It's tragic that it's still relevant today, 60 years later now. Dylan hoped that "the present now will later be past" and not just ignore or replace the same issues from 1964.
This is early Bob Dylan when he was known as a folk music artist (early to mid 1960s). He is singing alone with an acoustic guitar in his hands and a harmonica strapped to his neck. This is my favorite Dylan era because the lyrics are very deep. By the later 60s he formed a band and went 'electric'. One of those bands became a famous group on their own, THE BAND Another classic from the folk era is Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
Your subs know their stuff. There’s more here Biz. Bob’s music and point of view for the first 3 yrs of his real career, is still influential today. It was the zeitgeist of the Civil Rights movement, and his importance to that cause through his writings can’t be overstated.
If you were around from the beginning, this was the Bob Dylan song you heard first. This was the folk music era. Folk, not Folk Rock. This was really thought to become the next big thing in popular music. This music and Beat Music in the clubs. The Beat movement was where you read a line of poetry, then played the bongos, then read another line. Beatniks and Folk Music. Of course, the Beatles came along the next year and changed everything. Including Dylan.
He influenced them to think more about the lyrics and they influenced him to try electric. There's a great scene in that Dylan documentary "Don't Look Back", where he's on tour in England, just him solo acoustic. At one of the venues, he meets a band of four young guys who, you can imagine, are thrilled to talk to him. They tell him that their band does electric versions of his songs, and he is immediately highly interested and wants to know all the details: What songs? Are the tempos the same? Are there solos? Who sings? One guy? Harmonies? It's neat to see him so into it...
This song is 60 years old, and still completely relevant. One of the quintessential folk-rock protest songs. I'd suggest the enigmatic but wonderful "Visions of Johanna" next, or for another great Dylan protest song, "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall"..
I think this is truly the most timeless song ever written. Or at least that I’ve heard. It was written 60 years ago and could have been written yesterday
First heard this song as a teenager and the first thing I said loud was "YES". Of course as a teenager I didn't realize that in reality it's actually "wash, rinse, repeat".
Dude...Ur doin good by sharin stuff with people who mite not hear it. I'm a 65 yo white dude who's 27yo daughter told me her favorite memory of me was comin home from school to me playin this song on the porch...n tellin her, "This country just elected our first black president". She made me proud to tell me she remembered that day.
There's so much to say about Dylan. I've been listening to him since the '60s when I was 12. I immersed myself in his music when I was stranded alone in Belize for 3 months during the pandemic. I explored his Rolling Thunder Review tours and I highly recommend checking out the versions of his songs on that tour. Just fantastic. I think Martin Scorsese made a documentary of the tour. Great reaction to this timeless song. Thank you.
Hello my friend, I'm an old man too. I agree 💯, ever said songs from DYLAN and ERIC BURDON are fountain(s) of rap! Right on my friend, take a listen to ERIC BURDON 's "year of the Guru", from the 1968album: ERIC BURDON & the New Animals, album named EVERY ONE OF US - regards
Bob Dylan was the Jester mentioned in Don McLean's song American Pie. Bob was blamed/credited for transforming the 1950s _{ahem}_ Happy Days era into the 1960s politically turbulent era. Dylan was a Civil Rights activist and performed four songs at the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech
He also single handedly kind of killed the Tin Pan Alley which was the artists who would write songs for singers bob Dylan and Johnny cash were the first really to sing and write from personal experiences they changed the way songs were written and merged songwriters and singers into one made it possible for guys like Neil young nick drake and Bruce Springsteen
This song came from an amazing time in America when the youth really believed heart and soul that we could bring down the war pigs in America and have a just peaceful loving world. It didn't work out though. They just hid away for a few years and came back with a vengeance.
Dylan's reach is infinite. Master of War Simple Twist of Fate Tangled Up In Blue Shelter From the Storm Boots of Spanish Leather Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts Visions of Johanna Desolation Row Don't Think Twice, It's Alright I could go on naming his songs for years.
Desolation Row is brilliant! One can never list enough😊 worthy Dylan songs. Nonetheless, I’ll add: Queen Jane Approximately, Highway 61 Revisited, Ballad of a Thin Man, It Takes a Lot to Laugh It Takes a Train to Cry, Like A Rolling Stone, which BIZ may have done already, From A Buick 6, Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues, Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door, Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues ( hilariuos), Positively 4th Street with- its final verse and containing both scorn and mocking humor (below) Thank you Biz! You will need the SCLYRICS for any of these you choose to review, if any. “I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes And just for that one moment I could be you Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes You'd know what a drag it is to see you”
@@barbarascotto3873 Have you heard his 17 min tome he released during the worst of Covid? It’s called “Murder Most Foul” and it is really sobering. If you haven’t heard it you will need a very quiet place or have the lyrics nearby.
