― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:03 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:05 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:06 (twenty years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:19 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:26 (twenty years ago) link
― summerslastsound, Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:36 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Jim M (jmcgaw), Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:04 (twenty years ago) link
― abeta, Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:06 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:17 (twenty years ago) link
― roger adultery, Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:24 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Keith Watson (kmw), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:59 (twenty years ago) link
ALso another vote for Fairport's "Percy's Song".
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 24 July 2003 18:13 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 24 July 2003 18:41 (twenty years ago) link
But it is pretty beautiful in the Byrds rendition.
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 24 July 2003 18:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 24 July 2003 18:45 (twenty years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 24 July 2003 19:21 (twenty years ago) link
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:04 (twenty years ago) link
― David A. (Davant), Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:08 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:57 (twenty years ago) link
There are NO good versions of "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" except the Basement Tapes original, which has to be one of his five or so best songs.
There really aren't all that many good Dylan covers. A couple: "It's All Over Now Baby Blue" by Van Morrison and "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" by Bryan Ferry.
― Burr (Burr), Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 25 July 2003 04:54 (twenty years ago) link
And I know Hendrix's "...Watchtower" is an obvious choice but it is marvellous.
― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 25 July 2003 07:25 (twenty years ago) link
― tigerclawskank, Friday, 25 July 2003 07:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 25 July 2003 09:17 (twenty years ago) link
― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 25 July 2003 09:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 25 July 2003 11:23 (twenty years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 25 July 2003 15:21 (twenty years ago) link
Nice to hear she went country, like that Monkee guy - getting back to her roots.
I dunno about Dylan covers. I like The Byrds' This Wheel's on Fire, obivously any of them by Jimi are cool too. To be honest, I actually skipped the Dylan ones on the Fairport LP's last time I listened to them, maybe I'll give them another go thanks to Nick.
― Keith Watson (kmw), Friday, 25 July 2003 15:38 (twenty years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Keith Watson (kmw), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:10 (twenty years ago) link
As I said before, it's the guitar figures in FC's 'I'll Keep It With Mine' that get me, though I do love Sandy Denny's voice too.
― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:35 (twenty years ago) link
right now i'm listening to the 13th floor elevators doing "it's all over now, baby blue". this might have my vote... i forgot how beautiful and ghostly it is.
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 25 July 2003 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
I would love to hear The Church cover "Isis"
― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 26 July 2003 07:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Pabst Blue Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 26 July 2003 07:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Tijn, Saturday, 26 July 2003 09:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 26 July 2003 12:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Ben Dot, Saturday, 26 July 2003 21:29 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 22:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 01:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Claire (Claire Miccio), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 16:34 (twenty years ago) link
I like Neko's version of Buckets of Rain best tho...
― JMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, Wednesday, 30 July 2003 16:39 (twenty years ago) link
you know its strange, dylan is covered so much, but so few of the versions are as powerful as dylans own, but heres a few suggestions
i quite like yo la tengo's "i threw it all away" which preserves all the simple loveliness of nashville skyline-era dylan with somewhat different instrumentation, i think its about the equal of the original.
also great, theres a will oldham live recording ive heard where he plays new pony from street legal and manages to strip it right down and turn it into something raw, and the song benefits a lot from that.
also, in the "don't look back" film joan baez plays just a little bit of "love is just a four letter word" in a hotel room, and this works out to be far more lovely than her released version of the song (what the fuck is up with the sitar in that??), you just wish the song was complete in "don't look back". she also does a lovely version of percy's song in the same hotel room that is a bit more complete.
― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:08 (twenty years ago) link
I love some of the versions on his live albums when he moves the arrangement, the phrasing, even the lyrics so far from the original as to at least shed a whole new light on the song, at most make it virtually a new item altogether.
Try 'Shelter From The Storm' from Hard Rain, 'Love Minus Zero/No Limit' from Live At The Budokan or oh, I can't think of a suitable one from the recent Rolling Thunder Revue one.
― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:37 (twenty years ago) link
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― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 16 April 2005 20:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― J (Jay), Saturday, 16 April 2005 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 6 August 2005 05:52 (eighteen years ago) link
i like nico a lot but the fairport "i'll keep it with mine" is the keeper
― gershy, Monday, 17 September 2007 06:24 (sixteen years ago) link
fairport one is one of the best songs ever
― chaki, Monday, 17 September 2007 07:13 (sixteen years ago) link
No love for the Turtles' "It Ain't Me Babe"? or the Burritos' "If You Gotta Go..."?
― bham, Monday, 17 September 2007 07:43 (sixteen years ago) link
No Julie Driscoll's "This Wheel's on Fire"? No Peter, Paul, & Mary's "Too Much of Nothing"? No NEIL YOUNG??!!??! This thread is broken.
― Nubbelverbrennung, Monday, 17 September 2007 09:36 (sixteen years ago) link
13th Floor Elevators - "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"
― sexyDancer, Monday, 17 September 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd like to second Amateurist from waaaay earlier on Elvis' version of "Tomorrow Is A Long Time". It's hazy, the aural equivalent of a mid 80s Penthouse photoshoot, with soft lighting and a quaalude glow. This song is Exhibit #1 for the value of prescription drug abuse by musicians.
― Euler, Monday, 17 September 2007 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
ELVIS DOING DON'T THINK TWICE, ferry doing don't think twice, indigo girls(with baez) doing don't think twice, magnet doing lay lady lay.
there's more.
― MRZBW, Monday, 17 September 2007 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link
robyn hitchcock's "tryin to get to heaven before they close the door"
― ciderpress, Monday, 17 September 2007 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
<i>No Julie Driscoll's "This Wheel's on Fire"?</i>
^^^no diggity.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 17 September 2007 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link
sexyd otm. though the charley d & milo version is "i'll keep it with mine" is awesome too. borrows fairly heavily from the fairport version, i think.
― ian, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Robyn H kind of owns Not Dark Yet for me.
― Jon Lewis, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Emmylou Harris doing "Every Grain of Sand" is quite nice.
Re: Nico. I can never get over how out of tune she is. Was.
― dally, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I actually had a pretty hard time deciding which version of "I'll Keep It With Mine" was better - Dylan's, Fairport's or Nico's. It's a hypnotic and haunting song regardless.
― Bimble, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 01:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Johnny Rivers' take on "positively 4th street" is grand. and i reckon i'd call it beautiful. in its own way
― outdoor_miner, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 03:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Olivia Newton-John's "If Not For You" is beautiful in much the same way that Olivia Newton-John's hair is beautiful.
Nina Simone's "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" is beautiful in much the same way that blood trickling down a drain can be beautiful.
― Douglas, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 04:10 (sixteen years ago) link
How do folks feel about "Eastern Rain", the Joni cover on WWDOOH? Having pulled out the album for the first time in a while, I'm just mesmerized by this one. Don't feel I've paid it the proper attention before on an album with "I'll Keep it With Mine" and "Meet on the Ledge", etc.. Denny in full-throated mode, but still her singing (and the instrumentation, too) manages lovely delicacy at the same time.
― softspool, Sunday, 29 July 2012 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
the guitar solo in "Eastern Rain" is unfortunate.
― starfish succulents (unregistered), Sunday, 29 July 2012 04:27 (eleven years ago) link
I've always loved it fwiw.
― Trip Maker, Sunday, 29 July 2012 04:45 (eleven years ago) link
haha, i like the solo, but think i understand where you're coming from. xp
― softspool, Sunday, 29 July 2012 05:00 (eleven years ago) link