DIRE STRAITS MONEY FOR NOTHING REACTION

[@USMCArchAngel03]

You might not know this, but MTV used to be nothing but music videos. No commercials, no talk, just music one after the other all day, every day.

[@charliemac64]

USMCArchAngel03 There were ALWAYS commercials. ;)

[@Axeman517]

Now it’s eMpTy V

[@jeffk.9075]

Awww Downtown Julie Brown 😊

[@LadybugLuv]

I still can see the whole video in my mind! I don't know it's still called MTV!Smh.

[@Nightcloudmama]

I remember those days. My kids were babies. We somehow hooked the tv into the stereo and it sounded really good. It was like 80 or 81. Check out the MTV music video that they did. Also check out the song Brothers at Arms.

[@Shawn-rq4py]

Can’t get enough of you guys listening to the songs we grew up with for the first time. Y’all missed out some really great music so it’s great to see a new generation appreciate this music..

[@slimofbonar1978]

Music has died, Don McLean got it wrong with the date

[@introvert4everfreddy656]

David Taylor 😆😂

[@laurakrisfalusi2507]

Exactly what I wanted to say!

[@maggied8468]

I'm feeling the same. I'm loving the reactions. Its how I felt myself back in the day amazing 😁

[@maggied8468]

@@slimofbonar1978 Try Dimash perhaps singing S.O.S or Olimpico he's something else. An amazing vocalist. I'm loving this guy's reaction to the music I grew up with. We were lucky. I'm having so many flashbacks 😁😁😁😁😁🙋

[@sentinelmortgagecorp4291]

The background vocals on this are by Sting. Go check out some songs by The Police to hear more of him in his prime. You won’t be sorry.

[@22Cochrane]

"Every Breath You Take" by The Police!

[@jjc5407]

Or Don't Stand So Close To Me, part of the tune of which is used in Money For Nothing hence Sting getting a writing credit!

[@toddmercure9745]

Roxanne

[@alrivers2297]

Walking On the Moon, Spirits in the Material World

[@whovianhistorybuff]

Shape of my heart Englishman in new York

[@cousinjack2841]

Lots of other great rock bands: " Man; that is the best intro ever!" Dire Straits: " Hold my beer".

[@johnday5519]

you gotta watch the video that was all over mtv in the 80's. totally hilarious.

[@willhinrichsen5401]

Thbst version of this songis the one with mark, sting, phill collins and eric clapton live

[@aresgodofwar0422]

@@willhinrichsen5401 when Eric Clapton plays rythm guitar you know you have made it.

[@pattomei70]

Yes watch the video

[@Zebred2001]

Who knew blue collar attitudes could be so catchy? Nice to see artists reconnect with the people who put them there!

[@beverlyhimmelhaver5347]

Jaycee, I'm so happy to young people newly owned by Dire Straits.You should see their video of this song. So funny! It has little Lego men loading the refrigerators, etc. (BWY I'm a old white lady,72yrs. Carry on!

[@MrClobbertime]

Lego men? That was the cutting edge CGI back then, sure has come a long way since then.

[@charliemac64]

MrClobbertime It was cutting-edge CGI made to look like 16 bit! lol

[@ilovesheen7446]

MrClobbertime and the lego movie used cutting edge cgi to make computer lego look real

[@paulmumford7595]

Owned by Dire Straits lol 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

[@TrueEarthNorseman65]

Young man U blow all the other reactors out the damn water. I enjoy your authenticity and vibe bruh! Im 56 and watching you youngstas enjoy my music makes my God Damn Day. Please get your groove going to Sting's song Free Free Set them Free. Much Love and keep grindin!!

[@Efferri]

Knofler overheard some appliance dudes talking about how rock stars got it easy. Pretty much the basis of the song.

[@leonmcnair4615]

Them: How good is Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits? Mark: I have Sting as my back-up singer and Eric Clapton for my rhythm gee-tar

[@lilsuzq32]

^^^^^ *THIS* ^^^^^

[@megamage911]

Yeah, you really don't need to say more than this haha xD

[@kasiaopila7205]

Lmao

[@Aurora2097]

Look a them yoyos! Guitar-god...

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

Possibly the greatest guitar player of all time.

[@brendanharding6699]

Probably one of the best intro's ever

[@musekimsmith]

I came across your channel by accident and have been hooked ever since. Your reactions to some of the songs which I grew up with is soooo wonderful, it always makes me smile and puts me in a good mood. Tunnel of Love and my fave Romeo and Juliet on the Making Movies album by Dire Straits are brilliant. I was lucky enough to see them at Earls Court back in the early 90s with my ex husband who worked in the music business and so I got to see many bands for nothing! Dire Straits were up there with the most memorable 💖💖💖

[@zacharyjarrells7084]

1:35 “They’re probably gonna switch it up.” Oh boy, get ready!

