It's A Very BOB (Dylan) Christmas?!?

dylan does xmas. crazy ol' coot!

http://www.billboard.com/#/news/bob-dylan-christmas-album-coming-1004000909.story

that should put a stop to fawning over his recent output.

hopefully the cover is something like this
http://images.coveralia.com/audio/n/Neil_Diamond-The_Christmas_Album-Frontal.jpg

lol, not like that like this
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XVW8HfO7L._SS500_.jpg

No I hope it's like the first one.

haha, yeah that would be pretty good too.

that should put a stop to fawning over his recent output.

Are you kidding? They're preparing the doctoral theses over this as we type and titling them things like Saved Again: The Recapitulated Gnostic Belief System of Dylan in Post-Fractal Carol Form

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002S94KM.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

ned, how did you get my book proposal anyway

look on neil's face is...beyond. just beyond.

I just hope it is as good as A Twisted Christmas.

i believe the look on neil's face is the visual equivalent of "cha-ching!"

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palladium/7019/wallofsound/pictures/pz37686.gif

Tha'ts an interesting alternate cover! Not good interesting though.

haha, yeah, i had never seen that before either. Jews and Christmas albums! It's a thing!

I will probably listen the hell out of this thing around xmas

i would also pay for a leonard cohen xmas lp.

I'd pay a shitload of dough for a Tom Waits Christmas album... or is that offtopic, because Waits isn't Jewish?

man troll gas beany jim-jam

http://www.bobdylan.com/sites/www.bobdylan.com/files/imagecache/news/images/news/christmas_cover.jpg

It has an October 13 release date.

"Christmas In The Heart will be the 47th album from Bob Dylan, and follows his worldwide chart-topping Together Through Life, released earlier this year. Songs performed by Dylan on this new album include, “Here Comes Santa Claus,” “Winter Wonderland,” “Little Drummer Boy” and “Must Be Santa"."

Plus from the Billboard story linked in the initial post, we have "I'll Be Home For Christmas" and "O Little Town of Bethlehem".

Was hoping this would be by that annoying fella on grand hustle making a christmas album. not enough hiphop holiday albums imo.

That cover is very much improved if you mentally superimpose some sniper scope crosshairs on it.

I saw the headline and thought you meant Bombs Over Baghdad, and that Pitchfork had a Christmas album.

Give it time.

thought this was gonna be about Outkast

ILX should release the Bob Dylan Xmas album before Bob does.

Bagsy doing 'Just Like A Snowman'

i like the cover!

i like it too! i think this album is going to be kind of good! i can already sort of hear some of the arrangements in my head ...

I hear he's going to appear in panto at the Manchester Free Trade Hall as Widow Twankey.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2465/3863031372_a892fd66c5.jpg

He does that one song about his winter skiing holiday in the Pyrenees, 'Spanish Slalom Incident'

http://digilander.libero.it/twinpeaks3/bob2.jpg

Wonder if he'll do "It's All Right Mom, I'm Only Bleeding, Ho Ho Ho."

You mean "It's Alright Mater"

has the Dylan GPS story already been posted?

wow that GPS thing is great! Dylan will bring you all back home.

"yes I think it can be easily done, just take everything down to Highway 61"

When you're lost in the rain in Juarez, just follow my lead.

Apparently it's a joke:

http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner~y2009m8d29-Bob-Dylans-joke-taken-seriously-by-The-New-York-Times-Washington-Post

Bob Dylan
Christmas In The Heart

1. 1 Here Comes Santa Claus - Album Version
2. 2 Do You Hear What I Hear? - Album Version
3. 3 Winter Wonderland - Album Version
4. 4 Hark The Herald Angels Sing - Album Version
5. 5 I'll Be Home For Christmas - Album Version
6. 6 Little Drummer Boy - Album Version
7. 7 The Christmas Blues - Album Version
8. 8 O' Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) - Album Version
9. 9 Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Album Version
10. 10 Must Be Santa - Album Version
11. 11 Silver Bells - Album Version
12. 12 The First Noel - Album Version
13. 13 Christmas Island - Album Version
14. 14 The Christmas Song - Album Version
15. 15 O' Little Town Of Bethlehem - Album Version

lol

for some reason, Bob singing Hark The Herald Angels Sing is very funny to me

http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Heart-Deluxe-Greeting-Cards/dp/B002MW50KY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1252003360&sr=1-2

Deluxe edition .... with greeting cards!

