my eyes aren't great, but i think the first line is "I love you, Bob Dylan."
― tylerw, Friday, 24 August 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
Yup! Still not great quality, it's from a thread on expectingrain.com
http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/1072/photony.pnghttp://img687.imageshack.us/img687/875/photo1to.pnghttp://img525.imageshack.us/img525/5125/photo2i.png
― niels, Saturday, 25 August 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
I know someone who saw a recent show, and they were raving about it, but I suspect they saw it through Bob-tinted glasses, because the last time I saw him, a few years back, was so bad I swore "never again," and I can't imagine he could come back from that, no matter who is in his band. Though obviously I'm curious about the new album, Uncut masterpiece review aside.
So, like, is Uncut the only publication in the world that has heard it?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 25 August 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
Plenty of people heard it I think http://www.google.com/search?q=tempest+first+listen but Uncut seems like the only publication allowed a proper copy/review or something.
Everybody's real positive tho :-)
― niels, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
Damn that review got me excited
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 25 August 2012 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
"Duquesne Whistle" streaming at NPR:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/08/27/160015988/song-premiere-bob-dylan-duquesne-whistle?sc=tw&cc=share
Sounds great.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 27 August 2012 12:09 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, this is great! If early roman kings was very TTL this is def love and theft to me, kinda "Summer Days". Resolution must be low on the stream, wonder if it's as muddy/lofi on the album. I can see the basement tapes comparison bc of production sound... I guess it's all recorded live as well?
Hope there's more drama/emotion on the title track, would love something like When The Deal Goes Down, Workingman's Blues, Nettie Moore, Charlie Patton.
btw wtf @ http://www.loveandtheft.com/us/home ? hehe...
― niels, Monday, 27 August 2012 12:35 (eleven years ago) link
maybe a christmas in the heart feel as well?
― niels, Monday, 27 August 2012 12:36 (eleven years ago) link
digging it
― tylerw, Monday, 27 August 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
I like this. Quite a bit.
Wanted to see him Saturday in Indianapolis, but played a show instead. I heard mixed reviews (totally normal; although I like seeing songs get butchered sometimes), and it was an outdoor show (not my thing. keep sound indoors, plz)...still a little bummed.
― dronestreet, Monday, 27 August 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
Much to my surprise, I like "Duquesne Whistle." The music reminds me of George Harrison doing one of his Hawaiian-sounding songs.
― clemenza, Monday, 27 August 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
oh man, love this!!
― Mordy, Monday, 27 August 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
guess that robert hunter is involved again -- hadn't read that til the npr write up.
― tylerw, Monday, 27 August 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9fut8PG0X1qde2qno1_400.jpg
― tylerw, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
lololol
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
duquense whistle is soooo good guys
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
xp Brilliant
― Choogle Image Search (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
The heavy guitars are a slightly bizarre presence throughout, but those classic rock breaks at 3:51 and 4:50 are over the top.
― timellison, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
There's an official video for "Duquesne Whistle" over at Rolling Stone:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/bob-dylan-debuts-shockingly-violent-new-video-20120829
Dylan has a posse.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 12:26 (eleven years ago) link
The song's good.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:11 (eleven years ago) link
I agree. But the video is pretty dumb.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:27 (eleven years ago) link
i like it!
― goole, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
haha yeah it was like the dark version of a zooey flick
also:
http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/Dylan%20Vid.jpg
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
SHOCKINGLY VIOLENT. would be cool if that was actually gene simmons in the kiss makeup walking with dylan.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/news/simmons-taps-dylan-zappa-songs-for-solo-1909701.story#/news/simmons-taps-dylan-zappa-songs-for-solo-1909701.story
The Dylan co-write, "Waiting for the Morning Light," was born out of a one-day writing session at Simmons' home in Los Angeles six or seven years ago, the Kiss bassist/vocalist reveals.
"Bob came up with the chords, most of them, and then I took it and wrote lyrics, melody, the rest of it," says Simmons, adding that he kept urging Dylan through the years to put lyrics to the song. "I'd see him on tour, and I'd say, 'Bob, you wanna write the song? And he would say, 'No, man, you write it, Mr. Kiss.'"
