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What do you consider his "later" music, Brian? Street Legal, Infidels, Time Out of Mind, Tempest, etc?
Bob Dylan Appreciation Thread - Favorite Album/Song/Cover
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I'd have to say anything after 1985. The last official Dylan LP I have, prior to the Biograph (5) LP set from 1985, is Shot of Love (1981). I mainly bought Biograph for "Please Crawl Out Your Window", which was played on FM for a very short time, after Subterranean Homesick Blues, but had never been released on LP. I did buy Infidels (and maybe another) on cassette to listen to at work, but no longer have those cassettes and never replaced them. My bootlegs are 60s/70s recordings, before the bootleg crackdown in early 80s.
you and I are very much alike!
actually, I own a bunch of Dylan after 1967's John Wesley Harding, but I do not love much of it. A minority position, I know.
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A latter favorite song is "Not Dark Yet." 'It's not dark yet, but it's gettin there.' Great line
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A favorite of mine. I never get tired of hearing it.
Well, my sense of humanity has gone down the drain
Behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain...
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Laughing about this old post. I was listening to that album at work the other day, in an old uninsulated building where sounds echo. I listen with my tiny speakers pointed at my face and at super low volume so I don't bother other people. I went down to the kitchen and when I came back up to my office all I could hear was harmonica. It was like someone was playing harmonica in the stairwell!
Someone has to cut an "office mix" of that album for me.
Interesting post. I had never thought about the harp being high in the mix. But that seems correct.
Produced by Bob Johnston of Columbia Records in Nashville, the same guy who did Highway 61 and Blonde on Blonde, and a whole lot of other important albums by lots of important performers. And that is Dylan on harmonica. I do think he was trying for a very acoustic sound. I do not think it was unintentional. It does seem extreme. Interesting.
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Here's another clip from the upcoming Dylan bio "A Complete Unknown":
It appears that the movie will follow his career at least up to him going electric. I'm not a big fan of biographies usually, but the subject holds some interest. It's coming out at Christmas, just in time to qualify for awards season, so it looks like Searchlight Pictures is positioning Chalamet as an Oscar contender.
It appears that the movie will follow his career at least up to him going electric. I'm not a big fan of biographies usually, but the subject holds some interest. It's coming out at Christmas, just in time to qualify for awards season, so it looks like Searchlight Pictures is positioning Chalamet as an Oscar contender.
Haven't listened to this 1973 LP in years. I like the LP, but it was probably the Dylan covers that prompted the purchase.
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Revisiting my old Dylan/Cash bootlegs. I don't have the official bootleg release, but my Dylan/Cash bootleg LP from the 70s and an extended download (CD) version I came across in the 90s, were always favorites of my wife and I, especially on road trips. Swinging Pig, on youtube, also has a lot of unreleased Dylan. There's some dead space before the sound starts.
Finding plenty of unreleased and live Dylan on youtube. Besides Swinging Pig and nightly moth channels, I came across this Dylan appearance on Steve Allen. Allen, and Dick Cavett, had the best talk shows in the 60s, but I don't remember this Dylan appearance, talking about and singing Hattie Carroll.
Great song. I had never seen this performance either. I think I once met the grandson or something of that nature relative or William Zanzinger. I understand that he tells people the song is completely unfair to his forebearer!
"You who philosophize disgrace, and criticize all fear, bury the rag deep in your face, for now is the time for your tears." Amazing lyric. That is just not your standard folk song!
I like this performance! "The unwashed phenomena!"
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Never heard of Weyes Blood, but she does a great cover of Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, one of my favorite Dylan songs. I like it even better than the Baez cover for some reason.
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