[@elainedowell820]

My husband heard me singing about installing these microwave ovens and goes 'what the hay????'

[@sampuatisamuel9785]

Cute

[@lowrider4266]

Great seeing you enjoying this classic. Takes us back to the beginnings of MTV. Awesome reaction, Thanks.

[@mikebetts2046]

Hopefully you now understand that the song is about a couple guys bumming about the fact that they must perform all this manual labor while the guys on MTV get to play their guitars and get chicks for free.

[@fleetskipper1810]

It’s also a clever bit of satiric self-mockery. They were the guys moving refrigerators and color TVs for a living, working for low wages to pay the bills while hoping to make it playing nights in the music industry. When they finally did, their fans thought that what they did was too easy.

[@somersetfan1]

Mark Knopfler was in the store in New York, looking at tv's... when a delivery guy was mouthing off about the acts on MTV and he started taking notes of the things he was saying.

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

And Knopfler later said he actually overheard 2 guys in an appliance store saying that.

[@bridgetlaw1484]

the legend about this song is the writers ( Mark Knopfler and Sting) ...overheard these two guys in the electronics isle of a department store...(they moved the refrigerators and the microwaves for people who were buying them) ...these two guys were watching MTV on all the dept store televisions...and this was part of their overheard conversation.... " We should have learned to play the guitar or the drums...look at these people..we could'a been millionaires.."

[@tinypurplefishesrunlaughin8052]

Bridget Law exactly, you must be old like me,! Hahaha

[@racinnut77]

You're partially correct. It was only Mark Knopfler at the store. Sting happened to be vacationing where the Straits were recording the album and that's how he became part of the song.

[@MsTypoqueen]

MTV (the station) was completely different when this song was born. Back then it was pretty much all music videos, hence Music TV. I don’t even know why it’s called MTV anymore. Just saying so younger people understand that those sales people were watching music videos.

[@jjc5407]

@@racinnut77's right. Sting only gets a writing credit on this song because Mark wanted to use the tune from the song "Don't stand so close to me" he wrote and recorded as a member of The Police. ("I want my, I want my, I want my MTV" = "Don't stand so, don't stand so, don't stand so close to me".) When the band were recording the Brothers in Arms album in Montserrat they found out Sting was on holiday there and Mark invited him over to sing on the song.

[@WMalven]

Knopfler said he hid himself behind some shelves of electronics and wrote down what the guy was saying and the lyrics were taken directly from his comments.

[@CBGB_1977]

I wish I still had my old I WANT M MTV t-shirt from way back when MTV played nothing but music videos 24/7. I aquired my love for SO MANY BANDS because of MTV. I think it's time to rally and demand the programming return to it's orgin of nothing but music. Old, new, different viaeties from rock, punk, new wave, hip/hop, rap, alternative rock back! "WE WANT OUR MTV BACK!"

[@jayaychare7318]

You can still buy them

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

Too bad everything today is both over-commercialized and over-politicized.

[@LeonaRasalas]

My brother was selling appliances for many years when this song came out. He was not making much money but was working hard. I think this song blew his mind. He said to me wow have you heard this song? I felt for him.

[@jjowen2012]

This is when MTV was new... a long time ago! Love it

[@5972acb]

Sting, the singer, not the wrestler, sang backup. You should listen to Sting' s band The Police. Their most identified song is, " Every Breath You Take". Also, check out " Walk of Life " by Dire Straits.

[@kelst75]

Yes, yes, yes!!!

[@garethrees100]

Best intro ever and the drums are the best. Shivers up and down my spine

[@twalrus1]

The song is taken from the view of blue collar workers looking at music videos. "We have to move microwave ovens and tvs while that little (f-word) on that music video is making millions, getting all the girls and maybe getting a little blister on his finger. That's the way you do it!"

[@mikebetts2046]

Mark Knofler does a decent job articulating the lyrics, but for a first pass, it's probably best to read the lyrics to make sure you are getting the gist of the song. It's not that EVERY dire straits song is deep, but the lyrics typically tell an interesting story. A great long song by them is Telegraph Road. Great music and story.

[@bobdillashaw4360]

You’ll enjoy Walk of life, be sure to play the actual video, it was fun to watch back then!

[@EckyBoy007]

You are right Walk of Life is another catchy song and the video is full of fun and really compliments the song so well kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZWchZ99eb96oas

[@jetfowl]

This was *THE* anthem of the MTV generation. Also, the first video on MTV was the Buggles "Video Killed the Radio Star". Maybe a reaction?

