@ 🤙 I know, seen him a couple times… I think the majority sound better in Studio, even the music. Lots of people don’t realize that even though a band has regular musicians, Session musicians make the released version sound so much better
I saw him a couple of times in the 60s, 70s, and once in the 80s & thought he was wonderful. 60s: one concert a lot of the audience was doing heavy heckling because he wasn't sticking to acoustic. I was very young & the heckling scared me, they were so vehement. Loved his Jesus tours! Good musicians & backup singers. I was lucky to live in Rhode Island & could also get discount tickets to the Newport Folk Festival & Newport Jazz Festivals, so saw some block busting talent. You Got to Serve Somebody, Ain't Gonna Work on Maggie's Farm, Hurricane, Farewell Angelina, too many to name!
@@GTLyons You'd better watch that interview better. He made a deal with the Chief Commander-on this earth and in a world we can't see. Those were his exact words. If you interpret this entity as Satan, it says a lot about you, not him.
@@bake7148 I've long had a suspicion about that: in exchange for being the songwriting success that he has become, Dylan vowed to continue touring for the rest of his life, until he literally drops dead during a concert some night. Sounded like good deal . . . to a young romantic like Dylan. Would explain why he's still touring (doesn't need the money, hasn't got anything new to say) . . . and why he often seems like he's not so enthusiastic about it at age 83. But a deal is a deal . . .
@@QED_ All that is understood, but what I can't understand is why many people have interpreted what he said as being "a deal with the devil" Couldn't his "commander" have been the Lord, who, through many of his songs, you can clearly see that he believes in? Many people, including myself when I was younger and more foolish, often would pray to God, and promise something in return for something He would give me. Unless you are talking about an interview other than his interview on 60 minutes, I can't see anything that would convince me that this is a deal with the devil. HIs "chief commander" is God.
@@HoneyBee03272 "Blowing in the Wind", "All Along the Watchtower", those are old iconic songs, in the spirit of Woody Guthrie. You don't think they're good?
Watching this reaction today it occurred to me what an amazing journey you are on. My generation was introduced to the music you react to day by day over a period of years. We listened to it every day. It's hard for me to imagine how powerful it is to hear decades worth of music in a few short months. You handle it beautifully...my head would be exploding. Love seeing you enjoying the music that formed so many of us. So much fun taking this trip along with you!!
Well said. Experiencing these reactions is a time machine back to the soundtrack of my life. Just like knowing where I was when Kennedy was shot, I can place myself in time to the tune of these songs. What a life it's been.
This song is said to have changed Rock and Roll forever. This created big waves because the Folk community was stubbornly staying acoustic. Dylan came onstage at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 (he was their Folk darling, at the time) playing electric guitar and they booed him, but this song changed everything. Rolling Stone magazine voted it #1 of the 500 greatest songs of all time.
I don't agree - it's a classic song that I love but there are at least 50 of his songs I love more, many of which I think are objectively greater, including the 2 the presenter has already heard.
I love watching people react to this song for the first time. Listen to it again and again, and you'll find something new every listen. I have done so for the last 50 years!
Another song by him is - Subterranean Homesick Blues . Weird Al's version called "Bob" shows how brilliant he is. In original version Bob Dylan has cue cards with words , Al manage to write a song where the lyrics on the cue cards read the same forwards and backwards . Most do not catch this , it is hard enough to write songs never mind writing song where the lyrics are same forwards and backwards.
@ZacCostilla Try Rainy Day Women #12 and 35 They'll stone you when your song title is wrong They'll stone you when you faked you knew the song They'll stone you when you cop an attitude They'll stone you when you're arrogant and rude The title of the song is quite well known It's not Everybody Must Get Stoned
@@hazelmaylebrun6243 I was agreeing with @Johnmac62. Sorry that wasn’t clear. Been listening to Bob Dylan since my early childhood because my mom was a fan as a teenager when Dylan was breaking from his folk singer reputation.
