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Kory wrote:Is it weird to only really like the first four albums? I find a few things to like later, but not nearly as much as I get off on the early years.
I think a lot of folks just like a stretch of his work. I went to college with folks who liked him mostly before he went electric.
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Kory wrote:Is it weird to only really like the first four albums? I find a few things to like later, but not nearly as much as I get off on the early years.
Not really. With massive catalogue musicians you usually have people picking only sections of it.
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Kory wrote:Is it weird to only really like the first four albums? I find a few things to like later, but not nearly as much as I get off on the early years.
Not really. With massive catalogue musicians you usually have people picking only sections of it.
Yeah, as I say, I like bits of Bringing it All Back Home and Highway 61 and stuff, but I think his main power lies in the acoustic stuff.
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Kory wrote:
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Kory wrote:Is it weird to only really like the first four albums? I find a few things to like later, but not nearly as much as I get off on the early years.
Not really. With massive catalogue musicians you usually have people picking only sections of it.
Yeah, as I say, I like bits of Bringing it All Back Home and Highway 61 and stuff, but I think his main power lies in the acoustic stuff.
What do you think of John Wesley Harding?
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eumaas wrote:
Kory wrote:
eumaas wrote:
Kory wrote:Is it weird to only really like the first four albums? I find a few things to like later, but not nearly as much as I get off on the early years.
Not really. With massive catalogue musicians you usually have people picking only sections of it.
Yeah, as I say, I like bits of Bringing it All Back Home and Highway 61 and stuff, but I think his main power lies in the acoustic stuff.
What do you think of John Wesley Harding?
I don't much care for it he seems to be doing something weird(er) with his voice on it...when I first heard it, it seemed to me he was affecting a Liverpool accent a bit. I may be misremembering that though.
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Kory wrote:
eumaas wrote:
Kory wrote:
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Kory wrote:Is it weird to only really like the first four albums? I find a few things to like later, but not nearly as much as I get off on the early years.
Not really. With massive catalogue musicians you usually have people picking only sections of it.
Yeah, as I say, I like bits of Bringing it All Back Home and Highway 61 and stuff, but I think his main power lies in the acoustic stuff.
What do you think of John Wesley Harding?
I don't much care for it he seems to be doing something weird(er) with his voice on it...when I first heard it, it seemed to me he was affecting a Liverpool accent a bit. I may be misremembering that though.
That album bears a lot of listening. I think it might be his best.
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eumaas wrote:
Kory wrote:
eumaas wrote:
Kory wrote:
eumaas wrote: Not really. With massive catalogue musicians you usually have people picking only sections of it.
Yeah, as I say, I like bits of Bringing it All Back Home and Highway 61 and stuff, but I think his main power lies in the acoustic stuff.
What do you think of John Wesley Harding?
I don't much care for it he seems to be doing something weird(er) with his voice on it...when I first heard it, it seemed to me he was affecting a Liverpool accent a bit. I may be misremembering that though.
That album bears a lot of listening. I think it might be his best.
Well I'll give it another go. Is it the lyrics that you enjoy?
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Kory wrote:
eumaas wrote:
Kory wrote:
eumaas wrote:
Kory wrote:
Yeah, as I say, I like bits of Bringing it All Back Home and Highway 61 and stuff, but I think his main power lies in the acoustic stuff.
What do you think of John Wesley Harding?
I don't much care for it he seems to be doing something weird(er) with his voice on it...when I first heard it, it seemed to me he was affecting a Liverpool accent a bit. I may be misremembering that though.
That album bears a lot of listening. I think it might be his best.
Well I'll give it another go. Is it the lyrics that you enjoy?
Nah, whole package. Folk and country based songs. His voice isn't quite as soft as Isle of Wight 1969 or Nashville Skyline, but it's a different voice for Dylan. The lyrics are mysterious without being over the top beat-surreal like his electric stuff, and the songs are concise. It's got a gothic vibe to it that you won't find on any other Dylan album. The one qualm is that the harmonica is mixed too high.
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John Wesley Harding is great. Eerie country-folk that feels like a record he could only have cut after coming through the other side of his Rock And Roll triptych. I hope that period gets the bootleg treatment at some point.
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Flex wrote:John Wesley Harding is great. Eerie country-folk that feels like a record he could only have cut after coming through the other side of his Rock And Roll triptych. I hope that period gets the bootleg treatment at some point.
I like it. His catalog is so huge I always go back and find stuff that didn't grab me first time.
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"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft

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I bet that reads like aged chewing gum.
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BostonBeaneater wrote:
I bet that reads like aged chewing gum.
Hey, this is my line of work!
You're almost certainly right.
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Oooh, this looks interesting. Thanks Doc!
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"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft

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