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...Since it?s about trading CDs, you can find the stuff that has yet to make its way to iTunes, like Led Zeppelin and the Beatles, as well as stuff that you might not be able to otherwise find (example: Adios Amigo: A Tribute to Arthur Alexander featuring Mark Knopfler, Elvis Costello, Frank Black and Robert Plant). The service boasts a catalog with 10 times as many albums as iTunes. While this is true, in order to get at even a fraction of that music, you?ll have to play along...
...MARK KNOPFLER...
...phrase scientific fieldwork didn't conjure up enough images of toe rings, bandannas and Birkenstocks, a team of researchers from the University of Utah cemented the scientist/stoner equation forever this week by naming a dinosaur after ex-Dire Straits frontman MARK KNOPFLER. Masiakasaurus knopfleri was discovered in Madagascar and christened after the aging rock star because the researchers listened to a lot of Brothers in Arms while working under the hot island sun. Masiakasaurus lived during the late Cretaceous period and was probably 5 ft. to 6 ft. long, weighed in at 80 lbs. and sported protruding snaggleteeth used...
...Mark Knopfler...
...Mark Knopfler, former lead singer of Dire Straits, is not scared to blaze a new trail. In Sailing to Philadelphia, the indignant, muted, yet invitingly incomprehensible lyrics of "Sultans of Swing" are absent. Most of the songs are fairly transparent paeans to episodes of America's folk past, never mind Knopfler's British extraction. The title track features Knopfler and guest James Taylor in a mock-up of a very awkward conversation between Mason and Dixon of Mason-Dixon line fame, but the song holds together if you don't pay attention to the lyrics. Unfortunately, Knopfler seems to have...