My very first memory of Dylan: I was about nine years old. My family was spending the summer in a cottage in Muskoka, Ontario.. We were all out on the porch at the very edge of the lake, it was late in the evening and we could hear the lapping of waves and the loons calling. My brother Walt was home from university, and he was carrying a guitar. It was the mid-'60s, and everyone was learning folk songs off records and singing them, well or badly. I was used to Walt singing Cape Breton Mines and other rough, tough folk songs, when all of a sudden he sang something that held me in a trance. The song began, "Where have you been, my blue-eyed son?" The lyrics rolled out of him, image upon image, magical, incandescent, and even though I was just a kid, it went straight to my heart. And then - for years - nothing. I barely knew who Bob Dylan was, except to hear people claiming he was a terrible singer. Then I was over at my friend Carmen's house and I heard an album playing behind a closed door - it was Carmen's brother, home from university, and he had to play his records in his bedroom with the door shut because no one could stand to hear them. But I heard, through the closed door, "Where have you been, my blue-eyed son?" And finally, I made the connection. It took us all quite a while to catch up to his early albums - we were listening to Freewheelin' in about 1968. And then he went back to his folk roots just as everyone else was going psychedelic, but when he came out with Nashville Skyline (yet another rebirth, yet another genre), we were all enraptured. Being true to his genius, as always. I began to hear him on the radio as well, and was thrilled at Like a Rolling Stone and (especially) Positively Fourth Street. I could write a whole book about this, but my favorite of all (so far) is Rough and Rowdy Ways, the album he released during the most dire, hopeless depths of the pandemic. As great as anything he has ever done. Still lightning in a bottle, still full of surprises. Still touring at well over 80 years old. Still on that road.
All these documentaries and biographies have to keep updating, and updating, and updating. No one can catch up with Dylan, he's always miles ahead of anyone else. Still going strong. And he won the freaking Nobel Prize!
He is a great artist and person.i feel so blessed to have seen him live a few times and I appreciate his music more and more as I get older. He doesn't deserve the unfair criticism.
I don’t think every song is about Sara… of course , she was in his life..his wife..but to me it is more a brilliant summary of the 60’s ..& the 60’s failed.. Idiot wind is like “ like a Rolling Stone “ & “ Shot of Love “ distillations of an artist who, like his friend, Tom petty, won’t back down . Like every other record of Bob’s, he left the best songs off it , like “ Up to Me “
Dylan had me from 'Blowin' in the wind'...you never had to love everything he did, or understand it. But I, for one, always had to keep listening and unravelling his riddles. Maestro....and much underestimated for his sly, dry wit. Bear Mountain picnic and 115th dream spring to mind for that vein. The Tracks kept me on the rails.
That’s what they say about Mozart. The conductor Richter was asked who he thought was the greatest composer of all time. He quickly said, "Beethoven". The interviewer then said, "You answered very quickly. I thought you might have considered Mozart." Richter said, "Oh, him? I thought you were asking about the rest."
There are many wonderful facets to this doc, but it really bothers me when music critics make sweeping generalizations. For example, I was an activist protesting the Viet Nam war along with so many others. No one I knew was shocked by and didn't like Nashville Skyline. I had no expectations for Bob and have always loved the album and most everything he's done. Being with Bob is a journey. There is much to see, hear, feel, experience and think & learn about.
My friends and I were a little shocked. His voice was completely different from anything he had ever done before. But did we like it? Hell yes!!! I remember like it was yesterday when my friend and I put Nashville Skyline on the turntable for the first time in the dorm room.
@@johnmcguire1792 John, much appreciated! I can write a good sentence, lol. Actually, I do like to write and have had a few small things published locally. Thanks!
When NS was released I was appalled by the vocals. I was a big Dylan fan, before and after NS. Equally “shocking” according to the documentary, was John Wesley Harding, an absolute masterpiece. Then Planet Waves…WOW!!!! Robbie Robinson’s guitar alone exaults this to one of his top albums. The Love it communicates…a very deep and meaningful album that these critics savage… “Perfunctory…disappointing…not great art”…total BS.
that performance of hard rain is probably the pinnacle of Dylan's vocals, writing, and performance in the 70's!! it totally blow my mind about 20 years ago and still does today. Incredible to see the band rocking out so loose and tight. Can't imagine not digging this. I never fully understood that mr tambourine man had a cameraman right by his crotch and mrs tambourine man standing right across from him looking angry! bob's always got a great, appropriate song, that's why we love him!
While I'd heard the pop songs on the radio, and knew about the fuss when he "went electric"", Blood On the Tracks was where I fell in love with Dylan, and I learned more about the early stuff from there. Never been w/o a version (LP, cassette, CD, digital) of Blood On the Tracks since the week it was released.
