With Another Side of Bob Dylan, Dylan had begun pushing past folk, and with Bringing It All Back Home, he exploded the boundaries, producing an album of boundless imagination and skill. And it's not just that he went electric, either, rocking hard on "Subterranean Homesick Blues," "Maggie's Farm," and "Outlaw Blues"; it's that he's exploding with imagination throughout the record. After all, the music on its second side -- the nominal folk songs -- derive from the same vantage point as the rockers, leaving raditional folk concerns behind and delving deep into the personal. And this isn't just introspection, either, since the surreal paranoia on "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" and the whimsical poetry of "Mr. Tambourine Man" are individual, yet not personal. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, really, as he writes uncommonly beautiful love songs ("She Belongs to Me," "Love Minus Zero/No Limit") that sit alongside uncommonly funny fantasias ("On the Road Again," "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream"). This is the point where Dylan eclipses any conventional sense of folk and rewrites the rules of ock, making it safe for personal expression and poetry, not only making words mean as much as the music, but making the music an extension of the words. A truly remarkable album.
For some reason Mog eats the end of my post so it is now in two parts. Part One Lives Here From wikipedia:"In her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe includes an extra, final verse which may have been taken from another hymn. The additional verse is part of most hymnals today. When we’ve been there ten thousand years, Bright shining as the sun, We've no less days to sing Go.
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I often wonder if it's inherent in our human nature to take that what we know (songs, stories, jokes, experiences, and art) and re contextualize it into our own creation. I am a graphic designer by day and a cartoonist at heart. I thirst for satire, parody, puns (clever and bad ones, alike), situations, and stories I can distill into a frame by frame sequence. I'm a writer with pictures, whic...
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I've decided that it's time for me to start catching up in the Bob Dylan section of my library, which I think is a very good decision. I've liked his stuff a lot for the past year or so now, but I was inspired recently after we covered him for a whole lecture in my History of Rock Music class last week. We just exited the rock's birth in the 50s and are now covering the emergence of folk/folk r...
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i just saw where somebody believes that Townes Van Zandt is a better songwriter than Dylan and they would stand by the quote standing on Dylan's coffee table and tell him so.some such quote or not.well i got freakin news for ya!stand on my coffee table and tell me that.....I 'LL SHOOT YOUR FREAKIN' ASSi'd love to hear Dylan's response to this while standing on his coffee table.PS:i love Townes ...
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"Darkness at the break of noonShadows even the silver spoonThe handmade blade, the child's balloonEclipses both the sun and moonTo understand you know too soonThere is no sense in tryin'...As some warn victory, some downfallPrivate reasons great or smallCan be seen in the eyes of those that callTo make all things that should be killed to crawlWhile others say don't hate nothing at allExcept hat...
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OK I'm sick of polotics and doomsday prophesy for now. (I know, finally! right?) I just remembered that Mog is first and foremost about music so I thought I'd just play a plain old good song and leave it at that. No doom, gloom, or polotics. No attempts at wit or art just straight music served up in a shot glass for your listening pleasure. Heres Bob with a dream! enjoi!
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dylans cover of the song made popular by the film easy rider. seems fitting considering our current economic state.
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i just saw where somebody believes that Townes Van Zandt is a better songwriter than Dylan and they would stand by the quote standing on Dylan's coffee table and tell him so.some such quote or not.well i got freakin news for ya!stand on my coffee table and tell me that.....I 'LL SHOOT YOUR FREAKIN' ASSi'd love to hear Dylan's response to this while standing on his coffee table.PS:i love Townes ...
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It's all over and I am so happy to hear from the right when all they can muster is a "he is already breaking campaign promises" or "nothing has changed" argument to qualm their rising discontent over the ass-kicking that was handed to them by an inexperienced, yet extremely capable (How do I know this? I feel it...just like I felt the elitism of George Bush, both of them, Jr was just better at ...
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i love mog, the way it reminds me of spending my good time in front of a computer screen. i've seen some good shows live in the last year, good unlimited time spent. met some great folks and danced my good ass off... some great finds on this site, i forget now who made me aware of these good sounds!social interactions are becoming strange! not good. my backyard buddy, who is not a purist veg...
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sometimes i hear a song while driving and am flooded with images that flick past my eyes when i blink. they are like that tiny black dot that you sometimes see floating around your vision when you close your eyes tightly, and stare towards the sun.this morning, while passing my beloved bridge, i heard bob dylan singing this song, and it was joel and clemetine waking up on the shore that i saw. ...
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I've decided that it's time for me to start catching up in the Bob Dylan section of my library, which I think is a very good decision. I've liked his stuff a lot for the past year or so now, but I was inspired recently after we covered him for a whole lecture in my History of Rock Music class last week. We just exited the rock's birth in the 50s and are now covering the emergence of folk/folk r...
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They did the "Feelin' Groovy" video featured in my last post. Here's their artistical interpretation of Bob Dylan's "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream"
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"I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.No, I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.Well, I wake in the morning,Fold my hands and pray for rain.I got a head full of ideasThat are drivin' me insane.It's a shame the way she makes me scrub the floor.I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.I ain't gonna work for Maggie's brother no more.No, I ain't gonna work for Maggie's brother no mo...
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I find myself going back to the basics at a time like this, so get ready for some Dylan.Aboriginalien"My love she speaks like silence,Without ideals or violence,She doesn't have to say she's faithful,Yet she's true, like ice, like fire.People carry roses,Make promises by the hours,My love she laughs like the flowers,Valentines can't buy her.In the dime stores and bus stations,People talk of si.
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"She's got everything she needsShe's an artist, she don't look backShe's got everything she needsShe's an artist, she don't look backShe can take the dark out of nighttimeAnd paint the daytime black.You will start out standingProud to steal her anything she seesYou will start out standingProud to steal her anything she seesBut you will wind up peeking through her keyholeDown upon your knees.She...
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Words from some good men, please listen, read and think ...This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores.Instead, it is that American spirit — that America.
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pretty cool video i saw recently, i think this is one of the best tunes, lyricly, ever written. Really deep. Heard an interview with him recently and he was sayin he never really knew where all the lyrics came from and he never really understood them. I got a keen interest in sociology and philosiphy and some of the things he talks about in one line, whole books have been compiled in an attempt...
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I often wonder if it's inherent in our human nature to take that what we know (songs, stories, jokes, experiences, and art) and re contextualize it into our own creation. I am a graphic designer by day and a cartoonist at heart. I thirst for satire, parody, puns (clever and bad ones, alike), situations, and stories I can distill into a frame by frame sequence. I'm a writer with pictures, whic...
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