Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

I was really looking forward to this one, so it's a shame it was so badly scratched. It's the first album I've found that I actually tried to play that, after listening to it, I don't think I'd be able to play again. There's a big ugly nick right in the middle of Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues and other skips and scratches all over the record.

This was the first Dylan album I owned, on CD, and at the time it was my favorite. That didn't change until I got my copy of Bringing It All Back Home which is still my favorite, and which, fortunately, plays just fine.

Still, Highway 61 is a classic and I don't feel like my collection would be complete without a copy, so I'll have to seek one out. At least the jacket is in pretty good shape. I could always frame it and throw it up on the wall.

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Sebastian Cabot, actor, Bob Dylan, poet

Look at the Mona Lisa smile on that fat fuck's face. That is the face of a man who knows he is about to take some money from some hippies.

Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Plays beautifully. When I played this for Amy she said, "Wow, I never realized how much I really liked Bob Dylan." I think my favorite song on this album is "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright."

I don't really have much to add. I played it over a month ago when I was deep in the depths of studying for finals and I don't remember much. Plus I'm home alone and drinking because fuck you I'm a grown up I can do what I want.

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Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home

Played this one last week some time. I've just been so busy with school I haven't been able to update the blog. I'm so glad this semester is almost over.

At any rate, when I was young, probably right around the age I was when I still thought Catcher in the Rye was great, well before I realized Holden Caulfield was just a douche,  I started listening to Bob Dylan. This was one of the first two albums I listened to. Guess what the other one was. Go ahead. Guess. I'll wait.

Correct: Highway 61 Revisited.

They are both great albums. I still like Dylan. I probably like him more now than I did when I was old enough to have realized that everyone was wrong about everything, but not yet old enough to have realized I was too.

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