The woman was Edie Sedgwick, and the "diplomat" who "carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat" and "took from [her] everything he could steal" was Andy Warhol. Research that whole story.
Wow, I looked it up. I'm a big Bob fan and never knew this. From what I saw it sounds like she was a victim and didn't deserve this song about her. Life long mental problems because of an abusive father. She is rumored to have aborted a baby fathered by Bob Dylan. The moral of the story is don't piss off Bob Dylan or he'll write a song about you.
Bob Dylan was a real poet! It's hard to choose a favorite song, but I think I'll go with Positively 4th Street. So blessed to grow up when I did. We boomers had the best music ever. ❤
The story of the organ player is one of the greatest in rock history. As a teen, Al Kooper had written a big hit, This Diamond Ring. His manager was Dylan's also. He begged him to let him sit in on a Dylan recording session. The manager said he could only watch. Kooper brought his guitar anyway. Upon seeing Mike Bloomfield warm up he knew he was out of his league. The manager left the room telling Al to stay put. When the band went in to start recording this song, he followed in and sat at the organ. He had played piano but not organ. So he played chords a little after the beat so he didnt come in early. Dylan told the engineer to turn up the organ. Kooper than became an in-demand organ player. The Stones used him. He did the horn arrangement for You Cant always Get what you want. He then started Blood Sweat and Tears, and later "discovered" Lynrd Skynrd and produced their early records.
Yes! And Al was literally a kid, like twenty-two, and he was just lucky that the organ player had left the organ on, because he didn't even know how to turn a B-3 on. I don't think I knew or remembered that he had written "This Diamond Ring".
The song is rumored to be about trust fund heiress/model Edie Sedgwick, who he dated briefly. She then took up with Andy Warhol , who bled her dry financially to fund his projects, then dumped her. AS for his sound, he started in folk music. When he went 'electric', a lot of his 'folk purist' fans abandoned him, feeling he sold out. Truth is, it just made him bigger.
Watch Factory Girl if you want to get to know Edie. She’s a fascinating yet tragic character. I dressed as her for Halloween after the movie came out in 2006.
Listen to his song called the "Hurricane" a true story about an upcoming boxer who was wrongfully convicted of a crime and got a life sentence in prison.
I remember the night he was arrested - We were screwing around the tracks in Paterson and went to see what all the cop cars were doing by the local bar.
@@jakehayes9945 I agree. I read a lot about the Hurricane. I'm pretty sure he was guilty as hell, but people like Dylan had to change things to fit their activist image.
Dylan is a musical genius. Another one that came out when I was in college (61-65). He became friends with Johnny Cash and Johnny recorded several Bob Dylan songs and they became big hits. This is a classic about a woman's fall from grace as only Bob Dylan could write it.
A poet who understood no one listened to or read poetry anymore, but everyone listened to music, all the time, everywhere. So his poetry became lyrics.
@@dangabbert3944 yeah he is. Most geniuses produce their most important work pretty young though. Now in his eighties, I know he still performs and is very worth seeing if you get a chance, but most of what he has to say to us he's said over the last sixty years.
I’m not “proud“ of anything I couldn’t control, but I am proud to appreciate Bob Dylan. I’m *glad* to have been born in 1968 - and *proud* to have chosen to listen to the music of the Beatles, Dylan, the Doors, & the greats while all of my age mates were listening to Def Leppard or AC/DC. ❤
Did you know Bob finish that album in New York with Al Schmidt And then he was in Minnesota for Christmas and he didn’t like half the songs the way they were recorded so he had his brother round up some local musicians, and they went to a local studio in Minnesota and they re-cut half the album some of the more popular songs to like tangled up in blue, and I think maybe shelter from the storm. Both versions are available, but the album that we know in love was cut with some local cats that his brother threw together on a whim, and they knocked it out.
