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Real Live (1984)
Reviews:
From The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia by Michael Gray:
"Real Live [1984] Dylan’s fourth live album—all four having been made in the foregoing decade.
Quite apart from the overload (especially granted that what everyone really wanted, the incomparable
live 1966 Dylan, remained glaringly withheld), how was it that such poor stuff could be chosen,
time and again, from among such riches? You could easily compile a better live album from the
Rolling Thunder Revue than Hard Rain and a much better one from the 1978 tour than Bob
Dylan at Budokan. And you could hardly offer a worse live album from Dylan’s 1984 tour of Europe
than this. The choice of songs is hopeless, the choice of performances injudicious, the production
inexcusably murky. How did the supposed ace-producer Glyn Johns manage this? At the very
least, Dylan’s expensive, classy guitar should have a good sound. Dylan’s major re-write of ‘Tangled
Up in Blue’, featured prominently and exclusively on this tour, is included—but represented by a
swaggering, mannered, unfelt performance. There were far finer moments than this. The Barcelona
concert is generally judged outstanding. The album waywardly misrepresents this tour in particular
and the whole glory of Bob Dylan in live performance generally."
Best Song:
"Girl from the North Country"
According to Alias
Favorite Lyric
I'm a-wonderin' if she remembers me at all
According to Alias
- Highway 61 Revisited
- Maggie's Farm
- I and I
- License to Kill
- It Ain't Me, Babe
- Tangled Up in Blue
- Masters of War
- Ballad of a Thin Man
- Girl from the North Country
- Tombstone Blues
Reviews:
From The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia by Michael Gray:
"Real Live [1984] Dylan’s fourth live album—all four having been made in the foregoing decade.
Quite apart from the overload (especially granted that what everyone really wanted, the incomparable
live 1966 Dylan, remained glaringly withheld), how was it that such poor stuff could be chosen,
time and again, from among such riches? You could easily compile a better live album from the
Rolling Thunder Revue than Hard Rain and a much better one from the 1978 tour than Bob
Dylan at Budokan. And you could hardly offer a worse live album from Dylan’s 1984 tour of Europe
than this. The choice of songs is hopeless, the choice of performances injudicious, the production
inexcusably murky. How did the supposed ace-producer Glyn Johns manage this? At the very
least, Dylan’s expensive, classy guitar should have a good sound. Dylan’s major re-write of ‘Tangled
Up in Blue’, featured prominently and exclusively on this tour, is included—but represented by a
swaggering, mannered, unfelt performance. There were far finer moments than this. The Barcelona
concert is generally judged outstanding. The album waywardly misrepresents this tour in particular
and the whole glory of Bob Dylan in live performance generally."
Best Song:
"Girl from the North Country"
According to Alias
Favorite Lyric
I'm a-wonderin' if she remembers me at all
According to Alias
