Dire Straits - Ride Across the River

[@bit5729]

Annoyingly underrated, this song is amazing

[@randallfrank5682]

The percussion on this song is absolutely amazing!

[@flumpyhumpy]

The percussion and bass dance a beautiful dance like no other track I've ever heard. Totally amazing. Intertwined. Bliss.

[@jeffrandallrozario]

This is my Dad's all time favorite song ! I just love how he just vibes effortlessly when I play this song and fix him a whiskey on the rocks.

[@smokiebird06]

I don't know if he's the greatest guitarist of all time, but he sure as hell is my favorite guitarist of all time. He also comes in second and third.

[@stephenprice9245]

Gutiarist mark it doesn't get BETTER

[@swinginbeboptrio]

He is mine too. I wanted to play guitar when I listened to Sultans of Swing. It sounded like how the guitar should be played.

[@gerritpronk2196]

I totally agree 👍

[@MrCisco940]

@@stephenprice9245 I agree with you sir..and his message is right and true

[@Tommy1977777]

In mind he's the greatest. Polished, practiced, mastered.

[@knightonart8886]

This song is a very unique vibe. It makes me feel like I'm on a boat going down a river deep in the African jungle, probably because of the drums, flute, and crickets.

[@jakethemistakeRulez]

I like the descriptive terminology "unique vibe". Lol. I really like that M16 sound effect too.

[@albertoportoalegre5391]

I feel exactly the same !

[@amarupa5248]

A mi también!! (Me too) ;)

[@mr.thomas6072]

That is The Congo River you're riding, my friend

[@smokiebird06]

It always felt like South America to me.

[@ariandel8917]

This song will forever held a special place in my heart...

[@philipriesling3897]

Masterpiece…. Say no more

[@kathycross770]

Best guitar ever I'm 65 yrs old and this is still my go to music.

[@mikemustang3791]

I am 55, damn we are so lucky to have lived through this. Mark is one of the last of the dying breed, literally unfortunately....

[@AndieBlack13]

62 yrs here, had this album on vinyl...then CD, now online...just as spectacular as it was..and still is...Those drums altering side to side sounds wonderful on headphones...

[@icemule]

This is a BASS guitar song Kathy.

[@AndieBlack13]

@@icemule Mark King of Level 42 does great bass-guitar stuff..."Man" for example...2009 live version in Holland

[@ImYourHuckleberry_29]

@@mikemustang3791 I'm 46 and I am lucky to have lived in the time this was released.

[@choosetherightify]

I didn't get to hear this as a child, even though I grew up during the time this was produced. However, my children WILL grow up with Mark's music. It's second to none. Incredible production, recording, and performance quality is hard to find in one artist/band. Incredible!

[@LaDawnaThompson]

My record player was right next my bed! This song was always on at bed time .. that and Sade 1984 .. so relaxing …

[@ABDULQADIR-yy6qm]

Diamond Life was about love, emotions & betrayal while this is purely Soldiers Anthem... but both Musicians/Singers are one of very few best..

[@kmcel190]

Dire Straits, and Knopfler are on another level. I remember exactly what I was doing when I first heard this song. It was mesmerizing, as are all of the songs on this album.

[@vegasbattleborn1594]

This whole album never got the full play it deserves. Was listening to XM today & it came on. One of two favs from this album. Many an evening spent listening to this beside the lake here. Mark plays like no other. Your post about remembering where you were...me too.

[@Piotrus31492]

Mark Knopfler still astonishes me with his perfect productions - despite modern times, he and the band sound almost exactly like it was all 1977, the same climate, the same feeing they''re playing this song just for you and your friends, not for anybody else. that is called timeless music. a week ago i heard this song for the first time and fell in love with it immediately.

[@kevinsayles7426]

we all know how great Mark's guitar work is on this track, but for me it's the trumpet that makes this my all time favorite Dire straits song

[@cindytraylor4535]

yes

[@ariraki]

Randy Brecker plays the trumpet

[@BucksMusicJourney]

@@ariraki I'm in good company here. You don't hear it often named as most favorite song, but this is my favorite too. It's magical.

[@borisbelkine6605]

One of the most genius performances I've ever listened. Unforgettable.

[@viktorhenrikes1]

In 1985, I was 14 years old, and on that summer afternoon, i was playing cards with my friend at his home... and suddently this Song came up on the radio. I Said: "Stop everything! What music is this?... Dire Straits?... I want this Record!!!"

