I don't think of "Blowin' In The Wind" as "proprandistic", although yeah he's shaking his head re them cannonballs etc., but "the answer is"--not "we're gonna win, in a righteous peaceful way, that is" or "It's too soon to know", with cautious hope, folkie folk wisdom, like "the answer's out there, just hang in there"---nope, it's not doin' nothin" but blowin' in the wind, like a flag flappin' or any random piece of paper, paper bag, pine pollen, whutever. He marches us along and tips us over the edge like a trash can at the end of the line, over and over. And makes us, well some of us most of the time, makes us like it. Kind of an anti-anthem, or at the very least his own doubts.Much later, one woman's experience of writing, in a way, with Mr. D.:http://www.vulture.com/2016/10/bob-dylan-carole-bayer-sager-book-excerpt.html
― dow, Saturday, 29 October 2016 21:20 (seven years ago) link
Beautifully otm re blowing and that excerpt is outstanding
― niels, Saturday, 29 October 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link
Outstanding indeed. Leafed through that book in the store the other day and read a funny anecdote about her and a shrink when she was breaking up with Burt.
― Funkateers for Fears (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 October 2016 22:04 (seven years ago) link
Rex Murphy typically comes off as Canada's cranky, conservative old uncle, but I mostly* agree with him here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUmDDkIeIq4
*Dylan > Cohen
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, 30 October 2016 14:56 (seven years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22485-blood-on-the-tracks/
Pitchfork reviewing BOTT for some reason
― Duke, Sunday, 30 October 2016 18:36 (seven years ago) link
They're planting stories in the press.
― Funkateers for Fears (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 October 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
i feel like his paintings are the opposite of propaganda though -- these quiet scenes, rendered with these bold, oversaturated colors that collapse space and texture. the most propagandistic things he's done are songs like "blowin in the wind."
Don't tell me we're supposed to take his painting seriously too as well now, how much more overrated can Bob Dylan get?
― Millions of species Faye Dunaway (Tom D.), Sunday, 30 October 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link
Analysing the shit daubings of famous people is pure 1st world degeneracy and should never have happened. A recent example was that laughable Marr program about Winston Churchill's art club style Sunday paintings.
― calzino, Sunday, 30 October 2016 21:40 (seven years ago) link
Dylan apparently really valued his painting lessons from his neighbor down the road, all the more so since the guy didn't care at all about rock and roll celebrity, although he did feel pretty guilty when he abandoned the guy one day to entertain George Harrison at his house.
― From a Vanity 6 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 October 2016 21:51 (seven years ago) link
Bob was painting in Dorfman’s studio on Thanksgiving 1968 when Pattie and George Harrison’s car came up the road toward his property. Bob put down his brushes and asked Dorfman excitedly, ‘Aren’t ya comin‘?’ ‘Well, Bob, I’ve got work to do. You go ahead.’ It seemed to Dorfman, as Bob left, that his friend was irritated by his lack of interest in such a distinguished visitor.Sounes, Howard (2011-05-24). Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan, Grove/Atlantic
Sounes, Howard (2011-05-24). Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan, Grove/Atlantic
― From a Vanity 6 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 October 2016 22:35 (seven years ago) link
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/questions-raised-about-dylan-show-at-gagosian/
remember this?
― Treeship, Sunday, 30 October 2016 23:24 (seven years ago) link
this was an enjoyable read: http://www.villagevoice.com/music/when-bob-dylan-practiced-downstairs-929266
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Thursday, 3 November 2016 23:34 (seven years ago) link
― From a Vanity 6 (James Redd and the Blecchs),
not guilty
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 November 2016 23:40 (seven years ago) link
For leading you astrayOn the road to Mandalay..
― Mark G, Friday, 4 November 2016 00:24 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-lQyRihb3k
― Plastico-Tico no Fubá (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 November 2016 02:21 (seven years ago) link
great read, thanks Karl
― niels, Friday, 4 November 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link
that garland jeffries album is great if you were there were another early graham parker & the rumor or elvis costello record
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 4 November 2016 19:55 (seven years ago) link
Can someone remember which Heylin book is good?
― niels, Saturday, 25 February 2017 14:48 (seven years ago) link
hmm my library only has the 1991 version of 'Behind the Shades' - must've been the one I read last time
iirc it's p definitive - any other recommendations?
wanna do a Dylan podcast, so I'm gonna read up a bit (the Heylin bio, Chronicles, Gray's Encyclopedia for reference, the Scorsese doc)
― niels, Saturday, 25 February 2017 15:30 (seven years ago) link
Took that one out of my own library a while back, perhaps in Revisited. The quotes are excellent, but I skimmed over his own opinions, since I was forewarned.
― Nesta Leaps In (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 25 February 2017 15:44 (seven years ago) link
happy birthday, you overrated genius!
made a playlist for the occasion https://open.spotify.com/user/betamaxdk/playlist/5ObYSdPI0mpDzl7ObTe2cR
― niels, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 08:30 (six years ago) link
a tony award is next bob dylan has written lyrics and music for a musical opening next year― conrad, Friday, 21 October 2016
― conrad, Friday, 21 October 2016
i must say - i wasn't expecting three songs off of infidels
― conrad, Saturday, 29 July 2017 19:55 (six years ago) link
You got 'em, and so much more:http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/inside-bob-dylan-musical-girl-from-the-north-country-w502632?utm_source=rsnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=091317_16
― dow, Thursday, 14 September 2017 01:54 (six years ago) link
I saw it. It's very bad indeed. Don't waste your money.
― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 14 September 2017 02:37 (six years ago) link
Dylan's not overrated. Conor McPherson, however...
― Eazy, Thursday, 14 September 2017 02:39 (six years ago) link
Bob Dylan is overrated, depending on who you're talking to.
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Friday, 15 September 2017 00:58 (six years ago) link
trying to decide if i want to shell out to see bob next month — mavis staples opening definitely makes it more enticing.
― tylerw, Friday, 15 September 2017 14:10 (six years ago) link
didn't know they were still touring together, that's sweet
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 September 2017 15:41 (six years ago) link
also Bob otm
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.BWwHxBlXMM2QEE7z-aSxhwEsEK%26pid%3D15.1&f=1
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 September 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
$2500 for a signed copy of his Nobel prize lecture (the one he couldn't be bothered to deliver in person):
http://bobdylannobel.com/
― heaven parker (anagram), Thursday, 2 November 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link
lol wasn't it plagiarized from sparknotes or whatever too
― j., Thursday, 2 November 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
hadn't seen this one, kinda cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbXcCqSjDPU
― niels, Friday, 22 December 2017 08:44 (six years ago) link
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
― dow, Monday, 25 December 2017 22:21 (six years ago) link
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
― dow, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
Hope "Clothesline Saga" and others from The Basement Tapes are in there, ditto John Wesley Harding.
― dow, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link
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/
― dow, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
I hope the internet is down the day Dylan dies.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
^^^my feelings exactly
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
― 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 Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
the takes are going to be hottt!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
I'm sure we could get a 1,000+ thread going right now if we want to get a jump on things
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
snowtakes
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
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!)
― tylerw, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
feel like ILM is full of hot takes on Street Legal tbh
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
maybe that was the last frontier idk
unless you can cook up a hot take on Froggy Goes a Courtin
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
Everything he did is worthless except tarantula
― coetzee.cx (wins), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
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)
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:33 (five years ago) link
I posted a lil' about "KOL" recently: Defend the very defensible - Knocked Out Loaded
― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
Street Legal is good!
― Duke, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:04 (five years ago) link