Tracks:
1. Tangled Up In Blue
2. Simple Twist Of Fate
3. You're A Big Girl Now
4. Idiot Wind
5. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
6. Meet Me In The Morning
7. Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts
8. If You See Her, Say Hello
9. Shelter From The Storm
10. Buckets Of Rain
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.
I rarely agree with anybody about anything, but it's my favorite Dylan album too. (Though in my case, that's not saying much.)
Potentially interesting bit of trivia: Dylan's brother apparently told him his initial version of the album, recorded in New York, was too "stark" to sell in big numbers, so he re-recorded five of the tracks in a studio in Minneapolis called "Sound 80." You can tell the difference between the NYC tracks and the Minneapolis tracks (the latter have a bit more midrange), so Dylan fans constantly argue over which tracks sound better, which is probably why there's so much blood on them. Anyway, Sound 80 was later sold to a company called Orfield Labs, who added an anechoic chamber to the studio complex whose noise floor is only 13 dB, making it (arguably) "the quietest place on Earth." A reporter from the New York Times wrote this piece last year about visiting that room, apparently after seeing the video below in which Youtuber Ryan Trahan spends roughly the same number of minutes in the room as the running time of Blood on the Tracks. (Supposedly it's so quiet in there it can drive some people a little nuts, but it probably doesn't help that it kind-of looks like the haunted engine room from Event Horizon in there.)
This is currently on my top 100 as my favorite album of all time, and of all the albums I love, it's one of the few I feel comfortable saying is my favorite of all time.
I really adore this album. To me, this is some of Dylan's best songwriting. It's certainly his most personal, and Dylan virtually never got personal. Right after a nasty divorce with Sara, arguably one of the lower points in his life, and he puts this out. Dylan denies the divorce had anything to do with the album, I don't personally believe him (and neither does Jakob Dylan). There's a lot of pain in this album, but there's a lot of beauty in it too. It's about as perfect as an album can be _________________ 2023 Chart
It's not my favourite Dylan album, it's my second favourite.
My fave is Blonde On Blonde.
But this is a monster album.
It's terrific. It's tender. It never gets old.
even when I ain't listening, this album continues to take good care of me.
I like this. ^^
Yep, Blood on the Tracks is an all time phenomenal album and simply one of the most outstanding in the field of breakup records or whatever you may choose to call it.
I’d like to shoutout a couple tracks I feel don’t get nearly as much love as they should. For one, Meet Me in the Morning is one of my favorite blues songs on any (largely) non-blues record as well one of my favorite Dylan vocals in his whole catalog.
The other track, If You See Her Say Hello is, for me, this album boiled down to one song. You can hear the pain in his voice and the regret in his words. Even after lyrics with a sense of coping or acceptance, the song ends with a lack of it as Dylan grieves and hopes for another chance meeting with his loved one. This song can bring me to tears with the mere memory of the lyrics. _________________ Attention all planets of the solar federation: We have assumed control.
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum
