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SongFacts: Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Posted on 2/11/25 at 2:06 pm
Posted on 2/11/25 at 2:06 pm
This one needs no introduction, but I love the backstory behind it. This song changed Mark Knopfler's life forever. He backed away from the music biz after this one made him worldewide famous.
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Money For Nothing
Dire Straits
This song is about rock star excess and the easy life it brings compared with real work. Mark Knopfler wrote it after overhearing delivery men in a New York department store complain about their jobs while watching MTV. He wrote the song in the store sitting at a kitchen display they had set up. Many of the lyrics were things they actually said.
Sting sings on this and helped write it (he and Knopfler are the credited writers). That's him at the beginning singing "I want my MTV." Sting did not want a songwriting credit, but his record company did because they would have earned royalties from it. They claimed it sounded very similar to a song Sting wrote for The Police: "Don't Stand So Close To Me."
Dire Straits recorded this in Montserrat. Sting was on vacation there and came by to help out.
This post was edited on 2/11/25 at 7:32 pm
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Posted on 2/11/25 at 6:29 pm to Ranger Call
You know you're supposed to link the articles you plagiarize, right? This is becoming a pattern.
Posted on 2/11/25 at 6:36 pm to Galactic Inquisitor
You know when you put the whole article in the quote function, you’re not really plagiarizing it, right? And there isn’t a link to share. It’s posted just like that on a radio station I listen to at work, so I just share the info as it is presented to me. If you want you can just go to the radio station for yourself, Mr. Professor Man.
Posted on 2/11/25 at 7:33 pm to Ranger Call
No, you need to link to the source...and not copy the entire source...thanks
Posted on 2/11/25 at 8:41 pm to Chicken
96.9
It’s basically just a very pro-LSU radio station out of Alexandria. When they play a song (some, not all) have a tab called SongFacts. If you click that it just gives the text that I had shared. It doesn’t bring you to the .com for SongFacts or anything. I just like to share the info about these songs as I see them pop up and/or find it interesting. Since it’s such a dedicated LSU fm station, I don’t mind bringing attention to it via a link as you’ve requested.
It’s basically just a very pro-LSU radio station out of Alexandria. When they play a song (some, not all) have a tab called SongFacts. If you click that it just gives the text that I had shared. It doesn’t bring you to the .com for SongFacts or anything. I just like to share the info about these songs as I see them pop up and/or find it interesting. Since it’s such a dedicated LSU fm station, I don’t mind bringing attention to it via a link as you’ve requested.
Posted on 2/11/25 at 9:14 pm to Ranger Call
paraphrase - link
Posted on 2/12/25 at 10:37 am to Ranger Call
I love Dire Straits, but I hate the fricking song. One of the worst songs ever made.
Posted on 2/12/25 at 10:49 am to Ranger Call
Sultans of swing>>>>>>>money for nothing.
Posted on 2/12/25 at 11:16 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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I love Dire Straits, but I hate the fricking song. One of the worst songs ever made
They have many songs that I like more than MFN, but it does remind me of certain segments of my childhood cruising with the old man, and as a kid I thought the guitar riff was rock GOD stuff.
The reason I mainly post these facts are to show how a song even came to be. I love the fact that Mark Knopfler was just chilling listening to two blue collar cats talk about work and it turns into something that lasts forever.
Posted on 2/12/25 at 12:40 pm to Galactic Inquisitor
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You know you're supposed to link the articles you plagiarize, right? This is becoming a pattern
It’s from song facts it’s not plagiarism
Songfacts is a website where 15 year olds in 2002 would make up stuff about songs and put on there and somehow it stayed up all these years
Posted on 2/12/25 at 1:03 pm to el Gaucho
The message in the o.p. is quite old - nothing new
I love all their albums and Knopflers solo stuff - almost a genre of its own
I love all their albums and Knopflers solo stuff - almost a genre of its own
Posted on 2/12/25 at 1:11 pm to Bayou
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Knopflers
I’ve seen him give credit to JJ Cale as an influence on his career. I can also hear it in his singing tone and guitar work.
Posted on 2/12/25 at 2:48 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
Why do you hate the song?
Posted on 2/12/25 at 3:01 pm to Large Farva
It's funny when I hear this song on the radio there's one line that has been removed. But on Youtube the official VEVO video still has it in.
Posted on 2/12/25 at 4:22 pm to Ranger Call
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love the fact that Mark Knopfler was just chilling listening to two blue collar cats talk about work and it turns into something that lasts forever.
Now I’m wondering what was said versus created.
Posted on 2/12/25 at 4:36 pm to Havoc
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Now I’m wondering what was said versus created.
I bet the words are pretty close to what was actually said. Maybe not in that exact order.
I remember Knopfler telling this story years ago. He was living in New York at the time.
I wonder if those guys ever realized that they inspired such a huge hit song?
I always thought the song was great, because it sounded exactly like things that some appliance delivery guys would say.
Posted on 2/12/25 at 7:33 pm to Large Farva
I just don’t think it’s a good song.
I hated it even as a kid.
I hated it even as a kid.
Posted on 2/12/25 at 8:50 pm to Ranger Call
Money For Nothing doesn't sound one bit like Don't Stand So Close to Me
Posted on 2/12/25 at 9:19 pm to auggie
For some reason it kinda reminds of those old guy outtakes on Dark Side of the Moon.
Posted on 2/12/25 at 9:33 pm to FightinTigersDammit
"I want my mtv"
"Don't stand so close to me"
Not a great rhyming pair, but with a common vocalist I can hear the argument.
"Don't stand so close to me"
Not a great rhyming pair, but with a common vocalist I can hear the argument.
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