20 years of schooling and they put you on the day shift... you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows... such a cool song and one of the first rock videos.
Back in college, late 70's, I had a professor in an English Lit class who spent a whole hour class studying this "song" as a poem. Thanks Dr. Garlitz. Probably one of the first "videos" ever made by a recording artist. Also, sort of a RAP song. The Poet Alan Ginsburg in the background and crossing the screen at the end wrote the epic Beat Poem "Howl".
The line "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" gave its name to the Weatherman faction of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society)...
In high school, we used to try to memorize the lyrics and sing/rap along. Now you must watch Weird Al Yankovic "Bob" a tribute to this song by Dylan; it's a masterpiece.
Ah get born, keep warm Short pants, romance, learn to dance Get dressed, get blessed Try to be a success Please her, please him, buy gifts Don’t steal, don’t lift Twenty years of schoolin’ And they put you on the day shift Man, 15 short phrases, and the life of an ordinary young adult is summarized. What a feat!
Bob Dylan is still the Prophet of our times!!! he was back in my day, the 60's and he is still the Prophet of our days now. He is just a very deep person who writes deep thought provoking lyrics and music!!!
The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson) first coined the term "music video" in 1959 (the same year he died in the plane crash with Buddy Holly). He also made some of the first rock videos.
A famous "beat" author from the 1940s and 50s, Jack Kerouac, had a few famous in a series of books from "ON the road" one of the next books was called "The Subterraneans " He was a popular writer as well as Alan Ginsberg (poet) for many of the 60s rockers and folkies. Bob, the Beatles (as in beat poet and drum beat), and the Doors were some fans.
A reiteration of the old 'Talking Blues' style - that became a precursor to Rap music -- "Maggie's Farm" is somewhat similar. Maybe check out "Talkin' WWIII Blues" - or "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" too. "Buy Gifts. Don't steal. Don't lift. Twenty years of schoolin' and they put ya on the day shift. -- Look out kid, they keep it all hid ..."
Definitely a torrent of bars and an early rap-like cadence. Plus it just resonated and reflected the times so well. But on the other hand, everything he's talking about is still going on in one never-ending form or the other, and he was always putting his finger on the stuff that really hurt and that got people outraged, or the lack thereof. Great reaction, man.
I feel it more like a collage of Rap and rock mixed with beatnik poetry and basically a sponge sucking everything surrounding him. It's something that can't be only lurned. It needs talent
I like the rawness of this one. It packs a lot in too. The video has become iconic, and though it's been copied since, the way Dylan ditches the cards I'd so dismissive, it has a casual style. Plenty more of his tracks to consider.... watching the river flow. Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again. Chimes of freedom. ...
This is actually from a clip from the movie "Don't Look Back", a documentary about Bob Dylan's 1965 England tour released in 1967. The movie never got wide distribution. It was shown mostly in "art house" theaters that showed classic, art and foreign films. They took this clip from the opening scene of the movie for a promotional preview in movie houses. I remember watching it at the Brattle Street Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts shortly after it was released. The promotional clip was not shown on TV back then, we didn’t have MTV yet! 😊
"Don't need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows." I always took this as referring to the Weathermen, who were a politically subversive group active around that time.
This song was the source of the name for the Weather Undeground(Weathermen) terrorist group. They thought Dylan was wrong and America did need a Weatherman.
I agree with Too Much Monkey Business. No too sure about It Wasn't Me though Hoss. Great song but Chuck has so many better ones. I always recommend You Can't Catch Me. Great video with Chuck lip-syncing the song but doing all his moves. Not to mention the Beatles' Come Together connection.
I was a kid when I heard a news report that Dylan was booed at a folk festival for playing electric rock music it must’ve been early to mid 60s. He’s been eclectic rocker ever since. A real chameleon. Beside its called genre’. Dylan is beyond labels.
