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Get Thee Behind Me, Santa...
Posted by Nicodemus on 17 September 2009 - 5:32am.
Listen to 30 second samples of all the tracks from Bob's forthcoming Christmas album here.
Brace yourselves.
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words fail me
sugary female chorus line and all
check out hark the herald angels sing
Listen to Bob
'Ho, ho, ho-ing' all the way to the bank.
do you really think he cares about whether this makes money?
I'd say the opposite - he doesn't give a rat's and can do what he wants.
Adopts Mark Ellen style Bob dylan voice "hey man ...if you don't like it , no-one is making you buy it ....."
I wonder whether it is the influence of playing a lot of that cheesey stuff on theme time radio
I think Bob cares very deeply about making money.
He has a lot of dependents & I'm certain he doesn't do anything without weighing up the financial benefit.
(But that's just what I think, like...)
The Money
Aren't all the proceeds going to a charity to feed the homeless at Christmas?
Correct & right, Gatz...
... the ball is back with you Adman.
I apologise.
I woke up in a deeply cynical frame of mind.
Good old Bob, then.
Good on you Bob.
I think that's a good reason to buy it. Much as I love Dylan, I'm not a completist or curio collector either.
30 second samples are all I need
And isn't any money going to charity?
One thing's for certain
He's clearly not bothered about his image.
I've heard so many...
...sugary renditions of these songs, leaking out of supermarket public address systems in mid-November, that Dylan's rough-hewn woodcut vocals have a certain appeal. I particularly enjoyed the swinging backwoods hodown of Must Be Santa which reeks of moonshine and eggnog.
well they will make a change
from the phil spector xmas album and bing crosby
Contrary Mary here rather likes it
Reminds me of this - always a delight
My 2c
I think that's rather great in a well-I-wasn't-expecting-that kind of way. Quite mad. I do love Christmas music though.
sorry that was all rotten
it sounds like a parody by an ITV impersonator on a kids show. In fact I think it's a Dylan ruse to see if his sheep like fans can rationalize it into something profound. The surest test will be to see how long you can play it when your wearing your new jumper with a ginger wine in hand it will last 30 secs on the ipod dock tops!
I think "sheep like fans" is over the top...
... Dylan must be the most booed at "big name" performer ever.
Over his career there are numerous examples of "fans" frequently falling out of love with him; been bewildered by him; ; and feeling generally let down by him; and have stopped going to see him and, indeed, have totally given up on him.
And I have never spent time with another Dylan admirer, who has "stayed the course", who has not criticised him in some way (whether about a poor album, a lazy song, a cringing statement, a performance, a belief etc. etc.).
No, "sheep like fans" for Dylan are few and far between. Most of his fans are highly critical.
But this is a whole other thread methinks.
"Sheep like fans"
Well, it can get bloody hot in all that wool.
My coat's in the car...
I was just commenting
on the way his fans seems to rationlise his most dire work and keep him in business. I think a change of name from bobcats to Mrs Doyles is in order, how does it go "maybe I like d'misery".
Oh. It's for charity
[Bitchy ditty deleted then.]
Oh dear. I suspect my wife is going to be very disappointed.
I can't stand the man's tunes (apart from one of two of his early classics) and have long insisted to Mrs W that, in later life, Mr Z is 'having a laugh'. Mrs W argues the opposite, that Dylan still has his artistic integrity.
I am not a vindictive man and will take no pleasure in the look on my wife's face when she hears this Christmas album.
Artistic merit maybe in question
but does it really matter? As Reuters reported...
Sounds pretty laudable to me...
we can all give money
via gift aid and avoid tripe like this though. Charity doesn't absolve it from being any good in fact if it was the best Christmas record ever it would be bought by none "Mrs Doyles" and would make huge pile of cash for charities.
Then Give Money
And those who want to contribute this way can as well. It's a Christmas album for gawds sake. A bit of fun for those who like such things.
It's easy to slag Dylan off but "tripe" like beauty is rather in the eye of the beholder.
Spot on there
Doug. Absolutely.
I love Christmas albums
but the sounds clips sound like tripe (and I think 6 minutes total is enough to get a fair opinion of the whole endeavour) and that obsessive love of Dylan is blinding people to tripe.
And charity is no excuse: if some malcontent is blowing a tin whistle in you ear and asking for change even if all the cash is going to the an orphanage it's still squealing mess.
If you want to give £10.99 to charity use gift aid and give it direct all the money you give and not just the profit will go to the charity. If you genuinely like this music well maybe we need to set up charity for the similar poor suffers. Happy September everyone it's going to be long winter.
His best since Love & Theft?
Any way round, it's going to be getting a right caning round my way from Dec 1st.
No thanks
I've already got a load of Sesame Street Christmas albums in my collection.
That was the Cookie Monster, was it not?
most of this
may well be the funniest thing I've ever heard but, god help me, The Christmas Song and Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas actually sound quite good
Just as an aside - do we know where Bob stands religion wise at the moment?
Somebody stop him...now
before he ruins his legacy!
Think Bob's
got more of a sense of humour than either his admirers or detractors.
Its a joke...right?
hes winding us up..
Nope...
I like bad records I do
But I only made it to 3:54 before I lost the will to live.
Now look what you started...an improvement over the big Z.
More?
Careful with that axe Eugene.
interesting review
I wonder what sort of review it would take for me to actually NOT buy a Dylan album
http://blogs.suntimes.com/derogatis/2009/10/bob_dylan_christmas_in_the_h...
tragic that I am
I have the new album. I decided not to purchase the deluxe edition which apparently includes 5 "holiday" cards.
You'd think that if the record company could cope with Christmas in the title they could run to calling the cards christmas cards too.
Pathetic.