THE LYRICS! TALK ABOUT THOUGHT-PROVOKING! First Time Hearing Bob Dylan - It's Alright, Ma Reaction!
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- Embark on a journey into the depths of lyrical genius with us as we react to Bob Dylan's "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" for the first time! Known for his profound and thought-provoking lyrics, we're eager to dive into this track and uncover the layers of meaning Dylan is celebrated for.
🎸 About Bob Dylan: A legend in the world of music, Bob Dylan is renowned for his poetic songwriting and influential sound that has shaped generations. "It's Alright, Ma" is particularly known for its deep, reflective lyrics and Dylan's unique delivery.
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How on earth did a 23 year old kid write this kind of poetry with such wisdom of life? It's mind-blowing.
My thoughts on many of these young artists. How did they know things it took me deep into adulthood to understand?
@@will8573 Don’t take offense. Of course he’s a man at 23. The remarkable part is a 23 year old realizing things most people don’t see until they are in their 40s or 50s. That’s what makes some of these poets so special.
You're not gonna get it all in the first listen, but you catch more and more every time you hear this song. It's actually pretty amazing.
This song… It’s brilliant, but there is so much to take in. It takes several listens to begin to catch the whole sprawling picture. I can’t tell if he worked on this for months or if it just presented itself and he was writing as fast as he could to catch it before it faded. To me, this is the heart of Dylan’s legend.
It is said it took 4-6 months. Recorded in full on the second take. He was half channeling. It is one of his own favorite songs.
To me it’s a suitcase version of the rules for life.
You know the wave of creativity.
What did he leave out, fuck all I can think of.
"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and l'll die like a poet." ~~~Bob Dylan
...and so does the Nobel prize people, Bob.💖💖
Where did he said that, specifically? I thought he was "more of a song-and-dance man".
or how about ''what career ? I've never had a career'' when he was asked about one ....LOL@@brunosm.l2267
@@brunosm.l2267 He was joking about the song and dance man. This quote about being a poet...I don't have any idea where he said it, but it's on many pages of his quotations.
@@HelynnHeels he was kinda joking, but I never heard he said anything like you put either, that's why I asked. "Pages of quotes" are not the best primary sorce ever let's put it that way xD
@@brunosm.l2267 None of the quotes put him in a specific place where he said them. He was absolutely joking about the song and dance man thing. But you go your way and I'll go mine.
When this song and album first came out it hit everyone like a bomb -- nothing like it before -- or since, unless you count the rest of Dylan's work. His writing and playing were life-changing for many of us.
I am amazed at Bob Dylans lyrical abilities, which are the very top, but how does he remember it all? WoW!
Bob Dylan was dropping bars before people even thought of hip hop
Yeah, before he even invented it.
When it comes to lyrics, there's Dylan then everybody else,
I’ve been listening to this song over many decades…I’m still finding new meanings…. That’s art.
As a child of the sixties, I pored over all the lyrics in Dylan's albums and the beauty is that as you age, the more profound songs, such as this, speak differently to you with
the passing of time. That I think is the genius of Dylan, that no one else gets close to
His phrasing and delivery is insane
I have always taken that line about the president standing naked as a poetic reference to "The emperor wears no clothes".
You're probably right. Unfortunately it made me picture LBJ naked
I'm thinking Nixon and Watergate which was going on at the time ...but it applies to any king or head of state or power . imho.
@@robertwoods3750 This was much earlier, Watergate was still around 6 years away. The president was LBJ
thanks , glad to know his reference was much more inclusive . as in all leaders , are there really farting frogs in africa?.@@africanfartingfrog
You could almost do a thesis just on this song. You've definitely dived in at the deep end here guys.
I've watched a few reactors listen to Dylan songs, stopping every few bars to give their analysis - draw diagrams and pull up references to Greek philosophers - Jeez!!!
How about we afford this poet a little poetic license? I think a lot of Bob Dylan's lines are best experienced just as waves washing over you.
I love seeing those smiles break out at the end of some of these images and concepts.
Glad you're having fun.
No worries guys Ive heard it a couple hundred times and still working on the meanings. The beauty of great poetry.
Wish you had watched his live performance of this - it's in black and white, with close focus on his face. Mesmerizing. It's floating around the internet. I've long thought that if this was the only song he'd ever written, it would warrant the Nobel Prize in Literature that he was granted in 2016.