'Positively 4th Street' is on the first (and best) Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits album (1967). That's where I know the song from, since I was a kid, along with occasional radio play 👍😁
@@scott3744 Me too. They have love affairs and then write about the break-ups afterward. Jackson Browne is a lot kinder when he writes about an ex-lover.
He was a one-man band. He wore a frame set-up over his shoulders with about 3/4 instruments with his harmonica strapped to his shoulder in front of his mouth.
"Hurricane" sung by Bob Dylan about middleweight boxer Rubin Carter incorrectly in prison for murder (8 minutes plus done live for PBS, good video to see). This protest song helped spur a small sort of underground movement to get justice (meaning release) for Carter. SEE the 1999 movie starring Denzel Washington as Rubin Carter.
knockin on heavens door - an absolute must. on of the top15 songs ever recorded in my book. also 'rainy day women ' ! great song w a hilarious back story.
Yes!! “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” is one of my all-time top of the top songs. 🙌💯 @Black Pegasus could even do a compare/contrast of Dylan’s original with the GnR cover (also wonderful IMO - nobody whines like Axl Rose 😂)
The lyrical, genius, Bob Dylan ! Greatest songwriter in American music history ! This song is an example of why so many rappers pay homage to Bob Dylan. I’m sure you can see the similarities.
This is why you can't judge legendary musicians by only listening to one song. Bob Dylan has decades of classic music. In my opinion he is the best songwriter I have ever heard. I recommend listening to his albums catalog like, Highway 61 Revisited, Blood on the Tracks, and my favorite Blonde on Blonde. All classics!
When I was seventeen in the mountains of Montana I would get up put this song on my record player on loud and repeat and head of on the dirt road to climb up into the forests with this music playing... "how does it feel?"...... It felt so fine.... As fine as the memory of it feels at 77.....
In 1965 Dylan changed the entire music industry with this song. At 6:34, “Like A Rolling Stone” was nearly twice as long as the average single, some top 40 stations wouldn't play or tried to cut it to keep with their format. Also, the album Highway 61 Revisited was the change in Dylan from his acoustic to rock.
End to end, this album is fire. Desolation Row is jam packed with imagery, and the lyrics sound almost as if Kerouac wrote them. I know Dylan was a big fan of the Beat movement, and that song is a monument to it (IMO).
Yes Desolation Row is one of my all time favourite Dylan songs the imagery is mind blowing I also love the guitar picking although Dylan didn’t play this
He has hundreds of songs and many, if not most, are outstanding. It's easily a full work week of non-stop listening to get a grasp of what he's done and what he's capable of. And then there are all those covers of his songs by others, starting with Jimi Hendrix...
Sometimes Bob Dylan can't carry a note when he sings but when listening to the words of his songs, his poetry, his voice grabs you and touches your soul. I love all of his songs and his voice, too.
This is Bob Dylan after (or around) the time when he went electric. It was a huge deal, dividing his loyal audience. The people who lived through it will tell it far better than I can, but the fans who didn't like it were more than a little hostile to the new direction in Dylan's music. I grew up hearing my parents playing Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits every weekend, so I love it all, the acoustic and the electric Bob Dylan 👍😁
There are a couple of bootleg videos on TH-cam of Bob working with Johnny Cash. They had such a mutual admiration going for each other and enjoyed each other's company so much! The video of their collaboration for One Too Many Mornings is a riot! Bob loved Johnny and still performs some of Johnny's songs on his current tour. Johnny's Big River is Bob's favorite song from any artist!
This song is considered the quintessential rock song , a masterpiece of songwriting. "When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to loose" one of best lines in the song. The great Al Kooper improvised the Hammond organ riff which Dylan loved. Mike Bloomfield is on guitar. I remember when I first heard this song in '65 and how different it was from what came before it. One of the impact of this song was how it influenced what came after and how it liberated song writers to expand their vision of what they could write about. Exactly who if anyone it was written about is not known. There have been many suggestions, but none appears to have been verified by Dylan and perhaps it’s a metaphorical story of loss of innocence and downfall of someone living the Bohemian life.
