WE HAD TO CHECK HIM OUT!.. | FIRST TIME HEARING Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone REACTION
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You guys! 1965!
He wrote this when he was about 24 and it’s so WISE and mature. Most songwriters can’t write something this profound until they’re much older.[EDIT:] … or EVER.
I'd say most songwriters can't write something this profound ever.
The '60s
This is the music that made the 60's so freaking cool.
No dude, early 60s... Bob Dylan is THE MOST important singer/songwriter of his generation (yes, that INCLUDES the Beatles and Stones). 😉😉😉
@@rookmaster7502 absolutely! But it’s like a song a grizzled 60-yr old would write
@@k.t.5405 dude! I don’t know what year the song was *written* but the record was released in July 1965, 10 days before I was born. 🤓😉
Dylan is a Mount Rushmore-level icon. Early 60s coffee house beatniks listened to folk music songs about politics and social issues while the leather clad gear heads had rock songs about girls and cars. Dylan brought those two worlds together. Hard to imagine there would have ever been hippies without Dylan songs like Blowin' in the Wind. Definitely not just another artist, he's a cultural landmark
Yes! And the more you learn about Dylan, the more you recognize his almost infinite songwriting genius and encyclopedic knowledge of American music. There will never be another like him. Hugely influential, as well.
And when people try to dissect Dylan's lyrics I think Bob is amused even if he pretends not to be. They're personal to him and he'll never talk. Having said that this song was supposedly about a New York City socialite that Dylan was in love with that got caught up in Andy Warhol and his strange circle. She became addicted to heroin and died young. Warhol is believed to be the Napoleon in rags referenced.
Totally agree Brian Wilson and Bob Dylan are on my Mount Rushmore but I've never figured out the other two.
@@nicknam8478 For me, Bob Dylan, Otis Redding, and Van Morrison would be 3 of them. Not sure about the 4th spot.
@C Summers And Leonard Cohen!
He sounds contemporary to you because this song is ageless. It's a masterpiece. Glad you are listening. :)
I am 71 years old & grew up listening to Bob Dylan. He was the voice of my generation. You could react to his songs only, three times a day & never get through his entire catalog. The word ''genius'' is thrown around a lot, but in his case it is spot on.
So so so agree. Brilliant songwriter. I love that I can be listening to something for the 1000th time and suddenly hear something I'd missed before. Some beautiful turn of lyric. So descriptive, painting picture in the lyrics of his songs, and he always breaks my heart.
I grew up listening to him as well because my parents were always playing his albums,mostly from the 60s.
Bob Dylan is one of the greatest poets.
This is a song from the sixties. Bob Dylan did indeed write his own songs. He is a true poet, and a recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature. He was a transformational cultural icon of the sixties. This is your best reaction ever, and you have not yet scratched the surface of Dylan's genius....so much more to discover.
And arrogant AF! Refused his Nobel Prize!
@@scegenius8751 No, he did not refuse it. He didn't attend the ceremony because of a prior commitment.
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That is not accurate.
@@scottsarahfreemansmith5293 I stand by my statement!
@@scegenius8751
Your statement is factually incorrect. 🤷♂️
This song came out in 1965. It was revolutionary because it was the first time Dylan performed with a backing rock and roll musicians, which the folk music crowd didn't appreciate at the time. Its often considered to be one of the top five rock songs of all time.
He wrote all his lyric and later in life received the Nobel prize for his body of lyrical writings. Greatest lyricist of all time.
Robert Zimmerman born in Minnesota, gravitated to the beatnick world of Greenwich village, nyc.and hooked 😊up with john sebastian and assorted later rock legends to morph into this huge star.
not better than Neil Peart
Bob Dylan's lyrics won him a Nobel prize, so yes he wrote his own songs.
@@emeraldcity_ No, he won the Nobel Prize in literature.
@@emeraldcity_ no, Nobel
@@Samhalta He won the Nobel Prize in Literature because of his lyrics, not because of a book he wrote. Go to the Nobel site and look up the Literature Prize for 2016 and you’ll see. His lyrics are considered poetry.
@@elkabong6429 I know. Never said he wrote a book either. You sure you got the right person?
@@Samhalta Never mind, I just realized you were replying to someone else’s post (@ emerald city) when I thought you were replying to someone else! Pardon me while I administer myself a dope slap!