[@dokfalloul8660]

mark knopfler is simply the best guitarist in all time ride across the river amazing track thank you

[@Yashiro-nene_dies]

This album has better production quality compared to most albums of today.

[@flumpyhumpy]

It's the space. There's space for each instrument to be heard and to breathe. It's not a constant barrage. You can contemplate. Similarly, the albums back in those days had an appreciable gap between tracks. A silence for you to digest and in which to cleanse your aural palate before the next track started. Now music production is like being fucked by a 17-year-old bogan. All frenzied attack with no dynamic or nuance. And then it's over. And straight into the next assault.

[@3clarkfamily]

because it was the first DDD mass produced CD.

[@JP-ec9rl]

You've gotta start with quality composition to begin with. You could have the best production money can buy, it will never change the fact that 99.9% of today's soulless music just sucks!

[@Yashiro-nene_dies]

@@JP-ec9rl If you're looking for modern music with some of the best production you should listen to porcupine tree. Glass arm shattering is a good song to listen to.

[@swamifakkananda4043]

And your comment is better than most comments. 😁😁😁

[@Bella-bz7fq]

My uncle Terri died in Vietnam.😐He was only 23 years old.🙁🔔🇺🇸God bless u.s.!

[@hendrikdebruin4012]

I was forced into the SADF at age 16 after school to fight the Cubans in Angola. My condolences to your family.

[@Tommytucamoto]

Respect to your family from uk x

[@karimousaad453]

Brilliant song, true lyrics and sensational music. The guitar is weeping.... Thanks maestro !

[@tpierce2155]

This album changed me profoundly. I grew up because of Mark Knopfler. Amazing amazing band.

[@xmas8155]

i hope this one didn't change you profoundly, i used to smoke dope to it way back when...

[@camerongillespie9980]

A great compliment and so true

[@markholder6851]

I absolutely love this track. I think it might be my favourite dire straits track

[@you2ber252]

Same for me!

[@danielsharon524]

So difficult to pick just one but...

[@BucksMusicJourney]

Mine too!

[@andrewpetik2034]

It is definitely in my top three..... Sultans of Swing Brothers in Arms Ride Across the River Not necessarily in that order.

[@jamiecapes2644]

This track, and the title track from Love over gold.

[@donhanlon7121]

My favourite track off Brothers in Arms lovely reggae feel, so well constructed 🎸🥁🔥💯👍

[@straywolf77]

That semi-raggae tune.... Was so f'n epic. My favorite song by Dire.

[@russ8889]

Great album.....but this is one fantastic track....standing ovation 👏

[@katiaclaro5149]

De acordo!👍

[@Guitarmaster7272]

This song is absolutely beautiful. Not a single flaw.

[@donjoe5940]

When I'am listening to music just after sun goes down, I start with this most of the time. Also helps me to walk down the memory lane.

[@swarfmaster]

I flipped my new CD into my player while backpacking in Silver Creek in the Sierra in 86. I had not listened to it yet. I was so mind blown I had to sit and listen to the whole thing again.. this song took the prize. Especially the solos.

[@TheRokko66]

I bought the cd version back in 1985. This song is one of the best! I wonder if this is some mercenaries on a patrol boat across the Mekong river? You can hear the echoing sound of rifles firing in the background. There is the sound of an asian flute

[@stevehelling134]

I have probably listened to this track 1,000 times since I first bought the album back in high school...and it always stirs up profound and primal emotions. This song has never lost its power over me.

[@Sabbathman1979]

After decades of knowing Dire Straits on the basis of their greatest hits, through MTV and radio and from compilations, I'm now listening to this song and this whole album from the beginning to the end, for the first time ever in my life, from vinyl. 🎸📺💸✨

[@ant6541]

The two that got such radio/video play are ok, but by far the least greatest on this album. Kind of similar to Van Halen's 1984.

[@stevec1972ad]

I am a hundred percent convinced that Knopfler was sent by God so he could translate to us earthlings the magical sounds that abound in heaven. Hallelujah

[@RinpochesRose]

Thank goodness I finally found this as I couldnt recall the title or lyric, just that amazing riff. Sending me mad all day 🙄🙂

[@lions679]

Dire straits has so many hits this is one

[@rhondawebb7985]

Simply one of the most brilliant artists around!! Love you Mark Knopfler....You sir, are a Guitar God!

