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    Dylan's Blonde on Blonde is now fifty years old

    For my money, still the best Dylan album. He was really on a roll in those days.

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    I think it's impossible to say what his 'best' album is, but Blonde on Blonde is certainly one of the greats

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    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.

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    I have it. It's good but I like everything that came before much more.

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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by polmico View Post
    Listened to it this morning without knowing about the anniversary.
    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.
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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.
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    Blood on the Tracks will always be my favorite.
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    Probably the 2nd best Dylan album imo after Hwy 61 Revisited.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jerjo View Post
    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 was reading background stuff about his conversion to electric; the Newbury folk festival and the Manchester Free Trade Hall; and all the furore he created. Looking back on it, it seems quite unbelievable that people could be so outraged.

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    Impossible to do justice to this masterpiece. "Visions of Johanna" is the greatest song I have ever heard.

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    Impossible to do justice to this masterpiece. "Visions of Johanna" is the greatest song I have ever heard.
    That is one amazing piece. The Manchester '66 version kills me every time I hear it, even though it's a hard swallow for some.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Halmyre View Post
    I was reading background stuff about his conversion to electric; the Newbury folk festival and the Manchester Free Trade Hall; and all the furore he created. Looking back on it, it seems quite unbelievable that people could be so outraged.
    The reaction seems to have been a bit overblown. There was no chorus of boos at Newport, like has been alleged over the years. And, yes, there were some upset people at the Manchester gig, as well, but, once again, not as bad as some claim.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ronmac View Post
    The reaction seems to have been a bit overblown. There was no chorus of boos at Newport, like has been alleged over the years. And, yes, there were some upset people at the Manchester gig, as well, but, once again, not as bad as some claim.
    Very true - there are plenty of approving cheers and applause at both gigs.

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    Very true - there are plenty of approving cheers and applause at both gigs.
    There is that infamous moment when someone in the crowd in Manchester calls Dylan "Judas." Dylan calls him a liar and kicks into "Like a Rolling Stone."
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ronmac View Post
    There is that infamous moment when someone in the crowd in Manchester calls Dylan "Judas." Dylan calls him a liar and kicks into "Like a Rolling Stone."
    'You're a liar' was supposedly in response to someone else who shouted "I'm never listening to you again". I think Dylan was actually rendered speechless by the 'Judas' call.

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    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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