EGADS! It has been 60 years. How did that happen? Dylan still sounds as fresh as the first time I heard him. Me? Not so much. Dylan is great without trying.
I agree, and something I find very gratifying is that there seems to be quite a large consensus about it. It's just so powerful. It feels like he's communicating the intensity of a moment.
'The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face'. 'Inside the museums infinity goes up on trial', 'Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues, you can tell by the way she smiles". So many brilliant lines in just one song.
My "favorite" Dylan song changes often enough...but Visions of Johanna seems to occupy that space more often than others... It was certainly my favorite song of all time in the summer of 1999.... memorable year for me.
this was always pure poetics, "ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet, we sit here stranded though while we're all doing our best to deny it". Indeed!
Fun fact: The line “Jewels and Binoculars Hang from the Head of the Mule” was paid a tribute to by The Stones in 1969 on the cover of their classic live album “Get Your Ya Ya’s Out.”
You STILL pick all the best pieces of work from my day ('60's and '70's). And you do it at an amazing rate. To me, BTW, Visions and Desolation Row are both among Dylan's top five...maybe top TWO. Thank you.
Love your Dylan videos. You said "Wasn't quite sure what he was getting at... just letting it take me wherever it took me..." Just wanted you to know you're 'doing it right,' according to Dylan. Two quotes from him: "The only important thing about a song is what it make you feel about your life." "I could tell you who Mr. Jones is to me but I mean we all have our own Mr. Jones." He never wanted anyone trying to solve his songs or figure out what *he* was getting at or feeling or 'meaning' when he wrote them: he was writing them for you to feel whatever you feel hearing them. Another quote you'll know as we all do: "How does it feel?" Love your stuff. Keep it up, man.
....as if a foundation for future musicians/artists were established saying ''do something like this'' and add a little something of your own to it ...IMO
Visions of Johanna always brings me back to when my sister lived in a loft on Mercer St. in SoHo in the early 1970s ("lights flicker from the opposite loft", "escapades out on the D train"). By the time I went to NYU in 1975, SoHo was already being priced out for artists with my sister moving to a loft on the Bowery, an unfinished basement on Broome St., and then a small office on 14th.
"Visions of Johanna" is as good as anything Dylan recorded. It's funny that Al Kooper showed up to the Highway 61 session as a guitar player hoping to sneak in, took one look at Mike Bloomfield, sat down at the organ - an instrument he didn't really play at the time - and proceeded to lay down the song's defining musical motif. Then he stuck around for the rest of the album, the England tour, and Blonde on Blonde, dominating them on his new instrument. Crazy.
Many people have Blood on the Tracks as his greatest album. Bob's voice is ten years older but the lyrics and storytelling is just as good as his mid 60's trilogy. It just depends on what floats your boat. I love all four albums but if I could only choose one... Highway 61 Revisited baby!
The name album Blonde on Blonde is basically means "two" as in two vinyl records. They were kicking around names that meant two similar things like black on black, etc. from what I've read. This was the first double LP ever released.
You really should react to Dylans' more recent songs, in which he is singing about the his life nearing the end. If we're lucky, we all grow to an old age and Dylan has done so, but instead of hiding from it, he writes a song about it. Such a wonderful song. It's called 'Not Dark yet'. The live version is best, but whatever version you can air would be very cool. I think you'll like it.
Keep chugging through the massive collection of songs Dylan wrote. Going through in chronological order is a pretty good way to do it I will put in a plug for Slow Train Coming (1979) when you get around to it. This album follows Blood on the Tracks and is reflective of Bob’s conversion to evangelical Christianity. Many fans were put off by the change but critics recognized the good music, and I think Bob’s singing is top notch. I liked the bluesy songs “You Gotta Serve Somebody” and “ Slow Train”.
There are always lines and stanzas in his songs that are for you. There aren’t always the same ones, it depends on where and when you are in your life.
