the litany of references at the end that somehow doesn't seem monotonous. sounsd like nothing i can think of except desolation row.
― treeship., Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link
Also cf. All the friends I ever had are gone.
― Why, I would make a fantastic Nero! (PBKR), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
("Delia")
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 2 April 2020 06:11 (four years ago) link
I wonder what dickie betts he has in mind , the Elizabeth Reed stuff or Jessica etc
― calstars, Friday, 3 April 2020 23:22 (four years ago) link
I think he says Blue Sky?https://youtu.be/lZg9MWLQ5_c
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 April 2020 23:28 (four years ago) link
throw the gun in the gutter/and walk on by
the litany of references at the end that somehow doesn't seem monotonous. sounds like nothing i can think of except desolation row.
Reminds me a bit of "Chimes of Freedom," and I guess "Ring Them Bells" as well - but where those songs have big sweeping categories - "flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight," "Ring them bells sweet Martha for the poor man's son," this has a seemingly endless list of specific people.
Wait, I think we can go somewhere with this! Chimes of Freedom is his early period, when he was thinking in big sweeping hippie abstractions about freedom and justice. Ring Them Bells is roughly the same idea but in religious terms; the chimes of freedom have turned into bells calling us to worship and be saved. But this is a song that's partly about being at the end of your lifetime, when all those big abstract spaces have been filled in with the real things and people and works of art that you've engaged with in some way over the course of your life. So instead of the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale, we get Lindsey and Stevie Nicks. And in the place of the chimes of freedom, we have every song Bob Dylan has ever heard.
― The fillyjonk who believed in pandemics (Lily Dale), Saturday, 4 April 2020 00:19 (four years ago) link
I keep hearing "play it for Dead C and Stevie Nicks"
probably not but
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 6 April 2020 13:57 (four years ago) link
Number one on Billboard's Rock Digital Song Sales list!
― timellison, Thursday, 9 April 2020 06:08 (four years ago) link
The Guardian has dares to do this:
Bob Dylan's 50 greatest songs – ranked!
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/09/bob-dylans-50-greatest-songs-ranked
― Duke, Thursday, 9 April 2020 11:17 (four years ago) link
I didn't get beyond #46: Make You Feel My Love is one of his five worst songs ever.
― Why, I would make a fantastic Nero! (PBKR), Thursday, 9 April 2020 11:38 (four years ago) link
Yep, lots to disagree with. But that's the nature of lists like that
― Duke, Thursday, 9 April 2020 11:53 (four years ago) link
Sitting though “make you feel” by Adele is pure torture
― calstars, Thursday, 9 April 2020 12:19 (four years ago) link
Number one on Billboard's Rock Digital Song Sales list!Apparently it’s Dylan’s first song to ever hit #1 on any Billboard chart (“under his own name”)
― morrisp, Thursday, 9 April 2020 14:33 (four years ago) link
― Duke, Thursday, April 9, 2020 4:17 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
without looking i'm guessing "what can i do for you" didn't make the list which makes it invalid to me
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 April 2020 14:35 (four years ago) link
interesting that "slow train" and "groom" did though
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 April 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
#today and #tomorrow,#skeletons and #nudes,#sparkle and #flash,#AnneFrank and #IndianaJones,#fastcars and #fastfood, #bluejeans and #queens,#Beethoven and #Chopin,#life and #death.https://t.co/o5VQKJ0NHx— bobdylan.com (@bobdylan) April 17, 2020
― morrisp, Friday, 17 April 2020 04:14 (four years ago) link
wtf!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 April 2020 04:36 (four years ago) link
God bless this weird motherfucker
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 April 2020 04:46 (four years ago) link
fuck this is a great one
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 17 April 2020 06:30 (four years ago) link
Lol, Bob is the best.
I assume this means a new album is coming.
― Why, I would make a fantastic Nero! (PBKR), Friday, 17 April 2020 12:27 (four years ago) link
I paint landscapesand I paint dudes
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 17 April 2020 13:30 (four years ago) link
I like how "dudes" is there so he can rhyme it with the title yet it still works.