"Like a Rolling Stone" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on July 20, 1965
Not only is Dylan a prolific songwriter, because his lyrics are poetry, he won a Nobel Prize in literature. EVERY other songwriter has practically worshipped Dylan. His lyrics flowed out so fast he said he really didn’t know where they came from. I first saw him in concert in 1965 or 66. Someone here said he’s a legend like Mt Rushmore. I agree. His greatness is almost beyond description.
I used to dance around the Kitchen with my Mother in 1969-70 to the music of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, Melanie Safka, Mama and The Papas and now the memories are so vivid with happy and warm feelings I remember even to the extent that I can remember the smells. But I can't remember what I did 5 minutes ago even up to 3 months ago, I am 57 and have been knocked unconscious over 50 times easily by my deceased stepfather who died at 53 of Leukemia but he would kick me in the head after he had already knocked me out plus I have had 6 serious head injuries pulling nerves of my retinas I hit the back of my head so hard with a bleed and bruising under my skull and my lower Mandible being smashed into 3 pieces from a Coward Punch/ king hit Woke in Hospital, I have started to shake very bad over the last 3 years and I am sure I am reverting back to becoming a baby, I stopped work in 2009 after the attack as its too dangerous to go back, I WAS a Heavy Industries Fitter Machinist and worked mainly on Bulk Carrier Ships that shipped Coal, Manganese and Alumina for Refineries around the world and I repaired Draglines in the mining industries open cut Coal Mines in Australia. I have lost around 1.8 million dollars in wages since 2009. The moral of the story ''' Protect Your Head''' I also played many years of Rugby and did Boxing for 14 years. 🥴🥴
Oh my...you are strangers to Bob Dylan and his historical significance as of the date of this reaction. The greatest rock and roll and folk poet. His influence was as big as that of The Beatles. A real artist who followed his own muse, his own direction, regardless of his fans desire to put him in a box and own him. Prolific. Take the Dylan trip. Love you both. Keep going!
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" is one of Dylan's early classics and is essentially rap from 56 years ago.
I love that!!
Significantly better than any other rap song.
And an awesome video
Indeed. Bob doin Rap decades earlier!!! "Subterranean Homesick Blues"
Dylan's music was nowhere near rap. His music actually has a melody, unlike rap.
According to Rolling Stone magazine, 2010, "Like a Rolling Stone" was ranked the #1 greatest song of all time.
Came her to post this
1965. I was in middle school, this song's lyrics are so cleverly expressed. Bob Dylan has been an icon for more than 60 years! ❤🌞👍
Dylan is a poet who also sang music. One of the greatest lyricist ever.
In the history of music, Bob Dylan is exceptionally important.
Very succinctly put!
Yep, he is the Mozart of popular nusic
FYI - Bob is playing guitar, singing, AND harmonica! He played guitar and harmonica at the same time by using a harmonica neck brace to hold it.
Yes. He was underrated as musician, being noted more for his songwriting. An excellent harmonica player- up there with John Sabastian, as well as a solid folk guitarist, not bad on rock and roll rhythm guitar later.
Like Neil young😎
Dylan IS the undisputed king of American Folk Music - period - and likely the greatest music lyricst of all time. Any poll of rock and roll historians, heck any music historian of any era, will place 'Like A Rolling Stone' as one of the greatest songs ever written. And many say the recording session that produced this recording was absolutely legendary. Great reaction to this extraordinary song.
Did he record it with The Band> I here the organ in the back and some subtle electric guitar rifts. It's definitely a full rock and roll sound behind his lyrics and acoustic guitar.
In many ways, you’ve arrived at the ‘root’ of rock music. 60s and 70s is when Dylan’s music first shook up everything. ✌️🎸
Actually, Dylan is someone who connects to many other roots much deeper....and his glory is that he adds to it. Through him, you can find hundreds of years of history....and a keen wit! Not only that, he's a romantic soul and he has a way with both words and melodies....and he is still on the road, as I write this, and even when he crosses that Jordan River, he will be a holy minstrel vagabond....
In 2016 Bob Dylon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
"The times they are a changin" is a classic from Dylan.
The song's brilliance is that, on the surface, it seems to be driven by condemnation, but it is one of liberation. "You're invisible now. You have no secrets to conceal."
Absolutely agree. I've always experienced it as a song of compassion and redemption. Genuinely asking (not contemptuously) how it feels. Giving space to the listener to experience this enormous transition in their life - losing everything. By the end, we find "invisible" isn't "forgotten." It's light - a luminous freedom. Hard truths and rebirth. (Yes I thought about this a lot lol. It's my favorite song.)
