Six Listen Dylan

Album two is Bob's second. I think you can tell we're taking a bit of a backward step here.  There are covers on here, and a definite sense that some of the tracks are "filler". Blowing in the Wind feels like a song that has existed far longer than 1962.   Masters of War has so much anger in it.  Was his protest period sincere? Sure sounds like it here. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall is definitely the best song on here. Such imagery! So different from the the rest of the album in so many ways: pointing forward to the future perhaps? Bob Dylan's Dream: he was only twenty-two when this album came out! Bit of calculated nostalgia I feel, though it's a great song.  Lots of dreams on this album. Talkin' World War III Blues is all about another, though to be honest his seems to have less to do with am impeding apocalypse than the dread everyone can feel in a dream. I preferred the previous album to be honest. And with the next one we go back to the v...

There's not been a lot of Dylan in my life until now. I know of "the hits". I own Blood On The Tracks, which I think is excellent, and Christmas In The Heart, which is fun. I had a CD copy of "Love and Theft" which got trapped in a car stereo soon after I got it without me really getting to know it. I've read Chronicles Volume I, his first memoir, which I enjoyed. I've seen, and really liked, Don't Look Back, the documentary of his 1965 British tour. Other than that, he's a bit of a closed book to me. He's an important artist. He's won the Nobel Prize for Literature. I like most of what I've heard previously. One of these days, I've thought, I must get to grips with him. Properly. I like doing this kind of thing. I've listened to the whole catalogue of some artists back-to-back: Leonard Cohen, Sparks, Queen, Bowie, the Beatles, Steely Dan, and the Fall. All have been really enjoyable and, in the cases of Sparks and the Fal...