This is the song that when beat poet Allen Ginsburg first heard it he broke down and cried recognizing that the torch was just handed down to a new generation in the form of a young man named Bob Dylan.
To think that a 22 year old wrote a song this great is just amazing. To follow it up with 60 years of excellence proves his Nobel Prize was well-deserved.
@@HiramLoki As Dylan went electric he was described as an "amphetamine prick". And during the 1965-66 tour -- see "No Direction Home" -- he was doing not only a ton of weed but was also overamping on speed. Look especially at the last interview when he's rocking back-and-forth and talking about dying in a plane crash; he had gone into paranoia. There's a New Egland Poet, as I recall Archibald MacLeish, who said that no poem was ever written out off a glass of ice water. You simply don't understand poetry. And if you are good at research, you can find an article online that explores the difference between song lyrics and poetry. A base line is that rhyming doesn't automagically make it poetry. But not knowing better, there are those who automatically assume that rhyming equals poetry.
No one on earth writes like Dylan. He uses metaphors to convey his messages. I was fortunate to hear most of his stuff at the time it was released. A+ for the song... and, also, for the reaction.
@@HiramLoki You sound like one who has an in-depth understanding of shallow puddles. I've been studying -- not simply reading -- poetry since the 1960s, and am a published poet. But if you can't deal with the issue, then resort to your expertise in personal attack.
Dylan is one of the greatest poet ever and he's 🕐 of greatest American writer ever and u feel his words and get it I was lucky my mom loves Dylan so I grew up listening to him
My interpretation of the song is this… Parent: Hey Kiddo, you’ve been out it the world, what did you see? Child: I saw struggle, and a storm is coming. Parent: So what shall you do now? Child: I’m going back into the storm, but do not fear the hard rain.
One of BD's great classics. The sleeve notes on the vinyl album quote him as saying ' it's a desperate kind of song. - written during the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 when those who allowed themselves to think of the possible results of the Kennedy- Khrushchev confrontation were chilled by the imminence of oblivion. Every line in it is actually the start of a whole song. But when I wrote it, I thought I wouldn't have enough time alive to write all those songs so I put all I could into this one. All I'll say is the relentless guitar is brilliant. It carries the song.
The Cuban Missile Crisis began on October 16, 1962. Dylan first performed this song on September 20, 1962. Obviously, the song was not "written during the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962".
Great reaction to a classic song. As many have already suggested, Chimes of Freedom is an absolute must. I will guarantee that you will love it. It's definitely one of my many favorite Dylan tunes. Looking forward to your reaction.
This song is 50 plus years old and it is just a true today as it was then. The suffering and hatred we see in the world is still here. The rain is still going to fall but I hope that all of us can take our love and hope for humanity to the top of the mountain and reflect it so all souls can see it. We have to be the difference. I love you guys.
Definitely should check out the live version of this from the Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975, the instrumentation is completely different and Dylan's voice is electric.
His central word in several songs is "hard". Listen to the sound he puts on it in 'Like a Rolling Stone" at Newport. It's the central word to the song.
This is one of my favorite Dylan songs (I know, I say that about every one of them). . . the depth of this one, though. The warning to us all, is so evident - whether we'll heed it or not, well look where we are again!
Supposedly written during the Cuban missile crisis when he didn't think he would have time to write all the songe he wanted. Each line is the first line of each song.
Dylan put a song out in 2020 called ''I contain Multitudes'' , I relate that to his songs/lyrics which usually give me a multitude of thoughts , ideas , visions and meanings as I listen to them ...IMO
Shawn, I liked your analysis a lot, especially at the end. This is my favorite song in the world. I'm a big Dylan fan and fan of opera and classical music (quartets). It looks like you are into Metallica. Look at the beautiful common ground that we have found!
The Dylan rabbit hole is very deep. His poetry is on the highest level. I'm pretty sure that he was still emulating Woodie Guthrie with his vocal tone and guitar playing. I came of age in the 60s singing his songs in coffee houses and anywhere people would listen. Some of my favorites from his early years: Ballad in plain D The Ballad of Hollis Brown God on our side North Country Blues Masters of War That list is just the beginning. His discography is huge. His music has influenced millions of musicians and non musicians alike. I hope you will explore more.