Written during the civil rights and anti Vietnam war campaign yet a younger generation hear it as just as relevant for today, that's Dylan's genius ....
My daughter asked me about growing up in the 1960`s, so I bought her this album and said this will give you a good idea of our mindset at that time. Wont tell you everything, but will give a pretty good idea of why we were thinking as we were, what made us stop looking up to our leaders, the corruption of our society. Not that it was new, just that we were not as aware of it. Bob made us aware with his music
How can I explain to someone who did not live in the 1960's that this song is iconic and timeless, because history keeps repeating itself. Due to the greedy ignorance of narcissistic human beings. My GOD, how do I explain?!!!
Loving your reactions Biz. More Bob? "Masters Of War", "Don't Think Twice It's Alright", "Tangled Up In Blue", "Cold Irons Bound", "Ballad Of A Thin Man", "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding", "All Along The Watchtower", "Desolation Row", "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", "Not Dark Yet", "I Want You", "Mr Tamborine Man"... the list is endless.
i understand he wrote the song to the back drop of civil rights and vietnam. but times have changed, and with that so has the meaning of the song. the song is now about all aspects of change from generation to generation and is still so good because you can apply it to almost anything. for example. Youth: do you understand why a person might want to identify as someone other than a boy or a girl? Older generation: no. i dont understand that. you either a boy or a girl. i dont understand why these people keep talking crazy. Youth: well mothers and fathers through out the land, dont criticise what you dont understand. it seems to me that so many people of older generations claim to love bob dylan but ignore every word he said. but young people love bob. always have. always will.
The kids today think their ideas are new and that we are clueless. They don't realize that we were them back then. We were hopeful for the future. We saw peace and love and acceptance. Imagine our disappointment. Now these kids are mad at the same stuff we are disappointed about.
I really like your reactions. The first one I watched was from Lou Reed, Sweet Jane. I subscription. With this one you talk about the lyics. Well done. It must be a lot of work reacting to all these songs and get your videos uploaden. Thanks😊
You might have done some of these, but I don't think you have: Try "Masters of War", "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall", and "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding")...
The fact that we have not learned a damn thing the past sixty years sure as hell is not for Dylan's lack of trying to school us !
Mr Zimmerman always spoke the truth and hoped what would be a better world.
Timeless classic, as relevant today as in the 60s.
The Result of the 60s. Stand on the Rock not Sinking Sand America 🌄☕
@@markwilliams5606 Well said, very well said. Merry Christmas.
And it will be relevant tomorrow
It's tragic that it's still relevant today, 60 years later now. Dylan hoped that "the present now will later be past" and not just ignore or replace the same issues from 1964.
We are living the 60s part two. So much turbulence and social changes with the same old forces resisting it.
This is one of Dylan’s best.
Greatest songwriter /poet in history.
Dylan....Masters of War. Written in 1963. Most powerful anti war song ever
More even than anti-war... anti-war machine or Military Industrial Complex
Yes!. Exactly@@Hexon66
With God On OUR Side has entered the discussion.
This is early Bob Dylan when he was known as a folk music artist (early to mid 1960s). He is singing alone with an acoustic guitar in his hands and a harmonica strapped to his neck. This is my favorite Dylan era because the lyrics are very deep. By the later 60s he formed a band and went 'electric'. One of those bands became a famous group on their own, THE BAND
Another classic from the folk era is Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
Every 20 to 30 years ushers in changing times, we're in changing times right now, for better or worse only history can tell.
Timeless. As relevant now as when he wrote it.
Blowin in the wind, Bob Dylan was also in the travelling wilburys with Tom Petty, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison
Masters of War is a must.
It was mentioned earlier. Tiis was written about the Civil Rights Movement. I was a sophomore in college. It really had an impact.
Really? That’s amazing! I wish our current leaders took it heart.
No wonder Bob Dylan won a Nobel prize for his lyrics!! 👵🏼💜☮️
Your subs know their stuff. There’s more here Biz. Bob’s music and point of view for the first 3 yrs of his real career, is still influential today. It was the zeitgeist of the Civil Rights movement, and his importance to that cause through his writings can’t be overstated.
Dylan, “Masters of War”, ” Positively Fourth Street “ , “My Back Pages”, “it’s AllRight Ma(I’m Only Bleeding)”.
