Bob Dylan Appreciation thread (1 Viewer)

[7 - No tomorrow]

Not that Lilys isn't great

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A guy I know reckons it sucks balls though

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Another says it's daft

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Overall, you could compare Blood... with Desire. Records with strong first sides and weaker second halves.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Blonde on Blonde is best but side three of that is also pretty weak, IMO.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

But side 2 of Highway 61 Revisited is better than side 1. So swings and roundabouts.

 

[Jim Daniels]

Blonde on Blonde is best but side three of that is also pretty weak, IMO.

In fairness, that's the fault of Temporary Like Achilles and Obviously 5 Believers.

These three side 3 songs are all great.

1. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
2. Absolutely Sweet Marie
3. 4th Time Around

Giving Sad Eye Lady of the Lowlands a side of it own was amusing, but they could have just left off Temporary', Obviously' and Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat.

Bringing it All Back Home is harder to call side-wise.
Side one has She Belongs to Me and Love Minus Zero - two of my favourite Bob tacks
Side two has Mr Tambourine Man - another one of my favourites.

We need a Chronicles 2 - with more focus on these albums...

 

[David Kronenbourg]

In fairness, that's the fault of Temporary Like Achilles and Obviously 5 Believers.

These three side 3 songs are all great.

1. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
2. Absolutely Sweet Marie
3. 4th Time Around

Giving Sad Eye Lady of the Lowlands a side of it own was amusing, but they could have just left off Temporary', Obviously' and Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat.

Bringing it All Back Home is harder to call side-wise.
Side one has She Belongs to Me and Love Minus Zero - two of my favourite Bob tacks
Side two has Mr Tambourine Man - another one of my favourites.

We need a Chronicles 2 - with more focus on these albums...

Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat is great. I love Dylan's lead guitar on it. It's all over the place.

 

[Jim Daniels]

Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat is great. I love Dylan's lead guitar on it. It's all over the place.

Maybe I'll give it another shot with that in mind...

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I might give Blonde on Blonde a go next week. As a rule I ignore everything he did before 1970.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Slow Train Coming is my favourite now. All killer.

 

[magicbastarder]

Side two has Mr Tambourine Man - another one of my favourites.

i had an argument with a colleague about this recently - i think there is no other track which has suffered so much from over-exposure; it's a phenomenal song rendered ordinary to most people by over familiarity.

 

[Jim Daniels]

i had an argument with a colleague about this recently - i think there is no other track which has suffered so much from over-exposure; it's a phenomenal song rendered ordinary to most people by over familiarity.

Oddly enough, I used to think the same, and then one nice summer night I was on a walk, listening to it on headphones, and it sounded amazing -the lyrics, the delivery, the beautiful accompaniment. All those great lines..

my weariness amazes me........ the haunted frightened trees...etc

I know what you mean, but from that night, I got over the over-exposure aspect. I still even love the Byrds version when it crops up.

Blowin' In the Wind and The Times They Are a Changin' though. Those ones are dead to me now.

 

[magicbastarder]

it's the bit that starts with 'yes to dance beneath the diamond sky' which gets me each time.

 

[therealjohnny]

Someone on a forum talking about All along the Watchtower...

"Remember to squeeze your arse cheeks tight during this , otherwise you might prolapse. Dylan shat all over that great Hendrix song with similarly strained vocals and odd phrasing".

 

[Jim Daniels]

The Basement Tapes Complete is on the way on Nov 4th. I've heard great things in the past about this.

In June 1968, a Rolling Stone cover story written by magazine founder Jann Wenner ran with the headline “Dylan’s Basement Tape Should Be Released.” The songs in question were a baker’s dozen of rough cuts recorded in Bob Dylan’s upstate New York home with the band that would come to be known as the Band, but these 13 cuts were just a fraction of the 138 tracks recorded during that spring of 1967. Now, nearly a half century later, Dylan has announced that the recordings will be released in their entirety on Nov. 4 on The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11.

