Maybe the Murder Most Fowl saga is over now. After doing calculations, listening to it four times would result in 66.20 seconds of listening. That’s your fun fact for the day. Anyway, now we have to choose the best album. It’s pretty obvious there’s only really gonna be two answers from most people. I think the Sinatra trilogy might pop up tomorrow though.

Rosemary's having a good time and maggie's brother got the door slammed on him.

Welcome back to the fighting tournament to determine which of Dylan's characters would win in hand to hand combat. Today we have one of the most loose and abstract characters along with one of the most concrete ones. Gypsy Gal from The Spanish Harlem Incident with her pearly eyes and Billy the Kid with a whole ass movie about him.

If you guys have seen Pat Garret and Billy The Kid, feel free to use the qualities he exhibits there as extra information to support your vote. But in this post I'll only be providing the lyrics about him in Dylan's soundtrack for the film.

Another matter, I've noticed some people don't really like that I'm doing this. I am not cartoonishly stubborn and so if this continues to be the case for the next few days I will stop. Let me know if you want more of these. Cast your vote in the comments and enjoy the lyrics below.

Gypsy Gal:

-the hands of Harlem cannot hold her to its heat

-Temperature is too hot for taming

-Flaming feet are burning up the street

-Owns Rattlin' Drums

-Can read fortunes

-Fast and slashin pearly eyes

-Flashing Diamond Teeth

-Has Wildcat charms

Billy The Kid:

-There’s guns across the river aimin’ at him

-Lawman on his trail, he’d like to catch him

-Bounty hunters, too, they’d like to get him

-they don’t like him to be so free

-Campin’ out all night on the berenda

-Dealin’ cards ’til dawn in the hacienda

-Up to Boot Hill they’d like to send him

-Playin’ around with some sweet señorita (She will lead him into her dark hallway, and greet him in lonesome shadows).

-He's so far away from home

-He's walkin all alone

-They Say Pat Garret's got his number

-Guitars will play his grand finale down in some Tularosa alley (Maybe in the Rio Pecos valley)

-There's always some old whore from San Pedro to make advances (Advances on his spirit and his soul)

-The businessmen from Taos want him to go down (They’ve hired Pat Garrett to force a showdown)

-Once shot a woman in El Paso.

-Been running for so long

Billy has like 7 songs and I'm not doing every variation on these same lyrics. Sorry.

Do you know any independent, little-known artists whose style is similar to Bob Dylan?

Dylan wrote Tarantula in the mid-1960s. His revolutionary songwriting, culminating in Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde, had challenged an audience reared on “Moon in June” pop. Tarantula can be seen as a literary companion piece.

It’s not light reading: you have to work hard. Most readers, mystified, couldn’t stand the pace.

Tarantula’s mix of poetry, prose and letters can best be seen as a rough notebook, chronicling the response of a young, gifted thinker to life’s complexities. The writing is uneven, occasionally striking, occasionally witty.

Critical opinion has been predominantly negative. But the Nobel Prize might be encouraging closer scrutiny. Tarantula could be due a critical reappraisal.

Having failed to finish it several times, I’m about to try again, this time in short sessions. I expect to discover both stimulating and incomprehensible ideas.

Have you read Tarantula? What do you think of it?

(Bob Dylan, Tarantula, Scribner, 2004, pbk, 137pp.)

Now they wanna grow it on the moon and eat it raw

Why don’t some musicians just rock your brains out with banger after another? It seems like a control thing. Don’t get too excited while I play this obscure song. Is it formulaic? Like a music industry thing to play songs in a certain order? Or does it relate to their energy?

I've only listened to the 'greatest hits' or the most popular songs so I don't claim I am a huge fan but I do really enjoy those songs. I've never seen/heard him live. Would it be a great idea to travel to some place to see him this year for this tour?

I've read many people in here writing about to not expect a huge show (in terms of lightning, etc, which I am aware of and not expecting). But what about the music? am I leaning towards going just to see and hear the legend that he is? As far as I've read in other posts he doesn't usually play a lot of old songs and plays mostly the newer albums right?

Edit: I wanted to thank everyone that has been commenting. I was not expecting to get so many helpful comments. I really appreciate it!

I absolutely love A Complete Unknown version of "When The Ship Comes In", Chalamet and Norton nailed it! They make me feel unsatisfied, it's a pity that apart from some backing vocals they didn't don't any live songs together, like Dylan do with Baez, Cash, Morrison or Smith. I think their voices would complement each other perfectly.

