Bob Dylan's Self Portrait - your favourite track?

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  1. Dave Gilmour's Cat

    Dave Gilmour's Cat Forum Resident Thread Starter

  2. gramfan

    gramfan Forum Resident

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    Love this lp...great spin during a nice fall afternoon..
     
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  3. LandHorses

    LandHorses I contain multitudes

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    "Gotta Travel On"
     
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  4. Jimmy B.

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    I didn't like that album. I wonder if I'd like "Another Self Portrait," the Bootleg Series one, I read that a lot of people who didn't like the original album liked that one.
     
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  5. majoyenrac

    majoyenrac Forum Resident

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    I like this album quite a bit....my surprise at the range showed on this album got me back to Dylan after hearing it in the late 2000's--I saw Dylan 2x in the early 2000's and was so bummed by his concerts that he fell from my absolute favorite artists group for a few years, and this messy but compelling record brought me back

    My fave: either Wigwam or All the Tired Horses...both moody and all out psychedelic....which isn't normally what I think of for Dylan.

    Tracks like Copper Kettle, Days of 49, I forgot more than you'll ever know, Alberta(s) are all little gems.

    I'm a sucker for the Dylan croon, and he has that here in spades...

    Still the album is far from a masterpiece:
    The sloppy live tracks both don't fit the spirit of the other songs on the album(severely break the flow) and aren't featuring Dylan in fine form--yet others probably call them the saving grace of the record....

    And the boxer is a big miss....

    Still despite the flaws, there is a range here not too present in (m)any other Dylan records. I suppose if I didn't love Wigwam and Horses so much (most don't) I'd think differently but to me this is a weak 3.5/5 double album that with some trimming (live cuts--yes I don't much care for Mighty Quinn--basement tapes are my least fave Dylan and I own nearly all and have all the tapes plus Tree with roots)....anyway trim those live cuts, cut the boxer and you get a 4 star country-psychedelic mishmash gem.
     
  6. Daniel Plainview

    Daniel Plainview God's Lonely Man

  7. the sands

    the sands Forum Resident

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    "Wigwam". La-la..
     
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  8. pbuzby

    pbuzby Senior Member

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    Most memorable (but not best): "In Search of Little Sadie."

    Best, maybe "Days of '49."
     
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  9. pbuzby

    pbuzby Senior Member

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    It is better.
     
  10. PretzelLogic

    PretzelLogic Feeling duped by MoFi? You probably deserve it.

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    Wigwam. Very un-Dylan, but prefaces Pat Garrett, which is one of my top three Dylan records.

    The 'stripped' version on Another Self-Portrait seems to me to just be a huge middle finger to the whole thing of offering an unplugged mix of a song, since it's so inconsequential it might as well not exist.
     
  11. Walter Sobchak

    Walter Sobchak Forum Resident

    It's tremendous and also infuriating that Dylan chose instead to release such an awful album originally
     
  12. bunglejerry

    bunglejerry Forum Resident

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    Copper Kettle, but also Days of 49, Wigwam, Quinn the Eskimo, and quite a few others.
     
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  13. tmwlng

    tmwlng Forum Resident

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    Gotta Travel On... This album I've always had a bit of a difficult time with... But it's listenable. Also enjoy Copper Kettle, Living the Blues and both Albertas. Don Gibson's Take Me as I Am (or Let Me Go) also gets a fair country-esque treatment here.
     
  14. "The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)" (live 31/08/69, Isle of Wight Festival) got my vote.

    Not an album I bother with much...
     
  15. Nipper

    Nipper His Master's Voice

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    Voted "Wigwam", though I prefer it - and most everything - on Another Self Portrait.
     
  16. inaptitude

    inaptitude Forum Resident

    Another Self Portrait is incredible. To me it shows that there is easily at least one 5-star album jumbled up between the original release and the Bootleg Series version. One of these days I'm going to try to sequence it.
     
  17. qwerty

    qwerty A resident of the SH_Forums.

    A difficult one for me, as despite many attempts have never warmed to this album. So I went with an Isle of Wight - She Belongs to Me.

    Here's what the cover looks like:
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  18. bobc

    bobc Bluesman

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    For me there's only one good thing on it: I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know. The rest is just throwaway dullness and I'm a big Dylan fan.

    Another Self Portrait has some great stuff, especially the alternate versions from the New Morning sessions.
     
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  19. Baron Von Talbot

    Baron Von Talbot Well-Known Member

    I love it, reminds me of the WHITE ALBUM. Dylan is at his peak vocal wise. He never sounded so self assured and potent as from NEW MORNING to DYLAN. While not every song is fitting and over all too much cover there still is enough to like here esp. ALBERTA and ALL THE TIRED HORSES. The story of making moonshine is my favorite here .
     
  20. AJH

    AJH Senior Member

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    Days of 49 and Alberta #1.
     
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  21. notesfrom

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  22. The Hud

    The Hud Breath of the Kingdom, Tears of the Wild

    Days of 49
     
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  23. warewolf95

    warewolf95 Forum Resident

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    I like this album a lot - I find that, for me at least, the way to enjoy it is to have no expectations.
     
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  24. mikee

    mikee Forum Resident

    "Blue Moon".
    Almost tied is"I forgot More than You'll Ever Know" but it's really the live version he played in 1986 with the Petty band that I liked best
     
  25. giantleech

    giantleech Lord of all fevers and plagues

    The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo). Dylan's ridiculous vocal makes him sound like he is three sheets to the wind.

    Self Portrait is without question my absolute favourite Dylan album.
     
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