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Bob Dylan
« on: September 21, 2007, 12:40:46 am »
Was just browsing and saw this:
http://www.bobdylan.com/index.html

I'm a huge music fan but never really got into Dylan's back catalogue
until recently.This best of release looks really good, looking forward to picking it up.
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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2007, 12:46:11 am »
The missus loves him.. I just spank her for being tone deaf  :P Any excuse I guess but still...

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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2007, 12:47:37 am »
The missus loves him.. I just spank her for being tone deaf  :P Any excuse I guess but still...

ooo-er,

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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2007, 01:13:20 am »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCvcRrU90NI

I think this is a truly amazing song. I never tire of it,
quite brilliant lyrically.

'Positively 4th Street'


You got a lotta nerve
To say you are my friend
When I was down
You just stood there grinning

You got a lotta nerve
To say you got a helping hand to lend
You just want to be on
The side that's winning

You say I let you down
You know it's not like that
If you're so hurt
Why then don't you show it

You say you lost your faith
But that's not where it's at
You had no faith to lose
And you know it

I know the reason
That you talk behind my back
I used to be among the crowd
You're in with

Do you take me for such a fool
To think I'd make contact
With the one who tries to hide
What he don't know to begin with

You see me on the street
You always act surprised
You say, "How are you?" "Good luck"
But you don't mean it

When you know as well as me
You'd rather see me paralyzed
Why don't you just come out once
And scream it

No, I do not feel that good
When I see the heartbreaks you embrace
If I was a master thief
Perhaps I'd rob them

And now I know you're dissatisfied
With your position and your place
Don't you understand
It's not my problem

I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment
I could be you

Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is
To see you

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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2007, 01:15:34 am »
His last two albums are as good (if not better) than his old stuff.
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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2007, 01:30:52 am »
Best love song ever? Its surely up there:

Love Minus Zero/No Limit

My love she speaks like silence,
Without ideals or violence,
She doesn't have to say she's faithful,
Yet she's true, like ice, like fire.
People carry roses,
Make promises by the hours,
My love she laughs like the flowers,
Valentines can't buy her.

In the dime stores and bus stations,
People talk of situations,
Read books, repeat quotations,
Draw conclusions on the wall.
Some speak of the future,
My love she speaks softly,
She knows there's no success like failure
And that failure's no success at all.

The cloak and dagger dangles,
Madams light the candles.
In ceremonies of the horsemen,
Even the pawn must hold a grudge.
Statues made of match sticks,
Crumble into one another,
My love winks, she does not bother,
She knows too much to argue or to judge.

The bridge at midnight trembles,
The country doctor rambles,
Bankers' nieces seek perfection,
Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring.
The wind howls like a hammer,
The night blows cold and rainy,
My love she's like some raven
At my window with a broken wing.

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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2007, 01:59:23 am »
gotta love the dylan ..was meant to go to a gig there 3 years ago but he was sick so it was called off

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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2007, 03:31:31 am »
I've been listening to Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands a lot lately.

Nice.

The classic 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'

Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says he's got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doin' it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin' for a new friend
The man in the coon-skin cap
In the big pen
Wants eleven dollar bills
You only got ten

Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot
Talkin' that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phone's tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early May
Orders from the D. A.
Look out kid
Don't matter what you did
Walk on your tip toes
Don't try "No Doz"
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows

Get sick, get well
Hang around a ink well
Ring bell, hard to tell
If anything is goin' to sell
Try hard, get barred
Get back, write braille
Get jailed, jump bail
Join the army, if you fail
Look out kid
You're gonna get hit
But users, cheaters
Six-time losers
Hang around the theaters
Girl by the whirlpool
Lookin' for a new fool
Don't follow leaders
Watch the parkin' meters

Ah get born, keep warm
Short pants, romance, learn to dance
Get dressed, get blessed
Try to be a success
Please her, please him, buy gifts
Don't steal, don't lift
Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the day shift
Look out kid
They keep it all hid
Better jump down a manhole
Light yourself a candle
Don't wear sandals
Try to avoid the scandals
Don't wanna be a bum
You better chew gum
The pump don't work
'Cause the vandals took the handles
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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2007, 07:58:00 am »
I love Dylan - one of the most influential artists in the history of popular music. It's good to see his return to form on recent albums, especially 'Modern times'.

He's been on the 'Never ending tour' since 7th June 1988 - playing live in countries all over the world. Most of his shows are recorded by fans and are well worth listening to for the different versions of familiar songs he does.

