Listening to some of the songs on this thread and going back to the Times They Are a Changin' album, I've come to the conclusion that the folks who protested Dylan going electric were right. He was a decent folk singer/songwriter in the early days and 1965 seems to be a cut off date for quality.
Bob Dylan at 80 - favourite song?
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BigMoaner
We will all go together
Lol
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
BigMoaner
We will all go together
Oh shit that one's awful!
discokermit
Well-Known Member
its alright but it hasnt got the same energy as the other performance.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
He’s, he’s, smiling, wtf?
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Isn't it. It does however, show folk who have never seen him live, just what we were talking about when we expressed how awful he has become.
I think he's conducting an experiment to see just how incoherent and slovenly he can become before people stop buying tickets.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
He loves to put off the fuckers in the first couple of rows. The uberfanatics who get tickets for every show on every tour. Hates them.Isn't it. It does however, show folk who have never seen him live, just what we were talking about when we expressed how awful he has become.
I think he's conducting an experiment to see just how incoherent and slovenly he can become before people stop buying tickets.
After fifty five years he can play Rolling Stone however the fuck he likes. Unless he tries reggae.
discokermit
Well-Known Member
what a cunty attitude to the people who put a roof over his head and food in his belly for decades.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Dylan in 'Is a complete cunt' shocker!
He's always been a horrible, arrogant cunt.
I don't actually know much about him, as a person. I've never even heard any hedonistic legends or anything like that which you hear about most musicians of his stature and that generation. He must do a very good job of keeping his privacy. All I've heard is the legends of his disdain for his fans. Was he into drug-fuelled orgies or anything..?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
lol. What a silly comment.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
I've no idea, I just remember seeing him in interviews, and he exudes a hurricane of superiority and hatred of others.
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
If only he'd been more of a people-pleaser. He could have trotted out reruns of the first five albums until he ran out of steam and ideas completely by about 1970 and faded into obscurity. Then we'd all be much better off.
If he spent more time caring about giving the people who put a roof over his head and food in his belly for decades exactly what they wanted, he wouldn't be the same artist whose records they're willing to keep buying and live shows they're willing to keep going to.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Tbf, he is an absolute genius. Sometimes, in fact often, being an utterly arrogant shitbag and that level of talent go hand in hand. I say that as someone who doesn't really even listen to his music, I mostly just read his lyrics (as poetry). The fact he can combine both is incredible.
I'm onto the Freewheelin' album. It's actually really good from beginning to end. Good tunes, good story telling style, good delivery, good guitar, rough harmonica - but that's forgivable in a one man band context. His guitar is really solid btw. Good dynamics as well. It feels well grounded in folk and blues traditions without being derivative. Not sure I can pick out any best songs yet - maybe Oxford Town and Bob Dylan's Blues. Bloody brilliant though.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
The intro reminds me of 'Sweet Jane'.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I always assumed that’s what inspired your internet personality.
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
tbf that's fucking hilarious. I wish I'd been there. I love how shifty the band look - like they're expecting bottles of piss to start landing on them any ... second ... now ....
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
He's a rank amateur in comparison.
BigMoaner
We will all go together
i hardly listen to him any more, but probably outside of my friends, family, a handful of writers, he was one of the major inspriations in my formative years.
here's another one which i think says he is more of an actor, a master at phrasing, or mimic. to me this song sounds beyond music, in many ways, a performance out of another time/dimension. and that's just the "singing" nad the sound, not counting the lyrics. the man is an utter genius in the strongest sense of the word.
here's another one which i think says he is more of an actor, a master at phrasing, or mimic. to me this song sounds beyond music, in many ways, a performance out of another time/dimension. and that's just the "singing" nad the sound, not counting the lyrics. the man is an utter genius in the strongest sense of the word.
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