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The best faux Dylan tracks
Posted by BigJimBob on 11 October 2011 - 3:47pm.
A while ago I set off a thread on the Best Lennon-McCartney song NOT written by HJH. There were some great songs on it, that I really enjoyed listening to:
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/the-best-beatles-songs-not-written...
Just now I am listening to A Public Execution by Mouse off the first Nuggets collection; great catchy song, but a complete Highway-61-era Dylan knock-off:
So, in the same spirit as the original thread, I was wondering has anyone got a better example of blatant bobtastic burglary than this?
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This one....
*ducks for cover*
Actually I always thought it was this one
that was closer to Bob - at least in spirit:
"I Came Out Of The Wilderness" by Pete Molinari
"A Simple Desultory Philippic" by Simon & Garfunkel
"Jigsaw Puzzle" by The Rolling Stones
Lyrically very Dylan, with characters flitting in and out as in "Desolation Row" or "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream":
Tom Petty
Could I get away with posting Tom Petty's career?
Two words
Frankie's Gun by the felice brothers.
On a phone so can't post a link. None more Bob.
Well he makes no bones about it
http://youtu.be/PPxnCNRm_nY
Dylan or Donovan copy ?
Josh Ritter
You Don't Make It Easy Babe.
Lloyd Cole - Let's Get Lost
Off the Love Story album but hasn't been uploaded to YouTube. Massively influenced by Subterranean Homesick Blues.
I find it odd that I love Lloyd Cole's music so much when he's so influenced by Dylan, who I'm not even an admirer of, nevermind a fan.
He doesn't actually sound much like Bob to be honest
but I like this
*Ahem*
Any excuse for a bit of Roddy Frame...
...at his most Dylanish, although clearly he's too melodic and too good a guitarist to be too similar to the over-rated whiner.
DOWN THE DIP!
"Stuck In The Middle With You" by Stealers Wheel
"Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)" by Steve Harley
Not just the voice - the vitriol, too...
Faux Dylan or is it real?
Brilliant!
Forgot all about this
"Bob" by Weird Al Yankovic
Nothing to compare with "Dylan Hears A Who" (nice to see that it's still slipping through the lawyers' fingers), but I do like Weird Al Yankovic's palindromic parody, "Bob".
TEACHER ALERT: Great for use in English lessons!
The spangled dwarf in his bow tie
Bob Dylan presenting Fabulous Sixties Protest Songs
(National Lampoon - Bob Dylan Parody)
Well, time for my boot heels to be a-wanderin'
More National Lampoon Dylan
Christopher Guest: Positively Wall Street (song starts about 2 mins in after John Belushi intro)
Slightly off topic, here's my favourite National Lampoon parody: Southern California Brings Me Down.
Neil Young
I think I read somewhere that when 'Heart Of Gold' came out, Dylan was out in the country freaking out and felt that he should have recorded it.
DYLAN: "The only time it bothered me that someone sounded like me was when I was living in Phoenix, Arizona, in about '72 and the big song at the time was "Heart of Gold." I used to hate it when it came on the radio. I always liked Neil Young, but it bothered me every time I listened to "Heart of Gold." I think it was up at number one for a long time, and I'd say, "Shit, that's me. If it sounds like me, it should as well be me." I used to hate it when it came on the radio. I always liked Neil Young but it bothered me every time I listened to "Heart Of Gold". I'd say, `Shit, that's me. If it sounds like me, it should as well be me. I needed to lay back for awhile, forget about things, myself included, and I'd get so far away and turn on the radio and there I am. But it's not me. It seemed to me somebody else had taken my thing and had run away with it and, you know, I never got over it."
Mott
The living spit of Dylan, only better
The Living Spit of Dylan
TMFTL
Don't forget Syd
"Be My Enemy" by The Waterboys