I was 19 in 1988 when I first discovered Dylan. In the space of about a year Kerouac, Dylan, Kesey, and Whitman changed my perception forever. Dylan is a rabbit hole you must be very careful exploring. His range is endless and he becomes more and more fascinating the more you listen to his music. This album is monumental but is probably only 4th or 5th among his best works, certainly after his mid-60's trio of Bringing it All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde. Just listen to those albums in their entirety.
Your reaction was "right on". Its prophetic, the way things are going now in the world and the USA, i think we've yet to see the really big "storm" that's coming our way. I hope not, praying for peace and sharing.
Dylan admitted he made a deal with the devil. These lyrics are what each lucifer (My Son) and my darling young one (Jesus) were seeing of his creations from their points of view.
Is the hard rain radioactive nuclear fallout from the bomb? Dylan told a radio interviewer “no, it’s about a hard rain that can destroy crops, property and destroy lives in floods”. Well, Bob it also means something else. Bob said it means what you hear. He said he thought he knew what it meant as he he wrote it. But, a song belongs to the listener, too.
For me Dylan wrote this as a comment about the sheltered or willfully ignorant lives most Americans lived in the 50’s and early 60’s and even, to some extent, live today. He contrasts the ‘pleasant’ lives they live with the horrors that can happen in the world. They get up, go to work, come home for dinner, talk about the weather and so on. All the while these horrible things are going on around the world that they don’t want to hear about. But he has broken with them, he can't live with blinders on and has gone to face the world.
For me Dylan wrote this as a comment about the sheltered or willfully ignorant lives most Americans lived in the 50’s and early 60’s and even, to some extent, live today. He contrasts the ‘pleasant’ lives they live with the horrors that can happen in the world. They get up, go to work, come home for dinner, talk about the weather and so on. All the while these horrible things are going on around the world that they don’t want to hear about. But he's broken with them, he can't live with blinders on and has gone to face the world with all its’ wonders and horrors.
Listen to the orchestral version in Nara, Japan. It's easy to find on UTube. His Bobness with a Japanese orchestra. And they Mean It! Look at their faces as they play.
Check out the album Blood on the Tracks. Written in the mid 70s it’s one of his best albums: Tangled Up In Blue, Idiot Wind, Shelter From the Storm. There’s not a bad cut on it, and you’ll see a bit of his development too
Common misconception for over 60 yrs is that Hard Rain was written after the Cuban Missile crises that happened in Oct. 1962. When we came closest to an atomic war ever. ( so far) ……Actually Hard Rain was written in August of 1962.
He was talking about the Míssiles crise in Cuba between USA and URSS. Kennedy versus Khrushchev. Fidel and Che Guevara revolutionaries were in power and nuclear missiles were spoted being shipped in the ocean to be installed in Cuba. The closest time the world was on a blink of a nuclear war. Bob though he was afraid he wasn't last for a very long time 😊
It feel he was haunted... Dylan is more than gifted but even when you are, sometime something is holding your hand and writes through you As would say a french poet, he was dictated that time It was written in the context of the viet-nam war and here we are again... It was controversial at the time, but I can't see a more deserve nobel litterature prize
I try not to see a single point of thought or singular message in this song. Its easier for me to enjoy and get more out of it when I think of each line as a separate thought and try to find my meaning in each one.
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for me vietnam vets not a little bit better than german nzs... and all in the US call them heros... best joke ever made... there is a good 10 part docu over the war in vietnam, korea and all the countries around available and not with typical US PR... only the hard and sad trues... and every american, who speak sht about germany, should look at their own soldiers and be quiet...
I always thought the "Hard Rain" was Noah's flood, when God washed away the evil that humanity had become. The rest of the lyrics were like the visions from Revelations.
@@Hexon66 Absurdities is what I'm thinking. It's kind of hard to assign meanings to his metaphors in the song. It leaves me wondering, "What the hell is he talking about?" Like Revelations, I'm thinking, "Just tell me what the hell you're talking about".
This is the song that when beat poet Allen Ginsburg first heard it he broke down and cried recognizing that the torch was just handed down to a new generation in the form of a young man named Bob Dylan.
Allen Ginsburg told Bob his favorite song was "Desolation Row" and he also loved this one!!!
That's what Ginsburg claimed.
Sixty years on, this song still breaks my heart.
To think that a 22 year old wrote a song this great is just amazing. To follow it up with 60 years of excellence proves his Nobel Prize was well-deserved.
Lots of weed.
@@jnagarya519If that was responsible for his lyrics I'd be the greatest songwriter in the universe.
