NFT: Blonde on Blonde (Dylan, not porn)

to Blood on the Tracks and Bringing it All Back Home, but a great record nonetheless.

‘I Want You’ is a criminally underrated song.

Dylan songs that seem more pertinent today than they were 30 years ago.

Is it possible to be the voice if multiple generations?

Multiple generations that is

One of several Dylan songs that I could listen to on a loop

In comment 16503053 Maggot Brain said:

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to Blood on the Tracks and Bringing it All Back Home, but a great record nonetheless.

3-way tie, maybe? All great albums.

is another. Poetry.

Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes
My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums
Should I put them by your gate, or sad-eyed lady, should I wait?

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Maybe my favorite from him.

...also love the Jerry Garcia album, Garcia Plays Dylan. He plays Dylan with soul. Give them a listen.

Disc one

"It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" – 8:12
"Tough Mama" – 9:17
"Positively 4th Street" – 10:46
"The Wicked Messenger" – 13:20
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" – 17:15
"Simple Twist Of Fate" – 10:58
"I Shall Be Released" – 7:40

Disc two

"When I Paint My Masterpiece" – 14:00
"She Belongs to Me" – 6:31
"Forever Young" – 9:05
"Tangled Up In Blue" – 11:48
"Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)" – 7:16
"Visions of Johanna" – 9:21
"Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)" – 5:15
"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" – 7:07

"Tangled Up In Blue" later released with entire concert on Garcia Live Volume 19
"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" later released with entire concert on Spring 1990

Bonus Disc – Garcia Plays Dylan Again

"It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" (acoustic) – 5:38
"Tears of Rage" – 8:19
"Going, Going, Gone" – 18:56

years ago. amazing. they each played separately and then played together.

I loved Blonde on Blonde and those songs still stick in my head (love the long pause he uses in the middle of "low....lands"). But I think after that was the John Wesley Harding album and the motorcycle accident, and then he came back with Nashville Skyline with Lay Lady Lay as a big hit but very different from what he had done before, and then everyone liked when he case back with Blood on the Tracks because it was more like the 60's Dylan albums. I think it's a good album but after Freewheelin', Times they are a changin' (long pause between "chang" and "in'", Another Side of, Highway 61, Bringin' it all back Home, and Blonde on Blonde, for me it's not of the same quality.

I started collecting records when I was in college in the early aughts (shoutout to the now defunct Mugsy's Records in Bloomsburg PA). There was a wave of popularity with the apex of the hipster movement, it went niche again for a minute with a lot of stores closing from 2014 through pre-covid, and now it seems to have exploded in popularity.

On one hand it's amazing. I love seeing people consume music in album form. I love holding a well-considered gatefold, it used to he a big part of some releases. Many artists still create their music to be listened to in that way. I'm also glad (and kinda shocked, frankly) to see college towns supporting multiple record stores. That was unheard of.

On the other hand, the surge in popularity has made prices soar. It's also made vinyl a part of genres where it was rare and obscure previously, like modern pop music. And thats great, I'm not gatekeeping. But now you have stories like a local shop owner telling me about Olivia Rodrigo fans crashing the door and knocking racks over on RSD. C'mon now! The Record Store Day line is *sacred*. The person in front of you deserves to shop unbothered by you or anyone else, and they earned that right by showing up before you.

Anyway, psyched more people are buying records. As for Dylan a dozen of his albums have been my favorites depending on my mood and spot in life. Recently I dug into his 80s stuff for the first time really. Oh Mercy is pretty awesome.

In comment 16503091 Pete in VA said:

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One of several Dylan songs that I could listen to on a loop

+1

The first six Dylan albums for $1.99 each in 1972. Still have them.

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Two albums (I had them as cassettes) I loved when they came out - and still do - are Empire Burlesque and Infidels. This is when Dylan was transitioning from his born again phase. There are rockers, soul, gospel and just a bunch of good stories. It seems like no one ever mentions those.
First time I saw Dylan was ‘85 in MSG with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. One of the best shows I’ve been to. Saw Dylan as often as possible since. Most recently at a theater in Springfield, Mass., this past winter.

That’s awesome!
In comment 16503279 BobOnLI said:

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The first six Dylan albums for $1.99 each in 1972. Still have them.

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Probably in my 30s till i digested his catalog

I spent a year listening to nothing but Dylan…my friends and family were not impressed.

I was completely completely obsessed with The Rolling Thunder Revue

Same! Got the album new when I was 13 and soon after read Hurricane Carter’s autobiography and went down that rabbit hole. My favorite cut though is Black Diamond Bay. Love every song on that album.
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