I don´t want to be to critical, but it´s always funny when an ignorate discovers Dylan. If you don´t know about blues, country.. americana. You only comes out like an idiot. Sorry
No offense taken; I saw your grammar and realized you must not know any better. If you don’t know about grammar, spelling and diction, you only come out looking like an idiot. Sorry. Besides the point, if everybody thought like you nowadays, nobody would discover Bob Dylan anymore. You seem like you grew up believing in his music and then abandoned those beliefs when you got old enough to think you could look down at the generations behind you instead of uplift, encourage, and help educate them. You could’ve pointed me to artists to further research, but you’d rather condescend to me. You certainly grew up to be part of the problems he’s singing about. Either way, thank you for your time, even if you were critical of me.
The troll life… I’m just gonna go be an asshole to someone and show them how ignorant I am. 😂 Instead of remaining silent to prevent embarrassment, I’ll just write this post and prove the obvious for everyone. Okay, you have proven that you are a troll, now go away, you’re dismissed.😂🎉
Bob's first album of originals is a great place to start with him. The depth of his catalog is immense, right up through his most recent album. There is more instrumentation after the first few albums, but the poetry still shines. I hope you will continue exploring. I initially came for the Phish videos, so seeing Dylan pop up was a surprise. Love your passion for music.
The music is timeless, of course, but you shined an already bright diamond. I really enjoyed your reaction! Keep going with Bob…he’ll continually surprise and floor you.
Perfect place to start with Dylan. Still my favorite album because I love acoustics, but the next Dylan albums you're gonna listen to will blow you away.
Great to see a first reaction to this incredible album. Can’t over emphasize the mind blowing, game changing effect this album made on the industry at the time. It was the birth of the singer songwriter, the record album as a whole entity rather than a single surrounded by filler. This album was heard blasting out of every college campus around the world. The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Allen Ginsburg all claimed they wore out the grooves on this record by playing it everywhere they travelled. Dylan’s major masterpieces age like fine wine never losing their relevancy. Your timing is good as this period is being covered by the new Dylan biopic starring Timothy Chalamet called “A Complete Unknown” opening Christmas Day.
"Oxford Town" is about James Meredith. First black student allowed to attend Univ. of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss. Similar but even more angry is "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" from times they are A Changing. Enjoying your reactions.
Seeing a ton of young people discovering Bob Dylan is SO bizarre to me, as being Gen-X, I grew up with everyone knowing every song he wrote by heart, as he was of our parents' generation and then we were all obsessed with him, too. So suddenly seeing people who *barely* know ABOUT him is just - weird. lol But it's awesome to see people starting the journey of his work. Enjoy it, man. He's written at least 600 songs. I would also recommend that you listen to the songwriters who *inspired* him, as the only real way to understand Dylan, IMO. Listen to Woody Guthrie's stuff from the 30's and 40's and a host of others from that era - and then you'll begin to understand that he took THAT folk formula - and incorporated the kind of poetry into it that had been written by the Beat Generation of the 40's and 50's, into that framework, which nobody had done before. Then he turned that into masterful rock and pop in the mid-late 60's, then wrote very personal masterpieces like "Blood on the Tracks" in the 70's, which is basically the greatest "break-up album" ever written. Just go CHRONOLOGICALLY, starting where you are, from album to album and you'll have a blast. There are very few songwriters who can justifiably be called lyrical geniuses and Dylan was one of them. He changed everything - and most of his songs are so timeless that if they were written today, they'd have as much impact. But again - Woody Guthrie in the 30's and 40's, and others, were writing songs JUST like this - that was Dylan's main influence.
I think it has a lot to do with how irrelevant radio has become. They didn’t grow up with classic rock & oldies stations like we did and there’s this *huge* gap in their musical knowledge. It’s crazy
I did grow up with radio. I watched the internet evolve and happened to evolve with it, but I wasn't born with it. I didn't have internet until I was 14 at home. My parents didn't listen to music really; I didn't come from a musical household. Everybody was shocked that I could just play instruments in my family. The only music in my house growing up was the music coming from my bedroom.
@@walterooski thats awesome Walt - I play for a living but I do come from a musical family so it’s always exciting to hear how others have found their way to music with no help from their immediate surroundings. When I mentioned no radio access I wasn’t necessarily referring to you but those who are younger, like in their 20s. If you were born after 2000 then chances are you’ve heard little to no radio. You obviously have a rich background as I’ve heard you reference plenty of older bands as well as different genres like Bluegrass.
Bro, I love your joy in discovering Bob! So refreshing! I saw him in November in the U.K. 2024 and he’s 83 and still inspiring and making a beautiful contribution.
In Hard Rain, "Where have you been my blue eyed son" is echoing the lyrics of the old English ballad Lord Randall. He wrote this song as the arms race between the U.S. and USSR was escalating and threatening to end the world. He said he wasn't sure he'd have time to write all the songs he wanted to write, so he wrote a song where he felt each line could be a song in itself.
Great reaction, almost hard to believe it’s a 1st for you! The biggest impact that Dylan had on music is first and foremost his lyrics. The Beatles were one of the first famous artists to talk about the Dylan influence, especially Lennon, and it was a huge part of their shift away from love songs.
i've read this story and heard it told by different Beatles, George brought the Freewheelin album home to wherever they were staying, after hearing it, and they were all blown away by the songs, words music vocal guitar harp, and they played it over and over for a week until the record was getting worn out, lol, i can believe it
This is the tip of the iceberg, so much Dylan to listen to, it would take a life time to delve into his amazing canon of albums, bootlegs, outtakes, live performances. He is a lyrical genius in all genres. I never tire of listening to him and always hear something I've never heard before, keep on listening and sharing. Hard Rain is said to be about the Cuba Crisis and possibly nuclear war threat. Dylan is also a spontaneous performer, not keen to be in the recording studio for too long, he also said the albums are for the "clarity of the lyrics" - I believe the real stuff happens on the live stage
It's not hyperbole to say that Bob Dylan is the greatest lyricist and one of the greatest songwriters in history. The guy is a special talent and his work in the 60's in particular is the work of a true master.
Great reaction, you now know why Dylan is held in so much esteem. You’ve only just begun a journey into his often profound and insightful lyrics. In his early recordings Dylan was mimicking the voice of his hero and inspiration the folk singer Woody Guthrie, adopting Guthrie's distinctive Oklahoma accent and nasal twang. When Dylan first came to New York he sought out Woodie who he knew of from his autobiography "Bound For Glory". Woody was dying from a terminal neurological disease at the time and Bob would play Gutherie's own songs to him.
