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Early Joan Baez records are pretty good, if you can accept certain things like her operetta-style readings of folk tunes (and Dylan tunes!). But once her arrangements went "rock" her vocal style couldn't quite make the transition.

amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:15 (twenty years ago) link

Stephen Duffy was going on about Dylan in the Independent on Sunday this week and he picked 'So you later Allen Ginsberg' as his best song. I don't know it (I gather it's from the Basement Tapes). Was he joking, do you think?

N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:49 (twenty years ago) link

'See you later', not 'so you later' duh.

N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:49 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, man, that was a crappy list. It's almost all ballads. I'll try again sometime.

amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 25 July 2003 03:45 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...
I threw it all away
Tomorrow is a long time
Temporary like Achilles
Positively 4th Street
Just like Tom Thumb's blues
Motorpsycho Nitemare
You're Gonna Make me lonesome when you go
Tonight I'll be staying here with you
Leopard-skin pillbox hat
Buckets of Rain

Sym Sym (sym), Friday, 22 April 2005 00:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Like a Rolling Stone
Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again
Dear Landlord
Visions of Johanna
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Outlaw Blues
Summer Days
I Want You
Time Passes Slowly

And I need an eleventh space, just for the way he says "I'm your friend" in "Tell Me Mama" from the "Royal Albert Hall" concert.

Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 22 April 2005 00:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Er, "Tell Me, Momma."

Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 22 April 2005 00:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Maggie's Farm
Isis
Solid Rock
Cat's in the Well
When I Paint My Masterpiece
You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Nothing Was Delivered
If You Gotta Go, Go Now
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 28 April 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Isis (preferably the live version from Biograph. "This is for Leonard, if he's still here!")
Brownsville Girl
Visions of Johanna
Mississippi
Like a Rolling Stone
Tough Mama
Idiot Wind
Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again
Tangled Up In Blue
Blind Willie McTell


Scott CE (Scott CE), Thursday, 28 April 2005 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link

And in the non-song category, Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie

Scott CE (Scott CE), Thursday, 28 April 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I want you
I want you
I want you
I want you
I want you
I want you
I want you
I want you
I want you
I want you

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 28 April 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Wow, really? So "I Want You" overtook all nine of the other songs on your list above, huh?

I'd be really impressed if each one of those represented a different VERSION of the song.

Scott CE (Scott CE), Thursday, 28 April 2005 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link

i didn't realize i'd posted before. i like my old list:

The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
4th Time Around
Girl from the North Country
I Pity the Poor Immigrant
I Threw It All Away
I Want You
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Mr. Tambourine Man
One of Us Must Now (Sooner or Later)

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Very few "classics" on my list:

Foot of Pride
I'm Not There
Tight Connection To My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love?)
Day of the Locust
Dirge
Jokerman
Lonesome Day Blues
Sign on the Window
Maybe Someday
Buckets of Rain

Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (Live; B-Side to "I Want You")
Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Disaster Blues
Let Me Die in My Footsteps
Positively Fourth Street*
All I Really Want to Do
Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
Motorpsycho Nightmare
Masters of War
Talkin' John Birch Blues
Like a Rolling Stone

* - Is it about P.F. Sloan? I think it is. Look at the initials! Anyone else ever notice that?

Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 28 April 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Chimes Of Freedom
Desolation Row
I Believe In You
If You See Her, Say Hello
Isis
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Shelter From The Storm
Tangled Up In Blue
To Ramona
Visions Of Johanna

What can I say? If it's got to be OX, I like ballads, okay? And I'm bitter that there wasn't room for "Angelina"...
+ Scott CE otm on the live "Isis," but I'll take either one

rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 29 April 2005 05:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Sooner or Later (One of Us Must Know)
Visions of Johanna
Like a Rolling Stone
Masters of War
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Simple Twist of Fate
Positively 4th Street
Hurricane
All Along the Watchtower
Isis

Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 29 April 2005 06:12 (nineteen years ago) link

1.Visions Of Johanna
2.Like A Rolling Stone
3.Isis (live '75 "Biograph" version or original)
4.Tangled Up In Blue
5.Highway 61 Revisited
6.I Don't Believe You (again, original or "Biograph" version)
7.Desolation Row
8.One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
9.Mr. Tambourine Man
10.Yea, Heavy And A Bottle Of Bread

Of course, numbers 2 thru 10 are subject to change. (#1 boringly secure. You know, that thin wild mercury sound and etc.)

Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I dig that acoustic "Visions" on 'Biograph,' too. Can't remember which date of the tour that was.

Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Damn it, I just realized I forgot "Clothes Line Saga." Strike "Outlaw Blues" and put "Saga" in at number five.

Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:40 (nineteen years ago) link

"Sometimes, not alla time . . . "

Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:40 (nineteen years ago) link

six months pass...
1. Song For Woody
2. Girl from the North Country
3. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
4. Gates of Eden
5. It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
6. Like a Rolling Stone
7. Tangled up in Blue
8. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
9. Shelter from the Storm
10. ...