He killed the body, and then released the soul.
This was the song, not only a work of art in itself, but changed pop music: 1) extended play way past the traditional, typical 2.5 to 3 minutes; and 2) the song fit the words, not the other way around, the first time in pop words were that important. These effects were huge breakthrough at the time and influenced everything and everyone coming after. A watershed moment in music creativity. This was hugely discussed for years. So there were no predecessors for him in pop.
Perfect
Timeless artist, writer, poet. All decades are his. 60s were his best.
There's a reason he got a Nobel Prize in Literature.
Tangled up in blues
@Ysabela
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One of the most prolific songwriters of all time.
Prolific is the wrong way to refer to him, good songwriters all write countless songs, but Dylan is more than that. He is the finest performer on earth.
Bob Dylan is one of the greatest lyricist to ever live. So massively ahead of his time.
He broke through at the right Age. He helped define the Age. Respect.
He wasn’t ahead of his time, he was exactly were he was meant to be in time.
Bob Dylan was like no other - his poetic songwriting and delivery were never matched by any other. To hear Dylan's best check out Blood on the Tracks, any song is mind-blowing.
Good suggestion. "Shelter from the Storm" is peak Dylan. It doesn't get much better than that.
Bob Dylan started in the early 60s and influenced everybody from The Beatles to The Byrds to The Grateful Dead. Many people consider him the greatest songwriter of all time. Other great songs by him are Shelter From The Storm Forever Young Tangled Up In Blue Lay Lady Lay and there's a bunch more. You could also listen to Jimi Hendrix doing an amazing cover of Bob Dylans song All Along The Watchtower
I heard a story a while back (not sure how true it is) that Jimi Hendrix would spend hours listening to Bob Dylan albums and bug his girlfriend saying , “Did you just hear what he said?”
Pretty cool 😎
Definitely All Along the Watchtower. Dylan is the poet laureate of my generation.
Even Dylan admitted Jimi's version of All Along the Watchtower was better than his original. An Absolute must listen!
Jimi played a great version of this song too. Debuted it at Monterey Pop. Played it live a bunch of times.
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Dylan was much more influenced by the Beatles than they by him. As he himself said : the first time I heard the Beatles , I knew straight away everything was different.
Bob won a Nobel for poetry, yes he wrote his own
This song is consistently listed in the top 10 songs of all time, as number one oftentimes, it's brilliant poetry and an example of why we received the Nobel Prize.
Try Visions of Joanna
The greatest songwriter ever ! He wrote blowing in the wind in 10 min ! An absolute genius !!
Hey if going to hell is worth oh well!
He donated a lot of his notebooks and original items to Tulsa, where there will be a official opening of the Bob Dylan Center next year. It will be worth the trip since you live in the Sooner State!
I didn’t know that, very cool
Don't forget to visit The Woody Guthrie Center, also in Tulsa, while you're there.
I like the Tulsa comments, I live here and just saw Elivis Costello at the famous Cain’s Ballroom on May 7th, 2022. Elvis was in town to perform and attend the grand opening of the Bob Dylan Center which opened on the 10th. I never was a big Dylan fan, but I will definitely be paying a visit to his center. Tulsa ain’t just cowboys and Indians lol….Okie transplant from Cali
Others have given you good suggestions for Dylan songs, but I would recommend The Times They Are A+Changing. Dylan was influential in the Civil Rights movement and this song really captured the feeling that we had back in the day when young people were demanding rights for everyone and the end of the war in Vietnam. I guarantee that you will be blown away by his eloquence.
Plus The Ballad of Emmett Till!
Dylan was THE original who inspired generations of song writers. Period.
While EVERYONE has covered that song, the one that stands out is Richie Havens' version. It was featured on The West Wing (Season 4 Episode 7 "Election Night"). Havens has a raspy delivery full of experience and meaning. It is slower than usual so he is able to express his feelings in every word. I can't help but feel the pain in his voice but also be hopeful at the same time.
+1 Times They Are A Changin'.
Excellent suggestion!
Dylan is as iconic as it gets. He's beyond iconic. Yes, he does write his own lyrics, and was recently awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his lyrics.
