if you think modern times is too raspy then avoid Tempest like the plague. I love it but on the raspometer he’s approaching hardcore Waits.
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if you think modern times is too raspy then avoid Tempest like the plague. I love it but on the raspometer he’s approaching hardcore Waits.
But I like early and probably will enjoy late era Tom Waits
Its just they are in 2 different genres
By hardcore Waits I’m not talking Closing Time though to Blue Valentine/Heartattack & Vine, by his own standards he’s positively crooning around then. Early era Tom Waits is hugely different to mid era Tom Waits which is again hugely different to late era Tom Waits. His voice gets far more extreme from Swordfishtrombones onwards. Then musically he moved into rasping over the demented oompah music of the damned towards the end. I love it all but i can imagine someone loving one era and totally despising another!
also the raspometer is genre neutral ranging from Sam Cooke, super smooth liquid silk anti rasp, at one end to hardcore Tom Waits at the other.
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wmeugene
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Not that anyone asked, but my top 20 list (studio albums, not live or archival) is probably as follows:FTFY
Id rank probably another 3 or 4 Dylan albums above Blonde on Blonde, good as it is. Modern times would be towards the bottom of the top 10 or maybe just outside it for me.
Blood On The Tracks
Blonde on Blond
Highway 61 Revisited
Bringing It All Back Home
The Basement Tapes (I know this likely breaks the archival rule)
Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
John Wesley Harding
Time Out Of Mind
Desire
Another Side of Bob Dylan
Nashville Skyline
Love And Theft
The Times They Are A-Changin'
New Morning
Empire Burlesque
Modern Times
Oh Mercy
Bob Dylan
Planet Waves
Infidels
The last spot few three spots were between those and his most recent studio output (Together Through Life and Tempest). I would consider all 22 of these albums essential listening.
Murfocakes
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Modern Times? Good album. It’s Cat Power.
Blood on the Tracks
Bringing It All Back Home
Desire
Highway 61 Revisited
Freewheelin’
Blonde on Blonde
Time Out Of Mind
Another Side
Nashville Skyline
Modern Times
John Wesley Harding
Planet Waves
Street Legal
Times
Basement Tapes
Slow Train Coming
New Morning
Oh Mercy
Tempest
I think that’s the 19 must haves for me.
Also did I see Empire Burlesque in your essentials list? Wow! That’s a big fucking call
Murfocakes
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Blood on the Tracks
Bringing It All Back Home
Desire
Highway 61 Revisited
Freewheelin’
Blonde on Blonde
Time Out Of Mind
Another Side
Nashville Skyline
Modern Times
John Wesley Harding
Planet Waves
Street Legal
Times
Basement Tapes
Slow Train Coming
New Morning
Oh Mercy
Tempest
I think that’s the 19 must haves for me.
Also did I see Empire Burlesque in your essentials list? Wow! That’s a big fucking call
How’s your Dylan collection going Joe?
I have the entire 60s and 70s, need two each from the 90s and 00s. Then the 4 from the 10s, got Rough and Rowdy Ways preordered for next week.
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Murfocakes
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Then I’ll tackle 80s Dylan...
I currently have 29 with the new one next week that will be 30
I don’t do live albums. I’ll get the bootleg ones before I go there.
wmeugene
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What can I say, I like it and Infidels.Blood on the Tracks
Bringing It All Back Home
Desire
Highway 61 Revisited
Freewheelin’
Blonde on Blonde
Time Out Of Mind
Another Side
Nashville Skyline
Modern Times
John Wesley Harding
Planet Waves
Street Legal
Times
Basement Tapes
Slow Train Coming
New Morning
Oh Mercy
Tempest
I think that’s the 19 must haves for me.
Also did I see Empire Burlesque in your essentials list? Wow! That’s a big fucking call
radiodead
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I think I have 8 Dylan. Blood on the Tracks, Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, Blond on Blond, Highway 61 Revisited, Another Side of Bob Dylan, The Times Thet Are-A Changing, Bringing It All Back Home, and John Wesley Harding.
Chris V
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Of the Dylan that I own on vinyl I would rank them:
Blood on the tracks
Blonde on blonde
Highway 61 revisited
Bringing it all back home
Desire
Freewheelin
John Wesley Harding
Basement tapes
Planet Waves
Nashville skyline
New morning
...I will not admit to owning Live at Budokan on vinyl...
All of the above seem arguably essential to me. I have many others on CD and MP3 of course.
I would be happy with modern times on vinyl with hopes for an exclusive or two!
I have never heard of cat powers
Blood on the tracks
Blonde on blonde
Highway 61 revisited
Bringing it all back home
Desire
Freewheelin
John Wesley Harding
Basement tapes
Planet Waves
Nashville skyline
New morning
...I will not admit to owning Live at Budokan on vinyl...
All of the above seem arguably essential to me. I have many others on CD and MP3 of course.
I would be happy with modern times on vinyl with hopes for an exclusive or two!
I have never heard of cat powers
TenderLovingKiller®
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It’s Cat Power like...I have never heard of cat powers
Also, you are in for a treat, Chan Marshall is an amazing talent...
TenderLovingKiller®
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As far as Dylan goes, I own the Mono box, Blood On The Tracks and Self Portrait. I would Like to eventually add Nashville Skyline and Desire as studio LPs go then maybe one or two of the live Bootleg series releases. I am not a Bob Dylan completist but I can appreciate his talent. I would just be hard pressed to grab his 15th best album off the shelf when I was in the mood for some Bob Dylan (or any artist really).
TenderLovingKiller®
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Here, I found the perfect photo that encompasses where we are in our Essentials guessing...
Edit: sorry, now with less pubes.
Edit: sorry, now with less pubes.
Wes C. Attle
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Chris V
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At this point I am sticking with “cat powers”
(seriously though I will check it out, always love new music)