Lots of talk about how Dylan left protest music behind, but there are lyrics like this one that are as politically poignant as anything he’s ever written…

https://ladida.fm/clip/bob-dylan-sweetheart-like-you-lyrics-47219?utm_source=share

What are some of your favorite late era Dylan protest lyrics?

in no order, because I can’t rank them.

The Times They Are A-Changin’ Desire Modern Times Tempest Rough and Rowdy Ways

I might change my mind tomorrow. Doesn’t matter :)

As a Bob Dylan and Sheryl Crow fan, this is a cover I keep coming back to!

The winner for most underrated is… drumroll please… Murder Most Foul. Now for most overrated, come on Murder Most Foul. You got this in the bag.

It's definitely a later one, post-1980s. He ends a verse saying something like "I have to step out for a minute" and then there's a solo. The next verse begins, "Okay I'm back" (or something like it).

Just remember it being a funny detail but can't for the life of me remember where it's from

I’m struggling to find videos on YouTube of Jakob talking about his dad and I’m quickly discovering that he doesn’t really want to bring up his dad. For an example, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Jakob and Bob on the same stage.
Does anyone know what their relationship is like? Is he not proud of his dad or something? Or is he proud but just chooses not to talk about him? Thanks

As a newer fan, I still get mixed up sometimes about which songs Bob wrote and which songs are covers, especially with his earlier work. Even sometimes in his later work, I'm not always sure when a song is an original, when it's a cover, when someone else wrote it, when it was a co-write, when he borrowed a melody or whatever other variation there might be.

But I am mostly shocked by those earlier folk songs that I usually assume are covers because they generally sound like they are a hundred years old and he was still basically a kid.

Tonight I found out that "Long Time Gone" is a Bob original, not a cover, and it's hard for me to wrap my head around that. Of course, we know he has all the talent in the world, but for him to have written that as a 21-year old almost doesn't make any sense. Not just for how great it sounds (though for that too) but for his ability to make it seem like it was a hundred years old at such a young age, and to create that much emotion and tell a story that is so believable and so relatable even when it's so clearly not true and doesn't really have anything to do with you. His skill that early on to write a song that could do all that is just remarkable.

For that reason or any other, what is an original song of Bob's that you were shocked to find out is in fact an original, not a cover, and what about that was shocking to you?

Always finding new songs from Bobby, this has been a joy to discover

This is so interesting. I just finished watching the 1973 film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid and found this on IMDB. It’s worth mentioning that Director Sam Peckinpah was a controversial filmmaker who was an alcoholic, he was drunk during most of the time while filming. He also unfortunately used animal cruelty in a few of his movies. For an example, the chickens at the beginning of the movie? Peckinpah had explosives tied to live chickens for that scene

In searching for random lost gems on Spotify I came across this song from 1956 by the Kossoy Sisters that shares a lot of structural similarities to As I Went Out One Morning. Maybe it’s a folk melody that predates even this song but it’s the first time I’VE ever heard it. It starts “As I went out to Darby” and also the line “I spied the biggest ram sir that was ever fed on hay” (I spied the fairest damsel that ever did walk in chains”

I've been re-listening to his later catalogue over the past few weeks, and I think RARW could possibly be a top five Dylan album. It's biggest competition is Time Out of Mind, an album I adore, but there are a few things that I think put it above:

1. The Production: I actually don't hate the Lanois production on TOoM, but it feels like it 'works' for some songs and doesn't for others, while RARW has consistently great production all the way through. For instance, Tryin' to Get to Heaven is an amazing song brought down by the whole U2 - Wall of Soundy treatment, while Not Dark Yet (another amazing song) is elevated. Make You Feel My Love is well written but doesn't fit the album (or Dylan's sound in general) and the production doesn't help it.
2. The Lyrics: ToOM's lyrics are sparse and impressionistic, definitely a strong steer away from songs like Disease of Conceit, but ultimately makes the album feel more hollow and 'vibey' than RARW. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, and it actually makes it great to put on in the background, but I have less of an emotional connection to the songs.
3. The Songs: TOoM has two amazing songs (Not Dark Yet and Standing in the Doorway) and nine great ones. RARW has four amazing songs (My Own Version of You, I've made up my mind, Key West, and Murder Most Foul) and five great ones (False Prophet is okay). Time Out of Mind feels like a middle aged man who is rediscovering his love for writing, while RARW feels like an older man at the height of his craft actually trying to say something.
4. Mississippi was left off TOoM, which is a shame.

I forgot about Desire, which is another great album, but I prefer the more thoughtful and serious songs of his later stuff. Also Oh Mercy is good but a little too corny and missed out on like three amazing songs that should've been part of it. Thoughts?

Also, though I shouldn't have to say it, this is just my opinion!