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should be going to the Black Cat show...will be driving from Richmond, so i need to know who is going on stage first!
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i think Blitzen Trapper made great strides from Wild Mountain Nation to Furr...
this.
and of course, Radiohead, everything after Pablo Honey...
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Talking Heads - Cities
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this is just a different Dylan, concerned with aging, mortality, lost love, new love and the apocalypse.
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Wow, okay. I understand your enthusiasm for it and I kinda like it better than Time Out of Mind in some ways particularly his use of pre WWII song styles, and yes it has a few really good numbers, High Water, Mississippi, Po Boy, but to say it is the equal of Highway 61, well that would take some convincing, since Highway 61 is probably one of the 5 greatest rock albums ever. Love and Theft isn't even in the top five greatest Dylan albums. (Highway 61, Blonde on Blonde, Bringing It All Back Home and then Blood on the Tracks, Another Side, John Wesley Harding, Freewheelin, or a couple others would round out the top five depending on one's taste.) And even Bob Dylan doesn't believe he is the greatest blues singer ever (wouldn't that be Blind Willie McTell?? and he isn't stealing Muddy Waters material and inflections lately for nothing.) Maybe you need to spend some time listening to some of the greatest blues singers ever, who were and continue to be his influences.
Don't get me wrong, I have been a Dylan fan since long before you were born so my enthusiasm for him is plenty strong, but come on....let's get real. Love and Theft may outlive some of his late 70s and 1980s albums, but it will never replace the really great stuff recorded during Dylan's earlier periods.
LouieB
i consider myself well versed in the blues. mostly, i prefer the early, acoustic stuff (Johnson, Skip James, Blind Lemon, etc.), but i know plenty of the Chicago stuff as well: Muddy, Howlin' Wolf, etc. i really do believe that Bob is a fantastic blues singer. a true great. some of the little twists and turns, phrasing and subtle inflections on his latter-day stuff just slayyys. obviously, the ravaged voice suits the material quite well.
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i've only read their song titles/lyrics personally.
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i have you all beat:
all of Anal Cunt's catlogue, except for the one album where the songs are all flowers and love.
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"Love & Theft" is an out and out masterpiece. so, comparing it to this other 5-star records, it then comes down to personal taste. is it as good as Highway 61 Revisited? certainly. it's just different is all. abstract Americana impressionism at first...years later, we find the lyrics are nicked from sources as disparate as Henry Timrod, Confessions of a Yakuza, WC Fields and a travel guide on New Orleans. the band is shit hot and Dylan's proves himself to be one of the greatest blues singers ever, black or white. the subtle inflections in his voice are everywhere and he's in full-on prophet mode. 8 years later, it sounds even better.
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personally, i'm 27 and i a huge Dylan fan (have 500-600 Dylan bootlegs on CD-R, but don't collect anymore). L&T was the first "new release" for me, since having gotten into him, but latter-day Dylan is my favorite period of his work.
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after years of on and off listening and never really getting into it, Music from Big Pink finally hit me like a ton of bricks. however, the self-titled doesn't do it for me. i like it okay, but Big Pink...man.
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the new live record they put out for record store day is great too.
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maybe i'm stupid, but i can't figure out when the Vienna show goes on sale. when i click on More Info, it doesn't show anything about that date...
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>I'm a sucker for the late-era Dylan ballad.
me too. that's why "Forgetful Heart" is going to blow our heads off.
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Richmond! The National! come onnnnnnnnnnnnn....
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and he didn't mention it, but he has given the RIAA a call.
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In The Aeroplane Over The Sea scares me. i own a copy and it is good, but i rarely listen to it. it just gives me the creeps.
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i imagine they are just listing that base price and will adjust closer to the time.
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And, fwiw, not even Bob Dylan in his "prime" could have written a song like Not Dark Yet. I think Dylan, in some ways, is as good as if not better than he's ever been. (in some ways).
this all the way. "Love & Theft" is my favorite record of all time. i fully believe that Dylan's latter-day work stands right besides any of his 60s of 70s albums. "Floater (Too Much To Ask)," "Nettie Moore," "Sugar Baby"....nothing short of stunning in every aspect.
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i was looking at a discounted CD price of $10 (because you are dealing in bulk) X 14 albums, so in the neighborhood of $140-$150? that wouldn't be so bad.
also, can someone please explain (without debating), why mono is preferable? is it only preferable on some albums?
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no prices for the boxsets yet, right?
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definitely an April Fool's joke.
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not the same EP, this is a real live one.
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I appreciate old country blues, but the only blues that ever held my attention was
Bob Dylan circa 64-66 and the Black Keys.
I know that makes me lame on many levels, but the genre tends to bore me and has been so prostituted by the Claptons of the world. You know, sing a line and play my riff and the whole time act like I'm doing something painful and unbelievable. Kind of tired.
yeah, but the real guys Johnson, Patton, etc. aren't like that at all...
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don't know about anything with horns, but:
Robert Johnson
Skip James
Blind Willie McTell
Blind Willie Johnson
Dock Boggs
-justin
The Official Bob Dylan Thread
in Someone Else's Song
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>There is something also kind of creepy and subversive about the themes on Modern Times,
please elaborate.
-justin