[@STONEDARTphotos]

Reminds me of the early 70s crossing the Mekong river from Thailand into Laos. Love the song and hate it at the same time.

[@teray45]

Thank you for your service.You are never forgotten 🇺🇸

[@ghostmost2614]

You were never in Laos 😉 Semp Fi

[@jlhistory]

Thank you for serving our country

[@TrishBell1]

Thank you for your deep honesty.

[@GreenElfMom]

I'm so sorry. :(

[@jirigillespie1782]

A guitarist that was highly underrated! The man was undoubtably a great guitar player that never got the recognition he should have!!!

[@reneebrillant8061]

So talented. One of the most gorgeous antiwar anthems ever

[@alabhaois]

Along with Brothers in Arms, of course

[@swamifakkananda4043]

Renee, u r brilliant.

[@ginog9684]

In 1985 or '86 DS played outdoors in Cleveland, OH. Took a break, came back for the second half. This was the first song, and amazingly the humidity had risen as dark came on, and so a natural fog accentuated the fog machine and that intro began … eerie, chilling, magical.

[@Simon-ft5ru]

I was 17 just joined royal marines evryone had this album the best Dire straits I think

[@chaswilliams4379]

Mark Knopfler is really in a league of his own isn't he? He's got a guitar tone so distinct, like Clapton or Gilmour. You know it's Mark from the first note. I may be biased but if you don't see the genius of the picker he is then you don't see it. I guess. A genuine guitar God with so many facets. Sultan of the Stratocaster

[@gathorash]

dire straits had 2 lead singers: Mark Knopfler and Mark Knopfler's guitar

[@fawadmalik2477]

Well said

[@reefreacher2stevemiller24]

Exactly, what a perfect way to put it. I’m going to play this again and again today. Great snow day song

[@MrSurelysure]

the thing is the first one was much worse than the second one.

[@deancade114]

Exactly

[@vageliskomninos2723]

hahaaha very well put Gathor :)

[@fauxmanchu8094]

Listened to this track over and over again whilst traversing through thick jungle canopies on one side and the precipitous cliff on the other plunging onto a raging river below in the 80's through the Wild West of Asia. It was a hellhole of bandits, guerrillas, paramilitary, the military, loony deserters reminiscent of colonel Kurtz, Maoist rebels and secessionist groups fighting the government supported by the U.S. It was dangerous, it was unforgettable and this song brings me back to those days. Mark knopler has captured the surrealism of those times with this song. He's a genius.

[@17henke]

You ex CIA 😂😂😂

[@stevestevenson5906]

Yep, reminds me of Biafra...

[@1gravityann]

great song. the whole album is as good too. my heart sinks remembering wondering if my daddy will be one of those that make it home from the war. it was many moons ago but you always remember that feeling deep down in your gut. 😶

[@meenakshishah3090]

Fantastic track! I was little when my dad used to play this song. My favourite guitarist!!!!

[@mark.J6708]

I still have the original vinyl i bought of this... rests and spreads across the soul of my lifetime.. too much war, too little peace, and too hard on all.

[@davidleepaslay738]

I love everything they created. Can’t say that about any other band I know.

[@deadstar44]

A guitar tone and a touch to die for.

[@wills.1978]

Too good. Makes you want to find a river and ride across that thing. Knopfler was incredible.

[@rhondawebb7985]

IS still INCREDIBLE!! Going to see him Sept 7th in Sugar Land, TX.

[@thomasingersoll2574]

Simply EXTRAORDINARY..... brings to life a STORY.... I imagine a Central/ South American guerilla every time... AMAZING guitar and effects/ composition

[@happentodie]

Thomas Ingersoll ii imagine exactly the same , this is some che guevara shit right here

[@swamifakkananda4043]

And I imagine cia operatives overthrowing another government somewhere in the world.

[@smokiebird06]

To Thomas Ingersoll. Perfectly said.

[@Reenee_E]

Awesome music. Still listening...and loving 😍😊

[@atbibfatimazohra6287]

Mark is à god among musicians..there´s no other words to say

[@jkev1122]

Dire Straits were indeed the sultans of swing.

[@sharonbethell9808]

Favorite album... saw them perform this live...one of my favorite life experiences!

[@peterchan3887]

This is absolutely a wonderful song. everything is perfect! Love ever lasting!

