The Bob Dylan appreciation thread

[Dicko]

Did that voice work for you Dicko? to be honest, I havent heard much from it but Lay Lady Lay is definitely one one his best vocals. Is there much to compare on there?

 

Vocally it's his strongest album, but it's one of a kind. I don't think I've heard many before or since that sounds like anything off that album.

[drewy]

Brilliant, two legends together.

 

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[Cosmos]

AWS will be along in a bit to tell me Leonard Cohen is a better song writer and we are going to fall out about it......... again.

 

He may have a point for a few months, with a couple of songs. But better songwriter? only a fool would say so, and I love Cohen. Changing of the Guard though, immense, who else can do that? over five decades...and dont say Cliff

 

 

 

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You seem to love your epics, heard this?

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Some fine, fine work on here, Comrades.

 

Bastard YouTube is slowing my (ancient) computer down, though. Anyone care to post Chimes of Freedom?

[drewy]

I confess I have never heard any of the Bootleg sessions, it is from them isn't it?

I like that a lot, classic Dylan.

 

Like I said it was Desire that did it for me 25 odd years ago, I remember getting his early stuff for Xmas/birthday presents and being hugely disappointed. Now however I love it.

[Cosmos]

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Some fine, fine work on here, Comrades.

 

Bastard YouTube is slowing my (ancient) computer down, though. Anyone care to post Chimes of Freedom?

[Cosmos]

I confess I have never heard any of the Bootleg sessions, it is from them isn't it?

I like that a lot, classic Dylan.

 

Like I said it was Desire that did it for me 25 odd years ago, I remember getting his early stuff for Xmas/birthday presents and being hugely disappointed. Now however I love it.

 

Bootleg Dylan is a like saying bootlet *** tops, there's a lot out there. Buy/download the one's with the covers shown on this thread, they're magic.

[drewy]

I remember going into town to buy this the day it came out, my tiggy did a little sick when I first heard it. I made my mind up to go and see him live after buying this, I saw him at the NEC in 86, fucking amazing.

 

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[Cosmos]

I remember going into town to buy this the day it came out, my tiggy did a little sick when I first heard it. I made my mind up to go and see him live after buying this, I saw him at the NEC in 86, fucking amazing.

 

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Never even heard of that mother!! I wouldn't dare see him live now, it's gone from 5/1 to 20/1 and although I love the old bugger i'd have to mortally pissed to hear him do a calypso version of 4th st.

 

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Still, I was like this at his age...

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Cards on the table Dylan kids, his best album, you have to choose one!

 

Blood on The Tracks. And album full of twisted hate, beautiful love, fucking up and anger. Amazing wrting, amazing musicianship, amazing feel and at while he was at his peak.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Here are my contributions.

 

Buckets Of Rain.

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Just a beautiful song.

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Not Dark Yet, I think I would want this played at my funeral.

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[rondeco]

Love Minus Zero/No Limit

 

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I want you

[Cosmos]

Love Minus Zero/No Limit

 

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Jesus, never seen that, its like the Visons of Johanna one, except ever so slightly less fubared

 

Lordy lordy lordy, suprised he didn't laugh at the end...consumate.

Edited January 12, 2009 by Cosmos

[Cosmos]

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I want you

 

Perfect, out of rep

[Cosmos]

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'For all of us who are left'

[Total Longo]

Best tracks off each?

 

from Time out of mind...Dirt Road Blues, Trying to Get to Heaven and Make You Feel My Love

 

from Oh Mercy...Most of the Time, Man in the Long Black Coat and Everything is Broken.

 

from highway 61...It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry, Ballad of a Thin Man and Tombstone Blues.

[Carradona]

I haven't listened to anywhere near enough Dylan stuff yet, but one of my favourite songs is "Don't Think Twice It's Alright".

 

I don't know how to post a youtube link in here, so if anyone else wants to put it up, here it is on youtube:

 

YouTube - Don't Think Twice, It's Alright - Bob Dylan

[Yerma'satexan!]

My favourites, which change constantly, at the moment are;

 

My Back Pages

Buckets of Rain

Love Minus Zero/No Limit

One More Cup Of Coffee

Boots Of Spanish Leather

Restless Farewell

[Yerma'satexan!]

