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and it was delivered in a very timely manner this was purchased from a wish list. the recipient was very happy with it.
So saying that Dylan is some kind of literary genius leaves me cold, but I thought I had better check him out anyway.His words have a sense of fun, but they also have a sense of anger and condescension. Not to my ears, the sounds of the words are mostly ordinary and sometimes are down right ugly. Is Dylan saying anything coherent. Okay, we get it, you've read lots and your facile with the English language; do you have anything else to say. They aren't just loose, their discordant.
Are the word structures beautiful. With the exception of the occasional improvised blues moment from Bloomfield, this record sounds like a demo from a high school band with a singer who cannot sing. Joyce kind of soured me on the whole enterprise as his work seems to me to be an incredibly complex and intricate set of codes and references that takes a giant brain and a lot of time to decode. All of this is IMHO and of course, YMMV.
Was there even a producer overseeing this album. If he did he wouldn't have been such an aye hole. I've never really paid any attention to Dylan, growing up his image never appealed to me. I don't see it. Amateur.
Joyce has nothing to say about how to live better or be a better person or change the world for the better. Dylan is too close to the mic, and we get the regular occurrence of the 'puh' sound from too much air hitting the mic. All of the vocal portions sound the same in terms of melody and delivery; there is nothing to distinguish the vocals of one song from another. The whole enigmatic literary genius shtick grates on my nerves ever since I tried digesting Joyce.
The melodies are simple and weak, and Dylan's delivery doesn't change. Like I said, this sounds like a high school garage band not a bunch of highly paid professionals. On the upside, like all dcc disks, it was mastered perfectly and is highly sought after. The band is not well practised. Again, where was the producer.
And the one star rating comes from the fact that this record is soooo over hyped. The music gets a 1.5 out 5.So I went to the trouble to track down a dcc edition of the legendary Highway 61 as I wanted my first listen to be under the best circumstances, and I'm very disappointed. :-) The guy flat out cannot sing or carry a tune.
But the whole enterprise, while executed with genius, has no point. Mistakes are plentiful, and nobody seems to care. So, for me and it is only my opinion, Dylan's lyrics are 2 stars out of 5.What about the music. There is also the inscrutability and dabbling in encoding things to obscure them.
It's just the same old literary game of code building and obfuscating word play.
This is THE sound; the one everyone craves like heroin, and the one that influenced a million artists. If you like music, and poetry or one or the other, it doesn't matter, just get this album and prepare to be taken on a completely unique journey to what has happened to you before. There are very few albums ever recorded where i can say every single song on them could be turned, not into a hit single maybe, but they all are songs you want to listen to; in the age of iTunes we all buy songs individually, picking off of the album what we think are the best fruits; this is an album for the argument to collect albums rather than singles. This is an absolutely classic Dylan album; it is absolutely not definitive, however you'll need at least 8 studio albums if you want to even scratch the surface of Dylan's definitive records.
was refunded emediatelythank you, jayne bob dylan's highway 61 revisited.seller did not have in stock.no problem.
I would definately reccomend this LP. This vinyl cut sounds great and really brings the album to life. One of Dylans absolute great albums. This is a must have for any music fan and especially anybody who's into Bob Dylan.
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