Bob's Christmas album is head and shoulders above anything he's done since Desire. I firmly believe this.

This video is up there with the one for "Blood In My Eyes" - superb!

I was ready to guffaw but that's great. Shame they got Alan Rickman to play Bob though.

She seems to appear, dancing, in characteristic black dress and white cardigan about 0:40.

What's with Dylan's mane? He looks like an older version of him from Kasabian?

Surely Dylan's wearing a wig? Isn't he? ISN'T HE??

In a sane world, surely.

At Newport a couple of years back. Made no sense then either..

http://blog.kir.com/archives/images/dylan_newport_2002.jpg

The wig: well it conveniently hides the face of Bob's dance-double, so that might explain it.

... is the one coming down the stairs at the beginning.

grief

the conversation?
'Bob, we'd like you to make a video.'
'Great - I'll go and get my wig.'

or

'Bob, we'd like you to make a video.'
'Only if I can wear my wig.'

a much duller place when Dylan isn't in it anymore.

something excruciatingly bad. I enjoyed both the video and the song.

I stopped listening to City v Hull for this! God IU hate Christmas

I was expecting something bad, but that's great. The video and the song. It's like the Pogues doing Polka. It's fun, remember that?

Bob's Christmas songs are making me feel Christmassy. This is a most unusual feeling for me, seeing as I normally make the pre-spectral visitation Scrooge seem like a bundle of laughs.

people are saying positive things. I've heard ?Danny Baker and Adam & Joe playing clips and sneering while I've thought - actually I quite like this - it's quite charming.

Well sometimes they may have a point but not this time.

I waited until this week to download the album (never listen to a Christmas album in October).

Both myself and the FPO think it's great, a lot of fun and this is the stand out track.

Both brilliant. Although, if you were to replace Bob with Macca, I suspect he'd be slaughtered for it.

taken complete leave of their senses?

Others do.

If the rest of it is half as good as that, I might even buy it.

If only TOTP were still on, Dylan could have a number 1!

Val Doonican album? Celtic ex-Tiger schadenfreude in a rocking chair stylee from the old country with knobbly jumpers on. Awesome. Best since the goat one.

I'm sure I recognise the stairs.

enjoy it for enjoying it's sake. It's fun, it's christmas, it's Bob Dylan, but it shouldn't be, should it? Bob Dylan, The Darkness, Bruce Springsteen and Peter Kay who'd have thought they'd ever have anything in common. I'm off for a mince pie and a clementine. Ho, Ho, Ho!

Enjoyed that! I'd love to hear Shane MacGowan have a crack at it though.
Or Susan Boyle?

I was just thinking the other day, why is it that we still have Slade and Wizzard at Xmas? Because no one has made a decent Xmas song in the last 30 years (well maybe they have but I can't think of one). So bring it on Bob, we need something else to listen to while we wander round the shops at Xmas.

we speak Michael Gray is writing about the invention of a new genre
Klezmer-Country (with, as you say, a dash of Polka)

-- great stuff imo, god bless us one and all ...

'Bob Dylan's Pan Pipe Yuletide'.

With a hook and all. What is the world coming to?

as recorded by Brave Combo was played on Dylan's radio show a couple of years back. His treatment is pretty similar.

Bob & The Dylantones - if it works...

edit: nope. Anyone know how to embed a streaming MP3 from my hard drive?

-tastic!!

Is that Rhys Ifans in there?

Didn't know he was capable of "fun".