He's recorded so many classics, it's hard to pick favourites, but I've always had a particular fondness for 'Visions of Johanna'.

'Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind

In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain
And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the "D" train
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
Ask himself if it's him or them that's really insane
Louise, she's all right, she's just near
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
That Johanna's not here
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place

Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
And when bringing her name up
He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all
Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall
How can I explain?
Oh, it's so hard to get on
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn

Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smiles
See the primitive wallflower freeze
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeeze
I can't find my knees"
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel

The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
Sayin', "Name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him"
But like Louise always says
"Ya can't look at much, can ya man?"
As she, herself, prepares for him
And Madonna, she still has not showed
We see this empty cage now corrode
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed
On the back of the fish truck that loads
While my conscience explodes
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain'

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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2007, 08:02:46 am »
I love Dylan.  One of the most influential songwriters about for me.
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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #10 on: September 21, 2007, 09:52:54 am »
a true musical legend.

is there a song list for that new best of album?

he has so many classics that its impossible to have all his best songs on one album. this album does a good job of it

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Bob-Dylan/dp/B00006J4R1


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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #11 on: September 21, 2007, 10:22:05 am »
I don't know what it is but I never really got into any Yank music.
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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #12 on: September 21, 2007, 10:29:59 am »
is there a song list for that new best of album?



Disc 1

1. Song To Woody
2. Blowin' In The Wind
3. Masters Of War
4. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
5. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
6. The Times They Are A-Changin'
7. All I Really Want To Do
8. My Back Pages
9. It Ain't Me Babe
10. Subterranean Homesick Blues
11. Mr. Tambourine Man
12. Maggie's Farm
13. Like A Rolling Stone
14. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
15. Positively 4th Street
16. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
17. Just Like A Woman
18. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
19. All Along The Watchtower
 
Disc 2

1. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
2. Lay, Lady, Lay
3. If Not For You
4. I Shall Be Released
5. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
6. On A Night Like This
7. Forever Young
8. Tangled Up In Blue
9. Simple Twist Of Fate
10. Hurricane
11. Changing Of The Guards
12. Gotta Serve Somebody
13. Precious Angel
14. The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar
15. Jokerman
16. Dark Eyes
 
Disc 3

1. Blind Willie Mctell
2. Brownsville Girl
3. Silvio
4. Ring Them Bells
5. Dignity
6. Everything Is Broken
7. Under The Red Sky
8. You're Gonna Quit Me
9. Blood In My Eyes
10. Not Dark Yet
11. Things Have Changed
12. Make You Feel My Love
13. High Water (For Charley Patton)
14. Po' Boy
15. Someday Baby
16. When The Deal Goes Down


Plenty of great stuff on there, but plenty of great stuff left off too. Probably need a 6 disc set to get anything like a representative selection.

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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #13 on: September 21, 2007, 10:36:03 am »
visions of johanna isnt on it!?


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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #14 on: September 21, 2007, 10:36:33 am »
I don't know what it is but I never really got into any Yank music.

Another absolute fucking pearler from you there.



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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #15 on: September 21, 2007, 10:57:24 am »
Another absolute fucking pearler from you there.





Sorry I thought Bob Dylan was American.

Oh wait...


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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #16 on: September 21, 2007, 11:07:19 am »
Sorry I thought Bob Dylan was American.

Oh wait...


 :butt

You don't like 'Punk music, or 'Yank music' including Dylan obvioulsy, yet you love Coldplay and James Blunt.

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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #17 on: September 21, 2007, 11:34:35 am »
Cant beat a bit of Bob.

I bought a recent bob Dylan album, and to be honest it was the biggest waste of money ever. Was hugely disappointed. It was one of them rare and unreleased kinda albums, and the quality was shite.

Not enough to put me off the man himself though.

Blowin in the wind is one of my favourite songs ever, along with Subterranean Homesick Blues.

Me bird goes mad when i listen to him cos she says he's depressing, but i find that listening to the greatest hits album mentioned earlier when im feelin down, helps to cheer me up big time. (apart from maybe blowin in the wind, for me one of the saddest songs ever, mainly due to the "resigned" tone of voice used to sing it

Blowin in the WInd


How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

How many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea?
Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head,
Pretending he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.


Or a favourite from my youth, mainly due to the second to  last verse about mothers and fathers. A verse that i still pay particular attention to nowadays, due to recently becoming a parent for the first time. I actually got me mum to sit down and listen to this when i was 15 and she first caught me smokin weed. I'd luv to add a bit of romanticism to the story and say that she listened, took heed and let me off. Alas this was not the case and i got slapped all over the place.

