Dire Straits- Your Latest Trick REACTION AND REVIEW

[@ryaneccles1237]

It's one of their best tracks that somehow gets forgotten...

[@thomassharmer7127]

A friend of mine used to call this "falling-off-the-end-of-the-bar-at-midnight" music 😅. I love the way Mark steps back and lets the sax take the lead.

[@sourisvoleur4854]

Sign of a great artist -- they don't insist on being the center of attention. Paul Simon is also very good at stepping back. He lets guest stars take whole songs sometimes (especially on Capeman) or halves of songs ("Homeless" on Rhythm).

[@JustJP]

Lol!

[@jameswormington9978]

This is one of the best songs not many people know of ...

[@roberttee9790]

Love this song. Was underated as it didn't get much radio air play. That kept it fresh to me. Love the sax, love the rhythm, and always thought the lyrics were some of Mark's best. Very clever. Thanks for playing. Enjoyed your reaction to it. 👍

[@chiconildo]

my favorite Dire Straits song.

[@stevenfellows1633]

Love the song.. by far my favourite Dire Straits track ..Gets overlooked a lot so thanks for the review

[@iainweller452]

I haven’t heard this song in ages, forgot how good it is 💙

[@sourisvoleur4854]

Grad school, Chicago, 1985. Far from home, no friends handy. This album was a balm to my very melancholy soul, this song especially.

[@PeterCollings484]

I love this track. Thanks for doing this. Merry Christmas 🎄

[@rosmeeker1964]

One of my faves. Also so good live. So many great lyrics.

[@rosmeeker1964]

Yes. A trick is slang for a prostitute's session.

[@briankuczynski4375]

Definitely one of their sweetest melodies.

[@robertcartier5088]

My fav track by them! That sax resonates deep... Love it!

[@alva1370]

Good one. Thanks JP. Songs like this used to be called a “deep cut”. Didn’t get radio play but a real solid song.

[@cobrasys]

Strangely, it got quite a bit of radio play in Brazil. From Brothers in Arms, I only knew So Far Away and this one before my dad ever bought the CD (the first CD we ever bought in fact!).

[@AriadneJC]

There was a local radio station back at home that I regularly listened to (way down in Padstow, for anyone wondering) that went through a period of playing this even though it was 10-15 years after it was released. Whenever I hear it, it takes me straight back to being about 15 and being back then. I would probably hate it if it didn't have that association but as it is, it holds a dear place in my heart, sending me back to being a teenager and a certain 'late evening' feel.

[@-Ricky_Spanish-]

Just a perfectly sleazy sounding sax, it fits the whole late night city mood of the song so well. One of my favorites from the album.

[@cujocujo4942]

The live On The Night version is soooo good. The crowd literally is signing the sax part.

[@masterpeace8539]

Outstanding sax tune, You gotta watch live version where the crowd is literally singing it.

[@sgtBelson]

The Brecker brothers doin’ their thing on brass here. So many layers of nuance in this one.

[@johnkucak]

I love Dire Straits. I love all the songs. This is a fabulous song love it

[@meecob]

Did you know that the album was the first digitally recorded CD ever to come out ? as alot where using analog recordings still when releasing on CD (the newest format at the time) Brothers in Arms is another standout song on the album. 12 keys might be referring to music literature.

[@EmmanuelPehau]

That one belongs deeply to the the soundtrack of my childhood.

[@RockChickFace]

You need to go to On Every Street lp and try You And Your Friend or Fade To Black. Stunning production and detail

[@StevenQ74]

The final Dire Straits album "on every street" has more songs with a simular vibe like "Planet of New Orleans"

[@christianparsons6050]

Same for me...I'd agree it's one of their best all time tracks...Certainly it appeared on at least one of the 'best of' compilations. Knopflers words and melancholy voice are perfect for each other....conjures up the late night early hours of a seedy New York where Knopfler was living at the time he wrote it..'twelve keys' refers to the 12 musical keys...

[@MrParksies]

Poetic & beautiful.

[@FredericRatel]

Mark Knopfler still played this song in his last tour (you can chekc the songs from this tour on MK's channel) a very enjoyable one, very different from the other songs of the album. It is unfortunate that this song is in the middle of a blockbuster album full of radio hits like Walk of life or Money for Nothing. We can say it is the hidden gem of the album. I also enjoy very much Why worry from this album.

[@spawn4582]

Rock ballad with blues elements, you can play it anywhere, at home, in a bar, in a car.

[@raeann63]

i'm not a huge dire straits fan but this is my favourite.

[@rmason64]

One of their worst songs (Walk of Life) and one of their best on the same album. Following each other. The saxophone in this song is sublime.

