Some of these bootleggers, they make pretty good stuffPlenty of places to hide things here if you wanna hide ’em bad enough
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
haaa
The "holy shit" is really at the find, as a life-long garage saler and trawler of junk bins. That "I've found the mother lode" moment. Clearly this was not a dollar-bin scenario but still, the idea that there is treasure out there not-yet-found is pretty awesome.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
thing this, as the post notes, columbia/sony probably already has masters of all this stuff, from which the stuff on "another self portrait" was selected.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 22:54 (nine years ago) link
yeah and even the stuff he mentions as unreleased is out there in various forms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6r1i-aNWbghttp://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2013/08/15/bob-dylan-tomorrow-is-a-long-time-new-morning-outtake-1970/still I'd be interested to see if anything cool turns up as he goes through it all.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link
but yeah, truly amazing that this stuff was just sitting around!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 23:06 (nine years ago) link
so much lovely guitar playing on this record
even the acoustic guitars go figure
― j., Thursday, 15 March 2018 02:28 (six years ago) link
Dave Marsh calls “Went to See the Gypsy” an “obvious Elvis parable” in those old RS Record Guides (Big Red and Bog Blue); that was the only time I heard that idea mentioned until the liner notes of the Bootleg Series set, where Greil Marcus calls it, “...for reasons I have never grasped the dominant reading of the song.”
I’ll let those krusty rock-krit guys duke it out... though I suppose I fall more on GM’s side. What makes it an “obvious” Elvis parable, the reference to Las Vegas? Did Elvis famously visit Minnesota and Dylan paid him a visit, orSomething?
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Thursday, 15 March 2018 03:22 (six years ago) link
(That was meant to say “Big Blue,” but “Bog Blue” is more appropriate... my copy looks like it was fished out of a bog. And Marsh’s write-ups tend to be Bog Basic. He only gives “Planet Waves” two stars! I really don’t think that guy listened very deeply to most of the albums he wrote up... except maybe in the case of the Who, his personal Godhead.)
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Thursday, 15 March 2018 03:27 (six years ago) link
maybe Bob's happiest record
― niels, Thursday, 15 March 2018 07:52 (six years ago) link
love the vibe of this record, every time i put it on it's like "has this actually become my favorite bob dylan album?" in overview too many of the songs are kinda forgettable, and bob plays piano like he started taking lessons last month, but it's got this great hazy/drunk/loose quality that i really love. "man in me" is an all-timer and i get "day of the locusts" stuck in my head all the time.
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 17 October 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
I love how he plays piano, it's primitive but it works, he has a cool rhythmic momentum, he plays piano like drumslove New Morning to death, even little throwaway lines stick with me so much"How are you? he said to meso I said it back to him"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 October 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link
There’s a life insurance commercial or something in heavy rotation right now that prominently uses “The Man in Me.”
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Thursday, 17 October 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
I love this album.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 October 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
Hmmm I never ever managed to get into that one but then again I havent put it on in 15 years so maybe middle-aged me would warm up to it
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 17 October 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
middle-aged you is waiting at the cabin for young rebellious you to get over your shit and settle into cozy domestic adequacy!!! cmon!
― j., Thursday, 17 October 2019 16:08 (four years ago) link
yeah this is a top tier Bob album imo
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 October 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
― j., Thursday, October 17, 2019
with rainbot trout and kids who call you "Pa."
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 October 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
every time i put it on it's like "has this actually become my favorite bob dylan album?"
blood on the tracks is always #1, but new morning is in a constant epic battle with freewheelin' for that #2 spot.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 17 October 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
great album, JWH through NM is my favorite Dylan era
post-Lebowski "The Man in Me" seems to have become one of his most ubiquitous and familiar tunes, much more so than the NM single "If Not for You"
― Brad C., Thursday, 17 October 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
Oh I didn't know it was in that movie
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Thursday, 17 October 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
yeah it definitely big upped the profile of that song. It's in that stupid beer commercial w Jeff Bridges too
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 October 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
it is pretty great in lebowski
whenever i listen to new morning now, so many of the songs sound like he chose the demo versions — there are some much more fleshed out arrangements on Another Self Portrait. The title track with a big horn section, symphonic Sign On The Window, a rocked out Time Passes Slowly etc. Not necessarily better, just interesting.
