Supremo guitar work from Mark Knopfler! The songwriting is almost overshadowed by the guitar excellence, but appreciate how unique this whole song is, from its swift pacing to the sung-spoke vocal ideas to the gentle tone of the whole thing.

Like with "Money For Nothing," this song is again a pretty sharp and silly portrait of musicians, the holiness of their workmanlike toil, and onlookers who fail to take them seriously. I love the humor in Knopfler's lyrics. I think my favorite details are in the closing of the song, where a member of the band performs that most humble and pathetic duty of all obscure bands, rushing over to the mic and announcing the band's name one more time before the lights come on:

"Goodnight, now it's time to go home
And he makes it fast with one more thing

We are the Sultans
We are the Sultans of Swing"