Had no idea what this song was about until I watched the video, then it all made sense. It's just a guy in an appliance store rambling about rock stars and selling microwaves

>>125226934
It's funny as hell the chorus just has a thing about moving around appliances and tvs for seemingly no reason. Even with the video when I was a kid I didn't understand what that had to do with anything until I found out Mark wrote it about some guy in an appliance store.

>>125226934
It's about a couple of furniture delivery men sitting in a public bar or restaurant watching MTV and comparing how easy rock stars have life compared to them having to deliver furniture and appliances.

>>125227316
This you, faggot?

>>125226934
Mark Knopfler was in a Best Buy and the salesman was showing TVs to a customer, there were rows and rows of them and they were all on MTV. Then a Motley Crue video came on and the salesman started losing his shit and calling them no-talent faggots who were now millionaires and how his job sucked and how he should've learned an instrument and joined a band. Mark said the stuff the salesman was saying was so good he hid behind some appliances, pulled out a notebook and started scribbling all the dude's comments down.

>>125226928
most based song of all time

>>125227639
Oliver's Army is up there

>>125227634
i wonder if the guy ever heard the song

>>125227634
It wasn't a salesman. It was a bluecollar worker

"The Composer’s Context and the Song’s Background"
" ... Knopfler described the song’s composition process in a 1985 interview with Bill Flanagan, author of the book Written in My Soul: Conversations with Rock’s Great Songwriters (1986):

The lead character in “Money for Nothing” is a guy who works in the hardware department in a television/custom kitchen/refrigerator/microwave appliance store. He’s singing the song. I wrote the song when I was actually in the store. I borrowed a bit of paper and started to write the song down in the store. I wanted to use a lot of the language that the real guy actually used when I heard him, because it was more real. It just went better with the song, it was more muscular. I actually used “little faggot,” but there are a couple of good “motherfuckers” in there. I wanted to do a second version that way but I never had time. I’d still love to be able to do it. Even if just the band had it, because it would be the real version. I mean that is the way people speak. I think people still get the general idea. You can use other words that will suggest the general feel.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140810054301/http://www.cbsc.ca/english/decisions/2011/110831.php

what did appliance store movers listen to in 85 if Dire Straits was too zesty for them?

>>125226928
Little faggots gonna faggot

>>125233024
The Village People.

>>125233024
Springsteen

>look at that mama shes just sticking in the camera, man we could have some fun
Always loved the way he said this, sounds like he's jizzing his pants

>>125226928
>yo-yos
yo just know

>>125233024
you're really not comprehending this

>>125235383
>Always loved the way he said this, sounds like he's jizzing his pants
thought i was the only one lol. still so amusing like 20 years later. He should've written radio dramas or something.