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kittykittymeowmixhead

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Bob Dylan's 'Christmas in the Heart'
« on: November 11, 2009, 04:47:56 PM »
A holiday time Unfair Record Review??

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Jouster

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Re: Bob Dylan's 'Christmas in the Heart'
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2009, 08:49:10 PM »
I think records have to be critically acclaimed or very popular to quality for URRs.  That one is neither.  And bashing a charity album seems a couple steps over the line.
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kittykittymeowmixhead

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Re: Bob Dylan's 'Christmas in the Heart'
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2009, 11:04:30 PM »
I'll bash a charity album if it's bad enough.
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Re: Bob Dylan's 'Christmas in the Heart'
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2009, 11:13:21 PM »
Heard a few tracks from this. Good lord, it's horrifying. Every day Dylan becomes more and more like Tom Waits, and I don't think he even realizes it. Except maybe when he got picked up for vagrancy in Long Branch.
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Re: Bob Dylan's 'Christmas in the Heart'
« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2009, 08:54:00 PM »
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Re: Bob Dylan's 'Christmas in the Heart'
« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2009, 09:20:14 PM »
Drexl from True Romance.
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dave from knoxville

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Re: Bob Dylan's 'Christmas in the Heart'
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2009, 03:40:22 AM »
OK, I can't listen to this, but that video is among the best things ever.
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Re: Bob Dylan's 'Christmas in the Heart'
« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2009, 01:53:23 PM »
Ack! That song! I have listened to it for years, but sung by Raffi on a CD in our car. 

Raffi's version is better than Dylan's.

Never thought I would be writing a sentence like that last one.
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Re: Bob Dylan's 'Christmas in the Heart'
« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2009, 01:57:42 PM »
Quote from: JonFromMaplewood on November 17, 2009, 01:53:23 PM
Ack! That song! I have listened to it for years, but sung by Raffi on a CD in our car. 

Raffi's version is better than Dylan's.



Brave Combo has done the definitive version of this tune already. Zim should have steered clear.
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Re: Bob Dylan's 'Christmas in the Heart'
« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2009, 01:35:44 AM »
I don't care how bad it is, I can't bring myself to bash a charity record.
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Re: Bob Dylan's 'Christmas in the Heart'
« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2009, 09:14:49 AM »
Are you kidding New-Nec?  I would bash a CHARITY.

"Just for fun he says, 'get a job.'"



Wait, this isn't Chinatown.
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Re: Bob Dylan's 'Christmas in the Heart'
« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2009, 11:56:20 AM »
Ken has been playing tracks from this album during his marathon show today (just ending now), forcing people to call in if they want him to stop. It's really amazingly awful.
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Re: Bob Dylan's 'Christmas in the Heart'
« Reply #12 on: November 18, 2009, 06:42:03 PM »
Quote from: Martin on November 18, 2009, 11:56:20 AM
Ken has been playing tracks from this album during his marathon show today (just ending now), forcing people to call in if they want him to stop. It's really amazingly awful.

Hey Marty, have you heard the Brave Combo?
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Re: Bob Dylan's 'Christmas in the Heart'
« Reply #13 on: November 19, 2009, 10:05:18 AM »
I don't get it. I love Dylan. I love Christmas. This should work for me.

And yet it doesn't. I think it's the polka.
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Re: Bob Dylan's 'Christmas in the Heart'
« Reply #14 on: November 19, 2009, 01:33:17 PM »
I e-mailed Tom about this when I first saw the preview clip (which has since been removed) on youtube in September and he said he wanted to talk about it when he got the chance (been a busy Fall for the best show). I'm hoping with this new video out now, and the mini-marathon out of the way, it will come up in discussion.
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