Many of the songs trickled out during the late 1960s and the 1970s, but a great number of them never made it onto official albums. A handful appeared on the 1969 bootleg album Great White Wonder, another two dozen on 1975’s The Basement Tapes, and bootleg versions of others have circulated among fans for years. The Basement Tapes Complete will include remastered versions of familiar tracks like “Tears of Rage” and “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” as well as 30 songs that Rolling Stone says “even fanatical Dylan fans never knew existed.”

Some of the excitement surrounding the forthcoming release stems from the creative place from which these recordings sprang forth. Dylan and the Band didn’t have specific plans to release an album from the material they were creating, and many of the songs were taped as demos for other artists to record. (And they did: Manfred Mann recorded “Quinn the Eskimo,” for example, and Peter, Paul and Mary released “Too Much of Nothing.”) Guitarist Robbie Robertson spoke of the “absolute freedom” that characterized the sessions, joking that they thought about destroying some of the tapes, Watergate-style.

Luckily they destroyed neither the recordings nor the lyrics—not only for the sake of The Basement Tapes Complete, but also for the forthcoming T Bone Burnett-produced collection of music based on Dylan lyrics from around the same time. As a taste of what’s to come, here’s an alternate version of “Odds and Ends,” via Rolling Stone, followed by the original version.

Bob Dylan "Odds and Ends" from The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series, Vol. II. Listen here, via Soundcloud.

 

[Jim Daniels]

Track List

Bob Dylan Announces The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 | News | Pitchfork


The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11

Disc 1:

01 Edge of the Ocean
02 My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It
03 Roll on Train
04 Mr. Blue
05 Belshazzar
06 I Forgot to Remember to Forget
07 You Win Again
08 Still in Town
09 Waltzing with Sin
10 Big River (Take 1)
11 Big River (Take 2)
12 Folsom Prison Blues
13 Bells of Rhymney
14 Spanish is the Loving Tongue
15 Under Control
16 Ol’ Roison the Beau
17 I’m Guilty of Loving You
18 Cool Water
19 The Auld Triangle
20 Po’ Lazarus
21 I’m a Fool for You (Take 1)
22 I’m a Fool for You (Take 2)

Disc 2:

01 Johnny Todd
02 Tupelo
03 Kickin’ My Dog Around
04 See You Later Allen Ginsberg (Take 1)
05 See You Later Allen Ginsberg (Take 2)
06 Tiny Montgomery
07 Big Dog
08 I’m Your Teenage Prayer
09 Four Strong Winds
10 The French Girl (Take 1)
11 The French Girl (Take 2)
12 Joshua Gone Barbados
13 I’m in the Mood
14 Baby Ain’t That Fine
15 Rock, Salt and Nails
16 A Fool Such As I
17 Song for Canada
18 People Get Ready
19 I Don’t Hurt Anymore
20 Be Careful of Stones That You Throw
21 One Man’s Loss
22 Lock Your Door
23 Baby, Won’t You be My Baby
24 Try Me Little Girl
25 I Can’t Make it Alone
26 Don’t You Try Me Now

Disc 3:

01 Young but Daily Growing
02 Bonnie Ship the Diamond
03 The Hills of Mexico
04 Down on Me
05 One for the Road
06 I’m Alright
07 Million Dollar Bash (Take 1)
08 Million Dollar Bash (Take 2)
09 Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread (Take 1)
10 Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread (Take 2)
11 I’m Not There
12 Please Mrs Henry
13 Crash on the Levee (Take 1)
14 Crash on the Levee (Take 2)
15 Lo and Behold! (Take 1)
16 Lo and Behold! (Take 2)
17 You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (Take 1)
18 You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (Take 2)
19 I Shall be Released (Take 1)
20 I Shall be Released (Take 2)
21 This Wheel’s on Fire
22 Too Much of Nothing (Take 1)
23 Too Much of Nothing (Take 2)

Disc 4:

