For my money, still the best Dylan album. He was really on a roll in those days.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...piece-20160516
For my money, still the best Dylan album. He was really on a roll in those days.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...piece-20160516
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
I think it's impossible to say what his 'best' album is, but Blonde on Blonde is certainly one of the greats
I'll own up right away, I've never heard it. I have everything up to and including Bringing it All Back Home. I've heard no album later than that.
I have it. It's good but I like everything that came before much more.
Listened to it this morning without knowing about the anniversary. It's not his best, but it definitely has some of my favorite Dylan tunes on it.
I want to dynamite your mind with love tonight.
It's disputed when the album was really released. May 16 is apparently the official date, but the evidence suggests it wasn't actually in shops until a month or two later. The significance of this is that it puts BOB neck-and-neck with Freak Out in the "First Rock Album with a Side-Long Track" stakes.
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
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I prefer Dylan once he went electric - the stuff that came before seems a little stilted to me. Some great songs in there but he got a lot more adventurous in terms of the music when he abandoned the folk ghetto.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
Blood on the Tracks will always be my favorite.
"And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."
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Probably the 2nd best Dylan album imo after Hwy 61 Revisited.
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
Impossible to do justice to this masterpiece. "Visions of Johanna" is the greatest song I have ever heard.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
Yes, but even then you can hear lots of applause and a VERY mixed reaction to the "Judas" call - so it's not the full-on hate-fest it is sometimes made out to be.
Oh - and my favourite bit? When Bob says to the Band "Play fucking loud!" just before "Rolling Stone" starts.
Does it matter that this waste of time is what makes a life for you?
The Manchester crowd also starts to do a slow clap between songs, apparently attempting to prevent the band from counting in. Bob's solution: he starts mumbling some quiet gibberish into the microphone, inflecting his voice just enough to make it sound like he is telling a story that nobody can hear because of the clapping, and then as the crowd finally quiets down he finishes "...if you only just wouldn't clap so hard". Priceless!
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