Come Anticipate Bryan Ferry's forthcoming Dylan covers album

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Read it here.. The most redundant album of all time? Depends on how deeply he digs into the catalogue. I'd love to hear a transmogrified "Sugar Baby" or "Tryin' To Get To Heaven."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

I like his version of "It's a Hard Rain A-Gonna Fall," which sounds like some weird prototype for "All I Want is You".

― nate p. (natepatrin), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

"It's All Over Now Baby Blue" on Frantic was as good as anything he's done -- nervy, energetic and confident. But then his version of "Don't Think Twice..." was merely respectful -- if he hews towards the former, we'll all be better off.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

We are in agreement on both points.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 03:51 (nineteen years ago)

Don't need to add anything to this, then! ("A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" might be my favorite Dylan cover of all time, just for the sheer overripe weirdness of it.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

when was the last time a major artist did an entire album of dylan covers? not exactly a timely project, but i'm guessing at least a couple of these will be ace.

― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

Bryan Ferry isn't still a major artist, is he?

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, ffs.

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Hoping for something from Infidels, "Sweetheart Like You" might be nice.

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

"It's All Over Now Baby Blue" on Frantic was as good as anything he's done -- nervy, energetic and confident. But then his version of "Don't Think Twice..." was merely respectful -- if he hews towards the former, we'll all be better off.

I thought both of these were mis-steps on that album, but I am kind finicky about what I want from Brian Ferry - "San Simeon" was my favorite on [i]Frantic[/i], and "Cruel," "Goin' Down," and "Goddess of Love" were all great, but why would I want to hear a stylist singing Dylan? Or Leadbelly, for that matter?

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently he's recorded these performances live, so there's hope that the welcome grit of the Frantic sessions will be in evidence here. More harmonica, please!

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

WTF this is just delaying the Roxy album

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Hah - I love 'San Simeon' too!

― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Thirded on "San Simeon," great song. Great album, actually.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Best record of 2007!

― the pinefox (the pinefox), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

That album has held up rather well. I was humming the "One-Way Love" cover just last Saturday.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

My sense was that I enjoyed the idea of "San Simeon" a lot more than the execution. Which is to say that lyrically (drawing from unused "In Every Dream Home..." verses) it was an exciting twist but musically left something to be desired, much like a lot of latter-era Ferry, from which Frantic—though strong—was not entirely exempt.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

drawing from unused "In Every Dream Home..." verses

Is that the back story? I always felt that the song evoked a 'Last Year in Marienbad' type of setting.

― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

I'm guessing that a lot of this will turn out like Robert Palmer's 'I'll Be Your Baby Tonight'.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

Is that the back story?

It is.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ferry's referents have always strenuousy avoided contemporaneity.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

'saved' vs 'psalm'

― dave q (listerine), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" might be my favorite Dylan cover of all time, just for the sheer overripe weirdness of it.)

OTM. It's got this Vegas apocalypse feel to it that is so strange yet brilliant.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 16 November 2006 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't know anything about the "idea" of San Simeon - I just liked the song, the slowness of its development, the non-committal feel of the chorus - what Ferry used to do best was leave the listener hanging, and that's what I got from San Simeon

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 16 November 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's about time he releases an album of originally written songs in his typical style. He hasn't done so since "Mamouna" in 1994 after all. And when he does he is brilliant.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

What's his "typical" style? He's released only three entirely self-written albums in 20 years!

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Those three albums represent his typical style. (So does "Taxi" too, except the material within are covers)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really believe Ferry has a "typical" style, though if those three albums are representative of it, he needs to step out of it more often (and in fact, that's what he has been doing of late, to better result).

I'm open to this being a good album, but the idea of it kinda bugs me--aside from it seeming like a kind of obvious (possibly even desperate) gesture on Ferry's behalf, I just don't think Dylan's songbook at the moment needs more interpretation and canonization. That said, I'll likely be more interested if he unearths some obscurities, some lesser knowns, or transforms some ho-hum Dylan cuts into gems. I really hope it's not an album's worth of "Don't Think Twice"/"Hard Rain"/etc./iconoclastic Dylan songs...so I guess Alfred's original post makes sense to me.

― s w00ds (sw00ds), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Agree with (and then some) all the love for his cover of "Hard Rain," though pretty sure I'm alone in preferring his "Don't Think Twice" to "Baby Blue," neither of which I care for too much (another reason I'm not that hopeful--his really good Dylan covers were done 30 years ago!).

― s w00ds (sw00ds), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Ferry's best solo records are a covers album (These Foolish Things) and a miscellany of covers and originals (The Bride Stripped Bare). He's better off saving the originals for Roxy, who can fuck with them in the best way instead of burying them in 64-track studio limbo.

I just had a splendid vision of Ferry doing "Jokerman" with the Frantic house band.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

one thing's for sure: if he does "Just Like a Woman" I'm boycotting the project entirely.

― s w00ds (sw00ds), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Ferry's best solo records were the three all-original ones, containing the archetypical New Romantic 80s style Roxy Music invented in the first place on their last three albums.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ferry's best solo album was Let's Stick Together, which contained the most satisfying versions of some Roxy Music songs.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

(Boring argument time! I concede.)

― R_S (RSLaRue), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

seventeen years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltygQss-2VM

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 July 2024 14:30 (one year ago)

I like the harmonica.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 July 2024 14:30 (one year ago)

Yes, the harmonica/whistling countermelody is very jaunty. But his voice is gone.

― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 1 August 2024 02:25 (one year ago)

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