Talkin' Bob Dylan (lyric, bootlegs, blues, country, favorite songs)

sleepy jack · 12-11-2007, 03:42 PM

Talkin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is arguably (or inarguably) the best songwriter of all time and if he's not the best he's easily one of the greatest. His career has spanned several decades and he's covered a variety of genres throughout it and recorded some of the greatest albums ever. This going to be my attempt to review his discography, from his debut to Modern Times. I'm only doing the official studio releases, though I may do all the bootlegs afterwards. Wish me luck, first review is going to be up in probably an hour =x

Urban Hat€monger ? · 12-11-2007, 03:45 PM

Funnily enough Desire is on my to-do list for the Urban 1000.

Good luck.

sleepy jack · 12-11-2007, 03:55 PM

I can't wait to get to Desire, it's my friend Chloe's favorite album by him. I heard it once and liked it but for some reason I only ever listened to Blood on the Tracks and Blonde on Blonde as well as a few random songs and that was all.

jackhammer · 12-11-2007, 03:59 PM

This should be an interesting thread. I am not a huge Dylan fan but who knows whether I will be swayed? I have three of his albums although I won't be adding THE TRAVELLING WILBURYS to my collection anytime soon!

Brock_West · 12-12-2007, 12:00 AM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

This should be an interesting thread. I am not a huge Dylan fan but who knows whether I will be swayed? I have three of his albums although I won't be adding THE TRAVELLING WILBURYS to my collection anytime soon!

The Wilburys are really good.

I think Dylan is the second best songwriter (McCartney), but can't really enjoy his voice in the least, so I prefer covers to the originals.

TheBig3 · 12-11-2007, 04:08 PM

because its bad music of because it costs an arm and a leg to get the CD?

jackhammer · 12-11-2007, 04:11 PM

It's just uninspiring music.

mr. goth glam · 01-19-2009, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

It's just uninspiring music.

Eh...it's always been a vaguely guilty pleasure of mine, personally.

sleepy jack · 12-11-2007, 04:20 PM

"Bob Dylan (1962)"

The albums kicks off with a fast paced, lo-fi rambling folk song and part of you can't help but wonder "What? Is this the same guy that recorded Highway 61 Revisited?" Not to say it's bad just that it's kind of shocking the guy who would years later stand up on stage and play Like a Rolling Stone 'fucking loud' to the shock of hundreds of folk fans to be so amateur, it's a charming album but if it wasn't for Dylan's trademark nasally vocals you wouldn't think this was the same guy who even sung the line "How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?"

The album consists of a variety of old folk covers and a few originals that while are good, are nothing special, though Song To Woody is a great song and the obvious highpoint in the album. This debut isn't the cancer on his career fanatics insist it is, but you have to wonder what would've happened if his recording contract had come later, would his debut have been stronger and less rough? Probably. This avid Guthrie fan shows to be a good folk artist, a bit obsessed with death, but there's no real hints here at the genius to come. It just seems like another 60s folk album, a good and enjoyable one, but just another one.

Favorite Lyric: "Here's to Cisco an' Sonny an' Leadbelly too / An' to all the good people that traveled with you / Here's to the hearts and the hands of the men / That come with the dust and are gone with the wind."
Favorite Songs: Song To Woody, Talkin' New York, Pretty Peggy-O

Laces Out Dan! · 12-11-2007, 04:39 PM

Im stoked to see your Discog review.

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	This should be an interesting thread. I am not a huge Dylan fan but who knows whether I will be swayed? I have three of his albums although I won't be adding THE TRAVELLING WILBURYS to my collection anytime soon! __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	It's just uninspiring music. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

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