ShortSharpShock
| | Posted: May 09, 2013 - 02:29 | |
What could I possibly say about this song that hasn't already been said? Not much, I imagine, except that if you'd like to hear this song for the first time all over again, check out the version on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1 - 3 (Disc 2, Track 18). IMHO, this alternate/outtake even more precisely marries mood with lyric. This version is all but guaranteed to take your breath away.
After a quick check, could not find this version posted on YouTube - sorry. Perhaps Bill will dust off his copy of the box set and give us all yet another sumptuous aural treat when we least expect it...
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Aud
(lost in lakecity) | | Posted: May 09, 2013 - 01:08 | |
ScottN wrote:This classic album, for me one of the best of all time, has a palpable sense of urgency that is enthralling.
The sense of "urgency" was real. He had a deadline to deliver his album. He didn't like what he had so he totally redid everything with different musicians than are listed on the back. |
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kcar
| | Posted: Apr 27, 2013 - 22:18 | |
gypsyman wrote:
I used to think and believe that, as well. Now, I can see the art beyond the artist. Dylan is a genius - not because he tries to be a genius; he just is....
That kinda nails it. Dylan early on tried to be something like Woody Guthrie but grew into something different. He found his own schtick which some people love and others hate. He has a very idiosyncratic voice as did Walt Whitman. There are some singer/songwriters like Dylan--one guy described Leonard Cohen as the Canadian Bob Dylan--but really very few. Popular music demands a wide range of styles and individuals and Bob is king of a particular place on the spectrum. I don't think we need or want or another Dylan, at least not yet, but I'm damned glad for his music. Post-war American music would have a gaping hole if you wiped Dylan off the map. |
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ScottN
(Condo in Gaza needs remodeling. Still, I Thank TFSM I saw the divot where the landmine was placed.) | | Posted: Apr 27, 2013 - 22:07 | |
This classic album, for me one of the best of all time, has a palpable sense of urgency that is enthralling.
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Lazarus
(Bethany) | | Posted: Apr 04, 2013 - 12:00 | |
Would be better if if were "Tangled Up In Glue"...
but this song is still as marvelous as ever... love it...
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gypsyman
(just passing through....) | | Posted: Mar 27, 2013 - 20:39 | |
Dinges,_the_Dude wrote:Dylan is an overrated artist... Lyrics may be brilliant (according to many) but that's about it. I used to think and believe that, as well. Now, I can see the art beyond the artist. Dylan is a genius - not because he tries to be a genius; he just is.... |
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Lazarus
(Bethany) | | Posted: Mar 27, 2013 - 20:36 | |
cosmiclint wrote:Bumping a lot of nines to ten this morning, and wondering what I was thinking in the first place :) Yes, this is one of my rare 10's... hope you are having a great time right this minute... |
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cosmiclint
(romeotuma's hotel room) | | Posted: Feb 24, 2013 - 09:48 | |
Bumping a lot of nines to ten this morning, and wondering what I was thinking in the first place :)
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zurcronium
(Not in Texas) | | Posted: Feb 04, 2013 - 01:37 | |
Dinges,_the_Dude wrote:Dylan is an overrated artist... Lyrics may be brilliant (according to many) but that's about it. LIke saying Da Vinci was just brilliant with paint. Dopey. |
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Dinges,_the_Dude
(below sea-level, N52°37', E4°88') | | Posted: Jan 24, 2013 - 02:24 | |
Dylan is an overrated artist... Lyrics may be brilliant (according to many) but that's about it.
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Lazarus
(Bethany) | | Posted: Jan 03, 2013 - 17:34 | |
Everybody in my church loves this song...
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hayduke2
(Southampton, NY) | | Posted: Dec 31, 2012 - 08:51 | |
Dylan is a great artist, to this day entertaining and inspiring. Your zen criticism seems to start from jealousy, some deep self doubt or some odd crap like that
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Highlowsel
(New York City) | | Posted: Dec 31, 2012 - 08:35 | |
Dylan: Love him, hate him. Think him vacuous, think him a philosopher poet of spiritual importance. Think him just a mediocre musician with a gift for rhyme and a voice sometimes like miles of bad road. Or think him someone who got out in front of a historical wavefront, said a few pretty (and not so pretty) things about things and found himself going WTF while history conscripted him as THE voice of his times. Me, myself I didn't much think about him at that time as my musical tastes ran to different aspects. But his impact was large, much as everyone dreams for their own life, and as Kurt Vonnegut would say, so it goes.
Highlow
American Net'Zen
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ziakut
(Slightly North of Obvlivion) | | Posted: Dec 31, 2012 - 08:26 | |
Wow...bad to worse...Greg Laswell to Bob. If I may say so...this is a better BD song. Quintessential style of Bob that doesn't grate my nerves so much. Good storyteller at least.