I heard this song for the first time ever in my late teen years and fell in love with his voice ! I'm 41 today and still love that voice ❤️❤️❤️. We no longer hear music like this nowadays. It's a shame ! 😢
Dylan is considered The Greatest American Songwriter. He's influenced everyone. Everything he's written is good. But 1 of my favorites is Blowing in the Wind.
Bob Dylan won the Nobel prize in literature (for his songwriting) 2016. Any of his songs were written in the '60s but he came back in the 90s with the The Traveling Wilburys (Tom Pleaseetty, George Harrison, and Roy Orbison).
You can remove 'American' in my opinion. He is the Greatest Songwriter full stop. Not just American.
@@daggarcia everyone seems to forget poor old Jeff Lynne from ELO when they talk about the Wilburies
@@daggarcia 70s Dylan is some of the best. 80s even growing on me
@@stevenbeilken2241 The greatest poet of the 20th century.
The reason it sounds timeless is that this song influenced every rock song and rock group to come. Dylan plugged in for the first time, playing electric guitar, leaving folk behind. Many, many more great Dylan tunes here are some of my faves I encourage you to slowly explore: Mr. Tambourine Man, Desolation Row, Ballad of a Thin Man, Stuck inside of Mobile....., Lay Lady Lay, Tangled Up in Blue, Simple Twist of Fate, It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), Shelter from the Storm, Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest and last but not least Hurricane
Don't forget "Master's of War"
And he was roundly booed when he first plugged in.
From 'Like a Rolling Stone' to the Rolling Stones? Yeah, I'd say quite influential
Hey, you left out his "Positively 4th Street" and "Knocking on Heaven's Door" - two of his biggest hits.
Those are all my favorites
I am so glad you listened to this. Yes, Bob Dylan "wrote his own lyrics." He won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his decades of accumulated song lyrics, actually. This song is from 1965, when Bob Dylan was 24 years old. It is said be about a friend of his, a wealthy young woman named Edie Sedgwick who became an actress and superstar fashion model. She popularized mini-skirts, mini-dresses, and black leotards with black tights; wore heavy eye makeup, and bleached her hair silver. She had a troubled psychiatric history (as did other members of her family), suffered from anorexia, and was addicted to drugs and alcohol. Also in 1965, she starred in Andy Warhol's avant-garde film, "Poor Little Rich Girl," and there was a general feeling among her friends and fans that she was doomed. She died in 1971, about 6 years after this song was released, of an overdose of alcohol and barbiturates. She was 28 years old.
This song is NOT about Edie Sedgwick!
@@barbaralovenvirth8726 I too had always thought this song to be about Edie Sedgwick. I would be very interested to learn its actual inspiration.
I love how Joan Baez and Bob Dylan sing one another's songs. They were a Formidable Team writing Music together and trying to make the world a cleaner and safer world for Man, Animals and the Planet Itself.
It is a gift to be able to love all kinds of music. If you love music, you will never be bored.❤
in 1965 everyone was still singing "Baby baby oh baby"......Bob was writing and singing "Like a Rolling Stone".....simple as that
This may be the most important song in the history of rock music. In an era of 2-3 minute radio songs, this actually got radio airplay. I seen the summer between my freshman and sophomore years in high school listening to this on the beach in my hometown of Ashtabula, Ohio, on the shores of Lake Erie. Fond memories.
@heidi shafer been to Painedville many times as well.
Blowin in the wind edges it for me. So important. None of these tracks, no Springsteen for starters ....
Shoutout to Ashtabula! Bob even namechecks your town in You're Going to Make Me Lonesome When You Go. Cleveland guy here.
Love Ashtabula! I've spent many a summer in NE Ohio at the beach! (GOTL!) You know, of course, that Dylan mentioned Astabula in one of his songs...."You're gonna make me lonesome when you go." (BTW, Miley Cyrus does a great version of this song!) 😅
This song was released in 65’ btw. You should do “Blowin’ In The Wind” and “Mr Tambourine Man”.
If you do Mr Tambourine man, follow it with Meet me on the Corner by Lindisfarne, that was inspired by Tambourine man.
I love this fresh reaction from people who have never heard him before. Interesting that you thought he was more modern. Keep listening to everything. Finding amazing artists you haven't heard before is great!
"Lay Lady Lay" and "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" are two other outstanding Bob Dylan songs. Definitely worth checking out.
Yes!
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" is another Bob Dylan tune ahead of its time; and the video is timeless.
