Onholiday(somemightsay)
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Great write up as usual BH.........
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All Time Top 1100 Albums (Aerosmith - Big Ones) P265
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Great write up as usual BH.........
RobMCFC
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One I can score without needing a further listen.
Good album - love "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and "Maggies Farm" especially.
For some reason, I like the stuff that came later better (Blood on the Tracks, Desire, Oh Mercy). Actually it's because I like the production and instruments better on those albums.
8/10
The main thing is that whilst this is not one of my favourite Dylan albums, it's an album of proper songs and music performed by a "real" artist (i.e. no rap, or shouty old rubbish, or whiny British indie cobblers).
Good album - love "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and "Maggies Farm" especially.
For some reason, I like the stuff that came later better (Blood on the Tracks, Desire, Oh Mercy). Actually it's because I like the production and instruments better on those albums.
8/10
The main thing is that whilst this is not one of my favourite Dylan albums, it's an album of proper songs and music performed by a "real" artist (i.e. no rap, or shouty old rubbish, or whiny British indie cobblers).
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It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) is one of my all time favourite Dylan songs and that would get a 9 but I'll give the album a listen before a final score.
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It's okay I suppose. Find him a bit boring sometimes but then he'll pop up with a classic. "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" is one of my favourite 60s songs ... when Them did it.
7 / 10
7 / 10
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Bringing It All Back Home (known as Subterranean Homesick Blues in some European countries) is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. It was released on March 22, 1965, by Columbia Records.
The first half of the album features electric songs, followed by a mostly acoustic songs in the second half. The album abandons the protest music of Dylan's previous records in favor of more surreal, complex lyrics. On side one of the original LP, Dylan is backed by an electric rock and roll band—a move that further alienated him from some of his former peers in the folk music community.
The album reached No. 6 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart, the first of Dylan's LPs to break into the US top 10. It also topped the UK charts later that spring. The first track, "Subterranean Homesick Blues", became Dylan's first single to chart in the US, peaking at No. 39. Bringing It All Back Home has been described as one of the greatest albums of all time by multiple publications.
1. Subterranean Homesick Blues
2. She Belongs To Me
3. Maggie's Farm
4. Love Minus Zero / No Limit
5. Outlaw Blues
6. On The Road Again
7. Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
8. Mr Tambourine Man
9. Gates Of Eden
10. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
11. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Here we go! Review No 7 - And... it is one of my favourite albums of all time. I've always put Blonde On Blonde as my favourite Dylan album but having heard this again after many years - i forgot just how good it is.
Dylan is at his creative best and he is transitioning from a folk singer to a rock star - the first half of this album is filled with his electric side, a huge shift from where he began and one that was not welcomed initially by his fans - the second half is stripped back acoustic Dylan but all songs he is at his lyrical best and makes it all sound so effortless and easy . So many classics on here to choose from - 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' 'Mr Tambourine Man' 'She Belongs To Me' and the final track which tipped this from a 9 to 10 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue' one of my favourites songs of all time.
The empty handed painter from your streets
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets
The sky too is fallin' in over you
And it's all over now, baby blue
Leave your stepping stones behind
There's something that calls for you
Forget the debt you've left
That will not follow you
Your lover who has just walked through the door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor
The carpet too is foldin' over you
And it's all over now baby blue
Quite simply 'Bringing It All Back Home' is a masterpiece.
anyhow, give this a go and score out of 10 by the end of next week.
This placed 189 out of the Top 1000
10/10
Have a good weekend Blues
How can you give an album 10/10,when the artist can't actually sing?
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How can you give an album 10/10,when the artist can't actually sing?
Music is subjective Mr Jim.
His voice doesn’t bother me, obviously. think it works perfect with his style of lyrics and music.
that aside, I’d say around this period was his best vocal wise, as per that live performance.
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9/10 for me only because I know the albums from the period that come after are even better. She belongs to me the highlight.
RobMCFC
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Doesn't seem to stop people raving about David Bowie.How can you give an album 10/10,when the artist can't actually sing?
FogBlueInSanFran
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Look, I don't have a problem with Dylan's voice/singing -- I like (love) Sleater-Kinney FFS, and if you don't like Dylan's voice you would run screaming from Corin Tucker's. I have a problem with the MUSIC on side one (the "electric" side). Hard to believe this was considered a betrayal of folk ideals at the time -- it's actually a betrayal of group dynamics. These are poems set to music, but not really -- they're poems set to chords and drumbeats and random harp blowing and ragged bluesy yammering. It's mushy, and it's boring. Now these might be wonderful poems to those to whom they speak -- which isn't me -- but even I can recognize creative genius when I read it. But are there any hooks? No. Is there any innovation whatsoever to the backbeat? No. Do the songs all sound the same? No, but then again, yes.
Onto the folk side . . . and I'm just going to say it: "Mr. Tambourine Man" was done MUCH better by the Byrds (sorry, purists). But after that, this is pretty great stuff -- especially "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" which can't be described any way but moving and beautiful.
How do you grade this then? It's like an antique shop -- in more ways than one, since all this shit is older than I am -- but there are some remarkable treasures and some real junk. One the one hand this is ambient music -- a record to put on in the background while I do emails or wash the pots. On another hand -- this is folk hip-hop. Which is something. But not really my thing.
I'd say "Subterranean Homesick Blues" is 8/10, the rest of the electric stuff 3/10, and the acoustic stuff 7/10. So call it 6/10 leaning to 7 but not leaning hard enough.
Onto the folk side . . . and I'm just going to say it: "Mr. Tambourine Man" was done MUCH better by the Byrds (sorry, purists). But after that, this is pretty great stuff -- especially "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" which can't be described any way but moving and beautiful.
How do you grade this then? It's like an antique shop -- in more ways than one, since all this shit is older than I am -- but there are some remarkable treasures and some real junk. One the one hand this is ambient music -- a record to put on in the background while I do emails or wash the pots. On another hand -- this is folk hip-hop. Which is something. But not really my thing.
I'd say "Subterranean Homesick Blues" is 8/10, the rest of the electric stuff 3/10, and the acoustic stuff 7/10. So call it 6/10 leaning to 7 but not leaning hard enough.
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