Few seem to consider the Hendrix album Cry Of Love, which was released 6 months after his death to be a legitimate studio release - but, although the material wasn't up to the level of the best of Electric Ladyland and Band of Gypsys, the album is definitely worth a listen. There's some good stuff on there. I have always thought that the party noise background of the song "My Friend" was inspired by Dylan's "Rainy Day Women...".
Great tune. I particularly love Jerry Garcia doing this... there is a nice video on UA-cam of the Dead doing it... Jerry in his latter days showing he still had a little bit of that magic left in the tank.
Dylan is my favorite singer. I say that knowing his whole catalog very well including the bootlegs. There's a lot of great insights from people on Google about Visions of Johanna and all other Dylan songs. I'm not going to bore you with my thesis.
"Visions" is my absolutely favorite Dylan tune by far, thanks for getting down to it! I think it was written sort of about his affair with Joan Baez? Btw, you should check out her music too.
Amazing songs! The first was a longtime favorite, but the ?random? poetry in Visions of Joanna puts even Subterranean Homesick Blues to shame. Great album! Thanks again Joel! You rock, Dylan rhymes, and L33 rants! ☮️❤️🎶
Say want you want about the Beatles , Paul Simon, the Stone's, etc, Nobody could do anything like what Dylan was doing, everyone was trying top top Blonde on Blonde, for me this most Poetic song ever, his phrasing and delivery just out of this world, Dylan sings off beat it work for him.
I love the whole album but Visions is probably my favourite track. This conjours up all that teenage angst I went through back then. I'm now a decrepit 73 year old who wonders where all that youth went. PS The incidental guitar in your left ear is Robbie Robertson of The Band.
Dylan was not a fan of overdubs. When bob decided he wanted horns producer Bob Johnston had to track down 2 players. He only found 1.session player Charlie McCoy said he could play bass and trumpterlt at the same time. According to Al Kooper. Bob kept laughing watching charlie do both so the turned Bob around so he couldnt see him
To me, "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" has always been ridiculous and "Visions of Johanna" has always been sublime...so this is going from the ridiculous to the sublime.
You don’t have to apologize for your tepid reaction to the first two sounds. I bought this album when it first came out (I’m 74), & have always considered them to be the weakest on the album, especially highlighted by the masterpiece that follows them.
salvation army band vibe...everybody must get stoned...bob always insisted that it wasnt about smoking weed, but about the book of acts in the bible where theybstoned people to death by throwing rocks/stones at them
Blonde On Blonde is my favorite Bob Dylan album...except I usually skip the first track. I simply can't take it seriously. It's as though they tried to be as sloppy as possible and succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
"The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face" is THE most psychedelic lyric ever written.
Absolutely.
“But Mona Lisa must’ve had the highway blues, you can tell by the way she smiles” is the coolest line ever
Been listening to Dylan for about 60 years and believe Visions of Johanna is the absolute zenith of his greatness. This is Dylan at his absolute best.
EGADS! It has been 60 years. How did that happen? Dylan still sounds as fresh as the first time I heard him. Me? Not so much. Dylan is great without trying.
I agree, and something I find very gratifying is that there seems to be quite a large consensus about it. It's just so powerful. It feels like he's communicating the intensity of a moment.
'The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face'. 'Inside the museums infinity goes up on trial', 'Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues, you can tell by the way she smiles". So many brilliant lines in just one song.
My "favorite" Dylan song changes often enough...but Visions of Johanna seems to occupy that space more often than others...
It was certainly my favorite song of all time in the summer of 1999.... memorable year for me.
this was always pure poetics, "ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet, we sit here stranded though while we're all doing our best to deny it". Indeed!
Listening to Visions of Johanna has kept me up past the dawn many times.
Fun fact: The line “Jewels and Binoculars Hang from the Head of the Mule” was paid a tribute to by The Stones in 1969 on the cover of their classic live album “Get Your Ya Ya’s Out.”
Super album❤
From his quirky funny bone to a deep sigh in Johanna Bob is timeless 🌹
You STILL pick all the best pieces of work from my day ('60's and '70's). And you do it at an amazing rate. To me, BTW, Visions and Desolation Row are both among Dylan's top five...maybe top TWO. Thank you.