I'm adding another vote for "Tangled Up In Blue" for a future Dylan take; it's a truly amazing song lyrically and musically.
Dylan was writing in the 60s and is still writing in 2024. Most incredible poet song writer.
Dylan is a Poet Laureate and won the Nobel Prize in Literature about 5 years ago. He was the first musician to ever have won the Nobel Prize. My favorite song of his is Lay Lady Lay from the 60s. As mentioned already, he wrote over 600 songs. That's him on the harmonica.
This is off of Dylan’s sixth album which was released in 1965. His thirty-ninth studio album was released in June of 2020. He turned eighty years old in May of this year.
To say he is a musical giant is a vast understatement. The depth of his importance and influence in multiple genres can not be overstated.
Decades of greatness.
And it's a testament to Dylan's influence on the modern singer-songwriting community that Freewheelin' *ought* to be considered as one of the greatest debut albums ever, as that's the first true Dylan-written album, coming after the first eponymous album, filled mostly with folk covers. An industry expectation at the time, which Dylan largely helped break.
YES!!! Bob Dylan is an iconic singer-songwriter that has ever graced this planet. Talk about going down a rabbit hole!
Vicki so true a rabbit whole they may not get out of.
Down a rabbit hole .... into a wonderland!
Something that is often missed about this record is that each Chorus or "Hook" as it is often referred to these days is different. It's not over produced or dubbed so that each one sounds the same. It's a lot like a live recording that is actually the cut that was put on the album.
One of the best songs ever written.
“This sounds new”. Holy cow, I laughed so hard.
Just shows how influential he was!
Early early 60s. Best generation
“I don’t know if he wrote his own songs.” ;)
Never too late to learn the Bob Dylan story.
Funny, yet true.
@@Johnno010 he wrote his own songs, the only exception was the very folk.songd.
‘Blowing in the wind’ one of his best. Definitely a different voice. Songwriter elite for a generation. Folk, pop.
Try Peter Paul and Mary ‘don’t think twice’, ‘I dig rock no’ roll music’ , ‘Stewball’
When Bob Dylan came on in the early 60's we had never heard anything like him!! He's Iconic!! Wrote his songs played harmonica. Had tons of hits!!
Play Lay Lady Lay!!
Dylan is the greatest songwriter/poet of my 62 years. This is -according to Rolling Stone magazine-the greatest rock song ever!
And the dude just turned 80 and is still writing amazing lyrics….
You just discovered another legend! Other songs you gotta hear… “Make you feel my love,” “blowin’ in the wind,” “the times they are a changin’,” “forever young,” “knockin’ on heavens door,” (Guns n roses covered it) “like a rolling stone,” so many great songs. Also he has some well known Christian songs too (and he’s Jewish) like, “saved,” “slow train coming,” and “gotta serve somebody.” Absolute lyrical genius. Can’t go wrong with Dylan!
along the watchtower!
...and ofcourse: Just Like A Woman'..........
Bob converted to Christianity in the late 70s, but several years later seemed to become somewhat disillusioned with it.
I love Hurricane! Its like a movie playing out in a song. Not to mention the message behind it
Tangled Up in Blue, Don’t Think Twice, just beautiful, direct, imagistic lyrics that stick in your mind like glue.
He is an original to say the least and HUGELY influential.
Jay and Amber.........you have now entered the real world.......welcome! Your kids will still be listening to this in their old age!
Bob Dylan was called The Bard of Greenwich Village, because that is where he used to sing in coffee shops. I was there, but I was just a kid at the time, and I don't recall having seen him. He was the voice of a generation, he was wonderful. Jimmy Hendricks made a huge hit of "The Watchtower", Bob Dylan wrote it and performed it. One of my favorite songs of his was "Don't think twice, it's all right".
Dylan's 'Its Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding', also from 1965, will challenge every you thought you knew about music. Arguably the first 'rap' song.
One of the best songwriters, a Nobel laureate and a poet. Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Kris Kristofferson, Gordon Lightfoot, Cat Stevens, Leonard Cohen, among others - poets all of them.
How do you not put John Lennon Paul McCartney in the mix you serious?
Bob Dylan has said when he hears a Gordon lightfoot song he wishes it would go on forever. Also bob and Leonard Cohen formed a mutual admiration society and often spoke. Cohen wrote come healing among many other great songs.
