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| 2 | !! The band: |
| 3 | |
| 4 | * The EpicRiff in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAD6Obi7Cag Money for Nothing]]. It's worth noting that in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNGdkfcD9Iw album version]] of the song (which is 8 minutes long, thus the shortened version for the linked video), the song spends 1:36 just building up to that riff. |
| 5 | ** In fact, when Music/WeirdAlYankovic wanted to parody the song, Knopfler offered/demanded to reprise the riff himself. |
| 6 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUW6G5QdyYU "Walk of Life"]]. |
| 7 | * "Tunnel of Love". It contains some of Knopfler’s best guitar playing ever, all through the song. |
| 8 | * The solo at the end of "Sultans of Swing" has convinced many a fan that Mark Knopfler may well be the greatest guitarist alive. Even Music/EricClapton had a hard time keeping up with Knopfler while playing it. |
| 9 | ** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pa9x9fZBtY live version]] is even better. |
| 10 | * Also the solos in "Lady Writer". |
| 11 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiT0mUDCRMU "Industrial Disease"]], a six-minute-long rocker about economic collapse, with an [[EpicRiff epic keyboard riff]]. |
| 12 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TTAXENxbM0 "Telegraph Road"]] is ''14'' minutes of awesome. Particularly the hauntingly beautiful instrumental in the middle, after "Three lanes moving slow". |
| 13 | * The live version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_atRLSxfg_0 "On Every Street"]] juxtaposes the slow buildup with the epic outro featuring some truly stunning steel guitar work from Paul Franklin. |
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