thanks
@HangoverTelevision9 күн бұрын
The song needs an update though about Influencers and KZfaqrs. "Money for nothing and clicks for free"......
@LilyGazou6 күн бұрын
👍😆
@creamydistortion5 күн бұрын
Nan, I still play music for the women ❤
@HangoverTelevision5 күн бұрын
@@creamydistortion "I want my, I want my, I want my social media...."
@mikeblair25945 күн бұрын
This comment needs more thumbs up!
@larsrons79375 күн бұрын
@HangoverTelevision One can agree or not with the content - but that comment in itself was absolutely brilliant.
@projectkj76436 күн бұрын
I didn't realize until years later the lyrics weren't "Money for nothing and the chicks for free." It actually fits.
@jamesbutler62537 күн бұрын
Great presentation of how the song came about with lots of small facts i had no idea about. And all in perfect English by a real person. Well done!