ColbyBallowe

[ColbyBallowe @ColbyBallowe]

@DylanRevisited Triplicate is my favorite standards album, Knocked Out Loaded is underrated, and Rolling Thunder has great power, but Freewheelin’ is so dear to my heart. It once helped me come back from a bad acid trip. That album makes my spirit soar. I shall be free. ❤️

[ColbyBallowe @ColbyBallowe]

@DylanRevisited

[ColbyBallowe @ColbyBallowe]

@DylanRevisited All depends on who it goes up against! Will be watching to see what you do. 😁

[ColbyBallowe @ColbyBallowe]

@JackKennedy If you’re going by commercial success as a stand up and as an actor then this list makes sense. If you’re going by quality of each, then someone like Robin Williams (who is a top 10 stand up and has an Oscar) needs to be higher. I take it then that you valued box office success.

[ColbyBallowe @ColbyBallowe]

@batcountry1980 Will have to give the JLL live album a spin! Big Time (and the accompanying movie) is pretty boss.

[ColbyBallowe @ColbyBallowe]

@provolone_snaps @DylanRevisited @batcountry1980 Dylan’s got a version for every taste! Great, great lyrics helps.

[ColbyBallowe @ColbyBallowe]

@provolone_snaps @DylanRevisited @batcountry1980 If you haven’t already found it, here it is:

https://t.co/kXxan4AGt9

[ColbyBallowe @ColbyBallowe]

@batcountry1980 I had never heard of The Jam until I got old enough to get Spotify and caught them on a mix. I think it’s because I am American and they didn’t make an impact here at all. Raoul, you’re British, right? If so, would you say that they were inescapable over there?

[ColbyBallowe @ColbyBallowe]

@DylanRevisited @provolone_snaps @batcountry1980 I gotta say though, I like the Tell Tale Signs bootleg version of MOTT better than the Oh Mercy version. To me the quicker tempo feels more like the speed at which he thinks, so it’s as if it’s the words fall out of his mouth as he thinks the thoughts and feels the feels.

[ColbyBallowe @ColbyBallowe]

@DylanRevisited Also like “Polka Dots and Moonbeams” from Fallen Angels. The rest of the record is not my favorite.

[ColbyBallowe @ColbyBallowe]

@DylanRevisited Desire, but it’s close! I just got a vinyl copy of Oh Mercy and honestly forgot how full that record sounds. Street Legal took me a while to get into, but now I fully dig it. To me Fallen Angels is the weakest of the standards albums, but I love “On a Little Street in Singapore.”

[ColbyBallowe @ColbyBallowe]

@DylanRevisited Blonde On Blonde (which I’ve been getting back into lately) but just want to say that I really like both As Good As I Been To You (not as much as World Gone Wrong, but still plenty) and Another Side, which is hilarious and so alive, and like Please Please Me recorded in a night!

[ColbyBallowe @ColbyBallowe]

@ShamanicFallout @dilanesper @polanskydj It’s like when Pauline Kael callled 2001 A Space Odyssey monumentally unimaginative. Like, actually it’s the exact opposite.

[ColbyBallowe @ColbyBallowe]

@ShamanicFallout @dilanesper @polanskydj This is exactly correct. And Bob Dylan isn’t just non-offensive or mildly positive; he is an ASTOUNDING singer. Listen to his voice in The Basement Tapes compared to the Band - his spirit is so enormous and the intelligence & liveliness shine. He’s obviously who you want singing.

[ColbyBallowe @ColbyBallowe]

@DylanRevisited I just think the instrumentation is exotic, the chord changes are evocative, and the singing is enthusiastic and exciting, so it sounds robust.

[ColbyBallowe @ColbyBallowe]

@DylanRevisited I think it’s my 10th favorite Dylan. It’s one I reach for when non-Dylan fans are in the room cause it’s such a full-bodied, fully-felt sound that’s invigorating to listen to even if you’re not paying full attention. It’s only upon closer inspection you find anything unsatisfying

[ColbyBallowe @ColbyBallowe]

@batcountry1980 I got on a kick listening to this song a few weeks ago! The drums and the harmonica are particularly biting and awesome.

But to live outside the law you must e honest - I know you always say that you agree. Oh where are you tonight, Sweet Marie?

[ColbyBallowe @ColbyBallowe]

@bobdylanlover63 My mother was the daughter of a wealthy farmer.
My father was a traveling salesman, I never met him.
When my mother died my uncle took me in; he ran a funeral parlor.
He did a lot of nice things for me and I won’t forget him.

[ColbyBallowe @ColbyBallowe]

@sonnyboyoyo @t0mbstoneblues Mine isn’t either, but you would agree that Dylan’s 21st century work is seen as more highly respected than McCartney’s, yes? I think there’s a reason for that - it’s much higher quality. Dylan has written dozens of classics this century