The Basement Tapes Poll

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I don't have any quibbles with the voting, other than that the total number of votes is a fucking scandal. Hell, I voted twice.

"Clothes Line Saga" is really funny. Man, this LP was so over my head when I first heard it as a teenager.

Best tracks that didn't make the cut:

Silent Weekend
I'm Not There
Sign on the Cross

C5. Ruben Remus 0

we're going to have to get some n00b to repoll this on accident because this result is just WRONG. incredible song.

otm. A hypnotist, a fancy talker, Ruben Remus ain't no doctor.

and then, to add insult to injury, this is apparently the only live video of the song available on the entire internet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMc7z3V9wqE

i mean, he does a decent job and everything but

i haven't seen or heard the Last Waltz before, so i was hoping there'd be a version of it on there, perhaps complete with neil young's cocaine booger in the background. but nope, it's not part of that setlist, or any other apparently.

i guess people don't rep for "ruben remus" because they're listening to the basement tapes to hear bob dylan, but Manuel just nails the vocal. he sounds so sweet and of his time in an endearing way. and the band (as in "the band") is totally on fire. it would be nice to hear an uninterrupted recording of that session from whatever night that was, because they sound like they couldn't possibly sound bad even if they tried.

This went up a month before I started posting, so late vote for "Tiny Montgomery." Other favourites: "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere," "Please Mrs. Henry," and the winner.

(Not what you wanted, but "Ruben Remus" is on Grooveshark: http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Ruben+Remus/3YSRTU?src=5.)

i guess people don't rep for "ruben remus" because they're listening to the basement tapes to hear bob dylan,

Love that one, but most (all?) of the Band-minus-Dylan stuff was either outtakes from Big Pink or new stuff they were working on at the time.

Weirdly (or not), a bunch of those are bonus tracks on the 2000 Big Pink CD reissue, but the liner notes don't mention that they were also on The Basement Tapes.

What ABOUT The Basement Tapes?.

Well done

Wondering if The Basement Tapes is the last of Bob doing surreal, nonsense words as a punk gesture. "Million Dollar Bash" is pretty punk.

"Goin' to Acapulco" is horrible, lol. Our poll winner.

"Clothes Line Saga" = Jandek

Better rhyming, though