Hip Hop Fan Reacts To Tangled Up In Blue by Bob Dylan
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Dylan wrote over 50 verses for this song before he settled on the final edit for the track. He’ll slip them into live performances though. You’ll never hear the same version of this song twice at a live performance.
I saw a great Halloween costume once, a girl wore blue strips of fabric all over her body; when asked what she was, she said "Tangled up in blue."
Reminds m of a party I once heard about where everyone had to come as a Dylan character… Einstein disguised as Robin Hood for instance… I would dearly love to attend a party like that.
The entire _Blood On The Tracks_ is essential listening. It'll break your heart & make a man of you.
By far his best album .. not a bed track on it.. this is my fave one! A great and unusual sounding one is lily, rosemary and the jack of hearts- I think you’ll love it..
I swear, I just listen to Dylan for the poetry. I think this one reflects the nomadic life that many had at the time, eventually some getting jobs and starting families, some still on the road searching. But still all tangled up in blue.
same. u perfectly captured what the song means imo
@@grais3 And by this time he was "on the road' for concerts.
Shelter From The Storm is another gem from this album.Good job discussing this one.the story is very confusing but with Dylan it just sounds good even when you can't always crack the lyrics,
I 2nd this! ♥
@@Bekka_Noyb Yeah youve gotta react to shelter from the storm absolutely mind blowing lyrics
@@alex_angriYes. Shelter from the Storm still gives me chills.
I actually prefer the reworded version on the Jerry Maguire soundtrack.
For example, one of the changes:
(Blood on the Tracks) Not a word was spoke between us, there was little risk involved
Everything up to that point had been left unresolved
(Jerry Maguire) Not a word was spoke between us, there was no risk involved
Nothing up to that point had even been resolved
Well said
I think this is seriously one of the most beautiful, melancholy, wistful, regretful poem set to music ever written. So evocative and brilliant.
But the music is joyous. It seems to me that most of the great art has that duality. That bittersweet quality that allows you to appreciate it no matter what mood you're in.
@@SpaceCattttt yesss
He was studying painting - and in this song was attempting to apply the cubist idea of varied points of view to the lyric - thus it shifts. 1st person, 3rd person
This is Dylan at his absolute quotable best, and there's plenty more where that came from on the Blood on the Tracks album. Other MUST HEAR tracks include "Simple Twist of Fate," "Shelter from the Storm," "Buckets of Rain," and the amazing Western-themed ballad, "Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts," which feels like you're watching a movie.
An ABSOLUTE MUST HEAR Classic,, Bob Dylan "Simple Twist Of Fate"...TRUST ME!!
Would love to see some John Prine reaction videos too! He was a great story teller, though Dylan is in a league of his own. Great videos man!
My favorite live version is Dylan singing solo with a cool hat with fresh flowers, some white makeup. During the Rolling Thunder Review tour. Definitely worth a look. Perfection, haunting.
Not a story about a single women. A combination of woman he knew, his relationshis, others too, but probably born out of his broken up marriage. The line "he started in to dealing with slaves' is an allusion to one of his favorites French poet Arthur Rimbaud. You must understand how educated and well read Dylan is, as are most true artists.
" some guys are born to Rimbaud / some guys breathe Baudelaire / some guys just got to go and put their rockets everywhere..". Don Henley's song Driving With Your Eyes Closed .. one of my favorite Henley songs.. mentions Rimbaud..
@@alphajava761 thanks gotta listen to that one. Great album...Boys and Sunset Grill two really cool atmospheric songs.
Which is also why the comparison to Nas was especially cringeworthy.
Exactly, these are all little vignettes.
I love the guitars on this !!
Great reaction again..
Keep em coming..
he is my G.O.A.T..
'Hollis Brown '
'Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts '..
Hard Rain
It's alright, ma...
Hurricane
For anyone who loves Blood on the Tracks (or even just this song) but has never strayed into his outtakes/bootlegs, do yourself a favor and listen to Up to Me (Take 2, Remake 3). It's an outtake from BOTT, and it's incredible.
This was great, Syed. John Prine writes with nearly superfluous detail that drags one into his stories. Sadly, after beating cancer twice, we lost him to Covid early in the pandemic. Anything from his first album will be popular.