[@Tulkas219]

That intro is designed to lead you into a false Sense of Serenity before hitting you with one of the catchiest guitar hooks in the history of music. Epic song writing and execution.

[@avishmaharaj5941]

That opening guitar riff epic brother.

[@michaelpryor8015]

Mark Knopfler one of my favorite guitarists. The finger picking style he used on this track was hypnotizing in a way idk how to describe it but. He’s one of my biggest influences

[@robinsheppard6400]

Yeah, he really has a distinctive style, almost a staccato thing going on. It's an instantly recognizable sound.

[@MrRondonmon]

They were MOCKING MTV, and it became like the top MTV video of the 80's, go figure.

[@Yesica1993]

One of the songs that defined the 80s!

[@phantomrockerr]

Monster hit back in the 80's.

[@chickenkebabandchips251]

DIRE STRAITS - WALK OF LIFE DIRE STRAITS - BROTHERS IN ARMS

[@dorlacastro1336]

So Far Away.

[@BloxUrbex_Blox]

Sultans of swing

[@JavierRodriguez-rv2iy]

Your Latest Trick.

[@Chatta-Ortega]

Nazareth Speedway

[@bloodybutunbowed291]

THE MAN'S TOO STRONG

[@gileshabibula7006]

Brothers In Arms is one of the more emotionally moving Dire Straits songs, there is a video of it that looks like an animated graphic novel.

[@sonny0888]

Live at "A night in London" is absolutely amazing.

[@mariomariolemieux982]

Last scene, last episode of season 3 of West Wing, they let Brothers in Arms just play over the scene for minutes. It's one of the best uses of a song on tv I've ever seen.

[@ericmorgan204]

Mark K was in a home appliance store and observing the workers and the shoppers, and lyrics like "That ain't working" and "Hawaiian Noises" came from a customer listening to an electric steel guitar in store.

[@Eowyn187]

When MTV played videos 24 hrs a day! Steady chill. #Funky 🎸 "Brothers In Arms" is seriously a good one from them.

[@kenwelch198]

Interesting little fact, this album was one of the first recorded using a totally digital format. I remember listening for the tape hiss and being amazed that it had none.

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

For its time everyone was astonished at the clarity when it came out. I remember buying it as a teenager and being utterly amazed.

[@TheCornishCockney]

Romeo and Juliet and The Walk of Life,you'll love them.

[@jfrfilms6697]

1985: I want my MTV 2020: i don't want MTV

[@melbright100]

Money For Nothing was written in a kitchen appliance store in Nashville TN...the very beginning is slow and the alto voice sayin I want my MTV is actually Sting from the Police...this was a big hit with MTV because this was the first song released for MTV in England and though it was thought was done for advertisement of MTV it was not it was Mark poking fun at all the TVs in the store he was in tuned to MTV

[@flibber123]

"I want my MTV" was the MTV promotional line, so it was kind of an ironic thing to do in having Sting, one of the most successful people on MTV, deliver it.

[@charliemac64]

Also, The Police did one of the self-promo commercials for MTV in like, '82, where they screamed, "I WANT MY MTV!!!"

[@tempsitch5632]

Yeh, not ironic as he'd really done it for real. They all did back then.

[@S-T-E-V-E]

In case no one else said it, that Sting singing 'I want my MTV' at the beginning and the end.

[@Ellen.G]

It was great being a teenager in the 80s! MTV was everything!

[@АлександърСивриев]

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.

[@israel8523]

This song has one of the best intros ever.

[@laurakrisfalusi2507]

I love watching you react to music I’ve loved all my life. And to see you love them as well it’s awesome!

[@cristinarocha187]

Dire Straits é tudo de bom! Sempre ouço! Amo demais! Lendários! From Paquetá Island - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brazil! ✨✨✨🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@foots-qt4pk]

Story of the video... m Mark Knopphler was buying a fridge and overheard a conversation between the men working in anappliance/kitchen installation department when MTV comes on the TV and the men start bitching about how rich etc musicians are while they have to install mocrowave ocens andcustom kitchens! To better understand check out the ufficial video. This was one of the first videos to play on MTV back when it onky played videos 24/7. They played Money for Nothing, Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel, and Take on Me by Aha. "I want my MTV" was a sort of intro catch phrase for Her the MTV station Just a history lesson! Here is one of them featuring The Police! And that is Sting singing badkground! kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3i9hIqanZZqopI

[@rickclark8657]

foots2066 Also that is Sting doing the background vocals

[@melissa9375]

Sting's intro is the iconic hook that grabs the listener from the very beginning. Anyone around at the time this came out will automatically recognize it if you just begin to sing it in that falsetto.