Dylan was the Shakespeare of our generation. I've seen him a few time, the last was in 2004 with Willie Nelson. At the end of his performance, he didn't say a word, he just stood at the edge of the stage and stared at everyone. Jim
Dylan's lyrics are usually pretty striking and/or mercurial. Visions of Johanna is another one with some very poetic lines in there.
ooh I 2nd Visions of Johanna!
An ambitious choice for just your third Dylan, but I applaud that. This is a dense work. It's like trying to read James Joyce "Ulysses" or something. Probably should be rated within his top three or four as a lyrical achievement. I could say this might be the greatest song ever written if we were just basing that on lyrics. (I should temper that by saying there are probably another hundred songs I might say that about on any given day.) At least 75% of this is just gonna pass you by on a first listen. Just let it flow, and certain particularly strong lines will hit you without trying, usually the last one in a verse: "That he not busy being born is busy dying"...It’s easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred"..."But even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked"..."Propaganda, all is phony"...(Just a warning: this is not a song to listen to for reassurance. It's a pretty bleak view of the nature of existence. I suppose there is some solace in just hearing there was one guy who wasn't afraid to say it out loud...And then maybe don't dwell on it too much, heh...) It really is one of those songs that you can go back to over and over and hear something new, even years later. It's stark, a very traditional folk structure, maybe owing a little to "In My Time of Dying", which he covered on his first album. The focus is clearly on the words. Another one in this vein worth tackling later is "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall". The name Dylan was often said to have been inspired by the poet Dylan Thomas, but I don't know if that was true or if Bob ever told that story...
Great comment, Jonathan. We used to sit around and listen to Bob almost as if it was an event... a happening. We didn't really understand all, or most, but his music, playing and lyrics connected us to life unlike any other artist. Other folk groups / artists were influential, too, like (later on) Joni Mitchell, to name one. But after these seances, we'd always go back to the great RnR that was being created in the early sixties -- and for me, who was playing and performing it.
What have you seen my blue eyed son…
American existence. He said much later, older, that most of his songs dealt with his relationship to America,
Some of his most memorable quotes. One from this song. “ he not busy being born is busy dying” and “ money doesn’t talk it swears”
I'd love to see you guys do "Subterranean Homesick Blue". It's short, but intense.
Great-can't get enough Dylan-Thank You for reacting Brian Birch
This song came out in 1965 and was a harsh look at the world and the conformity of the 1950's. The Beatles had broken the dam of non-conformity and Dylan is the water rushing down with this song. No airplay since it was over 3 minutes long, but many of those who heard it picked up the cry. Nearly 60 years later and it still rings true on every level.
You mention airplay time, in the U.K. in the sixties, there was very little Dylan on radio, except maybe his shorter well known songs, Like A Rolling Stone may have been
his breakthrough song, but I cannot remember if that got full plays or a cut version
The Beatles were the epitome of conformity. They, and the first wave of the British Invasion, were like a mild salve, particularly after the JFK assassination. A non-threatening reflection of American music. The second wave, with the Stones were far less conformist. The Beatles didn't jump on that train until after Dylan had taught them to grow up lyrically.
@@Hexon66 and turned them on
Just this one song was enough to justify his Noble Prize in Literature.
Thanks for reacting to Dylan, keep it going...
“The lyrics of "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" express Dylan's anger at what he sees as the hypocrisy, commercialism, consumerism, and war mentality inherent in contemporary American culture, but unlike those in his earlier protest songs, do not express optimism in the possibility of political solutions.” From Wikipedia
Ya sure?
Wikipedia is wrong about a lot of things , if you need to know about these lyrics read bob’s answer
@@terryhall7697 Then fucking throw it out if you have it. I don’t have it in front of me of me. I could have put this up www.keesdegraaf.com/media/Misc/9578itsalrightmaimonlybleedingfullversion.pdf. A lot deeper. Dylan can be pretty evasive about his work but if you have something definitive then share dude. I don’t have Bobs phone number anymore….
@@heavenlysonshine Am I sure…it’s a quote off of Wikipedia for christs sake. I didn’t call Bob up but if you got a quote from him put it out.
Dylan made this album and Highway 61 revisited in the same year. Those albums include: Subterranean Homesick Blues, Mr. Tambourine Man, this song, It's All Over Now Baby Blue, Like A Rolling Stone, Ballad of a Thin Man, Highway 61 Revisited and Desolation Row. Today's artists don't even put out two albums in 5 years let alone any decent songs. Dylan was just on fire in 1965.
