I've had a fortnight or so of non-stop Neil, hence the recent thread asking for others' current favourites , and it was interesting but hardly surprising to note that there was zero favourable mention of any single song from Re-ac-tor, Trans, Old Ways, Everybody's Rockin', Landing On Water or Time Fades Away. To name but six of many seemingly unloved albums in Neil's vast back cat. To Sir Robert of Zimmerman: Current five: 1) Like A Rolling Stone (mono version). This remains my ultimate Bob favourite through many decades of new kids on his block. And is currently on heavy rotation. Still. 2) Spirit On The Water (Modern Times) 3) Senor (Street Legal) 4) What Good Am I? (Oh Mercy) 5) If You Ever Go To Houston (Together Through Life) (I couldn't quite find room for anything from the Christmas Of The Heart album!)
Your (current) top five Bob Dylan songs?
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Current five:
I shall be released - Nina Simone
Shelter from the Storm - Cassandra Wilson
Lay Lady Lay - Sandie Shaw
Tomorrow is a long time - Elvis Presley
With God on our side - Judy Collins
(with an honourable mention - because it just has to be heard - for Marlene Dietrich's version of Blowin' in the Wind. Check it out on Spotify
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I shall be released - Nina Simone
Shelter from the Storm - Cassandra Wilson
Lay Lady Lay - Sandie Shaw
Tomorrow is a long time - Elvis Presley
With God on our side - Judy Collins
(with an honourable mention - because it just has to be heard - for Marlene Dietrich's version of Blowin' in the Wind. Check it out on Spotify
1. Trying To Get to Heaven -Time Out Of Mind
2. Lily, Rosemary & The Jack Of Hearts - Blood On The Tracks
3. Spirit On The Water - Modern Times
4. Hurricane - Live 1975 Bootleg series
5. Most Of The Time - Oh Mercy
Have to get in the 'zone' for a serious bit of Dylan listening, but when I do it can take over for weeks!
2. Lily, Rosemary & The Jack Of Hearts - Blood On The Tracks
3. Spirit On The Water - Modern Times
4. Hurricane - Live 1975 Bootleg series
5. Most Of The Time - Oh Mercy
Have to get in the 'zone' for a serious bit of Dylan listening, but when I do it can take over for weeks!
No particular order.
The Boxer - Self Portrait. It's a Paul Simon song, but to hear Dylan harmonising is either a treat or a travesty, depending upon your viewpoint
Masters of War - still horribly accurate
Desolation Row - perhaps the best lyric ever written
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands - as above
Knockin' on heavens door - not a great song, but I remember an evening several years ago in a beach cafe in the unfashionable west of Bali where some locals, myself and my cousin gave a soulful version of this song which somehow gelled perfectly with the velvet night of the tropics.
Mind you, we had been hitting the local brew a bit.
The Boxer - Self Portrait. It's a Paul Simon song, but to hear Dylan harmonising is either a treat or a travesty, depending upon your viewpoint
Masters of War - still horribly accurate
Desolation Row - perhaps the best lyric ever written
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands - as above
Knockin' on heavens door - not a great song, but I remember an evening several years ago in a beach cafe in the unfashionable west of Bali where some locals, myself and my cousin gave a soulful version of this song which somehow gelled perfectly with the velvet night of the tropics.
Mind you, we had been hitting the local brew a bit.
6th.replicant
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Clare Newsome:...(with an honourable mention - because it just has to be heard - for Marlene Dietrich's version of Blowin' in the Wind. Check it out on Spotify
)
Marlene Dietrich????!!!!!
Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Antony & The Johnsons
All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Make You Feel My Love - Bryan Ferry
Simple Twist Of Fate - Bob Dylan
One More Cup of Coffee - The White Stripes
Marlene Dietrich????!!!!!
Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Antony & The Johnsons
All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Make You Feel My Love - Bryan Ferry
Simple Twist Of Fate - Bob Dylan
One More Cup of Coffee - The White Stripes
Visions of Johanna (Blonde On Blonde)
Man of Peace (Infidels)
Jokerman (Infidels)
Thunder On The Mountain (Modern Times)
Must Be Santa (His Bobness's Christmas Album!)
Man of Peace (Infidels)
Jokerman (Infidels)
Thunder On The Mountain (Modern Times)
Must Be Santa (His Bobness's Christmas Album!)
manicm
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Not necessarily in this order:
Changing Of The Guards (Street Legal)
Like A Rolling Stone (Highway 61 Revisited)
Most Of The Time (Oh Mercy)
Mr Tambourine Man (Bringing It All Back Home)
Tangled Up In Blue (Blood On The Tracks)
Changing Of The Guards (Street Legal)
Like A Rolling Stone (Highway 61 Revisited)
Most Of The Time (Oh Mercy)
Mr Tambourine Man (Bringing It All Back Home)
Tangled Up In Blue (Blood On The Tracks)
Shelter from the storm (Blood on the Tracks)
Things Have Changed (Dylan)
The Man in Me (Big Lebowski soundtrack)
Forgetful Heart (Together Through Life)
The Girl From the North Country (The Freewhelin')
Things Have Changed (Dylan)
The Man in Me (Big Lebowski soundtrack)
Forgetful Heart (Together Through Life)
The Girl From the North Country (The Freewhelin')
`Love Sick` - Time Out Of Mind
`Not Dark Yet` - Time Out Of Mind
`Stuck Inside Of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again` - Blonde on Blonde
`Baby Stop Cryin` - Street Legal
`Mr Tambourine Man` by The Byrds. Been playing some Byrds recently and I`ve always been very fond of this version.
`Not Dark Yet` - Time Out Of Mind
`Stuck Inside Of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again` - Blonde on Blonde
`Baby Stop Cryin` - Street Legal
`Mr Tambourine Man` by The Byrds. Been playing some Byrds recently and I`ve always been very fond of this version.
One of my favourite albums is "Blood on the tracks" It is in my top 5 albums ever....but it is the only Bob Dylan album that I like so they are are all form that album.................
Idiot Wind
Tangled up in blue
Buckets of rain
Simple twist of fate
You're a big girl now
Idiot Wind
Tangled up in blue
Buckets of rain
Simple twist of fate
You're a big girl now
Romance in Durango
Desolation Row
Love minus zero (especially Joan Baez version)
Idiot Wind
Chimes of freedeom
Lot to choose from. Some very good covers by Byrds and Joan Baez.
Desolation Row
Love minus zero (especially Joan Baez version)
Idiot Wind
Chimes of freedeom
Lot to choose from. Some very good covers by Byrds and Joan Baez.
breeze
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Si tu dois partir- Fairport Convention- Unhalfbricking
Like a rolling stone- Spirit- Spirit of 76
Girl from the north country- Joe Cocker & Leon Russel- Mad dogs and englishmen
The lonesome death of Hattie Carol- Martin Carthy- Signs of life
best of all
Highway 61 revisited- Johnny Winter- the live version from A rock n` roll collection
Like a rolling stone- Spirit- Spirit of 76
Girl from the north country- Joe Cocker & Leon Russel- Mad dogs and englishmen
The lonesome death of Hattie Carol- Martin Carthy- Signs of life
best of all
Highway 61 revisited- Johnny Winter- the live version from A rock n` roll collection
Even tougher than the Neil thread, Charlie.
Bob-wise:
Shelter From The Storm - Hard Rain. As loaded with vitriol as any recording I've ever heard, plus quite possibly the most effective singing he's ever summoned
The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll - The Times They Are A-Changin'.
Forever Young (the Side One version) - Planet Waves.
From A Buick 6 - Highway 61 Revisited.
Who Killed Davey Moore? - The Bootleg Series Volumes 1 - 3.
Covers:
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - Bobby Bare, All-American Boy.
If Not For You - George Harrison, All Things Must Pass.
Gotta Serve Somebody - Nasio, Is It Rolling Bob?
This Wheel's On Fire - Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity.
Tomorrow Is A Long Time - Odetta, Odetta Sings Dylan.
Obviously I reserve the right to have changed my mind about all of these tomorrow.
Bob-wise:
Shelter From The Storm - Hard Rain. As loaded with vitriol as any recording I've ever heard, plus quite possibly the most effective singing he's ever summoned
The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll - The Times They Are A-Changin'.
Forever Young (the Side One version) - Planet Waves.
From A Buick 6 - Highway 61 Revisited.
Who Killed Davey Moore? - The Bootleg Series Volumes 1 - 3.
Covers:
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - Bobby Bare, All-American Boy.
If Not For You - George Harrison, All Things Must Pass.
Gotta Serve Somebody - Nasio, Is It Rolling Bob?
This Wheel's On Fire - Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity.
Tomorrow Is A Long Time - Odetta, Odetta Sings Dylan.
Obviously I reserve the right to have changed my mind about all of these tomorrow.
marou
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[*]Visions of Johanna
[*]Tough Mama
[*]Positively 4th Street
[*]She belongs to me
[*]Slow train coming
Covers:
[*] Only a hobo - Rod Stewart
[*]Just like a woman - Manfred Mann
[*]Don't think twice it's all right - Peter Paul and Mary
[*]All along the watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
[*]I shall be released - The Band
[*]Tough Mama
[*]Positively 4th Street
[*]She belongs to me
[*]Slow train coming
Covers:
[*] Only a hobo - Rod Stewart
[*]Just like a woman - Manfred Mann
[*]Don't think twice it's all right - Peter Paul and Mary
[*]All along the watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
[*]I shall be released - The Band
Yeah heavy and a bottle of bread
Black Diamond Bay
It Takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee
Black Diamond Bay
It Takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee
This thread has unearthed more hidden gems than the Neil version last week. I suppose that's because Bob's generated a vaster and more diverse set of covers than Mr.Young.
I'd all but forgotten about the aforementioned White Stripes and Odetta covers. And I haven't braced myself sufficiently for Frau Dietrich's take on Bob, but shortly I will. Also, good to see some items from the Bob hinterland, and not just the "greatest hits", great though they mostly are.
There are many albums of Bob covers and one of my favourites is the I'm Not There soundtrack from a couple of years ago. Jeff Tweedy, Anthony & the Johnsons (as mentioned earlier), John Doe and oddly, Stephen Malkmus all turn in reverential but noteworthy versions.
More quirkily, another Bob-related film soundtrack, Masked & Anonymous, spawned the truly terrible but just occasionally brilliant (if you squint when listening), Come Una Pietra Scalciata by Articolo 31. An Italian hip-hop version of Like A Rolling Stone. On some listens I love it, other times I can't stop laughing. It's that bad/good.
I'd all but forgotten about the aforementioned White Stripes and Odetta covers. And I haven't braced myself sufficiently for Frau Dietrich's take on Bob, but shortly I will. Also, good to see some items from the Bob hinterland, and not just the "greatest hits", great though they mostly are.
There are many albums of Bob covers and one of my favourites is the I'm Not There soundtrack from a couple of years ago. Jeff Tweedy, Anthony & the Johnsons (as mentioned earlier), John Doe and oddly, Stephen Malkmus all turn in reverential but noteworthy versions.
More quirkily, another Bob-related film soundtrack, Masked & Anonymous, spawned the truly terrible but just occasionally brilliant (if you squint when listening), Come Una Pietra Scalciata by Articolo 31. An Italian hip-hop version of Like A Rolling Stone. On some listens I love it, other times I can't stop laughing. It's that bad/good.
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