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Post by Charlie O. on May 8, 2020 6:14:22 GMT
... and a double-album out next month!
I like this song better than the previous two. Even so, I wish there was a little more variety in the musical arrangement (or else a few fewer verses).
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Post by Sneelock on May 8, 2020 6:19:49 GMT
Bob needs a new throat gasket.
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Post by toomanyhatz on May 8, 2020 7:00:52 GMT
It's the most immediate thing he's done in years. Our generation's "Groom's Still Waiting at the Alter," if you will. I think it's pretty damn fierce, particularly for a guy pushing 80.
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Post by toomanyhatz on May 8, 2020 7:01:40 GMT
And yeah, his voice is shot to hell. But it still has character.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on May 8, 2020 8:47:49 GMT
It's alright. I prefer the first one (can't remember the title - the one about JFK).
I find it astonishing that eighty-year-olds are releasing acceptable rock music when we were mocking the Stones (The Strolling Bones - remember?) for doing the same FORTY YEARS AGO!
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Post by Sneelock on May 8, 2020 15:17:26 GMT
you maybe. twenty twenty minus forty equals 1980. I always liked "Emotional Rescue" myself. yeah, I bitched about "love you live" but not because they were old - because they didn't seem to give a fuck.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on May 8, 2020 17:35:44 GMT
decent, not embarrassing, manna for the believers, probably meh for the rest looking forward to his covers album where he accompanies himself only on harmonium
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Post by toomanyhatz on May 8, 2020 18:12:36 GMT
I know I've said this before, but I also think there's a reckoning that comes with age - 40 is "too old to rock 'n roll" but it's also young enough to be very deluded about your connectedness to current trends. Whereas once artists pass through it, (if they're smart, at least) they take honest stock of what their actual talents are, and what legacy they'll be leaving behind.
It's why our 60s heroes were generally better in the 90s than they were in the 80s (Stones a huge exception, of course) - because they'd given up on being 'current' and stuck more to what they were good at. And it's why archive series are such a big thing - I think the Bootleg Series is about the best of them, though I tend to avoid the giant, expensive, live sets - and why they pick up long-dormant projects like Smile - they're taking care of unfinished business.
I think in the case of Dylan - never the best judge of his own work - it's a case of him having wanted to be that old blues guy since he was about 17. He's finally got the voice to match.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on May 8, 2020 18:26:09 GMT
Me maybe? How about rock critics, punks, New Wavers, hippies, rockers....? I take your point (and hatz's too) - I just think it's strange how we're more accepting these days. If these artists have 'earned' anything it's the right to be mediocre.
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Post by loveless on May 8, 2020 19:56:54 GMT
Well, whatever your initial point of unwillingly lowered expectations is with ANY artist/act - it's kind of ugly. You expect them (on some recent basis) to be worth a fuck, and...they fall so far short of the mark. It's downright personal, really. Neil Young's trying to make me look like an asshole! Surely he can crank out another "Ohio" if he hooks up with the right crew (hoo boy, such a misguided point of view).
30, 40, 50 years after THAT letdown, you're so far removed from having ever expected ANYTHING from them, that a "didn't make me want to puke" looks like the return of Jesus.
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Post by DarknessFish on May 9, 2020 0:01:56 GMT
It's shit. Could be any shit by any has-been blues geezer. His muse left him before I was born, and if he didn't have the name Dylan, it would rightfully be ignored.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2020 8:37:42 GMT
It's alright. I prefer the first one (can't remember the title - the one about JFK). I find it astonishing that eighty-year-olds are releasing acceptable rock music when we were mocking the Stones (The Strolling Bones - remember?) for doing the same FORTY YEARS AGO! The difference is a mortality hangs over their releases now. They're like a precious resource that we know will soon disappear. That gives them a tremendous poignancy and substance.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on May 9, 2020 8:48:27 GMT
My arse. That's like Churchill being voted in in 1951 and people forgiving him for choking and staggering through 3 more years.
We should still have standards.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2020 11:42:21 GMT
My arse. That's like Churchill being voted in in 1951 and people forgiving him for choking and staggering through 3 more years. We should still have standards. Oh I agree, I'm not saying I feel that way myself, just giving an explanation to changing attitudes.
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Post by fange on May 9, 2020 12:17:00 GMT
It's ok, but nothing to get overly excited about for mine. Good on him for still doing what he clearly likes, and adding another paragraph to a remarkable life of music.
I just can't enjoy his voice much now though. I saw him on his Hong Kong tour a few years ago, and i had to walk out 2/3 of the way through, which hurt a bit. The man has made some of the greatest songs i have ever heard, and that will be what i will always hang on to.
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