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There's a soft cotton dress on the line hangin' dry
Window wide open African trees
Bent over backwards from a hurricane breeze
Not a word of goodbye not even a note
She gone with the man in the long black coat.
Somebody seen him hangin' around
As the old dance hall on the outskirts of town
He looked into her eyes when she stopped him to ask
If he wanted to dance he had a face like a mask
Somebody said from the bible he'd quote
There was dust on the man in the long black coat.
Preacher was talking there's a sermon he gave
He said every man's conscience is vile and depraved
You cannot depend on it to be your guide
When it's you who must keep it satisfied
It ain't easy to swallow it sticks in the throat
She gave her heart to the man in the long black coat.
There are no mistakes in life some people say
It is true sometimes you can see it that way
But people don't live or die people just float
She went with the man in the long black coat.
There's smoke on the water it's been there since June
Tree trunks unprooted beneath the high crescent moon
Feel the pulse and vibration and the rumbling force
Somebody is out there beating on a dead horse
She never said nothing there was nothing she wrote
She gone with the man in the long black coat.
I find I don't need anything else. Albums feel like a letdown after hearing RP, which is the greatest playlist I've ever come across. Listen to commercial radio? I don't think so.
"listen to commercial radio"
Right, what's the point? We've heard those 40 songs.
Bob is sneaking around. Stalking us. Creeping up on us.
Turn around quick! Was that him, in the long black coat?
And don't get me started on the chuffin' harmonica solos...
It's pretty good. I don't know who sang it first, and I don't care, truly. BD's singing it here, and so I'll listen. He's demonstrated good taste in the past.
And don't get me started on the chuffin' harmonica solos...
There are no mistakes in life some people say
It is true sometimes you can see it that way
But people don’t live or die people just float
I had to go 8 to 9 today....partly due to how great it flows into Cash's "Hurt" Long Live RP!!
and it's one of my favourite albums too..
Agreed. Was in Nashville a couple of weekends ago and went to the Johnny Cash museum and they were playing this in one of the rooms. Gave me chills.
From another great album that was made so much better thanks to the touch of Daniel Lanois.
Did his voice get more gravelly over time due to tobacco and/or weed smoking or was there some other reason?
I'm pretty sure Zimmy still smokes....or at least he did the one and only time I saw him in the summer of 2000. I don't think weed smoking did that to him, even if he were still toking which I doubt he does with much regularity if at all.
And this album was out in the 80s; his voice has gotten even more gravelly since then!
Oh...and as far as his singing voice goes, honestly, I can't even imagine his tunes sung in a "pretty" voice. Heck, even the most famous cover (All Along the Watchtower) was sung by an artist with a voice I wouldn't consider great; Jimi had emotion, like Bob, in his voice, and that makes up for pure singing ability a lot! Peace and Long Live RP!!
Did his voice get more gravelly over time due to tobacco and/or weed smoking or was there some other reason?
I find I don't need anything else. Albums feel like a letdown after hearing RP, which is the greatest playlist I've ever come across. Listen to commercial radio? I don't think so.
Same here!
Try some of the other tunes on Oh Mercy. It's a good album.
Love the Crickets on this one.
Congrats to him!
The Never Ending tour will end some day and the world will become a little less fun.
Sing on Brother.
Are you seriously still talking about Dylan's voice, that's like complaining or criticizing Neil Young's or Leonard Cohen's voice for that matter while we're on the subject why not criticize Tom Waits too? These are all accomplished great artists and poets their diminished vocals only makes them different and different is always better. It's the fabric of rock and roll.
Amen brother
More proof you don't actually have to sing to make a real good living as a singer.
Amen OTB - This is rock and roll people
Are you seriously still talking about Dylan's voice, that's like complaining or criticizing Neil Young's or Leonard Cohen's voice for that matter while we're on the subject why not criticize Tom Waits too? These are all accomplished great artists and poets their diminished vocals only makes them different and different is always better. It's the fabric of rock and roll.
Get over it people!
His distinctive vocals are part of what makes him great.
lemmoth wrote:
Amen OTB - This is rock and roll people
I am a great fan of Bob—I love how his voice changes, becoming more gravelly as the years go by. One of the other things I like about Bob is that just about anyone can cover one of his songs and make it distinctively their own—not better, mind you, but seriously different. While Bob was singing "All along the Watchtower" as a folk tune back in the 60's, Jimi took it and psychedelicked the shit out of it! Same story with many of his well known tunes—check out "Chimes of Freedom" for a great mix of covers.
Get over it people!
His distinctive vocals are part of what makes him great.
Amen OTB - This is rock and roll people
The original??
Yeah, Bob wrote this, not Joan Osborne. From Wikipedia:
"In his own assessment of 'Man in the Long Black Coat', Dylan wrote that 'in some kind of weird way, I thought of it as my 'I Walk the Line,' a song I'd always considered to be up there at the top, one of the most mysterious and revolutionary of all time, a song that makes an attack on your most vulnerable spots, sharp words from a master'."
RPers seem to either love or hate The Bob. I'm in the former camp but sometimes he wears me out real fast. Not on this song, though.
Oh Bob! Don't be so hard on yourself!
Why does his delivery remind me of the 3 witches dancing around the cauldron in MacBeth?
This a subtle song, note the high pitched 'cricket' sound in the background adding to the atmosphere...love it!
The original??
Still prefer the Joan Osborne version.
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But I am all for the latter half of Lazarus's comment.
Get over it people!
His distinctive vocals are part of what makes him great.
I'd have said that it was just a small part of his overall crapness.
