Is Bob Dylan overrated?

Update: Merrill Markoe decodes neighbor Dylan's 2017 Christmas lights. She's been doing this on and off for nine years, for backstory includes helpful pix along the way, li'l film at the end. Sorry it's on Vice.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59wp5k/a-critical-analysis-of-bob-dylans-2017-xmas-lights?utm_campaign=VICE+HOLIDAY+NEWSLETTER+1225&utm_content=VICE+HOLIDAY+NEWSLETTER+1225+CID_1adfe21ae8e2a4793a42f7bac14e15d2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=vicetwitterus&utm_source=Campaign+Monitor&utm_term=A+Critical+Analysis+of+Bob+Dylans+2017+Xmas+Lights

Very favorable re New York production (didn't like the British) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/theater/girl-from-the-north-country-review-bob-dylan.html

Hope "Clothesline Saga" and others from The Basement Tapes are in there, ditto John Wesley Harding.

So now the director of Call Me By Your Name is making a movie based on Blood On The Tracks:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/call-me-by-your-name-bob-dylan-blood-on-the-tracks-film-738293/

I hope the internet is down the day Dylan dies.

kinda feels like todd haynes already made the blood on the tracks movie with one of the segments in I'm Not There, but ah well ...
supposedly there's a screenplay some guy in the 70s wrote for Lily Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts.

^^^my feelings exactly

I hope the internet is down the day Dylan dies.

― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, October 16, 2018 1:25 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm gonna post and tweet so much it's gonna be insane

the takes are going to be hottt!

I'm sure we could get a 1,000+ thread going right now if we want to get a jump on things

snowtakes

honestly, though are there any new frontiers for dylan hot-takers? feels like everything has been covered. there's probably someone out there who's written tens of thousands of words on christmas in the heart. (which is great, don't get me wrong!)

feel like ILM is full of hot takes on Street Legal tbh

maybe that was the last frontier idk

unless you can cook up a hot take on Froggy Goes a Courtin

Everything he did is worthless except tarantula

Anyone been hailing Knocked Out Loaded or Down in the Groove as lost classics? I know everyone loves “Brownsville Girl” (hot take: it’s kinda funny but stupid and not really worth returning to, “Long and Wasted Years” uses the same delivery in a 10x better song)

I posted a lil' about "KOL" recently: Defend the very defensible - Knocked Out Loaded

Street Legal is good!

I love Street-Legal -- OG mix, not 1999 Don DeVito mix. Represent!

i'm gonna post and tweet so much it's gonna be insane

― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, October 16, 2018 4:05 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Me2. I will be more insufferable than I was when Bowie died

is preferring the 1999 street legal mix a hot take? i prefer it.

I bought it years ago and promptly returned it. Maybe I'd like it more now, I dunno. The version on Spotify seems to be OG mix?

Oh dear. I didn't realise there was a Street Legal mix beef. No idea which side I'm on....

The original mix is a horror; the 1999 mix improved it vastly. It's still not a great album (I'm fine with okay).

God, I love the Dylan thing of putting a 12-bar blues song as track #2 on an LP.

I've an old vinyl edition and the 2003 reissue. Is the latter the remix?

HOW MUCH
HOW MUCH

feel like ILM is full of hot takes on Street Legal tbh

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, October 16, 2018 3:29 PM (fifty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sorry Street Legal is good is canon now

fine, then my hot take is that it is actually terrible

The 2003 SACD reissue is indeed the remix. Tho according to da Wiki - "In 2014, as part of The Complete Album Collection Vol. 1, Street-Legal was again remastered, but restored to its original 1978 Stan Kalina LP mix."

THE ORIGINAL IS BACK! That's some "A New Hope Restored Without the Late-90s CGI" fan-dream shizz

Shakey, Alfred - I can't believe you don't love this album! Aside from "Is Your Love in Vain?" (one weak track, smack in the middle), this is such a hott LP.

lucky for everyone because original vinyl of Street Legal isn't exactly in every single record store of all time

http://www.45worlds.com/vinyl/image/030/thumb/bob-dylan-jc-35453-2-ab-t.jpg

my feelings about Street Legal are well documented on the Street Legal thread.

which at least produced the LEGAL HASSLE Dylan/Reed mashup joke

Well the last thing I remember before I stripped & kneeled
Was a trainload of fools bogged down in a magnetic field

Fuck yeah!!!

Shakey, Alfred - I can't believe you don't love this album! Aside from "Is Your Love in Vain?" (one weak track, smack in the middle), this is such a hott LP.

― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp),

The writing is windy self-parody in a lot of places even on songs I like ("Senor"). "Where Are You Tonight (Journey Through Dark Heat)" is "Like a Rolling Stone" extended to crackpot length.

Well the last thing I remember before I stripped & kneeled
Was a trainload of fools bogged down in a magnetic field

This is what I meant by a Dylan imitator.

"I fought with my twin/My enemy within," undergirded by bongos, is my idea of Dylan hell.

Damn, this is prime-era Dylan for me.

"If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise / Remind me to show you the scars"

!!!???

that's good

get ready for my hot take

Bob Dylen suxxxxxxx

unless you can cook up a hot take on Froggy Goes a Courtin

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, October 16, 2018 8:30 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbh my memory is that i kinda like his version of froggy goes a courtin!

RENEGADE PRIESTS

+1000

I have a memory of a conversation with difficult listening hour in which we treated every sentence as a line from "Changing of the Guards."

"I need a beer"

I NEED. A. BEER.

"I think we need to take this right."

TAKE. THIS. RIGHT.

anyway

Like regardless of whether this song is "imitation Dylan" or not, the whole lyric is so excellent to me - https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/where-are-you-tonight-journey-through-dark-heat/

I can’t believe it, I can’t believe I’m alive!!

...But without you, it doesn't seem right

Now I've moved on to Saved; pounding air piano at my desk