It's fun to speculate, but it's pretty annoying when the people doing it are so public with it and SO wrong. Bob Dylan didn't vanish; he acted in a movie with a soundtrack full of his music; he performed concerts with his generational comrades at the Woody Guthrie tribute; he worked on songs for a theater piece that was eventually abandoned, (but the songs stayed). There's no lull in creativity either. Nobody much but rock writers like these "hated" the records; they were big hits, sold millions, contained singles that were popular and stayed on the radio. They were different from his previous records, but that's true in every temporal direction. And they weren't "bad" because he was happy either; unless you think John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, New Morning, and Planet Waves were "bad" - with some of his biggest hits, some songs that were covered in massively popular versions, songs that are still sung at weddings and memorials and in living rooms all over. They contain a whole lot of creative self-reinvention. The way these men fuse biographical wild guesses with the songs of that period betrays a very genuine failure of imagination and a failure to enter into the imaginative worlds of the songs. There are other themes and other possible ways you can derive meaning; and it's not necessary to overdo that either. Finally, it's not that Bob Dylan needs praise for his work; there's way too much of that anyway. But this is just kind of a travesty in the real sense of the word: a misrepresentation.
Someone who is saying what I’ve been thinking for a long time! I loved John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, New Morning and Planet Waves. There are some great songs on all these albums, such as; Dear Landlord, I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight, Lay Lady Lay, Peggy Day, Went to See the Gypsy, Day of the Locust, Forever Young and On a Night Like This, and many others are as you said, still sung at weddings and even regularly by people busking on city centre streets, still being heard and still in the public psyche. These critics have the same sort of mindset as those folk purists in the 60’s, who would form their little cliques and think that they could decide what songs could be sung by Dylan and that he couldn’t play electric instruments etc, they being a sort of musical Sanhedrin, whom were the self appointed guardians of all good taste and decency. Some of them are like the Pharisees of old; full of pretension and hypocrisy. And like you said, people still bought the records so it shows that the record buying people didn’t take any notice. And what’s more, Dylan’s contemporaries still covered these songs and gave him a regular income as a song writer. Who needs their praise when an artist has validation like that!?!
The uncanny thing about Clinton Heylin's quote of Michael Gray that with "Blood on the Tracks" Dylan delivered one of his best works 10 years after being written off is that Dylan did that AGAIN with "Time Out of Mind" in 1997.
And what about Rough and Rowdy Ways? Still writing and performing excellent songs, as good as anything he ever produced, at well over 80 years old. This album helped me survive the pandemic.
I thank the heavens for being lucky enough to have Bob's music in my life ❤️and the music critics/journalists! Who do they all think they are, so full of themselves that they think they can second guess by what Bob's intentions were when he did something or other! I love Bob more than any other artist, I love shows made about him, but I can't stand this one and all the others like it,! Bunch of "experts" who seem to know more about Bob, than he knows about himself! 🤣
I feel like Blood on the Tracks. Begins as an audio illusion. Tangled up in Blue is chosen to be the first song on the album. And, you think to yourself. It can only go downhill from here. That’s how great I feel that song is. However, as you move on. You realize, every song on the album, is that great. This is a great documentary. I’m enjoying it immensely.
I would be very much interested in a similar documentary on Rough and Rowdy Ways - a masterpiece of an album on the same level as Blood on the Tracks...
Except for Robert Hilburn the former LA Times music critic who mentioned Dylan's name in all of his articles. even those articles not remotely connected to Dylan.
there's nobody that comes close to Dylan - the essence is. Dylan is so unique no other artist can be compared to him; there's Dylan and there's everybody else.
I am really sick of this. “They got upset because he did this, or he did that”. Leave him alone. He just plays what he wants, does what he wants and explores the genre’s he wants to. If you like it listen, if you don’t like it don’t listen.
John Wesley Harding is on of the best psychedelic Albums ever In fact after and including Bringing it all back home, they were all one of the best psychedelic's albums ever :)
the alternate version is even better than the company release so find it and listen an if your a dylan fan then you will hear what i mean...thanks for this docu...great job
I agree, Idiot Wind outake #4, is so different and so haunting compared to the album release, and by the time thr harmonica hits at the end i just lose it everytime, its like the harmonica is crying, totally should have been the one used on album
For me, where the rubber meets the road with his writing being comfortable in its own skin is ‘Blonde on Blonde’. I had listened to Dylan for several years or I thought I had because I had his first couple of albums and one day a friend of mine who smoked a lot of weed and was a music scholar of sorts(you know the type when you are in your early 20s) he mentioned that he thought I would enjoy Dylan’s stuff that had drums and he said he actually had a copy of blonde on blonde in his bag. I was shocked because I thought, at that time, that Dylan was strictly acoustic folk type music and when I put on B.on.B and listened from start to finish I was thoroughly floored and felt like almost cheated and unsure of everything because I had no idea that Dylan got down like that and the lyrics were like the slap of a monks staff when the younger monks stray from their meditation to a young writer such as myself. Visions of Johanna had me ready to pack it in, quit my foolish ideas about writing and start selling vacuum cleaners or something, anything because I doubted I could dig as deep into whatever it was he dug into and exorcize it into song. Then discovered his other albums and had the John Wesley Harding album on repeat for a year or more. I enjoyed discovering each album and each one I can relate to different moments of time in my life but when the album that I think captured the spirit of the eternal is ‘Modern Times’. Such a masterpiece that hangs on that wall of eternity. After an apocalyptic event, a whole new civilization can be started with nothing else but that album. Time Out Of Mind is right there with it as well as Oh Mercy. I heard Dylan say in an interview that he can’t tap into that magic he did on certain earlier songs(I didn’t hear the entire interview but only a clip so there could be more to what was said and I don’t won’t to take it out of context) but I think I’m songs such as ‘Nettie Moore’ he taps into it deeper
yup ,, if i could only pick one dylan album ,, and there is so many gems to pick from ,, it would have to be blood ont the tracks , awesome album ,, awesome artist ,love ya bob .
