Favourite song on "BLONDE ON BLONDE" by Bob Dylan

You know, I don’t mind him cheatin’ on me
But I sure wish he’d take that off his head!

OH, HOW
can i explain? it's so HARD to get ON

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

Aw come ON now, i KNO you know about my DEB-yoo-TAUNT

someday after our civilization is in ruins this will be the only document our successors have to learn how our tongue was spoken

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.

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?

there are four takes on disc uh 14 of the whole vol. 12 bootleg series, maybe more, i don't have the whole thing

Good album imo.

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.

My daughter's middle name is Johanna, mostly because of this

Just because I model my speech patterns after J.J. Hunsecker's doesn't mean the rest of the world has followed suit!

Now be warned, son, I'll have to blitz you.

(No more, I promise--I will not hijack this thread.)

I'm a schoolboy - teach me, teach me.

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.

My daughter's middle name is Johanna, mostly because of this

― 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

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.

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.

(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.

I have a sundazed mono I’ve never played, think I’ll give it a go tonight. I grew up on some old CD.

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" -

xp The Sundazed mono vinyl is the one I have... It sounds muddy to me, I dunno.

(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.)

"Visions of Johanna" is on the 'heavily buzzed awaiting sleep' all-time playlist
otm

Progenitor of that riff on Obviously 5 Believers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsJMfYDUNCE

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.

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.

I wondered maybe if the ‘harshness’ was somewhat intentional eg “thin mercury sound, metallic and bright gold”