It's kind of like this:
https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbgMmoyN2mfcfkap3a42-8EzpXsZHIN7f5sRdTTOFOLFNA1foyUA
Plus this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bc/New_Order_Technique.jpg/220px-New_Order_Technique.jpg
But terrible.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
tracklisting omg
1. Duquesne Whistle 2. Soon After Midnight 3. Narrow Way 4. Long and Wasted Years 5. Pay in Blood 6. Scarlet Town 7. Early Roman Kings 8. Tin Angel 9. Tempest 10. Roll on John
― tylerw, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
IMPORTANT TO NOTE: kind of rare for dylan to have a title track. sort of!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
"Duquesne Whistle" is a dope song name
I love the cover art, hoping it indicates some sleaze on the record
― Euler, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
cover art is rad imo. it looks like it belongs in a scratched plastic jewel case in a box of old forgotten possessions, but that isn't nec a bad vibe for a new dylan record. it just reminds me of a zillion tasteful but not artful '90s book jackets.
― , Blogger (schlump), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
damn that tracklist is awesome
early roman kings!
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
i actually like the sleazy Cinemax After Dark way that "Tempest" is written....but what's up with the Microsoft Word straight up Times/Times New Roman way Dylan is written?
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
Also turning 50:
http://www.autobooksbishko.com/products/stdImages/4976.jpeg
― Don't Feel Like Santana, But Oye Como Va To Them (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, July 17, 2012 12:16 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this. would be awesome w/o his name
― mizzell, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
It's pretty close the Bringing It All Back Home font!
― timellison, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
I really hope the lyrical content matches the cover and merits a review headline like 50 Shades Of "Lay Lady Lay"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
think there were some rumours about this record a while back; the one of the los lobos guys was playing on it, more mariachi vibes, &c.
i like his name!, i think that's part of it
― , Blogger (schlump), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.travel2austria.com/i/parliamentvienna4.jpg
― tylerw, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
the one of the los lobos guys was playing on it
David Hidalgo's been on his last few records iirc (he's definitely on the Xmas one)
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
here are the rumors:
The sessions are reported to have begun in January 2012 at Groove Masters, a semi-private studio facility owned by musician Jackson Browne. The studio, on Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, is where Dylan recorded both “Together Through Life” and “Christmas In The Heart”. He is said to have spent up to two months working on the album. David Hidalgo revealed to The Aspen Times that he had been involved with the recording of a New Dylan album and that whilst he had been brought in primarily to play accordion and guitar, he ended up adding Mexican instruments, including tres, to some tracks. Hidalgo said the recording sessions were nothing like the earlier ones he had done with Dylan. He had previously played accordion and guitar on “Together Through Life” and accordion, guitar, mandolin and violin on “Christmas In The Heart”.
If our previous information is correct, the 10-song album is 68 minutes long and contains songs about Titanic and John Lennon.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
that cover rules
― goole, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
the 10-song album is 68 minutes long
oh nooo
― goole, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.rso.wmich.edu/ultimate/random/kool-aid-man.jpg
― tylerw, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
so it's about ALL the early roman kings
― j., Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
celebrating today's news by listening to a Dylan show in Dresden from a couple weeks ago. Pretty good! Totally weird re-do of "Hattie Carrol" which gives the song an inappropriately bouncy, happy feel.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
Reportedly he is playing grand piano these days!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
yeah he is! sounds better than the kinda rinky dink organ he's been using of late. though it's mixed pretty low on the thing i'm listening to. http://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/bob-dylan-hop-farm-grand-piano.jpg
― tylerw, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
interesting that he's really kinda bypassed the together through life material onstage -- barely plays any of it, while modern times and love and theft songs get plenty of outings.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
it's weird to think how old love & theft is! he's been playing a lot of that album as a core part of his setlists for over a decade now.
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
So,
Are
We
Doing
This?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
interesting that he's really kinda bypassed the together through life material onstage -- barely plays any of it
same as his fans, I reckon.
Is this the first time in quite a while that newer albums fill most of Dylan's set lists?
