“It’s such an amazing time in American culture and the story of Bob — a young 19-year-old Bob Dylan coming to New York with like two dollars in his pocket and becoming a worldwide sensation within three years,” [said Chalamet]. “First being embraced into the family of folk music in New York and kind of outrunning them at a certain point as his star rises so beyond belief.”
Meanwhile, at Meadhouse....
We're buying LPs again. All Dylan. I still have the albums that I bought in the old days, before I switched over to cassettes and CDs nearly 40 years ago. What a strange gap! I've don't even want old cassettes and CDs. They hardly seem real. What is their value when I have Spotify? But the albums. Quite real!
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I liked Timothee as Henry V (Prince Hal), but I am not sure he can emulate the eccentric genius of Bobby Zimmerman.
Agreed. Vinyl albums were and still are great. I unfortunately gave away cases and cases of them years ago, to a small record shop that used to exist in Sarasota, FL. I did this years ago when living here and...now I'm back living here again, minus my records. The shop I gave them to is gone, my record collection gone...gone...gone. But, I owned zero Dylan. (always preferred Simon to Dylan). I heard enough of him from roommates, radio, etc. Had a bunch of The Band, however. Loved The Band.
Funny how cassettes and CDs never seemed as good, and now the thought of a cassette, or...an 8 track cart, seem ridiculous. The 8-track carts would always get out of whack. Stretched or tangled up, then they'd get caught in your player. I think I spent more time digging tape out of my car player than listening. I remember players that seemingly used to 'eat' tapes.
You're now purchasing your music on discs made from petroleum?
Do they even allow that in Madison?
Bob Dylan is not and will not be remembered for his singing voice or ability. He was a poet, philosopher and song writer who sang and whose music was recorded and performed by many ...
7 Songs You Didn’t Know Bob Dylan Wrote That Were Made Famous By Other Artists"
My opinion ...
"This article is a list of over 600 musicians who have released their own recordings of songs written by Dylan. It includes more than 1,500 covers of nearly 300 unique songs."
List of artists who have covered Bob Dylan songs
Currently reading Greil Marcus - The Weird Old America", based on the Basement Tapes, so the video feels like synchronicity. If you've ever read it, would appreciate your take. He goes off on wildly overwritten tangents, but the idea that those recordings tap into an archaic America feel right.
Vinyl schmynyl. Only Edison cylinders at my house.
Why not Cate Blanchett again?
I've never stopped buying vinyl. Discogs is a good source for LPs, just make sure the seller has a good rating. New vinyl is easily available through Amazon, Acoustic Sounds, Music Direct, and other places. Sounds better, and the covers are a cool part of the experience.
I even have my father's old LPs — nearly all from the 1950s. Julie London, Ray Coniff...
Tell me you have some Mills Bros and Johnny Mathis and you’ve described my childhood home.
"all dylan"
LOL.
Music Tape cassettes always seemed cheap and flimsy to me, and long ago threw them out. Except, I have Books on tape. Someday, when Retired, I will transfer them over to digital.
Like others, I wished I'd snapped up some of those LP's which people were more or less giving away for pennies in the 90s. But..whatever. Shoulda, woulda, coulda.
The real question is what to do with the CDs? Rip them to digital and get rid of them? Keep them in a box, "just in case"? Undecided.
A few years ago when I got my Brennan, I read articles with acoustic analyses comparing sound from vinyl and CD. My takeaways: (1) There is no such thing as the “real” sound. Vinyl and CD are both the result of studio mixes. It’s a question of preference. The same is true for re-mixes of masters. Some re-mixes are more popular than others. (2) Vinyl is subject to a lot more extortions from needles, belts (or no best), etc. (3) CD quality recordings are much better than most Spotify and other streaming music because they compress the sound and you lose parts of the sound. Your brain attempts to fill in the losses just like a word with no vowels. (4) When I load CDs to the Brennan I get recordings in “loss-less” format, just like the CD. And, I can make playlists so I don’t have to listen to “filler” songs on a record.
Given the very high cost of getting great sound out of a turntable, pre-amp, and amp, I decided CD quality is better than LPs for me. That said, if I wanted to crank up the sound on Hendrix, vinyl is the ultimate given the bass response.
Bob Dylan does not sing, so it will be interesting to have someone actually sing his songs.
For some reason I saved all of my vinyl records from high school and college. I would replace the inside paper sheath with a plastic sheath to better protect the record, and I would briefly clean each record before playing it. They are all in my living room lined up in a wooden crate. The crate is full and measures 4 feet long. I stopped buying vinyl when CDs came out, so most of my records are old classic rock -- mid '60s to late '70s.
I'm reminded of Herb Alpert's Whipped Cream and other Delights. Unlike Althouse, seeing a Playboy magazine on my parent's living room coffee table was unimaginable. But one of us boys bought this album for our parents, their kind of music. And somehow, the album cover remained on the top of the stereo cabinet for all of 1965.
I would argue that CDs have a place in the car. No commercials, no monthly fee for a music streaming service, and you can listen to exactly what you want. I never liked the idea of buying music in digital form and have always purchased CDs for driving music.
I still have my Dylan "Desire" vinyl along with King Crimson, Genesis, and Renaissance, among others.
I always love the stories of musicians being "DISCOVERED" in New York. The arogance of the east coast. It's like the artist all suck before coming to New York. Dob Dylan sucked in Diluth, Charlie Parker suck in Kansas City, Kansas sucked in Topeka, ETC. The rubes from those places knew these artist were great long before New York knew their names.
I keep thinking I'll try to sell my LPs, in the full knowledge that I'll never buy another turntable. CDs suit me very well. (Anybody want the DG Beethoven set in dozens of multi-disc albums? Many still wrapped?)
Dylan was ubiquitous during me HS and college years, but I wasn't enough of a fan to buy his records myself. I respect and admire his achievement more than I like listening to his music.
In other movie news, Ridley Scott will release "Napoleon" with Joaquin Phoenix in the fall.
Scott adapted the Conrad novella The Duelists in '77--great looking with a low budget and low tech, but with a terrible music soundtrack. Could have looted-appropriated music from the time, like the great Kubrick would have done.
Are the LP’s really better? I remember when everyone was switching to CD’s because the audio was so mucho better. Even my audiophile father-in-law mad the switch. I have a bunch of his old LP’s. He thought they were inferior, but when he switched his extensive collection to CD’s, I still had a record player.
My brother has our (his and my) grandfather's 78s! And the cabinet built to hold them.
I'm not a fan of Dylan, particularly, but I appreciate his genius. (I think I've got Nashville Skyline in my collection.) Part of what makes him unique is his voice; I doubt anyone not Dylan could do that justice in a movie.
Hey Temujin:
Did you buy any of thoseLP’s at FBC or Wazoo? Or were they before your time?
Dylan LPs - got a bunch of them, maybe 15 or so. The oldest: "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan," a 1960s pressing. The newest: "More Blood, More Tracks" (Bootleg Series Vol. 14).
Off-topic: That's nice Timothee, but where's the 2nd half of Dune?
On: Have all Dylan's early records and a good turntable. Stopped after Skyline but added the great Blood on the Tracks.
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