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dmay
Re "Shadows In the Night", I kept thinkin' when I first heard of it, "How fluckin' bad can this album be?" Boy, was I wrong.
This is an album about a man looking back over life, love, and ruminating about what it all means to him. That Dylan took songs from the "great American songbook" and cast them in his own interpretation is marvelous. His band is superb. Think of all of his contemporaries who've done the great American songbook according to the book. Many of their efforts these days sound like bs being tossed across the pasture. Give Dylan credit for finding a new way to look at and present the great American songbook.
Yeah, his voice ain't always great and he misses the notes on a few tunes on "Shadows", but it works in the context of the album. On this album Dylan is one man saying these songs were part of my life and were part of what did and does influence me. The songs and Dylan come across as sad, regretful, wistful, haunting, questioning and so much more. The album puts me in mind of Sinatra's "A Man Alone" album where Sinatra sang songs about a man confronting his history, love and life.
I call "Shadows In the Night" a beautiful piece of work and art. The Stones should dare be so adventurous and inventive on their next album if they ever decide to record again as a band.
My 78-year old father (no rock & roll fan) called me literally screaming about how good it is (someone at work gave him the CD). This only goes to show that Bob still has the ability to delight, surprise, and confound. God bless him.
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masseywinos
I find it very annoying when artists don't update their official sites. Dylan's hasn't been touched since last summer.
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treaclefingers
well apparently the Stones could never write a tune like Mr. Tambourine Man and Dylan could never sing Satisfaction.
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Koschi
You should not try too hard
You will get it when the time is right...
(btw til now it is quite boring for me too)
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jlowe
No mention of the Stones, nor were any of them present as far as I am aware.
Macca sent in a video tribute. Ringo and wife, Olivia Harrison present.
Given their links over the years I find this rather suprising.
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BroomWagon
Some of Dylan's best is the last 4 albums and I know his whole catalog, beter than the electric Blonde on Blonde/Highway 61 ear even if this is some of his most famous music.
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whitem8
Interesting choices Come on
I would say my top of five of his official studio albums are:
Blood on the Tracks
Blonde on Blonde
Time Out of Mind
Oh Mercy
Highway 61 Revisited
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71Tele
Agree, great speech...I had started a thread about this but it had been combined into the "Dylan 2015" thread. I thought it desrved its own thread.
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Come On
As a pure bonus I'll give you my Top 5 list of Bowie albums also:
Station to Station
Loaded
Heroes
Low
Scary Monsters
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Come On
As a pure bonus I'll give you my Top 5 list of Bowie albums also:
Station to Station
Loaded
Heroes
Low
Scary Monsters
?? LOADED is by The Velvet Underground!
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Come On
As a pure bonus I'll give you my Top 5 list of Bowie albums also:
Station to Station
Loaded
Heroes
Low
Scary Monsters
?? LOADED is by The Velvet Underground!
Maybe Come On means "Lodger"...?
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Come On
As a pure bonus I'll give you my Top 5 list of Bowie albums also:
Station to Station
Loaded
Heroes
Low
Scary Monsters
?? LOADED is by The Velvet Underground!
Maybe Come On means "Lodger"...?
Come On Indeed! If CO meant to write LODGER then I am super impressed -- Bowie's most underrated album IMO and definitely in my personal top 5!