These people know zero about Bob Dylan. Before the Flood is an incredible record, he puts so much effort into the performances and it shows. The best version Of “All Along the Watchtower” I have ever heard, Like a Rolling Stone, it is a great record
I was at this concert, the first tour he'd done in years and the first time he'd played with the band since he "went electric." It was great being there and hearing him rework his old songs for the first time was a revelation, but I was really disappointed when I bought the album. It just didn't convey the excitement of the live performance. Dylan has said of the tour that he was just going through the motions, and both he and the band were down on their fortunes at the time, so the main impulse of this tour was most likely to make some money. It's been years since I heard the album, so I'll have to break it out and see how I feel about it now. In any case, music is subjective and everyone has their own response to it. If you haven't heard them, I would suggest listening to The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live, 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall Concert" and Rock Of Ages. Those are two great live albums.
Some people say that I´m the #1 Dylan´s mexican fan (of course I´m not). But he´s my bigger influence and Tangled up in Blue my #1 song ever. Nice Documental...
Others on here have already addressed this eloquently and I agree. These "journalists" just go too far trying to interpret Bob's work. I learned a long time ago...to just take it as it is. He's not an entertainer in the traditional sense, but an artist.
Cool! Reasoned comments, no particular axes to grind - excellent! One thing, though - the guy who waves his hands so much should control that. It distracts the viewer.
44:20 the 'critics' do not understand christianity or spirituality...this is not dylan making a joke or likening himself to jesus...this is dylan referring the suffering and the burden borne by every living being....
Sometimes it's no wonder Dylan hates critic's attempt to over analyze a purely personal artform filtered through their own biases, instead of allowing Dylan the freedom of his own filter.
65 years of Dylan and his puzzle. We are still trying to figure out the clues. The truth is there is no plot, only the eternal journey. And the journey is strictly personal.
At the time of Dylan's motorcycle accident my best friend was dating a young woman whose father was one of the physicians who treated Dylan at the time of the accident. His daughter said to my friend, quoting her father, "I shovelled his brains back into his head." As a former neuroscientist, I'm not surprised his writing and voice changed. As a Dylan fan, it was very noticeable to me at the time.
1:41 "Pulling out pin"? What a DOLT! When will you lymie self exalted in mind realize you vibrate with the frequency of a broke leg horse... To be silenced
Blood on the Tracks: "This is the album you will play to people to explain Dylan". Well... Freewheelin´, The times.., Highway 61, Blonde on Blonde, Desire, Slow Train, Time out of Mind,.. I love the album, but there is soo much more to Dylan
1:41 "Pulling out pin"? What a DOLT! When will you lymie self exalted in mind realize you vibrate with the frequency of a broke leg horse... To be silenced
Would have been refreshing to include some female critics on here. Also Nashville Skyline has some incredible songwriting, which many critics just gloss over... supposedly 'lightweight' songs that actually mean so much to thousands of people, and with endless emotional universes inside them.
Paul Simon Bridge Over Troubled Waters album 1970. Graceland 1987. Robbie Robertson/Band Big Pink 1969. Robertson's first solo record 1987. DAvid Bowie Let's Dance 1983. Dark Star 2016. Bob Dylan wasn't the only one who produced an album equal to his earlier works "10 years after he's been written off". Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash also come to mind
Are you trying to say "Lets Dance" was a benchmark for Bowie? It was absolutely disowned by Bowie and most of his original fans. Cash in comes to mind . IMHO.
He'll always be famous for the early period Blowin in the Wind folkie songs. But after many changes and some crappy albums, Planet Waves comes to mind....there was Blood. And then Desire. For me that period and those two albums with a PBS viewed live Hurricane were both personal and very powerful. Though that Clara movie totally bombed it out, overly ambitious as the complimentary angle, those two albums said a lifetime of vantage points from a established yet not over the hill, jaded perspective.
ŁATWO KOCHAĆ BOBA DYLANA GENIUSZ GENIUSZ GENIUSZ nad GENIUSZAMI KOSMOS KOCHANI na zawsze dziękuję BOGU za wszystko dziękuję BARDZO i już MIŁOŚĆ ☮️ POKÓJ MUZYKA na zawsze
Dylan was always an impressionable guy. His vocal sound on Nashville Skyline may have just come from hanging around Johnny Cash during that time period.
Great doc. But I kinda wish that certain documentarians (including these guys) would decrease the volume of the back-ground music when a commentator / analyst is explaining or elucidating. There are too many instances in which the music either drowns out the commentary or makes words and phrases unintelligible.
around 16;50 talking about dirge i believe he was refering to a passage in the bible where God almost destroyed mankind as we became evil in his sight as lucifer reminded him constantly and note it was our choice to be evil with no devil to blame in reality but he repented..dylan knew so much so young Im amazed he's still with us.
BALDERDASH....so many people explaining Dylan in the comments as if they know how he thinks. if any good music was being released you wouldn't have to exercise your MASSIVE INTELLECTS to tell me what he was thinking...i been listening since 1965 and the selfserving intellectualism never stops.
