well, that was from the 1976 leg of the Rolling Thunder tour ... don't think they played it in 1975. but yeah, amazing version.
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 May 2010 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
"Mozambique" is twaddle, ain't it?
― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 May 2010 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, it totally is! but it's fun on this live version ...
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 May 2010 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I love Mozambique
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 7 May 2010 11:33 (fourteen years ago) link
So, having it given a few years to sink in since my first post above, I would never rank Street Legal above Desire...but weirdly, lately it's the Dylan album I'm putting on most often. There's a long stretch in the middle that basically washes past without making any impression, but the big loud numbers are kind of wonderfully craggy and washed-up and grungey sounding. Yeah, I wish the vocals weren't so muffled and weak on "Changing of the Guard," but "Where Are You Tonight" really benefits from the "still drunk the next day" vibe of this whole thing. And yeah, "New Pony" is awesome. BROW-DANNNG! The only thing is I keep hearing it as "I had a pony / her name was Lucy-Poo" which isn't quite what he's going for but whatever.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 21 January 2012 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
revive inspired by this:
Street-Legal has a few stinkers, especially the one that goes -Can you cookcan you sewcan you make flowers growcan you understand my pain?sung as if he were held at gunpoint.― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, May 24, 2011 2:09 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Can you cookcan you sewcan you make flowers growcan you understand my pain?
sung as if he were held at gunpoint.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, May 24, 2011 2:09 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 21 January 2012 05:36 (twelve years ago) link
This is my new favorite Dylan album... it's very #based
― the whirlwind labeouf, i inhale it (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 30 December 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
Out of all the Dylan albums I've listened to, which includes many but not all of the supposedly bad ones, this is the ugliest and the hardest to understand.
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 30 December 2013 00:49 (ten years ago) link
i have a very half baked theory that this record is dylan's first born again record ... before he knew he was born again.
― tylerw, Monday, 30 December 2013 02:44 (ten years ago) link
i don't even know what that means but ... hey is the Street Legal on this new Complete Albums thing the remixed version or a new remaster of the original mix? Important!I feel like they could do an 'Another Self Portrait' style rehab of this period, tho, with cool rehearsal outtakes and live stuff.
― tylerw, Monday, 30 December 2013 02:50 (ten years ago) link
If it means it shows his contempt for other people, then yes.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 December 2013 02:57 (ten years ago) link
this music makes me uncomfortable
― j., Monday, 30 December 2013 03:31 (ten years ago) link
.... I'm ready when you are, senor
― the whirlwind labeouf, i inhale it (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 30 December 2013 03:32 (ten years ago) link
I feel like they could do an 'Another Self Portrait' style rehab of this period, tho, with cool rehearsal outtakes and live stuff.― tylerw, Sunday, December 29, 2013 8:50 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― the whirlwind labeouf, i inhale it (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 30 December 2013 03:33 (ten years ago) link
Oops haha I meant I agree and I'm seeing signs that since New Morning/SP are officially critically rehabbed via the bootleg series that Street Legal is the hippest Dylan album right now in the underground
― the whirlwind labeouf, i inhale it (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 30 December 2013 03:35 (ten years ago) link
Changing of the Guards is my favorite Bob Dylan song of all.
― Inty Tyga Et La Tyga Loma (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Monday, 30 December 2013 04:27 (ten years ago) link
It's hard to dismiss any record with songs like Changing Of The Guard and Where Are You Tonight.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 30 December 2013 05:50 (ten years ago) link
yeah I've dug this record since that remaster
― Euler, Monday, 30 December 2013 06:33 (ten years ago) link
I have it on old vinyl, sounds great to me, was it the CD that was bad or something?
― the whirlwind labeouf, i inhale it (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 30 December 2013 14:57 (ten years ago) link
It's generally considered to be the beginning of his long schlocky period. Some of the songs are real bad. But some aren't.
Changing Of The Guard is in my Top 10 Bob songs. Never get tired of hearing it. The Jack White band Dead Weather actually did a very credible job covering New Pony.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 30 December 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
This is the mid-life crisis album after his divorce was finalized. Where Desire was filled with hope-against-hope and a romanticizing of The Past (outlaws, love in far-off lands/times, and of course "Sara, Sara, don't ever leave me, don't ever go"), Street-Legal is a lot more miserable, self-loathing and looking for a way out. I totally agree with tyler about it being the first of the "born-again" albums, it's leading directly into the religious trilogy.
― president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Monday, 30 December 2013 15:30 (ten years ago) link
I have it on old vinyl, sounds great to me, was it the CD that was bad or something?i guess the OG mix was a rush job for one reason or another -- the producer phil ramone went in and re-did it in the late 90s. it was definitely an improvement, did more justice to the bog-ness of the band.
― tylerw, Monday, 30 December 2013 15:33 (ten years ago) link
is street legal remaster CD available for single purchase or is it only as a part of the complete albums box set?
