Dylan's Christian period

Wow, that "Watered Down Love" clip above got pulled already. #OccupyDylan

All 3 of the gospel-period albums are on Spotify, I think. xp

I'm against spotify but thx

this review is sort of ...mean? ungenerous?

not too far into this album but really dug the version of Satisfied Mind, very Mississippi Fred McDowell

and this review is just fucking ridiculous

That Kurt Loder review of Saved is actually one of the better ones I've read of that album. He's pretty well attuned to the vitality of the music and the possibilities of the style, even if at times he lets the preachiness of the lyrics spoil his enjoyment. I've read some very negative reviews of Saved, calling it perhaps his worst album and saying the band sounds lifeless or dull. Loder is at least a bit more evenhanded. That Wenner review of Slow Train is way over the top in its effusiveness, though that album does have its moments.

I like Slow Train Coming a lot but the Wenner adulation is so sad and desperate-sounding

guess I'm in the mainstream but I also find Slow Train pretty awesome and Saved lifeless and dull

What ferocious courage he has! his preaching at the end of "Precious Angel", going into "Slow Train", about how the world is going to be destroyed & Christ is going to set up his kingdom in Jerusalem for a thousand years; & after the crowd erupts he asks, "Do you believe those things?" and they just shout back, & it's hard to tell what they really think.

i dunno, the crowd seems pretty down to be saved.

euler's right, this show is straight fire.

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)