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A little off topic but... I've been watching the DVD's of "Have Gun Will Travel" - totally innaccurate representation of the Old West, but Richard Boone as Paladin is stone cold! Sort of like a 19th century James Bond. BTW way, several of the episodes were written by Gene Rodenberry (sp?).
I like Street Fighting Man by the Stones - kind of moved us out of the hippy dippy BS.
BUMP FOR BOB DYLAN!
ping.
/sarcasm
Dylan Bump!
Neighborhood Bully ~ Bob Dylan~
Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man,
His enemies say he's on their land.
They got him outnumbered about a million to one,
He got no place to escape to, no place to run.
He's the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,
He's criticized and condemned for being alive.
He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin,
He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.
He's the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land,
He's wandered the earth an exiled man.
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn,
He's always on trial for just being born.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized,
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for him.
He was supposed to feel bad.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him,
'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.
He's the neighborhood bully.
He got no allies to really speak of.
What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love.
He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.
Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly.
To hurt one they would weep.
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Every empire that's enslaved him is gone,
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon.
He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand,
In bed with nobody, under no one's command.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Now his holiest books have been trampled upon,
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on.
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.
He's the neighborhood bully.
What's anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin', they say.
He just likes to cause war.
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.
He's the neighborhood bully.
What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers?
Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,
Running out the clock, time standing still,
Neighborhood bully.
What......? Where is "Tiptoe through the tulips" sung by Tiny Tim.....?
My God...I'm choking up just thinking of it...someone give me a tissue!!!
I am LOL! I never understood the song, and perhaps I am now glad I didn't.
Dylan was a sack of manure then and is a sack of manure now. Nothing has changed.
"Look out kid, it's something ya did!"
lol....McCartney's certainly worked hard and definitely has the I-IV-V-IV-I chord progression down pat. I won't belittle his success.
But someone who's understanding of music is so limited he has to hire a ghost writer for orchestrating wouldn't know what's musically perfect.
Dylan was an insufferable twit; he is now an expert in the field and those who think the world has changed in their lifetimes are merely recognizing that they weren't paying attention in the first place.
pffft! right......
Ummmm. OK.
What if my respect for the knowledge and judgement of musicians, actors and industry experts is less than zero?
What possible significance can the opinion of a bunch of dumber than anvils have on my life?
If there is one book, movie, or song that deserves the claim that it changed the world, it's Exodus.
http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.06.27/books8.html
http://www.internationalwallofprayer.org/Aliyah-020-Exodus-Lyrics.html
Thought I'd ping all the Dylan fans to something I came across on Amazon tonight. It's an upcoming Martin Scorsese film on Dylan to be shown on PBS end of Sept.
Here's a link to the info and a video clip you can watch.........Should be good!..........
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/14104231/104-0342990-8091161
In what way did any of these songs change the world?