Jim James and Calexico - Goin' to Acapulco

[TheShakespeareBlues]

I wish this guy would cover all of my own songs.

[danielhl22]

When Acapulco was awesome !! now is a nest of offenders to say the least

[acrookedskyline]

whoa, bro i watched i'm not there in film studies and i saw arcade fire and calexico and my film studies teacher was like calexico are cool hey?

[LalitaShaktas]

Honestly I think Jim James has a better voice than the vocalists of "The Band." I know that is probably like blasphemy for some fans and I mean no offense, I love Bob Dylan and The Band of course...but honestly...wow. This is incredible. Calexico are amazingly talented musicians as well. And great movie. Cate Blanchett was sooo awesome as one of the many fictionalized versions of Dylan. She should have got an Oscar.

[bluejumper28]

7 wankers

[jasonungar08]

I love my morning jacket. One of the best shows I have seen in the last 10 years along with Wilco...And Dylan's version blows this away.

[Grace65]

I never thought i love this kind off music........beautiful.......

[bocajrr]

so soulful... I could feel every word his saying

[32Rainking]

@bocajrr Amen, goosebumps; everytime

[rossisthebosss]

wow whata great movie.this was my fav song in it.he can sing and its tough covering dylan.

[rootmusic]

Does anybody else hear an iChat chat request sound at 0:10? I can't shake it.

[danieljamesmead]

@rootmusic I keep hearing a voice telling me to punch a sparrow at 1:34

[ThePaczki]

Absolutely, without question, one of the finest covers ever . . .

[brownicb]

Jim James could get any girl on the planet. I wish I could I sing like Jim James.

[barkingchihuahua]

It's like he has a little echo chamber in his larynx!

[direwolfgirl1]

such a pretty song...glad I rented this movie or I'd never know bout this beautiful song that I'll always play from now on :)

[syncosync]

there is still great music being made today!

all music needs is an honest soul to it!

[zeroskateboards11]

it sad how people find this kind of music boring, sucks, and just not able to "keep up" with all these songs that are so popular.....when in reality those songs have no feeling no compassion, no meaning towards it and all they talk about in there songs is just party, getting laid, doing all this stuff.......when true music like this actually has a meaning towards it and so much feeling to it......if i play this kinda of music in front of my friends they just judge me so much cause they think its

[zeroskateboards11]

pussy music cause it completely different from what they listen to and the fact im a guy whose 17 and expect me to listen to what they listen to....i swear todays music is at it downfall right now.....you just don't see this kind of music around anymore......make me sad that i have to say it honestly.

[gonzo81100]

Beautifu voice, what i wouldnt give to be able to carry a note like that

[ohrightonman]

Love the Basement Tapes version, but God damn Jim James' voice for being so damn pretty... & Calexico is okay I guess.

[TheJeffman1983]

I listen to this everyday. ritually. I posted it to my facebook, no one commented, or said they liked it, I have came to the cnclusion, none of my friends have any taste.

[daPasce]

same here. nobody has seen this film it seems

[BananaBreadMakesMe]

@daPasce This film is actually how I discovered My Morning Jacket. The first time I heard Jim Jame's voice I fell into cold chills, and it has annoyed me to listen to anything else ever since.

[TonioAg2009]

i agree 100% tried to get other ppl to listen to it but they just say its ok. no taste...this song is in the my top 3 favorite songs.

[JESUSlog45]

That's because everyone is blinded with Lady gaga, you can polish a turd but it is still a turd.

[ckel29]

best part of the movie. this shit is beautiful.

[dalloway89]

bob dylan isnt just a musician, he's an artist and a songwriter poet. If someone else can paint his picture better than himself (which isnt often).. well then thats what its all about.

If it wasnt for great covers like this one many new listeners would never be able to experience bob dylan. I know i wouldnt have if it wasnt for hendrix.

thank you jimi

god bless you bob

[okeeffdp]

@dalloway89

you're not wrong :)

[WilliamMelvinHicks]

To dalloway89:

Well said brother :-)

[TheLastNaturalist]

Best song on the entire soundtrack by far (...and I love the soundtrack).

