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- #1
- Posted: 06/29/2013 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#955): Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
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Today's album of the day
Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1965.
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Overall rank: 17
Average rating: 89/100 (from 932 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Like A Rolling Stone
2. Tombstone Blues
3. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
4. From A Buick 6
5. Ballad Of A Thin Man
6. Queen Jane Approximately
7. Highway 61 Revisited
8. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
9. Desolation Row
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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Cymro2011
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- Posted: 06/29/2013 20:03
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Really brilliant. Has the perfect start and end to it too.
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Jasonconfused
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- Posted: 06/29/2013 21:02
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Amazing. The highlight for me is the guitar playing on Desolation Row. Some of the best I've ever heard.
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- #4
- Posted: 06/29/2013 23:03
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Anyone who dislikes this album will be getting a stern talking-to from me. I implore you not to test me on this.
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- Posted: 06/29/2013 23:59
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Fantastic; hardly a weak tune here. I especially like the manic blues of the second track as well as Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues and Desolation Row. Very slightly prefer Bringing It All Back Home to this one, but the difference is small.
I think the run that Dylan had during this period (Bringing It All Back Home to Highway 61 Revisited to Blonde on Blonde) is my favorite three album streak on any artist, ever. Really impressive how much great music he created in such a short time and at such a young age, just unbeatable.
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- Posted: 06/30/2013 00:27
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A true epic from start to finish. My personal favorite from Bob Dylan.
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- #8
- Posted: 06/30/2013 03:24
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I'm sure everyone love this
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- #9
- Posted: 06/30/2013 11:31
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Fantastic album, only my 3rd favourite Dylan album however (Behind Blonde On Blonde and Desire), but it still sits in my top 100 and deservedly so. Like A Rolling Stone and Tombstone Blues are the perfect opening tracks, as of now they're probably my 2 favourite tracks on the album and Desolation Row close behind, one hell of a closing track, the middle part of the album is really great also, especially Ballad Of A Thin Man and From A Buick 6. Just listened to it again, before I had listened I probably would have said the middle few tracks were the weakest part of the album (Still really good however), now however I feel the album is pretty flawless throughout.
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- Posted: 06/30/2013 11:50
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Some notes about one of my favourite albums of all-time:
- The keys in 'Queen Jane Approximately' are fucking dope. Like really dope. That little intro bit with them plonking away over those slightly out-of-tune guitar chords makes me smile every time.
- Actually, the organs throughout make this album. More so even than the lyrics.
- 'Ballad of a Thin Man' says everything I could ever possibly want to say about scumbag journalists and more. I also think that the polari interpretation of it is hilarious.
- The production here is surprisingly raw. People talk (rightly) about the VU's impact in terms of rough around the edges music, but Highway 61 isn't what you would call polished at all. Maybe it gets forgotten because of how good the lyrics are. Who knows.
- I've heard 'Like A Rolling Stone' so many times that I skip it every time now. Also, if Dylan never plays it live again I will be mad thankful. Considering I'm going to see him like nine times later this year, I would love it if he dropped 'Rolling Stone' from the setlist. Won't happen though.
- Of the four straight ahead blues numbers, 'From A Buick 6' > 'It Takes A Lot To Laugh' > 'Tom Thumb's Blues' > 'Tombstone Blues'. That'll probably change tomorrow though.
- Actually, 'Highway 61' itself is a blues number. It's more memorable than those four though. There are quite a few songs where Dylan just lists a bunch of surreal ragtag characters, but this is the definitive one...
- ...except for 'Desolation Row' obviously. Also, "Cinderella she seems so easy, takes one to know one she smiles, and puts her hands in her back pockets Bette Davis style" might be my favourite line on the whole album.
- Despite what I said about 'Like A Rolling Stone', it might well be the best song ever written.
- This might well be the best album ever made.
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