If he'd only made Subterranean Homesick Blues, I'd still consider him a genius.
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"The man is Quantum" - Pete Townshend.
I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger.
Sheryl Crow
If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
Bob Dylan
Sheryl Crow
If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
Bob Dylan
We probably wouldn't get along.
Surely Brophs is being facetious?
I assumed the words "public audition stage of the X factor" would be a giveaway.
Yes, I thought it was pretty obvious. But then again, you do have guys coming in here declaring their unequivocal love for Chris Brown and everything he does, so you just never know.
Aside from The Beatles, the only thing comparable I can think of is Neil Young with Tonight's the Night, recorded a few months before On the Beach and eventually released just 5 months before Zuma.
Growing up, our arbitrary measure of choice for true musical greatness was three consecutive 5 star albums, something Young and Dylan comfortably conform to.
Found this diagram on 4chan, some of it is pretty spot on.
Great songwriter, but can't stand his nasal whining voice! 
Watch this.
Not as a go at Dylan, we all know his innovation is vastly overstated, but because it's interesting. Don't Think Twice surprised me.
Not as a go at Dylan, we all know his innovation is vastly overstated, but because it's interesting. Don't Think Twice surprised me.
Uh, yeah, it's folk music.
He's on much firmer ground with Jobs than Dylan.
Some 1966 interviews I hadn't heard before.
My precise thought after watching the video.
Bob Dylan isn't really a musician, he's a poet. He just happens to sing his poems and release them on albums instead of writing them down and publishing books.
Exactly.....
New Dylan
Folk Music is great!
It's my favourite genre as well. What we mean is that the TED speaker's whole point of Dylan ripping folk tunes is pointless because that's pretty much the whole foundation of folk music.
Stop being so ridiculously defensive, you twats. Did you know where he got those songs from? If so, fine. If not, it's interesting to see. Everyone with a brain knows that most music is largely stolen (or borrowed). Some of my favourite songs are folks songs done by later artists. It's just an interesting video, stop acting like teenage fanboys.
Everyone already knows the principles and doesn't give a flying feck about the specifics 'It's folk music'. The Jobs bit, which was real thievery and misrepresentation was much more interesting.
Not being defensive at all. This is the Dylan thread after all and I find the argument of his early folk work being plagiarisms silly because people who make the claim don't get what the folk music scene of that time was about. By those standards, Woodie Guthrie and the other early folk greats all stole too.
Dylan in his own words -
'“Well you have to understand that I’m not a melodist. My songs are either based on old Protestant hymns or Carter Family songs or variations of the blues form. What happens is, I’ll take a song and simply start playing it in my head. That’s the way I meditate". “I wrote ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ in 10 minutes, just put words to an old spiritual, probably something I learned from Carter Family records. That’s the folk music tradition – you use what has been handed down. ‘The Times They Are A-Changing’ is probably from an old Scottish folk Song.”...."I'll be playing Bob Nolan's 'Tumbling Tumbleweeds,' for instance, in my head constantly -- while I'm driving a car or talking to a person or sitting around or whatever. People will think they are talking to me and I'm talking back, but I'm not. I'm listening to the song in my head. At a certain point, some of the words will change and I'll start writing a song.".......Bob Dylan"
Just had a quick read through the read and my god I've read some bollocks in those few minutes, he's not a musician he's a poet, he can't sing 
His voice is very unorthodox, but I love it, totally originally and it just works, there have been a lot of great covers of his songs but for me nothing beats Dylan singing his own songs in his own style.
He's a genius and for me the greatest song writer in rock history.
Pretty much everything from 'Freewheelin Bob Dylan in 63 to Blood on the tracks in 75 is a masterpiece. As far as later albums go Time out of Mind is fantastic, and 'Not Dark Yet' is one of my favourite songs ever.
My fav's though are Bringing it all back home and Blonde on Blonde.