What the guy said about Nashville skyline not being liked or even “brutally attacked“ is complete horseshit Everybody. I knew in our mid teens didn’t blink an eye When Nashville skyline came out we accepted it as just another New Way,. Dylan was making great music. It was very welcomed by most
1:41 "Pulling out pin"? What a DOLT! When will you lymie self exalted in mind realize you vibrate with the frequency of a broke leg horse... To be silenced
No one really likes to talk about this certain song. It's kinda TABOO. because. After this girl met BOB D , she was ,,, a big girl now,, and it's not about sara
I gave up on this documentary because the critics annoyed the crap out of me. Dylan is Dylan; he is the soundtrack of my life. I'm not sure that I always like the person that he is, but do I like the music? Always I loved Nashville Skyline, I loved John Wesley Harding; what the heck are these guys on about?
So many people analyze Dylan and his songs. I haven't heard Dylan analyzing Dylan or his songs much. It's sometimes John Lennon would say what his songs mean. Dylan stays away from it. I prefer same. He does hint at things but thats it. He is a private man.
Before The Flood album is one of the best!! Who the H€ll was the idiot that said it sounded like thump thump thump I just want the chance to rearranges his face 😂
disappointed by the one second mention of New Morning; one of my fave Dylan albums and perhaps most under rated Dylan piece but one that has aged very well.
That Record and that time is well great. This so called documentary though is NOT. The usual assortment of talking heads expounding their expert insight on the subject and the usual tired performance clips make a good sleep aid here.😴😴
The comments made by these people on this video..about John wesley harding and Nashville skyline and the culture at that time…complete rubbish. And the one guy that panned planet waves, as many critics did at the albums release..planet waves is a great album
note to all makers of music documentaries: spare us the music critics. I know this is the easy way to pad the run time. Just point a camera at miscellaneous gasbags and let them fill the air with drivel. How much more rewarding would it be to present the actual music (remember the music?) and let the audience draw their own conclusions!
My very first memory of Dylan: I was about nine years old. My family was spending the summer in a cottage in Muskoka, Ontario.. We were all out on the porch at the very edge of the lake, it was late in the evening and we could hear the lapping of waves and the loons calling. My brother Walt was home from university, and he was carrying a guitar. It was the mid-'60s, and everyone was learning folk songs off records and singing them, well or badly. I was used to Walt singing Cape Breton Mines and other rough, tough folk songs, when all of a sudden he sang something that held me in a trance. The song began, "Where have you been, my blue-eyed son?" The lyrics rolled out of him, image upon image, magical, incandescent, and even though I was just a kid, it went straight to my heart. And then - for years - nothing. I barely knew who Bob Dylan was, except to hear people claiming he was a terrible singer. Then I was over at my friend Carmen's house and I heard an album playing behind a closed door - it was Carmen's brother, home from university, and he had to play his records in his bedroom with the door shut because no one could stand to hear them. But I heard, through the closed door, "Where have you been, my blue-eyed son?" And finally, I made the connection. It took us all quite a while to catch up to his early albums - we were listening to Freewheelin' in about 1968. And then he went back to his folk roots just as everyone else was going psychedelic, but when he came out with Nashville Skyline (yet another rebirth, yet another genre), we were all enraptured. Being true to his genius, as always. I began to hear him on the radio as well, and was thrilled at Like a Rolling Stone and (especially) Positively Fourth Street. I could write a whole book about this, but my favorite of all (so far) is Rough and Rowdy Ways, the album he released during the most dire, hopeless depths of the pandemic. As great as anything he has ever done. Still lightning in a bottle, still full of surprises. Still touring at well over 80 years old. Still on that road.
All these documentaries and biographies have to keep updating, and updating, and updating. No one can catch up with Dylan, he's always miles ahead of anyone else. Still going strong. And he won the freaking Nobel Prize!
He is a great artist and person.i feel so blessed to have seen him live a few times and I appreciate his music more and more as I get older. He doesn't deserve the unfair criticism.
Fantastic documentary. Bob Dylan is the greatest songwriter of all time!
Followed by Neil Young, Lennon & McCartney, Paul Simon, David Bowie, Brian Wilson.
Absolutely
Listening to Al Stewart, past president future, the second best lyric writer in the world.
Oh for sure. I challenge anyone who disagrees
Only a few are reading a hillbilly dictionary when wrighting their moo....sic. please get me a vomet bag... 👎
Blood on the tracks has been my favourite album of music since the very first time I heard it and still is. For me its like Van Goghs starry night.
Absolutely!
Undoubtedly BLOOD ON THE TRACKS is a masterpiece, the work of an genius poet/lyricist. SENIOR, VISIONS OF JOHANNA can't be forgotten.
Genius of idiocy.
I don’t think every song is about Sara… of course , she was in his life..his wife..but to me it is more a brilliant summary of the 60’s ..& the 60’s failed.. Idiot wind is like “ like a Rolling Stone “ & “ Shot of Love “ distillations of an artist who, like his friend, Tom petty, won’t back down . Like every other record of Bob’s, he left the best songs off it , like “ Up to Me “
@@peterjohnson1761 not one song on ,, BLOOD, was about her , that album was about something completely different,
Ha ha they weren't even on the album! And Dylan didn't write songs for sara he loved big black women and they were his muse
Dylan had me from 'Blowin' in the wind'...you never had to love everything he did, or understand it. But I, for one, always had to keep listening and unravelling his riddles.
