Expecting Rain

it was after owning BoB and Highway 61 for about 4.5 weeks, and then playing Bob Dylan Greatest Hits 1 that I realized he never put 4th street down on an album properly. there are days when i still can't believe this !

the album cover is a masterpiece, no? i can't think of any better. such a nice composition of color and and a nicely framed shot... i forgot which one won the survey a while back....

If I had voted^^ it would have been Blonde on Blonde. Great shot of angry young poet. Changing popular music!! Then BIABH.
HWY 61 is a classic though no doubt.

Years ago, I used to play Highway 61 on my cassette Walkman, day in and day out for probably a year. Until I got really sick of it. Now, I can hear it just once every so often, and then put it away.

Highway 61 album cover is perfect. I prefer it over the BoB drugged out look.

Highway 61 - What else can you show me?

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BoB cover seems more inspired by French New Wave cinema than by drugs.

Oooooops! This is the first time I've ever disagreed with something you said, Raging! Although I do LOVE the Hwy 61 cover,



BoB is my all time favorite:


I simply love his hair. Oh! This isn't the Visions thread. Sorry. Carry on.

I think i like Greatest Hits Vol. II album cover best...followed closely by Nashville Skyline.

Side one
1."Like a Rolling Stone" – 6:09
2."Tombstone Blues" – 5:58
3."It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" – 4:09
4."From a Buick 6" – 3:19
5."Ballad of a Thin Man" – 5:58
Side two
1."Queen Jane Approximately" – 5:31
2."Highway 61 Revisited" – 3:30
3."Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" – 5:31
4."Desolation Row" – 11:21

Look at the songs on this album!
...I'd buy it for Queen Jane or Tom Thumb Blues alone.

Positively 4th Street
Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window

In 1965, who released anything as good as the outtakes from this album?

1965 was good year. Arguably the best of the entire 60's. For any 'peeps operating at the time.

I guess I am talking about him, the way he looks, not the cover concept, but will you give me an example of what you are talking about so I will like it better


doomed, I am marking this date in my journal *the day doomed and raging disagreed*

And. Life went on. Whilst not a care.

k, watch these two clips from Godard's Alphaville, maybe you'll see what I mean:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LQ9BOlE ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHikpdf8ktM

Fun fact-- in an interview Godard once said that he considered Dylan a kindred spirit and even complimented R&C.

okay, I can see that. Is there anything you haven't seen⁄read⁄listened too, Giada? Your knowledge is impressive

You DO realize the shot's out of focus, right? On purpose.

Nope, pretty sure the album cover for highway is the coolest album cover of all time. You know exactly what you're going to hear with it. It's so damn cool.

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k, watch these two clips from Godard's Alphaville, maybe you'll see what I mean:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LQ9BOlE ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHikpdf8ktM
Fun fact-- in an interview Godard once said that he considered Dylan a kindred spirit and even complimented R&C. [/quote]

Maybe someone could open a thread for Bob's photos album cover ? Bob's covers are so nice !

No, you dont - you've heard the album and retrofitted the cover to its contents.

Nobody can know what to expect from just looking at an album cover, don't be silly.

You're also wrong about it being 'the coolest album cover of all time'. I take it you dont really ever look at other album covers?

Even within Bob Dylan's own career, there are a number of cooler album covers: Freewheelin', BIABH, BoB, JWH, Blood On The Tracks, Basement Tapes, Desire, Hard Rain....

Highway 61 Revisted's cover is actually pretty boring if you ask me.

Best album covers: Freewheelin', BIABH, JWH, Basement Tapes, World Gone Wrong, Live 1964 1965 1966

Best of all: BoB

The H61 album cover certainly spurs on good musical emotions in my head!
This is the Album for which I've given the most revenue to 'Dylan, Inc.'
I have bought countless (countless!) copies of this suckah in the vinyl years and even more in the CD years, passing them out like a freakin' door to door preacher. Even giving them to pubs for their collections (and so I can listen to them). This one is a MUST HAVE in any collection, period.

I've never been real keen on the cover either. It's reminiscent of those 50's and 60's album covers where the record company slapped any old weird picture on (like Beach Boys Pet Sounds) whether the artist approved or not. I know that wasn't the case with Highway 61, it just reminds me of it. To me the cover might have looked better in some kind of monochrome, to suit the music.

I think it's a riot that they kept the dude in the back holding the camera. Someone here probably knows who it is. And while you're at it, please I.D. girl on the back odd Empire Burlesque. That one still remains unsolved as far as I can tell,

^^I read somewhere that it is Bobby Neuwirth.

On the back of EB? Yay! Solved!

No, I read It's someone else. I can't remember who, though.

I saw that camera on display when I visited the Bob Dylan exhibit at Experience Music Project in Seattle, back around 2004.

They had D.A. Pennebakers camera equipment that was used to shoot Don't Look Back, too.

Daniel Kramer who took the picture says it's Neuwirth

http://www.empmuseum.org/programs/index ... icleID=570



So Bob sat down on the steps and I looked through the camera, and it looked a little naked behind him. His road manager then was Bob Neuwirth. So Bobby Neuwirth stood behind him in kind of a striped shirt, and I still needed something else. So I dug into my camera bag and came up with a Nikon SP that I had done a lot of the shooting of all of these pictures that I'd done of Dylan was with this particular camera, because it's not a single lens reflex, it's a range-finder camera like a Leica, which gives a very little sound when you're shooting, and so it's more discreet. I gave Bobby that camera to hold and he held it at a level I kept ranging, so that it would just kind of fill some of the void in the background. And I shot two frames. That's the end of the story.