[@deborahdennehy9937]

Adored Dire Straits in the 80's, I was in my 20's, brill....brill....brill!!! Just snazy music, great singers, everything - fabulous!!!

[@famat161]

Dire Straits "Tunnel of Love" is superb. And wait for the guitar solo at the end.

[@jennevaa]

He knows joy and shares it with those that can....

[@nberrypatch02]

Not sure if it'll raise any copyright issues or red flags for KZbin, so perhaps on your own time & off camera, check out the official music video for this song. It was groundbreaking when it premiered in 1985, as it was one of the first ever to utilize computer graphics & animation. This was back in the day of CGI infancy so when the video aired on MTV (back when the channel actually played music videos), no one had ever seen anything like it before. By today's standards it probably comes off as very cheesy but it's still a fun video to watch and it will clearly explain the lyrics of this song more... :-)

[@mrjohnfantastic]

So true. I was about nine when this song came out, and I remember being absolutely blown away by the visuals. For years, it was the coolest example of 3D modeling in popular culture, and I can't hear this song without thinking of the video.

[@thomasdaniels6824]

I love to watch people react to this song, especially when Mark comes in with the opening riff. It doesn't matter what type of genre you prefer, everyone loves the riff.

[@alexvojan2758]

So glad to see you enjoying these songs. Excellent album, the one with this song on it. The guitar on the cover says it all! Keep finding and listening to the good tunes. The days where you needed talent to get on the stage. Thanks for enjoying!

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

He has a vid on his channel where he plays the intro to Romeo and Juliet on that same guitar. I think it’s called “Mark Knopfler” on Guitars”.

[@teamcougars]

Dire Staits definitely had music that made you get up and move it’s impossible to sit still when you’re listening to them IMO.

[@saschab.5995]

Mark Knopfler is one of the best guitarists in the world! Your grin at the beginning has been on my face for over 20 years, every time I hear the song. Good Reaction. 😊

[@whathandleUtalkabt]

Supertramp " the logical song" trust

[@lizzieball3795]

Absolutely an amazing band!

[@22Cochrane]

Yes please!!

[@paulqueripel3493]

I thought Roger Hodgson gets them taken down as soon as he can on copywrite grounds.

[@robertnemec9433]

Roger Hodgson has his own youtube channel where in my opinion there are better versions of his songs for Supertramp kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5ergoZprcedoc0

[@theghost6412]

I liked Scooters cover LOL

[@amer-hh6kp]

Dire Straits first album is their best overall album. It's so so clean . Once upon a time in the west.

[@EckyBoy007]

Awesome song - Awesome reaction video. Good job well done bro :)

[@sionhughes9090]

Telegraph Road is a great song off of the Love Over Gold album by Dire Straits. Worth a listen.

[@Lord_Shouty]

He really really needs to do the Alchemy version of Telegraph Road.....

[@sheilalunn5298]

I am new to your channel. LOVIN' IT!😊 Subbed. Back in the day, my husband (RIP) and his friends delivered for M. Wards and this was their theme song.

[@pitviper8795]

Dire Straits - Telegraph Road, News, Once Upon A Time In The West, Brothers In Arms. So many to choose from.

[@timejiff]

play Edie Grant Electic Avenue for pure vibe.

[@etpelle72]

Yes!

[@Wesker1984]

Gimme Hope Jo'anna, I Don't Wanna Dance, Killer On The Rampage, Livin' On The Frontline....

[@cathysousa1959]

Ive been requesting Eddie for a long time too!

[@devox3291]

One of the greatest songs ever! One of the greatest guitar performances ever. Widely considered to be the greatest music video ever , also.

[@sharatsharma8273]

Always loved dire straits.great guitar,percussion.good vocal.sultans of swing,fab. Loved your co love for the song.yeah,good going.

[@proover]

'Walk of Life' is another staple track highly recommended

[@brahamwardrober6774]

I don't think anyone else mentioned that the catchline for one of MTV's early ad campaigns was "I want my MTV."

[@graybeard1952]

React to Romeo and Juliet from Dire Straits.

[@suzannelemieux3357]

Oh my god, I LOVE that song!!! So beautiful and sad and funny...best lyrics Knopfler ever wrote, and he is a killer!

[@jkardi9803]

This song was remastered later with a change of lyrics to replace the f-word in the 2nd verse. Mark Knopffler said the song didn't age well in that sense and he wanted to make a change with the realization that what was once culturally acceptable was no longer.

[@zep68cd]

One of my favourite intros, riff, and solo ever. Such a simple concept to create such an amazing tune.

