Mark Knopfler - A Shot at Glory
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Artist: Mark KnopflerBrand: Score
Edition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2002-04-30
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Sons of Scotland
- Hard Cases
- He's the Man
- Training
- The New Laird
- Say Too Much
- Four in a Row
- All That I Have in the World
- Sons of Scotland--Quiet Theme
- It's Over
- Wild Mountain Thyme
Music reviews of A Shot at Glory
Music Review: The Missing Link
Rating: 5 Stars
I bless the girlfriend who introduced me to "Making Movies" back in the 70's. It has been a long and pleasurable journey following Marks releases and growth. He has explored a lot along the way, there are things he's done I don't like, but certainly appreciate - and tend to play more while I try to understand them.
In "Local Hero" he presented us with an ephemeral "Going Home", a recurring theme throughout the movie, the more you reached out to touch it the more it drifted away, when it was finally presented in it's fullness in "Alchemy" it lost that quality - as though Mark was embarrassed to show his talent without a band to blare it out.
This album has been on my wish list for a while - it's just a sound track, how good can it be. Good enough that I'm taking the time to write about it. It found it's way into my christmas stocking last year. The movie is not that great (although it does leave you with a smile on your face), but the sound track is excellent. Here we finally see Mark emerge from behind the wall of noise. That ephemeral quality that you wanted to emerge in "Local Hero"? It's here in full force. I could listen to "Sons of Scotland" all night. Along the way we get a few rockers - the only phrase that I can use to describe "Four in a Row" is "happy feet". It is difficult to resist pounding your feet on the pavement when it kicks in. I'm good with 90% of this album, and studying on the other 10%.
Mark has given us so many gifts of such a different variety that it is difficult to order them and say that this one is greater or lesser than another. I can't therefore say that this is his best album ever. I will say that, in my humble opinion, this is in the top 5.
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Description of A Shot at Glory
UK soundtrack to 2000 film starring Robert Duvall & Michael Keaton. Featuring a score by Dire Straits frontman who's also scored the films 'Local Hero' (1983), 'Cal' (1984), 'The Princess Bride' (1987) & 'Last Exit to Brooklyn' (1990). A Warner U.S. release.With its rural Scottish setting and thematic undercurrents of business versus local traditions and personal redemption, this Cinderella soccer tale seems to have a few things in common with Bill Forsyth's Local Hero, not the least of which is an evocative score by Dire Straits leader Mark Knopfler. The Scottish guitar hero again rises to the occasion, his acoustic "Sons of Scotland" theme underscoring the story's melancholy emotional landscape, if not necessarily its geographic one. To that end Knopfler bows to expected musical conventions by sprinkling the score with bagpipes, fiddles, and pennywhistles, yet shrewdly weaves them into a more modern, personal tapestry of guitar and pulsing rhythms (especially on the Highland reel-meets-electronica of "Four in a Row") familiar from his work with Dire Straits; tradition meets tempus fugit. Knopfler also serves up a trio of winning songs, whose tenor ranges from the understated macho anthem "He's the Man" to "Say Too Much," a dry, slinky cocktail of lounge jazz influences, and the melancholy folk lament "All That I Have in the World." While Knopfler's contemporary scoring efforts have been sparse and sometimes uneven, this soundtrack seems the perfect match of material and musician. --Jerry McCulley
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