To understand where Dylan came from, you have to know Woody Guthrie (who wrote This Land is Our Land) and Pete Seeger singing protest songs at rallies in support of unionizing migrant farm workers in the 1930s and 40s.
Solid album reaction, thanks for posting! Any chance you'll take a look at his later material at some point? I'm a big Dylan fan, would love to listen to you react and give your thoughts on his later, blues-y stuff like Tempest or Together Through Life.
The “Talkin World War III Blues,” was a style of talking bluesy folk songs that was popular in the Folk Music crowd at the time. More like telling a story in a more talkative style than actually singing. You will find a couple of songs like that on Dylan‘s first few albums. And since you were interested in the civil rights aspect of his music, he was right next to Martin Luther King at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC when he gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. If you find pictures of that gathering, you will see Dylan sitting on the stage next to MLK.
This was fun to watch. I knew the hits but had never heard some of the other songs on the album. I hope you go through his musical legacy in order so you can see the development. You are several albums away from his peak. Down the Highway is a lament for Suze Rotolo, the girl on the cover, who had left for Italy.
Don't know if you're plan to react to other bob albuns, but if you do, i'm very excited for you to reach Blood on the Tracks, The Times They Are a-Changing, Another Side of Bob Dylan, the PEAK albuns (sorry if there's any error, english is not my first language)
I totally love your reactions. You so get the unique depth and brilliance of Dylan. I do have a different take on “Don’t think twice.” Rather than a song about acquiescing, I think it’s an awesomely brutal takedown of someone he’s realized is not a very good person. Like he’s saying “don’t worry about it” because he doesn’t think she’d have the emotional capacity to understand the damage she’s done. “You just wasted my precious time,” like it was no big thing.
Great reaction! Been following Bob for 50 years. A lot of disappointment, but much more great music. The poet laureate of my time. I really hope that you’ll react to his albums in order to. Thank you for the reaction, I liked and subscribed.
I love the mix of songwriting on this album. The transition from A Hard Rain into Don't Think Twice is amazing to me. A Hard Rain is a manifestation of Dylan's fears for the rapidly approaching end of the world and Don't think Twice is a deeply personal song about the end of a romantic relationship but they both sound so honest and heartfelt and authentic. Perhaps if you really squint the songs are about the same thing. His ability to conjure emotion, depth of feeling and existential angst and then scatter in some humour without losing the flow of the album, at least to my mind, is masterful. Bob's early albums have a lot of humour in them, much of it is gallows humour. He mixes in a lot of different styles like his version of an old English Trad tune that he had recently learned while hanging out with the Beatles (Scarborough Fair* became Bob's Girl from the North Country), pure folk and blues and even talkin' blues, which Dylan loved for it traditionally being a humourous form of the blues. There's so much going on on this album but it all being done with just one voice, one guitar and one harmonica keeps it sounding coherent as an album. By the way, Brigitte Bardot, Anita Ekberg and Sophia Loren are not just "some hot actresses", as your chat described them, they are all non-American hot actresses 🤣 Perhaps Bob is saying that in order to get the country to grow we need something inspirational, aspirational, something to make people dream and give them hope, but we need to be looking for that outside America. We need to look to the rest of the world and pull in the good things we find out there. Or maybe he really was just saying we need hot women to fire up the men and the country will grow in terms of population, you just never can tell with Bob Dylan. He really didn't very often tell people what to think and what to believe. He was very straight-forward and called things as he saw them but I always felt he presented this stuff more with an attitude of, "This is what I think. What do you think?" than as if he was telling people they should agree with him. He encouraged generations to think about the same things and see how they felt about what was going on in the world. He wanted people to think about the things they brushed under the carpet or ignored as they passed it in the street and to have an opinion on it. He never sounded preachy to me. * Simon and Garfunkel recorded a beautiful version of Scarborough Fair that is always worth a listen. Girl from the North Country is definitely a Dylan original but very clearly is based firmly on Scarborough Fair: Are you going to Scarborough Fair (parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme) Remember me to the one who lives there, she once was a true love of mine. Bob's version begins: If you're traveling in the north country fair, where the winds hit heavy on the borderline, remember me to one who lives there, she once was a true love of mine. The Girl from the North country is vastly different from the centuries old Scarborough fair, though. I'm not saying he ripped it off. He made the song's origins well known at the time.
Been listening to Bob's 2nd album since it was introduced to me by a record shop owner in 1974. Have been getting joy from his music ever since. These early songs just flowed out of him.
Fantastic reaction, love how seriously you took the lyrics. Would be very cool to see you react to the next handful of Dylan albums in order, charting the progression of how the protest-style writing of these early songs is slowly replaced by the more literary and imagistic writing of the 'electric trilogy' (the three albums released in '65-'66 after he "went electric"). Hope you react to Dylan again though no matter what it is! His 1997 album Time Out Of Mind is incredible too, won Album of the Year for a reason and is a masterpiece of swampy Lanois production and lyrics full of impending mortality (ironically though the album is almost 30 years old and Bob is still kicking lol). And yes to Joni Mitchell as well! Anything from Blue to Hejira is brilliant and well worth checking out (especially the latter). Her live album/film Shadows And Light is my favorite, her band is comprised of some of the best jazz/fusion guys around at the time and hearing her catalogue reimagined through them is amazing.
I had the same reaction to “blowing in the wind” when I first heard it as as a first year college student in 1963. It was the beginning of my lifetime journey as a Dylan fan (fanatic😱). I saw him live for the first time at the Santa Monica Civic (?) Auditorium in 1965 or 66. Mind blowing performances.
It's great to listen to Dylan's first ~6 albums (not including his first album, which was almost all covers) and see the evolution. They're all great albums (with the possible exception of Another Side of Bob Dylan, which is still good). Also, as for "understanding" his songs. The type of songwriting he settled on, he later described as like paintings. A series of images, rather than everything knitting together and making sense. Although some are straight stories, and they usually have strong themes. You see this type of songwriting evident in Hard Rain's A Gunna Fall.
The key to this is that at that point in the 1960s nuclear war felt close enough to touch. Hard rain is nuclear fallout. Bob said that he felt the world might be close to ending so he piled every line he’d got into one song.
@@davidbowman6740 So right, the boats were at sea... The Soviets turned them around at the last minute. Having to practice hiding under your 2nd grade desk to hide from a nuclear attack is probably why us boomers are so weird.
@@kibblesnbits9146 Bob has said a lot of things and it doesn't do to take them at face value! He also said that he wrote it because he thought the world was about to be engulfed by nuclear war. As "hard rain" was the then current term for nuclear fallout, it doesn't take a genius to see the connection. Is it also about other things as well? Of course it is, it's a Dylan song!
