the "Blood on the Tracks" album was his best.
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Oddly enough, I heard "Shelter From the Storm" on the radio this morning and had the exact same thought. |
Posted on 09/25/2005 3:47:51 AM PDT by dennisw
Edited on 09/25/2005 10:11:40 AM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]
To write like Steyn!!!
LOL!
I just bookmarked that site. The best Dylan site is
http://www.expectingrain.com/
Audio from Free Trade Hall 1966. Play effin loud!
For Windows media player and perhaps other programs: http://theband.hiof.no/sounds/boot_samples/like_a_rolling_stone.au
Holy cow! You get it and probably got it before me. Play effin' loud! is all I can say.
That is a great site, the best site for concert reference/performance ect... is Boblinks-
http://my.execpc.com/~billp61/boblink.html
btt
Dylan, Clapton and Van the Man on your homepage. The immortals who endure and still tour. Can't do much better than that unless you want to add Neil Young
the "Blood on the Tracks" album was his best.
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Oddly enough, I heard "Shelter From the Storm" on the radio this morning and had the exact same thought. |
Thanks much and I freep mailed you
Some biographers have said that Dylan renounced is faith...this is not true. Actually, what he said was that he was going to stop the in-your-face attempts to convert others...in fact, the next album that received critical acclaim after his Christian albums, was INFIDELS, and Dylan continued some of the Christian themes, although secular music critics didn't realize it, including the song Ring Them Bells:
Ring Them Bells
Ring them bells St. Peter Where the four winds blow,
Ring them bells with an iron hand So the people will know.
Oh it's rush hour now
On the wheel and the plow
And the sun is going down Upon the sacred cow.
Ring them bells
For the blind and the deaf
Ring them bells
For all of us who are left
Ring them bells
For the chosen few
Who will judge the many
When the game is through
"Bob Dylan = Joan Baez = Martin Scorcese = all the other subverted and, ultimately, wasted talent of my g-g-generation."
You guys are guilty of the same generalizations that the left ingage in....Read the words to "Neighborhood Bully", or to "Slow Train Coming", the attempt, with any credibility at all, to put Dylan in the same bucket with Baez...
Hint: Baez showed up for photo op with Cindy Sheehan...Dylan wrote:
All that foreign oil controlling American soil,
Look around you, it's just bound to make you embarrassed.
Sheiks walkin' around like kings, wearing fancy jewels and nose rings,
Deciding America's future from Amsterdam and to Paris
And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
I wouldn't put Dylan in that company. He is probably the last great american poet, very talented (though not a talented voice), and if you check out the first volume of his memoirs you will see that he isn't nearly as subversive as you suspect.
I don't know about 'renouncing faith', but Dylan shows up at Chabad houses on most Jewish holidays. I am unaware if he's showed up for communion anywhere lately.
Nicely done.
I like Dylan.
I think he is in a class by himself especially his songwriting.
I also like Toby Keith well enough. He's no Hank Williams but he never claimed to be.
As you show up, in record time, weighing in at #3, to tell us all about your opinion. HA!
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