Advantages: Rock, country, unplugged, gospel - you'll find the lot here Disadvantages:
...Women", "Country Honk", complete with acoustic guitars, fiddle, and the honk (sorry) of car horns. The funky "Monkey Man" pushed the envelope out further, the bluesy "Midnight Rambler" switched tempo dramatically just as monotony threatened to rear its ugly head, and the 7-minute epic "You Can't Always Get What You Want", with Al ("Like a Rolling Stone" - coincidence eh?) Kooper on keyboards and French horn, and the London Bach Choir, was - and remains - an amazing production - the "Stairway to Heaven" of its day. They even revisited their original roots with a laid-back version of Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain".
In my opinion they never topped this album....
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Advantages: Rock's top singer-songwriter at his creative peak Disadvantages: Where do you go after perfection?
...and rhythm. "Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat" is a playful, chunky boogie which Status Quo might have almost recorded in the early 70s, and "Obviously 5 Believers" with its bluesy riffs and 12-bar structure fits into a similar bag. There's also a spoof on the Beatles' "Norwegian Wood" in "Fourth Time Around", and the bittersweet love song "Just Like a Woman" gave Manfred Mann a hit at around the same time. Slower rolling blues rhythms cropped up in "Pledging My Time" and "Temporary Like Achilles", and "Most Likely You Go Your Way" even sounds quite funky - light years before its time.
But perhaps the best songs on the set are the long ones which use his slurred stoned vocals, his astonishing way with words and imagery, and sound pictures built up by the restrained but stinging guitar, harmonica playing and AlKooper's ghostly organ. The roller...
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Advantages: Two seminal albums from rock's greatest singer-songwriter Disadvantages: Rather an odd coupling
...In 1965 Bob Dylan went electric, stood firm when audiences tried to boo him off stage (or else turned the amps up twice as loud) and moved the goalposts again with the unforgettable 'Highway 61 Revisited'. It opens with what must be the most famous single drumbeat in rock music and AlKooper's matchless swirling organ work on the intro to "Like a Rolling Stone", a song which still sounds just as powerful now as it did the first time round. Poet meets rock'n'roller again on the next track, the action-packed "Tombstone Blues", takes a breather for the finger-pointing "Ballad of a Thin Man" ('something's happening but you don't know what it is, do you Mr Jones?') and the bluesy "It Takes a Lot to Laugh...". There's a mesmerising, surreal quality to "Queen Jane Approximately" and "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues", and the whole record...
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