jimharri
Moderator
Imagine if Dylan could sing!
A nice, succinct review with a dash of humour.Musically, this feels like a nice enough stroll through a pleasant enough yet unremarkable park. Just that there‘s this guy trying to provide a running commentary along the way. Seems like he might have a few snippets of worth to share, however he’s had a few too many swigs of hooch beforehand and thus isn’t such enjoyable company 4/10
I listened to Cry A While a few times to work it out.Talking Heads
Remain in Light
2/10
Beth Orton
Central Reservation
4/10
David Crosby
If Only I Could Remember My Name
7/10
Def Leppard
Euphoria
2/10
Beck
Mellow Gold
2/10
Bad Company
Bad Company
6/10
Bob Dylan
Bringing it all back home
6/10
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Now
6/10
Carly Simon
No secrets
3/10
The Beatles
Help!
6/10
Rush
Permanent Waves
5/10
Leonard Cohen
Songs of love and hate
3/10
Crosby Stills & Nash
Crosby Stills & Nash
7/10
Frank Sinatra
Sings for Only the Lonely
5/10
Talk Talk
Spirit of Eden
5/10
Roxy Music
Country Life
3/10
Joe Jackson
Body and Soul
2/10
Madonna
Erotica
2/10
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes
2/10
Metallica
Metallica (Black?)
6/10
New Score
Bob Dylan ( Father to love-child @BlueHammer85 )
Love and Theft
How do you rank an ageing great?
Album starts, couple of tracks in - I'm not really enjoying this. It's raining, and I'm commuting to work and I've got Bob's strained growls guiding me in to the office.
Why does everyone have him up high on a pedestal (especially once his vocals have decayed further)?*
What is this?
Finally a song that fits his voice - Lonesome Day Blues - it's decent.
Let's carry on - couple more OK and now we have found High Water. I'm feeling him a little more.
Not too much longer to wait until we discover Cry a while - best song on the album for me. Beautifully disguised change of pace that runs throughout (shouldn't really have worked on this song in my head but it does). He is showing me something I've not seen from him - he really does have it in the bag! Dare I say, it was actually quite upbeat.
Outside of the above three there isn't much for me to get excited about but I am quite happy that I have discovered these which gives me hope their is much more for me to discover and enjoy about his extensive back catalogue.
I think we are landing on about a 4 here but I am more open to be venturing more of his back catalogue than I was listening to the first couple of tracks.
* The sheer volume of music that he has created is unbelievable, but I often wonder how much of a filter/ or critique he applies to his writing. As he has gotten older, is he more critical (as his tastes have developed and matured or does he allow stuff to be released because it is still 'better' than a lot of the shite people get paid for producing nowadays?). I think this of other long standing artists as well.
He covers a few styles on this album, I really feel the people around him need to resign him in for the songs that do fit his voice imho............