Posted on 12/27/2024 9:56:49 AM PST by Ozguy1945
Dylan was not what Columbia Records made him out to be...............
Over rated garbage. Whiny voiced hack.
Love this song
Not one of his best.
My favorite and possibly the best Dylan album (personal taste and not the point I wish to make).
And two, it was a cathartic action based on a very bitter breakup.
From Idiot Wind:
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth
Blowing down the back roads headin' south
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth
You're an idiot, babe
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe
pretty rough if, in fact, directed at his ex
When I was in high school, 69-72, the so-called ‘cool kids’ all listened to Dylan and hung over every word of his lyrics. They read Thoreau, or at least said they did, which I doubted then and even more so now, and they were usually the ones from well-off families. .................
“Idiot Wind” was written by Bob Dylan to his then wife while they were in the process of a divorce.
It is a bitter husband who has fallen out of love with his wife.
In the song Dylan says “You’re an idiot babe”.
Blood on the tracks is very cathartic.
He was cleverer in the sixties.
More focussed then on analysing the world less self obsessed.
Dylan was, and is, my favorite singer. There’s others I love, but he was it when I entered college in 1962 and I adored, and adore, everything about him. Unfortunately, his songs can’t go up on YouTube. These stream from my website.
Sherlock Holmes - Masters of War - (Holmes and Moriarity (Downey, Jr) - Bob Dylan
https://www.iment.com/maida/tv/hw/video/Sherlock-Holmes-Masters-of-War-Bob-Dylan.htm
Criminal Minds - Shelter from the Storm - Bob Dylan
https://www.iment.com/maida/tv/crime/video/Criminal-Minds-Shelter-From-the-Storm-Bob-Dylan.htm
Get Smart - If Not For You (Max) - Bob Dylan
https://www.iment.com/maida/tv/gs/video/Get-Smart-If-Not-For-You-Bob-Dylan.htm
Alias - Shelter from the Storm - Bob Dylan
https://www.iment.com/maida/tv/alias/video/Alias-Shelter-from-the-Storm-Bob-Dylan.htm
Professionals - Baby Blue (Bodie) - Bob Dylan
https://www.iment.com/maida/tv/pros/video/Professionals-Baby-Blue-Bob-Dylan.htm
House - A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall - Bob Dylan
https://www.iment.com/maida/tv/house/video/House-A-Hard-Rains-Gonna-Fall-Bob-Dylan.htm
Star Trek - My Back Pages (Spock) - Bob Dylan
https://www.iment.com/maida/tv/st/video/Star-Trek-My-Back-Pages-Bob-Dylan.htm
Blood on the Tracks (1975)
Desire (1976)
One year apart, vastly different.
Love them both for different reasons.
I can’t help it if I’m lucky
She inherited a million bucks
And when she died it came to me
I can’t help it if I’m lucky
Come on. That’s awesome.
Grossly overrated “star”. I can carry a tune better than him, and I can’t sing worth a damn.
“In the song Dylan says “You’re an idiot babe”.”
But toward the end of the song he says “we’re idiots babe”, taking responsibility for himself also.
Dylan has said BOTT was not inspired by the breakup. Dylan’s son said he heard a lot of those lyrics screamed at each other. Either way, my favorite Dylan album.
I agree. He was a better songwriter than singer.
I just listened to it again. It is obvious that he started with lyrics and then attempted to put music to it. Didn’t turn out too good. Of course he was going through some bad times.
Yep...My first step in a growing realization that something was “not exactly clear” to me, in America, was my age group embracing that Zimmerman kid in the mid-sixties. I get attitude’s importance to musical performance, but at least Elvis was musical.
If you can find a link to his interview in Rolling Stone, it will open your eyes to a whole new Dylan you did not know................
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