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humanriff77
Street Legal is fantastic, his most underrated album. You have most of the essential ones but all except a couple in the 80`s are at least interesting, avoid Knocked out loaded and Under a red sky, they are stinkers
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humanriff77
Street Legal is fantastic, his most underrated album. You have most of the essential ones but all except a couple in the 80`s are at least interesting, avoid Knocked out loaded and Under a red sky, they are stinkers
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humanriff77
Street Legal is fantastic, his most underrated album. You have most of the essential ones but all except a couple in the 80`s are at least interesting, avoid Knocked out loaded and Under a red sky, they are stinkers
What's wrong with Under A Red Sky?.
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humanriff77
Street Legal is fantastic, his most underrated album. You have most of the essential ones but all except a couple in the 80`s are at least interesting, avoid Knocked out loaded and Under a red sky, they are stinkers
What's wrong with Under A Red Sky?.
Under The Red Sky is basically a mixture of children's songs and leftovers from Oh Mercy. The album is ill produced (to many musicians in too many sessions etc). Listen to the alternate mixes/versions and you'll see that point.
Street Legal is nothing but a bluff - great sound when you listen to it for the first time(s), but if you listen closer and read the lyrics everything falls apart. I guess Bob Dylan realized this and thus hasn't performed any of the Street Legal songs (except for Señor and a one off performance of We Better Talk This Over) during his never ending tour (1988-2011).
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DandelionPowderman
The title track is awesome. Which ones were the children's songs?
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The title track is awesome. Which ones were the children's songs?
Wiggle, Wiggle, Under The red Sky, 2x2, Cat's In The Well, Handy Dandy - just take a look at the lyrics! It's all children's rhymes and/or nursery rhymes. All these lyrics are so simple and easy to remember and mostly without any deeper sense that they can be easily sung in kindergarten ('There was a little girl and theres was a little boy and they lives in an alley under the red sky…', 'one by one they followed the sun, two by two to their lovers they flew…', 'Handy Dandy, just like sugar and candy…', etc etc)
some people suppose that Bob wrote these songs for this then little daughter
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keefriffhard4life
so i see someone said dylans last 3 albums are great which includes MODERN TIMES. i got rid of it after having it for 2 years. is there something there i missed? i just didn't like it. almost every tune i already knew as another more well known melody. yes i know folk artists borrow a lot and i have no problem with that considering a few of his earlier albums had some melodies i already knew but modern times seemed almost funny is how mainstream the melodies were. at one point i thought i was listening to an allman brothers tune with dylan singing
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keefriffhard4life
so i see someone said dylans last 3 albums are great which includes MODERN TIMES. i got rid of it after having it for 2 years. is there something there i missed? i just didn't like it. almost every tune i already knew as another more well known melody. yes i know folk artists borrow a lot and i have no problem with that considering a few of his earlier albums had some melodies i already knew but modern times seemed almost funny is how mainstream the melodies were. at one point i thought i was listening to an allman brothers tune with dylan singing
I said they were very good, many consider them really great, though, and they have a point. it seems keef that melodies are what you're looking for in folk albums, kinda strange yep, not only melodies are "borrowed" from old blues and folk numbers, but also some lyrics are not original, and this album was criticised for that much.
on the other hand, "Thunder On the Water" is a cool boogie; "Rollin' and Tumblin'", "Someday Baby" and "The Levee's Gonna Break" great blues numbers; "Workingman's Blues #2" is amazing! (I haven't read the lyrics carefully yet, well, hope that's not too socialistic )
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it was recorded years before Muddy Waters, it's almost impossible to track down autorship of "Rollin' and Tumblin'". yeah, it was credited to Dylan, as well as "Someday Baby" (Keith played it many times under the title "Worried Life Blues", Big Maceo Merriweather @#$%& yeah).
but Bob's version have lyrics way different, see [www.bobdylan.com]
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keefriffhard4life
so i see someone said dylans last 3 albums are great which includes MODERN TIMES. i got rid of it after having it for 2 years. is there something there i missed? i just didn't like it. almost every tune i already knew as another more well known melody. yes i know folk artists borrow a lot and i have no problem with that considering a few of his earlier albums had some melodies i already knew but modern times seemed almost funny is how mainstream the melodies were. at one point i thought i was listening to an allman brothers tune with dylan singing
I said they were very good, many consider them really great, though, and they have a point. it seems keef that melodies are what you're looking for in folk albums, kinda strange yep, not only melodies are "borrowed" from old blues and folk numbers, but also some lyrics are not original, and this album was criticised for that much.
on the other hand, "Thunder On the Water" is a cool boogie; "Rollin' and Tumblin'", "Someday Baby" and "The Levee's Gonna Break" great blues numbers; "Workingman's Blues #2" is amazing! (I haven't read the lyrics carefully yet, well, hope that's not too socialistic )