Hey, look what I found. I love this series: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may10/articles/classictracks_0510.htm
― Cartesian Dual in the Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 14 March 2015 12:28 (nine years ago) link
I feel bad for "Pledging My Time" getting the goose egg. It's not as flashy lyric-wise as some of the epics on this album, but it's one I always like to listen to.
― o. nate, Monday, 16 March 2015 02:05 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I'm kind of surprised "Temporary Like Achilles" got votes and "Pledging My Time" didn't, I always much preferred the latter, particularly for "I got a poison headache, but I feel alright."
― JoeStork, Monday, 16 March 2015 02:16 (nine years ago) link
the Mojo double LP of ppl covering Blonde on Blonde is pretty good. Got it bc of Jim O'Rourke does "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," which is amazing, but "Stuck Inside of Mobile" by Promised Land Sound is so fucking great, took me by surprise.
― flappy bird, Monday, 27 June 2016 04:49 (seven years ago) link
When I saw "Blue Monday was one of the options just now I thought 'Oh gawd. Is this one of mine?'
― Mark G, Monday, 27 June 2016 06:52 (seven years ago) link
LIEDRIDESIDE
― j., Wednesday, 31 August 2016 17:08 (seven years ago) link
you mightthink he loves you for your money butI KNOW WHAT HE REALLY LOVES YOU FOR
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 1 September 2016 02:33 (seven years ago) link
Well it balances on your head like a mattress balances on a bottle of wi-i-ine
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, 1 September 2016 18:30 (seven years ago) link
You might think he loves you for your money but I know what he really loves you for
― Under the Zing of Stan (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 September 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
Oh, wait somehow thought two up was a different one. Never mind, nothing to see here
― Under the Zing of Stan (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 September 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
You know, I don’t mind him cheatin’ on meBut I sure wish he’d take that off his head!
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 2 September 2016 19:33 (seven years ago) link
OH, HOW can i explain? it's so HARD to get ON
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Friday, 2 September 2016 19:56 (seven years ago) link
amused every time by the petulant light later years have cast on "and madonna, she still has not showed" -- what a disappointing village loft party
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Friday, 2 September 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link
Aw come ON now, i KNO you know about my DEB-yoo-TAUNT
― Treeship, Friday, 2 September 2016 22:31 (seven years ago) link
someday after our civilization is in ruins this will be the only document our successors have to learn how our tongue was spoken
― j., Friday, 2 September 2016 23:05 (seven years ago) link
has anyone else been weirded out by the sad-eyed lady versions from the cutting edge box so that now the original sounds all weird? i keep thinking i must have accidentally switched one of the alts for the original. but really i'm just hearing all dylan's hesitations and extemporizations since they sound just like the ones from the outtakes. as if i had never heard them before now.
― j., Tuesday, 13 September 2016 06:44 (seven years ago) link
no, cause those aren't on my LP version! but I'll certainly check it out when I get home
when I started reading your post I thought, wishfully, the alternative version had a less offensive stereo panning of the drums - always kinda annoyed me, powerful song all the same
also, I thought it was a one take? but maybe they did more takes after that 1st perfect take?
― niels, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 07:13 (seven years ago) link
there are four takes on disc uh 14 of the whole vol. 12 bootleg series, maybe more, i don't have the whole thing
― j., Tuesday, 13 September 2016 07:17 (seven years ago) link
Good album imo.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 April 2020 11:54 (four years ago) link
someday after our civilization is in ruins this will be the only document our successors have to learn how our tongue was spoken― j., Friday, September 2, 2016 7:05 PM (three years ago)
Also Sweet Smell of Success, but point taken.
― clemenza, Monday, 6 April 2020 12:03 (four years ago) link
My daughter's middle name is Johanna, mostly because of this
― cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 6 April 2020 12:06 (four years ago) link
Just because I model my speech patterns after J.J. Hunsecker's doesn't mean the rest of the world has followed suit!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 April 2020 12:09 (four years ago) link
Now be warned, son, I'll have to blitz you.
(No more, I promise--I will not hijack this thread.)
― clemenza, Monday, 6 April 2020 12:13 (four years ago) link
I'm a schoolboy - teach me, teach me.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 April 2020 12:27 (four years ago) link
The last thing I will ever say in this life, on my deathbed, is that the world is wrong, "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" is Blonde on Blonde's greatest song, not its worst, and maybe the wildest, most anarchic Top-40 hit of the 1960s (hit #2), if not ever.
