Bob Dylan at 80 - favourite song?
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paul russell999
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I had the original Dylan Greatest Hits, then the Greatest Hits vol. 2/More Greatest Hits for years and loved some of it, but found some of the famous folk strummy hits a bit boring and the famous sneering electric stuff a bit painful. It was only when a friend stuck Blood on the Tracks on that I really got into Dylan. Maybe it's the Dylan LP for people who think they don't like Dylan.
Simple Twist of Fate is one of my favourites - I didn't really listen to the lyrics for ages, thinking that it was just a nice love song - then I realised it was quite baffling - a sort of collage like the track that it follows on the album.
Simple Twist of Fate is one of my favourites - I didn't really listen to the lyrics for ages, thinking that it was just a nice love song - then I realised it was quite baffling - a sort of collage like the track that it follows on the album.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Twist of Fate seems like a pretty strsightforward story to me, in contrast to Tangled Up In Blue which Dylan composed as if it were a painting where you could see the whole thing all at once.
Idiot Wind is another one that seems more like a collage of different moments, where you could rearrange all the bits and tell several different stories with them.
paul russell999
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I've seen a lot of debate about Twist of Fate. At first, from the pleasant sound, it slips past like a simple love song. But the lyrics:
"Hunts her down by the waterfront docks
Where the sailors all come in.
Maybe she'll pick him out again. How long must he wait..."
Past, present, future, all in the same room? Prostitution?
Not exactly a simple boy meets girl romantic tale... It is very similar to Tangled Up In Blue in shifting from third to first person, and everything is very Norman Raeben.
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BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Oh Jesus it’s one of the finest bits of music ever recorded
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Orangutang - and all other dislikers of Dylan - seriously, what does that song mean to you on hearing it?
krtek a houby
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Can't speak for the others but (as Dylan fan) currently cannot listen to his output, because of recent allegations. Which should be taken seriously & if it all amounts to nothing, might be listening again.
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
I'm actually pretty much teh same, though I only listen to him speriodically now anyway. but that version of that song came up in my feed and it's now on about ten times a day - i thought it was Dylan at his utter best, so strange and beautiful, fitting for this thread.
if the allegations are true then he will never sound quite the same
philosophical
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Like a Rolling Stone is still my singalong favourite.
Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
One of my all-time favourites is "All along the watchtower ", the version by Hendrix. He transforms it into a piece of music like no other. Fab.
RainbowTown
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Without question, the definitive version (as Dylan himself acknowledged). And one of the rare instances where a cover version exceeds the original version by a country mile. Just goes to show how totally brilliant Hendrix was and is - over half a century after his death, and he still sounds ahead of the curve.
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
i can't go into how much i love this song without sounding like a wanker.
his genius probably stops me in my tracks at least a few times in a year. literally has me stop. i don't listen to him that much, but he will come and i suddenly get that flash again adn think all the hyperbole written abotu the man is true. genius in the truest, most expensive use of the word.
his genius probably stops me in my tracks at least a few times in a year. literally has me stop. i don't listen to him that much, but he will come and i suddenly get that flash again adn think all the hyperbole written abotu the man is true. genius in the truest, most expensive use of the word.
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
fan boy alert
was reading some encounters with dylan stories. my fav one was of a surf instructor, in mexico i think. There were two lads on holiday and they asked him to teach them to surf. They spent two weeks riding teh waves together and really bonded. He asked them what they done for a living "entertainment" was teh response. on teh last night one of them played by the camp fire a song called "tangled up in blue" and the surf teacher was struck by how cool it was. Later that year long after the two had left he heard the same song being played on the radio and he joined up the dots when he saw a pic of Dylan. it was dylan who he had taught.
not sure if that is true, but what a great story!
was reading some encounters with dylan stories. my fav one was of a surf instructor, in mexico i think. There were two lads on holiday and they asked him to teach them to surf. They spent two weeks riding teh waves together and really bonded. He asked them what they done for a living "entertainment" was teh response. on teh last night one of them played by the camp fire a song called "tangled up in blue" and the surf teacher was struck by how cool it was. Later that year long after the two had left he heard the same song being played on the radio and he joined up the dots when he saw a pic of Dylan. it was dylan who he had taught.
not sure if that is true, but what a great story!
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Thankfully there has been zero evidence found to support the allegations and various pieces of evidence that say it is not true.if the allegations are true then he will never sound quite the same
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
no i like them. nothign earth shattering but i'd take one!
blossie33
trailer trash
Yes me too
I have seen some before, there's a little gallery shop in Covent Garden that sells them, I didn't know he painted before seeing them there, was pleasantly surprised.
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