SO HEARTBREAKING!!! | First Time Hearing Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms | REACTION 

I am 62 years old now and I was 20 years old when I served in the 2nd Battalion B Company of the Parachute Regiment and fought at Goose Green in the Falklands War 1982. I lost good friends there and saw many horrific things on both sides in the battles of Goose Green and Darwin all of which still haunt me to this day. I left the army after that as I had my fill with war, or I thought I had, as many years later I would experience it again. I couldn’t cope with life in the UK as everyone thought you were a hero, yet I didn’t feel like a hero, just numb and I think people who have served in battle will know the feeling. Anyway, I started to travel the world and over two years I had been to over thirty countries and felt refreshed and clean again. I met a Polish girl on my travels and fell in love and moved to Poland and that was in 1989. I have been here since then living my life quietly and happily until Putin decided to invade Ukraine and as I have many friends there it has affected us deeply. We have lost two good friends to this disgustingly unjust war who both left behind families grieving for their fathers and husbands, but they are two families out of many that daily suffer the same fate. Both of the previously mentioned wars were a consequence of political initiation for the wrong reasons, with Margret Thatcher’s unpopular government seeing a chance to gain popularity again as her PR machine went into overdrive at that time and cemented Thatcher’s reputation as the ‘Iron Lady’ and the Falklands War saved her political skin. When I listen to Brothers in Arms it is deeply personal to me, and I despise war and the pointless tragic consequences it brings. It’s a shame that politicians forget that they serve for the good of people and not their own megalomaniac political control over people’s lives.

"It almost sounds like the guitar is crying" EXACTLY! That's spot on.

As an ex-military who participated in war as a solider, this song is special to me. It’s been almost 20 years, but this song reminds me the part of myself that was lost there. I still have flashbacks and memories from living in hell, but my brothers in arms who were with me helped to come out on this other side. In wars there are only losers, no winners - that’s what this song means to me. Thanks for covering it.

This song is about a Royal Marine killed in the Falklands war. As a soldier and disabled veteran myself it holds a very special meaning for me. It reminds me of the conflict I still have within me -- between my mind and my spirit - trying to deal with the horror of war and the devastation caused in the past by wounds and the loss of comrades, while simultaneously embracing the present. That same conflict can be heard between Mark Knopfler's voice and the voice of his guitar. One is calm, while the other struggles in torment. I cannot listen to this song without losing my composure. Thank you for reviewing this.

"Now the sun's gone to hell and The moon's riding high Let me bid you farewell Every man has to die But it's written in the starlight And every line in your palm We're fools to make war On our brothers in arms" Such powerful lyrics!

If this song doesn't choke you up, you are not a human being.

the song is written from the perspective of a dying soldier and his buddies (his brothers in arms) are staying with him while he is dying. This was written after the Falkland War in 1982 where the story of the song is taking place but in reality it’s about all soldiers from any nation at any times, they were all brothers in arms

I lost my Son in Afghanistan in 2012. This song makes me a blubbering fool every time I hear it. Thank you for reacting to this song, Aileen.

This is the genius of Mark Knopfler. He can make his guitar sing and cry along with him. I love Dire Straits music because Mark let's the guitar do most of the singing and crying, preferring for his vocals to take a bit of a back seat. What an immensely powerful and emotional song, paying tribute to all those incredible service-men and women who give their lives for their countries around the world to enjoy the freedoms we all take for granted every day of our lives. 💔💔💔💔💔💔

“Mark Knopfler has an extraordinary ability to make a Schecter Custom Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night, exhausted from being good all week and needing a stiff drink.” ― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

I'm a veteran; this song brings me to tears every. damned. time.

I retired from the US Army after 22 year and this gets me in the feels every single time!

There’s so many notes he hits on the guitar that just absolutely pull at your heartstrings. One of my favourite songs ever! Thanks for this!

Mark is one of the best guitarists of all time. Certainly one of the most recognisable.

Hi Aileen, Mark wrote this during the Falklands War between UK and Argentina. He is depicting it in the words of a dying soldier. If you really want to experience the raw emotion Mark feels when performing this I recommend: Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms - LIVE Wembley 1988 - Audio HQ Remasteriser! (It’s at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday tribute, and Dire Straits were a necessary group to perform on this occasion Ias they had sold many many albums in South Africa and when the S.A. powers that be asked Mark who they should pay their royalties to, he said, ‘Amnesty International’ and they were henceforth banned from performing in S.A. I❤MK most beautiful guitar tones ever.