Absolutely one of my favorite Bob Dylan songs!! Yes, this is absolutely about a fall from grace. This particular song propelled him from being considered only a folk artist to a rock star.
@ I believe in the interview with Ed Bradley Dylan explained it was about the people who turned against him when he lived in Greenwich village ! I don’t remember exactly what he said some thing about him, changing his style in music…. But one thing about positively fourth Street man I can think of a lot of people I can relate that with, and he really goes off in that one ! I personally refer to Bob Dylan as the lyrical genius
His first hit song. 6 minutes or however long it was, something new at the time. Everyone was dancing slow to this song. So glad to hear you have the same reaction!
I have this on a 45rpm record that I bought the day it was released. Can't beat his verses and poetry. 'Positively 4th Street' is another of his very very famous songs from this same era as 'Like A Rolling Stone ' was.I would recommend it next.
Right now we are at a time when there are a lot of people with money living really good lives and flaunting them in front of other people. And many of those people have done little to create that wealth. This is a perfect time for this song because there are a lot of people about to fall and end up like rolling stones.
Agreed. Would much rather see a genuine/honest reaction than just another TH-camr doing a paid reaction performance. Makes sense why so many do that when the goal is to grow the channel.
I was ten when this song came out. Every night when I went to bed, I put my vinyl 45s, as many as would go on my little record player. This was the first one that dropped. I have always loved all music. My son played Knockin on Heavens Door for my mother. She called me and admonished me for not telling her that her grandson could play guitar. After that he played the song for her every time she asked until one day, she asked him if he would play it at her funeral. Of course he did.
Books have been written about this song (& deservedly so Imo)! An epic song to me! The lyrics are endlessly interesting and the music offers so many ways to listen with the interplay of guitars, organ and harmonica. One of my favorite songs of all-time!
The 20th century's greatest poet at the top of his game - it doesn't get better than this. If you liked this diss track, you should definitely check out 'Positively 4th Street', Bob pulls no punches. Great choice, great reaction as always!
Hurricane, the story of the Hurricane is a social protest song about a true story. I remember hearing it on the radio when I was about 20 years old, Bob Dylan was on all my friends playlists.
Dylan was a mystical teacher. He taught on the fractal. Truth no matter what angle viewed or level of understanding. He is singing about Everyman and woman. Trust in a politician and fall. Consider the stones in the pyramid - the stones are static in God. The woman is the Soul (psyche or Sophia). The song is personal to everyone. The man is Spirit.
You need to listen to Bob Dylan’s “The Hurricane.” The live version is the best. He is so talented. I didn’t appreciate his voice or songs when I was a kid, but I do now. ❤
Love love Bob Dylan! Saw him 3 times in my life. Best lyricist/storyteller ever! My faves include Hurricane, Shelter From The Storm, It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue, Tangled Up In Blue, Just Like A Women and My Back Pages from his 30th Anniversary Concert at Madison Square Gardens with Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty and Neil Young. You won’t regret any of these.
Bob Dylan is a pure genius. Real name is Robert Alan Zimmerman. Other great songs you may enjoy all along the watchtower. Sad eyed lady of the lowlands. Times they are a changing. Subterranean homesick blues and so much more. Love Dylan. See the new movie a complete unknown with timothee chalamet.
BP, Bob Dylan grew up in my neck of the woods! He's come back many times to perform in our arenas, including an outdoor concert! EDIT: For a Sunday Bob has Christian songs he's written and recorded, "Every Grain Of Sand"; "Slow Train Coming"; "You Got To Serve Somebody".........
Killer song, - "so" much. ❤ We all knew he was great & exceptional... but boy, he got his share of ppl goofing on his singing style... it was so unusual in the 60s & 70s. Talk about a dose of reality & a slice of life, right? And pulling on the heart strings with those guitar strings! 🎸 That Harmonica is everything and all the other elements as well.