Absolutely, seconded. "Hello in There," "Sam Stone," "Angel from Montgomery" (though the Bonnie Raitt cover is equally good). Any of these would be great.
And “Flag Decal”! As topical as ever!
@jrepka01 - Lake Marie ❤️
@@jrepka01absolutely agree
You said he lost his way for a time after the 60s.
Dylan never lost his way. He changed his way. As always with him it was up to the audience to keep up, catch up or get left behind. If not, too bad. Dylan refuses to be put in a box. In the 60s they tried to make him into a folk/topical hero. Dylan said, "Mmmm, nope. Lets rock. Make it loud!". It was like slapping the face of some hysterical person to bring him back to reality. "I'm not your hero. I'm just a musician.". What performer is braver and more humble than that. He has continued this pattern for decades. Dylan doesn't go to the audience. The audience goes with Dylan.
I just saw a video where Madonna embarrassed herself by asking an audience member why she wasn't standing up before her. Turns out the woman was in a wheelchair.
Now that's a performer who has lost her way. Artistically and spiritually. Shameful.
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts..
they could easily make a movie out of this!!
Shakespeare with a guitar!!!!!!!!!
The live version showing only his face with harmonica is brilliant.
The flash of his blue eyes when the spotlight hits them makes the delivery even more intense.
Mr Tambourinte Man is amazing. You should check it out, just some of the greatest lines ever written imo.
You just listened to the first track on what is arguably Dylan's best album, Blood on the Tracks. You could, if you wanted to, make this the first installment of a full album reaction. This really is Bob Dylan at his very best. His earlier albums were more influential, perhaps, but his songwriting on this album in particular is the among the most powerful and heartbreaking work he's recorded. If you don't believe me, just listen to track 2, Simple Twist of Fate.
These two tracks, along with "Buckets of Rain" are an unbeatable way to turn a neophyte into a Dylan fan.
Time stands still if you listen to this album straight through. Deathbed worthy.
Great album
I second this. Every song is a masterwork and stands up to your analysis.
Amin
Even Late In His Career,, He Still Has It,,
Bob Dylan "Things Have Changed"
Positively 4th Street is another great track by Bob.
I have been a Dylan fan since the 60's (I'm old). I stumbled across one of your other videos- fist time- Dylan. I enjoy your critiques of Dylan songs. I was even going to suggest Tangled up in Blue. Now you have to do Idiot Wind on the same PL.
Keep up the good work.
I just discovered your interpretations of Dylan and I can't stop. This song is one of my favorite Dylan pieces. I especially love the paronomasia, the dual meaning, in the line "Like a bird that flew/Tangled up in blue." I try not to get to balled up in the literal meaning of the story, but accept it impressionistically. I find it highly satisfying.
Only songwriter to win the Nobel Prize for Literature...let that sink in a minute.
Bob's best bars blast since Sub. Home. Blues
“Later on when the crowd thinned out and I was just about to do the same.”
One of the best lines in the whole world. Funny!
One of the top 5 Dylan songs. He has rarely sounded as confident and assured as he does here. Which is a good thing, because a monster melody like this needs a bit of oomph,
10 out of 10 from me. It's a masterpiece.
One of my favorite Dylan songs. Thanks for listening to it. He put out a live version of this many years later and changed the lyrics a lot. From an older man’s perspective. Amazing lyrics. The album is called Real Live.
Dude thats Bob. He wrote it he can alter it ( love both versions btw)
He is known to change up the lyrics, especially the pronouns, in live versions dating back to the time the album was written. Always putting a different spin on it
"We always did feel the same, we just saw it from a different point of view." This line was my inspiration to write (again).
The only album I'd need on a desert island. Every song like a movie playing. His best in a very great catalogue imo
Some of the prettiest love songs ever on this album..."You're a big girl now..." Just beautiful!!!
My boyfriend used to sing this to me when we were students at UCLA. Love Dylan. Great memories!
I learned from this song and others like Visions of Johanna that Dylan sometimes makes himself multiple characters in a story, and speaks of himself in both the 1st and 3rd persons. I love this song.
Dylan's "Positively 4th Street" has amazing lyrics.
Seconded
You gotta lotta nerve
And though i know you're dissatisfied with your position
and your place,
Don't you understand
it's not my problem?!!
"No, I do not feel that good when I see the heartbreaks you embrace. If I was a master thief, perhaps I'd rob them."
