Bob Dylan

blastingas10 · 09-11-2012, 08:12 AM

Plan on picking up tempest after work today. I'm sure it is "passable", but I don't see any reason to pass on it. I'm more than willing to pay 10 dollars to hear something new from the man. I've only heard "duquense whistle", It wasn't anything special but it wasn't all that bad.

I'm glad to say I purchased VIP tickets to see him in November. I can't wait.

Max Branning · 09-11-2012, 10:52 AM

Been listening a lot to One of us must know (sooner or later) recently and it's an underrated masterpiece and probably my favourite song on Blonde on Blonde. The piano is sublime, I never understood people who say Dylan couldn't come up with melody.

Max Branning · 09-11-2012, 11:05 AM

Theres a guy on youtube called 'fishtruckthatloads' who has uploaded some great Dylan live performances from over the years.

blastingas10 · 09-11-2012, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Max Branning

Been listening a lot to One of us must know (sooner or later) recently and it's an underrated masterpiece and probably my favourite song on Blonde on Blonde. The piano is sublime, I never understood people who say Dylan couldn't come up with melody.

Always been one of my favorite songs.

Max Branning · 09-11-2012, 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by blastingas10

Always been one of my favorite songs.

Love it. I wish he'd have performed it live during 66, don't think he put it in a setlist until the 80's.

Max Branning · 09-11-2012, 03:12 PM

Listening to the Basement tapes again has reaffirmed my opinion that it is one of the best things he's ever done.

Chives · 09-11-2012, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Howard the Duck

i got the leak of Tempest

liking it so far, even more so than "Together Through Life" - the production is stark and bleak, and he repeats one or two chords in only one bar repeated throughout a song

certainly interesting

though his voice sounds like ****

i also got the other Dylans I put off getting last time, his late eighties stuff

Definitely sounds interesting enough to check out. I'm sucker for hearing an artist in chronological order, though, so I suppose I need to get to work...Empire Burlesque is the next on my queue.

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Originally Posted by Max Branning

Listening to the Basement tapes again has reaffirmed my opinion that it is one of the best things he's ever done.

I've only listened to complete bootlegs of the basement tapes, which are massive. That's probably why I've never been able to fully absorb the basement tapes material or ever had a clear cut opinion on them. I'll try out the commercially released album sometime and see what I think.

Also, from my recent relistening to Dylan albums...Another Side of Bob Dylan isn't as consistently interesting as I remember it being and John Wesley Harding is even better than I remembered it. The bass all over that album is great!

Max Branning · 09-11-2012, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Chives

Definitely sounds interesting enough to check out. I'm sucker for hearing an artist in chronological order, though, so I suppose I need to get to work...Empire Burlesque is the next on my queue.

I've only listened to complete bootlegs of the basement tapes, which are massive. That's probably why I've never been able to fully absorb the basement tapes material or ever had a clear cut opinion on them. I'll try out the commercially released album sometime and see what I think.

Also, from my recent relistening to Dylan albums...Another Side of Bob Dylan isn't as consistently interesting as I remember it being and John Wesley Harding is even better than I remembered it. The bass all over that album is great!

The columbia released album of the Basement tapes is brilliant, you'll love it. Another side of Bob Dylan is a bit of transition album between folk singer Dylan to electic Dylan but it's still a very good album in it's own right, Chimes of Freedom, To Ramona and It ain't me babe are classics.

Howard the Duck · 09-11-2012, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Chives

Definitely sounds interesting enough to check out. I'm sucker for hearing an artist in chronological order, though, so I suppose I need to get to work...Empire Burlesque is the next on my queue.

Empire Burlesque is mostly whale-dreck, with Dark Eyes being the only stand-out track

Rock N' Roll Clown · 09-12-2012, 04:36 PM

Today I listened to "Tempest", and if you hesitate whether to buy it or not, stop hesitating and go to the store right now. Pure masterpiece - that's what I can say. His voice now when he's old is soo damn good, and the song-writing in the album is as always Dylan's style - pure gold. There is also his rendition of Hoochie Coochie Man in the song "Early Roman Kings". The lyrics in the album are very dark-themed and, as always, genius. Certainly one of the best of his late albums.

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blastingas10 Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 2,126	Plan on picking up tempest after work today. I'm sure it is "passable", but I don't see any reason to pass on it. I'm more than willing to pay 10 dollars to hear something new from the man. I've only heard "duquense whistle", It wasn't anything special but it wasn't all that bad. I'm glad to say I purchased VIP tickets to see him in November. I can't wait. Last edited by blastingas10; 09-11-2012 at 09:00 AM.

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Rock N' Roll Clown Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Bulgaria Posts: 169	Today I listened to "Tempest", and if you hesitate whether to buy it or not, stop hesitating and go to the store right now. Pure masterpiece - that's what I can say. His voice now when he's old is soo damn good, and the song-writing in the album is as always Dylan's style - pure gold. There is also his rendition of Hoochie Coochie Man in the song "Early Roman Kings". The lyrics in the album are very dark-themed and, as always, genius. Certainly one of the best of his late albums. __________________

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Max Branning Groupie Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 22	Been listening a lot to One of us must know (sooner or later) recently and it's an underrated masterpiece and probably my favourite song on Blonde on Blonde. The piano is sublime, I never understood people who say Dylan couldn't come up with melody.

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Max Branning Groupie Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 22	Theres a guy on youtube called 'fishtruckthatloads' who has uploaded some great Dylan live performances from over the years.

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Max Branning Groupie Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 22	Listening to the Basement tapes again has reaffirmed my opinion that it is one of the best things he's ever done.