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.


The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #18 on: September 21, 2007, 12:23:50 pm »
Good shout with ´sad eyed lady´- I too have been listening and then humming the song inquestion for weeks on end...

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« Reply #19 on: September 21, 2007, 12:50:25 pm »
You don't like 'Punk music, or 'Yank music' including Dylan obvioulsy, yet you love Coldplay and James Blunt.

I think you are the devil.

I think it's obvious he's the antichrist

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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #20 on: September 21, 2007, 01:00:05 pm »
Have many of you folks seen him live recently?
I haven't yet had the pleasure but from the footage
I've seen he still sounds great.
It's true to say that if Shankly had told us to invade Poland we'd be queuing up 10 deep all the way from Anfield to the Pier Head.

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« Reply #21 on: September 21, 2007, 01:04:51 pm »
Have many of you folks seen him live recently?
I haven't yet had the pleasure but from the footage
I've seen he still sounds great.

Seen him live in Glasgow in 2000 (which was a while back I know, but it was a fantastic gig, best one of I've ever been to. Was stood right at the front and could look right into his eyes). Also at the Summer Pops a year later and in Manchester a couple of years back. All great gigs. Still, even in his mid-Sixties, he performs with more energy and invention than almost any performer around, even those who are nearly fifty years his junior.

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« Reply #22 on: September 21, 2007, 01:08:40 pm »
Seen him live in Glasgow in 2000 (which was a while back I know, but it was a fantastic gig, best one of I've ever been to. Was stood right at the front and could look right into his eyes). Also at the Summer Pops a year later and in Manchester a couple of years back. All great gigs. Still, even in his mid-Sixties, he performs with more energy and invention than almost any performer around, even those who are nearly fifty years his junior.

Good stuff, sounds good mate.
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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #23 on: September 21, 2007, 01:14:33 pm »
Have many of you folks seen him live recently?
I haven't yet had the pleasure but from the footage
I've seen he still sounds great.

I've not actually seen him, but I've got boots of many of his recent concerts and he is still excellent live - his voice is a lot gruffer that it used to be, and he tends not to play much guitar these days, but every show he does is different and worth listening to.

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« Reply #24 on: September 21, 2007, 01:18:45 pm »
You don't like 'Punk music, or 'Yank music' including Dylan obvioulsy, yet you love Coldplay and James Blunt.

I think you are the devil.

Almost true. I do love Coldplay but I don't love James Blunt. He's just not as bad as most people think. Don't tell me I should hate Coldplay now?!

I just think most American music is too individualistic and doesn't begin to compare with most British music.

And yes, punk music is fucking shit.
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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #25 on: September 21, 2007, 01:23:15 pm »
A cut and paste job from somethng I posted a few years ago.

Class !

Just when I thought my Love/Respect/Admiration for that man couldn't get any stronger, BBC2 and Martin Scorsese go and drop that one on me. I must admit I was pretty late getting into Dylan myself. It was about 8/9 years ago I reckon which was strange considering since my teenage years I got drunk on Beat Literature  with the likes of Ginsberg's Reality Sandwich and Kerouac's On The Road which both inspired two little road trips of my own at the tender ages of 18/19 with my hair down my back. I weren't even old enough to drink in the god ole USA but who needed drink with other things to sample on my trip. There I was travelling the States mainly the North West regions of the Catskills in upstate New York which is where I attended to reunion festivals which went by the name of Woodstock and generally wiping my arse with the Stars and Stripes and basically getting high. I mean what else was a teenager from Liverpool meant to be doing? College never appealled to me back then and neither did the dole so fuck that I thought! I was brought up by my elders on stories of the swinging 60's of The Beatles and Shanks and told that Liverpool was the center of the Universe but I always thought that there is something else out there for a little shit kicker from Liverpool to do. When In the States I was introduced to bands like The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Country Joe and the Fish and the whole West Coast scene if you like but I always felt that something was missing.

It wasn't until I was 'working' away for the first time at the age of 24/25 down in London that I discovered Dylan. I was very lonely and a bit sad of being away from my friends and home when I heared flat mate playing Buckets of Rain by Dyal from his room and that was that I was hooked!  Many nights were spent with me, my new friend and many bottles of brandy. His music reassured me, made me feel wanted, stirred my soul and made me feel like a man. get fuckin' in there life was boss!

