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The song's closest cousin would have to be something off Heartbeat City by The Cars, that one other classic eighties band whose credibility and fan base has only increased in the years since their disbanding. The hook is gorgeous, chiming, and the synths icy, airy. Thus we can see this song is a portrait of the eighties. No one could reasonably sing, "so far I just can't see" these days unless they were in a very poor country with no world wide web or smart phones - today that would be a slightly more third world version of New Zealand such as Moldova for example. You have to remember this was 1984 so when Kofler sings, "I'm tired of making out on the telephone" it's because there was no Internet, otherwise he could have Skyped his girlfriend or used Facetime. He sings the words "so far away from me" about eighteen times in the song, which shows how much he really feels the distance. In the first song - So Far Away From Me - Marc Kofler's girlfriend has gone on holiday - "you've been in the sun" - perhaps Spain, or Cairns, and he is alone and therefore sad that he can't see her. There is an invisible chain that ties me back to this album all the way back to 1984 and any time I find myself in doubt or feel like I'm getting too far away from me, well, I just remember Brothers Arms and I can reel myself back in along that invisible chain until I'm back in Levin, high school, 1984, when I used to be popular with the girls. It's a great touchstone and over the years I've become close buddies with some of New Zealand's coolest musicians because of it, like Greg Johnson and Mark Tierney. I regularly describe it as the key anchor of my life when I meet new people and that's because it is like an anchor.
#SO FAR AWAY FROM ME DIRE STRAITS ALBUM SERIES#
You'll remember that I asked you all to Gush Over Just One Album - we kick off the guest-post series today with duckduck girl.īrothers Arms is singularly the most important album of my life.