Comments on: Bob Dylan: Sometimes More Legend Than Musician

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:45:46 +0000

I like it, and I will indeed review it, although maybe early next week I would have thought. Any background would be much appreciated.

By: Drunk Country

Drunk Country — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:39:25 +0000

If you can’t find it I’ll whizz it over on email.

Did you like the Anna Ash album, btw? Fancy doing a review? I can fill in some background stuff if you wish. She’s sending me some more/new tracks shortly that they just recorded in the Uni Michigan studio.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:33:50 +0000

Hmm, I’ll have a poke around. I love both versions here though. You can tell a songwriter whose stuff is really robust when it stands up to multiple cover versions.

By: Drunk Country

Drunk Country — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:24:35 +0000

I have played it on a previous Drunk Covers… just not sure which one right now.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:02:52 +0000

Idlewild do a version of When the Ship Comes In? Blimey, this I have to hear.

By: Drunk Country

Drunk Country — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:32:43 +0000

My old man thought Dylan was creatively/musically frigid & so wouldn't play anything by him in the house (much the same with The Beatles, bar Rubber Soul, as it happens). So I came to his music, late-ish, sitting with friends who were students (I was not), stoned off our tit sticks, all singing along like we understood stuff. I've never been a fan of him, per se, or his voice, but I think musically he has some very intelligent & curious arrangements. Which, I suppose, is why I like him more through other people's interpretations of his songs. One of those songs just happens to be When The Ship Comes IN (& I do like his original quite a bit - possibly even my favourite song of his) & Idlewild (not the best band in the world, nor name for one) do, for me, a cracking version.

By: Bart

Bart — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:44:52 +0000

De Burgh is one of the figures that, whether or not you enjoy listening to their work being performed, make up the very fabric of musical history.

His influence is vast and immeasurable in the field of musical composition and performance; and simply in those terms, disregarding the personal taste of the listener, he sits comfortably alongside the great classical composers, Guthrie, Johnson, Presley, The Beatles etc.

Moments remain that only De Burgh the performer could achieve.

Effectively it doesn’t matter how much we all like Chris De Burgh as individual listeners. The fact is that each of us, as music fans, owe him and his work a debt; and we each enjoy listening to something that wouldn’t exist without his influence.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:56:24 +0000

Um… let me think…

…er, NO!

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:50:28 +0000

You don’t fancy the Chris De Burgh version then?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:23:20 +0000

Well judging from that list only one – Giant Sand – looks at all likely to be anything other than shit. And I haven’t heard the Giant Sand one.

The rest have absolutely no chance.