@@billhill4929 I wrote “among others” and meant to capture people that may be under-appreciated and focusing more on singer songwriters. I think/hope most of the world knows the Lennon/McCartney awesomeness. For storytelling poetic artistry I would put Joni first (lyrics and chord changes/composition together with a beautiful voice) with Dylan second but The Beatles are my number 1 band. I also missed Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Jim Croce, Dolly Parton, Don McLean, John Denver....
@@kpodonnell7924 Ahem
John Prine
@@rittherugger160 Absolutely - that is why I wrote “among others”.
The day this was released here in the UK, a friend 'obtained' it from the record shop and we spent hours listening to it. Over and over and it is seared into my memory. I was 14 and this was completely different from anything we had heard before. Everything - lyrics, voice, accompaniment and arrangement - was just mind blowing. A genius.
Dylan is my all time favorite artist. And this song is a masterpiece of his, among many masterpieces. But I also want to give a shout out to the iconic sound of Al Kooper’s organ on this song. I love listening to him talk about how he talked his way into playing the organ on this song without having had much experience with the instrument prior to that. Kooper went on to play on the Rolling Stones famous song, You Can’t Always Get What You Want, where he played the haunting French Horn.
Great book by Al Kooper, Back Stage Passes and Back Stabbing Bastards.
Sad and brilliant song about the late Edie Sedgwick. She was born rich, raised in an extremely controlled and unhealthy way by a distant and disturbed father, who kept her in and out of mental institutions for her eating disorders for many years. When she finally went out on her own, she hooked up with artist Andy Warhol, also not a healthy individual, and became a model. When they parted ways, she moved into the building Bob Dylan was living in and became part of the crowd that accumulated around him. By now she had a bad drug habit. She moved back home to California, went into rehab, got clean, and married a man she met in rehab. When she was injured, a doctor prescribed pain medication, she began using drugs and alcohol again and died of an overdose at age 28. She never truly had an anchor.
Bob Dylan received a Nobel Prize for literature for his song lyrics. He's a genius at writing. This is widely agreed to be the best rock song ever written. You should listen to Hard Rain's Gonna Fall. The imagery will make your eyes pop out.
Beautifully written and summarized! I do think sometimes no one remembers that this song is about Edie and her relationship with Warhol. Warhol used her connections and talents and then threw her away. Dylan hated the Warhol scene and saw him for what he was... An exploiter. He wrote two other songs about her as well... A muse till the end.
I never knew this.....thanks for the commentary
I didn't have a clue. Thank you.
Story is Bob got her pregnant and she aborted secretly. That was screwed up her mind. I don't know if all that has ever been verified.
I’ve heard it’s about Brian Jones. “Threw the buns a dime in your prime”(Jagger and Richards)
Great song, like so many others of his. Try tangled up in Blue next. Dylan was a 60's -70's guy. Didn't care much for him until I got a little older, but now I really enjoy his music.
Tangled Up In Blue
I loved his music from the very beginning!
My high school days. 1966 or 67. Thank you for playing this wonderful song.
He was 60's folk singer. I was privileged to see him a couple of times live.
Dylan recently won Nobel Prize for his song writing and being the poet of a generation. Hes 70's now. So many have covered his music...Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower, Kenny Wayne Shepherd's Everything is Broken, SRV's Voodoo Chile and more. Dylan is our Fount of the 1960's rebellion.
He turned 80 this year…..
There's one cover that rarely gets mentioned but it's my all time favorite: Nina Simone's rendition of the Ballad of Hollis Brown. It leaves me with a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye no matter how often I hear it. ua-cam.com/video/Sdtap2qU8Zk/v-deo.html
@@mrjules1982 and The Neville Brothers cover of Hollis Brown with Aaron Neville singing.
Pretty sure VooDoo Chile was written by Jimi Hendrix...
@@vrvaughn Yes that's not a Dylan song. However, she can add The Byrds' "Mr. Tambourine" to her list.
This song defines rock and roll music by one of it s most influential writers of all time . This is as iconic and creative a song as there ever was in defining the mid 60 s. A 1965 hit btw. Bob Dylan remains a living legacy who has shaped and influenced musicians in past and future decades to come.
I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Bob Dylan fan. I was listening to this album in 1964, when I was 20 years old and the song was new. This song is my very favorite Bob Dylan song. Thank you for reacting to this award-winning poet/ song-writer and performer. So much of what he produced was not only socially significant, but prophetic.
