Top Ten Bob Dylan Tracks...

Like A Rolling Stone
Tombstone Blues
It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
From A Buick 6
Ballad Of A Thin Man
Queen Jane Approximately
Highway 61 Revisited
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Desolation Row
Positively Fourth Street

Almost

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.
Voltaire (17 something)

One more cup of coffee
Lonesome death of Hattie Carroll
Forever Young
Tangled up in Blue
Only a pawn in their game
High water (for Charley Patton)
Not dark yet
To Ramona
Idiot wind
Blind Willie McTell
Gates of Eden
Visions of Johanna
Highway 61
Simple twist of fate
Shelter from the storm
Sad eyed lady of the lowlands
Romance in Durango
Mr. Tambourine man
Cold irons bound
My back pages
Boots of Spanish leather
Hurricane
It's alright ma
Floater (too much to ask)
Masters of war
It ain't me, babe
Isis
All along the watchtower
Abandoned love
Changing of the guard
Maggie's farm
Knockin on heavens door
Heart of mine
Subterranean homesick blues
Lenny Bruce
Like a rolling stone
Queen Jane approximately
Just Like Tom Thumb's blues
Ballad of a thin man
Desolation row
Sara
A hard rain's a gonna fall
Po' boy
Sugar Baby
Don't think twice, it's alright
Chimes of freedom

I hear he's releasing / released a box set - 773 tracks - now that really is a box set!! And you want the ten best? Do me a favour!!

Peter

Peter

The currently available box set has 168 tracks and is one of those SACD things, it costs about £130. Wonder what this new one's going to cost. I've got most of Mr Z's stuff up to Desire? on the black stuff - still if the new box set is not too expensive then I guess it'll be don't think twice, it's all right.

Rotf

Rotf

I learnt of this new compilation on a weekly iTunes e-mail. It was released in USA on 29 August at a price of $199.99 and it contains 773 tracks which is every album released including Modern Times PLUS 43 other tracks. Not sure if it has been launched in Europe yet.

Incredible, eh?

BUT - can you imagine sitting down and picking some music to play from that selection? I think I would rather forgoe the fancy packaging and 100 page glossy booklet and acquire the individual albums, the meaning of which I believe can be somewhat lost in these mega-box sets.

Still, each to their own!

Peter

Here you are, a quote from the e-mail thingy:

"Beloved icon and the voice of a generation, Bob Dylan turned 65 this year and shows no signs of slowing down. With the release of his new album Modern Times and an upcoming tour, it seems only fitting that we honor Dylan with The Collection, a comprehensive digital box set of every one of his studio and live albums. The massive 773-track suite includes Modern Times, plus 42 rare tracks, and a stunning 100-page digital booklet."

Peter

chronological (ish)



To Ramona
Lonesome death of Hattie Carroll
Masters of War
It's allright Ma
Love minus zero
Like a Rolling stone
just like tom thumb blues
sooner or later
4th time around
I'll be your baby tonight
lay lady lay
tonight i'll be staying here with you
if not for you
knockin on heavens door
on a night like this
all of blood on the tracks
million dollar bash
apple sucklin tree
sarah
one more cup of coffee
oh sister
is your love in vain
senor
slow train
when ya gonna wakeup
solid rock
heart of mine
in the summertime
i and i
don't fall apart on me tonight
silvio
everything is broken
most of the time
unbelievable
not dark yet
cold irons bound
working mans blues #2
the levees gonna break


15 impossible!



SJB

A favorite:"The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest"

Also like the one with the poetic title which is really about smoking pot; "Rainy Day Women" ? ( don't do drugs !!).. Big Brother

Top Track HURRICANE.
Further ranking imposible.

Pete

Most of "Modern Times" is right up there for me. Can't stop playing it. I think this album totally justifies adding the 555PS and the Hiline to the CDX2. It's wonderfully well produced too: Great to be able to hear every different thread within a song.

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Originally posted by northpole:
Here you are, a quote from the e-mail thingy:

"a comprehensive digital box set of every one of his studio and live albums."

Peter

Does "digital box set" mean DRM-encumbered, lossy compressed iTunes files? In which case I'll pass, thanks.

Tim

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Originally posted by ROTF:
Peter

The currently available box set has 168 tracks and is one of those SACD things, it costs about £130. Wonder what this new one's going to cost. I've got most of Mr Z's stuff up to Desire? on the black stuff - still if the new box set is not too expensive then I guess it'll be don't think twice, it's all right.