― the whirlwind labeouf, i inhale it (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 30 December 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
i think the remix has been used in all reissues from 1999 or so on (also it was don devito not phil ramone, my badddd)
― tylerw, Monday, 30 December 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
Actually I'm listening to this on my better stereo now and it is a little ragged sounding.. Though I don't necessarily mind
― ilx snitch (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 04:30 (ten years ago) link
OMG
amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrDr7wKp-Ss
the guy dress up as dylan on the cover is amazing, not to mention that this is a opera metal cover of "senor (tales of yankee power)"
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 16:05 (ten years ago) link
My take, from the thread Dylan's Christian Period, incl. some points made earlier in this thread, which I've never seen before, but def. see he needed and knew he needed some kinda change from this state of mind--still, it's listenable, and yet another nobody-but-Dylan type experience, in this case, his own kind of midlife crisis ("Middle-Age Crazy," as a country song of that era put it):
I finally listened to Changing of the Guard: good singing (the choral group is used effectively, for the most part), good music (except for the drums); but lyrics incl brain of homeless prophetic imagery and serenades which start suavely but quickly go so wrong ("Can ya cook and sew, make the flowers grow," he sounds like even he knows this is hopeless as soon as he hears it--and/or he already knew it, but it's still like,) "No? Course not, but come 'ere and show me what you can do, then.") Performance-wise, the most successful (and stylistically, the most unusual here) is "New Pony," which morphs into bizarre bluesoid porn, though not in a good way (to my taste). Overall, sounds like he's really moving toward some desperate change.(Before this album came out, Renaldo and Clara incl Dyl paying much attention as Ginsberg tells him about Jesus and the ladies---think some of this was from the Apocrypha, but some from the Protestant-approved Gospels).
― dow, Friday, April 11, 2014 5:27 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
brain *stew* of homeless, Ah meant to say.
― dow, Friday, April 11, 2014 5:28 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Not that all the lyrics are bad, but this set incl. recurring, off-putting syndromes.
― dow, Friday, April 11, 2014 5:31 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― dow, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
Oops, I should've read this whole thread---my repost is superflous--sorry.
― dow, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
I might have said this before, but holy shit "changing of the guards" is terrifying and insane and amazing
― Treeship, Monday, 1 September 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
The whole album is, really. Forensic carnival fun.
― dow, Monday, 1 September 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
Roky and Daniel got nothin on him.
― dow, Monday, 1 September 2014 18:46 (nine years ago) link
Actually, they do at their best, but, considering how far from his best this is, its amazingness is even more amazing. it may be his best bad album. Is it? I haven't heard them all.
― dow, Monday, 1 September 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
listening to this for the first time
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 7 May 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link
see you on the other side!
señor
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 May 2015 17:53 (nine years ago) link
godspeed!not much footage of the 78 tour -- this is a blast though, you get a good sense of the weird vibes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsgHi_DvmM8
― tylerw, Thursday, 7 May 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
oh my goodness
― marcos, Thursday, 7 May 2015 18:54 (nine years ago) link
that is awesome
yeahhhh. i would love to see a whole show ... seems weird that there wouldn't have been some kind of film of at least one show.
― tylerw, Thursday, 7 May 2015 18:55 (nine years ago) link
he's in really good form there! surprising, most of what i've read about that time is that he was pretty miserable (pre-born again years which 'renewed' him)
― marcos, Thursday, 7 May 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link
also i just want a put in a little plug for 'baby stop crying'
― marcos, Thursday, 7 May 2015 19:03 (nine years ago) link
it is terrible but also really wonderful
― marcos, Thursday, 7 May 2015 19:04 (nine years ago) link
also i don't know how often it is acknowledged but his background singers from this period through the eighties are all really great imo, even the shitty songs they just do a marvelous job
― marcos, Thursday, 7 May 2015 19:05 (nine years ago) link
idk what version of this I have in terms of remastering or not but ... mmm the backing vocals all over this are really awkward. not all the way through it yet (had to go to a meeting)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 7 May 2015 19:06 (nine years ago) link
feel like the work better on the gospel stuff
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 7 May 2015 19:07 (nine years ago) link
they
that's a terrible clip! The horns, Dylan's stepping on the backup singers' lines, the hair.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 May 2015 19:17 (nine years ago) link
He got better at employing the backup singers....but not on SL.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 May 2015 19:18 (nine years ago) link
that's a tremendous clip! The horns, Dylan's stepping on the backup singers' lines, the hair.
― tylerw, Thursday, 7 May 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link
i kind of love that the backup singers have to sing bizarro/awkward things in changing of the guards -- "RENEGADE PRIESTS!"
― tylerw, Thursday, 7 May 2015 19:26 (nine years ago) link
without collapsing into laughter
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 May 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link