I LOVE your passion for Act 2. LOVE IT. I have flickers of memories from the 70s and hearing this album. It wasn't prominently played, but it was played. It didn't hit me as hard as so many of the other albums from that time period(hello Soap Opera), but it did burrow itself deep into my brain. It definitely stuck out. and yes, the album is totally WHACK. in the best way.
The updated "no votes" list: A Little Bit Of Abuse All Night Stand And I Will Love You Animals In The Zoo Are You Ready Artificial Light Artificial Man Back To Front Bernadette Bright Lights Brother Cadillac Climb Your Wall Come On Now Completely (instrumental) Dear Margaret Definite Maybe Do You Wish To Be A Man? Don't Don't Ever Let Me Go Don't You Fret Down All The Days (Till 1992) Easy Come, There You Went Egg-Stained Pyjamas Elevator Man Entertainment Everybody's A Star (Starmaker) Finale Flash's Dream (The Final Elbow) Get Up Going Solo Good Luck Charm Gotta Get The First Plane Home Groovy Movies Guilty Hatred (A Duet) Have Another Drink Hay Fever Helga (instrumental) Here Come The People In Grey Here Comes Yet Another Day He's Evil Hidden Quality I Believed You I Don't Need You Anymore I Gotta Go Now I Took My Baby Home I'm Crying In A Space Introduction to Solution It (I Want It) It's All Right It's Alright (Don't Think About It) It's Too Late I've Got Your Number Jack The Idiot Dunce Just Friends Killing Time Labour of Love Lavender Lane Little Women Lola (instrumental blues jam version) Marathon Maximum Consumption Maybe I Love You Mick Avory's Underpants Misery Missing Persons Money Talks Monica Morning Song Mountain Woman Mr. Shoemaker's Daughter My Diary Natural Gift Never Met A Girl Like You Before New World Noise Nothing To Say Nuclear Love Once A Thief Opening Ordinary People Out Of The Wardrobe Perfect Strangers Permanent Waves Phobia Predictable Preservation Pressure Prince Of The Punks Queenie Repetition Revenge (Davies, Larry Page) Rock 'n' Roll Cities Running Round Town (instrumental) Rush Hour Blues Sand On My Shoes Sleepless Night So Mystifying Sold Me Out Sophisticated Lady Spotty Grotty Anna State Of Confusion Stolen Away Your Heart Such A Shame Surviving Tell Me Now So I'll Know The Contenders The Good Life The Poseur The Shirt There's A New World Just Opening For Me Things Are Getting Better This I Know To The Bone Travelling With My Band Uncle Son Unreal Reality Wait Till The Summer Comes Along (Dave Davies) Welcome To Sleazy Town What Are We Doing What's In Store For Me When I See That Girl Of Mine Whip Lady (instrumental) Willesden Green Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight Word Of Mouth You Do Something To Me You Don't Know My Name (Dave Davies) You Shouldn't Be Sad You Still Want Me
We have a local radio announcer called Barbecue Bob so in my time out of mind new morning mixed up confusion I'm thinking of selecting a Top 40 Bob Dylan Barbecue Songs for Sunday. We are offered up a plate in Tangled Up In Blue and food was flying everywhere in Bob Dylan's 115th Dream however I do ponder if Bob has done a last supper themed tune?
Don't know how it cut these out.... 12 41 Living on a Thin Line 205 42 No More Looking Back 194 43 Where Have All the Good Times Gone 187 44 Wonderboy 186 45 I Need You 184 46 The Hard Way 183 47 God's Children 182 48 Apeman 180 49 A Long Way from Home 179 50 Don't Forget to Dance 171 51 Muswell Hillbilly 158 52 Come Dancing 146 53 Alcohol 142 54 Do It Again 140 55 Stop Your Sobbing 137 56 You Make It All Worthwhile 135 57 A Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy 131 58 Loony Balloon 131 59 She's Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina130 60 Sitting in the Midday Sun 128 11 61 People Take Pictures of Each Other 126 62 Big Black Smoke 125 63 A House in the Country 122 64 Holiday Romance 121 65 This Is Where I Belong 120 66 Lazy Old Sun 119 67 Berkeley Mews 118 68 Fancy 118 69 Starstruck 116 70 End of the Season 114 71 Afternoon Tea 108 72 The Moneygoround 108 73 Moments 107 74 She's Got Everything 107 75 Yes Sir, No Sir 106 76 Set Me Free 102 77 I Go to Sleep 100 78 Schooldays 79 Til Death Do Us Part 80 (A) Face in the Crowd 10 81 This Strange Effect 82 Education 83 How Are You 84 Live Life 85 Wicked Annabella 86 Lavender Hill 87 Australia 88 Mr. Songbird 89 (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman 90 Rainy Day in June 91 Young and Innocent Days 92 Nothin' in the World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout that Girl 93 On the Outside 94 Funny Face (D. Davies) 95 I'm in Disgrace 96 Mr. Pleasant 97 Supersonic Rocket Ship 98 Did Ya (bonus track UK/Japan only) 99 Mr. Churchill Says 100 Father Christmas 9 101 Heart of Gold
I was listening to our local NPR radio station today. Local rock critic Jim Sullivan was being interviewed. he wrote for the Boston Globe for years. I read him all the time when newspapers were relevant (sigh). Anyway, the interviewer asked who he thinks has maintained the longest period of quality output (i'm paraphrasing here) and Jim answered "Ray Davies". He pointed out his continuing work in various areas of the arts.