"The First Noel" is going to be epic.

totally. what is "Christmas Island"?

oh shit
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/22/Christmas_Island_%28album%29.jpg

i think you can see it from Desolation Row

A Jimmy Buffett song, evidently. I don't know it.

xp lol

Bob was hyping Jimmy Buffett as a songwriter in one of the TTL interviews. Probably this is going to be better than a cover of "Cheeseburger in Paradise".

guess Jimmy didn't write it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv9LVqKhmYE

When's a Randy Newman Christmas?

Hanukkah.

Sleigh Away.

yeah, so this leaked.

like others have said, this record sounds like an crinkly old man (possibly Tom Waits) tunelessly barking out Christmas standards with Bing Crosby backing or something

so, in other words I love it!

feel bad for the oldsters who are still sad about dylan going electric because this album is so *showbiz* sounding

This is outstanding. Early thought is that it's the second best Dylan album of the decade after Love and Theft.

"Sledging My Time"
"One More Cup Of Eggnog"
"Snowin' In The Wind"

etc...

He sings in Latin on this; what more could one want?

When's a Randy Newman Christmas?
How awesome would that be? A look at Christmas through an LA atheist's eyes.

How did I miss the Dylan Christmas album name game?

Masters of War on Christmas
Girl From the North Pole

and best of all....
Santa-Claus

Aw, this is kind of sweet:

... all of Bob Dylan's U.S. current and future royalties from sales of Christmas In The Heart will be donated in perpetuity to Feeding America, guaranteeing that more than four million meals will be provided to over 1.4 million people in need in this country during this year's holiday season.

Apparently his international royalties are also going to charity.

this is generous of Bob. I usually get the feeling that he doesn't really care much about the state of the world & whatnot. maybe it has something to do with taxes. I don't know how these things work

also the last two Bob records have had pretty sentimental titles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF27zQsbgX4

lolz Derogatis gives it no starz http://blogs.suntimes.com/derogatis/2009/10/bob_dylan_christmas_in_the_hea.html
he's getting coal for xmas

What a terrible review. Does it succeed on its own terms? I get that this guy doesn't like the record's terms, but that's of no interest to me. It very well may fail at what it sets out to do---I haven't heard it yet. But this guy doesn't seem to have cared enough to find out.

When the star stumbles through "I'll Be Home for Christmas," he sounds like the family's disinherited black sheep embarrassment, delivering the sentiment as a threat rather than a promise. In "Winter Wonderland," when that treacly chorus coos, "We'll have lots of fun with Mr. Snowman," he sounds like a psychotic as he answers, "Until the other kids all knock him down!" And by the time he starts slaughtering the familiar Latin refrain of "Adeste fideles"--"Venite adoremus Dominum" becomes, no kidding, "Benito adore-a-moose domino!"--you don't know whether to wince or guffaw.

loooool definitely picking this up then

gee whiz, i wonder what he's been reading:

Self-Portrait [Columbia, 1970]
Jon Landau wrote to suggest I give this a D, but that's pique. Conceptually, this is a brilliant album which is organized, I think, by two central ideas. First that "self" is most accurately defined (and depicted) in terms of the artifacts--in this case pop tunes and folk songs claimed as personal property and semispontaneous renderings of past creations frozen for posterity on a piece of tape and (perhaps) even a couple of songs one has written oneself--to which one responds. Second, that the people's music is the music people like, Mantovani strings and all. But in order for a concept to work it has to be supported musically--that is, you have to listen. I don't know anyone, even vociferous supporters of this album, who plays more than one side at a time. I don't listen to it at all . The singing is not consistently good, though it has its moments, and the production--for which I blame Bob Johnston, though Dylan has to be listed as a coconspirator--ranges from indifferent to awful. It is possible to use strings and soprano choruses well, but Johnston has never demonstrated the knack. Other points: it's overpriced, the cover art is lousy, and it sounds good on WMCA. C+

Zero stars from DeRogatis = instant ilxor classic.

http://www.zjol.com.cn/pic/0/02/31/84/2318430_828094.jpg

I'm definitely picking this one up. The traditional arrangements have definitely got me sold on this...and there's a feeling that he's having fun with it. Unlike Billy Idol's incredibly creepy Christmas album of a couple of years ago. Expected fun a la Twisted Sister, got Billy doing Pat Boone. YEESH.