1) Highway 61 Revisited

2) Blood On The Tracks

3) Nashville Skyline

4) Desire

5) Blonde On Blonde

6) Another Side Of Bob Dylan

7) Street Legal

8) Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

9) The times They Are A' Changin

10) Infidels

 

I would have Bringing It All Back Home, John Wesley Harding & Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid Soundtrack on there instead of Nashville Skyline, Street Legal & Infidels, IMO.

[Cosmos]

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Cos one's blowing over in the other place.

[Faustus]

I've been playing Highway 61 Revisited for the past 2-3 days now. Unbelievable stuff.

 

They're selling postcards of the hanging

They're painting the passports brown

The beauty parlor is filled with sailors

The circus is in town

Here comes the blind commissioner

They've got him in a trance

One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker

The other is in his pants

And the riot squad they're restless

They need somewhere to go

As Lady and I look out tonight

From Desolation Row

 

Cinderella, she seems so easy

"It takes one to know one," she smiles

And puts her hands in her back pockets

Bette Davis style

And in comes Romeo, he's moaning

"You Belong to Me I Believe"

And someone says," You're in the wrong place, my friend

You better leave"

And the only sound that's left

After the ambulances go

Is Cinderella sweeping up

On Desolation Row

 

Now the moon is almost hidden

The stars are beginning to hide

The fortunetelling lady

Has even taken all her things inside

All except for Cain and Abel

And the hunchback of Notre Dame

Everybody is making love

Or else expecting rain

And the Good Samaritan, he's dressing

He's getting ready for the show

He's going to the carnival tonight

On Desolation Row

 

Now Ophelia, she's 'neath the window

For her I feel so afraid

On her twenty-second birthday

She already is an old maid

 

To her, death is quite romantic

She wears an iron vest

Her profession's her religion

Her sin is her lifelessness

And though her eyes are fixed upon

Noah's great rainbow

She spends her time peeking

Into Desolation Row

 

Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood

With his memories in a trunk

Passed this way an hour ago

With his friend, a jealous monk

He looked so immaculately frightful

As he bummed a cigarette

Then he went off sniffing drainpipes

And reciting the alphabet

Now you would not think to look at him

But he was famous long ago

For playing the electric violin

On Desolation Row

 

Dr. Filth, he keeps his world

Inside of a leather cup

But all his sexless patients

They're trying to blow it up

Now his nurse, some local loser

She's in charge of the cyanide hole

And she also keeps the cards that read

"Have Mercy on His Soul"

They all play on penny whistles

You can hear them blow

If you lean your head out far enough

From Desolation Row

 

Across the street they've nailed the curtains

They're getting ready for the feast

The Phantom of the Opera

A perfect image of a priest

They're spoonfeeding Casanova

To get him to feel more assured

Then they'll kill him with self-confidence

After poisoning him with words

 

And the Phantom's shouting to skinny girls

"Get Outa Here If You Don't Know

Casanova is just being punished for going

To Desolation Row"

 

Now at midnight all the agents

And the superhuman crew

Come out and round up everyone

That knows more than they do

Then they bring them to the factory

Where the heart-attack machine

Is strapped across their shoulders

And then the kerosene

Is brought down from the castles

By insurance men who go

Check to see that nobody is escaping

To Desolation Row

 

Praise be to Nero's Neptune

The Titanic sails at dawn

And everybody's shouting

"Which Side Are You On?"

And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot

Fighting in the captain's tower

While calypso singers laugh at them

And fishermen hold flowers

Between the windows of the sea

Where lovely mermaids flow

And nobody has to think too much

About Desolation Row

 

Yes, I received your letter yesterday

(About the time the door knob broke)

When you asked how I was doing

Was that some kind of joke?

All these people that you mention

Yes, I know them, they're quite lame

I had to rearrange their faces

And give them all another name

Right now I can't read too good

Don't send me no more letters no

Not unless you mail them

From Desolation Row

[Matt83]

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Just Like A Woman (live)

 

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Mississippi

 

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Blind Willie McTell

 

Top 3 albums:

1. Blonde on Blonde

2. Highway 61 Revisited

3. Time Out of Mind

[WaltonRed]

Some of his stuff with The Band is epic as well.

 

Million Dollar Bash rules

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Some of his stuff with The Band is epic as well.

 

Million Dollar Bash rules

 

The Band are amazing too.