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Dylan set out to record new songs—and released a double album of cover versions he fooled around with between takes! Pretty silly, overall.
10y
40
A deliberately sprawling affair that runs the gamut from self-portrait to self-parody.
13y
20
Self Portrait was a disaster that nobody has really ever explained: a double album of deliberately bad throwaways, most of them grumpy covers.
6y
It took Mr. Dylan ten albums to reach his first major dud. I don't care how much you dislike this album, it's a fucking achievement for an artist to go through an entire decade of consistently pumping out albums and their first miss being their tenth release.
Honestly, if this is the worst Bob Dylan has to offer, then I have nothing but good feelings going into his future releases. This is one of the few albums in Dylan's discography that is consistently listed as being one of his worst ... read more
The man came so close to hitting double figures without a single weak release and on his 10th effort he goes and releases this... A+ trolling. Bob Dylan is doing that thing again here where he's singing mostly traditional songs and ones written by other artists. Now we know Dylan's at his best when he's flaunting his uniquely abstract and unmatched poetic talents. However, strange as it is, on this album the Songs written by Dylan seem to come off the weakest and it's the traditional numbers I ... read more
Its long, directionless, and a bad continuation of why I didnt enjoy Nashville Skyline...
Super underrated and over-hated album. @cwhit you had me worried that this was going to be the end of days, I enjoyed this a lot. If not for a few truly terrible live tracks, I would even call this a great album. Who cares if he only wrote a small fraction of the songs, his debut was mostly covers and I consider that to be a great album.
A few song notes:
The opener “All The Tired Horses” features absolutely zero Bob Dylan. All lead vocals are done by a chorus of female vocalist ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | All the Tired Horses 3:13 | 62 |
| 2 | Alberta #1 2:57 | 67 |
| 3 | I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know 2:25 | 63 |
| 4 | Days of '49 5:28 | 71 |
| 5 | Early Mornin' Rain 3:37 | 67 |
| 6 | In Search of Little Sadie 2:29 | 55 |
| 7 | Let It Be Me 3:01 | 70 |
| 8 | Little Sadie 2:01 | 53 |
| 9 | Woogie Boogie 2:08 | 50 |
| 10 | Belle Isle 2:33 | 62 |
| 11 | Living the Blues 2:44 | 60 |
| 12 | Like a Rolling Stone 5:19 | 48 |
| 13 | Copper Kettle 3:33 | 60 |
| 14 | Gotta Travel On 3:07 | 59 |
| 15 | Blue Moon 2:27 | 60 |
| 16 | The Boxer 2:46 | 57 |
| 17 | Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) 2:46 | 61 |
| 18 | Take Me As I Am (Or Let Me Go) 3:02 | 58 |
| 19 | Take a Message to Mary 2:45 | 63 |
| 20 | It Hurts Me Too 3:13 | 56 |
| 21 | Minstrel Boy 3:32 | 46 |
| 22 | She Belongs to Me 2:42 | 55 |
| 23 | Wigwam 3:08 | 60 |
| 24 | Alberta #2 3:15 | 65 |
Total Length: 1 hour, 14 minutes
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2mo
I once met a guy whose favourite Dylan album was Self Portrait. His favourite song was Wigwam. I said "to be fair, Days of '49 is pretty good", and he said that was the only song on the album he didn't like. What an odd guy
1y
Like he busts out the normal Bob Dylan voice to do a duet with crooner country Dylan, how the fuck do you take that seriously