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Jesus Christ on a tuk-tuk I have only just noticed this forum existed! How long has it been here for? My SG posting is becoming worryingly automated...
Anyway, it seems to have been here long enough that it's already almost dead, so let's try and reinvigorate it with some Bob Dylan discussion.
What's your favourite Bob Dylan album?
What's your favourite Bob Dylan song?
Anyone seen him live? What was it like?
I'm a bit controversial in my Dylan views in that my favourite album is Desire, it's just full of epic and powerful tracks. I am also really coming to like Blonde on Blonde, though I wasnt so keen at first, and of course Bringing It All Back Home is incredible. Highway 61 Revisted has a lot more awesome stuff than you realise, too. Such a high volume of great work.
Having said that, I recently purchased an album called "Dylan and the Dead" which was him performing with the Grateful Dead, a fav band of mine, but it was absolutely obissmal. Really bad song selection, with less good tracks like Joey and Queen Jane Approximately, and even the masterworks like All Along the Watchtower were badly performed by both Dylan and the band. It really was a let down. Was also disappointed by the supposedly outrageous 1966 live performance bootleg CD - other than when he gets called Judas, there is very little audible reaction from the crowd at all, and his electric covers are not nearly as good, or bad, as I expected them to be, they are just really rather meh.
Favourite track is a really hard one, but it's got to be Mister Tambourine Man, in its original form as on Bringing it all back home, closely followed by Subterranean Homesick Blues on the same album. I also love Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again, and I think Hurricane is just phenominal. And of course Like a Rolling Stone, I Shall Be Released and All Along the Watchtower are absolute classics. Isis and One More Cup of Coffee are another couple of great little gems on the Desire album, and if you can find it check out the duet of the latter he did with Emmylou Harris. Freewheelin' is also a really great album, though you have to be in the right frame of mind to listen to it. Personally I think A Hard Rain Is Gonna Fall is even better than Blowin in the Wind.
Anyway, enough from me, over to you....
Anyway, it seems to have been here long enough that it's already almost dead, so let's try and reinvigorate it with some Bob Dylan discussion.
What's your favourite Bob Dylan album?
What's your favourite Bob Dylan song?
Anyone seen him live? What was it like?
I'm a bit controversial in my Dylan views in that my favourite album is Desire, it's just full of epic and powerful tracks. I am also really coming to like Blonde on Blonde, though I wasnt so keen at first, and of course Bringing It All Back Home is incredible. Highway 61 Revisted has a lot more awesome stuff than you realise, too. Such a high volume of great work.
Having said that, I recently purchased an album called "Dylan and the Dead" which was him performing with the Grateful Dead, a fav band of mine, but it was absolutely obissmal. Really bad song selection, with less good tracks like Joey and Queen Jane Approximately, and even the masterworks like All Along the Watchtower were badly performed by both Dylan and the band. It really was a let down. Was also disappointed by the supposedly outrageous 1966 live performance bootleg CD - other than when he gets called Judas, there is very little audible reaction from the crowd at all, and his electric covers are not nearly as good, or bad, as I expected them to be, they are just really rather meh.
Favourite track is a really hard one, but it's got to be Mister Tambourine Man, in its original form as on Bringing it all back home, closely followed by Subterranean Homesick Blues on the same album. I also love Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again, and I think Hurricane is just phenominal. And of course Like a Rolling Stone, I Shall Be Released and All Along the Watchtower are absolute classics. Isis and One More Cup of Coffee are another couple of great little gems on the Desire album, and if you can find it check out the duet of the latter he did with Emmylou Harris. Freewheelin' is also a really great album, though you have to be in the right frame of mind to listen to it. Personally I think A Hard Rain Is Gonna Fall is even better than Blowin in the Wind.
Anyway, enough from me, over to you....