Things have been busy with work and life but I've been *avid*ly following the thread in any case. Today, I finally submitted my second list of 40, which was very hard; while I love the great statistics that lots of folks are collecting, I feel like my (and maybe the Kollective) well has been poisoned; I know what people like and what people really don't like, so there is an insidious and natural tendency to "herd" to the aggregate. That said, as I look at my list, I (mostly) kept true to myself, as I see a bunch of those incredible outtakes (of course a few from the 60s, but plenty through the ages!) that need ardent representation. As such, tonight I have a loudly babbling son, a wife listening to podcasts without earbuds, a television left on for some reason, two caterwauling cats, and while this track didn't make my list, I can't think about my list because ALL I HEAR IS how did Ray come up with that positively Mesopotamian (second) bridge to pair with a, well, noisy straightforward (in the best possible way) rock track!?
Not me lol Low Budget and Preservation 2 sitting so low is astonishing to me. They're up towards the top for me, but I'll always be the black sheep
Like I said earlier, there’s always a response to everything within the hallowed Preservation Chronicles.
Good question. I would have liked to see him do a song based on that bridge - a sort-of updated Fancy or See My Friends. Different.
I’ve already messed with it. Knocked off ‘Foot Of Pride’ (like a bludgeon) and ‘When The Night Comes Falling…’. Brings it down to 42. Better.
You are not alone on Low Budget. We are a two man black sheep pack. I have 6 songs from Low Budget (that number includes one of the outtake) in my top 40. I have 6 from GTPWTW too (and I tried slipping Around The Dial into my list twice [by accident] which arguably would have made a total of 7, but Paul caught me)! Over the past few years participating in this thread, I learned to love a lot of the kinks albums that I didn’t know very well. Loving their other albums, though, has done nothing to diminish my absolute love for most of the Arista era albums.
I'm trying to quickly put a top 40 together. I just noticed you have no songs from The Times They Are A-Changin'! If push comes to shove, I would say it's his best album. I am finding that in order to get it down to 40 I have to overlook some really good albums and focus on my favorites. There are many albums where it would be easy to list every song.
Yes, Mrs x coined the dreaded "circus music" sobriquet when Teen x (and the little x's) got obsessed w/ Mr. Kite. She applies it to lots of Fab songs from the later '60s and to a few Kinks tunes as well -- though, as @Fortuleo observed, when she decides she loves something that's clearly "circus music," it gets some kind of pass and is excluded from the category. (She just came through the room and denied everything. I shouted "HOLIDAY ROMANCE" - which was on her list - and she said "that's not circus music, that's a love song!") * My Dylan master playlist is just under 10 hours but has arisen to serve my increasingly esoteric Dylan phases (once or twice a year) where I binge songs I don't yet know completely by heart (thereby, ironically, increasing the number of songs I know by heart). The first few off my playlist below - I doubt they'd make many peoples' Dylan top 100s: Days of '49 (Self-Portrait) Kickin' My Dog Around (Basement Tapes Complete) Time Passes Slowly (New Morning & Another Self Portrait versions) Pretty Saro (Another Self Portrait) Clothes Line Saga (Basement Tapes) Precious Angel (Slow Train Coming) Man Gave Names to all the Animals (Slow Train Coming) Saved (Trouble No More) Neighborhood Bully (Infidels) Oxford Town (Witmark Demo) Baby, Let Me Follow You Down (Bob Dylan) I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine (John Wesley Harding) Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum (Love and Theft) Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie (Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3)
Okay, man, I knocked Full Moon off my list and it was like cutting off a thumb. I had to send it, I can't stand the heartache any longer. Still have three from Sleepwalker (and two from Low Budget!).
I thought I was ready to post a top 40 Dylan, but I forgot The Basement Tapes. I don't have room for any more songs, but I love "Clothes Line Saga". I would probably have to find room for four or five more songs from that album. Love and Theft is another favorite and "Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum" is fantastic! I like all of your choices and many of them would make my top 100.