Man, you need to get out more. Dylan is great but so was Callas. I'd bet she never spat at anyone without reason. Screeching has no a in it.
Get over it people!
His distinctive vocals are part of what makes him great.
You prefer pretty voices?
Visit the opera!
You prefer pretty voices?
Visit the opera!
This song uses an unorthodox method to pull focus back to the song. Whether you love it or hate it, I feel one must at least respect the approach and the intention.
Me? I kinda like it. It reminds me of when I was learning to ice-skate. Three steps, a little coast, and a hard landing. Get up, take three more shaky steps, coast a little further, land again... By the end, I truly appreciated ice-skating to the point where I never wanted to do it again.
Miss you so much, Cynaera...
love this song...
thanks for mentioning this--I wanted to buy her version but couldn't remember her name.
Bob is doing a Tom Waits imitation here. Hard to understand him with the growl and choppy bitten-off delivery.
edit 4/14/14: but tonight it's effin' great.
This. Dylan drives me crazy most of the time but this is actually rather nice.
Amen sister!
And another one to add to the list - I know it's wrong but I just like her cover better.
Ha! I was just thinking the same thing myselg
Here's a fellow heretic, agreeing wholeheartedly with you. Joan's was the first version I heard, but even if that wasn't the case, it works way better for me.
And another one to add to the list - I know it's wrong but I just like her cover better.
This song uses an unorthodox method to pull focus back to the song. Whether you love it or hate it, I feel one must at least respect the approach and the intention.
Me? I kinda like it. It reminds me of when I was learning to ice-skate. Three steps, a little coast, and a hard landing. Get up, take three more shaky steps, coast a little further, land again... By the end, I truly appreciated ice-skating to the point where I never wanted to do it again.
rabbi_phil wrote:
Here's a fellow heretic, agreeing wholeheartedly with you. Joan's was the first version I heard, but even if that wasn't the case, it works way better for me.
Good day!
Good day!
Agreed. On one level, all the albums he produces are about him.
Yes, this is very nice!
The man in me by ~alusbaykan
Alus Baykan ©2007-2010 ~alusbaykan
Bob Dylan@Milano '07
The man in me will do nearly any task,
And as for compensation, there's little he would ask.
Take a woman like you
To get through to the man in me.
Storm clouds are raging all around my door,
I think to myself I might not take it any more.
Take a woman like your kind
To find the man in me.
But, oh, what a wonderful feeling
Just to know that you are near,
Sets my a heart a-reeling
From my toes up to my ears.
The man in me will hide sometimes to keep from bein' seen,
But that's just because he doesn't want to turn into some machine.
Took a woman like you
To get through to the man in me.
Bob Dylan-1970
And, don't forget Leonard Cohen. Who, btw, can still fill a room w/his voice. An arena even. 02 arena in London in 2008. See and/or hear his DVD&CD Live in London performed when LC was 73 for a taste. Amazing & wonderful. Dylan has earned his props for sure, but why oh why, did he do that awful Christmas album?
I saw Leonard in November and it was transcendent. The best concert I've ever seen and his voice (for those of us who like it) was superb. Of course, he has always used his female back up singers to perfection, and they were also superb.
But now, Bob's voice is sadly a shadow of what it once was. He simply doesn't have any range left at all.
It's like someone has their hand on Bob's volume control and twisting it back and forth while he's singing...
Dylan is arguably the best songwriter of the last four or five decades, ......
And, don't forget Leonard Cohen. Who, btw, can still fill a room w/his voice. An arena even. 02 arena in London in 2008. See and/or hear his DVD&CD Live in London performed when LC was 73 for a taste. Amazing & wonderful. Dylan has earned his props for sure, but why oh why, did he do that awful Christmas album?
Dylan is arguably the best songwriter of the last four or five decades, but almost invariably I prefer other peoples' versions of his songs to his own.
And if anybody offers to spin you some tracks from his new Christmas album, turn and run ... I heard his version of Do You Hear What I Hear about a week ago and I'm still trying to get over it.
I like to think I 'get' Bob, but Joan Osborne 'one-upped' him on this tune, big time. Just my opinion, of course, but that's a great version.
I USED (pause) to like DYLAN (pause) and ALL (pause) that he WROTE (p—a—-u—-s—-e).
Now I WINCE (pause) at the SOUND (pause) of EV'RY (pause) black NOTE.
I USED (pause) to like DYLAN (pause) and ALL (pause) that he WROTE (p—a—-u—-s—-e).
Now I WINCE (pause) at the SOUND (pause) of EV'RY (pause) black NOTE.
I think that's probably because a lot of people find it better to discuss Bob than actually listen to him.
Thinking Grateful Dead's version of Knocking on Heaven's Door. Jerry Garcia, also of debatable voice talent, did an exceptional job on that and other tunes from Bob.
And Steve Hackett's.
Which Hackett album is this on??
birdland wrote:
Interesting.
Sorry, stalfnzo, I have to disagree with you.
The worst song by far, is "Lay Lady Lay (lay across my big brass bed...)," which makes me gag. I don't know what ever possessed him to write that one, or to think that it could be sexy. Or was that even his intention? Because it is repulsive. OK. I'm done.
Interesting.
I find I don't need anything else. Albums feel like a letdown after hearing RP, which is the greatest playlist I've ever come across. Listen to commercial radio? I don't think so.
I've won tickets to shows and such by listening to commercial radio. I'm okay with buying concert tickets for the commercial free and amazing play list I get here at RP. I was an uber driver for 2 years and have turned hundreds of people towards RP over commercial radio. I'd go on a rant about how great RP is 10 times a day in the course of normal conversation.