Episodes
Saturday Nov 03, 2018
So Bloody! So Tracky!
Saturday Nov 03, 2018
Saturday Nov 03, 2018
Jake sweeps you off your feet with an in depth look at the brand new Dylan Bootleg Series box set, More Blood, More Tracks, featuring outtakes from the iconic 1975 album, Blood on the Tracks. Watch, gentle viewer, as he unboxes your heart.
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Dylan Raps!
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
You know what we here at Bowie vs. Dylan enjoy doing? Besides semi-accurately depicting the musical goings-on of David Bowie and/or Bob Dylan in any given year? We here at Bowie vs. Dylan enjoy MAKING HISTORY.
And that's just what we've done by transcribing Dylan's first and last rap lyrics to the internet for the first time ever. For some reason, nobody in all of recorded history has bothered to put these seminal utterances on any so-called lyrics sites, and for some reason, I was (and am) surprised.
That's right, you too can revel in the mush-mouthed glory of Bob Dylan "rapping" over Kurtis Blow's 1986 song, "Street Rock", painstakingly put from Dylan's mouth to Jake's hand by 75-1000 repeated listenings. It is a darn fine relief that it's only 10 seconds long. But what a 10 seconds! See for yourself (or selves if more than 1 person actually clicks on this link).
Thursday Sep 20, 2018
More Blood, More Tracks!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?
Thursday Sep 20, 2018
Thursday Sep 20, 2018
I'm Jake and I love Dylan-
And we here at Bowie vs. Dylan (Dylan side of operations) FINALLY have something to celebrate, besides the pride and joy of semi-accurately detailing any given year's work of Bob Dylan's career, which as of yet has not included 1975, otherwise known as "the only year of the 70's we here at Bowie vs. Dylan expect Dylan to win, but it might be close says Chaz but Jake knows, he knows". That of course is the year that Dylan released his second-most impactful comeback album of all (behind Time Out of Mind), and the BvD award-winner for Greatest Comeback Album (Dylan Division, juuust ahead of Time Out of Mind), Blood on the Tracks. The album that subverted and sublimated the 70's singer-songwriter pastiche, that probably made Dylan's career for life and all the upcoming ages as long as Rolling Stone magazine still circulates. And the one that really invented the concept of deluxe boxsets in the first place, although Dylan himself wouldn't actually invent that for a number of years. Because the legend was born immediately and bootlegged not long after: Dylan had recorded a mostly different version of BOTT (so close to BUTT), pressed it and sent it to Columbia (who would have happily released anything at all by Dylan at that point, up to and including an album named Butt on the Tracks, or Blood Under the Tracks [BUTT]), but soon enough had his friends listen to it, and they apparently didn't care for it, and so Dylan growled "Just kidding!" and went and re-recorded all but 5 of the tracks, we have to assume the bloodiest ones.
And so as fantastic as BOTT was and is, there is another version of it kicking around, which brings us to the present.
Read the rest of this entry »Monday Jun 25, 2018
Monday Jun 25, 2018
I'm Jake, and I love Dylan-
So much so in fact that I'm already weighing whether to purchase immediately the new, old, upcoming, affordable, is it essential or even worth it, previously released but where, Japan-only singles maybe, wait do I own some of these, I must, but no, not too many, disc 2 looks pretty choice, but disc 1 might be too larded with his earliest years, I mean anything from 65-66 is tasty, I think Columbia/Sony proved that with "The Cutting Edge" box, should I just listen to that instead, or right now, it's so good, or more relevantly any one of the shows from the massive "Live Recordings 1965-1966" box, will I like this new old one enough to throw it on while I'm making dinner some nights, and what caliber dinner might that be, am I grilling (and need a jam) or just pressure-cooking soup (and just need to pass the time), and wait, what was I talking about again?
Right, attempting to preview "Live 1962-1966: Rare Performances from the Copyright Collections".
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