[@yvonnewinters9699]

Mark Knopfler wrote the song (I believe) and wrote it about the conversation two movers had at a bar/supermarket. He overheard them and that basically became the lyrics. Hence the ‘we’ve got to install microwave ovens, costum kitchen delivery’...

[@abbizmal]

Comparing real working and ain't working, chicks throwing themselves at rock stars, not need to spend money to get some. Ah, the life.

[@squint04]

Sting, singing "The Tag Line" I want My MTV!! The 80's what a great time!!

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

And vastly underrated.

[@pamelastern9251]

Guess what? This song still gets TONS of airplay to this very day, heard it on Sirius XM this afternoon!

[@reddragon6964]

This is a great song! Reminds me a little bit of Pink Floyd. Thanks for the Reaction!

[@BenjoReacts]

That slow building intro was worth the wait, wasn’t it my brother? ❤️🔥The song is about the money and fame from being a music star 🔥

[@toddstevens13]

The slow building intro, an homage to Pink Floyd perhaps??? Just a guess.

[@tomgeorge7281]

IIRC the words were from MTV’s ads back in the day. You were supposed to call your cable company and tell them “I WANT MY MTV!”

[@3DJapan]

If you didn't know, "I want my MTV" was MTVs original advertising slogan.

[@charliemac64]

Phil Nolan Sting and the Police made a plug on the old self-promo commercials MTV would air by screaming, "I WANT MY MTV!!!"

[@johnkimble2008]

First music video ever I saw as a 4 yo kid in the 80s was this song on a 26" Panasonic console color TV. It had a nice solid oak finish.

[@catherinehubbard1167]

The video that was made for this song cannot be missed. It had the first totally CGI animation ever and it's great with the piece.

[@tacbear]

The opening is "Sting" from"The Police"...then Mark Knopfler takes over!!!!I got MTV on cable when I went to my first duty station in Texas...it got me through some tough times!!!!

[@kileynugent634]

I grew up to this kind of music ! I’m 25 and me and my father drinking while singing this together brings happiness 😂

[@briantillman2812]

Another great reaction my man, thank you!

[@Noelle0026]

This song came about after Mark Knofler heard delivery guys in an appliance store talking. This was when MTV was new so the song makes more sense if you know that. Great song. One of the best guitar intros!

[@heathercezanne30]

I think it is cool that Sting said the I want my MTV part in the opening of the song.

[@bossdog1480]

The guy singing in the high voice is Sting originally from The Police. The video was the first cartoon MTV clip I ever saw.

[@alesank1621]

one of the best intros ever

[@groovyray]

Dire straits the walk of life is another fantastic song Jayvee. Please please could you do that one next on your channel. Thanks

[@wildmandon1]

You have to check out the music video to this song.

[@kryten09]

This is the first music video I remember seeing as a 3 or 4 year old in the mid 80's. First CGI I ever saw too. Blew my mind even as a toddler.

[@dimademusenko1699]

That’s reaction is so good man, dire straits are fantastic!

[@MrRadicalFish]

The microwave ovens, custom kitchens, refrigerators and color TVs were a parody within the MTV video of the commercials that would appear on MTV itself.

[@alexrino22]

This song has one of the fewest intro you must listen to with your eyes closed. It's like a trip.

[@narnyslip]

Mark was in a store in NY. The delivery guys were talking and he wrote what they were saying while the guys were watching the monitors in the store and commenting on the music videos that were playing. True story.

[@micaelasimon6027]

You know the singer singing "I want my MTV" and throughout the song in the background is Sting from The Police. They did a collaborative.

[@j.m.5917]

You really must check out the video they made for this song. A groundbreaking early use of CGI graphics to illustrate the back story behind this song. MTVplayed this video over and over and over and I could never get enough of it.

[@ZillaMesh]

Intro alone should be in the rock n roll hall of fame. That was one of the first songs I ever listened to & was like wow that intro took me on a journey that shot me out of a rocket.

[@mezellenjohnson2753]

The animated film with this song is on KZbin, I love it and I suggest you will too sweetheart. I also suggest their concert in Sydney Australia 1986 which is also on KZbin. The extra instrumentals are wonderful on each song, some of the songs are 10 minutes or more. My husband and I love watching you for your reactions to the music we both love. It means so much that you, a young man is enjoying the music of the past. Mary-Ellen and Terry UK

[@mizfurball]

The head of Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler, was in an appliance store. The salesmen were watching MTV and commenting. That is the origin of the song.

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

He asked Billy Gibbons how to get that phat sound. Check out Cannibals from his solo album Golden Heart. This album was also one of the very first full digital commercial recordings made.