Music CD - Bob Dylan: At Budokan [Live In Japan, February, 1978]

	Music CD: At Budokan [Live In Japan, February, 1978] Artist: Bob Dylan List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $11.76 Your Save: $ 8.22 ( 41% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks: 1. Mr. Tambourne Man 2. Shelter From The Storm 3. Love Minus Zero/No Limit 4. Ballad Of A Thin Man 5. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 6. Maggie's Farm 7. One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below) 8. Like A Rolling Stone 9. I Shall Be Released 10. Is Your Love In Vain 11. Going, Going, Gone
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0074643606721 Format: Live Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Number Of Discs: 2 Publication Date: 1978 Publisher: Sony Release Date: 1990-10-25 Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Loved it then, love it now Comment: In 1978 I saw Bob Dylan for the first time on his first night at Earl's Court London. A few weeks later I saw him at Blackbush Airport with 250,000 others. The music he played was basically the same as this album. I loved it then, I love it now. I love the reggae beat on Knocking on Heaven's door. So the critics didn't like the arrangements on this album, well all my friends went to these concerts and almost of all of us felt they were some of the best moments of our lives and were lucky to be there. This album contains the spirit of those great nights in 1978. Customer Rating: Summary: unfolding surprising beauties and power Comment: After the 2 Rolling Thunder albums for me this is the 3rd best life album of Bob Dylan. Though there are a few songs on this album which were changed to the worse (especially one of my favourite songs, Oh Sister, is pretty much ruined) many others unfold a surprising beauty: The tendernes "I want you" of this former fun-song and on the other hand the power of "It's alright Ma" and "All along the watchtower" just knock me out! Other highlights to me are "Is your love in vain" and "The Times they are changing" (never heard this better!) which convey here a expression of passionate humanity and honour that later on Dylan unfortuneately somehow seems to have lost... What is so "Las Vegas" about these songs? I can't help but love and strongly recommend this Live album from the 70s where he truely had his peak time! Gerd Customer Rating: Summary: breath of fresh air perhaps Comment: I appreciate the different ways around the same songs Dylan takes from tour to tour. If I were to put one version of each Dylan song in a vault to be heard for all of time, most of these wouldnt come close. But Simple Twist of Fate has reached its pinnacle of beauty right here as far as I'm concerned. This head-bobbing version of All I Really Want To Do would certainly get consideration, and yes even the reconstructed The Times They Are A-Changin' is very worthy. This song never excited me much musically, and i think it's driven with tension here. And sorry, but, All I Really Want To Do was done pretty crappily to begin with IMO. Regardless, I think it's impossible to degrade the quality of the original classics through reinvention, for better or worse. And to keep playing them in the same vain is redundant. It also might be the most accessible to new/ non fans with it's slickness and emphasis on melody, in contrast to his more recent performances. Customer Rating: Summary: Truly sad... Comment: Dylan has spent the last 40yrs trashing his legacy, nowhere worse than here--the abysmal Budokan shows, lounge versions of his best material served up like McDonald's cheeseburgers. I don't know what's sadder, Dylan as a raddled-out parody of himself or the legions of fans who continue to believe that he has anything to do with the guy who lit the world on fire back in 1965. Customer Rating: Summary: Some necessary Budokan revisionism...... Comment: The maliciousness that has been directed at this album over the years is an open testament of the way in which Dylan fans desire to own their idol, to constrict him, and to demand him to peform and record in ways that are their own, but not his.... "Live at Budokan" was my first Dylan album, miraculously discovered twenty five years ago as a window into a magic world. Ever since I've heard bile and venom from innumerable sources about it's 'Vegasy' feel, and its 'commercialism'. But Dylan is a song and dance man, mercurial and a mystery - the minute you define him and place expectations on him he will inevitably disappoint. Above all he is a true entertainer, who paradoxically brings everything to his performances and yet nothing, like it's always gonna be new. The songs on this album are all like that, all stone cold classics, but elastic, sweet, wry, still timeless. After twenty five years of listening to all the rubbish reviews, I still recommend this album for any newcomer to Dylan. For one thing, there is booklet of lyrics to the great songs which is really helpful for new fans, as it was for me so many years ago, and the album photos still talk of the irresistible mystery that is Dylan. 'Budokan'is like an old road map on which the street signs are still right. It truly gets better like old wine. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: It was Dylan himself who said "the present now will later be past" and there's no better proof of it than this bizarre live collection of his old hits performed in big band versions where nothing seems to mean what it originally did. There's something going on here and even Dylan doesn't know what it is. Following the success of Cheap Trick and Neil Diamond--who both scored with Japanese live albums--Dylan took his Las Vegas revue with him and handed up "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Shelter from the Storm," and even "The Times They Are A-Changin'" without the vehemence that made them anthems for a past generation. Weird. --Rob O'Connor