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
guess i'm a lil curious to hear the bonnie prince billy "dark eyes"? a little bit?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:44 (ten years ago) link
that grantland piece is pretty infuriating, between conflating early-80s fire-and-brimstone dylan with late-80s dylan-and-the-dead dylan and then ending on this
[Time out of] Mind is a personal favorite, and easily better than anything Dylan did in the ’80s. But it also took Dylan out of commission as a present-tense figure. Now, it’s impossible to imagine him in the same context as Ratt or Kip Winger (or Justin Bieber or YG). His iconic luster was restored, but his humanity — which once beat with the power of blanched synths and tinny drums — became obscured behind sepia-tinted sonics.
as if the five albums since time out of mind have all been muttering abt death in a lanois fog, even when they've been bad
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:53 (ten years ago) link
as if songs where he mentions alicia keys have no effect on the clear visibility of his 'humanity'? (not sure even what that would mean but ok)
― j., Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:54 (ten years ago) link
plus the jack frost "sonics" are prob better + "aliver" than anyone's dylan sonics since tom wilson's
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
out of commission as a present-tense figureha yeah, see that seems exactly what Dylan has been kicking against since TOOM. where that record seemed foggy and out of it (intentionally so, i'd say) his subsequent records have been sharp/feisty as hell.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 21:04 (ten years ago) link
the dusty past of underwaer and detroit commercials during the superbowl
― j., Wednesday, 26 March 2014 21:07 (ten years ago) link
der dean: http://www.spin.com/reviews/bob-dylan-80s-tribute-comp-ATO/
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 21:31 (ten years ago) link
The songs have been retained but not the sound — that big, terrible ’80s production with the Miami Vice drums, the overbearing backup singers, and the sluggishly steady metronomic synth gurgle that makes the version of “When the Night Comes Falling From the Sky” on Empire Burlesque feel like dying from a torturously slow cocaine overdose
This dude on a ruthless pursuit of cliches.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
Xgau liking it only confirms my belief that it's a steaming turd of a record.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 21:47 (ten years ago) link
Not sure it's a full endorsement.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 21:51 (ten years ago) link
yeah the 80s cliches come thick and heavy there but damn if the production (and/or mastering) on those 80s dylan records doesn't sound like shit.
― espring (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 22:04 (ten years ago) link
steve hyden is easily the worst writer at grantland and was one of the worst at avclub, a more anodyne moody but just as clueless a defender of garbled unexamined cw.
― balls, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 22:59 (ten years ago) link
the Miami Vice drums, the overbearing backup singers, and the sluggishly steady metronomic synth gurgle
Cliche or not, this is a pretty accurate description.
I wouldn't go quite that far, but I do like the relatively clean, live sound of Jack Frost-era Dylan a lot better than Lanois's highly-produced sound. I don't think he's talking about the recording sound though, he's more talking about the style. I think that Love and Theft was a major creative rebirth for Dylan, but he achieved it by forgetting about sounding modern and going back to his roots.
― o. nate, Thursday, 27 March 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link