Dylan's Christian period

she was a backwoods girl, but she sure was realistic

ha I used this as my Facebook status the other day

i was just looking for this thread but couldn't find it for some reason. was listening to another one of those 1980 warfield shows (an improved source, i think?). an absolutely bonkers groom still waiting at the altar w/ bloomfield guesting on guitar. that song is nuts.

Is there a link, by chance? (yeah you would've posted it but can't resist asking)

here's where I got em http://ow.ly/gru4O http://ow.ly/gru54
great show all around.

Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted
Can’t help but wonder what’s happenin’ to my companions

^^^ this song is so sick

Man Gave Names to All the Animals may be my favorite Dylan album-closer

that is crazy talk but i <3 you for it

Dylan himself (and Bono) adores Shot of Love's title track.

(and pj harvey)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bohnF6EqShY

that is crazy talk but i <3 you for it

I guess Desolation Row is a close second

that and "it's all over now baby blue" are the ones that came to mind...

the thing is I am kinda bored with both of those songs by the time they finally end, whereas the ending is actually the best thing about Man Gave Names to All the Animals

btw this is great - http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/47121287935/caribbean-wind-bob-dylan-warfield-theatre

still never heard Shot of Love, couldn't find a dl of it pre-mediafire/megaupload legal meltdown

it's all over slsk

grrrrrrreat toronto full show here [for the time being]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_XTYYFr8Fc

!!! LOVE

the cold open when Dylan and the band kick in is grate

i think this was filmed by howard alk, who did eat the document, hard rain and renaldo and clara w/ dylan. that guy really went through some things with bob!

really is an amazing, passionate performance -- dylan certainly couldn't phone this stuff in or rely on the hits.

I don't recognize a couple things here - are some of these songs on shot of love?

maybe it's just this "Cover Down, Break Through" song I don't know

yeah "ain't gonna go to hell" and "cover down break through" were never unreleased afaik. both pretty great!

who's the bass player here? dude is cracking me up

whoa had never heard ain't gonna go to hell.

tim drummond is the bass player -- james brown, neil young, jj cale etc.

& yeah ain't gonna go to hell is a pretty commercial sounding number -- lord only knows why dylan never released it.

ah yes, Drummond. he just has the funniest wide-legged hunch-n-bob when he gets into it.

"Philosophers like ... Plato... uh, Jimmy Reed"

lol

that show was amazing

omg you guys

http://wonderingsound.com/review/various-artists-tribute-bob-dylan-80s-volume-one/

http://images.emusic.com/music/images/album/148/510/14851006/300x300.jpg

grantland ran a piece about that album and dylan's 80s stuff in general:
http://grantland.com/features/bob-dylan-1980s-albums-tribute-album/

doesnt' really say anything new or terribly interesting. this thread is easily the best thing i've ever read on this period.

the "volume one" on the cover there is ominous.

That tribute is a steaming pile. nigh unlistenable.

i ended up loving Saved! a lot

All about ROCK SOLID for me.

these are both great
http://thousandhighways.blogspot.com/2013/09/still-same-man-volume-one-unreleased.html
http://thousandhighways.blogspot.com/2013/09/still-same-man-volume-two-unreleased.html

i've only heard the built to spill "jokerman" off of the 80s Dylan trib, but i thought it was OK.

That's the highlight. The rest rarely reaches OK.

guess i'm a lil curious to hear the bonnie prince billy "dark eyes"? a little bit?

that grantland piece is pretty infuriating, between conflating early-80s fire-and-brimstone dylan with late-80s dylan-and-the-dead dylan and then ending on this

[Time out of] Mind is a personal favorite, and easily better than anything Dylan did in the ’80s. But it also took Dylan out of commission as a present-tense figure. Now, it’s impossible to imagine him in the same context as Ratt or Kip Winger (or Justin Bieber or YG). His iconic luster was restored, but his humanity — which once beat with the power of blanched synths and tinny drums — became obscured behind sepia-tinted sonics.

as if the five albums since time out of mind have all been muttering abt death in a lanois fog, even when they've been bad

as if songs where he mentions alicia keys have no effect on the clear visibility of his 'humanity'? (not sure even what that would mean but ok)

plus the jack frost "sonics" are prob better + "aliver" than anyone's dylan sonics since tom wilson's

out of commission as a present-tense figure
ha yeah, see that seems exactly what Dylan has been kicking against since TOOM. where that record seemed foggy and out of it (intentionally so, i'd say) his subsequent records have been sharp/feisty as hell.

the dusty past of underwaer and detroit commercials during the superbowl

der dean: http://www.spin.com/reviews/bob-dylan-80s-tribute-comp-ATO/

The songs have been retained but not the sound — that big, terrible ’80s production with the Miami Vice drums, the overbearing backup singers, and the sluggishly steady metronomic synth gurgle that makes the version of “When the Night Comes Falling From the Sky” on Empire Burlesque feel like dying from a torturously slow cocaine overdose

This dude on a ruthless pursuit of cliches.

Xgau liking it only confirms my belief that it's a steaming turd of a record.

Not sure it's a full endorsement.

yeah the 80s cliches come thick and heavy there but damn if the production (and/or mastering) on those 80s dylan records doesn't sound like shit.

steve hyden is easily the worst writer at grantland and was one of the worst at avclub, a more anodyne moody but just as clueless a defender of garbled unexamined cw.