This one is more ehhhh. As in, "Great, Bob, you remember what you read in elementary school English."
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 April 2020 13:38 (four years ago) link
think it's "nudes" haha
― tylerw, Friday, 17 April 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
lol
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:41 (four years ago) link
it's definitely nudes
― edgard varese-type beat (voodoo chili), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
nude dudes with 'tude
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
i paint brosephsand i paint dudesplz send multitudes of nudes
― tylerw, Friday, 17 April 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
https://brooklynrail-web.imgix.net/article_image/image/8738/morgan-web1.jpg?w=1020&q=80&fit=max
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
I'm sorry Bob but it's dudes now, so much better that way
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
Bob Dylan: Send Nudes
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:50 (four years ago) link
multitudes of nudes
― edgard varese-type beat (voodoo chili), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
There is another "dudes" rhyme though.
― Chris L, Friday, 17 April 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown),
how'd you know my memoir title?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 April 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
xp “I relic and I frolic, with all the young dudes”
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Friday, 17 April 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link
love this era of Bob
― J. Sam, Friday, 17 April 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
nudes *and* dudes
https://www.nydailynews.com/resizer/a1xlceGyYuU-Bw7U6YgdtlVaN9s=/415x537/top/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/LMZUEVDP53LPUGA3INSMYBS52Q.jpg
https://www.needsomefun.net/wp-content/gallery/bob-dylan-new-orleans-series-2013/cache/1-bob-dylan-new-orleans-series-1.jpg-nggid03110-ngg0dyn-640x480x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 17 April 2020 16:13 (four years ago) link
i love his singing on this one (and the last one). delivered with a wink, but he's not joking. well, not entirely joking.
― edgard varese-type beat (voodoo chili), Friday, 17 April 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link
https://www.castlefineart.com/assets/img/resized/standard/grande-c381rvore-beachfront.jpg
― dow, Friday, 17 April 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
No nudes, shoulda used crude? Ciick to enlarge that if you pleeeze.
― dow, Friday, 17 April 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
I initially heard the line in the last verse as "get up off my d"
had to rewind and check
― Number None, Friday, 17 April 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
"Will I be lewd to the dude and crude to his prude and to his profession?" --Joel Gibb
― geoffreyess, Friday, 17 April 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
I like "I Contain Multitudes" well enough, but it feels like he just dropped some leftover verses from "Murder Most Foul." Either way, Bob in old sap mode feels like comfort food for me at the moment.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Saturday, 18 April 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I’d eat up a whole album of this stuff.
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Saturday, 18 April 2020 17:05 (four years ago) link
a new bob album would just make my year, even though the year sucks
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link
I'm hoping that he'll release an entire album this year, one song at a time
― doug watson, Saturday, 18 April 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
our old friend greil, who once argued that it was not *entirely* a coincidence that john lydon's name was similar to that of the medieval anabaptist leader john of leyden, is unimpressed by the david ferrie/guy banister theory:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/real-life-rock-top-10-april-2020/
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 24 April 2020 23:55 (four years ago) link
I really liked that review, though--the fact that it was based on something concrete, the widespread reaction to the song, rather than some impenetrable tangent, that was a good start. I think he made a somewhat significant factual error, though: "Murder Most Foul" made #1 on some specialized chart, digital downloads or something like that, it wasn't the Top 100--that would have been really remarkable.
― clemenza, Saturday, 25 April 2020 01:22 (four years ago) link
Looks like another new song may be queued up for tonight:
What are you lookin’ at - there’s nothing to see. pic.twitter.com/TzCBvpIMBo— Bob Dylan (@bobdylan) May 7, 2020
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Thursday, 7 May 2020 22:08 (four years ago) link
New album ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’ coming June 19th. Pre-order now: https://t.co/SN0XeyNKiNListen to “False Prophet” here: https://t.co/05k7HYtPiK pic.twitter.com/raitEZpabe— Bob Dylan (@bobdylan) May 8, 2020
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Friday, 8 May 2020 04:10 (four years ago) link