@@HiramLoki As Dylan went electric he was described as an "amphetamine prick". And during the 1965-66 tour -- see "No Direction Home" -- he was doing not only a ton of weed but was also overamping on speed. Look especially at the last interview when he's rocking back-and-forth and talking about dying in a plane crash; he had gone into paranoia.
There's a New Egland Poet, as I recall Archibald MacLeish, who said that no poem was ever written out off a glass of ice water.
You simply don't understand poetry. And if you are good at research, you can find an article online that explores the difference between song lyrics and poetry. A base line is that rhyming doesn't automagically make it poetry. But not knowing better, there are those who automatically assume that rhyming equals poetry.
Have you sent his paintings and metal art work? Museum here and in Europe, now online
Dylan taking a several hundred years old ballad and re-writing it into a lyrical gem. Great song.
He called this a dance tune.
No one on earth writes like Dylan. He uses metaphors to convey his messages. I was fortunate to hear most of his stuff at the time it was released. A+ for the song... and, also, for the reaction.
Lots of people use metaphors.
@@jnagarya519Your posts have the depth of a shallow puddle.
Except for imitators -- and they don't succeed -- no one writes like anyone else.
@@HiramLoki You sound like one who has an in-depth understanding of shallow puddles.
I've been studying -- not simply reading -- poetry since the 1960s, and am a published poet.
But if you can't deal with the issue, then resort to your expertise in personal attack.
Dylan is one of the greatest poet ever and he's 🕐 of greatest American writer ever and u feel his words and get it I was lucky my mom loves Dylan so I grew up listening to him
CAN YOU IMAGINE WRITING LYRICS AT THAT AGE, I MEAN WHO DOES THATTTTT!!! 😮BOB DOES THAT, INCREDIBLE STUFF AND AMAZINGGGG 💯😊
We're you alive at the time? First televised war. Every day. Every day. Horrible.
A powerful song. It's based upon the the 17th century poem "Lord Randall".
These early Dylan songs are lyrical jewels. He started out as a folk singer, just him, his guitar and harmonica...a one man band.
I am greatfull to you for discovering the depth of Bob Dylan. The greatest of all time! …..A true Nobel Laureate…. Thank you
One of the reasons Dylan wrote "A Hard Rain" was in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis. A "Hard Rain" is Nuclear Fallout.
His phrasing and delivery is insane
A joy watching you appreciate this masterpiece
My interpretation of the song is this…
Parent: Hey Kiddo, you’ve been out it the world, what did you see?
Child: I saw struggle, and a storm is coming.
Parent: So what shall you do now?
Child: I’m going back into the storm, but do not fear the hard rain.
His Bobness reflecting glimpses of the world around us in Hard Rain.
For a lecture in Compassion, try the "Chimes of Freedom".
Written way back in 1962! Bob's lyrics are always relevant, it seems.
One of BD's great classics. The sleeve notes on the vinyl album quote him as saying ' it's a desperate kind of song. - written during the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 when those who allowed themselves to think of the possible results of the Kennedy- Khrushchev confrontation were chilled by the imminence of oblivion. Every line in it is actually the start of a whole song. But when I wrote it, I thought I wouldn't have enough time alive to write all those songs so I put all I could into this one.
All I'll say is the relentless guitar is brilliant. It carries the song.
The Cuban Missile Crisis began on October 16, 1962. Dylan first performed this song on September 20, 1962. Obviously, the song was not "written during the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962".
Great reaction again..
Bob said..
"Every line could be a song"...
An incredible song.
Every song on Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 2 is pretty amazing. Every human should own that double album.
Great reaction to a classic song. As many have already suggested, Chimes of Freedom is an absolute must. I will guarantee that you will love it. It's definitely one of my many favorite Dylan tunes. Looking forward to your reaction.
Love ❤
The freewheeling Bob Dylan album is an absolute masterpeace
There is good reason he was early on labelled as The Poet of his generation. He certainly has been one of our great lyricists.
From his second LP which was his first album of original songs. Pure genius. Even then.
This song remains relevant because every generation has their Hard Rain to get through; for me and mine it was the 60s. Bonne Chance...........
The ultimate wordsmith.
This song is 50 plus years old and it is just a true today as it was then. The suffering and hatred we see in the world is still here. The rain is still going to fall but I hope that all of us can take our love and hope for humanity to the top of the mountain and reflect it so all souls can see it. We have to be the difference. I love you guys.
Dylan has six kids. I heard he's a great father, A hard rains gonna fall makes me think it's a nuclear war!! My favorite Dylan song!
Definitely should check out the live version of this from the Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975, the instrumentation is completely different and Dylan's voice is electric.
His central word in several songs is "hard". Listen to the sound he puts on it in 'Like a Rolling Stone" at Newport. It's the central word to the song.
Great reaction 💜
Brilliant song show how good bob is❤
Brings back so many memories
This is one of my favorite Dylan songs (I know, I say that about every one of them). . . the depth of this one, though. The warning to us all, is so evident - whether we'll heed it or not, well look where we are again!
This song gives me chills everytime i hear it.....
Classic Dylan tune. He did one called Let Me Die in My Footsteps around this time with a similar philosophy.
Its a great song, but the short time between those songs he leveled up like 50 times as a writer. And Let Me Die is great lyrically.
@@dylanthompson8511 Yeah, Dylan grew quickly during the 60s, it's wild to look back on.
Love this song
Supposedly written during the Cuban missile crisis when he didn't think he would have time to write all the songe he wanted. Each line is the first line of each song.
Was written before Cuban missile crises.
Dylan put a song out in 2020 called ''I contain Multitudes'' , I relate that to his songs/lyrics which usually give me a multitude of thoughts , ideas , visions and meanings as I listen to them ...IMO
Bobby is quoting Walt Whitman here
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Fruition
Great song from Bob great reaction love you
You nailed this one dude!!
Dylan Just genius
Shawn, I liked your analysis a lot, especially at the end. This is my favorite song in the world. I'm a big Dylan fan and fan of opera and classical music (quartets). It looks like you are into Metallica. Look at the beautiful common ground that we have found!
The Dylan rabbit hole is very deep. His poetry is on the highest level. I'm pretty sure that he was still emulating Woodie Guthrie with his vocal tone and guitar playing.
I came of age in the 60s singing his songs in coffee houses and anywhere people would listen.
Some of my favorites from his early years:
Ballad in plain D
The Ballad of Hollis Brown
God on our side
North Country Blues
Masters of War
That list is just the beginning.
His discography is huge.
His music has influenced millions of musicians and non musicians alike.
I hope you will explore more.
I was 19 in 1988 when I first discovered Dylan. In the space of about a year Kerouac, Dylan, Kesey, and Whitman changed my perception forever. Dylan is a rabbit hole you must be very careful exploring. His range is endless and he becomes more and more fascinating the more you listen to his music. This album is monumental but is probably only 4th or 5th among his best works, certainly after his mid-60's trio of Bringing it All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde. Just listen to those albums in their entirety.
excellent reaction/analysis!
as usual , GREAT Lyrics by Dylan....there's nobody like him
You have goosebumps, we All do 🌜⚡🌛
Your reaction was "right on". Its prophetic, the way things are going now in the world and the USA, i think we've yet to see the really big "storm" that's coming our way. I hope not, praying for peace and sharing.
*fruition
First time listener. Subscribed. Love Bob. Great review.
I knew you'd love this masterpiece.❤
Dylan admitted he made a deal with the devil. These lyrics are what each lucifer (My Son) and my darling young one (Jesus) were seeing of his creations from their points of view.
Is the hard rain radioactive nuclear fallout from the bomb? Dylan told a radio interviewer “no, it’s about a hard rain that can destroy crops, property and destroy lives in floods”. Well, Bob it also means something else. Bob said it means what you hear. He said he thought he knew what it meant as he he wrote it. But, a song belongs to the listener, too.
The most idea rich song I have ever heard.
Try It's All Right, Ma, I'm Only Bleeding for your next deep dive in Dylan's prophetic lyrics.
This is NOT about a "blind" man. It is about one that sees realty as many others do not
I think the word you're looking for is fruition or realization. Something we are cultivating into reality.
Just as relevant today as it was 60 years ago.
Perfect song to listen to when reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
Several of the songs on this LP were written during and after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
For me Dylan wrote this as a comment about the sheltered or willfully ignorant lives most Americans lived in the 50’s and early 60’s and even, to some extent, live today.
He contrasts the ‘pleasant’ lives they live with the horrors that can happen in the world. They get up, go to work, come home for dinner, talk about the weather and so on. All the while these horrible things are going on around the world that they don’t want to hear about.
But he has broken with them, he can't live with blinders on and has gone to face the world.
Check out Eddie Vedder's version from Dylan's 30th anniversary concert.
Only 22/23 at time of writing, Dylan way ahead of his time
For me Dylan wrote this as a comment about the sheltered or willfully ignorant lives most Americans lived in the 50’s and early 60’s and even, to some extent, live today. He contrasts the ‘pleasant’ lives they live with the horrors that can happen in the world. They get up, go to work, come home for dinner, talk about the weather and so on. All the while these horrible things are going on around the world that they don’t want to hear about.
But he's broken with them, he can't live with blinders on and has gone to face the world with all its’ wonders and horrors.
This was the world I grew up in where the "hard rain" would be nuclear missiles and nothing much we could do if it happened.
Kinda funny how this song resonates with whats going on now huh? Nice reaction btw.
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow.
👍😊
Listen to the orchestral version in Nara, Japan.
It's easy to find on UTube.
His Bobness with a Japanese orchestra.
And they Mean It!
Look at their faces as they play.
How many other artists could get an orchestra so worked up?
Maybe Mr. Cohen or Mr. Prine.
Just think, Bob was only 21 when he wrote this 61 years ago.
Some of Dylans lyrics don't paint a picture for me, until they do....its a strange mix.
Check out the album Blood on the Tracks. Written in the mid 70s it’s one of his best albums: Tangled Up In Blue, Idiot Wind, Shelter From the Storm. There’s not a bad cut on it, and you’ll see a bit of his development too
Amazing song, listen also to "Chimes of Freedom"
A prophet
The Hard Rain he is singing about is NUCLEAR FALLOUT, just so you know.
Common misconception for over 60 yrs is that Hard Rain was written after the Cuban Missile crises that happened in Oct. 1962. When we came closest to an atomic war ever. ( so far) ……Actually Hard Rain was written in August of 1962.
He denied that interpretation and explained (when he was still explaining his songs) that it was a metaphor for something bad coming/falling.
Brian Ferry & Roxy Music did a great cover of this song. Now there's a name you haven't featured yet!
I came here to say this. The Ferry/Roxy Music cover is fantastic
Now do “Masters of War”, “My Back Pages”….please.
Leon Russell’s cover is good too
He's also recalling the Noah's flood from the book of Genesis.
Shawn, good reaction. Suggest:......"Juke box hero" by Foreigner........"Made of stone" "She bangs the drum" "I am the resurrection" by Stone Roses
He was talking about the Míssiles crise in Cuba between USA and URSS. Kennedy versus Khrushchev. Fidel and Che Guevara revolutionaries were in power and nuclear missiles were spoted being shipped in the ocean to be installed in Cuba. The closest time the world was on a blink of a nuclear war. Bob though he was afraid he wasn't last for a very long time 😊
dude its time to do Dont think twice its alright, same album.
What I get out of this Dylan classic song is how the human race is destroying our planet we all live on !!!
It feel he was haunted... Dylan is more than gifted but even when you are, sometime something is holding your hand and writes through you As would say a french poet, he was dictated that time It was written in the context of the viet-nam war and here we are again... It was controversial at the time, but I can't see a more deserve nobel litterature prize
Sorry wrong song It is Masters of War that Eddie Vedder does.
P.p.s.. ONE MAN.
No drums
No bass.
Like he's sitting next to you..
Hunger,war,social injustice, toxins. Lots going on here
Bob Dylan is the G.O.A.T.
not those sports guys..
Musically it only needs a guitar accompaniment.
I try not to see a single point of thought or singular message in this song. Its easier for me to enjoy and get more out of it when I think of each line as a separate thought and try to find my meaning in each one.
I get post-apocalyptic vibes. And with all the bad stuff he talks about, that ain't all. Because the hard rain is still coming.
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for me vietnam vets not a little bit better than german nzs... and all in the US call them heros... best joke ever made... there is a good 10 part docu over the war in vietnam, korea and all the countries around available and not with typical US PR... only the hard and sad trues... and every american, who speak sht about germany, should look at their own soldiers and be quiet...
I always thought the "Hard Rain" was Noah's flood, when God washed away the evil that humanity had become. The rest of the lyrics were like the visions from Revelations.
Dylan always had biblical references, but this song has so much more to say than the absurdities of that book.
@@Hexon66 Absurdities is what I'm thinking. It's kind of hard to assign meanings to his metaphors in the song. It leaves me wondering, "What the hell is he talking about?" Like Revelations, I'm thinking, "Just tell me what the hell you're talking about".