I've heard everything on this album, but never listened to it as a whole B4. Looking forward to the next 1½ hours. Thx for starting to react to Phish 🙏🎶🎶😏💯🕺💃
I just discovered your channel and enjoyed your trip through Freewheelin'. I'm sure someone probably mentioned this, but on Christmas Day, a new movie will be released which covers this period of Dylan's rise, from 1961-65, when he went electric at the Newport Folk Festival. It's called "A Complete Unknown." It stars Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan, Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, and others. James Mangold directs and it's getting good reviews. You can find a lot of info about the movie on UA-cam.
I haven't listened to this album all the way through in about 40 years, and stage 4 cancer means i probably won't ever again.... glad i listened to it like this. Thanks kid.
I hope you keep doing these 60's Dylan albums. The Times They are A'Changin, Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, John Wesley Harding all masterpieces.
Woody Guthrie was excellent! He had a strong OK accent, sharp social critique, socialist and funny! Bob's hillbilly accent was a nod to him, it was not his "real" voice.
Thank you SO MUCH for that context. Honestly, my brain was a little surprised to hear he was from Minnesota singing with a voice like that. This makes tremendously more sense.
Wow, getting into Dylan and Phish simultaneously is just...wow. Dylan is absolutely the greatest American songwriter I've heard and Phish has thousands and thousands of hours of exciting performances. You can, and I have, live just off these artists works for years at a time. Enjoy!
It's great. It has this ability of building on itself the longer it goes, and sucking you into its own little world. Dylan has a few songs like this, Mr Tambourine Man and It's All Over Now, Baby Blue do the same to me.
Bob Dylan’s Dream may actually be may favorite song on this album. I always get teary eyed when I hear the line - we thought we could just sit forever in fun and our chances really was million to one”. I always think of my youth and my friends and how we grew up and went our separate ways. I long for those days. The song is really about losing your youth. Losing your freedom. At least the “freedom” of youth. Beautiful song.
North Country rearranges Scarborough Fair, which Simon and Garfunkel did as a canticle. Between each line, there’s a description of Nam. I think it was an old traditional song, which required no residuals. You have to keep in mind, he didn’t exist in a vacuum. The folk revival was huge.
@Walterooski Hey man, neat vid! Big fan of His Bobness’ music and work. Hey, whenever you write your own songs and post them on YT, do you instantly have ownership and copyrighted material as a result? Is there any affiliation, however great or slight, regarding entities such as BMI or ASCAP or SESAC? Thanks again!
Thank you so much for the kindness! Unfortunately I don't have a sound answer to your question. I have never really thought too deeply into whether they are copyrighted to or not. I would assume no and that there is no affiliation.
Girl from the North Country is drawn from the melody of Scarborough Fair, a traditional English folk song. Give it a listen, and you can see where it inspired Dylan when he wrote this song. it’s absolutely wonderful to see someone enjoying Dylan for the first time. And he was such a very young man when this album came out.
That was great seeing your reaction to some truly great songs. You should check out the new book, "You Don't Need a Weatherman: Bob Dylan for Beginners" it helps to explain the many sides of Bob Dylan's career
i think you will appreciate even more "BLOOD ON THE TRACKS", theres not a single bad or disposable song on that album. it`s a more personal album, a comeback to the acoustic after rock n roll era, but with rock elements(like drums).....also is probably the best break up album of all times(he had just divorced). Pay especial attention to the lyrics of "tangled up in blue", "simple twist of fate" and "shelter from the storm", although my personal favorite is "if you see her, say hello"
Bob has had quite a few singing voices over his 60 years + career. The one he had for this album is definitely one of my favorites. He was still emulating Woody Guthrie a bit at this time.
I'm 70 and there is not a time in my life that Bob Dylan's music hasn't been part of my life. As children, EVERYONE knew Blowing in the Wind. It was a top 40 hit by Peter Paul and Mary. And it is probably the first song people of my generation learned on guitar. When I was in my teens, I could play every one of these songs. Yes, he was 22. And 19 when he recorded his first album (this album is his second). So go a little easy on us oldtimers who just want to scream: YOU DON"T KNOW BOB DYLAN? You NEVER HEARD BLOWING IN THE WIND! We'll get over it. And there is a fascination watching someone react to something as familiar as air to those of us who were born in the 50's. BTW: Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
Bobs voice is amazing! That’s what music is about, being unique, bearing your soul for all to see. It’s not about having the same old boring pitch perfect voice, but that’s me
Would love to see more Dylan album reactions. Also, the lyrics had a lot of mistakes here. Also, he was 21 when he wrote this stuff, not 22. Just boggles the mind.
And you've you've barely even scratched a teenie tiny bit of the surface. Find out about what happened when he put away the acoustic guitar and went electric.
Dylan is a massively complex artist and the one thing I’d suggest is a deep dive into his life and the context of the time as each album was written as much of appreciation of Dylan is understanding that. Freewheeling was his second album though his first with majority original material. It is important to know how Dylan at the time was massively integrated into the folk scene and the civil rights movement. He’d moved from Minnesota to New York inserted himself in the folk scene there partly in homage to his hero woody Guthrie who he visited in his hospice. Dylan was an original. He quickly became darling of the folk scene with his protest songs but equally as quickly became disenfranchised with it and the civil rights movement as he slowly realised that old grey left wing men would never do anything. And as a consequence he shifted towards electric music - going electric live at Newport folk festival and being booed . The forthcoming film a complete unknown chronicles this story. Worth a watch
Anyone who jumps in with Freewheelin' gets a subscription from me. I've lived with Bob for over 50 years now, and although there has been LOADS of other great music I love, Bob has always been speaking truth in the background. Bob in the 60's was a force of nature. This was released in mid-1963. Within three years, he'd become the voice of a generation and folk hero, gone electric and been called a "judas", and released, in my opinion, the finest trilogy of albums ever recorded (Bringing it All Back Home, Highway 61, and Blonde on Blonde). Be careful, man. Bob can be a dangerous rabbit hole to fall into, especially when you start learning about what was going on culturally at that time as well.
A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall - Bob said that each line or couplet summed up a song he had planned to write but felt there was no time left for him to finish them. He expected the world to end very soon. The "hard rain" is the nuclear fallout.
The girl is Suze Rotolo. He parents were socially conscious, and so was she. She was the girl he refers to in "dont think twice" "a child i am told," she was 17, i think he was 19 or 20 when they started. He got horribly jealous when she went with her mom to Italy.he also wrote "Boots of Spenidh Leather" and "Tomorrow is a Long Time" about the breakup.
