The Dylan Appreciation Thread

Post by **Alatar** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:09 am

Does it start "There is a house in New Orleans"?

Post by **yovargas** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:41 pm

I'd say it's more like "the-herrrrr-eeehees a hooooaaaawoooouuuse in kneeeeeoooooooooo ohohhhhhrrrleaeaeaeaeaeaaaaaeeens" but yeah, pretty much.

Fri Feb 09, 2007 6:47 pm

I'm going to go buy the CD RIGHT NOW!

Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:45 pm

I picked up Modern Times today, which so far as I know is Dylan's most recent album. It is great, as I knew it would be, but it does not contain House of the Rising Sun. So now I am wondering what yov is referring to.

Post by **yovargas** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:02 am

Weird.

Sorry about that. I first heard it on a radio station and I was pretty sure they said it was from the new album.

Post by **Rowanberry** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:18 pm

House of the Rising Sun is actually quite early Dylan - it's on his first album ("Bob Dylan", 1962). It's remarkable in that, he sings it with the "original" lyrics, where the storyteller is a prostitute, and the "House" is apparently a brothel. (In the more famous versions, like by The Animals, the storyteller's gender has been changed.)

Sat Feb 10, 2007 6:36 pm

In Scorsece's great documentrary, No Direction Home, Dave Van Ronk describes how he was playing his original arrangement of House of the Rising Sun in coffeehouses in New York in the very early 1960s. One day, Dylan came to him and asked him if he minded if he (Dylan) recorded that arrangement. Van Ronk said he did mind, because he was planning to record it himself. Too late. Dylan had already recorded it. Then the Animals went on to have a big hit with it, and some people started accusing Dylan of plagarizing their version (even though he had recorded two years before they did). So Dylan stopped playing the song.

Post by **yovargas** » Thu May 17, 2007 8:14 pm

A bit out of the ordinary but am I wrong in thinking this fellow sounds rather Dylanish?

Elvis Perkins: While You Were Sleeping

(adore this song, btw)

Post by **Alatar** » Thu May 17, 2007 9:07 pm

Thanks for bumping this yov, reminded me to post about the phenomenal Season 3 finale of Battlestar Galactica where they play "All along the Watchtower" as the vipers spring into action.

SPOILERS FOR SEASON 3 BATTLESTAR GALACTICA FOLLOW!

Its a new arrangement of the song, but it has all the power of Hendrix and Dylan combined. Awesome.

Wed Nov 21, 2007 7:41 pm

I'm Not There, Todd Haynes' bizarre sort of biopic starring six different actors portraying different versions of Dylan's public persona, comes out today. It is at 80% fresh at Rotten Tomatoes, but with hugely widely varying reviews (even more than most films). Those who like it, really like it, but those who don't like it, really don't like it Not terribly surprising, I suppose.

I definitely look forward to seeing it, but probably not until it comes out on DVD.

Post by **Alatar** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:21 pm

Likewise V.

I'm particularly interested in Cate Blanchett's turn as the young Bob.

Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:46 pm

She's getting rave reviews (again). Even the critics who don't like the film mostly are praising her.

Edit: What a run she has had! Portraying Queen Elizabeth I (twice), Galadriel (in three films), Katherine Hepburn, and Bob Dylan (for all intents and purposes), all within ten years. Who'd a thunk it possible?

Post by **Snowdog** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:59 am

Have always loved Bob Dylan! Ever since my big sis got a compilation record in the '60's with 'Positively 4th Street' and 'Like A Rolling Stone' on it.

One of my two favorite albums of his was Blood on the Tracks & Desire, and one of my favorite songs is:

Shelter from the Storm

'Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood
When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud
I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

And if I pass this way again, you can rest assured
I'll always do my best for her, on that I give my word
In a world of steel-eyed death, and men who are fighting to be warm.
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

Not a word was spoke between us, there was little risk involved
Everything up to that point had been left unresolved.
Try imagining a place where it's always safe and warm.
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail,
Poisoned in the bushes an' blown out on the trail,
Hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn.
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

Suddenly I turned around and she was standin' there
With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair.
She walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns.
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

Now there's a wall between us, somethin' there's been lost
I took too much for granted, got my signals crossed.
Just to think that it all began on a long-forgotten morn.
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

Well, the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount
But nothing really matters much, it's doom alone that counts
And the one-eyed undertaker, he blows a futile horn.
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

I've heard newborn babies wailin' like a mournin' dove
And old men with broken teeth stranded without love.
Do I understand your question, man, is it hopeless and forlorn?
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

In a little hilltop village, they gambled for my clothes
I bargained for salvation an' they gave me a lethal dose.
I offered up my innocence and got repaid with scorn.
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

Well, I'm livin' in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line
Beauty walks a razor's edge, someday I'll make it mine.
If I could only turn back the clock to when God and her were born.
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

Copyright © 1974 Ram's Horn Music

Wed Feb 06, 2008 3:18 pm

It is, indeed, a great song!

Post by **yovargas** » Thu May 29, 2008 11:05 pm

I'd be real curious to know what Dylan fans think about this old interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR8YuIGqWi4

Thu May 29, 2008 11:47 pm

What do I think about it? What should I think about it? I'm sure I know more about what I think about it than you know about what I think about it. Or maybe I should say that I Know more about what I think about it, than you Know about what I think about it.

Post by **yovargas** » Fri May 30, 2008 12:10 am

Exactly.

Fri May 30, 2008 12:15 am

That's Bob. The original maverick and danger to us all.

Post by **PrinceAlarming** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 5:05 am

I have great respect for the man and his music...

He brings his Grammy on stage when he plays now. Yet he doesn't need Time magazine.

He's just on drugs and talking in circles...

Ahhh, Bob.

How we love you.

Thanks for introducing the Beatles to "Mary Jane".

Sun Jun 29, 2008 3:26 pm

Finally saw Todd Hayne's convoluted sort of Dylan biopic "I'm Not There" last night. Parts of it were brilliant, particularly the parts with Cate Blanchett, and the parts with Marcus Carl Franklin, a young black actor who plays a version of the 11-year old Dylan, who calls himself "Woody Guthrie" and escapes from a juvenile correction center by hitching a ride on a train, carrying a guitar case labeled "This Machine Kills Fascists" (as did the real Woody Guthrie's guitar). But overall it is simply too convoluted and fractured to tell a coherent story. Which is perhaps the point, given the nature of Dylan's life, but it makes for a less than fully enjoyable film.