― tylerw, Thursday, 17 October 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
tbh I think Lebowski was where I first heard The Man in Me, that album was not widely available in the 90s
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 October 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
def was my way in, was just coming back to post about how its pop-cultural status maybe overshadows what a great song and performance it is. the hoarse la-la-la voice, "TURN INTO SOME MACHINE," the ooooo backing vocals... dylan throwing it all out there.
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 17 October 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
symphonic Sign On The Window
Love this version. Might be my favorite thing on that box.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 17 October 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
LOVE this album. Such cozy, Sunday morning warm-blanket vibes. Also Went to See the Gypsy is one of his best vocal performances.
― J. Sam, Thursday, 17 October 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
that orchestral sign on the window is pretty crazy just for how they had to build it over dylan's totally off-kilter piano ... i'm sure the strings players were a little mystified at the overdub session haha.
― tylerw, Thursday, 17 October 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
My number one Dylan for sure. Planet Waves comes close though!
― Valentijn, Thursday, 17 October 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
Those are two great Dylan albums, you have good taste!
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Thursday, 17 October 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
Planet Waves is a slog
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 October 2019 21:07 (four years ago) link
and the best song ("Nobody 'Cept You") was left off of it!
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 October 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
pw is the greatest, unless u are a stanking bar stool
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Thursday, 17 October 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
planet waves is not a slog outside of “dirge”
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:55 (four years ago) link
“Three Angels” is really something. Just a perfect little song.
― Heez, Thursday, 10 June 2021 02:18 (two years ago) link
Wonderful, lovely record. Unsure if I've said that before here.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 10 June 2021 10:22 (two years ago) link
I just put this on and heard the locusts in "Day of the Locusts" for the first time!Of all Dylan's records this one sounds like he had the most fun doing it. I love the congested casual sound too, just sounds like hitting tape and doing a rough mix on the fly. "Gypsy" is my favourite (some days it's my favourite Dylan song).
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 10 June 2021 10:44 (two years ago) link
the part where he goes "saw the sun come up on that little minnesota tooooooowwn...that liiiitle miiinesooota tooown!" part gets me crunk if i've had a few..home pride!
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, September 17, 2007 12:52 PM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Love this and the short little outro jam right after.
― Vin Jawn (PBKR), Thursday, 10 June 2021 11:51 (two years ago) link
new morning just makes me happy in general
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 June 2021 12:37 (two years ago) link
best bob drinking album actually...
^^still otm
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Thursday, 10 June 2021 12:39 (two years ago) link
In this concrete world full of soulsThe angels play on their horns all dayThe whole earth in progression seems to pass byBut does anyone hear the music they playDoes anyone even try?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 10 June 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link
I love the juxtaposition of “the wildest cat from Montana passes by in flash” followed by “then a lady in bright orange dress”
― Heez, Thursday, 10 June 2021 15:36 (two years ago) link
This album has his best piano playing. I love those runs after singing the chorus of "Day of the Locusts."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, September 17, 2007
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 June 2021 15:37 (two years ago) link
HE DID IT IN LAS VEGAS AND HE CAN DO IT HERE
― J. Sam, Thursday, 10 June 2021 15:59 (two years ago) link
classic obv... I love the sequencing
― brimstead, Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
I even like “when dogs run free”.. the whole album is so warm and welcoming that I’m like “yeah it’s ok go ahead have a goof, bob”
― brimstead, Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:27 (two years ago) link
Great late summer evening album.
― Vin Jawn (PBKR), Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:44 (two years ago) link
so happy just to be alive
― cwkiii, Thursday, 10 June 2021 19:26 (two years ago) link
the second time bob verges into the "la-la-la-la" vocals on "man in me" is so so beautiful.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Friday, 11 June 2021 04:04 (two years ago) link
I love the alternate version of “Time Passes Slowly” on Another Self Portrait, also has great la-la-la’s
― JoeStork, Friday, 11 June 2021 04:08 (two years ago) link
Dylan in the studio recording "The Man In Me":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBWAyvp_mtQ
― birdistheword, Sunday, 13 August 2023 03:17 (eight months ago) link