OK, how "There" are you for this Bob Dylan Soundtrack?

Count me in

Ditto.

One More Cup of Coffee - Roger McGuinn and Calexico

I wanna hear this

Dear god, I don't think I'd seen that whole list before. Definitely in. When's it come out?

I loathe far too many of these people to want to hear the whole thing.

Though track 14 is good (and I'm glad to see it get a proper release).

Señor (Tales of Yankee Power) - Willie Nelson and Calexico

Wow!

I only own one Dylan album so I don't feel like I'm enough of a fan to be really hyped about this project, and I actively dislike like half of the artists on here. But just the fact that the 'house band' (the Million Dollar Bashers) on a bunch of the songs includes Nels Cline, Tom Verlaine and half of Sonic Youth is enough to make me really wanna hear this.

here's maggie's farm

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/forkcast/46650-stephen-malkmus-and-the-million-dollar-bashers-maggies-farm-bob-dylan-cover-stream

OMG, that malkmus one of maggie's farm is soooo awful, i actually couldn't finish listening to it. it makes him sound truly vapid, even for him....

sounded good to me! pretty straight up Newport 65 version it seems ...

How the fuck did local twin cities douchebag mason jennings manage to get on this twice?! ugggghhhh

yeah him and jack johnson are sort of the odd ones here ... who knows, maybe they'll be great! don't know who Marcus Carl Franklin is ...

that is an actor who is one of the many Dylans in the movie (a teenage kid I think)

wtf is a million dollar basher f this noise

http://www.bobdylan.com/moderntimes/images/tt.poster.jpg

X/Jaime Hernandez poster. HUGE

yeah, i was gonna say: "this is a huge coup for mason jennings (who is awful)"

Not for this project, but still - Dylan related awesomeness.

im neutral but you better believe my dad will be first in line for this

I'm fearing Antony.

here are the ones i'm most looking forward to ...
7. Cold Irons Bound - Tom Verlaine and the Million Dollar Bashers
8. Dark Eyes - Iron & Wine and Calexico
9. Fourth Time Around - Yo La Tengo
13. I Wanna Be Your Lover - Yo La Tengo
14. I'm Not There - Bob Dylan
15. I'm Not There - Sonic Youth
16. Just Like a Woman - Charlotte Gainsbourg and Calexico
17. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - Ramblin' Jack Elliot
27. Señor (Tales of Yankee Power) - Willie Nelson and Calexico
28. Simple Twist of Fate - Jeff Tweedy
29. Stuck Inside of Mobile With Memphis Blues Again - Cat Power

wtf is a million dollar basher f this noise

-- jhøshea, Friday, October 26, 2007 4:11 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

The Million Dollar Bashers are a supergroup featuring Sonic Youth stars Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley, Wilco guitarist Nels Cline, Television guitarist Tom Verlaine, Dylan bassist Tony Garnier, guitarist Smokey Hormel and keyboardist John Medeski.

here's maggie's farm

I'm stunned. That's...actually kind of good. Steve Shelley seems to have broken out of his 14-year slump, and Malkmus sounds kind of excited. I was fearing a colossal disappointment on the level of Dim Stars, so I'm looking forward to the rest of the Million Dollar Bashers stuff.

Steve Shelley seems to have broken out of his 14-year slump
-- Sara Sara Sara, Friday, October 26, 2007 5:37 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

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Wilco guitarist Nels Cline

Yeah, thank goodness Wilco discovered mysterious unknown Nels Cline. grrrr.

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From Dirty on he always sounded really listless to me. Prior to that he was as close as any drummer has come to building on Keith Moon's innovations.

meh

What, no Nickelback? This is just another upper middle class (mostly white, mostly male) album [or have I been reading too much Carl Wilson].

They could have gotten Lil' Wayne. He plays guitar now, and he'll guest on anybody's record:

You've been playing the guitar for a little time now. Any chance we might hear a Lil Wayne guitar solo some time soon?

I've already done it I'm featured on the new Enrique Iglesias single, "Push Up On It." I played the guitar on that song. I also played on my artist Currency the Hot Sptter;s first song, "Staring at the World." So I've already recorded and laid the guitar down [on tracks]. I'm on tour right now and I've played the guitar at every show, so I'm good. So the question isn't, "Am I gonna start puttin' the guitar in music?" I've already done it.June 5, 2007 blog posting taken from Scratch magazine(an XXl offshoot)
http://stilllistentogangstamusic.blogspot.com/2007/06/ebrique-iglesias-and-lil-wayne.html

True enough, compared to Red Hot + Blue it's more limited. The Sufjan one drives me nuts.

is 'million dollar bashers' a reference to 'billion dollar babies'? doesn't dylan love alice cooper or something?

it's a reference to "million dollar bash" from the basement tapes

doesn't dylan love alice cooper or something?

Dylan loves taking his potatoes down to be mashed.

The Million Dollar Bashers are a supergroup featuring Sonic Youth stars Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley, Wilco guitarist Nels Cline, Television guitarist Tom Verlaine, Dylan bassist Tony Garnier, guitarist Smokey Hormel and keyboardist John Medeski.

god when i was a kid the idea of tom verlaine playing with sonic youth would've given me the vapors. so wtf yeah i'm excited for this!

lee ranaldo, nels cline and tom verlaine on a track sounds pretty amazing

lol elderly super group

yeah i dig the maggie's farm a lot, the soloing is great

it's funny, though some of his stuff can't be covered well at all. Like Tweedy's Twist Of Fate, I had to turn it off a minute or two into it, it was just too much. I don't know how you could re-do that song and make it sound interesting.

