Expecting Rain

Sorry if I'm duplicating an earlier topic, but I couldn't find any similar recent thread.

My least played studio album would be Under the red sky, followed closely by Knocked out loaded.
I like a couple of tracks on UTRS (namely Born in time, Handy dandy and Cat's in the well) but I don't think the album works as a whole. A lot of the tracks sound like filler to me, and I don't like the booming drums and the '90s slick production).
On KOL I think the only song worth listening to is Brownsville girl, but that dreadful production keeps me away from that one too.

I've never even heard Christmas in the Heart.

I forgot about that one

Down in the Shite
Knocked-out-a-load-of-shite-in-10-minutes
Modern Shite
Together Through Shite

Can you see a theme here?

Yeah, a theme of you altering the correct titles of Bob's studio albums in order to include the word "shite".

Down in the Groove and Empire Burlesque.

I have it on good authority that they were the ACTUAL titles before Bob's management stepped in!

Probably the last few... Christmas in the Heart, and I haven't spent enough time with Together Through Life either.

As far as older albums, I play the first album almost never. And then there's Saved, and Empire Burlesque, Knocked Out Loaded and Down in the Groove... a real dry spell there, as far as I'm concerned (though each one of those has 1 or 2 tracks I do enjoy).

Good as I Been to You, World Gone Wrong, Self Portrait.

Highway 61 Revisited.
oh wait.... I don't even own it

I don't wanna sound like a jerk, this is just a question, do you like 60's Bob?

Oh ahh... erm... I do like some of the songs, but it's not my favorite era, no.

Still have to acquire KOL.
Dylan and the dead, real live, and under a red sky are all tied for second.

Wow. Like saying you love pizza but don't care much for cheese or tomato sauce.

Someone taped it on cassette for me once, if that helps anyone to rest assured.... it might still be somewhere. There are good songs there, but I'd not listen to their studio versions anyway.

I don't wanna sound like a jerk either, but i'm not sure you can class your self as a Dylan fan if you don't like this album (or indeed his 60's work) - I mean his legend and reputation rests on this record and this era. Phew!

Sorry about this everyone, but I can't even REMEMBER the last time I played Times They Are A Changing.. Even my Mono Box copy is unplayed..It's just too worthy for my liking..

@ arthurprecarious:
If he wasn't still good, much less people would access this forum each day. I mean there's people on here hatin' on pretty much everything of his post-70s output, or on the NET, or the piano. TOOM and "LAT" are among his best albums and my favorites by far, and there's more than enough people here who don't think so. I don't think I ever told them that for this, they weren't fans. The next non-fan who's attended 169 of his concerts in the last ten years, please stand up.

Each to their own JP but just because people like something or it's popular doesn't make it "good". I really find it hard to understand that someone who thinks of themselves as a "fan" doesn't hold H61R in high regard and the same time raves about something as mediocre as the last three records and much of the post-2000 NET.

Don't take it personally, it's all part of lifes rich tapestry. I'm sure if we met in a bar somewhere we'd have a great time quaffing and revelling and swapping Dylan stories.

My mate Stevie Watson has seen Bob 150+ times too and he's full of great Bob stories.

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Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it's not possible. I can't understand how people can't be touched by Christmas In The Heart either. I don't know where you saw me rave about MT and TTL, can't've been on here....

"Highway 61 Revisited" is more than just liked and popular.


I get that.

What do ModBob albums have that "Blonde on Blonde" or "Highway 61 Revisited" don't though?

i have a hard time accepting it without scratching my head, but not a hard time understanding it...it's not my wife's favorite era either - she doesn't particularly like being jolted out of her seat when listening to music...

this argument is a wash. nobody would debate the huge reach Dylan has put down on record and pursues on stage. it is as easy to believe some people wouldn't find the electric era appeasing as it is that seculars might not like the Christian phase....the NET has been in existence for 24 years - in a few years time it will have occupied 50% of Dylan's entire career. the music performed on Highway 61, Blonde and Blonde, and the 66 tour had a time, a place, and a cataclysmic impact. those who maintain that Electric Dylan is the best dylan are as equally off the mark as those who say Dylan reached his peak as a protest singer. It's like taking a country (the US for example) and saying if you don't appreciate NYC or the Pacific Northwest, you can't love America....

legends and reputations go as far as the wind blows...but hard to get a handle on...

But it's still relevant. I agree with everything else you wrote.

they have the perspective of an aging artist/human who has seen the world gone by and reflected on it. a person who has been journeying that long has a different point of view than a young man about to traverse this thing called life...

Monet's most impactful artworks were made early in his career as well, but what he did in his late career after he 'arrived' is heavily researched, discussed and appreciated today...


^ agreed Giada - i didn't mean to imply that the impact has been contained or that the ripple effect is not still flowing fine...