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
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
is preferring the 1999 street legal mix a hot take? i prefer it.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
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?
― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
Oh dear. I didn't realise there was a Street Legal mix beef. No idea which side I'm on....
― Duke, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
The original mix is a horror; the 1999 mix improved it vastly. It's still not a great album (I'm fine with okay).
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
God, I love the Dylan thing of putting a 12-bar blues song as track #2 on an LP.
― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link
I've an old vinyl edition and the 2003 reissue. Is the latter the remix?
― Duke, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
HOW MUCH HOW MUCH
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
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
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link
fine, then my hot take is that it is actually terrible
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
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."
― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
THE ORIGINAL IS BACK! That's some "A New Hope Restored Without the Late-90s CGI" fan-dream shizz
― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
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), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
lucky for everyone because original vinyl of Street Legal isn't exactly in every single record store of all time
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
http://www.45worlds.com/vinyl/image/030/thumb/bob-dylan-jc-35453-2-ab-t.jpg
― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link
my feelings about Street Legal are well documented on the Street Legal thread.
which at least produced the LEGAL HASSLE Dylan/Reed mashup joke
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:37 (five years ago) link
Well the last thing I remember before I stripped & kneeledWas a trainload of fools bogged down in a magnetic field
Fuck yeah!!!
― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
― 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.
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
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.
― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:49 (five years ago) link
"If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise / Remind me to show you the scars"
!!!???
― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:50 (five years ago) link
that's good
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:51 (five years ago) link
get ready for my hot take
Bob Dylen suxxxxxxx
― vanjie wail (qiqing), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
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!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
RENEGADE PRIESTS
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:03 (five years ago) link
+1000
― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
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
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
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/
― a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
I can’t believe it, I can’t believe I’m alive!!
...But without you, it doesn't seem right
― a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
Now I've moved on to Saved; pounding air piano at my desk
― a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
now *that's* a good record
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:25 (five years ago) link
PRESSIN ON
Ok there’s definitely more than one weak track on Street Legal. I really like “Where Are You Tonight” though (and I’m pretty sure it’s shorter than “Like a Rolling Stone”).
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:30 (five years ago) link
Christ, “No Time to Think” is interminable before the first verse ends.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:45 (five years ago) link
"Is Your Love in Vain" is a classic example of interminable misogynist groaning.
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:47 (five years ago) link
DO YOU UUUNDERSTAAAHHND MAH PAAAAIIINN
All too well, you self-pitying bimbo
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:48 (five years ago) link
I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wingsAnd I’ve never been too impressed
has always reminded me of:
I've been undressed by kingsAnd I've seen some things that a woman ain't supposed to see
― a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:51 (five years ago) link
(I agree this one track is dudsville)
I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings
from Hooters?
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link
😂
― a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:54 (five years ago) link
Street Legal owns the zone
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
We have a pre-emptive Bob Dylan RIP thread When Bob Dylan dies
― ryan, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 23:22 (five years ago) link
Is that like "If Madonna Calls"?
― a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 23:25 (five years ago) link
My microwave macaroni take from the Dylan's Christian Periond thread (where I later noticed that Euler had made the same point about "Changing of the Guard" as symptom of desperation, brain train comin' to Jesus etc)I finally listened to Street Legal: good singing (the choral group is used effectively, for the most part), good music (except for the drums); but lyrics incl. bubblin' toxic rainbow brain stew of homeless prophetic imagery and serenades which start suavely but quickly go so wrong ("Can ya cook and sew, make the flowers grow," he sounds like even he knows this is hopeless as soon as he hears it--and/or he already knew it, but it's still like, "No? Course not, but come 'ere and show me what you can do, then. Beech.") Performance-wise, the most successful (and stylistically, the most unusual here) is "New Pony," which morphs into bizarre bluesoid porn, though not in a good way (to my taste). Overall, sounds like he's really moving toward some desperate change. (Before this album came out, Renaldo and Clara incl Dyl paying much attention as Ginsberg tells him about Jesus and the ladies---think some of this was from the Apocrypha, but some from the Protestant-approved Gospels).Not that all the lyrics are bad, but this set incl. off-putting syndromes.(?)
― dow, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 01:47 (five years ago) link
A follow-up notebook note re S L:Music has he been listening to early-mid 70s Van Morrison’s Caledonia Soul Orch, pre-disco Boz, Robertson’s production of (or other) Neil Diamond? But the scuzziest, deadest, mildewed bottom of the barrel drums--ever. Dunno which mix I heard, came across it on YouTube, soon taken down by Web Sheriff.
― dow, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 01:58 (five years ago) link
Eleanor Friedberger recorded a cool cover of “True Love Tends to Forget.” And Will Oldham covered “Señor.” If you’re into those artists.
― a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze (morrisp), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 02:26 (five years ago) link
This weekend in Hell is making me sweat, y’all
― a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze (morrisp), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 02:30 (five years ago) link
MAKING. ME. SWEAT.
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 02:34 (five years ago) link
Street Legal is probably a bit overrated at this point, but New Pony rules
supposedly there's a screenplay some guy in the 70s wrote for Lily Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts.
haha this sounds so bad
― niels, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 06:30 (five years ago) link