Dylan's "Shooting Star"

Does anyone know if this is available anywhere except the MTV Unplugged CD?

A song this good deserves a studio recording. It's amazing to have a catalog where a song like this is only featured once, as far as I know, in a live recording.

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It's on Oh Mercy which is a pretty good album.

Oh Mercy is a great album.
Sounds a little different to most Dylan offerings, mainly down to Daniel Lanois production and apparent sonic direction.

Shooting Star is a great track, but there are a handful of other real corkers on that record too.

I assume "corker" means good?

Here's the tracklist:
"Political World" – 3:43
"Where Teardrops Fall" – 2:30
"Everything Is Broken" – 3:12
"Ring Them Bells" – 3:00
"Man in the Long Black Coat" – 4:30
"Most of the Time" – 5:02
"What Good Am I?" – 4:45
"Disease of Conceit" – 3:41
"What Was It You Wanted" – 5:02
"Shooting Star" – 3:12

Haven't listened to that one in a while, think I'll throw it on.

It's on Oh Mercy which is a pretty good album.

Thanks!

I've got "Oh Mercy!", but haven't listened to it in a while. I looked at a discography and must have missed the fact that "Shooting Star" is on this album. I know what I'm going to be listening to tomorrow.

I think live Unplugged version is BETTER!

I really like Oh Mercy. But then again I like DL productions in general.

Shooting Star is great. Most of the Time is even better. Great record. I wish Lanois and Dylan would do one more record.

Here is a cool version of Most of the time, (possibly) recorded live on set... fun fact, that's American Idol's Randy Jackson on the Bass guitar! (and, note Bob's great junky Teisco guitar)

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Shooting Star is great. Most of the Time is even better. Great record. I wish Lanois and Dylan would do one more record.

Here is a cool version of Most of the time, (possibly) recorded live on set... fun fact, that's American Idol's Randy Jackson on the Bass guitar! (and, note Bob's great junky Teisco guitar)

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Yo, dawg ! That is great ! I just don't understand why Dylan never sings a song the same way twice, or even remotely close to the album version. :cry: It took me until the second chorus on some of them to recognize them when I saw him play live. Kinda baffles me.

Yeah, it's a mystery. The best answer I can imagine is... because he feels like it.

I would love to see him try out some record versions of the songs live, but on the other hand, I find it kind of depressing seeing, for example, the Beach Boys recreating the studio version on the stage 50 years on. I think the same reason why Bob never plays the song the same way from tour to tour is part of the reason I think he has remained a vital, interesting artist. Plus... the records are there for those versions.

He's an odd bird for sure, but I love him. There really is no one else like him, like him or not.

I got 'Oh Mercy' when it first came out but it took me awhile to like it. 'Ring Them Bells' is my fav tune on that album.

Yeah, it's a mystery. The best answer I can imagine is... because he feels like it.

I would love to see him try out some record versions of the songs live, but on the other hand, I find it kind of depressing seeing, for example, the Beach Boys recreating the studio version on the stage 50 years on. I think the same reason why Bob never plays the song the same way from tour to tour is part of the reason I think he has remained a vital, interesting artist. Plus... the records are there for those versions.

He's an odd bird for sure, but I love him. There really is no one else like him, like him or not.

I agree, but his new "versions" usually sound bad, to my ears at least. When I saw him a couple of years ago, every song was sang with the same melody that went high at the end of every line, it was like a bad SNL skit. Like a bad impression of him. To compare apples and apples, Willie Nelson changes it up too, but IMO his live versions are good and enjoyable. JMO YMMV

He's at least a little nuts and has been for a while, at least artistically. If you read his autobiography CHRONICLES he actually goes into his evolving singing style and why and how he changed how he sang in the '80s. It's weird and interesting and all seems to point to.... "this is how I want to do it and I like it so... deal with it". Which sucks for fans, but at least he never resembles a nostalgia act.

He's at least a little nuts and has been for a while, at least artistically. If you read his autobiography CHRONICLES he actually goes into his evolving singing style and why and how he changed how he sang in the '80s. It's weird and interesting and all seems to point to.... "this is how I want to do it and I like it so... deal with it". Which sucks for fans, but at least he never resembles a nostalgia act.

I guess it's just a money thing then... I understand artistic integrity vs giving the fans what they want, but touring endlessly to sing unrecognizable versions of his classic works for fans is a little bizarre to me. JMHO I guess it's the fact of being in the same room as him... I don't know. I do remember he sang Like A Rolling Stone as the encore and that was magical, because he sang it 'right" as opposed to weird. So he can do it, just doesn't want to. He's a weird cat for sure. Kind of a slap in the face of the fans from my perspective. Interestingly enough, I just watched "The People VS George Lucas" and the parallels are quite interesting.

No, I don't think it's a moneything. A guy in his 70's, traveling around on a bus when he already has a giant pile of cash and could make money way easier other ways? I think he genuinely wants to sound just as he sounds and has never tailored his sound to an audience. He didn't in 1965 when people complained about his backup band, he didn't in 1975 when he went all gypsy on the rolling thunder tour, and he hasn't since. It's just more pronounced now because he's a "legend" in my opinion. Certainly a fascinating, maddening, inspiring guy.

Great song! Oh Mercy is a great album. I saw him on that tour. Dylan is his own man.

I almost forgot about that song and that performance, since last week I keep on encountering things that remind me of my first girlfriend who I dated back in 1994 just after graduation. Dylan did that performance around that time.

I found our old love letters, the picture (A single picture was ever taken of the both of us) just prior to graduation, several portraits I drew of her with the most recent one 2008. I have had several relationships since but none felt as real as that one and I'll probably never forget.

Thanks for posting that song.

I assume "corker" means good?



Ha!, yes indeed it does.
Corker = Semi-antiquated / comic book Brit-slang for somethin quite remarkable or astounding .

Which, I think, fits for most of 'Oh Mercy' :cool:

Ha!, yes indeed it does.
Corker = Semi-antiquated / comic book Brit-slang for somethin quite remarkable or astounding .

Which, I think, fits for most of 'Oh Mercy' :cool:

Then I definitely agree!

Just listened to the album again and it's great from start to finish.

Kind of a slap in the face of the fans from my perspective.

Aw, not really from my perspective. If you notice, his shows are FILLED with fans that LOVE what he's doing NOW.

Maybe you are a fan of those particular records, but not really a "Dylan fan". That's OK too, 'cause those records are great. But, what Dylan is doing is not a slap in my face and I'm a big Dylan fan.

Look, Bob is an artist, pure and simple. Not everybody likes it. DiVinci didn't paint the Mona Lisa the same way over and over and over to please those that liked the first version. He painted it ONCE.

Bob is creating and recreating constantly. A living breathing legend!

"That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it and that was it."

Joni Mitchell

Zimmy is Zimmy. You get him, or you don't.:lol: