Favourite song on "BLONDE ON BLONDE" by Bob Dylan

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
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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”