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shampa1n
(Solent) | | Posted: Dec 15, 2012 - 12:21 | |
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midreaming
| | Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 09:05 | |
stunix wrote:Not only is Dylan one of the few artists I cannot bear, but I actually found it offensive that PSD should take the trouble to fade him out gently. All Bob Dylan LPs should be cared for and protected with hairspray for future generations to make plant pots from!
Along with Bonio and Vandaman. Gotta love consistency ..like Polly loves a cracker and a good dog loves a bone... As you seem to speak on behalf of sentients with the intelligence and musical taste of a potted plant I guess your comment’s no surprise. Nor is it interesting really. But for a potted plant, that you make a sentence at all I guess is worth applauding. Evolution - alive and well. Good for you, you pretty little petunia. How’s your dirt today ? |
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toomanyollys
| | Posted: Nov 22, 2012 - 09:11 | |
rockpommel16 wrote:....its growing on me...1->2..... Aaaah, I used to feel the same. I'd never really been 'exposed' to Dylan when I was younger, but after 6 years of listening to RP this has gone all the way from 1->8. Just keep listening... :) |
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stunix
(Narrowboat nr Caen Locks) | | Posted: Nov 22, 2012 - 09:09 | |
Not only is Dylan one of the few artists I cannot bear, but I actually found it offensive that PSD should take the trouble to fade him out gently. All Bob Dylan LPs should be cared for and protected with hairspray for future generations to make plant pots from!
Along with Bonio and Vandaman.
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rdo
(DC) | | Posted: Nov 22, 2012 - 09:09 | |
I have been stuck on 9 for this one, I don't think I can go for a 10. Lyrics have never influenced my rating in a positive way. They are not an important enough factor for me to influence my rating, even though I am an enthusiastic reader of poetry. The melody is 99% of my vote. This one is great, but this song is basically the same melody repeated over and over again for several minutes.
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zigzag
| | Posted: Nov 09, 2012 - 15:18 | |
Typesbad wrote:
This is probably my favorite Dylan song. The Indigo Girls version is very good. I like it a lot. But it is clearly a cover. It wouldn't have made this song what it is if it had been the original. Then again, and I'm still not sure if I know anything. Perhaps your level of amusement will clue me in.
I apologise. My comment was pompous and harsh. Perhaps I'm too much of a Dylan nut for my own good. The Indigo Girls version is fine, if one prefers polish to heart. Or consideration over immediacy. Covers are, generally, poor substitutes for the originals from whence they are derived. |
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Typesbad
(Not quite Orange County CA) | | Posted: Oct 29, 2012 - 15:24 | |
zigzag wrote:
Always amusing to read comments by people who think they know something.
Delivery with heart - it's not for everyone.
This is probably my favorite Dylan song. The Indigo Girls version is very good. I like it a lot. But it is clearly a cover. It wouldn't have made this song what it is if it had been the original. Then again, and I'm still not sure if I know anything. Perhaps your level of amusement will clue me in. |
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zigzag
| | Posted: Oct 13, 2012 - 19:04 | |
TJS wrote:Indigo Girls did the best version of this song. They're not tone deaf, you see, and they did interesting stuff with it muscally. Always amusing to read comments by people who think they know something. Delivery with heart - it's not for everyone. |
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(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas) | | Posted: Oct 13, 2012 - 19:04 | |
This song is soooo good it makes us tear our clothes off and dance and scream!!!!
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BKardon
(Louisville, CO) | | Posted: Oct 01, 2012 - 14:35 | |
rockpommel16 wrote:....its growing on me...1->2..... Seriously, a 2? These are some of the best lyrics ever put to paper. |
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rockpommel16
(rockpommel´s land...dreaming of netherlands) | | Posted: Sep 28, 2012 - 03:53 | |
....its growing on me...1->2.....
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(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas) | | Posted: Sep 20, 2012 - 12:14 | |
love this song...Bob Dylan has a new album out called Tempest... for more information about the new album, look here...
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LongGoneDaddy
| | Posted: Sep 12, 2012 - 05:59 | |
I like Dylan. I don't like Dylan. love and hate. like and don't like. just thought i'd take the time to tangle up your blue.
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ScottN
(Condo in Gaza full time now. Thank TFSM I saw the divot where the landmine was placed.) | | Posted: Sep 12, 2012 - 05:53 | |
rockpommel16 wrote:...a very solid 1.....like every dylan song for me......  A one? I don't think RP plays any "ones". EVERY Dylan song is a One for you? Sad. |
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rockpommel16
(rockpommel´s land...dreaming of netherlands) | | Posted: Sep 12, 2012 - 05:48 | |
...a very solid 1.....like every dylan song for me...... |
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coy
(san antonio) | | Posted: Aug 27, 2012 - 15:28 | |
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