Stephen Malkmus - Ballad of a thin man (Bob Dylan cover)

[anibalnikov47]

amazing!

[mesoocoool]

So fucking good god damn

[TheBeestoncowboy]

You can't go wrong with Dylan..............Great rendition I just loved it

[alexgillespie1]

he's the dude from pavement right?

[spinkwotzer]

The music's okay, but this guy's voice is nowhere near passionate and vitriolic enough to scale the heights of the original

[sunriseRISE]

SOUNDS LIKE A RIPP OFF.......''THE ANIMALS doing RAY CHARLES song......

'I BELIVE TO MY SOUL......'yer trying ta make a fool of me............YEAH even the story dylan wrote seems to ripp off RAYS lyrical thinking

[NTheSkyWithDiamonds]

this song sucks dick

the original is 49673904763947 times better

[kiomanful]

good version. Think your voice should have more prominence, let your voice fly do not try to control it

[TheAbsolutionHowl]

@kiomanful - I'm pretty sure the person that posted this isn't Stephen Malkmus and that Stephen Malkmus was fully aware of what he was doing, being one of alternative/indie musics most iconic figures for over a decade.

On a side note; this is an excellent film and the person that's posted it is awesome for doing so.

[Scweeb64]

not as good as the origanal!

[Jualmas1990]

this is not a version... he copies the song note by note...

not even dylan does that.

[starvinfolkartist]

I'm watching the Dylan covers uploaded 2 utube.

Hes 1 of my faves...not bad.

[davidsham123]

i dont really like this singer. lacking the originality that dylan possesses

[sushilll111]

@davidsham123

It's supposed to be close to the original

[ardille]

esta y un bombon na na naaa ***

[MARCIABIJOU]

I luv the guitar & the freshness he gave to my favorite music of ever. Nice!

[mewantbathers]

This fawking sucks---are yall kidding?? this is garbage

[andru144]

does any one know where i can get this cover tabs

[Mariekesone]

One Wonderful Cover:-)

[Jimmos4ever2000]

Really really good!

[ok19608]

Why do people comment on you tube videos just to argue about music? Cant we just enjoy shit or searh something else?

just my opinion. lol

[carpetbagger06]

You're asking a bit much of the masses, my friend.

[ok19608]

good point (i am only asking though haha)

[BigPoppin420]

couldnt say it any better, but this covers got nothin on kula shakers version... still amazing tho!

[PaulScullyPower]

Sounds like communist talk to me. Man...

[zXLIFESILLXz]

@ok19608 because many people struggle discerning opinion from fact. See , I like the original better. but I dont dislike this cover or those who prefer it. good music is good music people!

[yayoLUIS]

Great Cover! I loved how it remains similar to Bob's original but Stephen Malkmus still puts his own style to it.

[hellvile9]

sinceramente.. es muy buena vercion pero poes nada como la original..hecha por bob dylan...

bob dylan eres grande

[Fanta666]

is this on an album or just the im not there OST?

[Robbie59]

I think it's just the OST.

[h0merg0mez]

He comes in too early with the "do you"

That messes up the whole thing for me! I still love Malkmus though

[nick4man3]

Yeah, I agree.

That "Do you" part is very important to get perfectly, timing wise. I cover this song and it took me quite some time to get that part down to where I was comfortable with it.

I don't particularly like this cover, it seems uninspired. Like he was just copying the song rather than playing the cover and making it his own.

That's just my opinion, though.

[McGuinty1]

Okay, so in the same breath you say that he changed the timing of "Do you", and that it seems like he was just copying rather than making it his own. I mean, it's supposed to be a fairly close cover as he was Cate Blanchett's singing voice in the movie, but at the same time plenty of liberties have been taken with the arrangement. I don't see how this is anything but a very good cover, by a great artist in his own right.

[McGuinty1]

Don't ever go to a Bob Dylan concert, either. You will be sorely disappointed as I don't think he ever plays any song of his the same way twice.

[nick4man3]

I saw Bob Dylan 3 weeks ago and was amazed by what he does with his songs. Your comment on seeing Bob Dylan seems pretty irrelevant. You basically just proved my point, so thank you. Bob Dylan has takes his songs and alters them as his style changes and I think that's absolutely brilliant.

