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Post by ibbi on May 24, 2020 9:31:03 GMT
Favourite Dylan things? Looking forward to his latest?
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Post by pacinoyes on May 24, 2020 10:15:50 GMT
Favourite Dylan things? Looking forward to his latest? Happy Birthday to the GOAT. To me he's basically DePac (or Brando more accurately) but even more overwhelmingly where to argue their greatness as " the best" by saying "I think ________ is "better" is absurdity to the point of an insult - and while everyone has an opinion or favorite - you can't really back up those in these cases either factually or logically I reckon without being willfully dismissive of actual events. Almost every great quote you will hear in your life comes from either Shakespeare, the Bible or Dylan and the authenticity of the first 2 are questionable .........looking forward to his new one but I'm a guy who still plays "Saved" for Godsakes (no pun) He has influenced more genres than would seem imaginable - the whole idea of an artist "writing" entirely original albums (no covers) comes from him - the notion of Rock as "Art" prior to Dylan is almost a contradiction - the entire language of critical thought we use TODAY in some ways is based on articulating what he created first. My favorite Dylan thing is my Dylan coffee mug but this is pretty close: high out of his mind (maybe) but his mind actively questioning, contradictory, humorous, silly, playful, imaginative smart and smart-ass, upsetter of all apple-carts ..........a total Punk and Punk rock in the pacinoyes meaning of the word and my highest compliment I give to anyone:
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2020 10:30:30 GMT
One of the very best writers in music history, an incredible singer, and just about unbeatable when it comes to bitter break-up/put down songs. Of course I'm looking forward to his new project!
For fun, my 10 favorite albums from him, ranked in order of preference -
Street-Legal Blonde on Blonde Blood on the Tracks Highway 61 Revisited Bringing It All Back Home The Basement Tapes The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Infidels Love and Theft Nashville Skyline
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Post by ibbi on May 24, 2020 10:32:32 GMT
AMEN!
Thoughts on Slow Train Coming?
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Post by TerryMontana on May 24, 2020 13:32:13 GMT
One of the greatest ever!!! I love many of his songs but none is better than Knockin' On Heaven's Door.
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Post by stephen on May 24, 2020 18:26:34 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on May 24, 2020 18:32:24 GMT
So much better when it's removed as dead stop momentum blocker from that record stephen
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Post by cheesecake on May 24, 2020 18:39:13 GMT
One of the best! This is my favorite of his: So glad I got to see him in concert a few years back.
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Post by Mattsby on May 24, 2020 18:48:52 GMT
"Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet? We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it" Godlike genius. Back when I was younger I was insanely obsessed - vinyls, books, little collectibles, posters on my wall, a hat that said You May Call Me Zimmy that I loved and lost (don't bring it up!), and I used to print out his lyrics just to read them, etc. That we're still learning and diving into his genius (Rolling Thunder Revue) and that this genius is still producing epic masterful songs, well...... there are no words when your jaw is on the floor under the rug and in the other room. Did I say genius already? His talent goes beyond to otherworldly...
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Post by DeepArcher on May 24, 2020 19:08:06 GMT
As I've posted about a few times on here, the past few weeks I've finally been digging into his discography, which has been an absolute treat for me as a music listener/lover of art... what a genuinely immaculate body of work. Happy Birthday Legend! As of now my top trio of albums are Blood on the Tracks, Blonde on Blonde, and Bringing It All Back Home, which are all high all-timers for me now -- but I still have quite a bit to explore!
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Post by Mattsby on May 24, 2021 3:14:04 GMT
To the one we want, the one we need, babe. HBD - 80 years old
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Post by TerryMontana on May 24, 2021 5:21:03 GMT
Happy birthday to the greatest!!
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Post by pacinoyes on May 24, 2021 7:21:11 GMT
Posting this here because I can never post it enough - the greatest "unreleased song" ever - though he released it in a more compromised form - but this is take 1 - a great put down of Andy Warhol ("cursing the dead that can't answer him back") and Dylan sings his ass off - I love this version so much I've posted it several times and I never get sick of it ........and so do "my bloodhounds that kneel" - it's about Edie Sedgwick in the guise of a Warhol put-down .......how funny, mean, sexy, vicious is this version.......the great songs were just pouring off him then.......Happy Dylan Day
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Post by ibbi on May 24, 2021 10:39:21 GMT
eighty fucking years old.