Maestro....and much underestimated for his sly, dry wit.
Bear Mountain picnic and 115th dream spring to mind for that vein. The Tracks kept me on the rails.
Love Nashville skyline! First Dylan album I ever heard!
The best line was the last line "There's Dylan. And then there's everyone else."
It’s so true.
That’s what they say about Mozart. The conductor Richter was asked who he thought was the greatest composer of all time. He quickly said, "Beethoven". The interviewer then said, "You answered very quickly. I thought you might have considered Mozart." Richter said, "Oh, him? I thought you were asking about the rest."
@@swazifiction ... but you can say the same about Bach ...
Yep
There are many wonderful facets to this doc, but it really bothers me when music critics make sweeping generalizations. For example, I was an activist protesting the Viet Nam war along with so many others. No one I knew was shocked by and didn't like Nashville Skyline. I had no expectations for Bob and have always loved the album and most everything he's done. Being with Bob is a journey. There is much to see, hear, feel, experience and think & learn about.
My friends and I were a little shocked. His voice was completely different from anything he had ever done before. But did we like it? Hell yes!!! I remember like it was yesterday when my friend and I put Nashville Skyline on the turntable for the first time in the dorm room.
fancy yourself a writer Debs? Well put.
Nashvile Skyline is a 20 odd minute masterpiece.
@@johnmcguire1792 John, much appreciated! I can write a good sentence, lol. Actually, I do like to write and have had a few small things published locally. Thanks!
Thank you, Debra. I liked this doc, but I get annoyed by rock critics for similar reasons.
When NS was released I was appalled by the vocals. I was a big Dylan fan, before and after NS.
Equally “shocking” according to the documentary, was John Wesley Harding, an absolute masterpiece.
Then Planet Waves…WOW!!!! Robbie Robinson’s guitar alone exaults this to one of his top albums. The
Love it communicates…a very deep and meaningful album that these critics savage…
“Perfunctory…disappointing…not great art”…total BS.
So glad I have lived in the times of Dylan's music, Bless you Bob 🙏
I'M PROUD , AS WELL,AND ADMIRE HIS BIG GENIUS❤
that performance of hard rain is probably the pinnacle of Dylan's vocals, writing, and performance in the 70's!! it totally blow my mind about 20 years ago and still does today. Incredible to see the band rocking out so loose and tight. Can't imagine not digging this.
I never fully understood that mr tambourine man had a cameraman right by his crotch and mrs tambourine man standing right across from him looking angry! bob's always got a great, appropriate song, that's why we love him!
While I'd heard the pop songs on the radio, and knew about the fuss when he "went electric"", Blood On the Tracks was where I fell in love with Dylan, and I learned more about the early stuff from there. Never been w/o a version (LP, cassette, CD, digital) of Blood On the Tracks since the week it was released.
this is my new favorite documentary. wow. that end rant is fire.
Nashville Skyline was our little crew's favorite album that year. Our little group included Jackson Browne and Peter Peckar and other musical legends
26.40 MINUTES..A JOKE..an album should be 30-40 minutes. an instrumental, a re recording to fill it.
@@kevinjoseph517 Kevin has spoken.
It's fun to speculate, but it's pretty annoying when the people doing it are so public with it and SO wrong. Bob Dylan didn't vanish; he acted in a movie with a soundtrack full of his music; he performed concerts with his generational comrades at the Woody Guthrie tribute; he worked on songs for a theater piece that was eventually abandoned, (but the songs stayed). There's no lull in creativity either. Nobody much but rock writers like these "hated" the records; they were big hits, sold millions, contained singles that were popular and stayed on the radio. They were different from his previous records, but that's true in every temporal direction. And they weren't "bad" because he was happy either; unless you think John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, New Morning, and Planet Waves were "bad" - with some of his biggest hits, some songs that were covered in massively popular versions, songs that are still sung at weddings and memorials and in living rooms all over. They contain a whole lot of creative self-reinvention. The way these men fuse biographical wild guesses with the songs of that period betrays a very genuine failure of imagination and a failure to enter into the imaginative worlds of the songs. There are other themes and other possible ways you can derive meaning; and it's not necessary to overdo that either. Finally, it's not that Bob Dylan needs praise for his work; there's way too much of that anyway. But this is just kind of a travesty in the real sense of the word: a misrepresentation.
Someone who is saying what I’ve been thinking for a long time!
I loved John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, New Morning and Planet Waves. There are some great songs on all these albums, such as; Dear Landlord, I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight, Lay Lady Lay, Peggy Day, Went to See the Gypsy, Day of the Locust, Forever Young and On a Night Like This, and many others are as you said, still sung at weddings and even regularly by people busking on city centre streets, still being heard and still in the public psyche.
These critics have the same sort of mindset as those folk purists in the 60’s, who would form their little cliques and think that they could decide what songs could be sung by Dylan and that he couldn’t play electric instruments etc, they being a sort of musical Sanhedrin, whom were the self appointed guardians of all good taste and decency.
Some of them are like the Pharisees of old; full of pretension and hypocrisy. And like you said, people still bought the records so it shows that the record buying people didn’t take any notice. And what’s more, Dylan’s contemporaries still covered these songs and gave him a regular income as a song writer. Who needs their praise when an artist has validation like that!?!