Since my discovery of the man I have travelled the mountains of Southern Spain, the bazaars and barren landscapes of Morocco, the forests, steppes and villages of Eastern Europe and the Balkans the jungles, beaches, backwaters, mountains and crazy cities of India and every time I feel a bit down, homesick, broken hearted, lonely or just confused I always reach for Dylan and my bottle of Brandy and he makes me feel like a man and stirs my soul!



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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #26 on: September 21, 2007, 01:50:24 pm »
I reckon Tangled Up In Blue is one of my favourite tracks.

Went to see him in Manchester a couple of years ago.  Gotta say, it was one of the biggest disappointments of my life.  It was something I'd looked forward to doing for so long & it just wasn't what I hoped it'd be like.

I think I was hoping for a twenty something in Cuban heels playing "it fuckin' loud", but sadly wasn't to be.  Which reminds me, need to get cracking with that time machine in the garden.  ;)
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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #27 on: September 21, 2007, 02:01:56 pm »
A cut and paste job from somethng I posted a few years ago.

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Just when I thought my Love/Respect/Admiration for that man couldn't get any stronger, BBC2 and Martin Scorsese go and drop that one on me. I must admit I was pretty late getting into Dylan myself. It was about 8/9 years ago I reckon which was strange considering since my teenage years I got drunk on Beat Literature  with the likes of Ginsberg's Reality Sandwich and Kerouac's On The Road which both inspired two little road trips of my own at the tender ages of 18/19 with my hair down my back. I weren't even old enough to drink in the god ole USA but who needed drink with other things to sample on my trip. There I was travelling the States mainly the North West regions of the Catskills in upstate New York which is where I attended to reunion festivals which went by the name of Woodstock and generally wiping my arse with the Stars and Stripes and basically getting high. I mean what else was a teenager from Liverpool meant to be doing? College never appealled to me back then and neither did the dole so fuck that I thought! I was brought up by my elders on stories of the swinging 60's of The Beatles and Shanks and told that Liverpool was the center of the Universe but I always thought that there is something else out there for a little shit kicker from Liverpool to do. When In the States I was introduced to bands like The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Country Joe and the Fish and the whole West Coast scene if you like but I always felt that something was missing.

It wasn't until I was 'working' away for the first time at the age of 24/25 down in London that I discovered Dylan. I was very lonely and a bit sad of being away from my friends and home when I heared flat mate playing Buckets of Rain by Dyal from his room and that was that I was hooked!  Many nights were spent with me, my new friend and many bottles of brandy. His music reassured me, made me feel wanted, stirred my soul and made me feel like a man. get fuckin' in there life was boss!

Since my discovery of the man I have travelled the mountains of Southern Spain, the bazaars and barren landscapes of Morocco, the forests, steppes and villages of Eastern Europe and the Balkans the jungles, beaches, backwaters, mountains and crazy cities of India and every time I feel a bit down, homesick, broken hearted, lonely or just confused I always reach for Dylan and my bottle of Brandy and he makes me feel like a man and stirs my soul!



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Great read that cheers Kesey mate.
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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #28 on: September 21, 2007, 02:07:49 pm »

Great read that cheers Kesey mate.


Boss innit!   Ive just read it again and it brought back so many memories. Its hard to explain how some of his music makes me feel.

Some bird is doing me head in at the minute so I think I can find comfort and relation in the song Idiot Wind.

Someone's got it in for me.........
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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #29 on: September 21, 2007, 02:10:55 pm »
Boss innit!   Ive just read it again and it brought back so many memories. Its hard to explain how some of his music makes me feel.

Some bird is doing me head in at the minute so I think I can find comfort and relation in the song Idiot Wind.

Someone's got it in for me.........

That's why I love Dylan, like Morrissey and the Smiths,
you can relate to his lyrics and find meaning in his songs.
For the very same reason as you, a bird doing my head in,
(my ex who I have to work with everyday actually)
I love 'Positively 4th Street' just seems to sum everything up
in a song, brilliant, why I love music so much.
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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #30 on: September 21, 2007, 02:17:49 pm »

That's why I love Dylan, like Morrissey and the Smiths,
you can relate to his lyrics and find meaning in his songs.
For the very same reason as you, a bird doing my head in,
(my ex who I have to work with everyday actually)
I love 'Positively 4th Street' just seems to sum everything up
in a song, brilliant, why I love music so much.