He sings, “Every man has to die.” The song is about a soldier dying in battle far away from his home.

Written in the 80s but it has been very popular amongst veterans through to today and I respect that. Sometimes it takes a song to release those emotions. Thank you Aileen.

'Brothers in arms' was the biggest album by Dire Straits in 1985... the title track was a somber song reflecting on the Falklands War between the British and Argentina over the Falkland Islands of South America in 1982... Dire Straits was British... (Iron Maiden in 1998 also wrote a song about the Falklands casualties, trying to make peace - "Como estais amigos") The entire album 'Brothers in arms' needs to be reacted to... it's a great pop rock album (it sold 9x platinum in the US)... Every song is a classic - 'So far away' ... 'Money for nothing'... 'Walk of life' ... 'Your latest trick' ... 'Why worry' ... 'Ride across the river' ... "The man's too strong" ... 'One world"... 🔥🔥

Mark, the lead guitar and vocal (he is dire straits), spent all the income from the song to soldiers with ptsd. And he can put you in the mood he wants to fit the song. Otherwise he wouldn't have written about 15 movie soundtracks! If you play more, i would choose live performances!

This track brings me to tears everytime, I am as of writing a 46 year old ex British army soldier and no one ever asked me if I was ok and was not expecting to hear me say anthing but "I am all right". This track addresses that fact that men are disposable, and only a few fellow men will every understand and fewer still will give a shit, but those who do will give a shit on a level to sublime for mere text words. Celer et Audax my brothers.

he wrote the song based on the Falklands Conflict (1982) and the lyrics are written as if from the perspective of a dying soldier on the battlefield in his last moments here on earth

Yeah, you caught the emotions of this song well Aileen.😊 This guy emotes so heavily from his instrument. Beautiful song, makes me cry every time ❤

2:06 : “almost sounds like the guitar is crying” the same way I felt when I first heard this song, its prophetic the emotions it brings on 🥹🥹

This was specifically about the Falklands War. Means a lot to me because I went to a military boarding school in the UK where half the kids' fathers were fighting in it in 1982. One poor boy's father died. I think of him and it makes me cry. Thanks for your beautiful review.

Mark Knopfler's music comes streaming straight from his heart, without affectation or seeking special effects from technology. Because of this, he is one of my all-time favourite musicians. Apparently he started out musically as a folk style guitar picker, and perhaps that is why he has such an incredible feel for his instrument. I'm always moved by his performances, he is truly a great.

Beautiful! Enough to make a grown man cry. Such a tight band, with the bass and drums carrying a lovely foundation to work on as always 👌🏽 Knopfler is such a wizard on the guitar, he doesn’t even need much effects pedals, his clever little tricks like plucking a string with the volume down then gradually increasing the volume to merge the guitar cry is just amazing! I love his style, I always have and always will ❤ Thank you for sharing this one 🙏🏽

I agree with many that the Mandela birthday tribute version is incredibly. They all are tbh, knopfler and band are on another level. Check out any live version and definitely some from the amazing On Every Street tour or 1991/92, or any solo knopfler tours. Excellent reaction again.

Hi Aileen. just to help with the context of the song. This is the last song of a dying warrior buried on the mountainside of the Falkland islands, his grave being his "Home now to me". When they "Hurt me so bad" it describes the "family" bond of the men he serves with, who stayed with him as he died. His brothers in arms.

Telegraph Road, Romeo and Juliet, and Tunnel of Love are two of my favorites from Dire Straits. Would love to see a reaction to those masterpieces!

My first concert was Elvis with my mom. I was at the original Wall tour in New York. I've played guitar since I was three and am heavily into metal, but I love a lot of different types of music. My idol is David Gilmour. All of that to say that this is the most beautiful and soul wrenching guitar work I've ever heard in any song. As you pointed it out, the guitar solos and riffs convey the sorrow, and it sounds like his guitar is crying. This song makes my eyes water every time I listen to it.

Mark Knopfler is probably one of the most underrated guitarists of all time. His song writing is sublime.

Its why Mark is my favorite all-time guitarist. When he plays its nothing super technical or special that noone can copy. But noone can invent what he invented, and he really makes the guitar into another singer, so to speak. He speaks about this in interviews too, how he has modeled his guitar vibrato after how really good singers use their vibrato.

❤ Wonderful response, thank you. Telegraph Road Alchemy live, should be your next. Mark wrote great film music, worked with many other artists, such as Tina Turner (Private Dancer) Bob Dylan Notting Hillbillies and much more. He is a gift!

