Appreciating that (a) The Fall are a Marmite band and (b) they have a massive body of work over the years I wonder what release you would recommend that someone starts.
This doesn’t mean the most accessible thing but something that gives a flavour of all the band are and why they are so revered
Recently I decided to listen to all the Bob Dylan releases through and asked advice on what order etc. I decided to do this in phases as opposed to fully date order or chronological. I have just completed Phase 1. It took longer than I thought (but I am doing 1001 album generator and listening to other stuff as well)
I listened Dylan’s 1959 to 1964 stuff in what I am calling the “Becoming Dylan’ phase (this order I think)
Studio Albums
- Bob Dylan
- The Freewheeling Bob Dylan
- The Times They Are A-Changing
- Another Side of Bob Dylan
The Bootlegs and Live
- Through the Open Window - Bootleg Series Vol 18 (8cd version)
- The Whitmark Demos - Bootleg Series Volume 9
- Gaslight Tapes (I had to assemble this one as I don’t yet have the CD so I listened to more tracks than on that album)
- In Concert – Brandeis University
- Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall- Bootleg series Vol 6
- No Direction Home: The Soundtrack - Bootleg Series Vol 7
Original Mono Recordings (yes heard the albums twice)
- Bob Dylan
- The Freewheeling Bob Dylan
- The Times They Are A-Changing
- Another Side of Bob Dylan
I also watched
- No Direction Home
- A Complete Unknown
And read
- Chronicles Vol 1
- The Double Life of Bob Dylan - Clinton Heylin
(I perused Bob Dylan Scrapbook 56-66 but will come back to this when I get into the 66 stuff)
Phew! Have I missed anything important?
Note - I am swerving the Copyright Collections for now. I might do them at the end of my journey. I’m also leaving tracks on multi year compilations like BL Series 1-3, Biograph, side Tracks etc. I will slip them in when I want a break from a single era.
MY THOUGHTS
It was interesting listening to Bob Dylan find his path and his voice (and reading about it). Personally I didn’t think that happened fully until the latter half of this time.
If I had to narrow what needed to be listened to at this time it wouldn’t include the four studio albums. I’d go with the following
- The Carnegie Hall Concert 1963 (last 2 discs of TTOW)
- 1964 Philharmonic Hall Concert
- No Direction Home Soundtrack
The two concerts are early Dylan at his best and the Soundtrack is a good short form summary of Dylan becoming Dylan
Both books were great. One probably more factual than the other 😉
I did not understand who A Complete Unknown was for. Great acting and playing by Timothee but the story was to truncated with too much theatrical license for Dylan fans and not interesting enough for the casual watcher
I’m a subscriber to Apple One. And therefore Apple Music has become my streaming platform (although I think I have some Amazon streaming from a prime account but don’t use). I also have a (very) large collection of tracks ripped from my CD collection on a synology NAS. Whilst I listen at home via a Hi-Fi streamer most of my listening is via iPhone or iPad.
Ideally I’d like to be able to do the following on my phone/pad
That is the priority order with 1 & 2 being equal.
My question is whether there is any kind of App or combination of apps that would allow me to do this easily. I’m thinking not but it is worth an ask.
Does anyone know where I can source the Prince NYC cassette tracks preferably lossless? Is it on any streaming sites or other places? I don’t think I’ve ever heard these two tracks