Another Saved vote here. Great album. "Covenant Woman" is one of his all-time most heartfelt love songs.
― o. nate, Friday, 3 February 2017 02:29 (seven years ago) link
i only heard budokhan once but i liked it. can't really get a handle on a lot of dylan criticism
― a but (brimstead), Friday, 3 February 2017 04:09 (seven years ago) link
Remember that TV concert accompanying Hard Rain, broadcast on NBC 1976? I watched it in my college dorm, beginning of freshman year, basically by myself guess everybody else was in their rooms listening to Peter Frampton & Bob Seger while getting stoned. I bought Hard Rain LP the next day, remember being disappointed. Out of this list, I'd say Shot of Love is by far the non-worst.
― kanye twitty (m coleman), Friday, 3 February 2017 12:19 (seven years ago) link
I saw it, and remember liking it, wish I could rewatch it. I was working night shift at a radio station, and pulled a portable b/w tv into the studio so I could keep an eye on it. Something about the shoutiness of his vocals and Scarlet Rivera's violin reminded me of Steve Harley/Cockney Rebel a bit.
― Fake posts from a failing poster (Dan Peterson), Friday, 3 February 2017 16:58 (seven years ago) link
my friend just posted the tracks for this old mixtape he made, which seems relevant
https://scontent.fapa1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16427697_10202642525381359_3858602989773901038_n.jpg?oh=1c3fce1279fb892630bc452dfd58508b&oe=590AB2DC
― tylerw, Friday, 3 February 2017 17:12 (seven years ago) link
Came around to digging "Watered Down Love" on Shot of Love.
― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Friday, 3 February 2017 17:16 (seven years ago) link
If your friend gave me a mix leading with "Is Your Love in Vain" I'd take the title literally and send in the hounds.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 February 2017 17:21 (seven years ago) link
I saw it, and remember liking it, wish I could rewatch it.
you can watch it without sound? : /
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uNSaKiThSs
― j., Friday, 3 February 2017 17:22 (seven years ago) link
xp haha, i think it was meant to be a provocative opener
― tylerw, Friday, 3 February 2017 17:28 (seven years ago) link
man those are some ugly 70s teeth
― Οὖτις, Friday, 3 February 2017 17:32 (seven years ago) link
that's a cool mixtape
but Lenny Bruce, Dark Eyes and Congratulations are filler imo
Tweeter and the Monkey Man, now there's a tune!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEJOekbg2lE
― niels, Friday, 3 February 2017 18:56 (seven years ago) link
i agree w/ you on "lenny bruce" -- love "congratulations" and "dark eyes" though. wouldn't have included "disease of conceit" either, but i can dig the rest of it. needs "angelina" and "foot of pride," probably.
― tylerw, Friday, 3 February 2017 18:58 (seven years ago) link
yeah those would be strong additions
it's been a while since I checked out Dark Eyes, will listen again
― niels, Friday, 3 February 2017 19:02 (seven years ago) link
disease of conceit is really really bad
― marcos, Friday, 3 February 2017 19:02 (seven years ago) link
lyrics p dud, but at least it sounds kinda impressive
― niels, Friday, 3 February 2017 19:03 (seven years ago) link
Conceit is the disease that the doctors got no cureThey've done a lot of research on it but what it is they're still not sure
― marcos, Friday, 3 February 2017 19:03 (seven years ago) link
lol yeah, lyrics almost drift into so bad they're good territory, but it's just bad
― tylerw, Friday, 3 February 2017 19:05 (seven years ago) link
dunno abt "congratulations", feels like there's a strong song buried beneath a weird call/response chorus - I also feel like Dylan could've delivered more... maybe there's an acoustic bootleg somewhere?
― niels, Friday, 3 February 2017 19:06 (seven years ago) link
he did it live once, but i think that's the only alternate version.i listened to wilburies vol. 3 last week. weird record! made me wonder what a lynne-produced Under the Red Sky would've been like. Probably kinda lame, but who knows.