I guess you missed my point, so let me further explain. I think it's necessary to make a cover your own style, but to keep certain core elements of the original song intact.

As I said, this feels UNINSPIRED.

[McGuinty1]

Uninspired all the way to the bank, ha ha!

Well, you are entitled to your opinion as I am to mine. Sorry for assuming you were unfamiliar with Dylan's live show. I just saw him last fall and he was awesome. Top 5 concerts I have ever attended. Some people in upper sections started leaving after a couple songs though, I guess there was terrible noise and distortion. Sounded fine where I was sitting.

The real tragedy was that I missed SM and the Jicks only 5 days before. I died a little.

[sleakitweasel]

"That "Do you" part is very important to get perfectly, timing wise"

rly? lol. Says who?

Is this some sort of 'official wisdom' from 'someone who covers this song'?

I've not heard you play this but I would bet my left arm that this blows yr version out the water and all the way up the beach to the cafe toilets.

Just my opinion. lol

[nick4man3]

It's just an 'official opinion' of an 'avid Bob Dylan fan who happens to cover many of Bob Dylan's songs'. I never said my cover was better or worse, I just said that's the way I do it. I suppose you have to be literate and have some concept of common sense to figure that one out, though.

You, my friend, are the reason why cousins shouldn't have children.

Just my opinion. "lol"

[nick4man3]

People like you have no place in a conversation regarding any form of music. To have an opinion on something before you even hear it is the most arrogant thing you could possibly do.

You also obviously aren't a musician. When playing any song, you always have to study the timing of the vocalist's words in correspondence with the chord changes.

You're probably the kind of person that sits at a Bob Dylan show now and boos because his voice sounds different. Go back to counting your toes, inbreed.

[sleakitweasel]

"When playing any song, you always have to study the timing of the vocalist's words in correspondence with the chord changes."

Nope.

You know the words and changes.

Play it.

No 'studying' involved - it's called inspiration and talent. Something SM and Bobby have in abundance. You (and I'm willing to bet my RIGHT arm this time) are a tedious bore.

Post yr version on YT nick4man3 and make me eat my words (although I'm rather full after eating both my arms lately) lol.

[nick4man3]

Buddy, you subconsciously study the words in your head, whether you realize you're doing it or not. Half of music is doing just that, the mental studying of what is going on. Your hideously ignorant statement is just further evidence that you are not a musician.

If I had any means of posting my music on the internet I would gladly do so, although I would prefer not to share it with you as your honest opinion is obviously compromised.

And once again, you judge something you've never heard.

[ThisIsNotHappyDays]

@nick4man3

Typically it's the lyricist who studies the progression as the voice has to be attuned to the chords. I don't start playing different chords just because my singer's in the wrong key. In fact, I don't even do that when I'm the one singing in the wrong key.

[chinapig45]

and you're my fact-checkin' cuz

[nick4man3]

By the way, it's spelled: R-E-A-L-L-Y.

Maybe you should go fish your brain out of that cafe toilet along with my cover.

[acefilms28]

great song great cover from a great movie

[carlydepp]

Great cover!

[joaoportojoaoporto]

Great cover of an AMAZING DYLAN song !!!!

[howelldrake]

I think it's telling that a "video" of a still photo could a) get such a high rating and, b) warrant so many comments and discussion re: Malkmus as Dylan. As I think about it Malkmus is kinda the anti-Dylan cum 360 re: vocals. That is, Dylan captured a gen's imagination hitting all the notes in such a mannerist way that was revolutionary from the start, while Malkmus sang purely but pitchy as hell early on. Each we're there respective gen's singers who "couldn't sing." But they did, and better.

[spooninspoon]

This is a great soundtrack... Jim Jones and Calexico on goin to acupolco was probably better than the original

[amliedi]

great cover@!

[chrisocony]

Malkmus does quite a good job; I guess since he does not have a "singer's voice" (as the NY Times said), he pulls off Dylan nicely; but his cover of the Verlaines song here on YouTube is really exceptional

[pavement27]

Thoroughly agree...Excellent cover...Both that is.

[jasonungar08]

Dylan's version is better. All of em.

[watkinscopicat]

....with steve shelley on drums, lee ranaldo and nels cline on guitars,

[bluesboy25000]

It's "here's your thrat back, thanks for the loan"

[Jackoho]

Dylan sometimes varied the lyrics of many songs slightly or sometimes significantly when singing live.