This song is from the 60s. From the album Highway 61 revisited. One of the greatest albums of all time
"The snare drum that opens this song feels like someone kicked open the door to your mind." The greatest songwriter of the post-1955 era.
Bob has so many great songs. Don't think twice it's alright, It ain't me Babe, Blowing in the wind, Knocking on heaven's door. He won a Nobel prize a couple of years ago
Bob Dylan, Music Legend and later Member of the short lived Super Group 'The Travelling Wilburys' with Tom Petty, George Harrison (Beatles), Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne (ELO). 'Handle With Care' and 'End of the Line' are two of their great hits. Check them out when you get a chance. Legend Roy Orbison sadly passed away just before they made the music video to 'End of the Line' on a train and you can see Roy's empty chair rocking and his photo in this very moving video clip of this wonderful song.
This song was a huge transition for Dylan. It was basically the first time Dylan went Electric. If I remember the story right, he participated in a famous Folk music festival every year called the Newport Folk Festival. He was pretty much the star attraction every year with him and his acoustic guitar. When he showed up to the Newport festival with a band and played this, the crowd Booed him.
Rolling Stone named this song the greatest rock song of the 20th century.
Dylan started in the 60s, this is kind of sixties folk. He went through many styles. He is probably the greatest poet/storyteller of the 60s-90s. You should sample some of his later stuff too. Bob Dylan has been awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature. Only rock singer ever to get such recognition. I would say that Bob Dylan and The Beatles are the two most important pop artists of their era.
Agreed and his advice to the Beatles caused them to write deeper lyrics. I'm a Loser was Lennon's response to his advice.
Or even any era in the history of recorded music. That's just how good they were/are.
This was his first electric foray into rock.
You sort have already reacted to him. The Traveling Wilburys. Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty (from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), George Harrison (from the Beatles) and Jeff Lynne (from ELO). The ultimate power band. Dylan has written 1000s of songs. He started in the 60s. He has played with many famous people.
Handle With Care is one of my favorite songs. 👍
You should react to Bob's song with the Traveling Wilburys, "Tweeter and the Monkey Man". But pay close attention, it's quite a story. I think they considered making a movie out of it.
And for female Friday, I'd once again like to request "Diamonds and Rust" by Joan Baez, which is about her relationship with Mr. Dylan.
@@bethcrumpton476 Fantastic album all around, but the Dylan songs are my favorites. As you mentioned Tweeter and the Monkey Man, Congratulations, and Dirty World.
So gratifying to watch you two respond to this great music. Proves Dylan’s timelessness.
OMG you crack me up. We are talking 1965! Shows how timeless Dylan is. I met him in the eighties when he came backstage at a Clash show and I too was backstage. He is an enigma. A trailblazer. He is everything. Listen to Positively 4th Street. It is so cutting. It is friendship gone bad, expressed beautifully.
Oh holy cow - now you've gone and done it lol! This man was EVERYTHING in the 60's.
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Yes. That is a correct summation.
The Legendary Bob Dylan, who's talent can only be held in awe, with probably one of the best songs ever written.
Wow 58 years old this song is now but like you guys said it sounds timeless Dylan is an American treasure.
Bob Dylan won a Nobel Prize for his sings under Literature!!!
He wrote all his songs.
FINALLY!!! He’s always referenced as one of the, if not, best songwriters of our time. You should listen to Joan Baez’s “Diamonds and Rust” which is said to be written about her relationship with him.
Rumour has it that this song is about Joan Baez after their breakip
I always heard it was about Edie Sedgwick. I love Bob! And the Joan Baez song is hauntingly beautiful.
And just for you, try the Judas Priest cover!
And the amazing Judas Priest cover of Diamonds and Rust too!
Joan Baez definitely a Friday Female. This is 1960s he has a career lasting decades he’s in his early 80’s
OMG! Generally regarded as among the best and most influential songwriters of all time!
Dylan is the greatest songwriter of the last 100+ years, hands down. His catalog of songs is equal to no one else, and when you add songs that he wrote that others made more popular, it’s a staggering list.
Favorite ARTIST ever his lyrics are on par with the greatest paintings movies and any other form of art....he is a national treasure that doesn't want to be a national treasure.....his music definitely shaped the way I view the world
"Blowin in the Wind" and "The Times They are a Changin" are just 2 more timeless classics. Dylan should be required listening for every generation.