Tangled up in blue, Simple Twist of fate, You're a big girl now, & Shelter from the Storm. I think this was one of his best albums but maybe it was more that it hit me at the right time of my life. At least two guitars, probably three or four at different points. I love his story telling in songs but I think he weaves more than one story in this one and time travels at different points. As if you were in a bar and as you walked down the bar you passed guys talking about their big relationship. They cover the same feelings and some of the same experiences but their different stories.
If you want to hear Dylan really rock you gotta take a listen to his double live album he did with The Band. Totally excellent. powerful.
Hard Rain album rocks!
Simply, one of my Favorite Dylan's tunes.... what a great storyteller.
I've been listening to this for 40 years and don't understand exactly what he means but it always means something to me - and that has changed over time as I have changed. Have fun over your next 40, 50, 70 years!
This is the greatest “breakup” album ever written (Sorry Rumors, you’re number 2). So many great cuts, so much emotion, such vivid imagery. Dylan at his best. I just listened to the LP earlier today. “Lily, Rosemary & the Jack of Hearts” is another cut you’d love. ✌️❤️🎶
"New York State of Mind"
Song by Billy Joel
from the album Turnstiles
Released May 19, 1976
Studio Ultra Sonic Studio in Hempstead, NY
Songwriter(s) Billy Joel
Producer(s) Billy Joel
"New York State of Mind" is a song written by Billy Joel that initially appeared on the album Turnstiles in 1976. Although it was never released as a single, it has become a fan favorite and a song that Joel plays regularly in concert.[1] Joel famously played the song at The Concert for New York City, the October 2001 benefit concert for the New York City Fire and Police Departments and the loved ones of families of first responders lost during the terrorist attack on New York City on 9/11. He reprised that theme, playing it during his set at 12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief at Madison Square Garden in New York City on December 12, 2012, where he changed lyrics to include the likes of "Breezy Point".
I love Dylan. I've listened to some of his albums over and over again. One tape of his was in my car stereo for 3 months straight.
One of my favorite Dylan songs
The guitar breaks seem like the dancing footwork in a boxing match before mixing it up.
Bought the cassette for my company LTD at a Truckstop in West Texas.
My second album after leaving "Positively.." at Mom's a decade earlier.
You are correct. our whole generation had done a slump.
#Aloha
'I must admit, I felt a little uneasy, when she bent down to tie the laces...of my shoe. Tangled up in blue'. That short line is like a haiku, that uses a minimal number of words to convey a whole lot of information...really good. Thanks for the great reaction
I'm kinda interested in that verse too. The entire fourth verse, I have a pretty clear idea of what I think he's saying there. Do you care to listen to it a bit and share your thoghts?
A pure genius of genius’s when comes to storytelling. He is especially good on this one because you can follow the lyrics so easily. Dylan could make several movies or television shows from his lyrics.
This is my all time favorite song written by my all time favorite song writer. I'm glad you're finding him! peace
You’re the best at these kinds of videos… Blood on the Tracks is a key part of the puzzle!
Idiot Wind has the strongest “bars” on this album in my opinion, but this one is a masterpiece of musical storytelling and sets the tone for what I feel is his best album, sonically.
You’re not alone in trying to keep track of what is happening when in the song.Dylan intentionally scrambled - - tangled? - - up the verses as an experiment in Time, space, perception, memory, reality, imagination… The story is impossible to follow and after 1000 listenings you still can’t wait to find out what happens next.
agreed!
You think you've figured it out, and then one line, or one word jumps out and you have to start over.
You got to do "It's Alright, Ma". It's incredible, I'd like to see you try to dissect it.
Time may jump around a little in this song, like in a Tarantino movie. I think he meets her for the first time in the topless bar. It may be about several women. Depending on whom you listen to, the 13th century poet may be Dante, Plutarch, or Petrarch. I've always assumed the "dealing with slaves" line referenced drug dealing to addicts or becoming an addict, but I could be wrong.
I will throw a vote in for a whole LP listen to this one. An essential in my book.
King of the Invisable Empire...Then and now....Long Live The King!!!!!
Great reaction again..
Keep em coming..Bob has a ton of them..
G.O.A.T.
