C/D: Mark Knopfler Advertising His New Record With a Video Featuring the Same VideoGraphics from the "Money For Nothing" Video?

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Yes, that same boxy-guy-on-wheels rolling around his apartment thing. Which seemed cool in 1985 — decidedly less so 15 years later.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

his last album was pretty good dude

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I wouldn't know. Regardless, this ad campaign (and video, presumably) is pathetic.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the 'Money For Nothing' men. I think they should have their own cartoon series.

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

They're totally gay (which would make Wooden's cartoon series even better I think). The guy who sings Sting's part is quite obviously the bottom.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

But "Money for Nothing" is the best video ever!!

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

...or so Knopfler must think.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't say anything about the video, but I heard him on Prairie Home Companion this weekend playing a pretty cool song about Sonny Liston. I dug it 'cause it was so obvious he'd read the Nick Tosches book and liked it so much he wrote a song.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, why not, classic.

― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

The experience is inspiring me to work up a screenplay of a character who experiences an epiphany while listening to a radio show of a rock star performing a song inspired by a somewhat fictionalized biography of a long-dead fighter by a well-known music writer. I envision the semi-autobiographical protagonist as being portrayed by one of the "Money For Nothing" appliance-mover dudes.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I find the notion of using the same sort of animation a bit depressing. It smacks of "yoohoo, remember me?" desperation, and like him or not, I'm inclined to think Knopfler's better than that. Oh well.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

sixteen years pass...

how much money has this motherfucker made off that stupid Walgreens commercial

― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 01:39 (five years ago)

roger adultery (roger adultery) at 10:43 6 Oct 04

They're totally gay (which would make Wooden's cartoon series even better I think). The guy who sings Sting's part is quite obviously the bottom.

[citation needed]

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 01:54 (five years ago)

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