[@GreenElfMom]

In addition to the magic of Mark Knopfler's guitarwork, there is the magic of the flute-work in this song. Those two factors, along with the other musical ingredients that make up "Across the River," make listening to it an mind-expanding experience.

[@abdouabderrahmane9665]

This album is genius you can't choose the best song !

[@williamlarochelle6833]

I can: "Ride Across the River."

[@luciacintra2128]

He is brilliant ❤️

[@normsmith5277]

Takes me back to Honduras late 80s…great song.

[@ecabernet]

I love the 3rd verse, the opening is so good. Just the whole transition from the guitar solo into that verse is just so smooth. Takes a tiny break, and then... I mean how can you not sing along to that?

[@Blisstew]

Used to always play this song as I rode over a bridge going south or north over the Colorado River near Moab, Utah. As a salesman I was always on the road or in an airplane. Loved this, would think of my horse and splashing him through water. He was too often waiting in the pasture for our adventures.

[@Afrikitty]

I've been a fan of Dire Straits since their debut album came out in the late 1970s. They never put a foot wrong. (^_^)

[@mucy2807]

Still amazing - I remember this album playing in our family car when I were 13-15. I had my whole life ahead of me….

[@chrisperrien7055]

So you stole the family car and got high?

[@mucy2807]

@@chrisperrien7055 Nope. I think you’re high.

[@gemmieryan2967]

My Dad had this AMAZING Album in his car also Rumours Fleetwood Mac....childhood

[@kellywatkins6409]

Yeah, I was that dad as well. My kids are always amazed when they here a song like this in a movie or video game. Takes en right back to riding with dad blasting tunes in the car.

[@straywolf77]

Man I feel old...

[@gaiyulipetroniy8392]

Сколько бы не слушал эту песню в разных выступлениях Марка всегда интересная глубокая музыка и хорошо продуманный текст. Нравится очень спасибо Марку и его команде за это произведение искусства!

[@jaads7910]

Great guitar from the master

[@AllSam72]

Впервые услышал этот трек в 1987-м году. С тех пор поклонник Dire Straits и Марка Нопфлера. Узнаю его уникальные гитарные пассажи пальцами по струнам с первых нот.

[@aldendado8461]

This song I always listen on big speakers, only then You can feel the real base sound, on small speaker it sounds little harsh. I love the production of Dire Straits because every instrument has its own space and clarity. I don't know how record the tracks, every instruments on its own channel or in group, but it's really great.

[@wakanda7vent22mg3]

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[@donaldkamei]

Amazing voice Amazon guitar sounds!! Awesome 👍👍👍

[@jouniku]

This sing got me into DS/MK music, a true blessing! And one of the few songs that sound better as the studio version than live.

[@terrykronlage3629]

Love this deep cut. Never should've gone unnoticed

[@wakcackle3555]

This album was pretty fresh in 1986, and I was riding a tour bus up the coast of Peru to Trujillo. Watching the sand dunes, and pyramids as we were driving by. It was so surreal. This music was familiar company by the time the trip was up.

[@richr7604]

Classic rock at it's best, great then still great now..

[@dangeroustoys5668]

The brothers in arms album has always been my favorite , bought the tape n wore it out n bought the cd, amazing music.

[@sebasdebordeaux8347]

This song as well as Telegraph road is OUT OF RANGE.. TOO strong and meaningful

[@ArbenDubova]

+ Brother in Arms

[@Fandango711]

Brilliant, thank you Mark, thank you Dire Straits!

[@jonathonedwardmiller]

This is my favorite songs on brothers in arms

[@dyar1978]

This song reminds me of 'nam, just glad to be home.

[@blueskeleton7744]

Been listening strong since the first album.. "Fond memories is the inner strength to make the backbone to ones future"... This kind of music goes through the soul and into the marrow for one to leave the future, and bless the past memories and though to continue on... Amen to you brothers and sisters.. stay on your path.. don't wander off. Abatar

[@009ayhancan]

Wonderful musical.

[@vratarportirgolman]

It's perfectly fine to stray as long as you have the path in sight. Heck, you may even lose the path from the pupil and know where it is nonetheless.