I really enjoyed this reaction. Grey matter fully engaged. Deep Dylan is the deepest dive. Come back to the surface, take a breath and dive back in. There is so much to his catalogue. I've been listening to him for over 50 years. One lifetime doesn't seem long enough to grasp all that he had to say.
Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for literature for his writing and delivery of the songs over a multitude of decades! The first singer-songwriter to win the Nobel Prize and voted unanimously by the Nobel Committee in Sweden! He might have an idea what he's doing
Dylan said, people try and figure out what his songs mean and he has no idea himself. Do you have a Noble prize!?7
Robert Zimmerman AKA Bob Dylan is quite probably the best lyricist that America has ever had.
Bob Dylan is a one off, unique, irreplaceable, the likes of whom we will never see again, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, he has influenced almost everyone since early 1960's ... huge canon of work to get through
One of the memorable reactions was on the Sopranos, where AJ and his GF listen and discuss the song while his SUV slowly catches fire and blows up.
Years ago I heard someone describe Dylan as someone who does arithmetic using words, To me this song can interpreted succinctly like this: "It's life and life only"
"Positively 4th Street" is a great song of his. You will love the lyrics and they are easy to understand...lol
Definitely takes multiple listenings, and honestly I've heard this over and over although not heavily but many times over my lifetime, and every time, including just now during this reaction, I noticed new things or different nuances about things that I really hadn't thought about before.
I think that line about having nothing to look up to is consistent with the message where he's crying out for help because the older generation was telling everyone you've got to have role models but since he has started to perceive everything as just basically bulshit, he's kind of crying out about he has no role models, at least none that he's willing to do anything but scoff at.
The other thing to keep in mind is that for the context of the time, this was revolutionary and groundbreaking.
Dylan got his inspiration from Woody Guthrie, a legendary folk singer.
Takes more then one listen...this is a masterpiece.
Growing up Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) learned Talking Blues from listening to old blues records. He was a folk singer, who also liked rock n roll.
He got Talking Blues primarily from records by his idol Woody Guthrie.
@@jnagarya519 Yes definitely Woody. But also Robert Johnson and other blues artists he was able somehow to hear from a Louisiana radio station.
The thing about Dylan for me it that his lyrical flow creates a ‘feeling’ that lies beyond just the words he sings. There is a beauty in his ‘skipping reels of rhyme’ that transport me to another time and place.
It's taken me a lifetime to experience this song, as with many of Dylan's. Always something new to hear
I watch a lot of reaction videos and like when the reviewers are exploring beyond their genre of preference. That said, this song has made Rap Music fans hearing Dylan for the first time realize that this could be a rap song... decades before that term existed.
HOLY SMOKES!? Never heard this one or many of Bob actually. One of your commenters said " You dived in the deep end!" So the not so deep end (us whole wade and splash) TANGLED UP IN BLUES is a great Tune. You had to have heard KNOCKING ON HEAVENS DOORS. Also great; LAY LADY LAY, ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER ( Immediately covered by Jimi Hendrix) also BLOWING IN THE WIND. Great Channel Guys! I'll be looking for the above thumbnails!! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎
Those are all deep end songs, just in a different way. He has played Watchtower more than any other.
I love the live version off the Before the Flood album, when he has The Band as the backing band. It's a little more up-tempo and his vocals are more aggressive... it's amazing!
Totally, it's more shouted, really intense
The Before the Flood version is amazing. The Before the Flood "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" is too for those same reasons, so much so that I think of that version before I think of the studio one or any other. Same goes for the version of "Isis" from the Rolling Thunder Revue that appears on Biograph. I love what he does with "she said you gonna stay, I-said-IF-you-want-me-TO-yaaaaaaaaaas!" Each more more up-tempo and aggressive as you said, almost punk in the way that Dylan can be punk, and (to me) way more deeply felt. I'm not a good guitar player or singer but I got a guitar when I was about 17 to learn his songs so I could accompany myself in the privacy of my own home and have been doing so for over 35 years. But because these are the versions of the songs I like to sing the best and I have neighbors the songs easily escape the privacy of own home and (again, aggressively) invade my neighbors.' When I was in college I was home one day smoking weed and banging and wailing on "I Wanna Be Your Lover" and a neighbor starting banging down my door. I didn't know what to do so I just pretended I wasn't home. After a few more rounds of rabid knocking, my neighbor shouted, "Jesus, shut the **** up, it's the 90s!"
if my thoughtdreams could be seen.
Great Reaction! Love Dylan! You gotta get to "l
Like a Rolling Stone", "The Times they are a Changin", Hurricane (true Story), Tangled up in Blues...sooo much more! Enjoy!
