new bob dylan
 

anybody heard it/ is it any good?

I'm surprised even a Dylan fan would be ridiculous enough to ask 'is it any good?'. Having not heard it, I can guarentee you it's not good.

Apple pie with vanilla ice cream, 4 day vacation with a beautiful woman, snow day, first day of warm weather after a long winter, finding a twenty dollar bill in a pair a jeans you haven't worn in a month, finding your lost dog, smelling breakfast cooking.

what the hell, of course the record is great, you're knot buying it right now?

well christ people, not ALL of his new stuff has sucked. can't we have an open mind?

It's a good album. There's not very much growth form Love & Theft. It's good though. The DVD was a nice addition as well

I think I'll pick it up this week or perhaps today.

Whats on the DVD?

Poo.Internet poo.

1. BLood In My Eyes
2. Love Sick (live)
3. Things Have Changed
4. Cold Irons Bound

My sister wuz playin it the other day. I was surprised - I actually liked some of the melodies. Also, the lyrics are quite powerful in places. I remember one line that went something like: 'my life is almost over' and I thought it was sad but powerful too.

Bob Dylan releases first song in EIGHT years: 17-minute Ode To JFK

Bob Dylan - Murder Most Foul (2020)

Reminds me a bit of “Roll on John” from Tempest.
An account of a famous assassination. This one’s more of a dirge, of course.

Dylan's Time Out Of Mind is the soundtrack to my life today.

Just sayin.

According to NPR's All Things Considered, there are 74 songs :eek: referenced in "Murder Most Foul":

https://www.npr.org/sections/allsong...rder-most-foul

They compiled a Spotifuck playlist with 66 of them:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1t...QmmXt3sM5AHqvQ

The lyrics aren't on Bob's website yet, but at Genius.com cats are already annotating them...

https://genius.com/Bob-dylan-murder-most-foul-lyrics

It's hard to find a real precedent for this brilliant song in Dylan's work. Yes, we all know the long ones, from "Desolation Row" to "Tempest" -"Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands", "Joey", "Brownsville Girl", "Highlands"- but this time there's no semblance of a chorus, it's not a waltzy tune, the vocal phrasing is different, and it's incredibly atmospheric without the need of a Lanois-esque sound; it's all anchored by that gorgeous, unpredictable piano and the whoosh of the cymbals, basically. And this is just "an unreleased song we recorded a while back that you might find interesting"? Jesus Christ.

Now... does anybody else find the first part of the minimal press release a bit eerie? "Greetings to my fans and followers with gratitude for all your support and loyalty across the years". Could be just a way of saying "I'm stuck like all of you, had to cancel my Japan tour, sorry, here's a tune for a buck". But it also sounds like something Bowie could have said before Blackstar came out. Fuck that - may Bob live on 'til he's 150 at least.

Fucking loved this.

I'd love to know exactly when this was recorded.

"A WHILE BACK", m'kay? That's all the info you're gonna get. Why? Because he's Bob fuckin' Dylan, that's why.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure he recorded it at one point during the last eight years.

I do believe that there is a line about "50 years later" or something similar, so....yeah.

Best Dylan in years. Masterpiece.

Fuck this is so good. I get the feeling that His Bobness started a new album with these musicians and a new Modus Operandi, but it stalled somehow, and an album did not materialize. Shame. This is epic, worthy, late period Dylan.