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
since time out of mind, he's dug pretty deep into the new records. guess he plays forgetful heart on the regular, here's his last setlist
1. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat 2. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue3. Things Have Changed 4. Tangled Up In Blue5. Honest With Me 6. Spirit On The Water7. The Levee's Gonna Break 8. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 9. High Water (For Charley Patton)10. Simple Twist Of Fate 11. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight12. Highway 61 Revisited 13. Forgetful Heart 14. Thunder On The Mountain 15. Ballad Of A Thin Man16. Like A Rolling Stone (Bob on grand piano)17. All Along The Watchtower (Bob on grand piano)18. Blowin' In The Wind
― tylerw, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
it's funny cuz he digs so deep and plays so many songs compared to most classic rock touring artists but then he TOTALLY ALWAYS PLAYS watchtower, blowin' in the wind, and like a rolling stone
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
That has more 'old faves' than I would have expected.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
when I saw him in '05 he played "I'll Remember You"! My heart leapt.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
I re-discovered the mp3's I d/l of the "hears a who" set. Made a nice sleeve and label for a burned CD..
I guess he's not going to do "Green Eggs and Ham"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
i've been looking at dylan setlists for like, most of my internet life, so sometimes i wish he'd dig a little deeper, play some things from Infidels or New Morning or something. but this show i just listened to sounded pretty cool.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
I figure he played piano on the original therefore it's easier for him.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/240999.1020.A.jpg
― Odd Spice (Eazy), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
OTOH, they're probably not often recognizable as such- at least until he gets to the chorus (or mumbles a few consecutively intelligible lyrics).
― o. nate, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
The first time I saw him, mid-80s, he did an acoustic set including Blowin and Times They Are a-Changin, and it felt like Fogey Central. Saw him like 15 years later, and he did this mournful, bluesy version of Blowin' that was just gorgeous. So, yeah, unpredictable.
I don't think 68 minutes is necessarily a bad sign. For one thing, that could mean a 17-minute epic in there, and his track record on those is pretty good. But also, the longer songs on Modern Times completely trump the short ones on Together Through Life.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 01:17 (eleven years ago) link
that could mean a 17-minute epic in there
The song about the TItanic is 14 minutes long.
As I've said elsewhere, the cover looks like a self-released smooth jazz album.
― 誤訳侮辱, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 01:55 (eleven years ago) link
Xpost yeah, last time I saw him took me a verse or two to realize he was playing tangled up in blue
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
i have never seen dylan live!
― goole, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
i can't claim to be a superfan or anything, it just struck me.
― goole, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, July 17, 2012 4:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
puts me in mind of the woody allen conversations we've had here
I haven't seen Woody Allen live either.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
we're watching him die
― goole, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
he played literally four blocks from my house last summer at the ballpark & I felt guilty that there's no way I'm going to an outdoor goes-on-forever rock show at a ballpark in the summer here no matter who it is
― tallarico dreams (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
i dunno, the ballpark thing seems kind of fun? at least more fun than a hockey arena. best time i saw him was at the hollywood palladium. here's a recent live thing i've been enjoying. i dunno, obviously the ragged vocals will be a roadblock for some, but i think he sounds great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCLBFvqyBkI
― tylerw, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
and check him out herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuHsXVSFkFs
― tylerw, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
cover looks like what i'd expect to see in a one-sheet on a new soft cell album anytime in the last 9 years
― bb, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
i dunno, the ballpark thing seems kind of fun? at least more fun than a hockey arena
yeah I guess - I really strongly prefer short sets so I don't go to classic-old-dude shows anyway, and one that's outside in punishing southern summer heat is one I'm especially not going to
― tallarico dreams (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i don't know if i'd go if one of those was near me, but maybe if it was cheap ... a beer, a hot dog and blowin in the wind. america.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
o t m
― bb, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
(I'd also be lying if I claimed I wouldn't be at the Friday show if I did not have Louis C.K. tickets. Louis C.K. these days is like '65 Dylan)
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 November 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
want to hear Lex's take on this: Nicki Minaj incensed at Steven Tyler's suggestion that she wouldn't appreciate Bob Dylanhttp://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1697941/nicki-minaj-steven-tyler-cornfield-diss-racist.jhtml
― The Doc Morbama (some dude), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
cornfield!