Such a great Song. It won the Grammy for Best Music Video, too...well deserved!😊

This song makes me think about the last moments I had with my grandfather I miss doing stuff with him fishing,hiking I’m getting teary eyed watching this and indeed very powerful with lots of emotion

Unrivalled.....a genius at work. Every song tells a story..... Legendary period

Wonderful reaction Aileen. Though this was written about the Falklands War, it is prevalent to any conflict in human history. I love Dire Straits, and "Sultans of Swing" is by far, one of my favorites. However to me, this song is Dire Straits most impactful and meaningful. This many years after it was released, it still brings tears to my eyes.

I often visit motorcycle clubs that consist of veterans. They have their club night on Friday evenings and they have a tradition. On Friday evening at midnight they raise their glasses and commemorate the veterans who died in battle. And then Brothers in Arms comes on really loud in the clubhouse on the stereo! I always find that special and nice that they do that

This song makes me tear up every time I hear it, many times, great choice, they have so many more great songs to hear 👍

This song is so powerful. Myself, and most of my male friends have all shed tears to this song. It's the musical equivalent of the "I'm Spartacus" scene.

one of their best and most emotive songs, i have been listening to the "brothers in arms" album since it was released, (thank you dad for such great musical taste), it brings tears to my eyes whenever i hear it. thank you for the opportunity to see you react to it for the first time, i think you have a grasp on every part of it, and your emotion is genuine when you hear it.

Mark Knopfler is a living legend! I saw him live when he was over 60. I will NEVER forget that evening. Total goosebump concert. He is the master of those notes that aren't played, the ones that can hardly be heared and his picking style is somethin else, cuz his thumb goes down where it doesn't belong. His feel on guitar and his voice are so recognizeable that you only need one or two notes to know who's performing. Check out his solo stuff aswell. Totally worth it. Greets from Germany, enjoy!

the most beautiful song imo

I´ve got the luck of never fight in a War...... But..... every Man who was a Soldier (me to) have to cry about this Song!!!! We are always Brothers in Arms.....

"It almost sounds like the guitar is crying…" Exactly! 🙏💔

Mark Knopfler, in this performance, is the only guy in the world who can reach out and pull your heart from its depths into true belief in your emotional fragility. Absolutely heart rending to anyone fighting their own emotions, whether on the battle grounds of war or in the tribulations of life. Thanks for sharing your own reactions to this tremendously powerful masterpiece.

Well done Aileen. Your reaction did this song complete justice.

Just so brilliant. The sun is the only part of the video that is in colour. It was originally written about the 1982 Falklands War and its still relevant today 💛💛💙💙

“Almost sounds like the guitar’s crying” Yep. You nailed the point of the song 2 minutes into the video, most worthwhile sun I’ve ever made I think, I’m loving these reactions

This is THE song that reminds me of the war we had in the early 90's. This was the background music for a battelfield tv-report/montage/collage. It was called Banijska ratna praskozorja by a tv cameraman, Gordan Lederer. When Lederer was killed on the front lines, this montage was aired over and over again in his honour. Brothers in arms became the unofficial soundtrack of the war and this segment was the perfect video to acompany it. Chilling and beautiful. Sadly, due to copyright issues with the music, youtube regulary takes this video segment down. Shame...

This song sears my soul. I am the granddaughter of a WWI medic who served on the battle fields of death in France. The daughter of a WWII soldier who saw the horrors of and helped liberate a German CC and lost his best friend to a sniper while they shared a fox hole. And i am the wife of a veteran who served 21+ years serving in the worst of Iraq and Afghanistan and losing many brothers in arms. This song will always make me weep. Thank you for sharing your review.

Mark Knopfler and David Gilmour are the masters of putting emotions when they are playning their guitar. Both had their unique style and always wortt to listen.

The next one I’d suggest would definitely be Telegraph Road from the same live concert video that you did Sultans Of Swing from. Really epic storytelling song with great playing as usual, Knopfler is a genius on the guitar. Plays with no guitar pick, just his fingers which helps with his unique sound.

I cried when I saw them play this live, I still cry 38 years later.

Telegraph Road should be next, its really good - pulls on the heart strings as much as this classic.

Thank you for doing this, Aileen. This song means a lot to those of us who have served and have lost our 'Brothers In Arms', John 15:13 in the Bible sums it up perfectly.

Brothers in Arms is another perfect example of Mark Knopfler's ability to tell a story in his songs. A side story, I met Alan Clark (their keyboard player) in my local pub in the mid 90s. He played a few songs on the badly tuned pub piano before anyone realised who it was and stopped for a couple of drinks.