I never got into The Smiths as when I was a lad they were deemed gay.  But yes when a bird id trying to get at you a bottle of brandy and a bit of our Bob makes you invincible. Neil Young has a similar effect but puts me on a downer sometimes.
He who sees himself in all beings and all beings in himself loses all fear.

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« Reply #31 on: September 21, 2007, 02:23:07 pm »
After popping into the Kate Nash thread, this one is like jumping from a fountain full of shit into one filled with miller with little bags of skunk floating about.

Neil Young.... ahhhh  now thats how ya sit in and enjoy marijuana. Harvest blastin out the cd player and the world is yer oyster.
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« Reply #32 on: September 21, 2007, 02:26:15 pm »

After popping into the Kate Nash thread, this one is like jumping from a fountain full of shit into one filled with miller with little bags of skunk floating about.

Neil Young.... ahhhh  now thats how ya sit in and enjoy marijuana. Harvest blastin out the cd player and the world is yer oyster.



Harvest is boss and reminds me of a time in my life when I was young, scared and confused.

Old man look at my life.........

There's a line in that song song that is just fuckin amazing and gets me in the heart all the time.

Like a coin that wont get tossed rolling home to you...........
He who sees himself in all beings and all beings in himself loses all fear.

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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #33 on: September 21, 2007, 02:29:08 pm »

Harvest is boss and reminds me of a time in my life when I was young, scared and confused.

Old man look at my life.........

There's a line in that song song that is just fuckin amazing and gets me in the heart all the time.

Like a coin that wont get tossed rolling home to you...........

I like Neil Young too, I listen to a best of a lot, cortez the killer, harvest moon etc. , great stuff
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« Reply #34 on: September 21, 2007, 02:40:44 pm »
When I listen to acoustic Neil Young, I think 'this is great - why go electric' then he picks up the electric guitar and plays 'Like a hurricane' and I wonder why he bothers with the acoustic. He's superb whatever he plays.

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« Reply #35 on: September 21, 2007, 02:52:45 pm »
When I listen to acoustic Neil Young, I think 'this is great - why go electric' then he picks up the electric guitar and plays 'Like a hurricane' and I wonder why he bothers with the acoustic. He's superb whatever he plays.

On a similar note have you ever heard Dylans live double album at the royal albert hall 1966? He switches from acoustic to electric half way thru the first disc and if im correct I think it’s the first time he ever played electric at a gig. Unbelievable! The reaction from the crowd is mixed at the start with some very audible boos and jeers but his performance just blows everyone away.

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« Reply #36 on: September 21, 2007, 02:57:33 pm »

Harvest is boss and reminds me of a time in my life when I was young, scared and confused.

Old man look at my life.........

There's a line in that song song that is just fuckin amazing and gets me in the heart all the time.

Like a coin that wont get tossed rolling home to you...........

Quality line, delivered superly from an excellent song.

Bought most of his newer albums as well, and for me the only one song  that comes close to any of the older stuff is Bandit

"Turnin the pages, in this old book
Seems Familiar
Might be worth a second look
Warppin up dope in a paper bag
Talkin to yerslef, takin a drag"


Fuckin love that song, and the "lazy" strummin technique used on it.


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Re: Bob Dylan - Any fans in?
« Reply #37 on: September 21, 2007, 02:57:37 pm »
Dylan is awesome, love his album Blood on the Tracks, Dylan at his best IMO. Seen him live once, his voice is a bit shot now but you can still feel the emotion of his lyrics when he sings. Legend.

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« Reply #38 on: September 21, 2007, 02:58:45 pm »
Dylan is awesome, love his album Blood on the Tracks, Dylan at his best IMO. Seen him live once, his voice is a bit shot now but you can still feel the emotion of his lyrics when he sings. Legend.

Back on topic, nice one mate.
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« Reply #39 on: September 21, 2007, 03:00:04 pm »
Although the show is often referred to as 'Royal Albert hall' it was actually recorded at the Free trade Hall in Manchester - the guy who shouted 'Judas' to Dylan that night when he played electric was from Liverpool I think.

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The early bootleg LPs attributed the recording to one of Dylan's tour-closing concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall. However, Dylan's now-legendary confrontation with a heckler calling out "Judas" from the audience, clearly heard on the recording, was well-documented as having occurred at Manchester's Free Trade Hall on May 17, 1966. Dylan responds to the man by saying "I don't believe you", then after a long pause, "You're a liar." He can then be faintly heard telling the band, "Play it fucking loud," as they start to play "Like a Rolling Stone".

There's actually film of this event in the Martin Scorcese documentary 'No direction home'