― tylerw, Friday, 3 February 2017 19:07 (seven years ago) link
I'll go out on a limb and say that a Lynne-produced UTRS would have really loud, gated drums. Just a hunch, though.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 3 February 2017 19:09 (seven years ago) link
pretty good odds
― tylerw, Friday, 3 February 2017 19:10 (seven years ago) link
Conceit is the disease that the doctors got no cureThey've done a lot of research on it but what it is they're still not sureConceit is a sin and certainly a frightWhat a sad and sickening sight
― Fake posts from a failing poster (Dan Peterson), Friday, 3 February 2017 19:15 (seven years ago) link
conceit seems pretty lame, that's what i'm tryin to sayoh my my, oh hey hey
― tylerw, Friday, 3 February 2017 19:17 (seven years ago) link
man i forgot how direct the springsteen dis "tweet & the monkey man" is, "mansion on the hill", "out on thunder road", "state trooper" lol
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 February 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link
haha wow that never occurred to me
mostly because I pay no attention to Springsteen. fun song though.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 3 February 2017 20:27 (seven years ago) link
When I compiled a list of Dylan's worst a couple of these doozies made it.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 February 2017 20:31 (seven years ago) link
The little guitar flourish at the end of "Disease of Conceit" is ace, though.
The lyric he probably wrote in the time it takes to sing them.
― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Friday, 3 February 2017 20:50 (seven years ago) link
the singing is worse
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 February 2017 20:52 (seven years ago) link
Somebody please make a list of Dylan's all-time worst.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 3 February 2017 21:58 (seven years ago) link
Alfred already did, pay attention
― Οὖτις, Friday, 3 February 2017 22:04 (seven years ago) link
Here they are: https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2016/05/26/can-you-understand-my-pain-dylans-worst-songs-2/
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 February 2017 02:25 (seven years ago) link
I could have added "Chimes of Freedom,”"
Huh. Interesting choice. What's wrong with that one?
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 4 February 2017 17:02 (seven years ago) link
Why u haet fun?
― In Walked Bodhisattva (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 February 2017 18:19 (seven years ago) link
Alfred's list p otm except for #6, which is about where it would place on my list of Dylan's best
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 5 February 2017 00:04 (seven years ago) link
lol I heard fuckin "To Make You Feel My Love" at Starbucks today
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 February 2017 00:07 (seven years ago) link
Nah, "Gotta Serve Somebody" sucks. It isn't even the subject matter. The whole song, from the singing to the playing, sounds totally comatose.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Sunday, 5 February 2017 00:17 (seven years ago) link
Strongly disagree, I find it menacing as fuck.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Sunday, 5 February 2017 00:24 (seven years ago) link
That someone singing this way should be allowed near women and children?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 February 2017 00:33 (seven years ago) link
I've always loved "gotta serve somebody" but the version that's always in my head is from the SNL appearance that year which I will still contend is fucking smokin'
https://vimeo.com/187895396
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 5 February 2017 00:42 (seven years ago) link
like seriously when he gets to "you may be living in another country / under another name" I practically leap from my seat it's so goddamn good
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 5 February 2017 00:43 (seven years ago) link
Ha was gonna bring up that SNL clip
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 5 February 2017 00:45 (seven years ago) link
Bass player is so great
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 5 February 2017 00:47 (seven years ago) link
Self Portait was the first Dylan album i ever heard and i've loved it for 45 years.
― bodacious ignoramus, Sunday, 5 February 2017 01:22 (seven years ago) link
I will always love Hurricane because I picture that scene in Dazed & Confused
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 5 February 2017 03:02 (seven years ago) link
^^^ yes
― velko, Sunday, 5 February 2017 03:03 (seven years ago) link
You know, listening to Budokan for the first time and this is kinda awesome! It makes more sense now than it probably did at the time, almost reminds me of him trying to do Van Morrison style versions of his songs. Simple Twist of Fate is pretty great
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 5 February 2017 03:30 (seven years ago) link
I love At Budokan.
― heaven parker (anagram), Sunday, 5 February 2017 09:25 (seven years ago) link
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown),
I'd love to know if "Hurricane" got airplay incommensurate with its middling chart position or it's become more famous in the last 20 years.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 February 2017 12:40 (seven years ago) link
I assembled my best-of list here: https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2016/05/25/without-ideas-or-violence-best-bob-dylan-tracks-and-albums/
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 February 2017 12:41 (seven years ago) link
Thanks. Well done as usual, but is there a typo here, did you mean to say "songs" where you you first said "albums"?
He’s a man who wrote wonderful songs and quite a few terrible albums and stuck them on albums which rejected wonderful and terrible songs like a heart might the wrong blood type.
― In Walked Bodhisattva (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 February 2017 14:04 (seven years ago) link