I got a little further with the Cat power cover of Stuck Inside, but, again, it sounds too much like the original, and not in a good way. I dunno. I don't like the way she sings/phrases "Oh, Mama. . ." Stupid, huh?

Maggie's Farm is pretty straightforward, but it's a great one to cover, I think.

That's what I mean, they are all (at least on the Maggie's Farm cover) trying so hard to match the original, what the hell is the point of that? Not sure if maybe the material is just too intimidating to them or what, but you feel embarrassed for them almost

well in defense I think some of it is used in the movie so I'm sure they didn't want to get too far from the original

I'm sure some of it's terrible tho

this is probably common knowledge but there's a cd of malkmus and silkworm doing a bunch of basement tapes covers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crust_Brothers

I heard skwm/bottomless pit may have recorded some stuff for this soundtrack but it didn't make the cut, not sure why

Maybe I wasn't listening hard enough, or need to hear it again but that "Maggie's Farm" rendition seemed like standard barband schtick to me that added nothing unique.

Yeah, I pretty much agree with that. There was some decent guitar-lick-trading underneath the verses, but not OMG WTF AIYIYI great. I still am looking forward to getting the whole set.

I have no desire to hear any of these songs.

Starbucks gold, though.

If it was Million Dollar Bashers stuff I might be curious in a Backbeat soundtrack way.

was JUST

as I recall, the Crust Brothers version of Going to Acapulco is pretty great. But I also thought the Silkworm/Malkmus version of "You Ain't Goin Nowhere" was pretty good too.

I see it's out now!

the Crust Brothers version of "Going to Acapulco" is terrific. I end up listening to it more than the original. The rest of that Crust Brothers record is good (nice "Tuesday's Gone"), but I think "Going to Acapulco" is the highlight.

Most if not all of the Malkmus stuff heard in the movie is lipsynched by Cate Blanchett, so I'm sure Haynes wanted it to be recognizably Dylanesque.

I love this so far. The elderly Starbucks supergroup or whatever is really great. Some of the tracks are really straight, but on a few of them (even the Eddie Vedder "Watchtower") they douse the songs in some nice weird swirly licks and organ riffs.

Best poll ever

I heard a good bit of it today, the Million Dollar Bashers stuff was way too staid, almost Late Show band type stuff, but most was pretty listenable. I can't imagine buying it, would definitely rather hear the originals, but a pleasant coffee background thing when the singers aren't actually trying to imitate Dylan.

somebody needs to shoot John Medeski

I vote yes just for the Cat Power track.

i can't wait to never hear this!

listening to the Willie Nelson/Calexico "Senor" -- sounds awesome ... Willie's guitar solo is nice and mangled. Not sure about the mariachi singer who comes in there in the middle, but hey, it's Calexico ...

You know what, this poll is fine and all, but I mean to say "Best Poll Ever" in the Billy Joel "We Didn't Start the Fire" thread.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

its not good

Antony is great!

what a fucking dud

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

This one was close too!

I listened to some of this streamed online - it's kind of fun the first time through, but I don't know how many times I'd need to hear these versions. I like the Malkmus, Cat Power, Jeff Tweedy, Mira Billotte (whom I'd never heard of before), Jim James & Calexico.

They should have got actual bar bands to do this!!

Don't know if this belongs here, but this new Cat Power track that P'fork posted ("Song To Bobby") is pretty nice and Dylan-y (and probably better than most of what's on that soundtrack): http://downloads.pitchforkmedia.com/Song%20To%20Bobby.mp3

har, what a weird mash note masquerading as a song (that cat power tune)! she hearts bobby ...

Hmm, reactions here seem a bit too negative. I really like the ones I expected to like, ie. Roger Mc Guinn and Willie Nelson, ie. basically practically everything calexico is involved with (apart from that stupid Charlotte G. cover). Oh and Mark Lanegan's track is pretty great too.

Mark Lanegan's "Man in the Long Black Coat" is straightforward but also perfect and creepy. An ideal song for him.

Concert with a lot of these performers is now on Wolfgang's Vault, a little like an alterna-version of the 30th anniversary concert.

http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/dt/im-not-there-concert-concert/20053076-3737179.html

PERFORMERS (in order of appearance):
Marcus Carl Franklin
Calexico
Jim James
Joe Henry
Mark Lanegan
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Mira Billotte with Lee Ranaldo
The Million Dollar Bashers
Gomez
Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks
Terry Adams
Yo La Tengo and Friends
My Morning Jacket
Mason Jennings
John Doe
Jimmy LaFave
Tift Merritt
Lee Ranaldo
J Mascis
The Roots

Gomez?

I don't care what the poll says you people make this sound the worst thing ever. And I believe you.

i want to hear dan hicks' version of subterreanean homesick blues. i really really do.

i think the black keys totally kick wicked messenger's ass.

This may not be the most forward-looking album of 2007, but I have to admit I find lots of it quite enjoyable.

10. Goin' To Acapulco - Jim James and Calexico

this scene in the movie was great