Bob Dylan

[Super Mario]

ITT we talk about how awesome Bob Dylan is.

Currently have Blood on the Tracks in the CD player what a masterpiece, lately Dylan is all I have been listening to.

This is favourite track atm:
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[Halt, Hammerzeit]

My favourite Bob Dylan song would have to be The Hurricane. This song (and its eventually popularity) forced the US government to reopen the case into Rueben Carter (a boxer nicknamed the Hurricane) supposedly killed someone (or multiple people, I can't quite remember it).

Also, Dylan's version of Knocking On Heaven's Door has suck emotion that no cover since has been able to come close to matching.

Edit: Although, I must say, that I do prefer Hendrix's All Along The Watchtower to Dylan's.

[twofivefour]

Although, I must say, that I do prefer Hendrix's All Along The Watchtower to Dylan's.

Dylan actually changed the way he performed Watchtower live to suit Hendrix's version.

[Super Mario]

This is great:
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[Jickle]

My favourite Bob Dylan song would have to be The Hurricane. This song (and its eventually popularity) forced the US government to reopen the case into Rueben Carter (a boxer nicknamed the Hurricane) supposedly killed someone (or multiple people, I can't quite remember it).

Too bad Rubin Carter was clearly guilty >_>

[Super Sleuth]

ITT we talk about how awesome Bob Dylan is.

Currently have Blood on the Tracks in the CD player what a masterpiece, lately Dylan is all I have been listening to.

This is favourite track atm:
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I'm pretty sure I've mentioned it to you before...but yes, Blood on the Tracks is amazing. Good game SM, good game.

A change in the weather is known to be extreme
But what's the sense of changing horses in midstream?
I'm going out of my mind, oh, oh,

I adore the little shift in the music just after he sings 'midstream'. It makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. Awesome.

[Patdog]

I prefer later Bob Dylan to earlier hipster protest song Dylan.
But some of that is pretty good though

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[Super Sleuth]

Blood on the Tracks isn't hipster protest Dylan.

[Patdog]

Whoops musta mixed up mah wurds.
I like Bob Dylan more from John Wesley Harding onwards.

[Ad-Rock]

I've been listening to his 3 CD best of collection (self titled). Its sweet. Old music can still cut it.

[StorminNorman]

Desolation Row is an epic, epic song.

Also, for some reason I have a lot of fun playing Tangled Up In Blue in RB2.

[Nintendork]

The best Dylan song:
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[Super Mario]

The best Dylan song:
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Desolation Row is an epic, epic song.

Agreed, in fact all of Highway 61 Revisited is epic.


Another one of my favourites, amazing lyrics especially the last verse.
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[Super Mario]

So his new Christmas album has just been released in the states, anyone else looking forward to hearing this? I'd get it now, but for me it's just a little too early to start thinking about Christmas.

[HiredMan]

My favorite Dylan track is, somewhat predictably, Rainy Day Women.

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[Beinkasaurus Rex]

Subterranean Homesick Blues is amazing =D <3 Bringing it all Back Home is amazing.

[Blue]

I saw him in concert, and it was without a doubt the worst live performance I've ever attended. Bob Dylan never has given a shit about his fans, and never will.

[Readman]

Bob Dylan is easily the best lyricist since Lorenzo Da Ponte. And he's probably got a good claim to the best non-classical musician of the 20th century.

So here's a thread about him.

Overall, this one would come close:

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Dylan wrote a bunch of political songs, but this is his best one. He wrote it in a single sitting when he was really pissed off (I think).

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But Dylan was not all politics. He wrote some amazing love songs, and also some pretty funny ones:

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This live Manchester Trades Hall version of 'Like a Rolling Stone' is the best version of it, IMHO. It's so much better than the . Because it captures the hatred that so many of his fans had for the electric Dylan. The crowd booing him at the start gives it a great atmosphere.

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Going back to love songs, this is one of the most transcendent pieces of music ever written:

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This is a traditional folk song, but Dylan makes it his. I don't think I've ever heard a singer imbue a traditional song with such a sense of personal ownership and simplicity as Dylan does in this one:

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There's obviously a shitload more, so what's your favourite Bob Dylan song?

[Hyperblau]

The one where he talks about that stuff and that thing happens.

[HiredMan]

Merged with Super Mario's existing Bob Dylan thread.

[Lex]

That Christmas song he released recently.

It's seriously the worst ****ig thig he could have done, it's sooo bad.

[Super Mario]

"How'd you like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island?"


Hehehe it makes me laugh................While he is nowhere near as good now as he once was I still enjoyed the Christmas album.

[Readman]

That Christmas song he released recently.

It's seriously the worst ****ig thig he could have done, it's sooo bad.

He did a whole album of them, my dad got it for Xmas.

It is pretty much Dylan taking the piss for 60 minutes.

[Lex]

See, I was hoping it was a joke, but that may just be a rationalization for releasing such a turd.

[Mr.Mew]

I saw him in concert, and it was without a doubt the worst live performance I've ever attended. Bob Dylan never has given a shit about his fans, and never will.

I heard his performance was bad. It's likely though that he's just an old dude with a lot of money now with little concern about how he adresses his fans. Doesn't mean he was always like that.

And the Christmas album is painful, I had to put up with that for days.

[Super Mario]

This live Manchester Trades Hall version of 'Like a Rolling Stone' is the best version of it, IMHO. It's so much better than the . Because it captures the hatred that so many of his fans had for the electric Dylan. The crowd booing him at the start gives it a great atmosphere.

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I'm not a big fan of that version, he is obviously completely off his face and struggles to sing in tune. The album version is better.

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Mr. Tambourine Man is one of my favourites the mental imagery this song creates is outstanding.

Blonde On Blonde is his best album in my opinion my 3 favourites are:
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And my all time favourite:
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"like a corkscrew to my heart"
Makes me want to cry :'(

[Readman]

Super Mario, I agree that it's not the technically best version of 'Like a Rolling Stone', I just think that the ambience perfectly captures the anger and resentment at the heart of the song.