I'd add Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again and Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands.
Love your Dylan videos. You said "Wasn't quite sure what he was getting at... just letting it take me wherever it took me..." Just wanted you to know you're 'doing it right,' according to Dylan. Two quotes from him: "The only important thing about a song is what it make you feel about your life." "I could tell you who Mr. Jones is to me but I mean we all have our own Mr. Jones." He never wanted anyone trying to solve his songs or figure out what *he* was getting at or feeling or 'meaning' when he wrote them: he was writing them for you to feel whatever you feel hearing them. Another quote you'll know as we all do: "How does it feel?" Love your stuff. Keep it up, man.
Rainy Day Woman seems like it was written and performed at a crazy party. Nobody checked it until the next day to see if it was a song
My favorite Dylan album. Double album, twice as much goodness.
From what I know of Dylan, for me personally, these albums are him at his best. I’m sure others will differ.
Picking a best Dylan album is pretty hard because he has released so much great stuff over the decades
I was always a 65/66 trilogy man myself, but Blood on The Tracks is up there...
....as if a foundation for future musicians/artists were established saying ''do something like this'' and add a little something of your own to it ...IMO
Mamma mia! What an album!❤
"Everybody Must get Stoned". What a better world it would be.
Thanks 💖 as always!
Thank you for watching! I appreciate it 🙏
Visions of Johanna always brings me back to when my sister lived in a loft on Mercer St. in SoHo in the early 1970s ("lights flicker from the opposite loft", "escapades out on the D train"). By the time I went to NYU in 1975, SoHo was already being priced out for artists with my sister moving to a loft on the Bowery, an unfinished basement on Broome St., and then a small office on 14th.
"Visions of Johanna" is as good as anything Dylan recorded. It's funny that Al Kooper showed up to the Highway 61 session as a guitar player hoping to sneak in, took one look at Mike Bloomfield, sat down at the organ - an instrument he didn't really play at the time - and proceeded to lay down the song's defining musical motif. Then he stuck around for the rest of the album, the England tour, and Blonde on Blonde, dominating them on his new instrument. Crazy.
Dylan's sense of humor on this album kills me.
Many people have Blood on the Tracks as his greatest album. Bob's voice is ten years older but the lyrics and storytelling is just as good as his mid 60's trilogy. It just depends on what floats your boat. I love all four albums but if I could only choose one... Highway 61 Revisited baby!
This song playing in an outdoor stadium in 1988 with 45,000 people singing along and stamping their feet, almost shut the city down lol
great tracks .. enjoyed this
Beautifully profound song
@@ArpiChatvideos I agree my friend. I always try to listen my best when Bob is speaking…. So much wisdom from a then young man
I was 12 when Rainy Day Women came out and I thought that I really must too!
The name album Blonde on Blonde is basically means "two" as in two vinyl records. They were kicking around names that meant two similar things like black on black, etc. from what I've read. This was the first double LP ever released.
You really should react to Dylans' more recent songs, in which he is singing about the his life nearing the end. If we're lucky, we all grow to an old age and Dylan has done so, but instead of hiding from it, he writes a song about it. Such a wonderful song. It's called 'Not Dark yet'. The live version is best, but whatever version you can air would be very cool. I think you'll like it.
Considered by some to be the best Bob Dylan album, and by some to be the best Rock and Roll album.
I love this.
Keep chugging through the massive collection of songs Dylan wrote. Going through in chronological order is a pretty good way to do it
I will put in a plug for Slow Train Coming (1979) when you get around to it. This album follows Blood on the Tracks and is reflective of Bob’s conversion to evangelical Christianity. Many fans were put off by the change but critics recognized the good music, and I think Bob’s singing is top notch. I liked the bluesy songs “You Gotta Serve Somebody” and “ Slow Train”.
There are always lines and stanzas in his songs that are for you. There aren’t always the same ones, it depends on where and when you are in your life.