Sorry Bob. You may have written this song, but Jim James OWNS it.

[BobbMcKinney]

@TheLastNaturalist May God have mercy on your soul.

[TheLastNaturalist]

I respect Bob. Love his early work.

But come on. Listen to Bob sing this on The Basement Tapes, then re-listen to Jim James belt this out with heart-and-soul. He owns it.

[topclaw]

@TheLastNaturalist

Different strokes for different folks? Maybe, but the raw emotion is purer in Dylan's version than the INT version.

[dude1305]

@TheLastNaturalist I already have The Basement Tapes, but I think I just might go ahead an acquire this soundtrack just so I can hear Jim do this song the way it was meant to be done.

[DeludeMe]

@TheLastNaturalist Don't apologize, James would have nothing to own if it weren't for Dylan...

[ryanadamsfan1]

love this version a lot! i'm a huge dylan fan!

[routleyd3930]

Wish I knew this song existed long ago. It gave me chills and now I just have to learn it. Thank you Mr. Zimmerman and Mr. James for this wonderful gem of a song. Simply beautiful.

[ihyphenballsdotorg]

am having a moment

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Playlist. Especially now it is 02/02/10

[afunkeehomosapian]

i always love jim james' voice but then the smooth horns take it to another level

[mishkin78]

I guess this song is about going to a whorehouse.

[Kaneoism]

i think your correct by the way, even bob dylans jokerman has allot of hidding meanings, and the one eye at the end symbolizing the Illuminati. Another song he sings about licking someones ass strange enough!!!!!! but still i went to see him live

[hunkyhealer]

Achingly Beautiful

[sparrowmonroe]

love this darn song.. love you, dylan, you ramblin SOB, you. :D

[666Jayroc]

awsome song

[LaraPeace]

SOOO GREAT!!! That voice is magic!

[fongfoefum]

I'm a huge bob dylan freak but i got to say i like jims version better then (or differently) then dylans

[Marumasa]

I like to imagine it's Cleveland from Family Guy that's singing it and it makes me smile.

[mishkin78]

Wonderful

[00Mlss00]

one of my favorite bob d songs! one of the best poet musicians ever!

[mishkin78]

It's kind of mossy. Like it's got moss growing on it. You get that with covers of Dylan songs sometimes.

[wealltrytoohard7]

I Fell In Love WIth This Song The First Time I've Herd It

[kOlRoCks420]

started crying when this song came on when watching "I'm Not There"... Beautiful.....

[SouthWestCoast]

Acapulco Lives On!!!

[kOlRoCks420]

LOVVVEEEEE IT! =)

[thechefcaca]

i actually like this version better than the original........covers are awesome

[VitalemRecords]

The best soundtrack ever.. my favorite bands playing my favorite songs.. doesn't get any better than this.

[AflatGsharp]

Some songs are perfect they way they were recorded and the original I believe, is one of said songs. Glad Jim didn't stray far from the aforementioned perfection. GREAT COVER.

[ottodix16]

great cover

[zoosey]

hell yes

[rp1guy]

All due respect to your comment Jim James knows that a tune like this cannot be made its own because it's dam near perfect the way it is.

[yourdadmusthavebeena]

Well, on a lighter note, I do enjoy this song.

[20BrandedFridays]

People, please, stop filling this page with your pretentious fucks, cumstains and dylan professionals. Come on, enjoy the music, that's why it's here. And thanks for posting brownstone28.

[spooninspoon]

ha!, I don't think people would be commenting if people didn't "enjoy the music". BTW I'm offended! as a Dylan Proffesional! from the zimmerman university for the arts and crafts.

[20BrandedFridays]

Man, that's not what I meant. All I wanted was for people to enjoy the music without filling the comments page with hostility. I mean, there is such a thing as civilized discussion. I'm pretty sure you knew that. As for your second point, I'm sorry you took offence, I in no way meant for it.

