Bob Dylan's World Gone Wrong - your favourite track?

As requested, a poll on his brilliant 1993 album of covers and traditional songs.

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Love this album. The singing, the guitar playing, the songs, the liner notes... the cover. Everything.

 

Blood in My Eyes for me. Wonderful bluesy collection of songs. The sound is slightly rougher than the previous collection, which fits the material better too.

 

I love Love Henry

 

One of my favourite Dylan albums. Love Henry is my favourite tune - but it's a difficult choice!

 

It's a tough choice for me. Either Delia or Blood.
In fact, I forgot which I voted for!

 

Two Soldiers, indisputably.

 

I'll have to listen to it again tonight before I vote. I'm all about traditional folk and blues music, so I love this album, along with Good As I Been To You.

I'm wondering what it sounds like on vinyl, because the EQ on the CD is really weird. Very thin and treble-ey. I felt it necessary to fix that with Audicity before I could fully enjoy it.

https://www.discogs.com/Bob-Dylan-World-Gone-Wrong/master/27941

 

Two soldiers

 

"Blood in My Eyes"

This is a great and highly under-rated album, and this is what the cover looks like:

 

Jack-A-Roe

 

"Delia".

The 2000-09-19 Newcastle performance was a rare treat, and remains one of my favourite live Bob experiences.

 

My God, it is a great album, but does it sound weird.
Like on-the-fly poorly done resampling.
Can u suggest some EQ move to apply?
I think it is necessary in my system too!
I have Audacity.

 

Is it possible to remove the helium from Dylan's vocals .

 

Lone Pilgrim.
I want it played at my funeral:
"Go tell my companion and children most dear
To weep not for me now I'm gone.
The same hand that led me through seas most severe
Has kindly assisted me home."

 

I don't remember my exact setting, but I didn't fuss with it, just applied the basic Bass and Treble filter with the treble somewhere between -4dB and -6dB.
Easy enough to try it for yourself.

 

ALL of THEM!

My favourites though would be:
Jack-A-Roe
Delia
Lone Pilgrim
Two Soldiers

But the album is all of a piece. Amazing singing...

 

I think his voice sounds wonderful on this.

 

Oh how I agree with you on this! The lonesome whispered vocal on Lone Pilgrim alone is worth the price of admission!! How can anybody hearing that be unmoved? Goosebump time for me every time. And they still persist with the same old "Dylan can't sing" stuff... Well, their loss, not mine.

 

Weird, I could have sworn I voted and posted in this thread already.


"Two Soldiers" is my favorite.


I fell in love with the song "Two Soldiers". Never knew the song existed before this album. Its like a time picture. It really puts one right in the civil war era time period. An elegance lost. Yet a bloody impaling saber. To me this song is as great as Ira Hayes or the story of Paul Bunyan. The phrasing and meter to the melody that sounds near anthemic, yet the words dire with pride. Its a perfect love story song. Two brothers in arms, the love for a mother and the love for a girl.

Ive sang praises to this album though before. Its Dylans best folk song covers album. Everything came together. His voice had finally aged to the bluesman he wanted to become, the songs are so very Dylan in their rarity, his knowledge of musical history comes together, the admiration of the characters is felt in his singing and his guitar work is very good; showing he has always been underrated as a guitarist.

A top ten Dylan album for me and possibly his best later Dylan album imo. Even if it is covers.

 

I can add nothing to this, other than my complete agreement on everything you've just said...
It's my favourite Dylan album of all time, the second one I bought on release date (Good As I Been To You was the first, also great but less cohesive and enchanting than WGW, IMHO) and the one that made me "get" Dylan... After this one there was no hope for me.

 

This album is the blueprint for the last few Dylan albums imo.

 

"all the friends I ever had are gone"

Poor Delia, and everything else intercontextualized

 

All the singing on this album is exquisite. My pick would be "Delia"--Dylan had never before expressed such quiet, complete devastation. Then again, "Two Soldiers" could also be a contender. He moves you less by inhabiting the characters than by telling their story, because as it progresses you feel his pity and grief for the soldiers rise up and overwhelm him. It's still shocking to hear how directly and deeply Dylan opens himself up to this song.

 

This is quite fabulous.
I never realized, before following the discussion on the "Weakest Link" for Time Out Of Mind very recently, that Dylan had released two consecutive all-acoustic albums of covers in the 90s.
I mean, I went directly from Oh Mercy to Time Out Of Mind, thinking the albums in between were minor throwaways, I don't know why.
This morning I listened for the first time to World Gone Wrong, lyrics and liner notes in hand.
What a treasure of an album. And now I want to listen to the originals from the Mississippi Sheiks.