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

A hard listen.
Not really a Dylan fan.I get the feeling he is just going through the motions on this concert.
The voice annoys me.The band though are good but the moment he starts singing I lose interest.
I think the opening track Mr Tambourine Man not being in the same league as The Byrds version doesn't help matters at all.
Hopefully get another couple of listens over the weekend.
Not all bad news though.The only time I have heard Dylan live before was in the Last Waltz lp.
Thought he was very good in that so a quick Google search and listened to the Before The Flood Album with the Band as his backing group.
A very good live lp with a mixture of Dylan and the Band songs.
A far better album.
If that was nominated I would have given it a much higher score going by that first listen.
I can see me listening to Before the Flood after this week a lot while the nominated album never again after this weekend.
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
Rip-off sounds pejorative and usually is but I absolutely don't mean it that way at all. All music builds on the music that came before it, and a credibly executed facsimile of another band or even a genre with a twist is completely fine with me. E.g. if someone can't hear Led Zep in Soundgarden or Talking Heads in LCD Soundsystem or Pixies in Nirvana or Minor Threat in Green Day or Gang of Four in Fugazi then that person is missing something because the echoes are meant as an homage and a positive influence, not an attempt to do something unoriginal or steal their work in any way.
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Can we have one page where TH aren't at the centre of the argument!?! :-)
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
Off-topic, for those interested:

Rolling Stone's brand new list of the 50 Greatest Concept Records

www.rollingstone.com

The 50 Greatest Concept Albums of All Time

Best Concept Albums
www.rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com

Note one that appeared on this thread (Drive-By Truckers).

One of these may very well be my next selection . . . :)
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BTS? Lamar? Green Day??

Fuck me, if there ever was a reason to ignore rock journalists these days this list is it.
 
BimboBob said:
BTS? Lamar? Green Day??

Fuck me, if there ever was a reason to ignore rock journalists these days this list is it.
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I think it’s good that they go cross-genre personally. “Concept album” is a rather, errr, conceptual term but in my mind a concept can be either spectacular thematically or really self-indulgent or trite and belabo(u)ring of the obvious — infrequently is the idea middling.
 
mancity2012_eamo said:
First listen into the last few songs now.
Overall impression? Meh!

I’ll start by saying I am by no means a Dylan fan but quite like a considerable body of his work. Trouble is I like other people playing his catalogue better than him, usually.
Even the likes of Jimi Hendrix who hasn’t got a voice either. It’s not just the fact he lifts the songs with his guitar playing, I just genuinely prefer his overall passion and interpretations. Watchtower, obviously. It’s a masterpiece, but other songs too. Rolling Stone being the perfect example.

So back to this album.
It’s a mixed bag for me. I’m enjoying the second album better than the first. I’m enjoying the instrumentation and arrangements of the songs I don’t know more than the ones I do, in general, which says a lot I think.

One of the things I like about live albums generally, is the feel you get from the bands interaction with the crowd. The rapport.
Here we have an hour and three quarters with nothing between Bob and the audience.
There are some very nice individual song interpretations but this for me is a very long time to be listening to Dylan and it gets monotonous without a rapport.

2 more listens to go.
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Tambourine Man by The Byrd's is far more pleasing to the ear.

Sorry Dylan-heads...........
 
bennyboy said:
A hard listen.
Not really a Dylan fan.I get the feeling he is just going through the motions on this concert.
The voice annoys me.The band though are good but the moment he starts singing I lose interest.
I think the opening track Mr Tambourine Man not being in the same league as The Byrds version doesn't help matters at all.
Hopefully get another couple of listens over the weekend.
Not all bad news though.The only time I have heard Dylan live before was in the Last Waltz lp.
Thought he was very good in that so a quick Google search and listened to the Before The Flood Album with the Band as his backing group.
A very good live lp with a mixture of Dylan and the Band songs.
A far better album.
If that was nominated I would have given it a much higher score going by that first listen.
I can see me listening to Before the Flood after this week a lot while the nominated album never again after this weekend.
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Cheers ,I forgot I even had this album in my collection, I’ll give it a listen after ‘The Budokan’
 
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