This was the first Dylan song I ever heard, "Like a Rolling Stone", and it was in 1965 along with Simon and Garfunkel's, "Sounds of Silence" the same late night on WBZ 103 in Boston! It was the Dick Summer show! I bought both albums as soon as possible and the rest was pure bliss from both! Still two of my favorite music choices!
@@ADogNamedBoo I miss those old late-night shows on BZ. It was only news when I moved away later. I also liked the Night Train Show on WMEX in Boston with Arnie Ginsburg. My mother worked at The Adventure Car Hop out on route one north in Saugus. From 1961 through 1964 I got those ten Top ten 45's they gave away every week. I got to meet Arnie at the Adventure a few times. I still have the records after all these years. Rip Woo Woo Gingsburger! He gave me and my younger brother tickets to see Kris Jensen sing "Torture" at the Surf Nantasket Ballroom in Scituate or Hull. He said he had a surprise for us when we got there. Long story short the surprise was Roy Orbison. I still didn't know who he was then till I heard the opening notes of "Only the Lonely" and that voice, I still didn't know his name, only that he was A-7 on the juke box in a local cafeteria in Salem. I still have all his music and his Monument 45 rpm records. Elvis would never sing Roy's songs because he thought he couldn't do them justice. The Big O had a lot of them! Sorry about the book. Thanks for being here, we both are seniors now. Missing Ma and Dad too RIP, Thanks Dad for that long ride to Scituate.
@ What a great story! I loved “Pretty Woman”, I wore that 45 out! Oh Lord, Nantasket! My only sort-of-similar story is that I’m from Framingham and we had Carousel Theater, a little theater in the round. I saw Lovin’ Spoonful several times, the Association AND Jimi Hendrix! Sometimes it feels like a dream, but I looked up Carousel Theater and it listed him as having played there. I think I was 15. Thanks for chatting!!
@@ADogNamedBoo I'm not sure you could get WMEX 1510 out in Framingham because it only had 5000 watts of power while WBZ 103 has 50.000 watts. I can get BZ in Maine now, and in Virgina on a good night years ago. I've seen B.B. King twice and other shows at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly. I love the seating there because the stage rotates, and everyone has a front row seat part of the time. He was old in 2005 and 2008. He explained that he named all his guitars Lucille because he didn't want to make a mistake and get in trouble if he forgot where he was. I like his songs "The Thrill is Gone" and "Nobody Loves Me but my Momma" and I'm not sure about her sometimes! I love the blues. I also saw Jon Anderson in Beverly at The Cabot Cinema. Jon was the singer for the progressive rock band Yes when they did "Fragile", "Close to The Edge" albums and most of their big hits in the seventy's. When I was a teen, the Cabot was called The Ware Theater on Cabot Street. It's still pretty plush in red velvet and the seating is the best. It does cost more than 15 cents for the two movies a news reel and a couple of cartoons at a Saturday matinee. I don't think they have those anymore, but they did Magic shows for a long time.
@ OMG I’m in Maine too! That’s funny! Wow, your bona fides are amazing! I love the blues too, B.B. King was aptly named, for sure. That’s great you got to see so many artists! I saw Beach Boys/Buffalo Springfield and others on one bill in Boston. Also Jefferson Airplane and Iron Butterfly at the (small) gym at Brandeis University. Absolutely could get WMEX.
This is electric Bob Dylan. He and The Band played the Newport Folk Festival and did acoustic the first set, then came out with this on their second set and started a riot. His original fans never got over it .
When l was in my teens and my dad and I use to listen to this on the radio we would joke it's so long you could leave the radio on and come back after shopping and it would still be on. My dad said he must really be mad at that woman he's singing about😊. We loved the song and Bob Dylan was the voice of my generation. This black Detroit chick loves his song and l am glad my handsome curly haired boy timothée chalamet is playing my handsome curly haired man Bob Dylan. Bob's son jacobk is also very handsome and l love his songs also especially the video Sleep walker.
