[The Oasis Fan Guide] Oasis Recmendations: Bob Dylan

[Jennifer]

"The tune made famous by Manfred Mann, which is brilliant, but the original? Phew...far out! This is why Dylan's a genius."-Recent Noel Itunes playlist.

Noel loves Bob, no not that way:)  But he does, while  writing Mucky Fingers Noel was listening to a lot of Bob Dylan (can't you tell?). Noel, also during his  and Gem's Stop the Clocks solo tour , He Dylanized "Whatever". Noel has also said he would love to work with Bob Dylan, but sadly he doesn't think Bob would know who he is!  Bob Dylan is great, not only is this an Oasis recommendation, this is a Oasis Fan Guide personal rec!

Some Dylan Picks: 

Highway 61 Revisted:Dylan was virtually gushing great songs when this masterpiece arrived in the summer of 1965. From the epochal opening of "Like a Rolling Stone" through the absurdly apocalyptic closer, "Desolation Row," his command of surrealistic language was daring and amazing. As a vocalist, he was rewriting the rules of the game. Jimi Hendrix made note of Mr. Z's technically suspect pitch and decided that he too was a singer. And the backing, though ragged, is precisely right. Is this the essential Dylan album? It's certainly one of them. --Steven Stolder

Blonde on Blonde: is Dylan's absolute masterpiece. The two-record set featured the stoned celebration of "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" and the sweetly engaging "I Want You", but it was for it's ballads--"Visions of Johanna", "Just Like a Woman" and the side-long "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands"--that he drew forth the most dense, hypnotic music of his career, and poetry that overflowed not only with hypnotic wordplay but a depth of mood that language can rarely convey. Played by guitarist Robbie Robertson, the future leader of the Band, as well as by a group of ace Nashville studio musicians, the songs were hardly country songs, but the recording milieu certainly was--and it suggested the next turn Dylan might take. -Amazon.com 

Modern Times: At a time when the majority of those his age are drifting into retirement, 65-year-old Bob Dylan has put the capper on a three-record run that ranks with the best in his storied, 44-album career. Like Time Out of Mind and Love and Theft before it, Modern Times is a rootsy, blues-soaked pool of the purest form of Americana--skipping the progressive bells or whistles for an understated backing by his touring band. Dylan's voice, which cracks, rasps and moans from the pop singer's pulpit, hasn't been this rich and emotive since 1976's Desire. And while his lyrics prolong his steadfast allusions to a higher power and his own immortality, they are not without the Dylan mirth, as when he sings of tracking pop queen Alicia Keys from Hell's Kitchen to Tennessee in "Thunder on the Mountain," the album's opener, which teams with "Someday Baby" and "Rollin' and Tumblin'" (for which Dylan misguidedly claims writing credit) as the record's most fiery numbers. Still, it's the Dylan that tells of a slave-loving owner ("Nettie Moore"), brings New Orleans to the front burner ("The Levee's Gonna Break") and plays the part of an eloquent lounge singer ("Spirit on the Water," "When the Deal Goes Down" and "Beyond the Horizon") that makes Modern Times sound just like old times. --Scott Holter

Other Bob Dylan "stuff":

Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour

No Direction Home DVD

The Traveling Wilburys

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Posted By Jennifer to The Oasis Fan Guide at 12/03/2008 12:00:00 AM