The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: Live 1966: The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert

Can be a bit much but I do enjoy some Bobby from time to time.

En del av de låtar han spelar är helt ok i studioversioner. Han lyckas inte riktigt föra över dem live. Mycket munspel. Första skivan får 1,5. Andra skivan är lite bättre och får 2,5 så totalt en 2a.

The first half is the worst thing i’ve ever heard, the second half is a religious experience

You can hear charisma coming from this imperfect voice, just with guitar and harmonica, no wonder these songs are classic.

Disc 1:
The 1st track is a 3/5, good love song(?) I enjoyed it, but I'm not adding it to my main playlist.
The 2nd track is a 3/5, it's about trying to win a girl over?
The 3rd track is a high 3/5, it's a past lover(? or like a lover)
The 4th track is a 3/5, above a lover, I feel like this whole album is about a past lover.
The 5th track is a 4/5, I'm enjoying it enough to add it to my main playlist., and I'm not even 5 minutes into the song. Yeah, I'm going to keep it as a 4/5 and in my playlist, but it's a lower 4/5.
The 6th track is a 3/5, Dylan was talking about woman lovemaking, and how if you're bad at something, it's like your a woman making love.
The 7th track is a 3/5, it's not bad, but not something I would go out of my way to listen to.
Disc 2:
The 1st track is a 3/5, not a bad song, just not something I would add to my main playlist.
The 2nd track is a 3/5, not a bad song, just not something I would add to my main playlist.
The 3rd track is a 3/5, not a bad song, just not something I would add to my main playlist.
The 4th track is a 3/5, not a bad song, just not something I would add to my main playlist.
The 5th track is a 3/5, not a bad song, just not something I would add to my main playlist.
The 6th track is a 3/5, not a bad song, just not something I would add to my main playlist.
The 7th track is a 3/5, not a bad song, just not something I would add to my main playlist.
The 8th track is a 3/5, not a bad song, just not something I would add to my main playlist.
I would give this album a 3/5, not bad, I saved 1 song to my main playlist, but not something I'm likely to go out of my way to listen to again.

I FUCKING HATE BOB DYLAN WHEN IS IT GOING TO STOP?? I'm not American, BUT EVEN IF I WERE, I WOULDN'T STAND THE GUY. If God truly does exist, He sure as hell isn't merciful, because who in their right mind would let this guy have 7 albums on this list?? That's like 0.69% of this list being Bob Dylan. I could've gone my whole life without listening to a single song of his if it wasn't for you, meddling Robert, and your stupid list.

Pretty good concert. Hard Rain is significantly better, and this is furiously overrated, but it's still pretty good. See, people love this recording, and I simply can’t imagine why. Truly, it’s some of the best songs ever written, but… his voice.

And see, I’m not one of those people who hates on Bob Dylan’s voice. I think he’s one of the greatest singers ever. But… he was stoned here. You can tell. He’s completely uninterested, listless, a non-presence. This makes the first side of the album complete dead weight, where even great songs are reduced to moments of annoyance.

The second side is good. Probably the only reason this album has any stake as a good performance. That being said, Bob STILL sucks! His voice is STILL so whiny and annoying! The lyrics are still good but there are better versions elsewhere! This is boring! Go listen to Hard Rain! Rolling Thunder Revue! Something! Fuck you!
5.6/10
DOES IT BELONG ON THE LIST: NO
REASON: Bro’s stoned wtf he sounds so bad
WHAT WOULD I REPLACE IT WITH: Hard Rain by Bob Dylan

Jag tror inte jag hörde att ord som karln sa

Why does Bob Dylan need to use the damn harmonica so much. So annoying and ruins the rest of the music. His voice is also terrible and his delivery is beyond annoying. The lyrics are ok to good, but everything else is so distracting and terrible I can't stand it. 1/5

3.8

It's insane that the Spotify version cuts out the 'Judas!' moment that makes this one of the most famous concerts in rock history. But it also seems insane now that anyone called Dylan a Judas in the first place for 'going electric'. I mean this gig sounds great and you can tell what songs he's singing. No wonder latter day Dylan decided to really give people something to moan about.

just an exhausting voice live

Lots of conflicting thoughts on this. On one hand, It's good to really good and I really, really wish we had half stars because this is an easy 3.5. On the other hand, it's goddamn an hour and a half. That is too long. That is too much Bob Dylan. Disc 1 is, like, the perfect amount. The man is an excellent storyteller, but there isn't a ton of variety in his songs. Disc 1 is great.

7 Bob Dylan albums is too many Bob Dylan albums. He's great, I get it. I promise you that no one under the age of 75 either wants or needs to hear 7 Bob Dylan albums before they die. This isn't a huge problem in and of itself, but the closer to the end of this project I get, the more galling it is that certain artists have been left off this project entirely, while certain artists are massively overrepresented. Whether you like the music or not, there is no goddamned reason for there to be TWO Christina Aguilera albums, but not a single Tool album. TWO Paul Walker albums, but no MF DOOM albums. THREE Tim Buckley albums, but none from Deftones. I bitch about this all the time, so I won't go on, but the list of influential bands and albums that didn't make it while this project is crammed full of obscure 60s bullshit is staggering.

Anyway, enough shouting into the void. At one point I was tempted to give this 4 stars but, man. 90 minutes is so many minutes and it just started to drone. Disc 1 was a borderline 4, Disc 2 is a definite 3.

Btw everyone go listen to the Girl from the North Country original London soundtrack, such a banger, best versions of all the Dylan songs fr fr.

So the first CD was verging on a 4 honestly, Desolation Row was very good live. Second cd hmm gets a bit shouty for me, I definitely prefer acoustic Dylan. I'd be shouting JUDAS (Manc pride!)

Second live album in a row, i understand the historical significance this may have but still feels like a cheat in terms of the possible track listing over a traditional album.

I have become relatively partial to a bit of Dylan with age, but this was a step too far. I listened to most of it crawling along the m25 to the m1 and this managed to make that even less enjoyable. Even the enjoyable tracks like ‘like a rolling stone’ just go on too long. You’d be mich better advised to listen to one of his studio albums

Urgh. I don't like Bob Dylan and I don't really enjoy live albums unless I really love the artist.

Also I'm not even 50% of the way through the generator, and have been given 86% of the too many Bob Dylan albums on the list. I realise that it's better than the other way round, and having 86% of Bob Dylan albums lying in wait to jump scare me in the second half of the project, but still.

I will say, as a general thing about the concert itself, I love that he chose to play the first half entirely acoustic, as expected by the audience, and then pulled the rull with an electric second half. Very funny.

Still don't really want to listen to either version of Dylan live however.

1/5

I’m sure I will listen to better from him

Wish I could have been there. Wasn't long after this that he turned.

Twinkotheé Chalamet could never

Dylan as a performer really doesn’t fit the live setting, with his less than stellar vocals and oft sparse arrangements. This reputation has proceeded over the course of his entire 6 decade career. And even when the band comes in on the second half, things go from slightly lucid to tepid.