BigRedLedbetter wrote:I'm not the biggest Coldplay fan (though I dig their first two albums and latest album) but Chris Martin said in an interview a few years ago where there is like a month of time per year where he listens to nothing but Dylan. I thought that was cool.
McParadigm wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:As someone who's not really interested in the whole folky harmonica sound, which album should I start with? Highway 61?
61 is the pinnacle of his poetic surrealist bent. It paints an abstract version of America so malformed and complete as to be barely interpretable. Is Like a Rolling Stone a condemnation, or does the chorus sound nakedly jubilant and free? Is he kicking someone who needs a wake-up call on their way to a terrifying journey, or celebrating the shedding of all that bullshit so they can head south with him? Once upon a time, you dressed so fine...now get in the car.
Highway 61 is a journey through an absurdist America with one final goal: get out. More and more Spanish influence creeps in as the record progresses, implying motion that is as much geographical as it is filled with madness. And in the end, when we finally crack past the border to what we hope is something better, we find a place filled to burst with the cultural mutant icons we just left behind...a place so familiar that they're even selling postcards of the hanging, just like they did in Minnesota.
Highway 61 is easily his purest artistic statement...the Bob Dylan equivalent to Exile, Vitalogy or Rain Dogs.
It also is not heavy on harmonica....and pretty cynical.
Excellent post. I don't agree with all of it (a lot of it though) but it's well thought out.
You can't handle some of the smaller details related to the truth.
BigRedLedbetter wrote:I'm not the biggest Coldplay fan (though I dig their first two albums and latest album) but Chris Martin said in an interview a few years ago where there is like a month of time per year where he listens to nothing but Dylan. I thought that was cool.
McParadigm wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:As someone who's not really interested in the whole folky harmonica sound, which album should I start with? Highway 61?
61 is the pinnacle of his poetic surrealist bent. It paints an abstract version of America so malformed and complete as to be barely interpretable. Is Like a Rolling Stone a condemnation, or does the chorus sound nakedly jubilant and free? Is he kicking someone who needs a wake-up call on their way to a terrifying journey, or celebrating the shedding of all that bullshit so they can head south with him? Once upon a time, you dressed so fine...now get in the car.
Highway 61 is a journey through an absurdist America with one final goal: get out. More and more Spanish influence creeps in as the record progresses, implying motion that is as much geographical as it is filled with madness. And in the end, when we finally crack past the border to what we hope is something better, we find a place filled to burst with the cultural mutant icons we just left behind...a place so familiar that they're even selling postcards of the hanging, just like they did in Minnesota.
Highway 61 is easily his purest artistic statement...the Bob Dylan equivalent to Exile, Vitalogy or Rain Dogs.
It also is not heavy on harmonica....and pretty cynical.
Excellent post. I don't agree with all of it (a lot of it though) but it's well thought out.
You can't handle some of the smaller details related to the truth.
"My balls feels like they're in a French press." ~ bodysnatcher
I'm listening to Highway 61 Revisited. I dunno, I'm just still not sure this sound is my bag. I had a lot of trouble with the kazoos in the title track. I just don't know.
McParadigm wrote:Understandable. And far less ridiculous a response than that time stip tried listening to the Beatles
The lyrics are definitely the highlight for me, though. Especially in "Desolation Row." I fucking love the way you described it in your earlier post; the impact is really pronounced being that it follows the sentiments of the previous songs. "Like a Rolling Stone" is really great, too. Of course, I'd heard that song before, but still.
McParadigm wrote:Understandable. And far less ridiculous a response than that time stip tried listening to the Beatles
The lyrics are definitely the highlight for me, though. Especially in "Desolation Row." I fucking love the way you described it in your earlier post; the impact is really pronounced being that it follows the sentiments of the previous songs. "Like a Rolling Stone" is really great, too. Of course, I'd heard that song before, but still.
McParadigm wrote:Understandable. And far less ridiculous a response than that time stip tried listening to the Beatles
The lyrics are definitely the highlight for me, though. Especially in "Desolation Row." I fucking love the way you described it in your earlier post; the impact is really pronounced being that it follows the sentiments of the previous songs. "Like a Rolling Stone" is really great, too. Of course, I'd heard that song before, but still.
McParadigm wrote:Understandable. And far less ridiculous a response than that time stip tried listening to the Beatles
The lyrics are definitely the highlight for me, though. Especially in "Desolation Row." I fucking love the way you described it in your earlier post; the impact is really pronounced being that it follows the sentiments of the previous songs. "Like a Rolling Stone" is really great, too. Of course, I'd heard that song before, but still.
I don't see why anyone over the age of 15 would want to listen to punk music. What a derivative, try-hard genre.
Jorge, your thoughts?
bodysnatcher wrote:All I know is that I messaged my wife earlier about this, and my iphone's autocorrect knew to put an é on the end of Beyoncé, and it changed "Beck" to "neck"
