The Bob Dylan Appreciation Thread

[The Schofield Kid]

                                                   THE BOB DYLAN APPRECIATION THREAD





2012 will mark 50 years since Bob Dylan began his extraordinary music career. Countless albums and awards, the voice of a generation. After all those years he is still touring the world and recording albums. This thread is for all fans to discuss his music. Just as I did with the Bruce Springsteen thread, I will be posting tracks from albums in chronological order.



Bob Dylan (Released 1962)

Side one
 
1. "You're No Good"  
2. "Talkin' New York"  
3. "In My Time of Dyin'"  
4. "Man of Constant Sorrow"  
5. "Fixin' to Die"    
6. "Pretty Peggy-O"    
7. "Highway 51 Blues"  

Side two
 
1. "Gospel Plow"  
2. "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down"    
3. "House of the Risin' Sun"  
4. "Freight Train Blues"    
5. "Song to Woody"  
6. "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean"  


The very first album released by Columbia records by Bob Dylan. Featuring 13 songs. Only two were Dylan originals, the rest were old folk songs.

You're No Good

Baby, Let Me Follow You Down

Song To Woody

Links no longer available.

[Gant]

Although I've been aware of Dylan as an artist for many years I realised that the only album of his I ever bought was Infidels.. So after watching the excellent Scorsese film No Direction Home I decided to start my Bob Dylan collection proper..

I've kicked off with







Looking forward to imersing myself..

Which others would you recommend SK..?

[The Schofield Kid]

Which others would you recommend SK..?

Some of my favorites from the 1960's: Highway 61 Revisited, Bringing It All Back Home, Blonde On Blonde

1970's: Blood On The Tracks, Desire

1980's: Infidels, Empire Burlesque

1990's: Time Out Of Mind

2000's: Love and Theft, Modern Times

[Gant]

I plan to work thru em all... eventualy. Criminal that it's taken me so long really.. 

[The Schofield Kid]

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (Released 1963)

Side one

1. "Blowin' in the Wind"
2. "Girl from the North Country"
3. "Masters of War"
4. "Down the Highway"
5. "Bob Dylan's Blues"
6. "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall"

Side two

7.   "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"
8.   "Bob Dylan's Dream"
9.   "Oxford Town"
10. "Talkin' World War III Blues"
11. "Corrina, Corrina"
12. "Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance"  
13. "I Shall Be Free"

Dylan's second studio album, this time all but two were Dylan compositions.

Blowing In The Wind

Girl From The North Country

A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall

Links no longer available.

[The Schofield Kid]

The Times They Are A-Changin' (Released 1964)

Side one

1."The Times They Are a-Changin'"
2."Ballad of Hollis Brown"
3."With God on Our Side"
4."One Too Many Mornings"
5."North Country Blues"  

Side two

1."Only a Pawn in Their Game"
2."Boots of Spanish Leather"
3."When the Ship Comes In"
4."The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll"
5."Restless Farewell"

All ten songs written by Bob Dylan

The Times They Are A Changin'

One Too many Mornings

Only A Pawn In Their Game

Links no longer Available.

[The Schofield Kid]

Another Side Of Bob Dylan (Released 1964)

Side one

1."All I Really Want to Do"
2."Black Crow Blues"
3."Spanish Harlem Incident"
4."Chimes of Freedom"
5."I Shall Be Free No. 10"
6."To Ramona"  

Side two

1."Motorpsycho Nitemare"
2."My Back Pages"
3."I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)"
4."Ballad in Plain D"
5."It Ain't Me Babe"



All I Really Want To Do

Spanish Harlem Incident

It Ain't Me Babe

Links No Longer Available.

[ItsForYou]

I like all the albums mentioned but...

One of his all time greatest is Blood on the Tracks



Some of his later work is superb too.

Time out of Mind



and Modern Times

[The Schofield Kid]

Bringing It All Back Home (Released 1965)

Dylan's 5th album. Side one is when Dylan went electric. Side two is acoustic that his original fans preferred.

Side one

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"

Side two

1."Mr. Tambourine Man"
2."Gates of Eden"
3."It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
4."It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"


Subterranean Homesick Blues

Maggie's Farm

On The Road Again

Links no longer available.

[Richard Earl]

Dylan is a songwriter's songwriter. I have been a fan for many years and he has inspired me as a songwriter as well. Bringing It All Back Home is a fantastic album SK! This is a true story. I saw Bob Dylan and Paul Simon together back in 99 or 2000. I had never seen Dylan before and I was listening to him sing and I told the guy next to me" I am glad I know his songs because I cannot understand a word he is singing."  The guy looks at me and says " This is Dylan on a good night. "  I thought "Man, I would hate to see him on a bad night then." It was a fun show though.

[The Schofield Kid]

Highway 61 Revisited (Released 1965)

Side one

1. "Like a Rolling Stone" 
2. "Tombstone Blues" 
3. "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry"
4.  "From a Buick 6"
5. "Ballad of a Thin Man" 

Side two
 
1. "Queen Jane Approximately"
2. "Highway 61 Revisited"
3. "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" 
4. "Desolation Row"
 

In his autobiography Chronicles, Dylan described the kinship he felt with the route that supplied the title of his sixth album: "Highway 61, the main thoroughfare of the country blues, begins about where I began. I always felt like I'd started on it, always had been on it and could go anywhere, even down in to the deep Delta country. It was the same road, full of the same contradictions, the same one-horse towns, the same spiritual ancestors ... It was my place in the universe, always felt like it was in my blood."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_61_Revisited

Unfortunately the site I was using to link songs to here is no longer available. I'm using youtube for links now.

Tombstone Blues

Ballad Of A Thin Man

Highway 61 Revisited

Desolation Row

[The Schofield Kid]

Blonde On Blonde (Released 1966)

Blonde on Blonde is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on May 16, 1966 on Columbia Records. Blonde on Blonde completed the trilogy of rock albums that Dylan recorded in 1965 and 1966, starting with Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited. Critics often rank Blonde on Blonde as one of the greatest albums of all time. Combining the expertise of Nashville session musicians with a modernist literary sensibility, the album's songs have been described as operating on a grand scale musically, while featuring lyrics one critic called "a unique blend of the visionary and the colloquial". It was one of the first double albums in rock music.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonde_on_Blonde#Songs

Side one

1. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 
2. Pledging My Time
3. Visions of Johanna 
4. One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) 

Side two

5. I Want You 
6. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
7. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat 
8. Just Like a Woman 

Side three

9. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)   
10. Temporary Like Achilles   
11. Absolutely Sweet Marie   
12. 4th Time Around   
13. Obviously 5 Believers   

Side four

14. Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands


Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again

Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)