Bob Dylan - My Rough and Rowdy Ways /2020) Anticipation and Discussion Thread

yeah i saw the LP on amazon at some point. i buy new dylan albums on CD, though, I'm a weirdo.

I could see this new one posting pretty huge vinyl sales

lol this album

The usual latter-day admixture of brazen and brain-dead.

yeah i saw the LP on amazon at some point. i buy new dylan albums on CD, though, I'm a weirdo.

same

pre-ordered the CD via Amoeba last night!

i would buy the vinyl but i can't get over the godfuckingawfulness of the cover

i mean, the inner gatefold image is pretty crap too but it's 10000x better

yeah i saw the LP on amazon at some point. i buy new dylan albums on CD, though, I'm a weirdo.

― tylerw, Wednesday, June 17, 2020 12:07 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I too buy Dylan albums on CD, but less because I'm a weirdo and more because my Tempest LP was, "Hm, lots of sibilance on only this one track." "The pitch is wavering...yep, it's off-center." "Oh, cool, more sibilance, but only on one part of this other track." "Why is it crackly as fuck near the end of one track in the middle of the side?" etc. etc.

i mean, CDs are GOOD. also, the new Dylan on CD is like $20 cheaper.

Yeah, I'll probably spring for the CD. If it's cut from a PCM digital master and they're more or less using the same amount of compression, it makes more sense to me to buy a CD for the fraction of the price.

So excited! I ordered the LP but it doesn't ship until July--very strange. I want to have a listening party at my apartment this Friday night, but with the pandemic I guess it will be a listening party of one, which is probably appropriate for this album. I will channel Dylan's loner aesthetic.

ordered a vinyl copy too, but for my future brother in law.

where can i stream this? i know you critic guys have a hookup

Guys, I got a pretty big dilemma, normally with any new Bob Dylan release (which only come out before Xmas or Father's Day or my dad's birthday) I purchase a copy to give to my father, who rips it to his computer and then returns to me the now worthless to him physical cds.

(Sidenote: he has not respect for the physical media & packaging I swear he let the dog tear into a couple of those sleeved boxes)

Normally I would purchase this album no prob from him BUT, he's pretty on top of this new album, he texted me about the advance songs and I think he knows/understands streaming now and obv between being retired & COVID he has nothing but time on his hands, so do I get a copy for him for Father's Day or do I just get one for myself and tell him to "find on the 'net"?

buy him Neil's Homegrown. that's what I did for my pops.

I'm more excited for this (and dug the advance tracks more) than my own dad.

So we all know that the title of the album doesn't contain the word "My", right?

stadows tho

I'm looking forward to this more than Homegrown. I think I'm a bit Neil-weary. That last Crazy Horse album did it.

I like false prophet a lot, really enjoy the guitar playing

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/bob-dylan-rough-and-rowdy-ways/

good review

Yeah - love Sodomsky. Terrific closing sentences.

crazy serendipity getting this album and the new bridgers in the same week and they're both bananas good

good interview:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/arts/music/bob-dylan-rough-and-rowdy-ways.html

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, June 12, 2020 5:30 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Love how he refers to Indiana Jones as 'Indy'

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Qca6cGsGL._SX355_.jpg

lol

https://a10.gaanacdn.com/gn_img/albums/Oxd3xzPbgV/xd3xzDEDbg/size_xxl.webp

A slightly better version ^^

Where did the art originate?

had a great time listening to this this morning. 'multitudes' and 'murder' are probably still the best tracks, but 'key west' and 'rubicon' are on that level too

"i've made up my mind to give myself to you" is amazing

I'm enjoying this this morning, too. My daughter walked into the room and told me it sounded like the songs from "Phineas and Ferb" (who I'm sure had at least one fake Dylan song).

Key West (Philosopher Pirate) is my favourite at the moment (and the best use of parentheses ever).

"you won't amount to much,"
the people all said
because i didn't play guitar
behind my head

"key west" is otherworldly

yeah forget the lyrics and listen to that accordion

i mean the lyrics are good too

Some of them.

I find the album in toto inessential, but I'm treating it like Apollo, Gone to Earth, and Donuts: an album to play while shit gets done around the apartment or at night while reading or writing.

there was a larb essay a few years ago about the idea of "late work" applied specifically to david lynch and twin peaks: the return but also with some passing references to beethoven and i've been kind of extending it in my mind toward dylan's lyrics

i find the album to be about as good as love and theft

from two listens, tbf

I've found the closest analogue to be late works by painters, actually: Renoir, Matisse.

Never say Dylan doesn't attract highbrow defenses lol

but also this is one of my favorite bands he's ever had xp

it also reminds me a lot of love + theft (the most recent dylan album i really loved)

i’ve cleared my own throat about 10 times listening to this record

yet you still won't catch up with Dylan.

Making my way thru it now. After the two (already released) opening tracks, "My Own Version of You" got me a little concerned... but the song after that is great!

“Late style” is a lens through which I view so many of the things I love, I should actually read the book one of these days. It’s very possible said meant something completely different by the term than I think lol. But it seemed like such an immediately graspable and useful concept, easily in my top 3 essays I’ve never read

(I have not heard this album but I have been caning vier letzte lieber)

Edward Said wrote about late styles too.

The LARB essay: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/david-lynchs-late-style/

This is for sure a looser, more casual-feeling album than the formidable Tempest (my favorite of his '90s/'00s).

That’s the book I meant Alfred, sorry I should have capitalised Said