I wouldn't be surprised if it
already is in some places.
If only to teach our children how to endure horrible singing and proclaim Dylan to be a genius.
@@Yesquire0
Ok, Dylan's voice isn't pristine
& polished, but then, neither is life
& that's what Dylan's music is about.
I think his voice fits many of his
songs (especially the early ones)
perfectly. You're not going to hear
that kind of raw expression
from, say, the bland, empty voice
of Celine Dion or Michael Bolton.
@@laustcawz2089 I've always loved the "In Living Color" skit where a young Jim Carrey mimics Bolton singing a note so high, so strong, and so stretched it out so long, his head exploded.
Dylan is a great songwriter. When you start out as a folkie, playing and singing your songs is the norm for that genre, and Dylan followed suit. Loving a singer is mostly a matter of taste, so its not worth arguing about. Dylan's voice, IMHO, stinks and detracts greatly from the performance of his songs. They make me hit another button on my car radio whenever I hear the first note of any of them. I've never understood the adoration he's given by a segment of the music-listening community. Once he went electric, he should have formed a band and let a real singer front the band and sing his songs, but I think I've heard he's a bit of a loner.
@@Yesquire0
Dylan definitely gives off
the loner vibe. It seems really
wrong, somehow, for there to be
a band that includes Dylan
& performs his songs without
him being the singer. I guess
the closest we got to that was
The Traveling Wilburys. I do agree
that some of his songs are done
better by others (The Byrds'
"Mr. Tambourine Man", Hendrix's
"All Along The Watchtower", Bernadette Peters' "I'll Be Your
Baby Tonight" & Manfred Mann's
"The Mighty Quinn"), but seriously,
I cannot imagine (not would I want
to imagine) anyone else singing
"Positively 4th Street",
"Subterranean Homesick Blues",
"Ballad Of A Thin Man",
"Like A Rolling Stone",
or one of his latest songs,
"False Prophet".
Don't know/remember
that Jim Carrey sketch,
but I did watch that show
sometimes. That's gotta go
down in history as one
of Carrey's funniest moments!!
Yet another iconic voice from the We Are The World video!
So, 57 years on from from its release, you've first listened to what may be the greatest rock song ever written. As you said, as relevant now as then. Everything comes together - voice, lyrics, music, energy and emotion.
I love you guys!!!!
this is generally considered one of the 10 most important songs in "rock" history... definitely the greatest song from the "folk rock" genre...
Bob started as a folk musician in The village in New York City back in the very early 60s. The Band was his touring backup band for many years before they went out on there own.
Dylan's music/poetry is a rabbit hole you will LOVE getting lost in.
Released 1965. Dylan was a poet who put words to music. Originally a folk artist, he plugged his harmonica & guitar into the nearest outlet & became a rock legend or a folk traitor.
Greatest songwriter ever !! Hands down !! He turned his poetry into music ! An absolute genius
60s to 70s. As much a poet as a songwriter. Dylan is a super influential artist and so often misunderstood. Thanks for reacting to this legend.
Wow, you two have really dropped down the rabbit hole now! I'm glad that Amber likes his voice because as brilliant as Bob's songs are, most people are turned off by his singing. Now that you're fans, please check out these songs... "Tangled Up In Blue", "Chimes of Freedom", "The TImes Are A-Changin", "Lay Lady Lay", "Visions of Johanna", "Hurricane", "Girl From the North Country", "Ballad of a Thin Man(Live)", "One More Cup of Coffee", "Romance In Durango", "Solid Rock", "Most Likely You Go Your Way(And I Go Mine)", "Blind Willie McTell", "Love Sick", "Emotionally Yours", "Jokerman", "Mr. Tamborine Man", "Blowin' In The Wind", "Queen Jane Approximately", "Gotta Serve Somebody", "Subterranean Homesick Blues", "Standing In the Doorway", "Nettie Moore", "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall", "Mississippi", "Masters of War", "Man In The Long Black Coat", "Knockin' On Heaven's Door", "Not Dark Yet", "Oh Sister" etc. He has too many great songs to name!
If he were a modern day artist his voice would be autotuned and sound truly awful, utterly devoid of human quality, his Bobness was never the greatest singer but his phrasing is just fantastic.
Considered at one time the #1 song of all time according to Rolling Stone magazine.
Dylan is the voice of his generation. "The Times They are a Changin'" captures what the 60s were all about as well as any song from the era.