Consider that Dylan was about 21 years old when he released this album. Mature way beyond his years. "A Hard Rains a Gonna Fall" is reminiscent of some portions of the poetry of Walt Whitman
The lady on the cover is Suze Rotollo, a beautiful lefty that really influenced his early political protest songs. Masters of War is still my favourite track off the album. But then again I'm just an old lefty too.
OHH..man.. i could talk for days about this album.. the lyrics the vibe.. the messages of this album.. from a 22 year old boy.. whose writings were teaching his elders at the time life lessons and this mans body of work has had a profound influence on countless artists. He is a Nobel prize winner for literature for Christs sake.. i got to tell you.. I am new to the channel.. but the artist i see today that compares to Dylan is a guy named Ren.. like Dylan Rens music can not be pigeonholed into one genre.. if you continue your dive into Dylan you will find that each album is practically a different sound or style.. but the brilliant lyrics are always a constant.. now this kid Ren has far more range with his voice.. i understand that.. don't come at me.. but to me.. in my opinion.. Dylans vocals are under appreciated and if you check out Ren.. you will see he is excellent at using his vocals to express the emotions he wants his lyrics to express.. i feel Dylan.. though not with as wide a range.. but Dylan knows how to convey the emotions not just with the lyrics but also with his cadence in his vocals. Ren in my opinion is a modern day Dylan. I encourage you to check out Hi Ren and Money games 1,2 &3. Dylan will always be my number 1.. but this kid Ren has fast moved up to my number 2 and fir me an old man.. to have him go around so many legendary artists i honestly am shocked. But he is very good. Dylan is just an amazing artist whose lyrics are timeless.. if you want a ridiculously good blues album check out Dylans Album.. Oh Mercy.. its different than this album but its really good. Hope you check it out and i hope you give Ren a listen too.. ohh.. also check out a artist from Israel.. Asaf Avidian.. his voice is unique.. his lyrics are full of metaphors.. and his use of looping machine makes him a onevman band.. Check out his song.. Your Anchor.. watch the version from his In a Box series.. i think you will love him too.. looking forward to more Dylan. Great reaction.. Im a new instant subscriber when I saw this reaction it was a no brainer.. thanks for recognizing the brilliance of Dylan.
I have done 78 reactions to Ren and they are all collected in this playlist! Thank you so much for your kindness! Walterooski’s Ren Reactions ua-cam.com/play/PLlwfZNnBIjCIVgip0VJIrUGrE1etekaYN.html
Welcome to the 60's. Nothing will be the same again. I recommend, to start: The Beatles "Revolver", Beach Boys "Pet Sounds", Kinks "Lola vs powerman", Simon & Garfunkle "Bridge over troubled waters", The Doors first, second, third and sixth albums... And several tons more records. If you want information, I volunteer.
So I've done the entirety of the Beatles' work, I did that before I started reacting. Rubber Soul is my personal favorite of the catalog. I've also done a good chunk of Beach Boys because I read once that Jimmy Page was inspired by Smiley Smile so I went on that little side-quest. Kinks I only know the song Lola, never dug in. The same with Simon & Garfunkle. I've heard a good chunk of The Doors as well. Thank you so much for your kindness, suggestions and excitement. I'll definitely take the suggestions seriously.
...and after going electric Bob will go into Nashville to record Blonde on Blonde ...thus his influence on country music will emerge but ...first a major crash .....
Hard rains all about nuclear fallout. The bay of pigs was happening at the time. Dylan was putting as much as he could into one song. Because he didn't think he would be around for very long. It was all about dropping the H bomb.
Welcome to the Master song writer known as Bob Dylan. Enjoy, you have 60 years of his songs to catch up too. It is a travel of discovery and reflection.
Yes, there was a phone number you called to get the time and it would say at the beep it's 'x' o'clock or somethink like that. There was also a radio station that broadcast the time. Remember there was no internet or cell phones so if you needed to get the current time and didn't want to wait for the radio station to give you the time you could call to get it.
Not much conscientious music nowadays unfortunately, at least on this level, but Jesse Welles is out there doing his thing and it's great. He's like a modern day Bob Dylan mixed with a bit of Woody Guthrie.
The guy saying you need Joni Mitchell’s Blue for breakup album-obviously oblivious that Dylan has the agreed upon greatest piece of music over a breakup-Blood On The Tracks
You might say Robert Zimmerman, was involved in civil rights. Bob sang on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, during the 1963 March on Washington, when Martin Luther King gave the ‘I have a Dream” speech. That pressured civil rights legislation, that changed the course of history. George Harrison said, the Beatles wore the grooves off of this album.
I don´t want to be to critical, but it´s always funny when an ignorate discovers Dylan. If you don´t know about blues, country.. americana. You only comes out like an idiot. Sorry
No offense taken; I saw your grammar and realized you must not know any better. If you don’t know about grammar, spelling and diction, you only come out looking like an idiot. Sorry.
Besides the point, if everybody thought like you nowadays, nobody would discover Bob Dylan anymore. You seem like you grew up believing in his music and then abandoned those beliefs when you got old enough to think you could look down at the generations behind you instead of uplift, encourage, and help educate them. You could’ve pointed me to artists to further research, but you’d rather condescend to me. You certainly grew up to be part of the problems he’s singing about.
Either way, thank you for your time, even if you were critical of me.
@@walterooski too.. ignorant. Thanks for pointing that out, asshole
You treat me poorly and I’m an “asshole” for defending myself?
The troll life… I’m just gonna go be an asshole to someone and show them how ignorant I am. 😂 Instead of remaining silent to prevent embarrassment, I’ll just write this post and prove the obvious for everyone. Okay, you have proven that you are a troll, now go away, you’re dismissed.😂🎉
@IsisMusic, teach, don’t preach. Grow up.
Bob's first album of originals is a great place to start with him. The depth of his catalog is immense, right up through his most recent album. There is more instrumentation after the first few albums, but the poetry still shines. I hope you will continue exploring. I initially came for the Phish videos, so seeing Dylan pop up was a surprise. Love your passion for music.
The music is timeless, of course, but you shined an already bright diamond. I really enjoyed your reaction! Keep going with Bob…he’ll continually surprise and floor you.
Dude I just want to say you’re listening to all the best music on the planet right now. Everything you’ve been jumping into is absolute class
Perfect place to start with Dylan. Still my favorite album because I love acoustics, but the next Dylan albums you're gonna listen to will blow you away.
And a giant step forward from his debut album.
