Zimmy

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Banco del Mutuo Soccorso: Banco del Mutuo Soccorso

10 aug 15

"From here, my lord, one dominates the valley..." A spectacular opening for an extraordinary group. Absolute epicness, thrills, strong emotions, beautiful lyrics, mind-blowing instrumental parts, and the incredible voice of "Big" Di Giacomo. What could be better? Perhaps only the two that follow.

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hjhhjij
10 aug 15

Beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful, even today it hasn't tired me at all and it's been 4-5 years that it occasionally comes back to my ears.
perfect element
11 aug 15

I always found it a bit heavy. I prefer the albums from the second half of the seventies. The voice has always been unmatched, and that's objective.
tonysoprano
12 jul 16

GREAT DEBUT!!!

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Bob Dylan: Rough and Rowdy Ways

24 jun 20

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Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde

27 jul 15

"A ghost of electric current screams in the bones of his face..." An absolute and essential masterpiece: 14 tracks more stunning than the last, arrangements that invite applause, a poetic and visionary vein absolutely unmatched for a truly spine-chilling listen. The peak of the album? It's a tie between the beautiful "Visions of Johanna," the classic "Just Like a Woman," and the majestic "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands."

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Mr Funk
27 jul 15

"Oh, Mama, can this really be the end To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again."
madcat
27 jul 15

eternally torn between this and time out of mind on which is my favorite Dylan
fuggitivo
27 jul 15

Here, this is the only double album that, as soon as you finish it, makes you ask: already? You play it again and it's still not enough. In the Olympus of music.
the last
27 jul 15

Monumentale
imasoulman
27 jul 15

Wow, it must be really nice, this. Would you recommend it to me?
hjhhjij
27 jul 15

Come on, take it without checking, it has some nice songs, maybe the lyrics aren’t top-notch... But you can easily overlook that.
fuggitivo
27 jul 15

"it has some nice songs." You're feeling unwell. Moreover, you mislead an unsuspecting person.
hjhhjij
27 jul 15

I didn't understand if you fell for the easy irony of ima or if you jumped over it and are teasing us :-D
fuggitivo
27 jul 15

I was just commenting because I just saw that it's imasoulman. I'm an idiot.
hjhhjij
27 jul 15

So neither of them, you just got it wrong.
fuggitivo
27 jul 15

The fact that you put BoB after Highway 61 helped as well.
fuggitivo
27 jul 15

I don't want to argue; for me, it's simply unthinkable BoB after 61.
hjhhjij
27 jul 15

Even unthinkable? For me, it’s a matter of personal preference with very narrow margins.
fuggitivo
27 jul 15

Eh, aside from Like a Rolling Stone (holy shit), the rest I need to listen to better, but it doesn’t really draw me in.
hjhhjij
27 jul 15

Well, to me it's the perfect album, but that's just taste.
Zimmy
27 jul 15

Between "Highway 61" and this, it's a clash of titans; for me, this one wins, but only because it's a double album, so there's more to enjoy.
the last
28 jul 15

For me too, between this and Highway 61, this one wins, even if by a hair. Highway took a while to capture me (Like a Rolling Stone deserves a separate discussion, of course). With Blonde On Blonde, it was love at first listen; I found it more immediate and with an astonishing sound for its time, considering it still sounds incredibly relevant today. Let’s say Highway is more of a child of the '60s, while Blonde On Blonde sounds more cross-generational.
fuggitivo
28 jul 15

Exactly everything you said the last. Maybe I prefer it because it was my first Dylan album.

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Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited

10 aug 15

An essential milestone for both the history of rock and singer-songwriter music. Extraordinary and deeply inspired lyrics, divine arrangements (Al Kooper's keyboards!) for 9 unforgettable gems, from the epic ride of the immortal "Like a Rolling Stone" to the delirious scenes of the hypnotic "Desolation Row," passing through the unsettling visions of the disturbing "Ballad of a Thin Man" and the disarming sweetness of "Queen Jane Approximately." A masterpiece.

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De...Marga...
11 aug 15

Fundamental and cornerstone; and at the end of August, it blows out fifty candles. Epoch-making.
tonysoprano
12 jul 16

After a while, I came to the conclusion that my favorite by Dylan is probably this one, but it's hard to choose at the expense of others.
Zimmy
12 jul 16

It's a common opinion, really. I slightly prefer "Blonde on Blonde," but I'm not sure if it's my all-time favorite because the clash with the titans of the '70s ("Blood on the Tracks" and "Desire") is fierce. Anyway, I know almost everything about Dylan, and he rarely disappoints, except perhaps for a few weaker moments in the early '70s and mid-'80s. But with such an extensive body of work, periods of "famine" are also quite normal...
tonysoprano
12 jul 16

I like Bob Dylan, but I prefer Tom Waits because Waits is able to shift genres with incredible ease... since 1983, masterpieces upon masterpieces, all different from one another....
Zimmy
12 jul 16

I still need to delve into Waits, and I'm sure that when I finally decide to do so, I'll love him because he has all the qualities to drive me crazy... but Dylan has also changed a ton of genres with albums that are all different from one another! Folk, blues, rock n roll, gospel-r'n'b, pop, country, crooner... I find that he has never stopped reinventing himself, even though his strength has always been his lyrics.
tonysoprano
12 jul 16

Deepen it these days...