'Leopard Skin Saint Nick Hat'

lol @ Girl from the North Pole upthread.

DeRogatis is a car wreck. I love him despite.

Hey: same goes for Dylan, come to think of it...

Bob sounds like a sterno drinking bum fronting the Lawerence Welk orchestra. It sounds pretty great to me, but then again I have a high Bob tolerance.

agreed.

repost from another board, on the bob xmas album thread...anyway i think my friend pretty much in two sentences summarizes what it is to be a bob fan:

xxxxxxxxxx posted this on Oct 12th, 2009 at 01:52:12 pm
The samples made it sound horrid. Will I be able to buy it on vinyl?

When the star stumbles through "I'll Be Home for Christmas," he sounds like the family's disinherited black sheep embarrassment, delivering the sentiment as a threat rather than a promise.

^^^sounds AWESOME

I am putting this on my Hannukah wishlist

My record store friend laughed at me for picking this up. I don't care, for it is awesome.

has anyone said "stuck inside the chimney with the christmas blues again" ?

I'm going to see Dylan in concert this November. It's pretty much a given that he's playing nothing but this, right?

I saw him a few days ago in portland and he didn't play anything from this. Mostly stuff from his recent albums and a handful of classics. I honestly didn't really enjoy the show all that much, but it was one of those "well, better see this guy before he dies" sort of things. And I got free tickets, so.

ah, jim derogatis... there's a thread somewhere on ILM where myself and others just heap abuse after abuse on the poor talentless fuck.

da DeRogatis thread

ugh... I'm guessing it's just fat jokes, right?

Can a mod maybe retitle this thread to say "It's A Very Bob DYLAN Christmas?"

I'm asking here cuz it's not my thread.

i am cool w/that

Not to stir up trouble, but usually when there are two threads on the same subject, isn't one of them locked with a link to the other? I guess maybe it's a bit late for that now.

liking zim's new look, petty ca. full moon fever
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/11/16/premiere-bob-dylans-must-be-santa-video-from-christmas-lp/#

how that is a bonkers video

everytime I see this thread, I think for two seconds that it's about B.O.B. the rapper

He has sported that look with the long, straight hair before. I used to have a photo of him like that, but can't find it -- and searching Google images for dylan photos is pointless

Here's an example:

http://www.sptimes.com/2003/05/22/photos/wk-dylan.jpg

^^^^^^^^^
I was at that show!

that video is incredible - wtf with the glass throwing

the lolz keep on coming: http://streetnewspapers.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/sns-exclusive-bob-dylan-interview/

I don’t listen to rap radio stations and I don’t play rap songs on the jukebox, and I don’t go to rap shows – So no I guess I don’t listen to rap music all that much.

loooool

BF: How do you like to spend the week between Christmas and New Years?

BD: Doing nothing – maybe reflecting on things.

http://caffeine-headache.net/blog3/10370__bob_dylan_l.jpg

BD: Exactly. PRETTY BOY FLOYD. “Pretty Boy grabbed the log chain and the deputy grabbed his gun.” Did you ever notice how Pretty Boy Floyd looks exactly like babe Ruth?

BF: Yeah, I have.

BD: Did you ever think it could be the same guy?

http://www.vh1.com/sitewide/flipbooks/img/artists/bob_dylan/no_direction_home/27.jpg

Some brave network ought to give Bob his own Christmas show. It would be a lovely and hilarious train wreak right up there with Paul Lynde's Halloween special.

apparently before whatever the last film he made was made (the one with john goodman), he was thinking about putting together a comedy show, after sitting around cracking up to old school tv repeats of classic comedy. opportunity missed.