[spooninspoon]

This is probably one of the most original covers ever. Jim James and Calexico really did this justice

[hiddeninromance]

I don't think it's original, in the sense they haven't strayed far from the original; well they haven't strayed far at all. I don't have an opinion on the most original cover, but I guess the old cliché of Hendrix and all along the watchtower deserves some credence as he really made it his own. In recent years, I don't know (I guess M.Ward's Let's Dance was pretty smooth!)

But I cant detract from the fact that it is a glorious song choice & an incredibly well done job on their behalf x

[ggarn087]

Incredibly enough, I feel that this renders all the spontaneity or maybe freshness (and yet it is another desperate song!) of the tape recording. And it helps that all that power can now be heard full tilt. It gives warm, haunting chills (!)

[SuperLentils]

this sounds crazily like Robin Pecknold

[mattengland85]

fleet foxes sound JUST like early My Morning Jacket...check out the tennessee fire and at dawn

[PolandSprings16]

I feel you there brother..

[ctomj]

ha. amen...amen...

i remember telling people 3 years ago though when they said i liked weird shit. "Oh, you will like them soon enough."

[Xclubkid22]

I wish you had the footage of the confederate band, it is the most haunting scene I've ever seen. The movie did leave alot to be desired but the cinematography was incredible, and the part that climaxes with this performance is the best part of the whole movie

[awulright]

I can't agree more about the band scene. There's really something special about that scene, and, I feel, about the film in general.

[kbjami]

dude every time i think of the movie that scene comes to mind instantly.

[xcesiv7]

I love that scene and the scenes with "Blind Willie McTell" where "Woody Guthrie" goes to see Woody Guthrie in the hospital and the scene with "Idiot Wind" that is basically the breakup scene. Ooh! Or "Pressing On". Too much ;)

[BobBuckley]

great cover from a great movie! :D Get chills everytime I see the ballad of a thin man scene

[SkiiErChiCK666]

a really good song... i like it better than the cover. the movie was a piece of shit with good imagery.

[twjames18]

i think he gave to much of an homage to masculin feminin and the other films he talked about. maybe trying to over intellectualize( definately not a word lol) it perhaps? im refering to tod haynes obviously.

[Raymantico]

I I watched the DVD to see if I'd been harsh on it...I am now more convinced that it is shoddy gimmicky hocus-pocus with nothing to say...Dylan amateurs may feel smug getting the references but Dylan professionals really should see how gratuitous they are..PS I am not a reactionary film classicist either...seen a lot of Godard, liked some of it, prefer Bresson

[Themanwhodoesnothing]

haha Dylan professionals. Do shut the fuck up. And stick your shit french movies up your ass while your at it. Your the type of fan that Dylan hated because you just can't appreciate the music. Here's two words I'm sure you've heard before "Pretentious Fuck"

[Xclubkid22]

yeah the man who does nothing is also the man who knows nothing here's a phrase I'm sure you heard before, you are worthless, and i think you wrote the book on pretentiousness, why don't you try doing something, or just check out b/c you are wasting oxygen.....cumstain

[Themanwhodoesnothing]

So you're agreeing with Raymantico that the movie was shit? I thought it was ok. Dylan "ok'd" the entire script ya know.

[Xclubkid22]

i want to set the record straight, i usually don't care what internet people think, i just like to piss them off, but I don't know how you got the idea i don't like this movie, i love this movie and i remeber posting that the scene that climaxes with the confederate band doing this song is the best, most haunting scene in the history of cinema. I just didn't like you calling neone pretentious in a comment that screams of pretentiousness

[Xclubkid22]

what is a dylan proffesional, do you like impersonate him or something, or does he like send you a check because your like his roadie or you get his coffee?b/c i never heard of a dylan proffesional b4

[thecro21]

this song makes me cry... in a good way.

Beautiful.

[appleseed024]

this is absolutely beautiful.

[bill291212]

Great version!