Bob Dylan - It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" best Lyrics or "Bob Dylan - Pretty Saro" best dylan voice performance ever
Great choice. Do the whole album if you want, all the songs are really good.
OMG. Do the whole album!!!
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts..
You should give A Hard Rains
A-Gonna Fall from his 2nd album A Freewheelin Bob Dylan a listen, personally one of my favourite Dylan tracks.
Dylan said this song is not in chronological order. He was into painting at the time and he wanted to write a song that was like a painting where you could see everything happening at the same time.
Yo..you gotta do..
the first music video..
Bob doing..
Subterranean homesick blues..
rappin in 60's
If you haven’t already, you MUST listen to Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” 🔥
Tangled up in Blue - the story changed every time he played the song live. It was even third person one time.
I am old and love the fact you are introducing people to good music
The live version where his face is painted is great. Thanks for another insightful reaction!
Montage street is located in Brooklyn Heights where I once worked in my early twenties.
I love your reactions and how you appreciate and break down lyrics. Dude, you have to react to some Joni Mitchell. Some songs I recommend are: A Case Of You, River, Both Sides Now, California, Big Yellow Taxi.
The entire BLUE album 💙
FOR THE ROSES is incredible, as well.
I'd add 'Amelia' and 'Coyote'
@@GrowingUpJersey
'Love Amelia -
Yes! Joni Mitchell is another one of those incredible songwriters! So too are Leonard Cohen, Jackson Browne, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Al Stewart, to name a few others who have done amazing work.
Just saw that someone else mentioned Jack of Hearts. I'm on the look out for the album so i can hear that song again. Brilliant, I love hearing your appreciation.
This is a song that Dylan kept rewriting in performance. My favourite version is on 1984’s ‘Real Live’ album, with substantially rewritten lyrics and music. Check it out!
The sign of a great poet is his ability to evoke images with words.
It was not only a great comeback album, but Blood on the Tracks and Desire, which came out right after Blood, are my two favorite Dylan albums. Love every song on both albums. I think his most underrated albums is the 1981 Infidels, great album on themes and problems that are still relevant today and the band had a rhythm section of reggae legends Sly and Robbie and Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits and Mick Taylor, the great Rolling Stones guitarist from their classic early 70's heyday, on guitars.
God I love this song. Your reactions are second to none. Thank you
Dylan identifies, artistically, as a troubadour, and this song reinvigorates his own quest to tell great stories. It is seen on this album and the next one, Desire.
Really enjoy your interpretations of Dylan. Nice work!
In '76 High School English class, the teacher asked us to bring in records of ballads. "I got this." Lilly, Rosemary and The Jack of Hearts,. Yes I got an A.
Dylan. That’s all.🖖🏼
I always thought that Dylan wrote these songs sitting in a bus station, watching people and imagining their stories. Grabbing lines from scraps of paper and filling out their lives.
Great reaction, my personal favourite from that album is if you see her say hello, a bit of a heartbreaker,such a good song, have a listen
I believe this was Dylan’s answer to Joni Mitchell’s album (or song) Blue
Oh yes. Thank you for this. On Blue Joni Mitchell showed herself as a genius poet
Yep it's open tuning on a beautiful od Gibson acoustic. He was talking about living with some people in New York.
There’s a reason they handed him a Nobel prize for literature… He’s easily one of the greatest lyricists to have ever lived. He can say more in a single line than some artists can with an entire album. Robert Hunter is the only other person who comes close to Dylan in modern times (again, my opinion). Amazing to see his work being carried into the future.
Two Dylan tracks I wish you'd find and play -- "Desolation Row" and "Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall"
I absolutely love Dylan's wit...when he meets the woman again in the topless bar and she recognizes him, you think she is going to "Go down" on him...which she does...to tie his shoes...
And when he says she’s working in a topless place but he’s just looking at the side of her face. Funny!
Back in the day ( said the old lady) as young adults, we would quote those one-liners from Dylan to one another. And if someone quoted Dylan, you figured they were “Ok”. They were part of the tribe.
Do hip-hop fans quote favorite “bars” to one another?
You're so right. In the mid-70's my housemate John had the basement as his "chemistry lab". One day his girlfriend, who I had not yet met, showed up at the house and asked me if John was around. I said "Johnny's in the basement mixing up the medicine." On the next beat she replied, " And I'm on the pavement thinking about the government". We roared with laughter, and I figured she was OK--part of the Tribe.