Thank you, Aileen! I discovered Dire Straits in '83, but I don't remember this song. It's truly uniquely powerful and crucial! And his voice . . . Damn!

I had this song on repeat for yrs thru middle school and high school. You can't hate this song. Anyone that does, doesn't know what this song means to everyone that lost someone. Military men and women would cry hearing this song.

This song was played at a funeral of a school member when I was about 16 years old. Everytime I hear this song again, I get emotional and get tears in my eyes, even though it is over thirty years ago already. I still keep listening to this song, because it is one of the best songs by Dire Straits.

As a combat veteran, I am drawn to this song more and more lately. It's an older song from the 80's, most likely written about WWI, but resonates with anyone that has been through war and the comradery that is created in times like those. Mark Knopfler and Dire Straights are fantastic musicians but this song is a classic.

Hi there, loving your channel and reactions. Thanks for this beautiful reaction to my fave artist of all time, Mark Knopfler. The live version from DIRE STRAITS "On The Night" 1993 is extended with Marks solo is something to be hold. I really recommend Private Investigations from the same concert. Dire Straits in concert is so much better, you really appreciate the band's talent and Mark's fascinating style of guitar playing. It's so unique. Cheers from Australia 😊🎸🎸🎸

To make make a guitar sound like a violin & guitar at once is genius.I know loads of people call Hendrix the Rock guitar Virtuoso, but Knophler is the Yehudi Menuhin of Guitarists.Hendrix was the Houdini

I'd recommend reacting to Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits as well, beautiful and with Mark Knopfler playing a different style of guitar - one of their best (plus the entire Alchemy live album with Going Home as the finale)

This is the first time I've heard this powerful song since I lost someone very close to me last year, and it's now even more poignant than before. Your analysis is brilliant , thank you so much.

This song will always remind me of an episode of 'Our Tune' which was introduced by Simon Bates on Radio 1 I can't remember the year, but a Woman had written in to the Show to explain the loss of her Husband in a War (at that time) leaving her and her Children on their own. Simon Bates told the Story to the listening audience, with his usual heart felt description, then he introduced this song that the Woman had chosen as 'Our Tune'........It simply had me in pieces listening to it. I hope today that this Woman and her Children are much happier.

welcome to your journey into Dire Straights, this song is AMAZING

It was written for a British soldier in the Falkland war did him respect well done ❤

I always love it, when you are becoming so emotional during hearing songs, especially song like this one

This beautiful Song was my only consolation when I lost a friend to cancer at the age of 13... I didn`t find one word to say to his mother everytime I met her in the following Fall after his passing... At the age of 47 or 48, I randomly met her in a store and got to tell her how much I loved her son... Forever missed, R.I.P. Maciej !!

I can believe you have not heard this it makes me fell so old and luck at the same time this is a very powerful song 😢

He’s like David Gilmore of Pink Floyd knows how to bring the souls out of their guitar 🎸 and you feel it performers masters at work ❤

Thank you Aileen, you picked up on the emotive tones of Mark's guitar work so well in this song. For me the music video just seemed to work so well with the song, portraying all the feelings evoked by those lyrics and haunting guitar. 🙏

Dear lady i've been in a war back in 1977 and even got a DSC from the President of the US. This song mirrors my feelings after recovering from PTSD and is still heartbreaking for me 'cause there are wars still raging and feel that Mark Knopfler grabbed the essence. I have always tears in my eyes when I listen to it. Thank you.

x 1st Battalion Royal Australian Regiment. (1 RAR) from the first time I heard this in 1985 and forever more, brings tears to my eyes every time.

Thank you, Aileen, for your mature and insightful reaction to this, and your other videos as well. Keep up the good work.

My son is a combat veteran and my husband just retired from the Air Force after 21 yeas. This song hits hard.💔

You have the best reaction videos I've seen. Love how you articulate so well what you're hearing. This one is a timeless classic.

An amazing song. I heard an acappella cover of this song by the group Home Free; that gave me chills too. Each version has its own power, which speaks to how powerful the song is. Bravo to Mr. Knopfler.

Knopfler used this album to learn how to use the smokey burn of a Les Paul, after years of the hot grillplate of a Stratocaster. It really peaked with this song. He'd also produced several albums for Bob Dylan by this point, and learned that a perfect singing voice is not what you need for popular music, you need an expressive voice, and to be able to narrate. You can hear Knopfler using the stuff he learned from Dylan in this track, and even more in the track "It never Rains" from "Love Over Gold" which actually sounds like Dylan wrote it.

