Lol, Bob is the best.
I assume this means a new album is coming.
― Why, I would make a fantastic Nero! (PBKR), Friday, 17 April 2020 12:27 (four years ago) link
I paint landscapesand I paint dudes
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 17 April 2020 13:30 (four years ago) link
I like how "dudes" is there so he can rhyme it with the title yet it still works.
This one is more ehhhh. As in, "Great, Bob, you remember what you read in elementary school English."
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 April 2020 13:38 (four years ago) link
think it's "nudes" haha
― tylerw, Friday, 17 April 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
lol
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:41 (four years ago) link
it's definitely nudes
― edgard varese-type beat (voodoo chili), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
nude dudes with 'tude
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
i paint brosephsand i paint dudesplz send multitudes of nudes
― tylerw, Friday, 17 April 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
https://brooklynrail-web.imgix.net/article_image/image/8738/morgan-web1.jpg?w=1020&q=80&fit=max
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
I'm sorry Bob but it's dudes now, so much better that way
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
Bob Dylan: Send Nudes
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:50 (four years ago) link
multitudes of nudes
― edgard varese-type beat (voodoo chili), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
There is another "dudes" rhyme though.
― Chris L, Friday, 17 April 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown),
how'd you know my memoir title?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 April 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
xp “I relic and I frolic, with all the young dudes”
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Friday, 17 April 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link
love this era of Bob
― J. Sam, Friday, 17 April 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
nudes *and* dudes
https://www.nydailynews.com/resizer/a1xlceGyYuU-Bw7U6YgdtlVaN9s=/415x537/top/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/LMZUEVDP53LPUGA3INSMYBS52Q.jpg
https://www.needsomefun.net/wp-content/gallery/bob-dylan-new-orleans-series-2013/cache/1-bob-dylan-new-orleans-series-1.jpg-nggid03110-ngg0dyn-640x480x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 17 April 2020 16:13 (four years ago) link
i love his singing on this one (and the last one). delivered with a wink, but he's not joking. well, not entirely joking.
― edgard varese-type beat (voodoo chili), Friday, 17 April 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link
https://www.castlefineart.com/assets/img/resized/standard/grande-c381rvore-beachfront.jpg
― dow, Friday, 17 April 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
No nudes, shoulda used crude? Ciick to enlarge that if you pleeeze.
― dow, Friday, 17 April 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
I initially heard the line in the last verse as "get up off my d"
had to rewind and check
― Number None, Friday, 17 April 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
"Will I be lewd to the dude and crude to his prude and to his profession?" --Joel Gibb
― geoffreyess, Friday, 17 April 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
I like "I Contain Multitudes" well enough, but it feels like he just dropped some leftover verses from "Murder Most Foul." Either way, Bob in old sap mode feels like comfort food for me at the moment.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Saturday, 18 April 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I’d eat up a whole album of this stuff.
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Saturday, 18 April 2020 17:05 (four years ago) link
a new bob album would just make my year, even though the year sucks
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link
I'm hoping that he'll release an entire album this year, one song at a time
― doug watson, Saturday, 18 April 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
our old friend greil, who once argued that it was not *entirely* a coincidence that john lydon's name was similar to that of the medieval anabaptist leader john of leyden, is unimpressed by the david ferrie/guy banister theory:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/real-life-rock-top-10-april-2020/
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 24 April 2020 23:55 (four years ago) link
I really liked that review, though--the fact that it was based on something concrete, the widespread reaction to the song, rather than some impenetrable tangent, that was a good start. I think he made a somewhat significant factual error, though: "Murder Most Foul" made #1 on some specialized chart, digital downloads or something like that, it wasn't the Top 100--that would have been really remarkable.
― clemenza, Saturday, 25 April 2020 01:22 (four years ago) link
Looks like another new song may be queued up for tonight:
What are you lookin’ at - there’s nothing to see. pic.twitter.com/TzCBvpIMBo— Bob Dylan (@bobdylan) May 7, 2020
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Thursday, 7 May 2020 22:08 (four years ago) link
New album ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’ coming June 19th. Pre-order now: https://t.co/SN0XeyNKiNListen to “False Prophet” here: https://t.co/05k7HYtPiK pic.twitter.com/raitEZpabe— Bob Dylan (@bobdylan) May 8, 2020
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Friday, 8 May 2020 04:10 (four years ago) link
was just about to create this; beat to it ---> Bob Dylan - My Rough and Rowdy Ways /2020) Anticipation and Discussion Thread
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Friday, 8 May 2020 04:21 (four years ago) link
ah just saw it on Twitter
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 May 2020 04:24 (four years ago) link
"Huck's Tune" really is great. I wish he put it on Modern Times per Clinton Heylin's suggestion.
I have some reservations about that album, so I tried tweaking it a bit. I took out two of the slow numbers partly because they sound like carbon copies of two best-selling pop records - forgotten today (partly because the original audience has now mostly passed), but they were unique arrangements and what we got here sounds like lazy covers to me. The blues numbers I don't mind, those arrangements have been recycled and rewritten endlessly long before Modern Times, but three feels like one too many so per Heylin's suggestion I used an alternate of "Someday Baby" found on Tell Tale Signs.
Anyway, I really enjoyed the final result - for me, this sequence would live up to the A+ rating Christgau generously bestowed on Modern Times:
1. "Thunder on the Mountain" 5:552. "Spirit on the Water" 7:413. "Rollin' and Tumblin'" 6:024. "Someday Baby" 5:56 [alternate version from Tell Tale Signs]5. "Workingman's Blues #2" 6:076. "Huck's Tune" 4:097. "Nettie Moore" 6:538. "The Levee's Gonna Break" 5:439. "Ain't Talkin'" 8:48
Also brings down the total running time to about 57 1/2 minutes.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
I approve!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 16:46 (one year ago) link
This has always been an A+ album for me but truth be told I usually skip those two tracks you excised.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
Thanks Alfred!
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
Yeah, this works much better. Thanks, bird!
― doug watson, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
"Thunder on the Mountain" was his best opening track off an album since "Blood on the Tracks".
― o. nate, Thursday, 10 November 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
! that's quite a take, considering a few of the tracks you're talking about...
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Thursday, 10 November 2022 17:17 (one year ago) link
"Gotta Serve Somebody" probably #2.
― o. nate, Thursday, 10 November 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link
Never been a big fan of "Hurricane".
― o. nate, Thursday, 10 November 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
No love for the openers on Infidels & Empire B? Those are two of his best songs!
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Thursday, 10 November 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
"Changing of the Guard"?
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 10 November 2022 17:26 (one year ago) link
That's a great one, too...
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Thursday, 10 November 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
I listed them a couple years ago
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 November 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
Good list!
I was never a fan of "Changing of the Guard" until I heard Patti Smith's cover. She basically stripped away most of the instruments, but the most effective change was transposing the saxophone part to the piano - makes an enormous difference.
The beginning of "Political World" is pretty cool, but the song never delivers and goes nowhere. Lanois really pushed Dylan to open Oh Mercy with "Series of Dreams" but to no avail - it's not even on the album. Would've been one of my favorite Dylan openers had it happened.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 10 November 2022 18:06 (one year ago) link
I mostly agree with Alfred's ranking, but I would swap "Gotta Serve Somebody" with "Jokerman" and "Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum".
― o. nate, Thursday, 10 November 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link
into the fiery furnace with you!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 November 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
My smokin' Dylan hot-take is that omission of "Series of Dreams" from Oh Mercy is actually a bigger deal than the fabled omission of "Blind Willie McTell" from Infidels.
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Thursday, 10 November 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
It's that sound: it's a warm shallow ocean
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 November 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link