Great to see a first reaction to this incredible album. Can’t over emphasize the mind blowing, game changing effect this album made on the industry at the time. It was the birth of the singer songwriter, the record album as a whole entity rather than a single surrounded by filler. This album was heard blasting out of every college campus around the world. The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Allen Ginsburg all claimed they wore out the grooves on this record by playing it everywhere they travelled. Dylan’s major masterpieces age like fine wine never losing their relevancy. Your timing is good as this period is being covered by the new Dylan biopic starring Timothy Chalamet called “A Complete Unknown” opening Christmas Day.
"Oxford Town" is about James Meredith. First black student allowed to attend Univ. of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss.
Similar but even more angry is "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" from times they are A Changing.
Enjoying your reactions.
Seeing a ton of young people discovering Bob Dylan is SO bizarre to me, as being Gen-X, I grew up with everyone knowing every song he wrote by heart, as he was of our parents' generation and then we were all obsessed with him, too. So suddenly seeing people who *barely* know ABOUT him is just - weird. lol But it's awesome to see people starting the journey of his work. Enjoy it, man. He's written at least 600 songs. I would also recommend that you listen to the songwriters who *inspired* him, as the only real way to understand Dylan, IMO. Listen to Woody Guthrie's stuff from the 30's and 40's and a host of others from that era - and then you'll begin to understand that he took THAT folk formula - and incorporated the kind of poetry into it that had been written by the Beat Generation of the 40's and 50's, into that framework, which nobody had done before. Then he turned that into masterful rock and pop in the mid-late 60's, then wrote very personal masterpieces like "Blood on the Tracks" in the 70's, which is basically the greatest "break-up album" ever written. Just go CHRONOLOGICALLY, starting where you are, from album to album and you'll have a blast. There are very few songwriters who can justifiably be called lyrical geniuses and Dylan was one of them. He changed everything - and most of his songs are so timeless that if they were written today, they'd have as much impact. But again - Woody Guthrie in the 30's and 40's, and others, were writing songs JUST like this - that was Dylan's main influence.
I think it has a lot to do with how irrelevant radio has become. They didn’t grow up with classic rock & oldies stations like we did and there’s this *huge* gap in their musical knowledge. It’s crazy
I did grow up with radio. I watched the internet evolve and happened to evolve with it, but I wasn't born with it. I didn't have internet until I was 14 at home. My parents didn't listen to music really; I didn't come from a musical household. Everybody was shocked that I could just play instruments in my family. The only music in my house growing up was the music coming from my bedroom.
@@walterooski thats awesome Walt - I play for a living but I do come from a musical family so it’s always exciting to hear how others have found their way to music with no help from their immediate surroundings. When I mentioned no radio access I wasn’t necessarily referring to you but those who are younger, like in their 20s. If you were born after 2000 then chances are you’ve heard little to no radio. You obviously have a rich background as I’ve heard you reference plenty of older bands as well as different genres like Bluegrass.
Bro, I love your joy in discovering Bob! So refreshing! I saw him in November in the U.K. 2024 and he’s 83 and still inspiring and making a beautiful contribution.
In Hard Rain, "Where have you been my blue eyed son" is echoing the lyrics of the old English ballad Lord Randall. He wrote this song as the arms race between the U.S. and USSR was escalating and threatening to end the world. He said he wasn't sure he'd have time to write all the songs he wanted to write, so he wrote a song where he felt each line could be a song in itself.
Great reaction, almost hard to believe it’s a 1st for you!
The biggest impact that Dylan had on music is first and foremost his lyrics. The Beatles were one of the first famous artists to talk about the Dylan influence, especially Lennon, and it was a huge part of their shift away from love songs.
i've read this story and heard it told by different Beatles, George brought the Freewheelin album home to wherever they were staying, after hearing it, and they were all blown away by the songs, words music vocal guitar harp, and they played it over and over for a week until the record was getting worn out, lol, i can believe it
This is the tip of the iceberg, so much Dylan to listen to, it would take a life time to delve into his amazing canon of albums, bootlegs, outtakes, live performances. He is a lyrical genius in all genres. I never tire of listening to him and always hear something I've never heard before, keep on listening and sharing. Hard Rain is said to be about the Cuba Crisis and possibly nuclear war threat. Dylan is also a spontaneous performer, not keen to be in the recording studio for too long, he also said the albums are for the "clarity of the lyrics" - I believe the real stuff happens on the live stage
"where is conscientious music like this now?" you and me both, thanks for your channel!
It's with Jesse Welles! Very John Prine/Freewheelin-era Bob-esque
It's not hyperbole to say that Bob Dylan is the greatest lyricist and one of the greatest songwriters in history. The guy is a special talent and his work in the 60's in particular is the work of a true master.
There is no doubt that Dylan deserved the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Great reaction, you now know why Dylan is held in so much esteem. You’ve only just begun a journey into his often profound and insightful lyrics. In his early recordings Dylan was mimicking the voice of his hero and inspiration the folk singer Woody Guthrie, adopting Guthrie's distinctive Oklahoma accent and nasal twang. When Dylan first came to New York he sought out Woodie who he knew of from his autobiography "Bound For Glory". Woody was dying from a terminal neurological disease at the time and Bob would play Gutherie's own songs to him.
To understand where Dylan came from, you have to know Woody Guthrie (who wrote This Land is Our Land) and Pete Seeger singing protest songs at rallies in support of unionizing migrant farm workers in the 1930s and 40s.
It's where bob started, but he didn't stay there long. He made them current, then moved on.
And Rambling Jack Elliot.
Solid album reaction, thanks for posting! Any chance you'll take a look at his later material at some point? I'm a big Dylan fan, would love to listen to you react and give your thoughts on his later, blues-y stuff like Tempest or Together Through Life.
The “Talkin World War III Blues,” was a style of talking bluesy folk songs that was popular in the Folk Music crowd at the time. More like telling a story in a more talkative style than actually singing. You will find a couple of songs like that on Dylan‘s first few albums. And since you were interested in the civil rights aspect of his music, he was right next to Martin Luther King at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC when he gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. If you find pictures of that gathering, you will see Dylan sitting on the stage next to MLK.
This was fun to watch. I knew the hits but had never heard some of the other songs on the album. I hope you go through his musical legacy in order so you can see the development. You are several albums away from his peak.
Down the Highway is a lament for Suze Rotolo, the girl on the cover, who had left for Italy.
There's so much great Dylan hidden in amongst his many albums, and many that didn't even make albums, alternate versions on bootlegs etc.
