Synthesizer Patel

I agree that they can't compete in terms of importance. But, I like to listen to Love & Theft more than Bringing It All Back Home and Blonde on Blonde because I like every single track on it - so I tend to listen to it all the way through. I don't really do that very often with those other 2 albums even though they have songs on it that are of huge significance to western music. I must admit I do tend to listen right the way through all the time with Highway 61 Revisited, though. I guess what I'm saying is that my favourite Dylan albums, are different than a list I'd make in terms of impor

I'm the one who doesn't hear zydeco, and Solace does. Apologize at once! I still don't like most of the album still.

I think he does play the guitar on occasion, it's just he doesn't play it that much cos he tours all time and his wrist/hand/whatever it is is buggered up. I even have a feeling he plays on the new album - I think I've heard what sounds like him, anyway, but I can't remember what song. Maybe someone can say for sure by checking the album notes - if anyone's got it yet.

What Time Out Of Mind and Love And Theft have, over the last two albums, is that they have actual arrangements. He obviously spent a lot of time over writing and recording Time Out Of Mind (for Dylan standards anyway), and he was very lucky to be working with Larry Campbell on Love And Theft (who clearly seems to be a great arranger - if you listen to his work with the Dixie Hummingbirds it's got a very similar style, which is why I think he played a major part in this). The last two albums had nobody but Dylan pulling the strings, and that's why they fall flat in arrangements. He'd have done

hurry up with remastering the next lot of bee gees, rhino!

Dylan wrote Lay Down Your Weary Tune in 1963, and he also wrote Mr Tambourine Man before he released Another Side of Bob Dylan, but chose to keep it back for another album. These songs have psychedelic themes and were written long before he touched lsd. If you watch nearly any documentary about hippies they'll play Mr Tambourine Man at some point. Donovan was writing the songs for Sunshine Superman in 1965 - before he took lsd. I'd image this is actually the case with a lot of other people too. Personally I'd say that music made on lsd is second in shitness only to cocaine, so I'd assume that

no. but, you might want to see what it feels like putting one of his cd's down your pants.

i'd say it is superior to this, but it's still not very good. i thought this new one was going to sound like Time Out Of Mind anyway, so people should be comparing it to that.

this review says what i'd say about it. although fortunately, i don't have to review this album.

ok, what are the elements? that's all i asked. it's got an accordian, but so has a lot of folk music from europe. zydeco has certain accents within it's structure that make it zydeco. i can look up the structure if i really have to - that's why it's a certain type of dance music, like all dance music has accents for dancers to step to. just like reggae does to make it stand apart from the standard 4-4 time.

this is an issue that must be solved though!

this is a and this is a typical zydeco dance number zydeco is dance music - you can't dance to this album. here's some i'd be interested to find out the chord progressions for the new album.

yeah, i play guitar. a couple of them are waltzes too, i should have added. in what way are they zydeco exactly then?

yeah, i'm sure i am. those songs are 12 bar blues with an accordian, not zydeco though.

it's turned out like i thought it would. i really love I Feel A Change Comin' On i like If You Ever Go To Houston, This Dream of You and Shake Shake Mama can't make my mind up about It's All Good and the rest i think are terrible - it's just the exact type of blues i hate, the arrangements sound like they are jamming rather than recording an album so on average i'd say this is worse than Modern Times - cos that had more songs i loved on it, and it doesn't even come close to Time Out Of Mind or Love & Theft.

i don't like portishead so comparing them i'm bound to say pink floyd are better. as i said, i like pink floyd i've just never heard anyone focus on their lyrics as being great, and instead people think they sound like angry 6th formers. by the way, 6th form in the uk is from the ages of 16-18 (people that are taking exams to go on to univeristy - the type of people that go on marches to stop fox hunting and get very upset about capitalism. they then go to university, dabble in these views a bit more. leave university. get a job in a bank, and become a part of the problem). this is the type

i think you'd like Stage Fright or Cahoots. probably, anyway.

yeah, i was going to say atease too. they've got links to virtually everything, if you look or ask someone and they'll find a link or upload it for you. be warned though. don't talk too much to any of them. they are very rude!

no. you'd only get kicked off if you said you liked their album Islands - that'd warrant a kicking. have you heard the second album? or any of their other stuff?

yep. also one of the few classic albums that if you steal ideas from you don't end up sounding shit. and that's a fact kids! start stealing. also, and this is another lesson kids - the beach boys in general kept out of 60s and 70s politics (mainly cos they were fighting family politics, but still), so they never got a chance to be found out as phoneys like a lot of their contemporaries have, which is always good for the longevity of your music.

no, it's alright. unless you're desperate to do so.

what do you think? that's actually my personal favourite of his. i think it's only one of maybe 2 albums that were released properly as albums in his lifetime. oh, and i need to see that dvd too - it's looks good.

ok - i've just always heard the opposite from everyone i know. 'pink floyd lyrics are for angry grammar-school 6th-formers, the who's lyrics are laughable, and the jim morrison shouldn't sing his poetry' - those three comments normally come together as a group. so i guess i'm hanging around with the bad crowd.

well if reading about the basement tapes & the anthology of american folk music isn't intersting enough. then get this: revolution in the air clinton heylin is apparently the only dylanologist worth reading, and this (plus part 2) pretty much says everything you'll ever want to know about his music.