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more about #bobdylan more comments → unclevanya: "You can always spring for the $21 vinyl version; a needle makes everything sound more Christmas-y." Indeed. more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: this could possibly be dylan's last album? more » unclevanya: Screw you guys, Bob's goin' home! You did not respect his Christmas authoritah! more » Mike Byhoff: Don't get me wrong, I love Dylan, a LOT. But as soon as I pressed play my only impulse was to laugh. This scores very high on my unintentional comedy ... more » procrastination_state: The best Christmas song ever is still Crosby/Bowie: [www.youtube.com] more » Rumpelstilskin: Is it me or does he sound like a hoarse Louis Armstrong? more » Peter Feld: Silver Bells: Dylan reincarnated as Tom Waits. more » snugbug: OK, Dylan haters: ATTACK with all you've got. It'll be my pleasure to logically and kindly prove to you that whatever Dylan does is beyond scrutiny. GO! more » drewB: The perfect album for Christmases spent alone. Or with whiskey. more » 1.1.1.: 500 Miles [vodpod.com] more » LatestBy: Since 1988, my family has decorated the Christmas tree listening to Peter, Paul and Mary's holiday concert from Radio City. And this December I'll pro... more » paco: This makes me sad. "Puff" gets me every time. So does this... more » Novaload: Too Much of Nothing. One of my favorites, often forgotten. more » Novaload: And also Henry Gibson died tonight, of Laugh In fame and Blues Brothers and Boston Legal. So, uh, one swallow doth not a summer make but I think we ar... more » BowlingForDollars: ...and the suck ass summer of celebrity death continues. Rest in peace, dear Mary. more » -
#instantreview
Most Comically Dylanesque Tracks on Bob Dylan's Christmas Album
Bob Dylan's much-anticipated Christmas album is out. And — huzzah — it doesn't sound horrible. Still, you can't help but imagine Dylan as a drunken interloper who stumbled into choir rehearsal at a prim suburban church. More » -
#andnowshesdead
R.I.P. Mary Travers, 72
An anti-war voice has fallen silent, for Mary Travers, a founding member of Peter, Paul and Mary, was felled by cancer today. The singer, whose sullen folksy sound many of you will remember from "Blowin' in the Wind," was 72. More » -
#branding
Bob Dylan's Christmas Idyll
Here's the cover to Bob Dylan's forthcoming Christmas album. Proceeds go to charity; as Vulture notes, this lends hope the project won't be commercially corrupted and critically panned. We still wish the sleigh driver had a harmonica holder or something. More » -
#theolds
Bob Dylan Mistaken For An Insane Bum By Jersey Cop
40 years after Woodstock, Bob Dylan was mistaken for an escaped crazy patient by Jersey 5-0, and taken into custody of the cop after he was seen rambling the Jersey streets. Oh, man, things have changed. [NYP] -
#listicle
When Good Musicians Record Terrible Christmas Albums
Bob Dylan has been recording a Christmas album featuring songs like "O Little Town of Bethlehem" and "Here Comes Santa Claus," according to two websites. His career trajectory does seem about at that regrettable stage. The precedents are sad. More » -
#thecinema
Lars Von Trier Is the Best Ball-Banging Director in the World
Recently two films have shocked the world with graphic depictions of violence followed by acts of sex: Bob Dylan's Beyond Here Lies Nothing and Lars Von Trier's Antichrist. Coincidence or zeitgeist? You decide. More » -
#queerasfolk
Bob Dylan's Gay Kiss
How to tenderize Bob Dylan's "bleak... sneering" new album, built around the song "Life is Hard?" With the title "Together Through Life" and a black-and-white, backseat gay kiss on the cover. (Click to enlarge.) More » -
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#bobdylan
"i went home an began writin/a suicide note" [New Yorker, New Yorker]