Of the one-day session, Simmons says, "We understood each other right away. He picked up an acoustic guitar, and we just tossed it back and forth, 'How 'bout this, how 'bout that?' And he started to strum, because he -- at least with me -- tended to talk and strum guitar at the same time. And as soon as I heard the first three or four chords, I went, 'Wait, wait, what's that? Do that again.' So I went and started to write a lyric around that."Read more at http://www.billboard.com/news/simmons-taps-dylan-zappa-songs-for-solo-1909701.story#0XSuoSbM6iTDX1Ih.99
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
so ... it is gene simmons?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
Mr. Kiss!
Simmons mentioned the Dylan collaboration in his memoir.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
(which I have had the fortune to read a few chapters)
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZr2TWiE69Ipretty good, sounds like thin lizzy.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
Glen Frey must be pissed that he missed this one.
― Earth, Wind & Fire & Alabama (Eazy), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
Dylan also cowrote a song with Michael Bolton ("Steel Bars").
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
pretty rockin. wait for the boltonface tattoo omg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPSg0QpkPBs
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
this is really a media blitz! what in the lord's name is the point of this kind of thing:
On Friday, August 31, fans who visit listentobobdylan.com will find a map of locations in the U.S. and nine other countries where selected songs from Tempest will be streamed to mobile devices. The tracks will be randomly streamed only when users are within the Tempest-tagged geographic areas, utilizing the free web-based Sound Graffiti app (which can be accessed directly through listentobobdylan.com). In addition to the U.S., other countries in which Sound Graffiti locations will be found include Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Fans who stream the song will also be given an opportunity to pre-order Tempest from iTunes while they listen.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
On Monday, September 10, dedicated Bob Dylan Tempest "pop-up" stores will open for a seven day period in New York City, Los Angeles and London. At these stores, fans can purchase the new album, as well as other Bob Dylan releases and exclusive merchandise commemorating these week-long events, including a limited quantity of CDs hand-signed by Bob Dylan.
Bob Dylan Tempest stores will be open from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Monday, September 10 so that fans can buy Tempest a full day in advance of its official release, and will remain open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. through Sunday, September 16. Stores will be located at the following U.S. locations:819 Washington Street, New York, NY 10014 7763 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90046A Bob Dylan Tempest store will also open in London on Monday, September 10 and remain open through Monday, September 17 at the following location:47 Beak Street, London, W1F 9SE
none of the PR surrounding this release makes any sense to me (ERK on that silly tv show trailer, weird video, what you just said, lame overpriced bundles http://www.myplaydirect.com/bobdylan) BUT fortunately the songs sound good. I'm guessing Dylan has nothing to do with anything but the music.
― niels, Friday, 31 August 2012 09:02 (eleven years ago) link
dylan's idea for a PR stunt was a civil war reenactment flash mob in times square but the city said no.
― tylerw, Friday, 31 August 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
haha, if only...
RS 5 http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/tempest-20120830
― niels, Saturday, 1 September 2012 01:41 (eleven years ago) link
lecherous and treacherous
― j., Saturday, 1 September 2012 04:21 (eleven years ago) link
I like will hermes alot and he's hardly old guard rolling stone
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 1 September 2012 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
"Narrow Way" is one of Dylan's most potent rockers in years, and it borrows a chorus from the Mississippi Sheiks' 1934 blues "You'll Work Down to Me Someday."
Maybe after Modern Times debate now press material includes list of references?
― niels, Saturday, 1 September 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
five star hyperbole aside, that review is exciting. "one of his weirdest albums ever"!
― tylerw, Saturday, 1 September 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
just leaked i think
nodata dot tv
― saturdaynight (jk), Monday, 3 September 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone checked out one of the pop-up listening locations? I might try to get to the one here in town tomorrow or Wednesday.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 3 September 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
god "soon after midnight" is just so dreamy and creepy and brilliant like a perverse 70 year olds interpretation of the same feelings that birthed "walkin after midnight"
― saturdaynight (jk), Monday, 3 September 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
"narrow way" is a beast, reminds me of "tombstone blues" without all the cultural references
― saturdaynight (jk), Monday, 3 September 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
At this point, you can't convince me that 'Duquesne Whistle' isn't 'Dookie Whistle' and it's just Bob singing about his butthole.
― Cheeba McEntire, Monday, 3 September 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
like v much the recurring "watchman" in the titanic song, who sleeps through everything: "he dreamed the titanic was sinking / and he tried to tell someone".
also very pleased that the much-hyped dicaprio reference involves rhyming "leo" w "clio"
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Monday, 3 September 2012 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
and he uses "balustrade" in the same line as "chandelier"
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 01:59 (eleven years ago) link
"Duquesne Whistle" is actually one of the weakest songs.