[BobBuckley]

great great cover!:b Jim James has a wonderful voice

[iriefire1]

as a die hard bob dylan fan i can say without hesitation that this version is better than bob's...hands down.....beautiful

[Fawksian21]

Well, to be fair, Bob's version is pretty rough, more like a demo than a finished song. I do like the guitar part in it, though.

[Raymantico]

"It ain't a bad way to make a living..."

Fantastic cover of truly great song

otherwise mostly a very shitty movie

(to diasagree just comment --you don't have to reply to my comment)

[Fawksian21]

One of the most innovative and refreshingly un-Hollywoodized film in ages. I respectively and wholeheartedly disagree Raymantico.

[actionselection]

me too!!!!

[SWAC424]

This is amazing.

[EZhatesyou]

Jim's voice is hauntingly good here. Tremendous cover.

[Fawksian21]

Easily one of the best moments in "I'm Not There", when this played. I count myself as a Dylan fan, but felt kind of bummed that I'd never heard this song before I watched the film.

[dirtymuthafudge]

incredible

my brother was watching the film and i fell asleep just before this song

it woke me up with its amazingness

[dodgieone]

just wow

[bitnola]

Now that's the way to cover a song. Jim James is as gifted as they come. Probably the emotional highpoint of the film, too. Was for me.

Hat's off to Todd Haynes, and of course Mr. Dylan, for making such beauty possible.

If you haven't heard anything else by Jim, head on into the youtubes for everything by My Morning Jacket. Might LOOK very Southern rockish, (and that's ok by me, too) but listen. Just listen to the way he sings.

[JacobJames138]

@bitnola also listen to mosters of folk!with him and the guys from bright eyes(conor and mike) and matt ward theyre really good!

[32Rainking]

@bitnola Somethings, though guised as opinions,are actually facts,& your"opinion"that Jim&Calexico's performance in those dusty confederate band uniforms,the young girl who slit her own throat's body on stage, and the power they bring to it,is a perfect example of it.It's a FACT that from those first soft notes hit&the giraffe looks at them,till Billy says his "Trouble was, I'd grown partial to the place, the sudden smell of fear&the thrill of waitin'up for the end of the world isthe best part

[Rkilbury1983]

@bitnola also look for his moniker yim yames

[klarolivia]

I think it's a fabulous movie! I saw it with my father, but he think it sucks... :( I don't get his point, it's simply wonderfull !

[graciebullie]

the movie was GREAT and should have been nominated for best film- and the sound track is awesome-just got turned on to Jim James-wow- what a voice- what a great song...I love the way he does it-

[JosephCa64]

My God, can this guy sing. Amazing!

[wholewheatbagel]

@JosephCa64. its glory from on high.

[axlroseislegend]

This cover is the best ever.

[8ull3s]

same here : fuckin' great cover.

nb: Answers are in dylan's lyrics.

[Sgtpeppers826]

I dunno if I could say this is better or worse then Dylans but this is a damn good cover.

[herkykilla]

Have to say that Jim James is gotta be one of the great musicians of our time just like Dylan was during his (some will say he probably still is). I hope more people find out about how amazing James & the gang (MMJ) are and hopefully they keep making music for a long time.

[KCRyder]

I never thought I would ever say something like this: This is better than the Dylan-version!

[SKIADK]

awesome song

[Nigz98]

pretty nice cover...as for inventing the alternative voice...big bopper anyone?

[rinosaur7]

Bob Dylan invented the alternative voice. Helping us more welcome such singers as Cobain, Plant, Thom Yorke, and just about any non-traditional singer today. He showed how to carry a tune with feelings as the driving force.

[barkboingfloom]

Dylan paved the way for so many musicans you can't even count them!Don't forget Tom Waites, a fantastic writer and non-traditional singer as well.

[slytown]

Dylan gets crap for his voice. He had a really good range and could carry a tune better than a lot of artists. But, the voice. :)

It's definitely worth buying MMJ albums.

