first time hearing Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms (Reaction!!)

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[chrisnelson]

As a recently retired USMC LtCol of 22 years... this song was played at the memorial for all 3 of my friends and 1 roommate who died during my career. I love this song, but I hate this song, and I will turn it off if I hear it at a random moment I didn't plan for during the day. There's no argument, though, that Mark Knopfler and his guitar paint an amazing picture of life and death with your brothers in arms, and even though I clicked purposefully on your reaction video to see what you thought and was prepared to hear still cried halfway through it, thinking about the friends I lost.

[McDowell]

It's a duet between his voice and the guitar and it feels like the guitar has a life of it's own

[aaronherbison]

There's a reason why the album "Brothers in arms" is one of the best selling albums of all time. It's a masterpiece

[jakubem.]

In my opinion, Brothers in Arms is the most beautiful song and the most beautiful guitar performance in the history of mankind. I know this song by heart, I listen to it several times a week and I still get moved by that "crying guitar"

[firefighterchick]

This is one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs ever written or performed.
It was written during the Falkland War.
"We are fools to make war on our brothers in arms."
Meaning that we are of one world and yet we kill each when we are all brothers.

[earlofsmeg]

I was both in Iraq and Afghanistan. Seven years, which I will never get back. The only thing I miss are the guys who served with me. My brothers in arms.

[nottmsteve]

The FINEST GUITARIST OF ALL TIME, in my humble opinion

[viper]

I served 17 years with the Brit military and this always brings a tear to my eye and chokes me up. My grandad was in the 1st WW and won the Military Medal for bravery in the field ..he was on the Somme and Pachendale ..my hero.

[chrisjenkins]

🎼Dire Straits will take you to many different worlds. Mark Knopfler is now 74 years old and is still playing. He can make a guitar cry when he chooses. Brothers is one fine example. Take the time to react to Telegraph Road. What a story! It says it all.☮️💟

[robertvantassel]

As a veteran.. This song holds in my soul..

[merrilynhunt]

Mark is now 74 years old and has a new album coming out in April.

[brianking]

This song is so appropriate, given what's going on in the world in 2024. "We're fools to make war on our brothers in arms."

[lillielangtry]

Israel, Palestinian, Iran, Ukraine, infighting on our own streets...😢😢😢😢😢 what a horrible thing we do to each other 😢....on and on and on...

[scottphelps]

Mark did not even need lyrics, his guitar spoke straight to your soul. And this one more than any other always gets me. The very best from my favorite band of all time.

[bul]

I know Mark Knopfler gets a lot of recognition and is held in high esteem, particularly amongst his peers, other musicians. But no matter what I will always think he's a criminally underrated guitarist. SO much talent!!

[georgesheffield]

The animator of this video also deserves recognition too.

[Wolverines]

Old Marine here. This song literally turned my life around when I was 16 and a junior in high school. I had lost my entire structure to my life starting Oct 23, 1983, with the bombing of the Marine barracks at Beirut Intl Airport. I was an Air Force kid living in West Germany, and for two straight weeks, I would have to walk within 50 feet of the two hangars where the bulk of the remains of our 242 Marines, Sailors and Soldiers were being brought to be ID'd and processed before returning them home to their families. I would often catch the looks on the young men and women outside on breaks as I would walk past (many only 5 or 6 years my senior), and it made me realize that the world had been turned on its head. Just 4½ months later, one of the C-130s in my dad's squadron went down on a snow-covered mountain in northwest Spain, performing a night jump by the Combat Controllers that worked side-by-side with my dad's squadron. In the blink of an eye, we lost 16 men (all of whom I had known from the 3 years dad had been the First Sergeant of this squadron. A few in particular were super close to our family. One was basically my 19 year old older brother. A few months later, we transferred to Sacramento (Mather AFB), and I was too late to get into half the classes I needed towards graduation. I started skipping half my classes, fighting every waking minute with mom and dad, ran away for several 3-4 days stints. I was close to just enlisting in the Army as a dropout, but I had to wait until I was 17 and have the parents sign off. My best friend pulled into the school parking lot and saw me sitting there contimplating the entirety of my universe, and he motioned me over. I got into his car, and he just purchased the Dire Straits album that had just dropped. I was happy to have something new and exciting to take my mind out of the downward spiral I was in. This song came on, and by the half-way way point I knew in my heart that I needed to finish school and enlist in the military and honor all of those men and even my Dad's service. Luckily, we transferred back to West Germany for my senior year and with a world-class team of teachers, I made it graduation. I ended up having to enlist in the Marine Corps.

There are at least 15 different live versions that make this studio version seem like a B+. My personal favorite is "A Night In London" 1993 BBC concert performance. Mark's guitar blending in with the string quartet really rips at every fiber in your heart and soul...

Thank you for checking this out, I wish I could afford a few dollars a month to join your Patreon. Maybe if my situation brightens soon I will...

[grantbaechler]

I've always felt that Mark's guitar is the lead vocals of this song and his vocals are the backup . That's how hard emotionally it hits you.

[johndoe-gtgp]

Few guitarists can squeeze tears out of a guitar quite like Mark Knopfler. He’s a genius in both playing and writing.