Im a dylan fan, but i never listen to blood on the tracks. I find it consistant, but consistantly average. His 60's output is the best place to start. Highway and Blonde on Blonde are peak for me.
Snaggey, I completely understand why people don’t get Dylan and the most common reason given is his nasally whiney voice. My brother in law said the same as you and I played him a couple of tracks and he could not believe it was Dylan. Over the years he has shown many facets to his music, Poetry, Folk, Rock, Blues, Balladeer, Americana, Rapper, Country, Balladeer, Soul, but the common theme through all of the genres is the lyrics. He writes in a different way to most song writers. I appreciate he is not to everyone’s taste and I could bore people to death with the history of Dylan but all I will say is there is loads of stuff on YouTube try this to begin with It’s worth looking into him because he is much more than just an music man
The Holy Trinity - Bringing it All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde. Three incredible albums
"As the flames rose to her Roman nose, and her Walkman* started to melt". *hearing aid in next verse.
@Snaggey I wont post any more Dylan because I get there is other fantastic music on here and I hate to hog the show but here's a bit of Country from him
Yes it is, absolutely superb. Denzel Washington is one of my favourite actors. More or less 9/10 in everything he does.
You carry on posting what you want mate... See, I've said it previously on here....but this thread has opened my eyes (or ears!) to music I wouldn't normally listen to. Your "positively 4th street" has made me want to delve further into his music....if you hadn't posted that, I would never of thought to do that.
I am loving the music that others are posting on here Snaggey, it's a real lesson to me because i haven't heard a lot of it so it's all fresh and new
As I have said I could bore you to tears with Dylan history including that song. Positively Fourth Street was an anti establishment protest song, but the establishment in this case is the Folk/Protest/Civil Rights movement at that time who tried to enslave Dylan as their spokesperson and turned on him when he wanted to pursue his career in music
I would place John Wesley Harding in there as well but just misses out due to the even more ear piercing than usual harmonica playing.
I have all of his studio albums and just about all of the live and bootleg albums, and I can honestly say that the only one I don't listen to on a regular basis is "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid", even though it includes "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", for some reason I just can't get away with it. John Wesley Harding is a great album by the way.
I have all except his religious period. Bought slow train coming, which i didnt particularly like so it put me off delving further.