Great overview with thoughtful commentary. Thank you! 🙌
The uncanny thing about Clinton Heylin's quote of Michael Gray that with "Blood on the Tracks" Dylan delivered one of his best works 10 years after being written off is that Dylan did that AGAIN with "Time Out of Mind" in 1997.
Great point--Dylan had even written HIMSELF off before Time Out of Mind!
''Oh Mercy'' - is quite a nice stop in between those two , IMO
@@ronreynolds1610 I think infidels is a very good album, a very underrated album.
And what about Rough and Rowdy Ways? Still writing and performing excellent songs, as good as anything he ever produced, at well over 80 years old. This album helped me survive the pandemic.
Thank the musical gods for Mr. Bob Dylan every day. Great music, mute 90% of the critics. Thank you for sharing.
I thank the heavens for being lucky enough to have Bob's music in my life ❤️and the music critics/journalists! Who do they all think they are, so full of themselves that they think they can second guess by what Bob's intentions were when he did something or other! I love Bob more than any other artist, I love shows made about him, but I can't stand this one and all the others like it,! Bunch of "experts" who seem to know more about Bob, than he knows about himself! 🤣
I saw him recently and it really was a great show. I can’t imagine for the rest of I’ll see a show that will be more meaningful to me.
He revolutionized all forms of music in five years, and he did it all by himself. Alone. That's what's so astonishing.
i love to bits at least 8 Bob Dylan albums plus the bootleg series, Bob is the soundtrack of my days
Keep on keeping on Bob we love you ♥
Bob Dylan only wanted to play his music and share it with others, Elizabeth ❤️🎧🎵🌹🎩🎸🎶🎹
I feel like Blood on the Tracks. Begins as an audio illusion. Tangled up in Blue is chosen to be the first song on the album. And, you think to yourself. It can only go downhill from here. That’s how great I feel that song is. However, as you move on. You realize, every song on the album, is that great. This is a great documentary. I’m enjoying it immensely.
Thanks for watching!
Dylan set his self apart early. Still to this day, there’s Dylan, and there’s everyone else. I hope to achieve 1/100th of his magic in my own career.
I would be very much interested in a similar documentary on Rough and Rowdy Ways - a masterpiece of an album on the same level as Blood on the Tracks...
simply brilliant!
Thank you! Cheers!
No wonder Bob loathes music critics and rock journalists. Hacks all.
Except for Robert Hilburn the former LA Times music critic who mentioned Dylan's name in all of his articles. even those articles not remotely connected to Dylan.
there's nobody that comes close to Dylan - the essence is. Dylan is so unique no other artist can be compared to him; there's Dylan and there's everybody else.
❤❤The Great, Legendary Bob Dylan ❤❤❤❤
Brilliantly done, hosts are fantastic.
Agree!
Bob’s music is a journey. And a destination. Down on highway 61
I am really sick of this. “They got upset because he did this, or he did that”.
Leave him alone. He just plays what he wants, does what he wants and explores the genre’s he wants to.
If you like it listen, if you don’t like it don’t listen.
John Wesley Harding is on of the best psychedelic Albums ever
In fact after and including Bringing it all back home, they were all one of the best psychedelic's albums ever :)
I think New Morning is psychedelic. Maybe because I was on acid when it came out
the alternate version is even better than the company release so find it and listen an if your a dylan fan then you will hear what i mean...thanks for this docu...great job
I agree, Idiot Wind outake #4, is so different and so haunting compared to the album release, and by the time thr harmonica hits at the end i just lose it everytime, its like the harmonica is crying, totally should have been the one used on album
Some songs grow on you, others you like at first then get fed up with them quickly. Bob's are like fine wine, they get better with age.
For me, where the rubber meets the road with his writing being comfortable in its own skin is ‘Blonde on Blonde’. I had listened to Dylan for several years or I thought I had because I had his first couple of albums and one day a friend of mine who smoked a lot of weed and was a music scholar of sorts(you know the type when you are in your early 20s) he mentioned that he thought I would enjoy Dylan’s stuff that had drums and he said he actually had a copy of blonde on blonde in his bag. I was shocked because I thought, at that time, that Dylan was strictly acoustic folk type music and when I put on B.on.B and listened from start to finish I was thoroughly floored and felt like almost cheated and unsure of everything because I had no idea that Dylan got down like that and the lyrics were like the slap of a monks staff when the younger monks stray from their meditation to a young writer such as myself. Visions of Johanna had me ready to pack it in, quit my foolish ideas about writing and start selling vacuum cleaners or something, anything because I doubted I could dig as deep into whatever it was he dug into and exorcize it into song. Then discovered his other albums and had the John Wesley Harding album on repeat for a year or more. I enjoyed discovering each album and each one I can relate to different moments of time in my life but when the album that I think captured the spirit of the eternal is ‘Modern Times’. Such a masterpiece that hangs on that wall of eternity. After an apocalyptic event, a whole new civilization can be started with nothing else but that album. Time Out Of Mind is right there with it as well as Oh Mercy. I heard Dylan say in an interview that he can’t tap into that magic he did on certain earlier songs(I didn’t hear the entire interview but only a clip so there could be more to what was said and I don’t won’t to take it out of context) but I think I’m songs such as ‘Nettie Moore’ he taps into it deeper
yup ,, if i could only pick one dylan album ,, and there is so many gems to pick from ,, it would have to be blood ont the tracks , awesome album ,, awesome artist ,love ya bob .
