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Buy the cd box set 

The first 4 CDs are great

I have no opinion or knowledge about sound in relation to cd versus record but the music sounds great

Impassioned vocals great bands and although I don’t like the subject matter there is no denying the belief in at at that time in Dylan’s life

Also contains one of his great songs that had never been heard before and a few songs that stand alone as great songs outside the religious prism that the others are in

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New Bob song

Recorded a few years ago

17 “fun” minutes about the murder of JFK

name checks people songs phrases tv shows movies politics from the 60’s or in that vicinity 

lyrics on line

heres the video

 

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Celebrating Australia becoming a socialist state

Who would have thought 

Probably my favourite song of all time

And one of the best vocals I’ve ever heard

Not in a technical sense 

That would be The Beatles or Al Green or Otis Redding r Aretha or Emmylou 

But for me there is something in Dylan’s voice beyond words that draws me into the song that usually only happens in broken hearted singing

Not that That explains it?

It does explain why he got a Nobel Prize got literature and I didn’t though ?

? what I should be drinking

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What another epic, brilliant song from Bob Dylan.

 

I suppose you can use the title to mean whatever you want, but you would sell it short.

 

I don't claim to understand the song in total but I like the imagery of the lyrics and with an opening line like "they're selling postcards of the hanging" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_postcards and http://www.chimesfreedom.com/2016/06/14/theyre-selling-postcards-of-the-hanging-the-real-lynching-in-dylans-desolation-row/ it's a reminder of how America was.

 

So maybe it's a view of America through the years (or maybe you could use it for New York now)

 

Anyway I think it's a classic and love it, family not so much, had it on a compilation tape when we went around Oz and put them all off Bob Dylan forever I think.

 

Anyway lyrics link

https://genius.com/Bob-dylan-desolation-row-lyrics

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Here’s a list

The Best songs that Bob for unknown reasons decided to not put them on a record

Also known (by me) as Bob’s greatest mistakes?

Sign On The Cross from The Complete Basement Tapes has so many great songs

that if they were released it would stand alongside Blonde On Blonde and Highway 61 as the greatest records he made

Mississippi First version on Tell Tale Signs
So much better than what he did release on Love And Theft Great writing and even better vocal and now one of my favourite songs

Making A Liar Out Of Me from Trouble No More a live record of 
Religion in the raw so to speak? 

Great song probably with multiple layers of meaning

Caribbean Wind Trouble No More There are a few versions but take your pick all great

Dynamite live versions of a great song 

Abandoned Love From I think the Desire sessions

Great writing and perfect vocal
As good as anything on Desire as is Golden Loom from that time

Red River Shore from Tell Tale Signs

left off Time out Of Mind probably because he had too many great songs for the record

Born In Time Tell Tale Signs from the Oh Mercy Sessions

An unlistenable version turned up on Under The Red Sky probably his worst record 

This version is perfect both the writing and singing and music 

Great song

How the hell could it not have been released????

Dignity Tell Tale Signs 
Multiple versions all great with slightly different lyrics 

Blind Willie McTell Vol 1 to 3 Bootleg Series from the Infidel sessions

Better than anything on that record by a country mile as good as almost anything he ever wrote

One of his most important songs

Any song on Another Self Portrait is better than the released ones especially If Not For You with a violin 

Any of the born again live versions on Trouble No More are not just better than the released ones but such is the vocal and killer band that It’s like hearing them for the first time and I mean  “hearing” the songs and their message although I remain impervious to conversion ?

I don’t need it?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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6 hours ago, Dilettanteque said:

Another list.  I know they have the capacoity to start feuds.  But always intertesting to hear a sole person's opinion and compare it to your own.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/09/bob-dylans-50-greatest-songs-ranked 

I saw that about 1 o’clock 

Been here since listening to my favourite Dylan songs

I love lists and still look at them

Lot of songs there I don’t think are close to the best

But hard to argue with because they are are all good songs
Big difference been his best songs in a critical sense and favourite songs 

As I get older it gets harder to distinguish between the two

My favourite thing at the moment is i put hundreds of photos off the internet into photos and am now slide showing them

Rock and roll listening and computer 

A match made in heaven?????????

