![]() ![]() And this is the real reason why the re-designed album was a good idea. In the case of ‘Idiot Wind’, these are generally for the better.īut single songs is one thing – an album is another. But even if we were to define the New York versions of ‘Tangled up in Blue’, ‘Idiot Wind’ and ‘You’re a Big Girl Now’ as perfection, the Minnesota versions are close enough to this level, musically, and the extra qualities they add to their New York counterparts (the rhythmical drive of ‘Tangled’, the angered bite of ‘Idiot Wind’, the softness of ‘Big Girl’), more than make up for the lyric changes. In a one-to-one comparison between the two versions, the New York versions may get the upper hand (the one indisputable exception is ‘If You See Her, Say Hello’, but even ‘Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts’ is better in the Minnesota version). They’re wrong even here, although they’re closer to the truth this time. Others may tell you that had he not tinkered with the songs, but left them alone as they were recorded in September 1974, it would have been a far better album, and that the songs that were rewritten and re-recorded over Christmas, with local Minnesotan musicians brought together by Dylan’s brother David, are inferior, both textually and musically, to the intensively emotional New York versions. ![]() 44, if necessary), they will eventually agree.īlood on the Tracks is also Dylan’s best album in its released form. Others may tell you that Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61 Revisitedor even Desireis his best album, but theyre wrong, and when pressed (up against the wall, and in the presence of a. Blood on the Tracks is Dylans best album. ![]()
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