If you were around from the beginning, this was the Bob Dylan song you heard first. This was the folk music era. Folk, not Folk Rock. This was really thought to become the next big thing in popular music. This music and Beat Music in the clubs. The Beat movement was where you read a line of poetry, then played the bongos, then read another line. Beatniks and Folk Music.
Of course, the Beatles came along the next year and changed everything. Including Dylan.
He influenced them to think more about the lyrics and they influenced him to try electric. There's a great scene in that Dylan documentary "Don't Look Back", where he's on tour in England, just him solo acoustic. At one of the venues, he meets a band of four young guys who, you can imagine, are thrilled to talk to him. They tell him that their band does electric versions of his songs, and he is immediately highly interested and wants to know all the details: What songs? Are the tempos the same? Are there solos? Who sings? One guy? Harmonies? It's neat to see him so into it...
BOBBBBBB!!! 👍😊
Great words as always!
I’d say check out girl from the North country. ❤ Saw him in 2016, Mavis Staples opened, awesome show! Biz 2024, y’all!
I saw him with Mavis as well...can't believe they used to date🥰
This song is 60 years old, and still completely relevant. One of the quintessential folk-rock protest songs. I'd suggest the enigmatic but wonderful "Visions of Johanna" next, or for another great Dylan protest song, "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall"..
I think this is truly the most timeless song ever written. Or at least that I’ve heard. It was written 60 years ago and could have been written yesterday
First heard this song as a teenager and the first thing I said loud was "YES". Of course as a teenager I didn't realize that in reality it's actually "wash, rinse, repeat".
Truly one of the best poets of our time ( at least my time)!
Classic! Bars on top of bars!
Dude...Ur doin good by sharin stuff with people who mite not hear it. I'm a 65 yo white dude who's 27yo daughter told me her favorite memory of me was comin home from school to me playin this song on the porch...n tellin her, "This country just elected our first black president". She made me proud to tell me she remembered that day.
There's so much to say about Dylan. I've been listening to him since the '60s when I was 12.
I immersed myself in his music when I was stranded alone in Belize for 3 months during the pandemic.
I explored his Rolling Thunder Review tours and I highly recommend checking out the versions of his songs on that tour. Just fantastic.
I think Martin Scorsese made a documentary of the tour.
Great reaction to this timeless song. Thank you.
Many of Bob Dylan's songs are an early form of rap music to my ears. But now I am an old man of 55 years. Greetings from Norway. 😀 Love the reaction.
Hello my friend, I'm an old man too. I agree 💯, ever said songs from DYLAN and ERIC BURDON are fountain(s) of rap! Right on my friend, take a listen to ERIC BURDON 's "year of the Guru", from the 1968album: ERIC BURDON & the New Animals, album named EVERY ONE OF US - regards
He won the noble peace prize
Masters of War is a must. I add my request to other commenters.
Bob Dylan was the Jester mentioned in Don McLean's song American Pie. Bob was blamed/credited for transforming the 1950s _{ahem}_ Happy Days era into the 1960s politically turbulent era. Dylan was a Civil Rights activist and performed four songs at the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech
He also single handedly kind of killed the Tin Pan Alley which was the artists who would write songs for singers bob Dylan and Johnny cash were the first really to sing and write from personal experiences they changed the way songs were written and merged songwriters and singers into one made it possible for guys like Neil young nick drake and Bruce Springsteen
Ah to be able to write such fire!
EVERYBODY MUST GET STONED-BOB DYLAN
a classic ✨️
The line you read is my absolute favorite line and it's still relevant today. Thank you for reading it
How about Subterranean Homesick Blues? Thanks for your channel.
Can't wait.
60 years ago. I was 9. Kennedy was assassinated that year. beautiful song.
I second masters of war
The voice of my generation! And the turbulent 1960s. Especially about civil rights. ''Oxford Town'' is a classic about segregation.
Oxford Town is powerful. Dylan’s use of humor to highlight the darkness of the day is genius.
Son of a pup, I just touch my phone and the video changes. Three times a charm to hear this 😂
you gotta check out his song - Tangled Up In Blue
Anthem for the civil rights and antiwar movement in the 60’s. A song all us old folks need to ponder!
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HEAR BIZ, HIS HITS??? 😊TANGLED UP IN BLUE, A HARD RAINS A GONNA FALL, DON'T THINK TWICE IT'S ALRIGHT, LAY LADY LAY👍😊THERE'S SOME!
I think thats the goal of all parents for their children everywhere
This song came from an amazing time in America when the youth really believed heart and soul that we could bring down the war pigs in America and have a just peaceful loving world. It didn't work out though. They just hid away for a few years and came back with a vengeance.
