Dear GetBiggers,
I have a serious question for you:
What do you do when you want to put yourself in a calm and reflective mood after a troubling day?
I'm serious. How do you cope when things get a bit more chaotic than perhaps you can handle? Everyone has
stress and we all need to develop ways to ameliorate its detrimental effects especially when it comes in a massive
tidal wave-like manner.
Tonight, I went back to something I used to do when I was in high school and college. I would sit in a room not too overly
lit with a drink of my choosing. Back then it might have been a 7 & 7 or Gin and tonic. Tonight it's actually coffee.
I would then, from beginning to end, listen to, on vinyl, the first 4 Dire Straits albums, in order (Dire Straits, Communique, Making Movies and Love Over Gold).
I'm not sure how many of you were or are willing to listen to them in their entirety but they really are as close to Masters as are any other albums I've heard. They
are intimate in the sense you feel you are the only listener. They are simple in that Mark Knopfler's guitar and voice don't beat you down while at the same time his virtuosity leaves you in awe.
The songs are intricate yet easy to enjoy and emote a sincerity that makes you feel much closer to Knopfler than say you could ever be to Mick Jagger.
Listening to them inspires me to achieve greatness. As we discussed earlier, that is a theme about which I often think. I wish more people would examine that theme.
Harley
In my opinion, those albums are truly great just for what they did and can still do for me. Great artists have that ability to innervate a nerve within you thereby releasing an emotion
or a tension that had been itching to surface but need the proper stimuli.