[@jamespaivapaiva4460]

Christmas-time and J.P., it's Dire Straits for me. Rockin' 'round The Christmas tree, with St. Nick. Waiting for "Your Latest Trick".🎅🎄🥶✌&❤

[@jimbricker4982]

Trivia: when this album was released back in 85, the LP version did not have the trumpet intro, it started off with the first sax notes. The CD version did have it, along with the extended outro for 'Why Worry.' ... We LP buyers got hosed, and needed to buy the CD as well to get the full monty.

[@michaelbaucom4019]

Cassette version also had full versions of Why Worry, Your Latest Trick, and extended versions of So Far Away and Money For Nothing

[@scotstevens5263]

Great song, great album.

[@mariobaert8346]

Better hand stand than mine! 😂 Great song, great album, great band. I can appreciate Mark's solo albums but still prefer the Dire Straits set of albums. Whenever I play one album I have to play the rest as well. Gets me hooked every time. In fact... Gonna play them right now 👍🏻

[@John_Locke_108]

Making me mad seeing you were shorts. It's 6^ up here in Connecticut this morning at my house. Also, I absolutely love this track. Always been a favorite.

[@jamespaivapaiva4460]

5% before the wind chill here in Woodbury, ho-ho-brrr.!

[@John_Locke_108]

@jamespaivapaiva4460 Sounds about right. I'm practically next door to you in Seymour.

[@jamespaivapaiva4460]

@@John_Locke_108 Hope you live on high ground! I travel Rt. 67 to Yale/ New Haven, what a mess that was! Have a Merry X-mas my friend.

[@John_Locke_108]

@jamespaivapaiva4460 Merry Christmas! Glad to be working from home.

[@JustJP]

One of the few benefits of FL :)

[@HippoYnYrEira]

i warm to the similar instrumental melodies of Local Hero - subtle atmos arty ambience at it's best - but this is The Cashin' Inn of a corporate middle aged demeanour.ironic.

[@albertoramirez6388]

I remember when this would get radio play... where have the years gone?

[@MrCREWCRUSHIN95]

If you want to have truly transcendent experience - listen to DIRE STRAITS LIVE: ALCHEMY. One of the greatest live performances ever captured.

[@MP-TheNewGuy]

In my opinion, it is the start of the best songs on the album. My favorite is the grand finale with the title track.

[@gaiaeternal5131]

Hi Justin. Dave from Across The Ocean. For me the sax makes this song, which I know as one of the UK singles rather than a track from the album (which I've never owned, unlike just about everyone else!). Maybe that's why I don't recognise the trumpet intro, which is also terrific. As you say, it's an infectious song, but I've never been fussed on Mark's vocals here.

[@tamaspolyak5564]

it's one of my favourite DS songs, but as for the album I like the next tree even more.

[@Silber7]

It's one of those.

[@nathancrawley4149]

This is one of the better ones off the album, I also like the next song why worry also so far away

[@mikehagerty4297]

JP---the thing about "Brothers in Arms" is that they're all the best tracks on the album. Each is better than the other in some way. That sounds like gibberish, but once you've done it a song at a time for KZbin, give yourself a straight-through listen and see if you don't agree.

[@Slumbert]

Comedian Dominic Frisby just put a new Christmassong on YT. Super.....

[@herb6677]

Well, I have guessed that you might like this, haven't I? You will not disappointed with any of the rest, I can guarantee! Cheers!

[@thetek2006]

The whole Brothers in Arms album is superb, even if you remove the two big hits Walk of Life and Money for Nothing which for me have never sat quite right on the album, it is a wonderful listen.

[@michaelbaucom4019]

Your Latest Trick would have easily fit in on any of MK's solo albums. It is a foreshadowing of the last Dire Straits album On Every Street and MK's solo career. This isn't necessarily a rock song-- one reason why MK wanted to end Dire Straits and go solo was to do more than rock songs

[@cedricmilford5254]

There’s the hits, yeah they are good. But then there’s the deeper cuts, like this one, that may not get the attention it deserves. But WOW! Be prepared, because there are more deep tracks on this album 👍🏻

[@sigischmidt367]

I GUESS BEST DS SONG

[@jtenaz]

Bernard Herrman music for Taxi Driver is better. That? I don' hate it, but one listen is enough for me.

[@CCDzine]

Best of a so-so album. Many better from other albums. And even though 'Industrial Disease' is a little out of place, all of the 'Love Over Gold' album is better than this song.

[@Slumbert]

🔴🤶🎄🎅⛄⚪Merry XMAS☃️🤶🎄🎅⚪🤶🎅🎄⚪⛄🌲🔴🔘

[@JustJP]

Merry Christmas! :D

[@pentagrammaton6793]

But seriously, that sucked so hard that I could use it to hoover my house 😆

[@pentagrammaton6793]

Great, I was looking for some music for my new lift/elevator 😬