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Old 11-28-2011, 03:31 PM   #1 (permalink)
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^ I love both of those albums. They are some of the best of his. Sadly I'm still missing Bringing It All Back Home.

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The Freewheelin Bob Dylan
The Times They Are a-Changin'
Highway 61 Revisited
Blonde On Blonde
John Wesley Harding
Nashville Skyline
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Old 11-28-2011, 07:13 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Haha then I won't bother checking it out unless I find it in a dollar bin at a record store. Maybe I'll try and tackle it on youtube if I ever take a liking to the Grateful Dead.

Similarly, I would like to know what you guys think about Self Portrait. Everything I've heard about it has basically just intrigues me more and more, despite it apparently being a joke and terrible and all that jazz. I mean, is it an interesting terrible?

I did see a nice copy of Nashville Skyline at my local record store. I'm kind of tempted to buy it.
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Old 11-28-2011, 07:20 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Haha then I won't bother checking it out unless I find it in a dollar bin at a record store. Maybe I'll try and tackle it on youtube if I ever take a liking to the Grateful Dead.

Similarly, I would like to know what you guys think about Self Portrait. Everything I've heard about it has basically just intrigues me more and more, despite it apparently being a joke and terrible and all that jazz. I mean, is it an interesting terrible?

I did see a nice copy of Nashville Skyline at my local record store. I'm kind of tempted to buy it.
it's not really terrible, it's just all over the place, and the fact that there are quite a number of covers on it doesn't help much

i wouldn't really recommend you jumping on it so soon without sampling his other better albums first

his worst album, by his own admission, is Dylan [1973], as he has disowned it, and is mostly outtakes of Self-Portrait
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it's not really terrible, it's just all over the place, and the fact that there are quite a number of covers on it doesn't help much

i wouldn't really recommend you jumping on it so soon without sampling his other better albums first

his worst album, by his own admission, is Dylan [1973], as he has disowned it, and is mostly outtakes of Self-Portrait
Was he involved in the album's creation or was the record company like "hey we can release anything with Dylan's name on it and it will sell"?

And yeah I wasn't planning on picking up Self Potrait. I don't have enough spare time or money for those kind of hijinks. I figured either Nashville Skyline or Blood on the Tracks would be my next Dylan purchase.
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Was he involved in the album's creation or was the record company like "hey we can release anything with Dylan's name on it and it will sell"?
he was contractually bound to release Dylan, so of coz he wasn't chuffed with it at all

he had very little to do with the songlist

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And yeah I wasn't planning on picking up Self Potrait. I don't have enough spare time or money for those kind of hijinks. I figured either Nashville Skyline or Blood on the Tracks would be my next Dylan purchase.
good choices both, though Blood on the Tracks is more "essential"
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Old 11-28-2011, 08:35 PM   #6 (permalink)
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he was contractually bound to release Dylan, so of coz he wasn't chuffed with it at all

he had very little to do with the songlist
That's what I figured. Happens to most artists at some point. Even poor Bob isn't invincible.

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good choices both, though Blood on the Tracks is more "essential"
I'm tempted to get Nashville Skyline first(I have a thing for textless covers) but I'll probably go with Blood on the Tracks. Although I'm still listening to the mono box set, so I don't even need another Dylan album quite yet.
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Old 11-28-2011, 11:23 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Self portrait is pretty bad.


I'd go with blood on tracks instead of Nashville skyline. But I would probably just get them both, haha.

Blonde on blonde and highway 61 are definitely 2 of his best. It's really tough to choose.
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Old 12-02-2011, 07:37 AM   #8 (permalink)
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I love the Lyrics of Bob Dylan and Lou Reed also !!
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Bob Dylan and The Band / Before the Flood `74
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Old 12-06-2011, 01:12 AM   #10 (permalink)
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How good is the Basement Tapes album? I'm currently reading a book about bootleg recordings and they bring up the Great White Wonder/The Basement Tapes so I'm a bit curious about the officially released album. Never actually seen a copy, though but I'd look for one if you guys said it was worth looking into!
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