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
american idol, so quick to generously propel and reward idiosyncratic talents like bob dylan until they ruinously handed the keys to nicki minaj
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
cornfield
Racist.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 03:59 (eleven years ago) link
isn't that a Twilight Zone reference?
― Number None, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 10:02 (eleven years ago) link
I think the perfect condensed 40-minute LP version of this would have tracks 1-4 on the A side, then "Pay in Blood" and "Tempest" on the B side.
― o. nate, Thursday, 29 November 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
In an unusual response to provisions in a new European copyright law, scheduled to take effect by 2014, Sony Music has released a compilation of early Bob Dylan recordings that is bound to become one of his most collectible albums. “The 50th Anniversary Collection,” which carries a subtitle — “The Copyright Extension Collection, Vol. 1” — that explains its purpose, was rushed to only a handful of record shops in Germany, France, Sweden and Britain just after Christmas.Only about 100 copies of the four-CD set were produced, with sparse packaging and an insert listing the details of the set’s 86 tracks, all previously unreleased studio outtakes and live recordings from 1962 and 1963. It also comes as a downloadable version, available through the singers’s Web site, bobdylan.com, but only to fans who log on from France or Germany. (Prices for the CD set vary from country to country, from the equivalent of $39 to, in Britain, $138).
Only about 100 copies of the four-CD set were produced, with sparse packaging and an insert listing the details of the set’s 86 tracks, all previously unreleased studio outtakes and live recordings from 1962 and 1963. It also comes as a downloadable version, available through the singers’s Web site, bobdylan.com, but only to fans who log on from France or Germany. (Prices for the CD set vary from country to country, from the equivalent of $39 to, in Britain, $138).
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
at first i liked tempestthen i didn't really like itbut i'm listening now again and it sound great
dylan albums are weird, they go up and down for me in weird ways. i need a dow jones dylan index or something.
but yes anyway tempest closing high in the asian markets, up 20 on the NASDAQ today
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
whoa -- listened to it yesterday morning on the drive to work. I skipped the slow ones.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
haha, yeah i'm having a hard time deciding on this one too... sometimes it sounds awesome, sometimes i feel kinda bored. he's playing more of these songs live now, interested in hearing some of the arrangements.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
he's really playing a bunch of these songs now (and really, a bunch of 21st century songs, too) -- check out the setlist from last night. premiered "roll on john" too.
Blackpool, EnglandOpera House TheatreNovember 24, 2013
1. Things Have Changed (Bob center stage)2. She Belongs To Me (Bob center stage with harp)3. Beyond Here Lies Nothin' (Bob on grand piano, Donnie on electric mandolin)4. What Good Am I? (Bob on grand piano, Tony on standup bass)5. Duquesne Whistle (Bob on grand piano, Tony on standup bass)6. Waiting For You (Bob on grand piano)7. Pay In Blood (Bob center stage)8. Tangled Up In Blue (Bob on grand piano)9. Love Sick (Bob center stage with harp, Donnie on electric mandolin)(Intermission)10. High Water (For Charley Patton)(Bob center stage with harp, Donnie on banjo, Tony on standup bass)11. Simple Twist Of Fate (Bob on grand piano)12. Early Roman Kings (Bob on grand piano)13. Forgetful Heart (Bob center stage with harp, Donnie on violin, Tony on standup bass)14. Spirit On The Water (Bob on grand piano, Tony on standup bass)15. Scarlet Town (Bob on grand piano, Donnie on banjo, Tony on standup bass)16. Soon After Midnight (Bob on grand piano)17. Long And Wasted Years (Bob center stage) (encore)18. All Along The Watchtower (Bob on grand piano)19. Roll On John (Bob on grand piano, Tony on standup bass)
― tylerw, Monday, 25 November 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
maybe i'm the only one impressed with it, but seems impressive that he's barely leaning on the 60s-70s these days. anyhow, here's a recording of a show from last week: http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1651
― tylerw, Monday, 25 November 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
nah that's totally impressive, might download that set! Bob's 21st century is better than his 80s and 90s & I might take it over his 70s too
― Euler, Monday, 25 November 2013 16:21 (ten years ago) link
to the delight of millions, he's finally playing that song from the ya-ya sisterhood soundtrack
― tylerw, Monday, 25 November 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
Ha ha. I assume he is still mumbling/vocalizing in a cigarette-stained voice. Is he changing the arrangements of these more recent songs too?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 November 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
The Tempest songs seem to be sticking to the original arrangements for the most part, and Bob actually sounds pretty good vocally -- check out "soon after midnight" - http://www.bigozine2.com/TRK/BDglasgow/BDglasgow207.mp3i mean, he's not smooth or anything, but...