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Post by stephen on May 24, 2021 12:35:41 GMT
Mailboxes drip like lampposts in the twisted birth canal of the coliseum
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Post by Joaquim on Aug 17, 2021 2:12:19 GMT
Hmmmmm
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 24, 2022 20:13:23 GMT
Jesus Zimmy - how much money do you owe buddy? Interesting that Sony told him they didn't even want the song Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts at all! Um...... Bob Dylan has sold the master recordings to his entire back catalogue to Sony Music, in the industry's latest blockbuster music acquisition.
Billboard magazine says the catalogue is worth about $200m (£149m), based on annual revenues of roughly $16m (£12m).
Dylan previously sold his publishing to Universal Music for a reported $400m.
That deal covered the rights to Dylan's lyrics and compositions, which Sony had previously administered outside the US.
But the label has fought to retain the rights to Dylan's recordings, including 39 studio albums, 16 "bootleg" compilations of outtakes, and unreleased material which could be compiled and issued in the future.
www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60118887
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Post by Mattsby on Mar 8, 2022 22:25:54 GMT
Bless this man.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 25, 2022 11:11:21 GMT
One day late, but belated Happy 81st Birthday May 24, 1941 to the GOAT, getting an award from one of 3 guys in acting in the last what 60 years - you can legitimately call the GOAT without me making fun of you........and you may think that's all arguable, but as The Man himself said....... don't think twice.........it's alright.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 23, 2022 21:16:00 GMT
A new interview this week from the WSJ - I highlighed a few of his best Bob-isms - enjoy : * In a lengthy interview, Mr. Dylan ruminated on the explosion of technology and culture during the mid-20th century, when he was young, life in the TikTok age, his lockdown experience and songwriting:
* I first heard most of the songs in my book: on the radio, portable record players, jukeboxes. My relationship to them at first was external, then became personal and intense. The songs were simple, easy to understand. They’d come to you directly, let you see into the future.
* Nowadays I listen to music: on CDs, satellite radio and streaming. I do love the sound of old vinyl, especially on a tube record player from back in the day. I bought three in an antique store in Oregon about 30 years ago. The tone quality is so powerful and miraculous, has so much depth. It always takes me back to the days when life was different and unpredictable.
* I discover new music: mostly by accident, by chance. If I go looking for something, I usually don’t find it. In fact, I never find it. I walk into things intuitively when I’m most likely not looking for anything. Performers and songwriters recommend things to me. Others, I just wake up and they’re there.
* Streaming has made music: too smooth and painless. Everything’s too easy. Just one stroke of the ring finger, middle finger, one little click, that’s all it takes. We’ve dropped the coin right into the slot. We’re pill poppers, cube heads and day trippers, hanging in, hanging out, gobbling blue devils, black mollies, anything we can get our hands on. Not to mention the nose candy and ganga grass. It’s all too easy, too democratic. You need a solar X-ray detector just to find somebody’s heart, see if they still have one.
* When you hear a great song: you get a gut reaction and an emotional one. It follows the logic of the heart and stays in your head long after you’ve heard it. You don’t have to be a great singer to sing it. It’s bell, book and candle. It touches you in secret places, strikes your innermost being. Hoagy Carmichael wrote great songs, so did Irving Berlin and Johnny Mercer. J. Frank Dobie, Teddy Roosevelt and Arthur Conan Doyle probably could have written great songs, but didn’t.
* I can’t listen to music: passively, because I’m always assessing what’s special—or not—about a song and looking for inspiration in fragments, riffs, chords, even lyrics.
* Technology is like: sorcery. It’s a magic show, conjures up spirits, it is an extension of our body, like the wheel is an extension of our foot. But it might be the final nail driven into the coffin of civilization; we just don’t know. Nikola Tesla, the great inventor, said that he could take down the Brooklyn Bridge with a small vibrator. Today, we can probably do the same thing with a pocket computer. Log in, log out, load and download; we’re all wired up.
