ah im regretting not voting for "It's All Over Now Baby Blue". the chord change where he dives into "the carpet too is moving under you" is so unexpected it feels like like an emotional sucker punch. the rest of the song is just standard I/IV/V and the sudden unsteadiness never fails to take me back. it's like the brief time when you are going down a set of stairs and miss a step. or when you are in a relationship and someone says something and you get this feeling in your stomach. so beautiful, that fall.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 15 April 2018 02:12 (five years ago) link
and on that line!
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 15 April 2018 02:13 (five years ago) link
the Them version of "Baby Blue" is also classic, the vibraphone lick fits the trippiness of the words. its a good fit for the soul vocals of Van Morrison ("look out the saints are coming through"). Beck, another Dylan acolyte, interpolated Dylan & Them for his "Jackass".
legendary is the "Don't Look Back" take of Dylan playing it to Donovan. this is what it's like when rock stars drunkenly crash each others parties chasing memes/feuds in the 60s. Dylan starts playing "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" at 2:49:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sqAhF6i9H4
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 15 April 2018 02:25 (five years ago) link
that performance is so great. and for all the talk/myth/apocrypha about that night & its context, I always preferred the version of Love Minus Zero that Dylan plays in that hotel room over the version on the record. Again, it's the sublime & resigned chord changes paired with the devotional lyric. Negation and infinity.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 15 April 2018 02:39 (five years ago) link
i want to say also it took me some time but eventually it clicked that Lou Reed is trying to be Dylan on so many VU tracks ("baby be gooood/ do what you shouuuld/ you know it'll be alriiight").
― Made in the Shadow Blaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 April 2018 03:30 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 16 April 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
Donovan's "To Sing for You" is a really nice song. I've written lots about how Donovan is the god of pop-music soundtracks, even more than the Rolling Stones. I'm a big fan, and I was glad he went into the rock'n'roll HOF.
What makes that Pennebaker clip so great, though, is how overmatched he is by Dylan. He knows it (love his expression at 3:55), and Dylan knows it. Dylan really knows it, and he's basking in it (in a way that makes you smile, not hate him).
― clemenza, Monday, 16 April 2018 00:09 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
my love
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 00:03 (five years ago) link
Can't argue with the results. There are at least 4 or 5 songs on here that I wouldn't argue with as a #1 though.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 00:15 (five years ago) link
Voted for the favorite, but could just as easily have voted for “Outlaw Blues” as well as several others.
― Made in the Shadow Blaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 00:36 (five years ago) link
Huh! For whatever reason, LMZ/NL has never really done all that much for me. I like it fine, just surprised to discover it's a consensus favorite against so many heavy-hitters.
Clearly plenty of other people have seen something in the song, even beyond the "everybody covers every Dylan song" effect. A little searching turns up versions by Buck Owens, Leon Russell, the Walker Brothers, Joan Baez, Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Judy Collins, Jackson Browne, the Turtles, Nana Mouskouri, and Ricky Nelson. I thought I'd heard the last one before, but realized belatedly I was thinking of his cover of "She Belongs To Me" - guy was into this album!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWPrtfE-TBI
― explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 16:22 (five years ago) link
yea same
― marcos, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
it's one of my favorite Dylan melodies tbh
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
heh Love Minus Zero feels like coffee shop autopilot to me, one of the least impressive tracks on the album (shrug emoji)
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
Thirteenth Floor Elevators version of "It's All Over Now (Baby Blue)" is one of my all time favorite Dylan covers. That Joyce Carol Oates short story is really good too, that was a story that I got assigned in freshman lit in collage and really liked.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/joyce-carol-oates-on-dylans-its-all-over-now-baby-blue-1432045329
― earlnash, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:22 (five years ago) link
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 06:11 (five years ago) link
has there been a Dylan vs Rage Against the Machine “Maggie’s Farm” poll?
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 06:14 (five years ago) link
Surprised "Mr Tambourine Man" didn't get more votes. Though I voted for LMZ so I'm not complaining.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 07:26 (five years ago) link
that's a great cover by Nelson, Dylan probably appreciated it (iirc he has only nice things to say abt Nelson in Chronicles)
― niels, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 09:51 (five years ago) link
I'd choose She Belongs to Me over LMZ, I think Dylan does the cynical love portrait better than the sincere, also I just love the melody
both rule though
― niels, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 09:53 (five years ago) link
well, maaaybe Dylan's fondness for wordplay amphetamine gets the best of him in the 3rd verse
https://www.brainyquote.com/photos_tr/en/b/bobdylan/154487/bobdylan1-2x.jpg
― niels, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 11:05 (five years ago) link
lol that's what i think of the last verse of mr. tambourine man. but both are great
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
DAMN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofvsowhWPbc
― flappy bird, Saturday, 1 December 2018 05:20 (five years ago) link
quite faithful!
― niels, Saturday, 1 December 2018 10:39 (five years ago) link
yeah I was surprised at that for 1976
― flappy bird, Monday, 3 December 2018 05:41 (five years ago) link