??????????????

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10 minutes ago, keyse1 said:

I saw that about 1 o’clock 

Been here since listening to my favourite Dylan songs

I love lists and still look at them

Lot of songs there I don’t think are close to the best

But hard to argue with because they are are all good songs
Big difference been his best songs in a critical sense and favourite songs 

As I get older it gets harder to distinguish between the two

My favourite thing at the moment is i put hundreds of photos off the internet into photos and am now slide showing them

Rock and roll listening and computer 

A match made in heaven?????????

??????????????

I snuck a camera into Dylan's '86 concerts (obsessed, I saw his 6 Sydney shows and had two front rows in the pre-internet Ticketek lottery).  I will see if i can find teh pics and scan a few to share here.  Not great, but Dylan after all.

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I'm in the minority, but World Gone Wrong is one of my most played Dylan albums. The world weary voice, the song choices, the slight distortion on parts of the guitar recording (intended or not). The whole 'straight to the point' feel. 

 

I hope there is a bootleg series of the sessions of this and Good As I Been to You at some stage (or is there already?). 

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Found my pics of Sydney '86 @keyse1....high quality scanner no longer talks to my computer....printer scanner is pretty crappy but here here are a few . A lot were blurred, including the Stevie Nicks pix.  Didn't have cam with me for the Knopfler walk on

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17 hours ago, Dilettanteque said:

Found my pics of Sydney '86 @keyse1....high quality scanner no longer talks to my computer....printer scanner is pretty crappy but here here are a few . A lot were blurred, including the Stevie Nicks pix.  Didn't have cam with me for the Knopfler walk on

 

Now part of my slideshow

look better than these photos I took

ill mix them up with the other hundreds I have?

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On 12/04/2020 at 12:57 PM, Dilettanteque said:

Found my pics of Sydney '86 @keyse1....high quality scanner no longer talks to my computer....printer scanner is pretty crappy but here here are a few . A lot were blurred, including the Stevie Nicks pix.  Didn't have cam with me for the Knopfler walk on

    

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Great photos. One of my regrets is not going to the Perth gig of this tour. But as an 18yo, an arena show ticket was a big purchase, considering that I knew Petty (my main interest at the time) would only do a few of his own songs and no mates would join me. Redeemed with 4x Dylan shows between 1998 and 2014 and the Heartbreakers in 1992.

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On 12/04/2020 at 8:57 PM, Dilettanteque said:

Found my pics of Sydney '86 @keyse1....high quality scanner no longer talks to my computer....printer scanner is pretty crappy but here here are a few . A lot were blurred, including the Stevie Nicks pix.  Didn't have cam with me for the Knopfler walk on

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I was at this gig. Not a huge fan at the time though I am now. My partner was and still is  a huge fan and was mortified when our mutual friend offered me the ticket rather than her.

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Shelter From The Storm

Very Apt title

Which is what we are all doing I guess 

Not just the virus

Its the mad right wing lunacy that goes with it 

And everything else now

Im more frightened of catching a conspiracy theory than the virus

Imagine being that dumb

One More Cup Of Detergent Before I Go so to speak?

Although I’m attracted to the one about the CI A starting it ?

 

 

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Exciting news.  New Bob Dylan album of original songs, "Rough and Rowdy Ways," is due 19 June 2020.  Possibly 2-CD (needs confirmation). 

 

"Murder Most Foul" and“I Contain Multitudes” are suggested to be on it.  I'm so pleased that it's not another album of cover versions! 

 

The promotional track, "False Prophet", has a strong blues influence, listen to it here: 

 

We can also celebrate that the cover design is not as bad as Triplicate was:

 

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Dylan's official store pre-order has "Rough and Rowdy Ways" as 2LP and 2CD versions.  https://bobdylanstore.com/

 

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Its 10 tracks include the three new songs released this spring: the album’s lead-off track, “I Contain Multitudes,” the nearly 17-minute epic “Murder Most Foul” and “False Prophet.”

 

 

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