* Creativity is: a funny thing. When we’re inventing something, we’re more vulnerable than we’ll ever be. Eating and sleeping mean nothing. We’re in “Splendid Isolation,” like in the Warren Zevon song; the world of self, Georgia O’Keeffe alone in the desert. To be creative you’ve got to be unsociable and tight-assed. Not necessarily violent and ugly, just unfriendly and distracted. You’re self-sufficient and you stay focused.
* Very few songs of today will: go on to become standards. Who is going to write standards today? A rap artist? A hip-hop or rock star? A raver, a sampling expert, a pop singer? That’s music for the establishment. It’s easy listening. It just parodies real life, goes through the motions, puts on an act. A standard is on another level. It’s a role model for other songs, one in a thousand.
* I write songs when: the mood strikes me, not with a set routine. My method is transportable. I can write songs anywhere at any time, although some of them are completed and redefined at recording sessions, some even at live shows.
* While writing my book, I read: books about songwriting and music history, like Arnold Shaw’s “Honkers and Shouters” (Macmillan, 1986), Nick Tosches’ “Dino” (Doubleday, 1992), Guralnick’s Elvis books. But “Philosophy of Modern Song” is more of a state of mind than those.
* Technology doesn’t really help me: relax. I’m too relaxed, too laid-back. Most of the time I feel like a flat tire, unmotivated, positively lifeless. It takes a lot to get me stimulated, and I’m an excessively sensitive person, which complicates things. I can be totally at ease one minute, and then, for no reason whatsoever, I get restless and fidgety; doesn’t seem to be any middle ground.
* I recently binged: “Coronation Street,” “Father Brown,” and some early “Twilight Zones.” I know they’re old-fashioned, but they make me feel at home. I’m no fan of packaged programs or news shows. I never watch anything foul-smelling or evil. Nothing disgusting, nothing dog ass.
* To stay physically active: I box and spar. It’s part of my life. It’s functional and detached from trends. It’s a limitless playground, and you don’t need an app.
* I think social media sites: bring happiness to a lot of people. Some people even discover love there. It’s fantastic if you’re a sociable person; the communication lines are wide open. You can refashion anything, blot out memories and change history. But they can divide and separate us, as well.
* Lockdown was: a very surrealistic time. Like being visited by another planet or by some mythical monster. But it was beneficial, too. It eliminated a lot of hassles and personal needs; it was good having no clock. I changed the door panels on an old ’56 Chevy, made some landscape paintings, wrote a song called “You Don’t Say.” I listened to Peggy Lee records. I reread “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” a few times over. What a story that is! I listened to The Mothers of Invention record “Freak Out!,” which I hadn’t heard in a long, long time. Frank Zappa was light years ahead of his time. If there’d been any opium laying around, I probably would have been down for a while.
* I keep touring because: it is a perfect way to stay anonymous and still be a member of the social order. You’re the master of your fate. But it’s not an easy path to take, not fun and games.
* The style of music I first loved was: sacred music, church music, ensemble singing.
* But my favorite music is: a combination of genres. Slow ballads, fast ballads, anything that moves. Western swing, hillbilly, jump blues, country blues, everything. Doo-wop, the Ink Spots, the Mills Brothers, Lowland ballads, Bill Monroe, bluegrass, boogie-woogie. Music historians would say when you mix it all up it is called rock ’n’ roll. I guess that would be my favorite genre.
* In the book, I thank: the “crew from Dunkin’ Donuts” because they were compassionate, supportive and they went the extra mile.
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Post by VERITAS on Dec 24, 2022 0:11:13 GMT
Meet Me in the Morning is my tranquillizer. Actually...knock me out to (almost) any track on Blood on the Tracks for a good time...
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Post by pacinoyes on May 24, 2023 7:34:14 GMT
It must be weird to mark your lifespan in "years" when your work will outlive you by an outageously large margin - happy 82nd to the GOAT songwriter, lyricist, musical poet .........and a funny fncker too......
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Post by stephen on May 24, 2023 13:39:30 GMT
Nothing beats this incredible track, as pacinoyes will attest:
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Post by ibbi on May 24, 2023 19:00:25 GMT
Nothing beats this incredible track, as pacinoyes will attest: That album just isn't complete without it.
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Post by ibbi on Oct 15, 2023 20:47:05 GMT
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