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Question: Who did best version of "All along the watchtower"?

Bob Dylan

10 (35.7%)

Jimmy Hendrix

14 (50.0%)

someone else

4 (14.3%)

Total votes: 28

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ghenghisclown God Member Offline Pedicare Vestri Latin Posts: 1022 Location: HollyWeird Joined: 07/19/06 Gender:	Re: Best Bob Dylan covers Reply #4 - 01/10/10 at 11:03:49	Post Tools	Print Post
	BlkSabb wrote on 01/10/10 at 06:22:30: Dylan sings his songs with such passion and originality and soul that I don't see how anyone could not like the way he sings. I feel like these people must have no testicles. I completely agree.

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BlkSabb Full Member Offline I love ChessPublishing.com! Posts: 224 Location: Leakesville, MS Joined: 07/23/04 Gender:	Re: Best Bob Dylan covers Reply #3 - 01/10/10 at 06:22:30	Post Tools	Print Post
	I was watching this Watchmen movie the other day and I noticed that there were a bunch of Dylan covers on the soundtrack along with a few original versions. They even had a punk band doing Desolation Row at the end credits. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1cAUAaUwJo&feature=related Joan Baez did a bunch of great ones. I think All Along the Watchtower by Hendrix was the best since it added so much to the original. I've read that Hendrix didn't even want to release it at first because it was such a well know Dylan song. Everybody covers his songs. There are too many to even list. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xUtfYlyk6k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn3mZ0-WL7Y Dylan sings his songs with such passion and originality and soul that I don't see how anyone could not like the way he sings. I feel like these people must have no testicles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsNaM0Qvnfw&feature=related One thing I've noticed is that Dylan has changed the way he sings as he's aged. He uses more of nasal kind of gruff blues sound than before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ighC8sx5xg . I think he can sing very technically well when he wants to. Like on One More Cup of Coffee: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq3wHR_JrWk


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ghenghisclown God Member Offline Pedicare Vestri Latin Posts: 1022 Location: HollyWeird Joined: 07/19/06 Gender:	Re: Best Bob Dylan covers Reply #2 - 01/10/10 at 04:11:27	Post Tools	Print Post
	I love the Chrissie Hynde version of I Shall be Released. It's great. Billy Joel's version of To Make You Feel My Love is excellent. I think Joan Osbourne's Man in the Long Black Coat is fantastic as well. Probably the King of Dylan covers is Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower. Honorable mention is Eddie Brickell's Hard Rain's Gonna Fall. Oh yes, George Harrison - If not for You ! And last but certainly not least Lou Reed's version of Foot of Pride. That's my fav. Great songs all.

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MNb God Member Offline Rudolf Spielmann forever Posts: 10778 Location: Moengo Joined: 01/05/04 Gender:	Re: Best Bob Dylan covers Reply #1 - 01/09/10 at 21:03:12	Post Tools	Print Post
	I don't fall in either category, because the music of Bob Dylan (I hardly ever pay attention to the lyrics) leaves me completely indifferent. When a song of his is covered it always strikes me how trivial his melodies are, with Blowing in the Wind as a typical example. All his other songs I have heard (quite a few) go ear in ear out, like muzak. I don't know even more than two titles. So no favourites.

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HgMan God Member Offline Demand me nothing: What you know, you know Posts: 2330 Location: Up on Cripple Creek Joined: 11/09/04 Gender:	Best Bob Dylan covers 01/09/10 at 13:45:45	Post Tools	Print Post
	Bob Dylan has popped up occasionally in various threads in the past. I know we have a number of devotees here and a number of folks who would rather listen to fingernails on a chalkboard. However, even many of those who fall into the second camp (my wife among them) will concede that he wrote some pretty good songs that sound great when other people sing them. So: what are your favorite covers of Bob Dylan songs?

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