🙏Please react to 🎸"Masters of War"🎸 my all time favorite 🚀war🚀 themed song (War Pigs #2), and top 5 of Dylan. I feared the Ukraine/Russian war would start another World War, but right now Israel/Hamas has me scared shitless. ☯☮
Listen to Woody Guthrie! And Arlo Guthrie, Steve Earle, Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, Odetta, Tracy Chapman, Sinead O'Connor, Ani DiFranco, Drive-by Truckers 💪⚖️❤️☮️🕊️✊🌍📣
One of Dylans great ones. Dylan was rapping before rapping was a thing lol. And that's the poet Allen Ginsberg in the back.
Bob Dylan is the only composer in history to win the Nobel Prize For Literature for his lyrics.
20 years of schooling and they put you on the day shift... you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows... such a cool song and one of the first rock videos.
Back in college, late 70's, I had a professor in an English Lit class who spent a whole hour class studying this "song" as a poem. Thanks Dr. Garlitz. Probably one of the first "videos" ever made by a recording artist. Also, sort of a RAP song. The Poet Alan Ginsburg in the background and crossing the screen at the end wrote the epic Beat Poem "Howl".
No one writes like Bob Dylan.
The line "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" gave its name to the Weatherman faction of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society)...
In high school, we used to try to memorize the lyrics and sing/rap along. Now you must watch Weird Al Yankovic "Bob" a tribute to this song by Dylan; it's a masterpiece.
Too hot to hoot
Ma is as selfless as I am
Ah get born, keep warm
Short pants, romance, learn to dance
Get dressed, get blessed
Try to be a success
Please her, please him, buy gifts
Don’t steal, don’t lift
Twenty years of schoolin’
And they put you on the day shift
Man, 15 short phrases, and the life of an ordinary young adult is summarized. What a feat!
Bob Dylan is still the Prophet of our times!!! he was back in my day, the 60's and he is still the Prophet of our days now. He is just a very deep person who writes deep thought provoking lyrics and music!!!
Check out his early acoustic hit Masters of War. It is so powerful for being so simple.
The start of MTV.. First ever music video..
That was “Video Killed the Radio Star” I’m certain. I was right there.
The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson) first coined the term "music video" in 1959 (the same year he died in the plane crash with Buddy Holly). He also made some of the first rock videos.
The first and best rapper of all time!
A famous "beat" author from the 1940s and 50s, Jack Kerouac, had a few famous in a series of books from "ON the road" one of the next books was called "The Subterraneans " He was a popular writer as well as Alan Ginsberg (poet) for many of the 60s rockers and folkies. Bob, the Beatles (as in beat poet and drum beat), and the Doors were some fans.
And Ginsberg appeared in the video 😀
The man with the cane in the background is the legendary poet and Dylan’s friend Alan Ginsberg.
A reiteration of the old 'Talking Blues' style - that became a precursor to Rap music -- "Maggie's Farm" is somewhat similar. Maybe check out "Talkin' WWIII Blues" - or "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" too.
"Buy Gifts. Don't steal. Don't lift. Twenty years of schoolin' and they put ya on the day shift. -- Look out kid, they keep it all hid ..."
Definitely a torrent of bars and an early rap-like cadence. Plus it just resonated and reflected the times so well.
But on the other hand, everything he's talking about is still going on in one never-ending form or the other, and he was always putting his finger on the stuff that really hurt and that got people outraged, or the lack thereof.
Great reaction, man.
Allen Ginsberg walking across the shot at the end.
The first LP I ever bought was "Highway 61" when he first went electric.
I feel it more like a collage of Rap and rock mixed with beatnik poetry and basically a sponge sucking everything surrounding him. It's something that can't be only lurned. It needs talent
First music video ever. Kick ass rap rock song before rap was a thing. Dylan with his deep poetry creates many music genres. Thanks❤
In the background The great "beat poet" Alan Ginsberg is hanging out.
and Folk singer Bob Neuwirth
you are correct. Have to watch "Don't Look Back" I saw it in 1968 sitting next to Buffy Saint Marie
I would highly recomend the book, Dylan. It is a fascinating look at this life. It's available on audio. He is a "character" to be sure.
I like the rawness of this one. It packs a lot in too.