You won't be surprised to hear Mark has written a LOT of major movie soundtracks. He also wrote Tina Turner's hit "Private Dancer" !

Check out "The Walk of Life" and "Money For Nothing"(Sting lends his voice). Back when MTV was just getting started, one their catch phrases was "I want my MTV" which you will hear in this song.

I’ve loved this song since the first time I heard it about 25 years ago. A year or so I bought a 45rpm remaster of this album on 180grm vinyl and it’s absolutely beautiful. His guitar work come through so clean and haunting.

Love your great insight of interaction between words and music. Best reviewer by far.

Thank you for this reaction. I thoroughly enjoy your reactions. I remember when this album came out (yes I'm that old) and this was my absolute favorite song from that album. Mark Knopfler is a phenomenal guitarist. I wish I could play like that.

Hi, Aileen. I love this song. Stay safe to you and your loved ones.

The style of the video is meant reflect the cloudy and misty memories and recollections of a dying soldier, who knows that he won't be leaving the Falklands but wishes his 'Brothers in Arms' a final Bon Voyage as he anticipates their journey home - a journey he won't be able to make with them. "We're fools to make war on our brothers in arms". Such a telling line! Perhaps if the politicians were made to put themselves in the actual firing line, there would be no more war! I was one of the fortunate ones. In my 14 years of UK service - 1966-1980, I was only ever fired on once. Unfortunately, for two of my close friends, that once was enough! RIP Al and Sam. To all my 'Brothers in Arms', I salute you though I know you not.

The Brothers In Armes album came out in 1985 and was one he'll of a great album. That same year was the second season of a TV crime drama called Miami Vice. That show used this soundtrack at the end of an episode called , "Out Where The Buses Don't Run". I was not a huge fan , but I remember how that song really set the mood at the end of the episode. It was like a music video .

What a track....one of my dad's favourites, RIP 😢....one of mine too know.....thank you Dire Straits 🇬🇧 x

Mark Knopfler doesn’t just play guitar. He makes love to his guitar in the most passionate way possible. And while he does he blesses us with the privilege of allowing us to join him on his journey. Unquestionably one of the best ever.

Great reaction as always aileen hope you are having a great day off stream ✌️

One of a few channels where I can hit “like” right away without watching to the end. Very emotional reaction again. Keep it going! 😊

"There's so many different worlds, so many different suns, and we just have one world, but we live in different ones" That part hits. There's no one that has the feel of a guitar like Mark Knopfler

OMG! Not ashamed to say you broke the dam & the flood is going with your reaction! Dayum, girl, the honesty of your reaction is SO refreshing. I cherish how real you are!!! Thank you so much for sharing this. Wishing all your days are filled with love and light.

I love watching your reactions. That twitch you do with the right eye does terrible things to my heart rate! The odd thing about combat, which is unknown by those who haven't experienced it, is that you see both the worst and the best of man. In the Falklands we got involved in a serious gun fight. As a sailor, this was kind of unexpected and not entirely welcome. It was short and vicious. Once the firing stopped, my "brothers in arms" tended to both our wounded and theirs. Without favour. We carried two badly wounded Argentine soldiers, both looked like teenagers, down the hill to where they were collected, with our wounded, by a helicopter and taken to the field hospital. They both survived.

I'm 62, was in college when MTV was a brand new cable channel, when music videos were first becoming popular in the '80's. This particular video is considered, by many of my age, to be one of the Crown Jewels of the Golden Age of music videos. It remains timeless, 40 years later

It's quite comforting to know that there are those out there, like yourself, who understand the meaning of what this song is about and what it conveys. I love this song even though it almost moves me to tears every single time I hear or see it. I lost a close friend in 2009 when we were deployed together in Afghanistan. I think solely of him when I hear/see this because it evokes the emotions of losing him and remembering the brotherly love that we had with one another and for our fellow soldiers. I spoke the eulogy at his memorial service that our unit conducted in-country. Hearing "Taps" being played is both quite mournful and eloquent while in the company of others, but "Brothers In Arms", while by myself, has a much deeper meaning for me. Thank you for doing this. You have a beautiful heart. :)

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I can't disagree with a lot of the commentrs here when they say that your next reaction to Dire Straits should be Telegraph Road (but the live version from Alchemy Live). A remarkable performance - as they all are. Can't comment on this one - it cuts too deep for personal reasons. 😔

A beautiful rection, Aileen. Thank you ☮✌