It’s when Dylan went “electric “ in 1965. So much more to him. The Hurricane, Tangled up in Blue…Lay lady Lay…. OMG…. You have so much to hear… I envy your ears❤
Dylan won a Nobel prize in literature for his songwriting
And then, only as Dylan would… kind of refused to acknowledge it😂
Glad u did the studio version, Dylan while cool, never sounded good in a live concert
@@LBinsocal I've seen him about 10 times, the last time was around Labor Day, he really stunk up the joint.
@ 🤙 I know, seen him a couple times… I think the majority sound better in Studio, even the music. Lots of people don’t realize that even though a band has regular musicians, Session musicians make the released version sound so much better
I saw him a couple of times in the 60s, 70s, and once in the 80s & thought he was wonderful.
60s: one concert a lot of the audience was doing heavy heckling because he wasn't sticking to acoustic. I was very young & the heckling scared me, they were so vehement.
Loved his Jesus tours! Good musicians & backup singers.
I was lucky to live in Rhode Island & could also get discount tickets to the Newport Folk Festival & Newport Jazz Festivals, so saw some block busting talent.
You Got to Serve Somebody, Ain't Gonna Work on Maggie's Farm, Hurricane, Farewell Angelina, too many to name!
Hurricane by Bob Dylan is always worth a listen.😊
My favorite ❤️
Absolute Masterpiece
This should be next. BP this is a song about the boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and his false imprisonment.
Agree, Hurricane is a must 💯
This is the one, no question.
As a rapper you would adore Bob Dylan’s song called Subterranean Homesick Blues.
Definitely! I was just about to say this! Also tombstone blues is a lyrical masterpiece!
@@themojoslide The entire Highway 61 album concluding with the masterpiece "Desolation Row"!!
@davidfowler2720 I was just thinking ...what would I write on the cards....today ?
It's Alright Ma is better for that avenue.
the very first rap song Ive ever heard
THE TIMES THEY ARE A'CHANGIN'.
Tangled Up In Blue
@@JackStraw1961 Shelter from the storm, Positively 4th Street, Sub-terrainin homesick blues. …
@@Anaj-us4eo All of them. ;^}
Sadly they're not
Voted the greatest rock song in history and deservedly so!!!
yeah google the interview of old Bob admitting that he made a deal with the Devil...
@@GTLyons There's always Hope...even for the rest of us!
@@GTLyons You'd better watch that interview better. He made a deal with the Chief Commander-on this earth and in a world we can't see. Those were his exact words. If you interpret this entity as Satan, it says a lot about you, not him.
@@bake7148 I've long had a suspicion about that: in exchange for being the songwriting success that he has become, Dylan vowed to continue touring for the rest of his life, until he literally drops dead during a concert some night. Sounded like good deal . . . to a young romantic like Dylan. Would explain why he's still touring (doesn't need the money, hasn't got anything new to say) . . . and why he often seems like he's not so enthusiastic about it at age 83. But a deal is a deal . . .
@@QED_ All that is understood, but what I can't understand is why many people have interpreted what he said as being "a deal with the devil" Couldn't his "commander" have been the Lord, who, through many of his songs, you can clearly see that he believes in? Many people, including myself when I was younger and more foolish, often would pray to God, and promise something in return for something He would give me. Unless you are talking about an interview other than his interview on 60 minutes, I can't see anything that would convince me that this is a deal with the devil. HIs "chief commander" is God.
Bob Dylan - Lay, Lady, Lay
His only good one imo
my favorite Dylan song
@@HoneyBee03272 "Blowing in the Wind", "All Along the Watchtower", those are old iconic songs, in the spirit of Woody Guthrie. You don't think they're good?
💯 Love this song
@@rubrokenHard to find a duff Dylan song - so many to choose from and lyrical masterpieces, but he is an acquired taste for many.