The video has become iconic, and though it's been copied since, the way Dylan ditches the cards I'd so dismissive, it has a casual style.
Plenty more of his tracks to consider.... watching the river flow. Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again. Chimes of freedom. ...
Dylan’s “Masters of War” is appropriate to play these days.
This is actually from a clip from the movie "Don't Look Back", a documentary about Bob Dylan's 1965 England tour released in 1967. The movie never got wide distribution. It was shown mostly in "art house" theaters that showed classic, art and foreign films. They took this clip from the opening scene of the movie for a promotional preview in movie houses. I remember watching it at the Brattle Street Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts shortly after it was released. The promotional clip was not shown on TV back then, we didn’t have MTV yet! 😊
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"Don't need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows." I always took this as referring to the Weathermen, who were a politically subversive group active around that time.
The Weathermen took their name from the song.
This song was the source of the name for the Weather Undeground(Weathermen) terrorist group. They thought Dylan was wrong and America did need a Weatherman.
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At Last
That is Allen Ginsberg in the background.
The First Rap Song.
Some say "The Revolution..." by Gil Scott-Heron is the first rap song. True.
But there is another possibility.
Rap 20 years before there was such a thing
Great karaoke song!
To me this song is all about surviving the underside of New York City. The frenetic pace is really New York.
The pump dont work cos the vandals took the handle.
Clasic Dylan.
I love the fact that "the vandals took the handle" is the last line of the song. It's so arbitrary, it underlines how crazy life is.
First rap song!!!
Listen to...
"This is Not a Song It's an Outburst: Or, The Establishment Blues"
By Rodriguez
Interesting because Bob Dylan used to be one of those reactions that always got cut. But over the last year or two it's definitely loosened up
The first ever rap hehe :)
Midwestern Jewish folk/rap. In the early 60s.
Oh man, you gotta hear To Much Monkey Business and It Wasn't Me two greats by the great Chuck Berry
I agree with Too Much Monkey Business. No too sure about It Wasn't Me though Hoss. Great song but Chuck has so many better ones. I always recommend You Can't Catch Me. Great video with Chuck lip-syncing the song but doing all his moves. Not to mention the Beatles' Come Together connection.
Hi then. Without going back, how many cards?
Honey no rap existed in 1960. Just imagine we could listen to Frank Sinatra and then immediately this song it was played on the radio all the time.
Avoid the plain clothes (undercover cops)
Bob's genera is folk.
Not since 1965
I was a kid when I heard a news report that Dylan was booed at a folk festival for playing electric rock music it must’ve been early to mid 60s. He’s been eclectic rocker ever since. A real chameleon. Beside its called genre’. Dylan is beyond labels.
Birth of rap?
🙏Please react to 🎸"Masters of War"🎸 my all time favorite 🚀war🚀 themed song (War Pigs #2), and top 5 of Dylan. I feared the Ukraine/Russian war would start another World War, but right now Israel/Hamas has me scared shitless. ☯☮
Don’t follow leaders. If only people had listened
That's 1965 in your face. Who are the brain police?
Listen to Woody Guthrie! And Arlo Guthrie, Steve Earle, Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, Odetta, Tracy Chapman, Sinead O'Connor, Ani DiFranco, Drive-by Truckers 💪⚖️❤️☮️🕊️✊🌍📣
Could an argument be made for this being the origins of rap😅
No, it couldn't. Talking blues was around a long time before Dylan, who got it most directly from Woody Guthrie.
@Hexon66 there you go, that answers the question
Don’t follow leaders and watch your parking meters.
That is a GREAT line for how I interpretate it 😁
If you haven't already done it Like a Rolling Stone is his all time most played and copied song he ever wrote.
He has reacted to that one.
@@intothesunset3thanks
YOKO!
This is NOT rock and roll, it is RAP, in 1965. Dylan was the first commercially successful rapper.
No point in showing the video if you can't read the signs.
He’s kind of rapping. He’s a folk singer. Not rock n roll.
You haven't done any of his songs Christian album. May I suggest....You've got to serve some one. Or man named all the animals. Peace ✌️
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