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- Posted: 03/07/2022 21:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#4096): Blonde On Blonde by Bob Dylan
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Today's album of the day
Blonde On Blonde by Bob Dylan (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1966.
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Overall rank: 31
Average rating: 88/100 (from 2235 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
2. Pledging My Time
3. Visions Of Johanna
4. One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
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
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
14. Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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EyeKanFly
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- Posted: 03/07/2022 22:57
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This is one of my all-time favorites, been on heavy rotation since I first listened to it, and was one of the first records I ever purchased.
Or as my friend calls it: "the best Beatles album the Beatles didn't write... or play" (I think this is largely in reference to "I Want You", my favorite Dylan song).
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- Posted: 03/08/2022 00:01
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Musically, artistically, lyrically, this could very very well be the objective greatest album in history. And it's simultaneously one of my very favorite ever ones too as well as my New Years record.
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- Posted: 03/08/2022 09:42
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Gorgeous, interesting, witty, varied and amazing in every sense of the word. Nothing sounds like this, not even other Dylan albums from this period. There is an atmosphere of pure magic in this record.
The track run from 3-8 is absolutely insane and probably head and shoulders above any other 6 track run in music history.
My favourites include Vision of Johanna, One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later), I Want You, Stuck Inside a Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again, Just Like A Woman and Sad Eyed Lady of The Lowlands (his voice never sounded better than on this song).
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CharlieBarley
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- Posted: 03/08/2022 18:06
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my favourite Dylan album by a mile
I love it
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- Posted: 03/09/2022 01:36
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| Daydreamer wrote: | Nothing sounds like this, not even other Dylan albums from this period. There is an atmosphere of pure magic in this record.
The track run from 3-8 is absolutely insane and probably head and shoulders above any other 6 track run in music history.
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These statements right here.
Blood On The Tracks is my favorite Dylan album and has garnered the most consistent play over my years of listening to him. But I feel his best writing and sonic achievements are nestled all through the middle of Blonde On Blonde.
An amazing album.
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- Posted: 03/24/2022 06:21
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Film director Todd Haynes once made a wonderful film entitled I'm Not There (2007). In it, a fabled troubadour, storyteller, prophet, father, icon and outlaw all follow an intersecting, snaking path of existence. They all went by the name of Bob Dylan. "A song is something that walks by itself" said the poet. Todd Haynes knew there was no single way to personify music's resident Shakespeare, but this album may be the finest summation of the man himself.
Laying out themes of love, loss, ambition, desolation, desire and drug use, all of which could apply to Dylan during his finest creative years, Blonde on Blonde serves as the magnum opus for one of music's finest artists. He's never been more cheeky than with Rainy Day Women #12 and #35. He's never been more bashfully in love than with I Want You and he's never been more appreciative than with Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands. Dylan never more clearly presented his thoughts through music and we have the LP to prove it.
A stunning collection of emotional highs and lows, one can't help but marvel at Dylan's wordplay and pension for lyrical brainstorm. Through all this, Dylan stayed tight-lipped while contemporaries such as the Fab Four themselves gawked at his greatness. The bard stayed playfully humble or ostentatiously coy for the entire duration. I suppose the truth comes down to how you view the man, or maybe more astutely, his music.
"Mona tried to tell me
To stay away from the train line
She said that all the railroad men
Just drink up your blood like wine
An' I said, "Oh, I didn't know that
But then again, there's only one I've met
An' he just smoked my eyelids
An' punched my cigarette"
- Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
Standout Tracks:
1. I Want You
2. Just Like a Woman
3. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
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