These people know zero about Bob Dylan. Before the Flood is an incredible record, he puts so much effort into the performances and it shows. The best version Of “All Along the Watchtower” I have ever heard, Like a Rolling Stone, it is a great record
Yes, one of my favourite live albums, some great versions. Not "going through the motions".
I was at this concert, the first tour he'd done in years and the first time he'd played with the band since he "went electric." It was great being there and hearing him rework his old songs for the first time was a revelation, but I was really disappointed when I bought the album. It just didn't convey the excitement of the live performance. Dylan has said of the tour that he was just going through the motions, and both he and the band were down on their fortunes at the time, so the main impulse of this tour was most likely to make some money. It's been years since I heard the album, so I'll have to break it out and see how I feel about it now. In any case, music is subjective and everyone has their own response to it. If you haven't heard them, I would suggest listening to The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live, 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall Concert" and Rock Of Ages. Those are two great live albums.
It's a great live album. Dylan sounds fantastic. It's just before Rolling Thunder & the songs rock.
Dylan is a gift from Minnesota
Much loved album
Dylan is one artist who doesn't people to tell us what it's all about.
Some people say that I´m the #1 Dylan´s mexican fan (of course I´m not). But he´s my bigger influence and Tangled up in Blue my #1 song ever. Nice Documental...
"There is Dylan,
and there is everybody else."
Others on here have already addressed this eloquently and I agree. These "journalists" just go too far trying to interpret Bob's work. I learned a long time ago...to just take it as it is. He's not an entertainer in the traditional sense, but an artist.
He's painting his masterpiece
Still love my Album 🌟👍🎵
Cool! Reasoned comments, no particular axes to grind - excellent! One thing, though - the guy who waves his hands so much should control that. It distracts the viewer.
44:20 the 'critics' do not understand christianity or spirituality...this is not dylan making a joke or likening himself to jesus...this is dylan referring the suffering and the burden borne by every living being....
Sometimes it's no wonder Dylan hates critic's attempt to over analyze a purely personal artform filtered through their own biases, instead of allowing Dylan the freedom of his own filter.
And now let's discuss Desires and Street Legal. Exceptional albums.
65 years of Dylan and his puzzle. We are still trying to figure out the clues. The truth is there is no plot, only the eternal journey. And the journey is strictly personal.
At the time of Dylan's motorcycle accident my best friend was dating a young woman whose father was one of the physicians who treated Dylan at the time of the accident. His daughter said to my friend, quoting her father, "I shovelled his brains back into his head." As a former neuroscientist, I'm not surprised his writing and voice changed. As a Dylan fan, it was very noticeable to me at the time.
1:41
"Pulling out pin"?
What a DOLT!
When will you lymie self exalted in mind realize you vibrate with the frequency of a broke leg horse...
To be silenced
Blood on the Tracks: "This is the album you will play to people to explain Dylan". Well... Freewheelin´, The times.., Highway 61, Blonde on Blonde, Desire, Slow Train, Time out of Mind,.. I love the album, but there is soo much more to Dylan
1:41
"Pulling out pin"?
What a DOLT!
When will you lymie self exalted in mind realize you vibrate with the frequency of a broke leg horse...
To be silenced
Would have been refreshing to include some female critics on here. Also Nashville Skyline has some incredible songwriting, which many critics just gloss over... supposedly 'lightweight' songs that actually mean so much to thousands of people, and with endless emotional universes inside them.
Thank you. I too would like to hear from female critics.
@@rossosbornfamilyfoundation3536 Why?
The One and Only!
At 23:20 l feel that about so many of his from this time, 1974, forth.
The thing is Dylan always doing his own thing. He played punk rock 1966. When everybody else did psychedelic rock he wanted to play folk and country
Paul Simon Bridge Over Troubled Waters album 1970. Graceland 1987. Robbie Robertson/Band Big Pink 1969. Robertson's first solo record 1987. DAvid Bowie Let's Dance 1983. Dark Star 2016. Bob Dylan wasn't the only one who produced an album equal to his earlier works "10 years after he's been written off". Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash also come to mind
But none of them brought out 7 brilliant albums in a row like Dylan did. And then the many other fabulous albums he's since
Are you trying to say "Lets Dance" was a benchmark for Bowie? It was absolutely disowned by Bowie and most of his original fans. Cash in comes to mind . IMHO.
He'll always be famous for the early period Blowin in the Wind folkie songs. But after many changes and some crappy albums, Planet Waves comes to mind....there was Blood. And then Desire. For me that period and those two albums with a PBS viewed live Hurricane were both personal and very powerful. Though that Clara movie totally bombed it out, overly ambitious as the complimentary angle, those two albums said a lifetime of vantage points from a established yet not over the hill, jaded perspective.
ŁATWO KOCHAĆ BOBA DYLANA GENIUSZ GENIUSZ GENIUSZ nad GENIUSZAMI KOSMOS KOCHANI na zawsze dziękuję BOGU za wszystko dziękuję BARDZO i już MIŁOŚĆ ☮️ POKÓJ MUZYKA na zawsze
@13:30 "demand for the tour was unprecedented, probably even to this day"... didn't see the Eras Tour coming did ya Clinton.