PB, Sunday, 20 November 2005 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost Jody on Dylan's 60s voice: 1)A Tree With Roots is a boot you might find around the everse, with all the Basement Tapes, except "Bathsheba"(anybody heard that?) Voice is amazingly agile, and even beautiful, often enough. "Young But Daily Growing" might be something he was moved to do by listening to the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, although it sounds better than they did in No Direction Home. As well as folk, he also sings the shit out of country, like "Big River," and also "Still In Town," which I'd never heard before. Speaking of No Direction Home, the soundtrack is almost all alternates, as keepable as the masters. Acoustic disc has stages of vocal evolution,and electric disc(bluesy-garagey-skronky; tuneful enough) finally gives Bloomfield his due. About bloomin' tyme. Damn, I already had one too many reissues on my P&J!

don, Sunday, 20 November 2005 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm very pleased with my POXX! it'd be basically the same if you asked me again right now.

j b goddamnfucking r (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 20 November 2005 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Idiot Wind
Like A Rolling Stone (judas version)
It's All Over Now Baby Blue
Brownsville Girl
Hurricane
Positively 4th Street
Queen Jane Approximately
She's Your Lover Now
Goin' To Acapulco
Not Dark Yet

Jason Dent (jason dont), Sunday, 20 November 2005 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link

that's an excellent pox. i'd kick off "hurricane" cuz i'm a little sick of it (haha like i haven't heard the others in equal amounts) and substitute it with "when he returns," cuz ya know, it'd be the christian thing to do.

j b goddamnfucking r (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 20 November 2005 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...
it's all over now, baby blue
ballad of a thin man
buckets of rain
visions of johanna
one more cup of coffee
i'll be your baby tonight
i want you
love minus zero/no limit
just like tom thumb's blues
don't think twice, it's alright

but i'm leaving way too many out...

anyway, those are ten near flawless dylan tunes

Charlie Howard, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

its alright ma im only bleeding
visions of johanna
sooner or later
ballad of a thin man
positively 4th street
she belongs to me
shelter from the storm
idiot wind
blind willie mctell
like a rolling stone

Michael B, Saturday, 2 August 2008 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Did he ever have as great a rhythm section -- hell, rhythm sound -- on a song as he does on "Jokerman"? As for his voice -- how the hell does he manage to wring so much scorn and awe?

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 2 August 2008 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link

sara
blind willie mctell
one too many mornings (live '66)
like a rolling stone
rita may
the ballad of frankie lee and judas priest
i don't believe you (she acts like we never have met)
tombstone blues
as i went out one morning
lonesome death of hattie carroll

J.D., Saturday, 2 August 2008 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

can anybody tell me where the version of forever young in the new pepsi ads (the football one) is from? thanks in advance

iago g., Monday, 18 January 2010 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link

Is it not just the "Continued" version from the PW album?

I.e. this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvTkspOc36Q

Duke, Monday, 18 January 2010 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link

yes, that's it, thanks alot

iago g., Monday, 18 January 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link

four years pass...

love minus zero / no limit
i want you
my back pages
mr tambourine man
tell me momma
one of us must know (sooner or later)
sad eyed lady of the lowlands
just like a woman
ballad of a thin man
don't think twice, it's alright

ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Monday, 10 November 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link

Just saw this morning that he's finishing a three-night residency in my city tonight. Looked at a setlist to see if it would be worth going:

Things Have Changed
She Belongs to Me
Beyond Here Lies Nothing
Workingman’s Blues #2
Waiting for You
Duquesne Whistle
Pay in Blood
Tangled Up in Blue
Love Sick
High Water (For Charley Patton)
Simple Twist of Fate
Early Roman Kings
Forgetful Heart
Spirit on the Water
Scarlet Town
Soon After Midnight
Long and Wasted Years
Blowin’ in the Wind
Stay With Me

the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Monday, 10 November 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link

(Setlist from Friday night.)

the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Monday, 10 November 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link

yeah... doesn't look like it

ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Monday, 10 November 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Oh ho---"possibly as early as next week." Esp. curious about Bob/Eric tape w "nearly three LP sides" worth of material: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/05/rare-dylan-recordings-set-for-release-in-copyright-extension-bid/?smid=tw-nytimesmusic&seid=auto&_r=0

dow, Friday, 5 December 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link

possible tracklisting; some of it rings a bell (thanx to ilxor tylerw for link)
http://expectingrain.com/discussions/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=81484&start=125#p1535267

dow, Friday, 5 December 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link

one year passes...

my back pages
love minus zero/no limit
abandoned love
you're gonna make me lonesome when you go
tell me, momma
sad eyed lady of the lowlands
just like a woman
idiot wind
i want you
spanish harlem incident

flappy bird, Friday, 21 October 2016 06:51 (seven years ago) link

abandoned love

The one on Biograph or the unreleased version from The Bitter End?

Sam Weller, Friday, 21 October 2016 09:04 (seven years ago) link

boots of spanish leather
queen jane approximately
visions of johanna
leopard-skin pill-box hat
went to see the gypsy
nobody cept you
if you see her, say hello
someone got ahold of my heart
brownsville girl
someday baby (tell tale signs)

difficult listening hour, Friday, 21 October 2016 09:30 (seven years ago) link

sweet list birdo

Isis (live biograph)
Can You Please Crawl out Your Window
Foot of Pride
Clothesline Saga
Up to Me
Visions of Johanna
One of Us Must Know
Idiot Wind (live Hard Rain)
Desolation Row
Like a Rolling Stone

his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Friday, 21 October 2016 15:37 (seven years ago) link

abandoned love

The one on Biograph or the unreleased version from The Bitter End?

― Sam Weller, Friday, October 21, 2016 5:04 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the bitter end! better lyrics, and the Biograph version is too polished/sterile

flappy bird, Friday, 21 October 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link

stuck in the middle with you
sultan's of swing
in my time of dyin
like a rolling stone
blonde on blonde
positively 4th street
lay lady lay
new morning
tears of rage
this wheel's on fire
love sick

brimstead, Friday, 21 October 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link

xp

that Bitter End performance is so amazing, probably my favorite Bob for the last year or so. love the crowd, they know the moment.

by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, 21 October 2016 20:48 (seven years ago) link

the Live 66 recording of Tell Me, Momma - when it kicks in, might be one of the most exciting pieces of rock and roll i've ever heard

flappy bird, Saturday, 22 October 2016 04:51 (seven years ago) link

Yeah, it's up there.

Wig Wag Wanderer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 October 2016 12:37 (seven years ago) link


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