100 Albums That Matter - Bob Dylan's Self Portrait

[@lyndonmclovin7910]

Great review, totally agree with you, I bought it expecting it to be awful, but I really enjoyed it, and read an interview with Pete Townshend in which he said he loved it too!! Cheers oldmate😊✌️

[@luisfernandezmartin1878]

It's great to hear about Bob's less known/appreciated albums. When I saw the cover of "Blue Moon" was there I wasn't sure if there was a need for another one but, as you said, it's Bob sharing the music he likes. I ended up loving his version

[@kenhill295]

Totally agree. Lots of great moments on this record. Some silly and kind of ????? but all in all an album worth owning if you love BD.

[@davidrobinson9507]

Self Portrait was as ahead of its time, and as grand a record of terrific music as any artist could ever make. I perform Copper Kettle, Alberta, Strait of Belle Isle, love all the stuff on Self Portrait. Great musicians, lovely arrangements, lots of diverse influences and homages. Society is/ was just too dull and thick and unappreciative. Same old story.

[@kenkaplan3654]

Something was there but not on the studio version. Dylan did not want to take complicity for how he was perceived. His desire for self agency was real but so was his unbridled ambition. Thank God for his Olympian talent. He could not restrain himself and created a masterpiece with Blood on the Tracks, then threw himself into the Rolling Thunder Tour. Even his detour into fundamental Christianity could not stop his essential self from emerging. This planet is a far better place because of Bob Dylan. His legacy is incomparable.

[@gratefuldawgs2738]

Good Stuff I subbed ya🎉😊

[@davidrobinson9507]

The New Morning songs, and the Self Portrait songs are actually from the same sessions. People generally assume otherwise.

[@chrisgregory3805]

The author of the Rolling Stone review was Greil Marcus

[@vinylfetishclub341]

Yeah, I f'ed that reference up.

[@armandofusco54]

I very much enjoyed your video as, being a life long Dylan fan, I think this album is too often overlooked. Whilst I agree with most of your comments on the individual tracks that you mention, I have to admit I like the cover of The Boxer. At the time of the recording Self Portrait Dylan was splitting up with his manager, Alfred Grossman, and to ensure there would be as little copyright income as possible for Grossman, Dylan included mostly covers and very little original material in this album. Also, the Columbia Records recording studio used by both Dylan and Paul Simon is located on 7th Avenue, hence the reference to "the whores on 7th Avenue" in The Boxer.

[@mejbarron]

Shadow Kingdom, 2022? is his most recent album. I love it all, especially Queen Jane Approximately and What was it you wanted. I really like your style.

[@bougachu]

The Bootleg Series version of this album is better but the original release is nice and pleasant enough

[@satyanarayanaguda4848]

You are a God, Man You are a soul in a human You are a flow on a tongue You are words in a mind You are a flow on strings of mistic complex It's alright 'ma that's only rhythmic riverines Of poetry and flow of fragrance in the enchanting windy plains and running riveres Glowing icy peaks & Brewing Clouds Over the high lands Looking for the flowing rivers and gushing waters It's alright 'ma that's only rhythmic riverines Of poetry and Flow of fragrance into the past and present alike waiting for the new spring to visit and feel the flavour of the present Ma I am only running my mind to reach the words of Dylan Resonating the sounds of ever mystic Bob Mesmerising stoic eyes Glancing into mistic might Day or night Moon or sun Mysteries or Marvels Moving tone of Dylan in poetry As mystical as Milton's Paradise always regained but never lost It's alright 'ma that's only rhythmic riverines Of poetry and flow of fragrance into the winds of valleys and heights of mountains from the riverines to skies Ma, tell Tambourine man to sing Volcanic voices Waves like rhythms opening into tunnel of Musical Vocal caves I am sitting in Cafe Roya where mystical music overlaps magnanimity of poetic musings Dylan Oh Man Poet or Performer Singer or Musician Nothing matters But flowing with you Into singing waves

[@nickmoranis2865]

It works perfectly to move onto New Morning, which is a perfect record.

[@vinylfetishclub341]

Love love love NEw Morning.

[@nickmoranis2865]

@@vinylfetishclub341 Yes! Someone else.

[@tardisrider613]

I love maters! They grow in my garden.

[@blazak]

Fixed. ;-)

[@tardisrider613]

@@blazak ;)

[@gratefuldawgs2738]

Planet Waves is my Self portrait 😊

[@jellyfishman5465]

every one of his albums and bootlegs would be on the list /:

[@patrickmileham1364]

Idk I just love it

[@newspapertaxis1]

OMG!!!!!! Donnie is facing the camera now!!!!!!!!! Please Fetish.........PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@vinylfetishclub341]

I did that for you. Next episode watch for the Osmond Brothers lunchbox!

[@newspapertaxis1]

@@vinylfetishclub341 Ha!!! I bet you did!!! So help me..If I turn on your channel and see Donnie sitting on your lap I'm Out!!! I am so far out you won't see me with Binoculars!!!!

[@miketomlin6040]

I certainly don't want any Boobie Dielong Lp's in my collection. The horrendous singing, superficial lyrics... ETC ETC. I would agree 5/6 of your first 44 are worth owning. Although Ambient 4 is stronger than 1 and 2!

[@boxingjerapah]

I'm a huge Bob fan and this album is a sloppily produced and assembled mess. It doesn't matter. However, this choice will probably get you clicks, so well done.

[@vinylfetishclub341]

Ah, thanks. Not why I did it but I hope you're right!

[@nickmoranis2865]

Bob Geldof? Each to their own I suppose.

[@evandylan]

I really hate this album. Still 😎

[@barryUFF]

Love Dylan, but this album just DOES NOT matter. There are a couple of good songs, but it is a DOUBLE album and has piles of junk on it. Dylan achieved his aim. His was able to make a duff album and it did damage his image. Why include this on a list of albums that matter?