I'm surprised they don't bring up Mick Ronson he was on that tour.
Dylan was always an impressionable guy. His vocal sound on Nashville Skyline may have just come from hanging around Johnny Cash during that time period.
Great doc. But I kinda wish that certain documentarians (including these guys) would decrease the volume of the back-ground music when a commentator / analyst is explaining or elucidating. There are too many instances in which the music either drowns out the commentary or makes words and phrases unintelligible.
I personally think the New York sessions for Blood on the Tracks far outshine the Minnesota sessions.
who ARE these people who sound SO authorative about Dylan?! where are the youth...where are his REAL fans instead of all these Professor types. ?!!
around 16;50 talking about dirge i believe he was refering to a passage in the bible where God almost destroyed mankind as we became evil in his sight as lucifer reminded him constantly and note it was our choice to be evil with no devil to blame in reality but he repented..dylan knew so much so young Im amazed he's still with us.
BALDERDASH....so many people explaining Dylan in the comments as if they know how he thinks. if any good music was being released you wouldn't have to exercise your MASSIVE INTELLECTS to tell me what he was thinking...i been listening since 1965 and the selfserving intellectualism never stops.
Dylan takes each of us on a different journey.
Don't you just love the Dylan 'experts'??? Answer: Nope!
Some great footage though. Dylan burning it on the Hard Rain tour.
What the guy said about Nashville skyline not being liked or even “brutally attacked“ is complete horseshit Everybody. I knew in our mid teens didn’t blink an eye When Nashville skyline came out we accepted it as just another New Way,. Dylan was making great music. It was very welcomed by most
1:41
"Pulling out pin"?
What a DOLT!
When will you lymie self exalted in mind realize you vibrate with the frequency of a broke leg horse...
To be silenced
What about Big Girl?
No one really likes to talk about this certain song. It's kinda TABOO. because. After this girl met BOB D , she was ,,, a big girl now,, and it's not about sara
I gave up on this documentary because the critics annoyed the crap out of me. Dylan is Dylan; he is the soundtrack of my life. I'm not sure that I always like the person that he is, but do I like the music? Always I loved Nashville Skyline, I loved John Wesley Harding; what the heck are these guys on about?
it seems like THE CRITICS , never actually, got anything right about DYLANS , music or his private life.
@Fidela Romo how would you know? Are you a creepy stalker?
Blood on the Tracks was the top of the mountain for Dylan. Everything he's done since, has been "muh"
Alex Jones claims that Ballad of a Thin Man was written about him!
He wasn't alive yet
The man was a prophet!
He made folk music political? Excuse me! Woody.
Anytime Dylan performed back then, he was "leading" people.
Any of these ‘critics’ ever hang out with Bob or had a conversation with him?
NO !!!!!
@@fidelaromo6705 how would you know🤣
@@Bob_Cats even if THEY DID ,they would still be as clueless 🙄
@Fidela Romo I don't debate Dylan. You trapped me. Boo
Tangled up in blue with the band
Wow what documentary
Living on a farm happy
Yes
Irony is blood on the tapes is imo so much better version-aka blood on tie tracks ny session. Agree- as an album my favorite, nothing close.
I honestly can’t pick just one.
Planet Waves is an excellent album, from start to finish. Try not to say things just to hear yourself talk!
So many people analyze Dylan and his songs. I haven't heard Dylan analyzing Dylan or his songs much. It's sometimes John Lennon would say what his songs mean. Dylan stays away from it. I prefer same. He does hint at things but thats it. He is a private man.
Dylan said that he is in awe of Paul McCartney. He can do it all and he never slowed down.
Before The Flood album is one of the best!! Who the H€ll was the idiot that said it sounded like thump thump thump I just want the chance to rearranges his face 😂
disappointed by the one second mention of New Morning; one of my fave Dylan albums and perhaps most under rated Dylan piece but one that has aged very well.
That Record and that time is well great.
This so called documentary though is NOT.
The usual assortment of talking heads expounding their expert insight on the subject and the usual tired performance clips make a good sleep aid here.😴😴
Bob is a genius.. And a contrarian.
I've argued with Bob many times over this.
Dylan was happily married in the early 70’s??
Are you serious?? The 74 tour was excellent!!
Love the doc but what a bad lesson to teach new artists: if you're happy you won't create good art. Such bull.
Ah, the rehashed myth of the motorcycle crash ...
It was hugely exaggerated so he could get out of his contractual obligations and stop touring. That's the common story anyway.
Isn't amazing that Bob managed to stay away from main stream politics?
I wouldn’t take Blood over Freewheelin, Highway 61, Bringing it all back home
I never knew that Bob Dylan was left handed.
Dylan went electric because all the New York folkies moved to LA and formed updated country, etc
The comments made by these people on this video..about John wesley harding and Nashville skyline and the culture at that time…complete rubbish. And the one guy that panned planet waves, as many critics did at the albums release..planet waves is a great album
note to all makers of music documentaries: spare us the music critics. I know this is the easy way to pad the run time. Just point a camera at miscellaneous gasbags and let them fill the air with drivel. How much more rewarding would it be to present the actual music (remember the music?) and let the audience draw their own conclusions!