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Quiz of the day
Posted by mojoworking on 16 August 2011 - 1:40pm.
Sorting through some LPs on the weekend, I found this batch grouped together. Then I remembered why.
One very important thing links these six albums, but what is it?
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U2
They're all better than Achtung Baby.
That could apply
to almost every album ever made!
mojoworking...
...owns them all?
True
but is that important to anyone but me?
I'm curious
Do you own them all by an extraordinary coincidence, or have you deliberately collected them because they appear on the sleeve of BIABH? The second seems more likely but must have required such a level of completism that I can only let out a slow whistle of admiration.
Well....
...almost everyone owns a copy of the Robert Johnson LP (don't they?) and the Impressions is an essential album too (not least for the E-Type Jaguar on the sleeve).
The others I've deliberately accumulated only because they appear on the Dylan sleeve, as you guessed.
However, the Eric Von Schmidt and Ravi Shankar LPs are genuinely worthy of investigation and Lord Buckley is interesting for students of Tom Waits and Beefheart. I confess to never getting past the first couple of tracks of the Lotte Lenya album, however.
I've never thought of this as particularly obsessive behaviour. For those of us who grew up with Dylan in the 60s it's impossible to overstate how much impact he had on our lives, to the point where every little detail on his LP sleeves was analysed and assumed to contain some deep meaning or other.
Actually...
...it's a Bringing It All Back Home thing, isn't it?
Go on...
...
On the cover
*strains to look at the 5mm picture on iPod*
Hmmm...
...I'll need a little more.
There is also a missing piece of the jigsaw not pictured above.
Is it, as Jo says, that...
...they are all on the cover of BIABH and so is His Bobness's very own 'Another Side Of...' ?
David Starkey
only owns one of them?
That's it
They are the albums on the sofa next to Bob on the cover of Bringing It All Back Home
The Impressions - Keep on Pushing
Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers
Ravi Shankar - India's Master Musician
Lotte Lenya - Sings Berlin Theatre Songs by Kurt Weill
Eric Von Schmidt - The Folk Blues of Eric Von Schmidt
Up on the mantelpiece is the Lord Buckley album The Best of Lord Buckley and the missing LP is, as you say, Another Side Of Bob Dylan which is sitting behind Sally Grossman's left arm
As far as I know, the full list of these albums has never been published before. Even the Wikipedia entry for BIABH didn't list them all until I edited it and added the Ravi Shankar LP last year.
Good work...
...that man! Have an 'up'.
Cheers
you're too kind!
I still
have a copy of "Fallout Shelter" on the original 24in Vinyl if anyone's interested.
Even rarer
is the matching turntable!
I was going to put up
all the records on the cover of "Our Favourite Shop". But i have to make a living in this cruel world.
Anyone fancy tackling
Endtroducing in a similar fashion?
so have you tracked down
the issue of time magazine?
I know somweone who knows someone who bought bob dylan's high chair
No, I didn't go that far
but years ago I did track down the copy of The Beano that Clapton is reading on the cover of the Bluesbreakers' LP.
I no longer have it, sadly.
now you AREsounding a bit
obsessive
I also know someone ( the same someone) who knows someone who in researching some dylan piece claims to have had it off with echo helstrom- taking research a bit too far don't you think?
Is that what they call
hands-on research?
Re. the Clapton Beano. I'm a huge fan of D.C Thomson comics and since the Bluesbreakers LP probably had more influence on my life than any other record (other than perhaps the default choices of Beatles/Dylan) it seemed like a logical step.
On a note of trivia, did you know that there was originally some chalk graffiti on the wall behind the band reading "Wilson is a nit"?
Harold Wilson was PM at the time (1966) and while hardly the most Wildean of jibes, it was felt the line may cause offence, so it was scrubbed off. It's still possible to see "a nit" though over on the right.
funny they didn't pull that weed out
quite intrusive to the picture
I assumed it was just an arty touch
There's something similar in the foreground of the Beatles For Sale sleeve with what looks like out of focus foliage.
Here's another
Name the rock landmark:
A stab in the dark
but to me it looks like the alley from the Subterranean Homesick Blues video.
Yes it is
It's the alleyway behind the Savoy Hotel on the Strand where the Subterranean Homesick Blues film was shot in 1965.
The scaffolding in the original film makes it look very different and the only recognisable features today are the windows in the far background and the stone brickwork just behind Dylan.
It went on to become one of the most copied film clips in rock history.
Edit:
Here's a colour still from the film shoot clearly showing the arched windows on the left
As you seem to be a Dylan scholar...
could you tell me if they had to do many takes to get the video done ?
Is there a "gag-reel" somewhere ?
But I guess they didn't strive for a perfect end result as he is getting a bit lost there in the middle...and they kept it anyway (thank god, if it had looked easy it wouldn't have been as good as it is)
I don't know
how many takes they did to get the finished clip (above), but there were two other versions shot in different locations.
Wiki says:
In addition to the Savoy Hotel clip (above), two alternate promotional films were shot: one in a park (Embankment Gardens, adjacent to the Savoy Hotel) where Dylan, Neuwirth and Ginsberg are joined by a fourth man, and another shot on the roof of an unknown building (actually the Savoy Hotel). A montage of the clips can be seen in the documentary No Direction Home
No Recollection, None
I own a DVD of No Direction Home. I've seen it, I liked it.
I can't remember anything from it, or indeed anything from anything I've ever seen or read less than ten times.
My brain acts like a sieve, only a thin dusting of memory stay in it.
I consider myself lucky, as I can enjoy things as if I experienced them for the first time over and over again!
(Note to self: Watch No Direction Home again...)
Here's another
What links these songs?
Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On The Bedpost Overnight?) - Lonnie Donegan
The Ballad Of John & Yoko - The Beatles
Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar - Bob Dylan
Our Love Is Here to Stay - Jazz standard recorded by numerous artists
they all mention Gibraltar
near Spain..
Gibraltar may tumble...
etc
Correct!
Well done, bravo etc.
Here are the relevant lyrics
Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On The Bedpost Overnight?) - Lonnie Donegan
"Up to the altar, just as steady as Gibraltar"
The Ballad Of John & Yoko - The Beatles
"You can get married in Gibraltar, near Spain"
The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar - Bob Dylan
"West of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar"
Our Love Is Here to Stay - Jazz standard
"In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble"
Where is "Big Freedom 39"?
and whose 10,000 hours were spent there?
No Googling...