He's poor live now, no question, but I won't let that distract me from the fact he was once fantastic, especially in the 60's where he had audiences spellbound with nothing but his guitar and a microphone.
I'd love to have seen him in 66 when he did half acoustic and half electric, the version of 'Visions of Johanna' he delivered during that tour was sublime.
His voice is very unorthodox, but I love it, totally originally and it just works, there have been a lot of great covers of his songs but for me nothing beats Dylan singing his own songs in his own style.
He's a genius and for me the greatest song writer in rock history.
Pretty much everything from 'Freewheelin Bob Dylan in 63 to Blood on the tracks in 75 is a masterpiece. As far as later albums go Time out of Mind is fantastic, and 'Not Dark Yet' is one of my favourite songs ever.
My fav's though are Bringing it all back home and Blonde on Blonde.
He's poor live now, no question, but I won't let that distract me from the fact he was once fantastic, especially in the 60's where he had audiences spellbound with nothing but his guitar and a microphone.
I'd love to have seen him in 66 when he did half acoustic and half electric, the version of 'Visions of Johanna' he delivered during that tour was sublime.
New album got leaked, it's surprisingly good even though his voice is completely gone.
It's been for a while now. On that issue I remember I read in his memoirs that he figured out what to do with his voice to be able to go on endless tours. I still haven't figured out what he meant, but I have theory he sings like he does to not wreck his voice totally. I'm listening to his radio show now though, and he sounds pretty hoarse there as well...
The new album is very good, there's only one of the songs I don't like. Duquesne Whistle is actually brilliant, the video as well.
Heard the new album a couple of times and the overwhelming critical acclaim is not wrong ... it really is a great album. As good as anything he has put out in the recent past.
Bump. I wanna know what people think of 'Hurricane'. I'm starting to turn into a bit of a Dylan fan but I don't dig anything save for the music in this song. Factually inaccurate.. rather clunky in terms of its commitment to ballad meter for an "all time great ballad", perhaps a bit grandiose in parts. Incredible song musically though. Vocal delivery jars so badly in parts because of the lyrics being forced into a rigid meter.
Definitely one of his more overrated songs. Too long and lyrically clumsy, something you'd rarely say about Dylan.
Hurricane is great.
Lyrically dodgy, musically catchy.
I occasionally enjoy singing 'Don't forget that you are whiiiiiiite' at people.
What a thundering wanker Steve Jobs was.
The Basement Tapes: Complete - Simply extraordinary.
Most prolific artist ever at his peak? I mean his output during those sessions alone is simply mind blowing, and that's discounting that 16 month Electric Period and his early folk beginnings.
Most prolific artist ever at his peak? I mean his output during those sessions alone is simply mind blowing, and that's discounting that 16 month Electric Period and his early folk beginnings.
yup will invest in it.
have the bootleg version. but yeah the Basement Tapes are amazing...
have the bootleg version. but yeah the Basement Tapes are amazing...
Discovering new Dylan gems is always nice.
Those alternate versions (Tangled Up in Blue, If You See Her Say Hello, Idiot Wind, You're a Big Girl Now, Lily, Rosemary & The Jack of Hearts) are so better much better than the album versions imo.
Those alternate versions (Tangled Up in Blue, If You See Her Say Hello, Idiot Wind, You're a Big Girl Now, Lily, Rosemary & The Jack of Hearts) are so better much better than the album versions imo.
http://www.bobdylan.com/us/news/bob-dylan-cutting-edge-1965-1966-bootleg-series-vol-12
Right you lot.
This is worth getting...I'm getting the 6 cd version...
The 18 cd one....errr
Right you lot.
This is worth getting...I'm getting the 6 cd version...
The 18 cd one....errr
2 is still the best one. "Another Side of" era acoustic goodness.
CDs .
I still need to read Chronicles.
.I still need to read Chronicles.
every word the man has recorded is worth listening.
I love the accoustic era...but when he turned electric....it was just as good.