The Album Review Club - Week #147 - (page 1942) - Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan

threespires said:
I get it's not everyone's cup of tea but some of the dismissals seem a bit trite as whatever else you think of them, they can really groove. It's an authentic groove too; whilst they take lots of influences they are not mimicking. They were white middle class art school kids who found their own way to properly groove and that's not that common imo. You can have the discussion of whether that is simply down to Tina Weymouth or not but I don't think you can deny the groove is a real groove.
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The groove is undoubtedly a real groove mate.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
Just watched the film. Fucking hell. Where has that been all my life?

Simply astounding piece of art/theatre/music/performance.
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Same, and that's why watching before listening had me appreciating it more on my 2nd listen.

Watched it while on the treadmill, so it appears Byrne and I were both working out to the music as he did laps around the stage and sweated through multiple outfits. ;-)
 
As a general rule, I'm not a fan of live albums despite nominating one myself (Jerry Lee Lewis Live at the Star Club). I think it feels to me like I'm hearing other people having a good time rather than feeling like I'm there. However, I really like some of the versions on the album although Once In A Lifetime always feels flat without that background sound it has!

Talking Heads have written some belting songs, but if I'm honest I only really like their Greatest Hits though. They are a band I know are hugely influential and I fully respect them but I just can't really get into them.

As a result, I'll go with a 6 on this. Live albums aren't my cup of tea and they aren't a band I can get into but I can appreciate this is a very good live album full of good songs.
 
Black&White&BlueMoon Town said:
Same, and that's why watching before listening had me appreciating it more on my 2nd listen.

Watched it while on the treadmill, so it appears Byrne and I were both working out to the music as he did laps around the stage and sweated through multiple outfits. ;-)
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My difficulty will be rating it as an album rather than one of (if not the greatest) filmed concerts I have ever seen.
 
So one of my many mistakes in life has been not to watch this filmed concert until last night. If I had watched it 40 years ago when it was first released, I may well count Talking Heads as one of my very favourite artists but sadly I didn’t.Instead I listened to their singles, liked them well enough, but went through life in blissful ignorance of their live genius that is captured in this remarkable film. The energy, joy, musicianship, ‘plot’, and performances simply blew this cynical old crusty’s head off. It’s not easy to list all of the superlatives but I have to pick out David Byrne’s simply extraordinary physical and vocal performance. Whilst I enjoyed the music when I streamed it, it was only when experiencing the full funkadelic groove of the film that it all made complete sense.

Was this the greatest concert film ever made? I can say confidently that it’s the best I have seen by a country mile.

This gives me a bit of a head scratcher though as I enjoyed watching the film so much more than listening to the album (I listened 3 times before watching the film). This is not 'my favourite film' thread though. If it were, I would give the remastered 4k version a ten quite happily.

I think I need to go back and listen to the album a couple of times more before scoring.
 
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