I just don't get it. At all.
― clemenza, Monday, 6 April 2020 12:38 (four years ago) link
― cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 6 April 2020 12:06 (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I can think of an ilxor who's also named after this song
One of those polls where I completely and utterly agree with the winner though
― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Monday, 6 April 2020 12:40 (four years ago) link
For a while, I've thought that for the drums, and the piano, and the organ, this is probably "One of Us Must Know" for me. I don't know, I would have think about whether I'd vote for "Sad-Eyed Lady," though.
― timellison, Monday, 6 April 2020 19:34 (four years ago) link
Does anyone have intel on different versions of the CD (besides what’s in this long Hoffman thread)? I made the mistake of selling my original CD when I bought the remastered version in the 2000s; and lamenting that now, as I think it sounds like sh*t (I really don’t like any of the Dylan remasters that I own). Wondering if I should just buy a random copy of CGK 841 (the OG CD, of which there are apparently various pressings), and not waste any more bandwidth on it; or if there’s a better way to go.
― New Adventures in WiFi (morrisp), Sunday, 25 October 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link
(I also don’t like the mono vinyl repress that I own... do any versions of this album sound good?)
Reaĺly? I'd be interested to hear why.
― Duke, Sunday, 25 October 2020 23:35 (three years ago) link
I have a sundazed mono I’ve never played, think I’ll give it a go tonight. I grew up on some old CD.
― brimstead, Sunday, 25 October 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
I bought 'Blonde on Blonde' on a CD splurge the same time I bought 'Trout Mask Replica', 'Rain Dogs' and that Ryko all in one Mission of Burma Cd like the first weekend I went to IU, so the CD has always been a special one to me. That said, I probably prefer 'Highway 61 Revisited' and 'Blood on the Tracks' in an all-time sense.
"Visions of Johanna" is on the 'heavily buzzed awaiting sleep' all-time playlist. There is something dreamy about it and the loping groove makes it fit that feel.
I had a crazy road trip from Bloomington, IN to Las Vegas that included a wrecked car driving and a Greyhound ride from Hayes, Kansas to Memphis for a couple of days then to Bloomington in the early 90s with 3 buddies where "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" was in the mental soundtrack loop a bunch on the way and we also had a copy of On the Road and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with us. When we crashed, we had X's "We're Desperate" on the CD player. Hipster dorks we were, yes we were. The car was owned by now a Marion County Indiana judge. I don't know anything about actual people that might have inspired "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" but I always took as Dylan slipping a pothead coochy sex joke song across the goal line.
"Obviously 5 Believers" - killer bass line.
"Temporary Like Achilles" - this one is a later obsession as something about the loping blues groove really gets me in the turnaround."Temporary Like Achilles" -
― earlnash, Monday, 26 October 2020 00:55 (three years ago) link
xp The Sundazed mono vinyl is the one I have... It sounds muddy to me, I dunno.
― New Adventures in WiFi (morrisp), Monday, 26 October 2020 01:59 (three years ago) link
(The remastered CD is a cacophony -- harp too shrill, drums too loud... the mix is "bright" but out of balance, unmusical, every track competing for attn.)
― New Adventures in WiFi (morrisp), Monday, 26 October 2020 02:02 (three years ago) link
"Visions of Johanna" is on the 'heavily buzzed awaiting sleep' all-time playlistotm
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 26 October 2020 08:51 (three years ago) link
Progenitor of that riff on Obviously 5 Believers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsJMfYDUNCE
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 26 October 2020 14:49 (three years ago) link
You should be able to find a VG+ 1970 or 1972 repress for around $25, which apparently (at least in some cases) is a repress of a 1968 mix, not the OG 1966 mix. I think mine sounds pretty good though I've never done an A v B comparison with the early 2000s CD remaster.
I love the way BoB sounds (2AM road-trip music otm), but I wouldn't say it is an audiophile album, even though it was recorded in a very good studio.
― the colour out of space (is the place) (PBKR), Monday, 26 October 2020 15:27 (three years ago) link
Thanks. As another point of comparison, the tracks on The Cutting Edge sound good (as the Bootleg Series tend to sound), without all the weird brightening of the remaster.
― New Adventures in WiFi (morrisp), Monday, 26 October 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
I wondered maybe if the ‘harshness’ was somewhat intentional eg “thin mercury sound, metallic and bright gold”
― brimstead, Monday, 26 October 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link