A Facebook acquaintance who spends an inordinate amount of time condemning the current majority party took a welcome break this weekend and posted his top five Dire Straits songs and his top five Dire Straits albums.
“Will soon be back to your regularly scheduled ‘Will America Make It?’ postings,” he concluded with a smiley emoji.
I had to comment: “America will be just fine if we spend more time talking about what connects us, like good music.”
And I believe that. As I wrote last fall, the Monkees had the right idea way back when, when they sang “We’re too busy singing to put anybody down.” It’s hard to throw insults or incendiary devices when there’s a song in your heart and/or on your lips.
His pick for top Dire Straits song was “Sultans of Swing,” and “Making Movies” is his favorite album. Good choices, but his major omission was failure to mention “Walk of Life,” one of the most joyous rock songs of all time. Oh yeah, the boy can play.