@@deirdre108 PERFECT! Yup……that’s what happened…😁✌️
@@w.geoffreyspaulding6588 Another one back then but from a different source was:
“Meet the new boss.”
“Same as the old boss.”
He's produced some amazing songs, think you may enjoy "Gates of Eden" - album version is great, especially for the clarity of the lyrics, but I also love the live 1992/3 versions where his vocals sound weary and sad.. just fabulous
Dear SyedRewinds: I think in Verse 6, "I lived with them on Montague Street, in a basement down the stairs" Dylan is recalling when he lived with a couple, a man and woman in New York, in his early time there. And the He and She are those people, getting into trouble. And he has to leave them. So it is not about himself and the girl from the rest of the song. It is a real situation, that he is remembering, around that time. His book, "Chronicles" talks about living with an interesting couple in NY when he first was getting started.
Thanks for the review, it is a great song, isn't it?
Shelter From the Storm is a fuckin abnormally beautiful song. The whole record is anazing..
Great job respecting a true masterpiece-my favorite Dylan song. Thought you did well talking about how the band is there to support him and his lyrics-listen to how the drums intensify 2/3-3/4 of the way through every verse, which brings each to a climax. Listen after the last verse to how the base walks? stumbles? down out of the song and into…Hell? Melancholy?
I also understand how many can have trouble with the lyrics. Try listening to each independently. Each tells its own story, is a full-length film, can stand alone-you’ll “get it.” The only thing tying every situation and character together is that they are entwined forever in sadness. Great job.
Bob Dylan has bars, man.
Blood on the tracks is one bob best albums for sure.. I still remember every lyrics from this record.. and I can't usually remember yesterday lol.
amazing song. Dylan is fn amazing.
My favorite Dylan song. Such an awesome story line, which he is a genius at. Great reaction! Peace! ✌
It’s alright ma, I’m only bleeding. The live version in UA-cam. Perhaps best song ever written. Hope you sometime get around to it. A song where even Dylan went above and beyond all his accomplishments. Would love to see your reaction to that treasure of a song. One of the reasons he won the Nobel prize with the lyrics in that song alone from his masterpiece album ‘Bringing it all back home’. I started buying Dylan albums back in 95. ‘Shot of love’ from 81 was my first Dylan cd. A decent album, but it wasn’t til I heard his 60s and 70s albums I fully understood and was blown away by his immense talent. Ten astonishing albums between 64-76. Later on great ones from time ti time. His 89 album Oh mercy a great comeback to form that was greatly appreciated by so many.
Also "Time out of Mind" 1 of his better later cd's imo
This is my absolute favorite story by Bob Dylan. Trying to do a reaction and describe Bob Dylan must be impossible. The only way to accurately use the English language to describe Bob Dylan would to be, in fact, Bob Dylan himself. Great video
I like how you really get Bob Dylan.. He's not for everyone. Another fantastic song of Dylan's with a lot of verses of wonderful imagery is A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall. I think you'd really enjoy that one, too.
I'm happy you're getting into Bob Dylan. There's very few songwriters on his level. In the 60s, the 3 biggest artists were the Beatles, the Stones and Bob Dylan. Dylan was revered by both bands, and he's inspired songwriters ever since.
I encourage you to experience in their original STUDIO RECORDINGS:
• A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
(nearly every line in this song would be the greatest line in most songs.)
• Knocking on Heaven's Door
• Tangled Up in Blue ✓
• Idiot Wind
• Not Dark Yet
(Ever since this song was released in 1997, I haven't heard any newer song by any artist that's better.)
Thanks for your videos about musicians and songs I love.
Huge huge fan of Dylan. I own everything he's ever done. So cool to see another person of color dig him as much as I do. Peace!
Dylan's truth-social commentary, poetry is in parable form like from another great storyteller from a couple thousand years ago.
The woman from the topless place is not the first woman. Note how the poems words were "from me to you" not the woman who gave him the book. The "them" he lived with did not include the first woman either. A song of longing for a lost love.
Gosebumps, all I can say. He's the best. Just incredible.
First heard this in '75; I was just 7 or 8, and the lyrics blew my young mind. They told me that life was far more complicated than I could imagine. New sub here!