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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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GMTonyKosten YaBB Administrator Offline Mr Dynamic? Posts: 3192 Location: Clermont-Ferrand Joined: 12/19/02 Gender:	Re: All Along the Watchtower vote Reply #34 - 05/10/06 at 19:34:34	Post Tools	Print Post
	I like all 3 versions, but having heard Dylan's original version first it must be the definitive one for me.


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Keano God Member Offline Money doesn't talk, it swears. Posts: 2928 Location: Toulouse Joined: 05/25/05 Gender:	Re: All Along the Watchtower vote Reply #33 - 05/08/06 at 10:09:09	Post Tools	Print Post
	I forgot about U2 - too late to modify the poll now - lets call the "someone else" vote a vote for U2. In fairness though I dont think Bono can compete with Dylan or Hendrix on this one.


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Alias God Member Offline Posts: 1512 Location: East of the river Svartån Joined: 11/19/04	Re: All Along the Watchtower vote Reply #32 - 05/05/06 at 14:11:27	Post Tools	Print Post
	Dylan's version is far better in my opinion. Oh, and it's Jimi, not Jimmy.

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Willempie God Member Offline I love ChessPublishing .com! Posts: 4312 Location: Holland Joined: 01/07/05	Re: All Along the Watchtower vote Reply #31 - 05/05/06 at 10:33:26	Post Tools	Print Post
	Ur missing the biggest band of the last 20 years: U2

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MNb God Member Online Rudolf Spielmann forever Posts: 10778 Location: Moengo Joined: 01/05/04 Gender:	Re: All Along the Watchtower vote Reply #30 - 05/05/06 at 03:13:48	Post Tools	Print Post
	He has done that - Machine Gun being an example.

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TalJechin God Member Offline There is no secret ingredient. Posts: 2892 Location: Malmö Joined: 08/12/04 Gender:	Re: All Along the Watchtower vote Reply #29 - 05/04/06 at 18:47:14	Post Tools	Print Post
	I agree. For me they're two different songs althogether - Hendrix version is mostly some mumbling and some great guitar playing, but he could've done that with just about any song...


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Bob Dylan(Guest) Guest	Re: All Along the Watchtower vote Reply #28 - 05/04/06 at 17:34:41	Post Tools	Print Post
	I disagree.


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Keano God Member Offline Money doesn't talk, it swears. Posts: 2928 Location: Toulouse Joined: 05/25/05 Gender:	All Along the Watchtower vote Reply #27 - 05/04/06 at 16:21:03	Post Tools	Print Post
	I saw someone else imply Hendrix had the definitive version of this - I like that version but Dylan´s is just far better for me....


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TNich Junior Member Offline Posts: 75 Location: Lansing, MI Joined: 04/19/08 Gender:	Re: Best Bob Dylan covers Reply #26 - 02/15/10 at 20:12:50	Post Tools	Print Post
	Just wanted to say that I don't like any of the Byrd's covers of Dylan. Chrissie Hynde's cover of 'I shall be released' and the Jimmie James cover of 'Goin' to Acapulco' are two of my favorites. I find that most people who don't like Dylan's singing prefer that overproduced pop sound that is all about how well you can hit a note or how sweet you can sound. It's been my experience that people who don't like Dylan often are not big music fans in general. They just play the radio in there car. I remember when Guns N' Roses covered 'Knockin on heavens door'. I thought it was amazing how a decent band with a supposedly talented singer could wreck a song so bad?!


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Markovich God Member Offline Posts: 6099 Location: Columbus, Ohio Joined: 09/17/04	Re: Best Bob Dylan covers Reply #25 - 02/12/10 at 17:47:48	Post Tools	Print Post
	You have to hear Dylan singing his own songs. It's not a question of technique, but of authenticity of expression. Dylan, like Guthrie, and I would include Tom Waits, is not a primarily a musician but a -- I am searching for the word -- minstrel, bard, oracle? If you listen to a Dylan song sung by someone else, you simply have not heard it. You have heard a song, but not the one that Dylan sang. In fact I submit that many Dylan covers can be heard with real appreciation only if you've first heard Dylan sing them. Having said all that, I don't think that there's any doubt that the Byrds' Mr. Tambourine Man is among the very best Dylan covers (I first said the best but I forgot about Hendrix). Though Joan Baez' cover of Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts stands out. Did anybody mention Johnny Cash? He did some nice Dylan covers.

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derdudea Full Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 176 Location: Germany Joined: 10/03/08 Gender:	Re: Best Bob Dylan covers Reply #24 - 02/11/10 at 23:17:02	Post Tools	Print Post
	I know some of you will hate me for that. I always was high on Dylan as songwriter - maybe he is in the top three ever. But almost everybody sings better and/or plays the guitar better. So covering his songs is an excellent idea... Best cover: Johnny Winter, Highway 61 revisited. Can´t sing either, but plays the guitar like hell


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Uberdecker God Member Offline Posts: 641 Joined: 03/21/06	Re: Best Bob Dylan covers Reply #23 - 01/31/10 at 02:19:15	Post Tools	Print Post
	Subterranean Homesick Blues by the Red Hot Chilly Peppers. Same piece covered by the Coup (only done live I believe. I also heard them cover Trouble every Day by Zappa). Stop arguing over whether Dylan was a good singer or not. He was a rapper.


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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:	Re: Best Bob Dylan covers Reply #22 - 01/30/10 at 16:43:24	Post Tools	Print Post
	Keano wrote on 01/28/10 at 13:09:58: Great singer Dylan, anyone who doesn't see that in my view is just listening for a pretty voice. I think the Irish frontman for U2 Bono explained it more eloquently than I ever could here: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/greatestsingers/page/7 The line I particularly like is this one: "Dylan did with singing what Brando did with acting" That's a pretty great write-up by Bono. I liked this bit: after Dylan, "it's not going to be about how pretty the voice is. It's going to be about believing that the voice is telling the truth."

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Keano God Member Offline Money doesn't talk, it swears. Posts: 2928 Location: Toulouse Joined: 05/25/05 Gender:	Re: Best Bob Dylan covers Reply #21 - 01/28/10 at 13:09:58	Post Tools	Print Post
	Great singer Dylan, anyone who doesn't see that in my view is just listening for a pretty voice. I think the Irish frontman for U2 Bono explained it more eloquently than I ever could here: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/greatestsingers/page/7 The line I particularly like is this one: "Dylan did with singing what Brando did with acting"


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TalJechin God Member Offline There is no secret ingredient. Posts: 2892 Location: Malmö Joined: 08/12/04 Gender:	Re: Best Bob Dylan covers Reply #20 - 01/20/10 at 15:33:07	Post Tools	Print Post
	BirdBrain wrote on 01/13/10 at 18:01:55: I am actually a singer with a good ear for music - you can check me out on youtube.com - type Doug Pinson...that's me. So to say I'm not listening is objective. Exactly! Though anyone liking andor performing modern mainstream big cowboyhat country 'music' does not have a good ear for music - objectively speaking of course. Anyhow, I now believe that Calexico's cover is the exception that proves the rule that Dylan's original is always best - or maybe it is just because the original is Bob+The Band and thus not a pure Dylan original...


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