― tylerw, Monday, 25 November 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link
I love gravelly Bob. Gonna have to check out that show.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 25 November 2013 17:47 (ten years ago) link
I love Roll On John, strongest song on the record for me initially
Really into this tonight as well.
― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Monday, 15 September 2014 05:04 (nine years ago) link
Interesting read:http://www.thenation.com/blog/170289/bob-dylans-tempest-qa-greil-marcus#
― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Monday, 15 September 2014 05:34 (nine years ago) link
still so disappointed it's not
EACH OF 'EM BIGGERTHAN ALL OF 'EM PUT TOGETHER
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Friday, 28 August 2015 01:12 (eight years ago) link
all the evil cartoon plutocrat stuff in "early roman kings", and for how well it works Primary Dylan Gimmick of collapsing image systems, maybe a polite phrase for cliches, into each other, so that american-progressive-era robber-baron caricatures and modern conspicuous consumption and the tarquins and the caesars and rock stars and finally bob dylan are smeared across each other into a single big hallucination
been thinkin on today's listen that my 80s-pizzeria joke abt the album artwork upthread is actually onto something - the band is working similar territory to their past few albums together, sure, but somehow i get a faint 80s vibe from it, like that stretch of 80s rock syncretism that wasn't into looking forward and had come into some kind of double-triple-quadruple vision nostalgia from being made by old rockers who used to be young rockers who remembered the blues, but now streamlined and modernized for kind of functional purposes (fits in with the bob's-backing-band vibe). but now the incorporation includes all these older and more recent preoccupations of dylan's, so the banjo stuff, americana twinges, riverboat music, whatever, isn't being assayed for genuine performances of the original musics so much as it's just being fused into a vision/auditory hallucination of all these pasts. thus the weirdness of the songwriting/lyrics, too - a lennon assassination song at THIS point, the titanic ballad, the plutocrat/gangster/rome fusions.
― j., Saturday, 2 April 2016 22:23 (eight years ago) link
It's got at least one other thing in common with his '80s albums - it's uneven as hell. I still like "Tempest" (the song) and "Pay in Blood" quite a bit.
― o. nate, Monday, 19 September 2016 01:27 (seven years ago) link
Some misses, yes, but I like it way more than any of his other third act albums.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Monday, 19 September 2016 01:30 (seven years ago) link
Long too
I also like Duquesne whistle and Roll on John
― niels, Monday, 19 September 2016 06:12 (seven years ago) link
doesn't it seem like the fade on the titanic song is wrong
it should be him starting up more verses and it fades anyway like a cane-reaching-onto-the-stage kind of thing
― j., Tuesday, 20 September 2016 04:31 (seven years ago) link
haha
it's such a weird song, seams like Dylan saw Titanic and liked it enough to paraphrase it in a 14 minute long song?
funny stuff, referring to DiCaprio's character as "Leo" and all:
Leo took his sketchbookHe was often so inclinedHe closed his eyes and paintedThe scenery in his mind
― niels, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 11:03 (seven years ago) link
His story in Chronicles of writing "Dignity" was about watching the news about Len Bias's death, so maybe he has a four-track near his TV chair.
Ronnie James Dio had stories about writing his big songs while watching NFL games.
― otm in the rain (Eazy), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 14:21 (seven years ago) link
Also, love this album's last track, "Roll On John."
― otm in the rain (Eazy), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 14:22 (seven years ago) link
I forgot that anecdote, need to reread Chronicles soon
Roll On, John is great
― niels, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 14:54 (seven years ago) link
listening to "tempest" (the song) this really is a kooky thing
"Petals fell from flowers'Til all of them were goneIn the long and dreadful hoursThe wizard's curse played on"
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:24 (seven years ago) link
it's somewhat similar to lily rosemary and the jack of hearts in its failed attempt at telling an epic tale on an epic scale
― niels, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link