Dylan's TANGLED UP IN BLUE = The best story song ever.
Really a lyrical masterpiece
Yes !!
Close, but Hard Rain is superior.
TANGLED UP IN BLUE is amazing, but VISIONS OF JOHANNA or A SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE.
Watching this reaction today it occurred to me what an amazing journey you are on. My generation was introduced to the music you react to day by day over a period of years. We listened to it every day. It's hard for me to imagine how powerful it is to hear decades worth of music in a few short months. You handle it beautifully...my head would be exploding. Love seeing you enjoying the music that formed so many of us. So much fun taking this trip along with you!!
amen
Nothing but truth
Beautifully said. And very true.
Well said. Experiencing these reactions is a time machine back to the soundtrack of my life. Just like knowing where I was when Kennedy was shot, I can place myself in time to the tune of these songs. What a life it's been.
Never thought of it from that perspective!! As an older music fan....we take it all for granted!
This song is said to have changed Rock and Roll forever. This created big waves because the Folk community was stubbornly staying acoustic. Dylan came onstage at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 (he was their Folk darling, at the time) playing electric guitar and they booed him, but this song changed everything. Rolling Stone magazine voted it #1 of the 500 greatest songs of all time.
He was booed terribly at Newport - until Johnny Cash came out and told the crowd "shut up and let him sing"!
Blowing in the Wind
2nd this. 🎯
Absolutely!!👍
Don't forget knocking on heavens door 👍🤝
Positively 4th street❤❤❤great song....i can't sing either😂😂😂
It’s not just the best Bob Dylan song you have heard, it’s the best Bob Dylan song anyone has ever heard.
I don't agree - it's a classic song that I love but there are at least 50 of his songs I love more, many of which I think are objectively greater, including the 2 the presenter has already heard.
@@QED_Why not think for yourself?
@@QED_ Heartless and BRUTAL.............Dylan is humorless and angry when it comes to all women. Joan Biaz got him back.
I love watching people react to this song for the first time. Listen to it again and again, and you'll find something new every listen. I have done so for the last 50 years!
The Band and Bob Dylan together was a match made in music heaven.
It was Magical
Another song by him is - Subterranean Homesick Blues . Weird Al's version called "Bob" shows how brilliant he is. In original version Bob Dylan has cue cards with words , Al manage to write a song where the lyrics on the cue cards read the same forwards and backwards . Most do not catch this , it is hard enough to write songs never mind writing song where the lyrics are same forwards and backwards.
My favorite Dylan.
I second that!!!
"Everybody Must Get Stoned" is another Dylan masterpiece.
Very cool song. Actual Title, Rainy Day Woman 12 & 35
That's not its title though, is it... LOL
@@hazelmaylebrun6243yes, it is
@ZacCostilla Try Rainy Day Women #12 and 35
They'll stone you when your song title is wrong
They'll stone you when you faked you knew the song
They'll stone you when you cop an attitude
They'll stone you when you're arrogant and rude
The title of the song is quite well known
It's not Everybody Must Get Stoned
@@hazelmaylebrun6243 I was agreeing with @Johnmac62. Sorry that wasn’t clear. Been listening to Bob Dylan since my early childhood because my mom was a fan as a teenager when Dylan was breaking from his folk singer reputation.
Bob Dylan, the great America poet and song writer. He was so ahead of his time. His music is a Masterpiece.
That boy can write tunes!
The woman was Edie Sedgwick, and the "diplomat" who "carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat" and "took from [her] everything he could steal" was Andy Warhol. Research that whole story.
Wow, I looked it up. I'm a big Bob fan and never knew this. From what I saw it sounds like she was a victim and didn't deserve this song about her. Life long mental problems because of an abusive father. She is rumored to have aborted a baby fathered by Bob Dylan. The moral of the story is don't piss off Bob Dylan or he'll write a song about you.
@@nelsonx5326 yeah but she rejected him, so this was his ