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Bob Dylan — Everything is Broken
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softjeans
(Upper Ojai, CA)
Posted: May 11, 2013 - 22:46
 
 Sloggydog wrote:
I'll still listen to him on CD but never again live after this year's Hop Farm Festival.  He couldn't have been worse.  Sounded like Tom Waits covering Bob Dylan with very little enthusiasm.  Just lucky Damien Rice, Patti Smith, Randy Crawford and Joan Armatrading had been so awesome before hand or I would have felt pretty cheated.  Actually Damien Rice who I have wanted to see for ages was even better than I could have imagined.

 
At a recent concert in Santa Barbara I heard he was singing in Romulan.
jimys
(A land far, far away with no television)
Posted: Feb 18, 2013 - 19:18
 
This song just lifted my spirit after a terrible technical day.  Thank you Bill!

Lazarus
(Bethany)
Posted: Jan 18, 2013 - 11:40
 
 d-don wrote:


Nice hearing from you, Laz...we're dancing in Oregon too!
 

Keep a spring in your step, friend...
 

d-don
(Oregon)
Posted: Jan 18, 2013 - 11:37
 
 Lazarus wrote:

WE BE DANCING...

love it...
 
 

Nice hearing from you, Laz...we're dancing in Oregon too!

wrangler
(swamps of jersey)
Posted: Jan 18, 2013 - 11:36
 
this song is just horrible

Lazarus
(Bethany)
Posted: Jan 18, 2013 - 11:36
 

WE BE DANCING...

love it...
 

rockpommel16
(rockpommel´s land...near the netherlands)
Posted: Nov 20, 2012 - 06:30
 
 ziakut wrote:

Even just one Dylan song a year is far too much Dylan.
 
........smileybravosmiley..............agreed..........

AndyJ
(Oregon)
Posted: Oct 16, 2012 - 09:53
 
SOunds a bit like "Things Have Changed" from "Wonder Boys" soundtrack... similar vein, sounds

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Sep 18, 2012 - 10:24
 


Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...

Bob Dylan has a new album out called Tempest—  for more information about the album, look here...





socalhol
(Seattle)
Posted: Jul 24, 2012 - 15:02
 
 thatch wrote:
This song was used to great affect in HBO's True Blood recently.

 
Hehehe!  Two years later and this song is STILL reminding me of that True Blood episode...... {#Mrgreen}

Sloggydog
(UK)
Posted: Jul 13, 2012 - 22:54
 
I'll still listen to him on CD but never again live after this year's Hop Farm Festival.  He couldn't have been worse.  Sounded like Tom Waits covering Bob Dylan with very little enthusiasm.  Just lucky Damien Rice, Patti Smith, Randy Crawford and Joan Armatrading had been so awesome before hand or I would have felt pretty cheated.  Actually Damien Rice who I have wanted to see for ages was even better than I could have imagined.

lily34
(lexvegas)
Posted: Jun 12, 2012 - 07:48
 
ahhh, i love this! so fun.

ziakut
(The Windy City)
Posted: Apr 29, 2012 - 10:08
 
 ubastard wrote:

Can there ever be 'too much Dylan' I don't think so :) but each to their own.

revolver wrote:

Although his songs can be amazing, there is far too much Dylan on this channel.
 
 
Even just one Dylan song a year is far too much Dylan.

ubastard
(Comox, BC)
Posted: Apr 13, 2012 - 09:02
 

Can there ever be 'too much Dylan' I don't think so :) but each to their own.

revolver wrote:

Although his songs can be amazing, there is far too much Dylan on this channel.
 



scubarojo
Posted: Apr 13, 2012 - 09:01
 
OK, I had a English teacher in High School who claims BD was his roommate in College.  Teacher's name was John Werner and did go to Minnesota school like Dylan.  Anyone know if this is true?   Mr. Werner was very gay....but we didn't know it at the time. 

Blastcat900
Posted: Mar 28, 2012 - 16:43
 
He rocks ! And now, everything is broken !

revolver
(Templeton, California)
Posted: Feb 06, 2012 - 09:57
 
Although his songs can be amazing, there is far too much Dylan on this channel.

powerless
(Stockholm, Sweden)
Posted: Jan 25, 2012 - 07:34
 
Dylan has said that this was the first record they ever recorded his voice the way he'd always wanted, first time they got it right. Jesus I wish someone had done it earlier, or that he had the energy to re-record everything he's ever done before. Can' stand the bugger, but this record rocks.

GrooVy
(Planet Earth, Mainly...)
Posted: Jan 10, 2012 - 02:57
 
Dylan is always ahead of his time! 

jmsmy wrote:
Not much was broken in 1989 - Bob.

But in 2012 - Everything Is Broken
 
Yeah? i'm guessing that is what they were saying in 1989 too. =)

jmsmy
(Music Town, Klein, Texas)
Posted: Jan 05, 2012 - 15:00
 
Not much was broken in 1989 - Bob.

But in 2012 - Everything Is Broken

shellbella
(so california)
Posted: Jan 05, 2012 - 14:58
 
{#Lol}

Giselle62
(many bear, big rock, estuary California)
Posted: Dec 24, 2011 - 13:40
 
this is good! only have heard a couple times!

hippiechick
(topsy turvy land)
Posted: Dec 08, 2011 - 08:16
 
One of the most quotes songs in my repetoire

fatcatjb
(Sunny Sacramento)
Posted: Nov 22, 2011 - 19:59
 
when I'm not sure what I think, I check to see if the Nottingham Jury has checked in...thank you for you insights...sometimes I don't get it until I read what you have to say

 fredriley wrote:
'Kinell! I never thought I'd rate any Dylan song, sung by Dylan, above 4, but this is worth a 7 easily. His voice has improved and got far less nasal and whiny with age, and I do like his return to basic blues-rock.
 



Orodrigues
(Resende (RJ), Brazil)
Posted: Nov 22, 2011 - 19:58
 
Oh Bob!

RickyBobby
(Oxford Mills, Ontario - We have a Wal-Mart you know)
Posted: Nov 03, 2011 - 05:20
 
Normally can't stand Dylan singing. But this one fits his style best. Volume UP!

beccab
(Portage, Michigan)
Posted: Aug 04, 2011 - 06:59
 
I don't believe in God — George Carlin believed in Joe Pesci — I believe in Bob Dylan.

fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Apr 28, 2011 - 06:36
 
 On_The_Beach wrote:

Fred, I'm in shock! Did hell freeze over?  ; )
 
Yup. Lucifer's snowboarding as we speak {#Cowboy}

ScottFromWyoming
(Powell)
Posted: Mar 15, 2011 - 13:24
 
 spigolli wrote:

No doubt he's a great artist and can perform when he wants to.  But before anyone puts out serious cash for tickets - if he's still on the take - keep in mind that he has a track record of putting on pitifully disappointing  shows.  Dylan aficionado or not, a 35 minute concert (injury, etc aside) is a rip-off whether one is in the forest or simply among the trees.
 
Hmm. I saw him a couple of weeks before you wrote this. Maybe not the astonishingly great all time best ever concert, but worth the price. He played a long set, joked with the crowd, did some hits. And the kids got in free.


lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Mar 15, 2011 - 12:56
 
Still a pretty coherent vocal as late as 1989.

Dave_Mack
(Five bus, Jive bus!)
Posted: Mar 15, 2011 - 12:55
 
He's right, you know.

michaelgmitchell
(Canada)
Posted: Feb 27, 2011 - 14:01
 
Broken speakers. Temporarily.

On_The_Beach
(Vancouver BC, Bud)
Posted: Jan 27, 2011 - 09:51
 
 fredriley wrote:
'Kinell! I never thought I'd rate any Dylan song, sung by Dylan, above 4, but this is worth a 7 easily. His voice has improved and got far less nasal and whiny with age, and I do like his return to basic blues-rock.
 
Fred, I'm in shock! Did hell freeze over?  ; )

mapman
Posted: Jan 27, 2011 - 07:51
 
Dylan in a groove....sweet!

Poacher
(Brighton, UK)
Posted: Jan 27, 2011 - 07:50
 
Good grief! A Dylan tune I can rate above 4. 

fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Jan 27, 2011 - 07:50
 
'Kinell! I never thought I'd rate any Dylan song, sung by Dylan, above 4, but this is worth a 7 easily. His voice has improved and got far less nasal and whiny with age, and I do like his return to basic blues-rock.


amoreena
(west whatnot)
Posted: Jan 27, 2011 - 07:50
 
 On_The_Beach wrote:

midreaming, you speak the truth, once again.  {#Cheers}
You wanna hear the songs exactly the way they sound on the CD (not that there's anything wrong with that, yawn), go see the Eagles.  You want to see a true artist, who has the nerve to rearrange his songs in concert and challenge his audience, go see Bob.

 
Mindreaming must re-decorate alot.....


BikeCoachDave
(Columbia, Ky.)
Posted: Jan 27, 2011 - 07:48
 
....eh..

jtdiver
(Farmington, CT)
Posted: Jan 11, 2011 - 21:55
 
Start to finish- this is a great album.

On_The_Beach
(Vancouver BC, Bud)
Posted: Nov 21, 2010 - 21:41
 
 midreaming wrote:
   Couldn't disagree more. I'd rather hear the spontaneous expression of a proven artist than witness the mass production of anyone's art.

 I've already wandered the landscape produced by the original experience, and can again over and over, cause I own the recorded copy. I see Artists as guides for an internal landscape - take me somewhere I haven't been. If I could get Rothko, Rembrandt or Dali to express something in the moment, just for me, I could hang on the wall - I'd take that over a poster of something I've already seen any day. The crazy thing is I think I'd lose interest in even that after a while. To love that canvas from yesterday is materialistic and has nothing at all to do with the original intent or effect of it's creation

 
midreaming, you speak the truth, once again.  {#Cheers}
You wanna hear the songs exactly the way they sound on the CD (not that there's anything wrong with that, yawn), go see the Eagles.  You want to see a true artist, who has the nerve to rearrange his songs in concert and challenge his audience, go see Bob.


fast_eddie
Posted: Nov 09, 2010 - 12:45
 
Kenny Wayne Sheppard ruined this for me

midreaming
Posted: Oct 21, 2010 - 09:22
 
 rasta_tiger wrote:

I saw him at the Paramount as well. Who knows, it might've been the same show.

Anyway, the whole 're-arranging songs' cuts both ways with me. It's nice to occasionally hear a new arrangement of an old song but it also makes it useless sometimes. The reasons you like an artist is because of the songs. If he/she plays things that are unrecognizable then what's the point? I'm not interested in celebrity gazing. That doesn't mean I need to hear it exactly like the record but if it isn't even close, like Dylan often does, then I'm not gonna waste my time or money.

I'm in a creative field so I know how tiring it can be to repeat yourself. You get bored. If that's the case he shouldn't even do those songs. 

    Couldn't disagree more. I'd rather hear the spontaneous expression of a proven artist than witness the mass production of anyone's art.

 I've already wandered the landscape produced by the original experience, and can again over and over, cause I own the recorded copy. I see Artists as guides for an internal landscape - take me somewhere I haven't been. If I could get Rothko, Rembrandt or Dali to express something in the moment, just for me, I could hang on the wall - I'd take that over a poster of something I've already seen any day. The crazy thing is I think I'd lose interest in even that after a while. To love that canvas from yesterday is materialistic and has nothing at all to do with the original intent or effect of it's creation





nigelr
(Coffs Harbour, Australia)
Posted: Oct 09, 2010 - 01:44
 
Sounds even better now.........

rasta_tiger
(Sunnyside of the Street)
Posted: Sep 19, 2010 - 12:13
 
 midreaming wrote:
   Saw Dylan at the Paramount Theater in Oakland a few years ago (several times since and many times before) the Paramount's been renovated to it's original Art Deco Style, architecturally inside and out. The sound baffle on the ceiling is a a friggin art-deco sculpture. Dylan played with a pedal steel guitar and fiddle in his band and still managed to give songs a roaring 20's flavor that caused people to dance the Charleston in their seats. You couldn't recognize the songs unless you knew the words, which was also fun to look around and watch for. 
 

I saw him at the Paramount as well. Who knows, it might've been the same show.

Anyway, the whole 're-arranging songs' cuts both ways with me. It's nice to occasionally hear a new arrangement of an old song but it also makes it useless sometimes. The reasons you like an artist is because of the songs. If he/she plays things that are unrecognizable then what's the point? I'm not interested in celebrity gazing. That doesn't mean I need to hear it exactly like the record but if it isn't even close, like Dylan often does, then I'm not gonna waste my time or money.

I'm in a creative field so I know how tiring it can be to repeat yourself. You get bored. If that's the case he shouldn't even do those songs. 





a_genuine_find
(not me, Radio P) (3rd stone, sol, orion belt, milkyway)
Posted: Sep 19, 2010 - 11:56
 
Not EVERYTHING is broken, mute still works fine.

spigolli
(Peachtree City, GA, USA)
Posted: Aug 26, 2010 - 10:35
 
 midreaming wrote:
   Saw Dylan at the Paramount Theater in Oakland a few years ago (several times since and many times before) the Paramount's been renovated to it's original Art Deco Style, architecturally inside and out. The sound baffle on the ceiling is a a friggin art-deco sculpture. Dylan played with a pedal steel guitar and fiddle in his band and still managed to give songs a roaring 20's flavor that caused people to dance the Charleston in their seats. You couldn't recognize the songs unless you knew the words, which was also fun to look around and watch for. The whole concert was brilliant. Dylan is brilliant. He may have had career dips that some of the bubble-gummers waiting to hear Blowing in the wind may think were complete failures, but don't flatter yourself. You can't see the forest for the trees. Don't want to? Fine. Take a walk. Just don't think for a second you've got a clue on Dylan.

 
No doubt he's a great artist and can perform when he wants to.  But before anyone puts out serious cash for tickets - if he's still on the take - keep in mind that he has a track record of putting on pitifully disappointing  shows.  Dylan aficionado or not, a 35 minute concert (injury, etc aside) is a rip-off whether one is in the forest or simply among the trees.



midreaming
Posted: Aug 18, 2010 - 12:22
 
 iTuner wrote:

No, I saw him try to play in 1989 and he was broken then too. One of the absolute worst concerts ever. Such a let down.
    Saw Dylan at the Paramount Theater in Oakland a few years ago (several times since and many times before) the Paramount's been renovated to it's original Art Deco Style, architecturally inside and out. The sound baffle on the ceiling is a a friggin art-deco sculpture. Dylan played with a pedal steel guitar and fiddle in his band and still managed to give songs a roaring 20's flavor that caused people to dance the Charleston in their seats. You couldn't recognize the songs unless you knew the words, which was also fun to look around and watch for. The whole concert was brilliant. Dylan is brilliant. He may have had career dips that some of the bubble-gummers waiting to hear Blowing in the wind may think were complete failures, but don't flatter yourself. You can't see the forest for the trees. Don't want to? Fine. Take a walk. Just don't think for a second you've got a clue on Dylan.


spigolli
(Peachtree City, GA, USA)
Posted: Aug 18, 2010 - 11:15
 
 iTuner wrote:

No, I saw him try to play in 1989 and he was broken then too. One of the absolute worst concerts ever. Such a let down.
 
Dylan ripped me off for $40 in '88 - worst concert ever then too!  He played 35 minutes, it all sounded like it was the same key, same beat, same 3 chords, same lead guitar patterns (GE Smith), same unintelligible vocal.  I was a long-time fan and it was tough for me to even recognize some of the tunes. Then he played 2 or three rushed acousticals and left.  Nobody could believe it when the lights came on.  I've never heard such loud and prolonged booing.


Captn_Pea
(Spring Lake, MI)
Posted: Aug 18, 2010 - 11:08
 
 thatch wrote:
This song was used to great affect in HBO's True Blood recently.

 

Yup it was... {#Iamwithstupid}

Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet this is not my home)
Posted: Aug 18, 2010 - 11:08
 
Yep, this has been my life for a while...so true.....and yep, it REALLY applies to True Blood TV show on HBO.....gotta get that "Time out of Mind" CD of his.....