[@rejmons1]

"Nothing gonna stop them as the day follows the night Right becomes wrong, the left becomes the right And they sing as they march with their flags unfurled Today in the mountains, tomorrow the world" Very wise words

[@fernandogross3484]

I think it actually is "tomorrow the roads"

[@MultiStrickland]

@@fernandogross3484 No

[@pauluzzzzzz]

​@@fernandogross3484nope

[@jhatter67]

Love this song! For me it has a Listening Wind (Talking Heads) vibe to it!

[@E.N.E.]

+30 years and everybody got different meanings from this song. Master class

[@danmay1808]

Thank YOU, Dire Straits!!!! :D .... SO many amazing memories of being a kid listening to this! Flipping Love it!! x

[@lazybones69]

My folks used to play this album in the car when I was a kid, and it annoyed the f**k outta me. Decided to give it another try a few years ago and it's become one of my favourite albums of all time.

[@francknattario329]

*The best instrumental of all times!!!*

[@shawnbrecht785]

in my 56 years of rock and roll brothers in arms is my favorite, dire straits nailed this one

[@dirtygnome]

Have loved this song since it’s release and continue to love it in 2021. One of the all time greatest songs I’ve added to my life list ✨❤️✨

[@JolandeSpencer]

Absolutely the best..can listen to it all day!

[@MarkYohanna-ju5ug]

The build-up and then that long chord at the end, strikes me to the core.

[@danielburns987]

this song went to #21 on the mainstream rock charts in 1986!!!

[@djbackspin911]

Perfect late night track

[@chrisperrien7055]

Truely "spooky" song . Added with Brothers in Arms, it hits among vets from back in the day. Salute/Toast/Brost to my Brothers in Arms. I am drinking the best Margarita in the land right now.

[@thearchiveofmylife]

1986 No.1 ALBUM: Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms After all the miscellaneous greatest hits albums that marked quite a few of my birthdays in the deep dark Seventies, the Eighties were now making up for that with some truly iconic releases which last even up to now. I had ‘Brothers In Arms’ on cassette which meant it was one of those albums which was in my Walkman while cycling around on my black and gold Raieigh Burner. This was a good move as, if I’d had the vinyl edition then half the tracks would have been hacked to pieces to make them fit on that format. The CD age was dawning and this was one way they could bolster the sales of this new magical sorcery. At this point, CD players would have cost this arm and that leg. I would have to wait a few more years before I got the chance to own one. So I got the full versions without the expense, even though half of side 2 was blank so had to constantly fast forward to the end before flipping it back over. The album itself was musically immense, and even though the big hits got a bit tiresome due to constantly being rammed through the radio speakers on the airwaves, the other tracks made up for it. #mymusicalroadto50

[@nathanmillet6257]

Knofler is a new realm of music

[@darreldarrel3681]

He has always been in the top. now 30+ years proves it.

[@patb5266]

"World Music" vibe to this classic, a decade when World Music came into being. so many great artists from around the world introduced to the "west".

[@4cbd]

Cleanest guitarist ever! Mark never screeches a string!!! !!!!

[@riffmon]

Saw him again Aug 27th. The boy's still got it!

[@tv2109]

My God how have I never heard this amazing song

[@connorlachs3871]

Welcome to the other side 🙏🏻

[@sharonShazzy455]

Still sounds good in June 2019 great band

[@hibbihassan63]

Grand poète,Grand chanteur, Grand guitariste,l'un des meilleurs compositeur de ce siècle au côté des pink floyd,le non, Dylan

[@neiltonks]

36 years on. And it STILL holds up to the rubbish pumped out today

[@davewright6463]

Means so many things to different people. My personal opinion is it takes me in a journey that has relevance through my life, see another meaning, a hard time through family bereavement but this song brings me closer to that person in particular and through life's struggles as a child! As an adult I listen to this song and it takes me back to those hard times and reminds me what strength this song brought. On a music level it's fantastic in many ways, through certain emotion in the voice of Mark to the instrumentals. I hope this song makes people feel a peace like I have however appreciate we are all different but as long as it's peace and not hateful then free speech, feeling and thought to all men women and children. Sorry for the essay lol

[@ZeeshanAnsari-oo8dy]

Chamone Michael! You are so right. This was the first DS song I listened to in 1992 and have been spellbound till now.

[@mourad1969]

Well said 🖒✌

[@somasundarambalakrishnan3107]

Houston rocks proud to rock with Dire Straits tuneage !!

[@mitchellleith4969]

Can you imagine what you hear? A great song for a metaphysical experience within your mind.