Don't know if you're plan to react to other bob albuns, but if you do, i'm very excited for you to reach Blood on the Tracks, The Times They Are a-Changing, Another Side of Bob Dylan, the PEAK albuns (sorry if there's any error, english is not my first language)
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I totally love your reactions. You so get the unique depth and brilliance of Dylan. I do have a different take on “Don’t think twice.” Rather than a song about acquiescing, I think it’s an awesomely brutal takedown of someone he’s realized is not a very good person. Like he’s saying “don’t worry about it” because he doesn’t think she’d have the emotional capacity to understand the damage she’s done. “You just wasted my precious time,” like it was no big thing.
Great reaction! Been following Bob for 50 years. A lot of disappointment, but much more great music. The poet laureate of my time. I really hope that you’ll react to his albums in order to. Thank you for the reaction, I liked and subscribed.
I love the mix of songwriting on this album. The transition from A Hard Rain into Don't Think Twice is amazing to me. A Hard Rain is a manifestation of Dylan's fears for the rapidly approaching end of the world and Don't think Twice is a deeply personal song about the end of a romantic relationship but they both sound so honest and heartfelt and authentic. Perhaps if you really squint the songs are about the same thing.
His ability to conjure emotion, depth of feeling and existential angst and then scatter in some humour without losing the flow of the album, at least to my mind, is masterful. Bob's early albums have a lot of humour in them, much of it is gallows humour. He mixes in a lot of different styles like his version of an old English Trad tune that he had recently learned while hanging out with the Beatles (Scarborough Fair* became Bob's Girl from the North Country), pure folk and blues and even talkin' blues, which Dylan loved for it traditionally being a humourous form of the blues. There's so much going on on this album but it all being done with just one voice, one guitar and one harmonica keeps it sounding coherent as an album.
By the way, Brigitte Bardot, Anita Ekberg and Sophia Loren are not just "some hot actresses", as your chat described them, they are all non-American hot actresses 🤣 Perhaps Bob is saying that in order to get the country to grow we need something inspirational, aspirational, something to make people dream and give them hope, but we need to be looking for that outside America. We need to look to the rest of the world and pull in the good things we find out there. Or maybe he really was just saying we need hot women to fire up the men and the country will grow in terms of population, you just never can tell with Bob Dylan. He really didn't very often tell people what to think and what to believe. He was very straight-forward and called things as he saw them but I always felt he presented this stuff more with an attitude of, "This is what I think. What do you think?" than as if he was telling people they should agree with him. He encouraged generations to think about the same things and see how they felt about what was going on in the world. He wanted people to think about the things they brushed under the carpet or ignored as they passed it in the street and to have an opinion on it. He never sounded preachy to me.
* Simon and Garfunkel recorded a beautiful version of Scarborough Fair that is always worth a listen. Girl from the North Country is definitely a Dylan original but very clearly is based firmly on Scarborough Fair: Are you going to Scarborough Fair (parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme) Remember me to the one who lives there, she once was a true love of mine. Bob's version begins: If you're traveling in the north country fair, where the winds hit heavy on the borderline, remember me to one who lives there, she once was a true love of mine. The Girl from the North country is vastly different from the centuries old Scarborough fair, though. I'm not saying he ripped it off. He made the song's origins well known at the time.
Dylan heard Martin Cathy do Scarborough Fair while hanging round with him in England in 1962.
Been listening to Bob's 2nd album since it was introduced to me by a record shop owner in 1974. Have been getting joy from his music ever since. These early songs just flowed out of him.
Fantastic reaction, love how seriously you took the lyrics. Would be very cool to see you react to the next handful of Dylan albums in order, charting the progression of how the protest-style writing of these early songs is slowly replaced by the more literary and imagistic writing of the 'electric trilogy' (the three albums released in '65-'66 after he "went electric"). Hope you react to Dylan again though no matter what it is! His 1997 album Time Out Of Mind is incredible too, won Album of the Year for a reason and is a masterpiece of swampy Lanois production and lyrics full of impending mortality (ironically though the album is almost 30 years old and Bob is still kicking lol).
And yes to Joni Mitchell as well! Anything from Blue to Hejira is brilliant and well worth checking out (especially the latter). Her live album/film Shadows And Light is my favorite, her band is comprised of some of the best jazz/fusion guys around at the time and hearing her catalogue reimagined through them is amazing.
I had the same reaction to “blowing in the wind” when I first heard it as as a first year college student in 1963. It was the beginning of my lifetime journey as a Dylan fan (fanatic😱). I saw him live for the first time at the Santa Monica Civic (?) Auditorium in 1965 or 66. Mind blowing performances.
Good luck with all the Dylan yet to hear! Once bitten !
Great album, great reaction. Glad you enjoyed it!
Hard Rain has been credited to Dylan imagining the end of the world during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Thinking that any verse could be his last.
Excellent review of Freewheelin, Bringing Back Home-- is next please.
In 2016 Dylan was awarded the Nobel prize for literature for a lifetime of amazing lyrical genius
Where have the years gone!?
He also won the Puliter Prize
It's great to listen to Dylan's first ~6 albums (not including his first album, which was almost all covers) and see the evolution. They're all great albums (with the possible exception of Another Side of Bob Dylan, which is still good).
Also, as for "understanding" his songs. The type of songwriting he settled on, he later described as like paintings. A series of images, rather than everything knitting together and making sense. Although some are straight stories, and they usually have strong themes. You see this type of songwriting evident in Hard Rain's A Gunna Fall.
Oxford town is a true story about James Meridith and the U of Missisippi.
The girl is Susan Rotolo, his gf at the time. She has a book out..
The key to this is that at that point in the 1960s nuclear war felt close enough to touch. Hard rain is nuclear fallout. Bob said that he felt the world might be close to ending so he piled every line he’d got into one song.
@@davidbowman6740 So right, the boats were at sea... The Soviets turned them around at the last minute. Having to practice hiding under your 2nd grade desk to hide from a nuclear attack is probably why us boomers are so weird.
Bob has reportedly said that hard rain is NOT about nuclear fallout, but more about ALL the bad in the world.
@@kibblesnbits9146 Bob has said a lot of things and it doesn't do to take them at face value! He also said that he wrote it because he thought the world was about to be engulfed by nuclear war. As "hard rain" was the then current term for nuclear fallout, it doesn't take a genius to see the connection. Is it also about other things as well? Of course it is, it's a Dylan song!
