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The Lost Chord 
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 Topic: Your favorite Bob Dylan songs?
Posted: February 04 2007 at 14:36 |
I have just recently gotten into him alot more than usual.
Can anyone reccommend an albu, or some specific songs they LOVE that arent so popular?
I love the big hits, and I know them all mostly ( i think) but throw me some others! 
Thanks!
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Posted: February 04 2007 at 14:41 |
I'm not very familiar with Dylan, but his latest album, Modern Times, is amazing. 
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The Lost Chord
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Posted: February 04 2007 at 14:48 |
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thanks ill check it out! How are the vocals? I watched some videos of him recently and the vocals were, to be all honest, awful...i love his early voice, but does he still have it on recordings?
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Posted: February 04 2007 at 14:48 |
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I agree with Vompatti. A couple of my brother's favorite songs(he is a huge Dylan fan - in fact he's going to a concert in April) are It's All Over Now Baby Blue and Maggie's Farm. An album or two that I'd recommend are Desire and The Freewheelin'. For a great live performance see Rolling Thunder or something like that. I don't know if they are bootlegs, though.
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Posted: February 04 2007 at 14:50 |
 The Lost Chord wrote:
thanks ill check it out! How are the vocals? I watched some videos of him recently and the vocals were, to be all honest, awful...i love his early voice, but does he still have it on recordings? |
His voice is a bit rougher sounding I'd say. More scratchy, that's how I think of it.
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The Lost Chord
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Posted: February 04 2007 at 14:58 |
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thanks, yeah i saw a video of him doing My Back Pages and the comments and everyone were just horrified, maybe it was a bad night, the voice was just so bad!
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Posted: February 04 2007 at 15:58 |
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I like every single Dylan song, as long as it's someone else singing or playing it.
Edited by Kotro - February 04 2007 at 15:58
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Bigger on the inside.
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The Lost Chord
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Posted: February 04 2007 at 16:03 |
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lol, i love the byrds versions i do!
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Posted: February 04 2007 at 17:51 |
My favorites Dylan songs are:
Tangled Up in Blue
Blowin' in the Wind
Rainy Day Women
Dylan chose to sing in the classic folk vocal style popularized by Woody Guthrie: rough and workman like.... making music that anyone can sing along with... remember these were songs of the people.....
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Twenty men crossing a bridge into a village,
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Posted: February 05 2007 at 04:53 |
From my experience with Bob until now, I think his most accomplished album is his 1976 "Desire". Very mature, great melodies and arrangements (the violin and the backing vocals are superb), dense, long and strong. The lyrics and the singing are also great, both beautiful and socially involved (no cheap propaganda, though).
However my favourite Dylan songs are on other albums: "Song to Woody" from the first album is one of my favourite ars poetica ever; there's of course "Like a Rolling Stone", and last but not least, "Lay Lady Lay" from 69's Nashville Skyline is one of my favourite love songs ever.
Good to know you discovered Bob. Great artist he is...
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Posted: February 05 2007 at 07:54 |
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1976's Desire is probably my favorite overall studio album by Dylan - it certainly contains my favorite song by him "Hurricane": Dylan at his most angry.
His live albums can be patchy, but they're well worth hearing if only for the differing versions of famous songs he puts in; I'd particularly recommend the seminal 'Budokan' album, and especially 1982's 'Real Live' (Ian McLachan on Hammond & Mick Taylor on guitar + special appearance by Carlos Santana) - probably the album which best shows him 'rocking out', but also containing an excellent acoustic version of 'North Country Girl'.
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Posted: February 05 2007 at 08:51 |
Jim Garten wrote:
1976's Desire is probably my favorite overall studio album by Dylan - it certainly contains my favorite song by him "Hurricane": Dylan at his most angry.
His live albums can be patchy, but they're well worth hearing if only for the differing versions of famous songs he puts in; I'd particularly recommend the seminal 'Budokan' album, and especially 1982's 'Real Live' (Ian McLachan on Hammond & Mick Taylor on guitar + special appearance by Carlos Santana) - probably the album which best shows him 'rocking out', but also containing an excellent acoustic version of 'North Country Girl'. |
"Hurricane" is my favourite song of him too. In general I am not too fond of Dylan though; there are some excellent lyrics, but the music is rather dull. And if I want the lyrics I can read them.
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Posted: February 05 2007 at 16:33 |
This is a true masterpiece, my personal favourite , try with it ! 
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'Sundown,yellow moon, I replay the past
I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.....
Either I'm too sensitive or else I'm gettin' soft.'
Bob Dylan
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Posted: February 05 2007 at 17:26 |
Freewheelin
Bringing it all Back Home
Highway 61
Blonde on Blonde
John Wesley Harding-(great non electric album. Country folk flavoured)
Blood On The Tracks
Desire (both Blood and Desire contain some of Dylans most straight forward and passionate lyrics to date. Highly recommended)
Those are my favs.
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ringed by ants and musing over man.
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Dragon Phoenix
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Posted: February 06 2007 at 03:32 |
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Hurricane was my choice as well.
An excellent album of Dylan songs translated to the local dialect of
Cologne was relased in the nineties by BAP singer Wolfgang
Niedecken (Leopardefell). Far better to my taste than the original
versions.
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http://artrock2006.blogspot.com
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Chicapah
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Posted: February 06 2007 at 08:46 |
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Listen to "Blood on the Tracks" "Highway 61 Revisited" and the second greatest hits album has a live version of "If tomorrow wasn't such a long time" that will bring you to tears. His voice may be an acquired taste for many but his phrasing is impeccable, especially in his "folk" years. His words on those early albums can still cut right through you.
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Posted: February 07 2007 at 05:35 |
'The Times They Are A Changin' (CBS 1964)
favourite tracks : ‘Spanish Boots Of Spanish Leather’ /’One Too Many Mornings’/ Title Track
‘Blonde On Blonde’ (CBS 1966)
favourite tracks : Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands/ I want You
‘John Wesley Harding’ (CBS 1967)
Favourite track: ‘All Along The Watchtower!!!!!!
‘Nashville Skyline’ (CBS 1967) with J.Cash
Favourite tracks : Lay Lady Lay/ Girl From The Nothern Country
‘Blood On The Tracks’ (CBS 1975)
Favourite tracks ‘Shelter From the Storm’/ Tangled Up IN Blue
‘Desire’ (CBS 1976)
Favourite track ‘ Hurricane’ / ‘Sarah’
‘Oh Mercy’ (CBS 1989)
Favourite Track : Man In The Long Black Coat
'Biograph (Compilation)'
Favourite Tracks 'Percy's song'/'I Shall Be Released
Edited by Alucard - February 07 2007 at 05:43
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Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear
"Hey there! Rotter's Club!
Explain the meaning of this song and share it"
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Posted: February 07 2007 at 12:25 |
I love "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall", and "Lay Lady Lay" is beautiful. Also his version of "Watchtower" is and forever will be my favorite.
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Posted: February 07 2007 at 12:58 |
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I love Knocking on Heavens door. It was great hearing that having only heard the sh*tty Guns n' roses cover before, and an ok Eric Clapton version
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Posted: February 07 2007 at 23:56 |
The Lost Chord wrote:
thanks ill check it out! How are the vocals? I watched some videos of him recently and the vocals were, to be all honest, awful...i love his early voice, but does he still have it on recordings? |
ohh man, but that's the best part about dylan. the worse his voice gets, the better it gets.
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