Amazing song
Finally, getting to Blonde on Blonde 👍
@@JB-Deadskins glad we could do the whole “trilogy”. Bob is becoming one of my favorite artists period from this channel
My favorite song of all time.
I’m a huge Dylan fan and this is probably my favorite album by him.🤙🏽
Few seem to consider the Hendrix album Cry Of Love, which was released 6 months after his death to be a legitimate studio release - but, although the material wasn't up to the level of the best of Electric Ladyland and Band of Gypsys, the album is definitely worth a listen. There's some good stuff on there. I have always thought that the party noise background of the song "My Friend" was inspired by Dylan's "Rainy Day Women...".
Great tune. I particularly love Jerry Garcia doing this... there is a nice video on UA-cam of the Dead doing it... Jerry in his latter days showing he still had a little bit of that magic left in the tank.
Rainy Day Women was one he could have left off the album. Visions of Johanna is brilliant.
Agreed. Never understood why that track was so popular...but then again, I think I was the only person in the 60s and 70s who wasn't getting high.
Dylan is my favorite singer. I say that knowing his whole catalog very well including the bootlegs. There's a lot of great insights from people on Google about Visions of Johanna and all other Dylan songs. I'm not going to bore you with my thesis.
"Visions" is my absolutely favorite Dylan tune by far, thanks for getting down to it! I think it was written sort of about his affair with Joan Baez? Btw, you should check out her music too.
Amazing songs! The first was a longtime favorite, but the ?random? poetry in Visions of Joanna puts even Subterranean Homesick Blues to shame. Great album! Thanks again Joel! You rock, Dylan rhymes, and L33 rants! ☮️❤️🎶
No words needed; His Bobness rules. BTW, Rainy Day Women was what Keith Richards put on the stereo while the police busted him, Mick and Marianne.
I quite understand how Johanna blew the other two songs out of your mind.
Many considered "Visions of Johanna" his best until "Blood On the Tracks".
Say want you want about the Beatles , Paul Simon, the Stone's, etc, Nobody could do anything like what Dylan was doing, everyone was trying top top Blonde on Blonde, for me this most Poetic song ever, his phrasing and delivery just out of this world, Dylan sings off beat it work for him.
Rainy Day Women 12x35; the origin of the 4:20 weed break.
Recorded in Nashville.
I love the whole album but Visions is probably my favourite track. This conjours up all that teenage angst I went through back then. I'm now a decrepit 73 year old who wonders where all that youth went. PS The incidental guitar in your left ear is Robbie Robertson of The Band.
Wheeee! Thanks, Joel! :)
Love!!!!❤
Highway 61 is my favourite
Many people feel that’s the best album ever .
The Brown album that started the brown album meme
Rainy Day Women #12 and 35. 12×35 = 420.
Sara and Joan, Louise and the Madonna
Dylan was not a fan of overdubs. When bob decided he wanted horns producer Bob Johnston had to track down 2 players.
He only found 1.session player Charlie McCoy said he could play bass and trumpterlt at the same time.
According to Al Kooper. Bob kept laughing watching charlie do both so the turned Bob around so he couldnt see him
To me, "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" has always been ridiculous and "Visions of Johanna" has always been sublime...so this is going from the ridiculous to the sublime.
i swear, its psychadelic harmonica
When will you react to Blood on the tracks? The WHOLE album? 🙏🙏🙏
You don’t have to apologize for your tepid reaction to the first two sounds. I bought this album when it first came out (I’m 74), & have always considered them to be the weakest on the album, especially highlighted by the masterpiece that follows them.
salvation army band vibe...everybody must get stoned...bob always insisted that it wasnt about smoking weed, but about the book of acts in the bible where theybstoned people to death by throwing rocks/stones at them
Dylan was god in 1966.
Art is always a failure -- always falls short of that which one is attempting to attain.
Blonde On Blonde is my favorite Bob Dylan album...except I usually skip the first track. I simply can't take it seriously. It's as though they tried to be as sloppy as possible and succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.