I've heard everything on this album, but never listened to it as a whole B4. Looking forward to the next 1½ hours. Thx for starting to react to Phish 🙏🎶🎶😏💯🕺💃
I just discovered your channel and enjoyed your trip through Freewheelin'. I'm sure someone probably mentioned this, but on Christmas Day, a new movie will be released which covers this period of Dylan's rise, from 1961-65, when he went electric at the Newport Folk Festival. It's called "A Complete Unknown." It stars Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan, Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, and others. James Mangold directs and it's getting good reviews. You can find a lot of info about the movie on UA-cam.
I haven't listened to this album all the way through in about 40 years, and stage 4 cancer means i probably won't ever again.... glad i listened to it like this. Thanks kid.
I hope you keep doing these 60's Dylan albums. The Times They are A'Changin, Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, John Wesley Harding all masterpieces.
Very nice album and it's so current... incredible 😯 Thank you for sharing
Highway 61 Revisited changed the world.
Start at the beginning, and go album by album, amazing journey as he changes his entire style over the years!!
Woody Guthrie was excellent! He had a strong OK accent, sharp social critique, socialist and funny! Bob's hillbilly accent was a nod to him, it was not his "real" voice.
Thank you SO MUCH for that context. Honestly, my brain was a little surprised to hear he was from Minnesota singing with a voice like that. This makes tremendously more sense.
Wow, getting into Dylan and Phish simultaneously is just...wow. Dylan is absolutely the greatest American songwriter I've heard and Phish has thousands and thousands of hours of exciting performances. You can, and I have, live just off these artists works for years at a time. Enjoy!
Hi sometime could you please react to Bob Dylan's latest album from 2020 called 'Rough and Rowdy Ways', released when he was 79
Time Out Of Mind also 1997.
Hard Rain makes me cry every time.
It's great. It has this ability of building on itself the longer it goes, and sucking you into its own little world. Dylan has a few songs like this, Mr Tambourine Man and It's All Over Now, Baby Blue do the same to me.
Bob Dylan’s Dream may actually be may favorite song on this album. I always get teary eyed when I hear the line - we thought we could just sit forever in fun and our chances really was million to one”. I always think of my youth and my friends and how we grew up and went our separate ways. I long for those days. The song is really about losing your youth. Losing your freedom. At least the “freedom” of youth. Beautiful song.
Freewheelin Bob always gets a play on a long road trip
North Country rearranges Scarborough Fair, which Simon and Garfunkel did as a canticle. Between each line, there’s a description of Nam. I think it was an old traditional song, which required no residuals.
You have to keep in mind, he didn’t exist in a vacuum. The folk revival was huge.
Bringing It All Back Home album by Bob Dylan one side electric, one side acoustic
@Walterooski Hey man, neat vid! Big fan of His Bobness’ music and work. Hey, whenever you write your own songs and post them on YT, do you instantly have ownership and copyrighted material as a result? Is there any affiliation, however great or slight, regarding entities such as BMI or ASCAP or SESAC? Thanks again!
Thank you so much for the kindness! Unfortunately I don't have a sound answer to your question. I have never really thought too deeply into whether they are copyrighted to or not. I would assume no and that there is no affiliation.
@ many thanks, just as well!
One of the greatest (if not the greatest) poets of the 20th century.
Girl from the North Country is drawn from the melody of Scarborough Fair, a traditional English folk song. Give it a listen, and you can see where it inspired Dylan when he wrote this song. it’s absolutely wonderful to see someone enjoying Dylan for the first time. And he was such a very young man when this album came out.
I love that so many people are discovering Dylan now for the first time.
That was great seeing your reaction to some truly great songs.
You should check out the new book, "You Don't Need a Weatherman: Bob Dylan for Beginners" it helps to explain the many sides of Bob Dylan's career
first, keep up the GREAT work! second, would love to see you react to Syd Barrett's Bob Dylan Blues.
You also gotta check out Phil ochs as well if you enjoy Bob too, more topical in his songs though
i think you will appreciate even more "BLOOD ON THE TRACKS", theres not a single bad or disposable song on that album. it`s a more personal album, a comeback to the acoustic after rock n roll era, but with rock elements(like drums).....also is probably the best break up album of all times(he had just divorced).
Pay especial attention to the lyrics of "tangled up in blue", "simple twist of fate" and "shelter from the storm", although my personal favorite is "if you see her, say hello"
To hear this album or certain Dylan album's for the first time is like discovering something you didn't know you needed all along.
This is the album that inspired me to start writing my own songs.
Bob has had quite a few singing voices over his 60 years + career. The one he had for this album is definitely one of my favorites. He was still emulating Woody Guthrie a bit at this time.
Growing up in the 1960s my generation KNEW Dylan as a genius, unmatched talent n poet laureate of America! Welcome aboard young fella
I'm 70 and there is not a time in my life that Bob Dylan's music hasn't been part of my life. As children, EVERYONE knew Blowing in the Wind. It was a top 40 hit by Peter Paul and Mary. And it is probably the first song people of my generation learned on guitar. When I was in my teens, I could play every one of these songs. Yes, he was 22. And 19 when he recorded his first album (this album is his second). So go a little easy on us oldtimers who just want to scream: YOU DON"T KNOW BOB DYLAN? You NEVER HEARD BLOWING IN THE WIND! We'll get over it. And there is a fascination watching someone react to something as familiar as air to those of us who were born in the 50's. BTW: Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
We’re well into the era of, music brought to you, via software. Most new music sounds like what it is, inorganic.
Bobs voice is amazing! That’s what music is about, being unique, bearing your soul for all to see. It’s not about having the same old boring pitch perfect voice, but that’s me
Bob's always integrated a lot of quirky humor into his music.
Would love to see more Dylan album reactions. Also, the lyrics had a lot of mistakes here.
Also, he was 21 when he wrote this stuff, not 22. Just boggles the mind.
Listen to Clayton’s blues version of don’t think twice, live at Madison Square Garden, it’s amazing
And you've you've barely even scratched a teenie tiny bit of the surface. Find out about what happened when he put away the acoustic guitar and went electric.
It's worth listening to the mono versions to avoid the silly separation across the stereo spectrum.
Dylan is a massively complex artist and the one thing I’d suggest is a deep dive into his life and the context of the time as each album was written as much of appreciation of Dylan is understanding that. Freewheeling was his second album though his first with majority original material. It is important to know how Dylan at the time was massively integrated into the folk scene and the civil rights movement. He’d moved from Minnesota to New York inserted himself in the folk scene there partly in homage to his hero woody Guthrie who he visited in his hospice. Dylan was an original. He quickly became darling of the folk scene with his protest songs but equally as quickly became disenfranchised with it and the civil rights movement as he slowly realised that old grey left wing men would never do anything. And as a consequence he shifted towards electric music - going electric live at Newport folk festival and being booed . The forthcoming film a complete unknown chronicles this story. Worth a watch
A Hard Rains-are- gonna fall, ...that's an incredible dark warning to humanity written by a 22 year old poet from the lands of never-ever-times.
