new bob dlylan album

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I listened to some of it in the shop & it didn't sound very good.

― duane, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

so i spelt his name wrong on purpose.

― duane, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You're gonna make him mad as hell!

― Nick, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes. LP of the year, till Lloyd Cole brings out new material (thanks, Martian).

― the pinefox, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Decent. Not the Second Coming of Dylan it's been made out to be, but has a certain amount of very good stuff, and one song ("Lonely Day Blues") I like a hell of a lot.

In general, I find post-'69 Dylan way way way overrated as a songwriter, but underrated as a blues songwriter, and this is his most blues album in a long time.

― Douglas, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I haven't heard it yet, but maybe anything would be anticlimactic after "Time Out of Mind" - not just because that record was good (which it was) but rather because it had an air of finality about it.

― fritz, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it has to be good, rolling stone gave it 5 stars man!!!

― ernest, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

From the RS review:

Cracked and ruined love affairs abound on Love and Theft, finding a mirror in the cities and countrysides Dylan wanders through. "Your days are numbered/So are mine," he sings in the ravaged love travelogue "Mississippi." "I need something strong to distract my mind/I'm going to look at you till my eyes go blind."

--this is what I was talking about in the thread re Ned's piece on lyrics. RS goes on and on about these words that they've pulled out of context and it means less than nothing.

― Mark, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I dont get it Mark - why does that mean less than writing something about the guitar playing?

― Tom, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love it. The stuff that sounds lesser (the ballads mostly) gain a lot of presence with repeat plays; the stuff that sounds great early (rockers like tracks 3 and 5) just get better and better. The band cooks--every song has a riff that grabs and holds and doesn't let go, and considering that each one plays throughout that says a lot. The singing is terrific--if Poptasticness is all you care about, your loss (as usual). He sounds old and sharp and wry; it's some of the best singing he's ever done. I've played the album a lot, but even after two months of exposure I still don't know what half the words are because I'm so busy listening to the band and the singing. (And the funniest thing on the record isn't even a verbal joke, though there's plenty of those--it's the organ on "Bye and Bye," which still cracks me up.) In short, his funniest album since Bringing It All Back Home and his funnest album since Nashville Skyline.

― M. Matos, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tom -- I've just never seen the point of pulling a line or two from a verse and acting like it represents the song (or album) as a whole. I mean, I would never say to somebody, "The new Dylan record sounds interesting. I read somewhere that he says, 'Your days are numbered, so are mine.' That sounds the sort of thing I could go for." I don't feel like it increases my understanding or provides perspective, to see those two lines singled out like that.

It's a personal bias, I guess, because a description of the sound means more to me.

― Mark, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dylan's 60's vocals (the petulant phrasing, the raspiness, etc.) are about 90% of why I like those records. Now he just sounds like he's croaking; I can't get into any of it at all.

― Kris, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oppisote of the cohen record

― anthony, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two months pass...

Thanks, David.

Tom E - there you go.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Key thing about this record - NO HARMONICA. Was that true of Time Out Of Mind? (A record I've hardly ever wanted to listen to).

― Tom, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oddly, yes. But I LIKE harmonica and I LIKE TooM.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like harmonica too - in fact before this record I'd have said it was one of the absolute key things that makes me like Dylan.

Reviewer's challenge - write about this album without mentioning any other Dylan album.

― Tom, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Good challenge BUT surely not that hard?

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wel thats what I'd think but a cursory check of online review of L&T suggests most reviewers feel compelled to mention that its not as good as, say, Highway 61 Revisited. Which is true but the reverse is also true - if I was looking to get what I get out of this album (not sure what that is yet) and put on Highway 61 I'd end up quite annoyed.

― Tom, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

His band sounds like Elvis's band in Vegas.

― Curt, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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new bob dlylan album - any good?