[nichoji]

No it's not, it's "here's your throat back..." See we can all be pedantic; but lets face it, the respective person that each of us is correcting is more than likely aware of the 'proper' lyric, and we, in correcting them, just end up looking like dicks...

[Thebeefypig]

dude dylan wrote it, he is genius, but stephen malkmus can play it just as good if not better which makes him, in a degree, genius. Congradulations :). And PS youre not as mean as you look :P

[Robbie59]

What do you mean ?

[Thebeefypig]

You're mean, but then you're not lol

[tracksuitjim]

@Robbie59 nice pun lol

[Robbie59]

@tracksuitjim

What pun ?

[Purplepen123783]

@tracksuitjim What pun?

[Thebeefypig]

@sunriseRISE dude thanks. I like that version alot more. the older the music is, the more original it gets. Big Bang effect

[pmentslenchanted]

You don;t know Stephen Malkmus till you have seen him in concert. His music used to be lofi (kinda garage rock) style, which basically means he freestyles with the guitar in concert amazingly. Not like every other musician in concert at all.

[Thiago1950]

C'mon it's good, just good. I doubt someone could perform better than The Man.

[insanehamster]

hope you're reffering to Dylan...

[DJXanosphere]

i like this vesion better (the instamentals) but i wish it was dylan singing

[Jackoho]

that's how i feel

[drcolumbusthejet]

hes the king of toads

i dig this guy

[h3yh3yh3y]

I love love love Stephen Malkmus. Such good stuff. Damn.

[AndreDelacroix]

This song is awkward and misses just like the film. Did we really need another dylan film after Scorssesses amazing doco. 'Im not there' was as lame as 'Walk the Line'.

[Jeffnerd]

Malkmus covering Dylan, so appropriate! Great job Stephen. Thanks for posting this.

[dancetoska]

I love Dylan, but this version is so much better than the original

[saulramone]

have you ever listened the original? nobody can do it like dylan, as much you try you won't be ever able to sing with his voice and the feeling that dylan gives to the song is just fucking amazing, he feels it.

Listen to the dylans version again, not even god can play like him with that incredible voice.

[dancetoska]

nope. I said that this version is better than the original without actually listening to the original. Congratulations! You got me! brb gonna cut my wrists because I've been proven wrong on the internet

[hieroimp]

hey man what movie would you guys hapen to be talkin about if i may ask...Dylan's awesome.

[Robbie59]

They're talking about "I'm not there", a movie about Bob Dylan.

[kitelinescrossed1021]

Great version! Also Scorsesse's movie about Dylan is incerdibly informative and made a fan outa me. If you get a chance look up Dylan's cover of The House Of The Rising Sun. Fucking amazing! Oh and why your looking check out the documentary The Weather Underground. Learn. Become the irate yet rational revolutionary!

[kitelinescrossed1021]

I wasn't a huge Dylan fan before watching the Scorsesse film but man what a great movie and what a great story. Ya and this Malkmus version is incredible. If you can try and find Dylan's version of House Of The Rising Sun. Tune in. Turn On. Drop Out! Also look up the documentary The Weather Underground

[chrisocony]

yeah i was like that too, i liked, respected Dylan and had some of his records, but after the Scorcese film I bought like 5 or 6 of those early ones I did not have

[pavement27]

I think Dylan's best best best album is "Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" I adore that one....

[elsaskattungar]

Yes! That one or "Blonde on Blonde"! :D

[pavement27]

Completely agree...Those are my two favorite...

[ringo348tb]

Oh Man - How good was that!!

[BadmanPosse]

Fuck yea malkmus :)

COME BACK TO AZ

[Akohamaru]

I download first this song thinking it was the kula shaker one, and now i cant listen anyone else. This is my favourite... :/ :P

Thanks for uploading!! :D

[pinkindia983]

wow, love it,i LOVE dylan, i LOVE malkmus, this is just perfect  =)

[Marsthegreatx]

this is a really good cover

[Robbie59]

Hey hey ! First comment =)

Yes it is, I actually discovered it before the original song. It's from a movie about Bob Dylan called "I'm not there" also featuring Cat Power, Anthony and the Johnson and many other famous guys in the OST.