Anyone who jumps in with Freewheelin' gets a subscription from me. I've lived with Bob for over 50 years now, and although there has been LOADS of other great music I love, Bob has always been speaking truth in the background. Bob in the 60's was a force of nature. This was released in mid-1963. Within three years, he'd become the voice of a generation and folk hero, gone electric and been called a "judas", and released, in my opinion, the finest trilogy of albums ever recorded (Bringing it All Back Home, Highway 61, and Blonde on Blonde). Be careful, man. Bob can be a dangerous rabbit hole to fall into, especially when you start learning about what was going on culturally at that time as well.
A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall - Bob said that each line or couplet summed up a song he had planned to write but felt there was no time left for him to finish them. He expected the world to end very soon. The "hard rain" is the nuclear fallout.
The girl is Suze Rotolo. He parents were socially conscious, and so was she. She was the girl he refers to in "dont think twice" "a child i am told," she was 17, i think he was 19 or 20 when they started. He got horribly jealous when she went with her mom to Italy.he also wrote "Boots of Spenidh Leather" and "Tomorrow is a Long Time" about the breakup.
Consider that Dylan was about 21 years old when he released this album. Mature way beyond his years. "A Hard Rains a Gonna Fall" is reminiscent of some portions of the poetry of Walt Whitman
I think the overall theme of this album is Courage
The lady on the cover is Suze Rotollo, a beautiful lefty that really influenced his early political protest songs. Masters of War is still my favourite track off the album. But then again I'm just an old lefty too.
OHH..man.. i could talk for days about this album.. the lyrics the vibe.. the messages of this album.. from a 22 year old boy.. whose writings were teaching his elders at the time life lessons and this mans body of work has had a profound influence on countless artists. He is a Nobel prize winner for literature for Christs sake.. i got to tell you.. I am new to the channel.. but the artist i see today that compares to Dylan is a guy named Ren.. like Dylan Rens music can not be pigeonholed into one genre.. if you continue your dive into Dylan you will find that each album is practically a different sound or style.. but the brilliant lyrics are always a constant.. now this kid Ren has far more range with his voice.. i understand that.. don't come at me.. but to me.. in my opinion.. Dylans vocals are under appreciated and if you check out Ren.. you will see he is excellent at using his vocals to express the emotions he wants his lyrics to express.. i feel Dylan.. though not with as wide a range.. but Dylan knows how to convey the emotions not just with the lyrics but also with his cadence in his vocals. Ren in my opinion is a modern day Dylan. I encourage you to check out Hi Ren and Money games 1,2 &3. Dylan will always be my number 1.. but this kid Ren has fast moved up to my number 2 and fir me an old man.. to have him go around so many legendary artists i honestly am shocked. But he is very good. Dylan is just an amazing artist whose lyrics are timeless.. if you want a ridiculously good blues album check out Dylans Album.. Oh Mercy.. its different than this album but its really good. Hope you check it out and i hope you give Ren a listen too.. ohh.. also check out a artist from Israel.. Asaf Avidian.. his voice is unique.. his lyrics are full of metaphors.. and his use of looping machine makes him a onevman band.. Check out his song.. Your Anchor.. watch the version from his In a Box series.. i think you will love him too.. looking forward to more Dylan. Great reaction.. Im a new instant subscriber when I saw this reaction it was a no brainer.. thanks for recognizing the brilliance of Dylan.
I have done 78 reactions to Ren and they are all collected in this playlist! Thank you so much for your kindness!
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Welcome to the 60's. Nothing will be the same again. I recommend, to start: The Beatles "Revolver", Beach Boys "Pet Sounds", Kinks "Lola vs powerman", Simon & Garfunkle "Bridge over troubled waters", The Doors first, second, third and sixth albums... And several tons more records. If you want information, I volunteer.
So I've done the entirety of the Beatles' work, I did that before I started reacting. Rubber Soul is my personal favorite of the catalog. I've also done a good chunk of Beach Boys because I read once that Jimmy Page was inspired by Smiley Smile so I went on that little side-quest. Kinks I only know the song Lola, never dug in. The same with Simon & Garfunkle. I've heard a good chunk of The Doors as well.
Thank you so much for your kindness, suggestions and excitement. I'll definitely take the suggestions seriously.
...and after going electric Bob will go into Nashville to record Blonde on Blonde ...thus his influence on country music will emerge but ...first a major crash .....
welcome aboard the Dylan For life club!
Blowin in the wind is one of the first songs I remember.
Hard rains all about nuclear fallout. The bay of pigs was happening at the time. Dylan was putting as much as he could into one song. Because he didn't think he would be around for very long. It was all about dropping the H bomb.
This was Dylan's second album; "Times Are a Changin1" came later.
Welcome to the Master song writer known as Bob Dylan. Enjoy, you have 60 years of his songs to catch up too. It is a travel of discovery and reflection.
The actual G.O.A.T.
Yes, there was a phone number you called to get the time and it would say at the beep it's 'x' o'clock or somethink like that. There was also a radio station that broadcast the time. Remember there was no internet or cell phones so if you needed to get the current time and didn't want to wait for the radio station to give you the time you could call to get it.
The world needs a new young Bob Dylan.
Not much conscientious music nowadays unfortunately, at least on this level, but Jesse Welles is out there doing his thing and it's great. He's like a modern day Bob Dylan mixed with a bit of Woody Guthrie.
Dear God ~ thank you for Bob Dylan
To really understand this album you needed to be alive when it was released. It was current in its time. Good luck impressing anyone who heard it new.
dude wrote these songs at 21-22 years old, wild.
Listen to the live versions of his music and it will really blow your mind.
The guy saying you need Joni Mitchell’s Blue for breakup album-obviously oblivious that Dylan has the agreed upon greatest piece of music over a breakup-Blood On The Tracks
"Im really coming to realize that Bob Dylan isn't just a goofy folk artist"
It's a hard rain is so epic.
Everything happened in the 60s, maybe try “Forever Changes” album by Love.
You might say Robert Zimmerman, was involved in civil rights. Bob sang on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, during the 1963 March on Washington, when Martin Luther King gave the ‘I have a Dream” speech. That pressured civil rights legislation, that changed the course of history.
George Harrison said, the Beatles wore the grooves off of this album.
I'm thinking you might like Ani DiFranco