It takes more than one listen to even start to understand Dylan. If you want immediate gratification, you picked the wrong guy. I've listened to this song dozens, if not hundreds, of times over the decades. I always find something new. And a half century later the song is as relevant as it ever was. Not a bad reaction though. Note that many consider this may be an early form of rap. It's more obvious in a couple other songs like Subterranean Homesick Blues.
All the rappers in the USA couldnt collaborate and come up with lyrics to compete with Dylans
There's a great live version of this song on the album "At Budokan" that really rocks.
Budokan has some of Bob's best live material, for my money. Just got The Complete Budokan in the mail the other day!
I saw Dylan & The Band live in 1974. This song was the highlight of the show for me.
Ohhh that must have slayed you!
Me too. Same tour.
Man. Love this.
This imo is the single greatest lyrical achievement in popular music in the 20th century and Dylan has about 10 of them. This and much of the album Highway 61 Revisited are a cumulative attack on the depravity of American culture, and the echoes of Vietnam are beginning to emerge
"As some warn victory, some downfall"
and crescendo on Highway 61 and the incredible surrealistic commentary on the war build, up 'Tombstone Blues"
Dylan pulled no punches. His fury was astounding. If you see a live 1965-65 version of this, no one in the audience moves. They were stunned. No one has EVER done anything like this.
He might've been rhyming and you just didn't catch it? 🤔
Still suggesting: Like A Rolling Stone, Tangled Up In Blue, Visions Of Johanna & Things Have Changed
That's Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan.
59 years ago...incredible!
This is his greatest song without a doubt
The beauty of this is what each listener gets out of his songs , because there may be no correct answer , and others get nothing , LOL
but since early 1960's Dylan is analyzed and still newly discovered ..
Probably my favorite Bob Dylan song (and that's saying a lot)
You need to listen to Dylan's songs many times !!! There's a LOT of attitude in this one . Probably one of my favorite Dylan songs . Don't take it too literally . It's stream of consciousness .
It's actually meant to be taken literally. It's much more didactic and direct than say (song) Highway 61, Tombstone blues, Desolation Row or Ballad of a Thin Man, all dealing wit the same subject, a society that has descended into depravity a a way of life.
"Rovin' gambler, he was very bored
Tryin' to create a next world war
He found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor
"I never did engage in this kind of thing before
But yeah, I think it can be very easily done"
"We'll just put some bleachers out in the sun
Have it on Highway 61"
It was both the poet Dylan Thomas and also the hero of the TV series Gunsmoke - Matt Dillon - that Bob was referencing in the name.
I started collecting all his albums from the 1960's... Recently added "Blonde on Blonde'
Have you done Masters of War yet? Pure, quiet anger.
Well….I’ll always put down what I’m doing to see/watch a reaction to this.
The greatest creator of songs ever, most important artist on the planet, lyricist DJ author welder painter Nobel prize winner The man is a genius, and at 82 still touring
I was in my early 20s in the UK when I first heard this album in 1962 and I understood it exactly. Every word was true
You go deep when you get into Dylan very deep and come out the other end insane
Very coincidental because I was listening to this on the vinyl lp and then I noticed this and Dylan Thomas is the poet that Bob may have chosen for his surname replacement of Zimmerman
The last four songs on this album are all brilliant Dylan poems. "Mr. Tambourine Man," Gates of Eden," "It;s Alright Ma," and "It's All Over Now Baby Blue." What cycle!
Try Gates of Eden from the same lp.
Yes!
This is why Bob Dylan is the master. His lyrics are sometimes not just good, but almost profound. It certainly isn't because of his off-key singing voice (really talking), he is just so good at telling us his thoughts about things.
Thanks.
And seems like the quick rhymes make the end lines of each verse stand out
Check out David Crosby's cover of this which was featured in the movie 'Easy Rider'. Edit: Not David Crosby, but Roger McGuinn'... thanks guys.
Thanks anyway.
I think that was Roger McGuinn's (Byrds) cover of it
Doh! @@mattjohn4731
IMO does not compare. Lacks the phrasing., intimacy , urgency, power.
YAY!!! Thank YOU ever so! i LUV Bob Dylan he is my Hero Genius & Nemesis heh i am sure lots of people have suggested lots but gonna make some suggestions as well "Visions Of Johanna" or "Desolation Row" or "Highway 61 Revisited" "Hurricane" "Ballad Of A Thin Man" "Positively 4th Street" "Subterranean Homesick Blues" heh k stopping **PixieHugz&LuvzToALL** RockON!!!
