― 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
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― 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
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― 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
oh and my favorite dyaln rearrangement of a dylan song - "one too many mornings" from live 1966, that robbie robertson guitar solo with the little slide in it that just makes my heart jump, and the "SWEEEETHEAAARTS" belted out by dylan and danko, aw, its one of my favorite things ever
― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:42 (twenty years ago) link
(As in, "a 1,000 miles...BEEE-HIND")
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:58 (twenty years ago) link
maybe im getting confused, there must be another great song somewhere where some other artist belts out sweetheart, and im gonna spend all afternoon trying to work it out, dammit.
― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Thursday, 31 July 2003 14:02 (twenty years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― bham, Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Nina Simone's "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"
There are others, but yeah: the Fairports' "I'll Keep It With Mine" is great.
― Dark Horse, Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link
I've never heard the McGuinness, Coulson album of Dylan covers," Lo and Behold." People say it's great--anyone familiar with this?
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
The two versions of "Knocking on Heaven's Door" on the new Cat Power DVD are like dust bunnies of sound and singing, they are these really, really wispy, formless things. Because the original is so powerful it takes on a weird dynamic that I think is cool.
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link
i agree entirely, although sometimes i think people are inordinately impressed with it simply because it's been put in french. as noted above, my objection (mild) is that i find the arrangement a little too stiff and jaunty. and i always have mixed feelings about sandy denny vocals.
your (positive) description of the cat power cover (which i haven't heard) could so easily be read as negative if it weren't for the phrase "dust bunnies."
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link
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― the apex of nadirs (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 18 November 2004 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link
O yeah. Though upthread I also was one of those who spoketh their fondness of Fairport C's French language finess, the Byrds' "Back Pages" I just love something rotten.
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― Robin Goad (rgoad), Friday, 15 April 2005 09:06 (nineteen years ago) link
I have to say that I don't find Nico cold at all. I've only got Chelsea Girls, but there are songs on that that are absolutely, gut-wrenchingly emotional. In a good way. Sort of. If you want your guts wrenched.
I'd have to say her cover of "I'll keep it with mine" - together with MELANIE and her cover of "Mr. Tambourine Man".
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 15 April 2005 10:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Will(iam), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link
I've never seen it mentioned - we are led to believe that the only people in Britain who liked VU were Bowie & Eno etc
― bham, Friday, 15 April 2005 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link
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