Rotf

I have this set and it is bobby dazzler!

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Originally posted by northpole:
Here you are, a quote from the e-mail thingy:

"Beloved icon and the voice of a generation, Bob Dylan turned 65 this year and shows no signs of slowing down. With the release of his new album Modern Times and an upcoming tour, it seems only fitting that we honor Dylan with The Collection, a comprehensive digital box set of every one of his studio and live albums. The massive 773-track suite includes Modern Times, plus 42 rare tracks, and a stunning 100-page digital booklet."

Peter

Sounds like the ideal 1st addition to a NaimNet Server...

Being 26, I don't really know Bob Dylan's work.

So, when I heard that he made no.1 at aged 90 (or whatever) I decided to have a listen on Apple iTunes Store.

I can't believe how anyone could enjoy listening to that awful voice and twangy country music!!! Turned off within 2 seconds! I don't understand!

Just thought I'd add my 10pence (or 2 shilling as is more apt perhaps...)

What 1 track should I listen to to make me more appreciative?

Cheers
J

Highway 61 Revisited - the title track of Bob's masterpiece.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by jackliebling:
What 1 track should I listen to to make me more appreciative?
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Bob didn't really put a foot wrong from 'Freewheelin' to 'Desire'. Pick anything at random from this period. If you don't like it then you don't like Bob (ok, maybe not Nashville Skyline, Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid to begin with. Save Basement Tapes till later and steer well clear of Self Portrait).
Acknowledged classics; Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde and Blood On the Tracks.

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Originally posted by jackliebling:
I can't believe how anyone could enjoy listening to that awful voice and twangy country music!!! Turned off within 2 seconds! I don't understand!

Thing is, some people don't get Dylan. Quite a lot of people. Another group likes (some of) the songs, but sung by other people. You could start with Hendrix singing All along the Watchtower, or Joan Baez doing Blowin' in the Wind, or Link Wray with It's All Over Now Baby Blue.
Another complication is that those who have grown up with Dylan's music have a different perspective on Modern Times than those who have not. Dylan is in some respects a shadow of his former self. His voice is shot to bits from too much touring (and smoking). In compensation there's depth and richness and wisdom, but you might not hear that so easily.
And the country thing ... I know what you mean. You could try the double LP called Blonde on Blonde. I find the last track, Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, quite intoxicating. Or you might find it a long-winded monotonous drone. Just one of those things.

Tim

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Originally posted by Tim:
Quite a lot of people. Another group likes (some of) the songs, but sung by other people. You could start with Hendrix singing All along the Watchtower, or Joan Baez doing Blowin' in the Wind, or Link Wray with It's All Over Now Baby Blue....
Tim

Or the wonderful Manfred Mann with their superb version of The Mighty Quinn - well I like it.

Avoid Hollies Sing Dylan though - I love the Hollies, a great group, and I love Dylan's 60s and early 70s work (don't really know his later stuff), but put the Hollies and Mr D together and it just don't work.

I mostly prefer Dylan singing Dylan though there are some decent covers, as you mention.

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I mostly prefer Dylan singing Dylan though there are some decent covers, as you mention.

A defensible position ROTF. But I generally felt more moved by Baez doing early Dylan, than by Dylan himself.

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I find the last track, Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, quite intoxicating. Or you might find it a long-winded monotonous drone. Just one of those things.

Tim

Baez singing Sad Eyed Lady - monotonous? Perhaps for some... For me that piece was seminal, formative; it took just the time needed to take you somewhere really deep, yet somewhere you'd always belonged...

Here's one that I first heard on the radio as a kid of thirteen or so. First I ever heard of Bob. Sort of started my record collecting. It's Geaorge Jackson (http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/jackson.html). Don't know if this is on any album at all.

Willem

'George Jackson' was hailed as a return to form by the sixties folkies who felt betrayed by the electric and surreal turn.
It was only ever released as a single with an acoustic version b/w a big band arrangement, as far as I'm aware. The big band arrangement was (is?) available on an Australian triple vinyl set 'Masterpieces'. The folkie version is available on the 'Freewheelin outakes' bootleg, which is an essential purchase for any, slightly more than casual, Zimmie freak.