junkiesmile

In all seriousness, where would a technology challenged simpleton like myself procure these basement tapes?

your local record store.

This wouldn't come off quite as annoying if there wasn't another a Dylan thread on the first PAGE of Someone Else's Song at the moment, you know the one that's three threads under this one. Subsequently, if you want to whine about Analogman's dedication to the search function, you can use the search function and I'm sure there's been a thread about that at some point .

 

--Mike

I'm not whining, the point of my discussion was obsession with an artist and the need to devour his/her entire catalog. No disrespect to A-man, he seems to be a genuine person.

Go out and get The Basement Tapes.

Do it now.

Report back Monday after repeated listenings.

 

Godspeed.

Roger. Will do

Why??

 

LouieB

I don't know. It has a certain cringe element in it for me. I feel the same way about The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest. Maybe they'll grow on me but right now they're not my favorites.

nothing like a November Rain amongst these tracks?

They're all November Rain

The song that hooked me on Dylan and then reeled me in was Visions of Johanna. For some reason on my copy of B on B I have to turn it up louder than the rest of the album.

At the end of the day, obsession with anything is not good. I was following up on LB's suggestion - plus, all these threads on the same topic will interrupt the time space continuum some day.

Some of us haven't been here as long as you and discussion in the present is much better than obsession with the past.

Here is the latest one. . .

My main question was obsession.

You have most of the good stuff. I have always been partial to Street Legal myself from the 70s.

 

You may want to do a search for other Dylan threads. Lots of folks have given their faves on those.

 

I assume you have Another Side....

 

LouieB

Yeah I have it. I'm a little conflicted by Motorpsycho Nitemare

I owned two albums by Bob just a short two months ago, now I own twenty. I still think my favorites are B on B, Bringing it Back, Hwy 61, Nashville Skyline, and Freewheelin. I own all except the first and the third from the sixties and it's all a lot to digest but I'm having fun. I need some tips for the 70's (besides Blood) and 80's. Hopefully all of this music will entertain and inform me for years. What I want to know is, how many people out there become obsessed with one artist at a time and listen to them exclusively until burnout. When I find an artist I like, no matter how present that artist is in our culture, I feel like I've discovered something special. I have to buy and listen to their entire catalog ( which in this case is unfortunate because Bob has a lot of albums). I do this with every new artist I "discover". Am I crazy? I know I'm a little OCD. Is there a support group for me? Am I just distracting myself until the next Wilco album?

A friend burned a copy of Chinese Democracy for me off of emule a while ago. I was a GnR fan back in the day but this was awful. I described the sound to my friend as Nickel Back doing Alanis Morrisette covers. Peeeeeeeyeeeeew.

A Stone - Okkervil River

Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen

Probably Will - Concrete Blonde

Wave of Mutilation (UK surf version) - The Pixies (I want this song played at my funeral)

The Bleeding Heart Show - The New Pornographers

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

Street That Time Walks - Son Volt

These songs and many more give me chills every time.

Moses Posted Today, 01:10 PM

am i the only person that thinks Straightaways is far and away better than Trace?

Some guys were listening to Straightaways today at work and as I walked by I actually said "you know, that may very well be my favorite Sonvolt album". No shit. True story. Wow.

Thanks for hooking me up with that thread. Anybody still listening to it or has the novelty worn off?

Sorry if this has already been discussed but i couldn't find it. Is this soundtrack any good? I watched the movie and the song Jim James sang was beautiful. Just curious, I'm thinking about buying it.

Was it a rhetorical question?

A girl walks into a bar and asks for a double entendre.

The bartender gave it to her.

Just an update. I bought and have been listening to some of Dylan's better known, earlier albums. I've watched the documentaries No Direction Home and Don't Look Back, and I am currently reading Bob Dylan-Chronicles volume one. He was/is pretty cool, but I still think Tweedy's better.