[dylanfanatic22]

Since I know that there are obviously Dylan fans on here and we have somewhat similar tastes, is My Morning Jacket really a good band, or no? I've heard mixed things about them from the people I know, but then again most of the people I know don't like Dylan as much as I do.

[connorlangley44]

they are pretty good but they don't go hand in hand with bobby D. they're worth a listen though... i wouldn't go out and buy there albums just yet though.

[jaspe08]

I love me some Dylan, and I really like MMJ. Their older stuff is probably more true to the country / folk / alternative sound lik Bob Dylan, while their new stuff gets more experimental and treads away from the country/ alt and more to psychedelic/ indie sound...but very good bad check out their myspace they have a lot of songs posted

[hugoheuts]

Can I download this somewhere?

[roloi]

you people who think this is better than Dylan's version havent listend to the basement tapes enough, or maybe maybe you just cant understand what Dylan was trying to do... besides, dylan sings it better... this guy sounds like a damien rice/james blunt crossover - dylan doesnt need to imitate the emotion.

[wholewheatbagel]

or maybe jim james is just a better singer?

[arbolista]

for me its the horns. and that most dylan is so immaculately produced. basement tapes werent. and its not like dylan was trying to make them with crappy production so dont give me that haha. they are demos. but yeah dylan is my favorite singer that has ever existed

[roloi]

i think its interesting you should say that most dylan is immaculately produced - critics have put down the production on many of his albums, not that i agree with them of course. and i never said he was trying to make a "crappy production"... they are different from demos, theyre unique. and actually i love the sound of them, like nothing else produced in a studio and totaly mysterious

[arbolista]

touche

[fattony337]

the "crappy production" also contributed to the sound that bob dylan was known for. Dylan wasn't really about fancy shit. everything he would do would in a way be a protest to society and the establishment. Hence his move to electric aswell. He was protesting the image he had inadvertantly made for himself.

[molball]

nothing is better than dylan's version, but jim james from my morning jacket is a genius. nothing like dylan, but still brilliant. bob dylan can't sing worth a damn, but that's what makes his songs so real. it isn't about the voice, it's about the feeling and the stories in the lyrics. this is a good version because it's sung by a guy who appreciates dylan and knows how amazing he is, and was probably influenced by him. but jim james is very talented, so don't knock on him too much

[PonSlawek]

I agree with you. I got this movie and I find this song amazing. I admire jims way of singing.

[mkomperud]

you people with your opinions are so wrong. how dare you think for yourselves?

[ctaylor252]

maybe you should just kill yourself!

[sdogunlucky]

Anyone know the Jim James tabs for this song? A bit different than the original ones.

[arbolista]

i totally agree that this version is better than dylans. and i think dylan is by far the greatest thing to EVER happen to music. its the fucking horns.

"goin to alcupulco du na na na na" beautiful

[MarioMoreno]

yes ..gotta love the horns maan

yeeeeaaaaa

nanana! naanaa!! na nanana! lol

[flibberjar]

this cover gives me a new appreciation for this song

[CrazyMitch89]

this song kicks all kinds of ass

jim james's voice is so full of soul

[Nrosebush2]

i love this version of this song...its better then dylans original version by far and this is coming from on of the biggest dylan fans ever. sorry all of you dylan puristis out there this is by far a better version

[monster900900]

really like this cover,,dare i say its better than bobs,, basement tapes just didnt do it 4 me,one of my least fav dylan albums ,and i have them all,guess i need to find out more about this guy j james,

[skateordie777]

hey dude! Check out the band My Morning Jacket, a Louisville, KY band, he's the lead singer, once you listen to a few songs, you'll be hooked deff. check out their album "it still moves" its got a country/folk/rock vibe to it, i've been hooked for over 6 years now, lol

[ghostie543]

love this song, the scene too

[dari1mari]

LOVE this song.

The movie was amazing, as was the scene with this song. The dead girl is reeeaaally creepy. xD

[galziv30]

great song

[jude999]

Liked the movie version more. More atmosphere and echo.

[batterupdan]

I love this version!