Dylan's reach is infinite.
Master of War
Simple Twist of Fate
Tangled Up In Blue
Shelter From the Storm
Boots of Spanish Leather
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
Visions of Johanna
Desolation Row
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
I could go on naming his songs for years.
Desolation Row is brilliant! One can never list enough😊 worthy Dylan songs. Nonetheless, I’ll add: Queen Jane Approximately, Highway 61 Revisited, Ballad of a Thin Man, It Takes a Lot to Laugh It Takes a Train to Cry, Like A Rolling Stone, which BIZ may have done already, From A Buick 6, Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues, Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door, Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues ( hilariuos),
Positively 4th Street with- its final verse and containing both scorn and mocking humor (below) Thank you Biz! You will need the SCLYRICS for any of these you choose to review, if any.
“I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment I could be you
Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to see you”
@@tonydelapa1911 yes! Yes! Yes! I was at work when I replied, otherwise I'd have listed three hundred more 😋
@@barbarascotto3873 Have you heard his 17 min tome he released during the worst of Covid? It’s called “Murder Most Foul” and it is really sobering. If you haven’t heard it you will need a very quiet place or have the lyrics nearby.
„With god on our side“
Bob Dylan - It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Sorry for the Dutch autospell.
Written during the civil rights and anti Vietnam war campaign yet a younger generation hear it as just as relevant for today, that's Dylan's genius ....
These lyrics seem to apply to the present as much as the applied to when they were originally written. Definition of brilliance...
Hitting them out of the park today.
Bob Dylan was there that hot August Day in 1963 at MLK's I Have a Dream Speech. He sang.. He wasn't just a guy with a guitar looking for a hit.
One of my favorite songs from Bob Dylan. I learned how to play it 57 years ago when I was learning guitar.
The Ballad of Franky Lee and Judas Priest
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Both personal favorites from Dylan
My daughter asked me about growing up in the 1960`s, so I bought her this album and said this will give you a good idea of our mindset at that time. Wont tell you everything, but will give a pretty good idea of why we were thinking as we were, what made us stop looking up to our leaders, the corruption of our society. Not that it was new, just that we were not as aware of it. Bob made us aware with his music
Beautiful voice.
Bob was BADASS
And Still Is !!!!!
How can I explain to someone who did not live in the 1960's that this song is iconic and timeless, because history keeps repeating itself. Due to the greedy ignorance of narcissistic human beings. My GOD, how do I explain?!!!
Loving your reactions Biz. More Bob? "Masters Of War", "Don't Think Twice It's Alright", "Tangled Up In Blue", "Cold Irons Bound", "Ballad Of A Thin Man", "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding", "All Along The Watchtower", "Desolation Row", "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", "Not Dark Yet", "I Want You", "Mr Tamborine Man"... the list is endless.
i understand he wrote the song to the back drop of civil rights and vietnam.
but times have changed, and with that so has the meaning of the song.
the song is now about all aspects of change from generation to generation and is still so good because you can apply it to almost anything.
for example.
Youth: do you understand why a person might want to identify as someone other than a boy or a girl?
Older generation: no. i dont understand that. you either a boy or a girl. i dont understand why these people keep talking crazy.
Youth: well mothers and fathers through out the land, dont criticise what you dont understand.
it seems to me that so many people of older generations claim to love bob dylan but ignore every word he said.
but young people love bob. always have. always will.
You are a very thoughtful guy, BizMatik. Thank you for sharing your views!
50 years later...have we advanced???
The kids today think their ideas are new and that we are clueless. They don't realize that we were them back then. We were hopeful for the future. We saw peace and love and acceptance. Imagine our disappointment. Now these kids are mad at the same stuff we are disappointed about.
Ramble on young man, Ramble on😊
If this isn't a Classic what will be
I really like your reactions. The first one I watched was from Lou Reed, Sweet Jane. I subscription. With this one you talk about the lyics. Well done. It must be a lot of work reacting to all these songs and get your videos uploaden. Thanks😊
I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
MASTERS OF WAR DYLAN IS VERY ANGRY!!
You might have done some of these, but I don't think you have: Try "Masters of War", "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall", and "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding")...
Try "With God on Our Side"
What about the bricklayers sir!
Columbus Day and ya don't react to how Bob Dylan actually discovered America in Bob Dylan's 115th Dream??????
Listen America. Freedom is Not Free 1 Amendment 2 Amendment 🇺🇸
random thing but i think pronouncing it "times they are a-changin'" is vvv important