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Bob Dylan
StaedlerMars:
Same as Retrospectre. I know Desire isn't his best album, but it's my favourite. I feel like it's more accessible than any of his others. Sure Hurricane and Joey get a bit long, but I don't actually get tired of them. This probably has to do with the fact that they're stories, and his style is such that you listen to what he's saying.
Have any of you heard the soundtrack from I'm Not There? If you haven't, you really should, it's an excellent compilation of covers of his songs.
greenMonkey:
I just found out this weekend that a friend of mine received one of Bob Dylan's harmonicas as a gift when he was a young boy.
Slick:
Blood On The Tracks is an album I do not listen to often enough. Shelter From the Storm is way up there for me as a song. I think I have disassociated that album from the rest of the work because it is clearly while he's transitioning from the old folk sound. I will listen to it more.
I've only listened to Desire the whole way through once, so I don't mind the violin that much.
Highway 61 Revisited is what I think of as the best album to put on when you need an album to put on. I would put that on for my parents over supper. I would put it on before going out for a show. I would put it on upon bringing a lady home. I would put it on to fix bikes. That first track sounds so sweet so fast I don't know if it could ever sound bad in some context.
The problem is, the rest of the album doesn't rock as wonderfully so if you put it on you need to be sure that you are actually in the mood to listen to the rest of the album, that you are leaving before that's a concern, or you have something else to switch it to.
The Basement Tapes is good but I am just not that big of a fan of The Band, so I stick to Hard Rain over that. It's just got a rock sound and you can feel the energy on each track.
Cire27:
Hurricane is probably my favorite Dylan track, but I just can not sit through the rest of Desire. It just bores the hell out of me.
Retrospectre:
At least it's not as wrong as Joey from later in the album.
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