things in dylan lyrics

[sus]

Yeah Hajdu's take is both of them were obsessed with James Dean. Fariña wrote a very hagiographic essay about Dylan as Dean. And the two very much saw each other as kindred souls, sources of mutual aspiration.

 

[sus]

 

[sus]

@kid charlemagne What are your favorite Dylan period / run of albums?

Not the one you'd say at a party to look cool and give a deep cut. What you'd save if everything else was gonna be burned and you could never hear it again

 

[kid charlemagne]

@kid charlemagne What are your favorite Dylan period / run of albums?

Not the one you'd say at a party to look cool and give a deep cut. What you'd save if everything else was gonna be burned and you could never hear it again

whats the constraint here, 2, 3,5 album run, or...?

 

[Benny Bunter]

Sorry, I know you weren't asking me, but there's only one answer to that.

• The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963)
• The Times They Are a-Changin' (1964)
• Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964)
• Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
• Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
• Blonde on Blonde (1966)
• John Wesley Harding (1967)
• Nashville Skyline (1969)

 

[Benny Bunter]

Another Side's a slight dip and your mileage may vary with Nashville I suppose.

 

[sus]

You're right, the length of the run is the key question, it's hard to argue with Benny if a run is that long

Let's say 2-3 albums

 

[sus]

I personally think Freewheelin + Times + Another Side are juvenalia. Grabs for popularity, relevancy, respect. A kid playing adult. Interesting biographically, interesting culturally. But not great works. That's just my very uninformed opinion, open to pushback.

 

[sus]

But part of me thinks, why not Self Portrait, New Morning, Pat Garrett, Planet Waves, Blood on the Tracks.

I think you could even make a case for Desire and Street Legal, or Infidels and Shot of Love as two mini-peak, better than the early albums, but not on the same level as his 65-75 stuff.

 

[Benny Bunter]

I personally think Freewheelin + Times + Another Side are juvenalia. Grabs for popularity, relevancy, respect. A kid playing adult. Interesting biographically, interesting culturally. But not great works. That's just my very uninformed opinion, open to pushback.

Why is it an uninformed opinion? You've listened to them all surely, and it's a valid one.

Times is more of a period piece and Another Side is a dip in quality, probably more dashed off, but Freewheelin' is for all time imo

 

[other_life]

i think

Highway 61 > Back Home > Blonde
=
Street Legal > Blood > Desire

and those are precisely the dylan lp's i have time for

 

[other_life]

John Wesley has some of my all time favorite cuts but the A side should have been an EP/Mini LP and the B side scrapped

 

[kid charlemagne]

You're right, the length of the run is the key question, it's hard to argue with Benny if a run is that long

Let's say 2-3 albums

if we're doing 2-3 then Back home to highway 61 to blonde is undoubtedly the best run, but my personal favorite would be blood to desire to street legal

 

[Benny Bunter]

John Wesley has some of my all time favorite cuts but the A side should have been an EP/Mini LP and the B side scrapped

B Side's a lot weaker it's true but then you'd lose wicked messenger.

 

[kid charlemagne]

The day that they killed him, someone said to me, “Son,
The age of the anti-Christ has just only begun.”

 

[kid charlemagne]

that quote can also be attributed to how some felt when i joined this forum

 

[Benny Bunter]

They shaved her head
She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo

 

[other_life]

A messenger arrived! With a black nightingale

 

[kid charlemagne]

It felt outa place, my foot in his face
But he should-a stayed where his money was green

 

[Benny Bunter]

RENEGADE PRIESTS AND TREACHEROUS YOUNG WITCHES