the last time I listened to these I liked Saved more than Slow Train Coming. I think I like both more than Shot of Love although I like the big hits on the latter a whole bunch. Saved is the most open-heartedly-evangelical of the three & so the songwriting is pretty unique for it: no apologies, no obfuscation (it's not just that it might be the Lord, it *is* the Lord!).
― Euler, Thursday, 16 February 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
I prefer Saved to Slow Train too. I think it sounds great - musically it's one of my favorite Dylan records, and it has some of Dylan's most unselfconscious and emotional singing. I think "Covenant Woman" is one of his best love songs.
― o. nate, Thursday, 16 February 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
thx guys I think I'll track these down
been on a huge Dylan bender this week
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, that "Watered Down Love" clip above got pulled already. #OccupyDylan
― ‘Neuroscience’ and ‘near death’ pepper (Eazy), Friday, 17 February 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
All 3 of the gospel-period albums are on Spotify, I think. xp
― o. nate, Friday, 17 February 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
I'm against spotify but thx
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
this review is sort of ...mean? ungenerous?
not too far into this album but really dug the version of Satisfied Mind, very Mississippi Fred McDowell
― Artful Dodderer (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 February 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
and this review is just fucking ridiculous
― Artful Dodderer (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 February 2012 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
That Kurt Loder review of Saved is actually one of the better ones I've read of that album. He's pretty well attuned to the vitality of the music and the possibilities of the style, even if at times he lets the preachiness of the lyrics spoil his enjoyment. I've read some very negative reviews of Saved, calling it perhaps his worst album and saying the band sounds lifeless or dull. Loder is at least a bit more evenhanded. That Wenner review of Slow Train is way over the top in its effusiveness, though that album does have its moments.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
I like Slow Train Coming a lot but the Wenner adulation is so sad and desperate-sounding
― Artful Dodderer (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
guess I'm in the mainstream but I also find Slow Train pretty awesome and Saved lifeless and dull
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 2 March 2012 11:00 (twelve years ago) link
What ferocious courage he has! his preaching at the end of "Precious Angel", going into "Slow Train", about how the world is going to be destroyed & Christ is going to set up his kingdom in Jerusalem for a thousand years; & after the crowd erupts he asks, "Do you believe those things?" and they just shout back, & it's hard to tell what they really think.
i dunno, the crowd seems pretty down to be saved.
euler's right, this show is straight fire.
― j., Monday, 30 July 2012 04:14 (eleven years ago) link
she was a backwoods girl, but she sure was realistic
― j., Sunday, 30 December 2012 05:35 (eleven years ago) link
ha I used this as my Facebook status the other day
― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 30 December 2012 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
i was just looking for this thread but couldn't find it for some reason. was listening to another one of those 1980 warfield shows (an improved source, i think?). an absolutely bonkers groom still waiting at the altar w/ bloomfield guesting on guitar. that song is nuts.
― tylerw, Sunday, 30 December 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
Is there a link, by chance? (yeah you would've posted it but can't resist asking)
― dow, Sunday, 30 December 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
here's where I got em http://ow.ly/gru4O http://ow.ly/gru54 great show all around.
― tylerw, Monday, 31 December 2012 05:04 (eleven years ago) link
Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgustedCan’t help but wonder what’s happenin’ to my companions
^^^ this song is so sick
― j., Thursday, 18 April 2013 01:23 (eleven years ago) link
Man Gave Names to All the Animals may be my favorite Dylan album-closer
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 18 April 2013 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
that is crazy talk but i <3 you for it
― tylerw, Thursday, 18 April 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
Dylan himself (and Bono) adores Shot of Love's title track.
(and pj harvey)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bohnF6EqShY
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 18 April 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
I guess Desolation Row is a close second
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 18 April 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
that and "it's all over now baby blue" are the ones that came to mind...
― tylerw, Thursday, 18 April 2013 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
the thing is I am kinda bored with both of those songs by the time they finally end, whereas the ending is actually the best thing about Man Gave Names to All the Animals
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 18 April 2013 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
btw this is great - http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/47121287935/caribbean-wind-bob-dylan-warfield-theatre
― tylerw, Thursday, 18 April 2013 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
still never heard Shot of Love, couldn't find a dl of it pre-mediafire/megaupload legal meltdown
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 18 April 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
it's all over slsk
― j., Thursday, 18 April 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
grrrrrrreat toronto full show here [for the time being] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_XTYYFr8Fc
― tylerw, Thursday, 23 May 2013 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
!!! LOVE
the cold open when Dylan and the band kick in is grate
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 May 2013 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
i think this was filmed by howard alk, who did eat the document, hard rain and renaldo and clara w/ dylan. that guy really went through some things with bob!
― tylerw, Thursday, 23 May 2013 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
really is an amazing, passionate performance -- dylan certainly couldn't phone this stuff in or rely on the hits.
― tylerw, Thursday, 23 May 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
I don't recognize a couple things here - are some of these songs on shot of love?
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 May 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
maybe it's just this "Cover Down, Break Through" song I don't know
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 May 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
yeah "ain't gonna go to hell" and "cover down break through" were never unreleased afaik. both pretty great!
― tylerw, Thursday, 23 May 2013 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
who's the bass player here? dude is cracking me up
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 May 2013 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
whoa had never heard ain't gonna go to hell.
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 23 May 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
tim drummond is the bass player -- james brown, neil young, jj cale etc.
― tylerw, Thursday, 23 May 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
& yeah ain't gonna go to hell is a pretty commercial sounding number -- lord only knows why dylan never released it.
― tylerw, Thursday, 23 May 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
ah yes, Drummond. he just has the funniest wide-legged hunch-n-bob when he gets into it.
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 May 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
"Philosophers like ... Plato... uh, Jimmy Reed"
lol
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 May 2013 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
that show was amazing
― Euler, Thursday, 23 May 2013 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
omg you guys
http://wonderingsound.com/review/various-artists-tribute-bob-dylan-80s-volume-one/
http://images.emusic.com/music/images/album/148/510/14851006/300x300.jpg
― j., Tuesday, 25 March 2014 23:44 (ten years ago) link
grantland ran a piece about that album and dylan's 80s stuff in general: http://grantland.com/features/bob-dylan-1980s-albums-tribute-album/
doesnt' really say anything new or terribly interesting. this thread is easily the best thing i've ever read on this period.
― ryan, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:31 (ten years ago) link
the "volume one" on the cover there is ominous.
― ryan, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link
That tribute is a steaming pile. nigh unlistenable.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:35 (ten years ago) link
i ended up loving Saved! a lot
― Little Nicky Pizza loved that rascal Rust (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:35 (ten years ago) link
All about ROCK SOLID for me.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:36 (ten years ago) link
these are both greathttp://thousandhighways.blogspot.com/2013/09/still-same-man-volume-one-unreleased.htmlhttp://thousandhighways.blogspot.com/2013/09/still-same-man-volume-two-unreleased.html
― tylerw, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:37 (ten years ago) link
i've only heard the built to spill "jokerman" off of the 80s Dylan trib, but i thought it was OK.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:38 (ten years ago) link
That's the highlight. The rest rarely reaches OK.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link