Great reaction again guys..
Bob is the G.O.A.T....not those sports guys!!!
Now that you've been hit with an avalanche of words from Dylan, you might try some of his more simple lyrics in songs like I'll Be Your Baby Tonight or Forever Young. Or perhaps a little jazzy number like If Dogs Run Free. Maybe a bit of a rocker like the live version of Cold Irons Bound. I always liked Watching the River Flow. Possibilities are endless!
A wordy spokesman for the '60s counter culture, in the folk tradition of Woody Guthrie, Will Rogers, etc.
For an example of one that is also acoustic like this before he went electric, and was a hugely important song at the time, Masters of War. It has a much more direct and straightforward bar structure and it serves its purpose well, which is to really stab home this bitter scathing indictment about the war machine. It truly pulls no punches, but it's still so engaging because of its simple structure and its direct accusational tone.
This one imo is as savage, it just widens the lens.
Bob's talent is unmatchable. No wonder he was the icon for social changes in the sixties, even though he himself denies this was his intent!
All of his songs have a rhyme scheme. he's quite particular about it. even Isis, if you pay attention, this one is just way more complex.
This is sitting around a fire song from the songwriter. It's an offering. It's a song.
Dylan, both Guthries, Joan Baez are all in this societal commentary camp. Then there are ones like John Prine, Steve Goodman, Joni Mitchell (Prine's "Sam Stone" is devastating). There are many others, of course.
I can listen to him spit rhymes all day long!! Love him! Yes, one has to contemplate longer on the layers and subjects. It's like Shakespear. I have to read Dylan's songs few times to understand all. And I don't always get it all.
This is a piece you'll work on. Big song.
Well said young lady, saying different from, not different to. You is good at gramma, like what I is.
Just as a thought experiment. Imagine a world where a songwriter would write and record a song like this (alongside the other songs on the same album), knowing that many, many people would like it. Knowing that they were intelligent, engaged, un-distracted, insightful enough to ingest this sort of thing. That folks had attention spans. That the song would be played on the radio (FM of course); that it would inspire a generation of creative people to create. Imagine a world where that was the norm. You have to use your imagination, because we don't live in that world now. Imagine how the people who lived in that world would feel when, suddenly, disco ruled the airwaves. The Covid of music. People didn't used to have to think that hard to get this stuff. They read. They were literate. They watched the same Vietnam horrors on the news as everyone else. The same riots. The same police riot in Chicago '68. The same killings at Kent State. I miss my home planet, I guess.
That world produced Vietnam. It wasn't all that and this song would inspire a small minority. His earlier protest songs made him famous to the general public
Tangled up in blue is one of my favourite Bob Dylan song!
it's in the ear of the listener.
His live version of this song - Live At Budokan - is far and away the greatest version. It’ll blow your mind !
like a rolling stone & knockin on heavens door...... bob dylan musts
BOB is too much.!!!
One man!!
No drums..
No bass..
Like his sitting right next to you...
Great reaction! I think everyone comes up with something about the lyrics( maybe or probably not all) he is quite a lyricist. Now I'm waiting on highway 61 revisited or lilly,rosemary and the jack of diamonds. Take care
my take, dylan in his way is saying, look behind the curtain, see who really calls the shots, don't let media hypnotize you to their agenda
I’m sure Dylan is loosing a ton of sleep that you’re having trouble following his lyrics.
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This is basically early rap and yeah, the bar structures are complicated, which I personally find really gratifying. It's definitely jarring and it is supposed to be. He's not talking about pleasant, easy things.
If you really want to try to keep up with his flow in real time, you've got to check out Subterranean Homesick Blues, unless that's the second one you did and I can't remember now.
Great poetry allows many interpretations and perspectrive changes as one ages. Dylan is a great treasure, on par with the greatest poets and artist of history.
This is pretty direct. not like Visions of Johanna.
He does so many great versions of that. Try live at Budokan👌
Hi Phil & Sam, Bob is and was good, as a ex-Musician he had so many songs that other people did also like Jason and the Scorchers Absolutely Sweet Marie
Good work, mark….good call.
You guys have started Bob Dylan in a very weird way. Try the album " blood on the tracks". Shelter from the storm, tangled up in blue, you're gonna make me lonesome when you go, or really any song from this album will show you a different Dylan. This album has been called by many so called experts his best work.
I catch a little bit more with each listen. That's the experience I've had with a lot of poetry.