Romeo and Juliet
It's awfully predictable to rage against the assembly line-like pop music machine that spews out hits that are impossible to separate from each other. Fortunately, the golden oldies are even more available to us now than they were at their time of creation.
Dire Straits released the album "Making Movies" two years before I was born. I didn't discover this record until the year 2000, but fell in love with it immediately. Mostly because its second track is the best love song ever made.
"Romeo and Juliet" has everything an emotional song needs, and writer/guitar genius Mark Knopfler even managed to leave the cliches out. The phrase "I can't do a love song like the way it's meant to be" is Knopfler at his songwriting best.
Das ewige Thema is so overused it's almost impossible to say something deep that hasn't already been said. So Knopfler's sober voice tells us a tale of lost love, with an open ending which leaves Romeo still searching. Whether men are more desperate than women is not scientifically proven. But the former do at least seem better at turning desperation into art.
Dire Straits released the album "Making Movies" two years before I was born. I didn't discover this record until the year 2000, but fell in love with it immediately. Mostly because its second track is the best love song ever made.
"Romeo and Juliet" has everything an emotional song needs, and writer/guitar genius Mark Knopfler even managed to leave the cliches out. The phrase "I can't do a love song like the way it's meant to be" is Knopfler at his songwriting best.
Das ewige Thema is so overused it's almost impossible to say something deep that hasn't already been said. So Knopfler's sober voice tells us a tale of lost love, with an open ending which leaves Romeo still searching. Whether men are more desperate than women is not scientifically proven. But the former do at least seem better at turning desperation into art.
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