01 Tears of Rage (Take 1)
02 Tears of Rage (Take 2)
03 Tears of Rage (Take 3)
04 Quinn the Eskimo (Take 1)
05 Quinn the Eskimo (Take 2)
06 Open the Door Homer (Take 1)
07 Open the Door Homer (Take 2)
08 Open the Door Homer (Take 3)
09 Nothing Was Delivered (Take 1)
10 Nothing Was Delivered (Take 2)
11 Nothing Was Delivered (Take 3)
12 All American Boy
13 Sign on the Cross
14 Odds and Ends (Take 1)
15 Odds and Ends (Take 2)
16 Get Your Rocks Off
17 Clothes Line Saga
18 Apple Suckling Tree (Take 1)
19 Apple Suckling Tree (Take 2)
20 Don’t Ya Tell Henry
21 Bourbon Street

Disc 5:

01 Blowin’ in the Wind
02 One Too Many Mornings
03 A Satisfied Mind
04 It Ain’t Me, Babe
05 Ain’t No More Cane (Take 1)
06 Ain’t No More Cane (Take 2)
07 My Woman She’s A-Leavin’
08 Santa-Fe
09 Mary Lou, I Love You Too
10 Dress it Up, Better Have it All
11 Minstrel Boy
12 Silent Weekend
13 What’s It Gonna Be When It Comes Up
14 900 Miles from My Home
15 Wildwood Flower
16 One Kind Favor
17 She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain
18 It’s the Flight of the Bumblebee
19 Wild Wolf
20 Goin’ to Acapulco
21 Gonna Get You Now
22 If I Were A Carpenter
23 Confidential
24 All You Have to do is Dream (Take 1)
25 All You Have to do is Dream (Take 2)

Disc 6:

01 2 Dollars and 99 Cents
02 Jelly Bean
03 Any Time
04 Down by the Station
05 Hallelujah, I’ve Just Been Moved
06 That’s the Breaks
07 Pretty Mary
08 Will the Circle be Unbroken
09 King of France
10 She’s on My Mind Again
11 Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad
12 On a Rainy Afternoon
13 I Can’t Come in with a Broken Heart
14 Next Time on the Highway
15 Northern Claim
16 Love is Only Mine
17 Silhouettes
18 Bring it on Home
19 Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies
20 The Spanish Song (Take 1)
21 The Spanish Song (Take 2)

The Basement Tapes Raw:

Disc 1:

01 Open the Door, Homer
02 Odds and Ends
03 Million Dollar Bash
04 One Too Many Mornings
05 I Don’t Hurt Anymore
06 Ain’t No More Cane
07 Crash on the Levee
08 Tears of Rage
09 Dress it up, Better Have it All
10 I’m Not There
11 Johnny Todd
12 Too Much of Nothing
13 Quinn the Eskimo
14 Get Your Rocks Off
15 Santa-Fe
16 Silent Weekend
17 Clothes Line Saga
18 Please, Mrs. Henry
19 I Shall be Released

Disc 2:

01 You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
02 Lo and Behold!
03 Minstrel Boy
04 Tiny Montgomery
05 All You Have to Do Is Dream
06 Goin’ to Acapulco
07 900 Miles from My Home
08 One for the Road
09 I’m Alright
10 Blowin’ in the Wind
11 Apple Suckling Tree
12 Nothing Was Delivered
13 Folsom Prison Blues
14 This Wheel’s on Fire
15 Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread
16 Don’t Ya Tell Henry
17 Baby, Won’t You be My Baby
18 Sign on the Cross
19 You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I got Tangled Up In Blue which was my favourite Dylan song for years. These days it's probably Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

What Bob Dylan Song Are You?

"Tangled Up In Blue - One of Bob's best compositions! You're probably more of an introvert and you like to watch people. You're observant and you smart. You enjoy learning things and you see things in an artistic way. You're probably a little old-fashioned in ways and you're easily hurt, but you don't usually wallow in it -- you like to write and create things that express your emotions!"

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I Threw It All Away.

Nice

 

[Jim Daniels]

I got Tangled Up In Blue too. Sounds about right.

His love songs are definitely my favourites.

 

[Jim Daniels]

Anyone hear the new Sinatra covers album yet? They're all ravin' about it.

Have only heard a couple of tracks myself...

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