Being There is my favorite, but it's almost like picking your favorite child. You love them all with all of your heart. The Alt-country title has never made much sense to me as far as Wilco is concerned. The "country" songs on Being There sound more like classic country to me. They could fit in with Lefty Frizzell, Hank Snow, Hank Williams or any other true "country" artist. A.M. always sounded more like pop country(but not like the bad pop country radio of today). I grew up on old country and the "country" songs from Being There always sounded more authentic than anything Jeff had done since March 16-20 1992(Anodyne was a beautiful blend of old country and pop). When Summer Teeth and YHF came along and people continued to refer to Wilco as an Alt-country band it just confused me. There was not much "country" left, just kick-ass pop brilliance. I remember reading a review in Rolling Stone about what a great Alt-country album YHF was and thinking WTF?

Owl and the bear deserves heaps of unending praise.

I tried to praise The Owl and Bear when the Wilco archive first appeared but Analogman shut me down?

I think that if you don't believe you can't teach talent, you're pretty ignorant.

You can avoid that by not eating too much, particularly high fat or high carbohydrate foods.....get plenty of excercise and eat lots of veggies....

 

LouieB

Sorry, I mean hippie

I would start right here. His first record of original material.

Thanks, I went down to Waterloo today and bought Freewheelin, Highway 61, Bringing It All Back Home, and Blonde on Blonde. Also I rented Don't Look Back. We'll see how it all sinks in. I may be a crazy Dylan fan like you guys in a couple of weeks. I just hope I don't turn into a hippy.

I finished No Direction Home last night and was pretty impressed. Dylan was already a part of our "classic rock" culture by the time I started really exploring music . I never really gave him a second thought, the same with the Beatles. The songs were always there as far back as I can remember so I guess I've always taken them for granted. I came around to the Beach Boys and the Beatles but I have never fully appreciated Dylan. The documentary gave me some context, so.........

Where do I start my Dylan collection?

I'm not sure if this is the correct place for this, but here's a song I wrote about walking around in public.

cleanse my life

I'm (rather surprisingly) not the only Tweedy voter...yet the others seem to be in hiding

I'm a Tweedy voter for the same reason as this guy.

to me tweedy is the best songwriter simply because he's my favorite.

But this thread has inspired me to investigate Bob further. I just downloaded No Direction Home off of the itunes music store. Don't get me wrong, I'm an old man* and have tried Bob in the past to no avail. I work in a music oriented field and am exposed to Dylan lovers and haters everyday. A lot of my friends/co-workers were converted by this documentary. Anyway I'm giving him another try. One of these days it might click.I gather from this thread that it's a widely held opinion that Bob invented poetic lyrics? I'm a big fan of meaningful lyrics. Do I have Dylan to thank for that? I'm also a fan of meaningless lyrics as long as the song as a whole is good(we are talking about song writing not lyric writing). Brian Wilson wrote meaningless or sophomoric lyrics when he wrote any at all, but I would still consider him a song writing genius on par with the best out there. As far as music goes( which is part of a great song) I think the Beatles, Brian Wilson and the Kinks were just as inventive if not more inventive than Dylan ever was. Tweedy, imo, has the whole package. He's my generations great songwriter, drawing from all of his influences and still maintaining his own style. We're lucky to have him, and to me, in my life, he's still better than Dylan.

*not old enough to have been able to experience and appreciate Dylan the first time around.

I agree, and I was going to say that if it weren't for Dylan, there probably wouldn't be a Jeff Tweedy.. I mean, there would still be a Jeff Tweedy because he was born a musical genius, but I don't think he would sound the same.. If that makes sense..

Exactly my point with Guthrie and Dylan. Everyone has influences, but you can't use the argument that Dylan is better than Tweedy because Dylan influenced Tweedy, just like you can't say Guthrie is better than Dylan because Guthrie influenced Dylan. It's what you do with your influences that matter.

Besides, I hear more Beatles than Dylan in Tweedy's music.