What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (vinyl)



Is this review really necessary? It's a Dylan composition. Could it be anything but great? Actually I did not love
more tracks than I thought, 9 of the 21. Side four is where it really got weak for me. Dylan put all the tracks
together which includes unreleased tracks from the Basement Tapes sessions, making up five of the seven tracks on
side four. Was not a big fan of that album and those tracks here turn out to be some of the weakest. A few of the
tracks I don't love might surprise you. Lay Lady Lay, The Mighty Quinn (prefer Manfred Mann), I Shall Be Released
(prefer The Band). Three Dylan tracks I love here I think are equally as good as covers, All I Really Want To Do
(Sonny & Cher), All Along The Watchtower (Hendrix) and She Belongs To me (Rick Nelson). Of course most of the songs
on this album were not really hits as I use the term. A few of his classics from those best years make up for any
sub-standard material. A great album for beginners, along with Vol 1 of course. Really puzzled by the lack of these
tracks on youtube. Some of his best, and yet not there, at least not the original versions. Must be a conspiracy.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Tomorrow Is A Long Time

Best Track - Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again

1) Watching The River Flow ***
2) Don't Think Twice, It's All Right ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6FnrZOpzqs
3) Lay Lady Lay **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6ODMKSWzT4
4) Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again ***
5) I'll Be Your Baby Tonight **
6) All I Really Want To Do ***
7) My Back Pages ***
8) Maggie's Farm ***
9) Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You **
10) She Belong's To Me ***
11) All Along The Watchtower ***
12) The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) **
13) Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues ***
14) A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall ***
15) If Not For You **
16) It's All Over Now Baby Blue ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBiwMT77Csg
17) Tomorrow Is A Long Time **
18) When I Paint My Masterpiece ***
19) I Shall Be Released **
20) You Ain't Goin' Nowhere **
21) Down In The Flood **

3's - 12
2's - 9
1's - 0

Grade - 2.6

so many albums, so little time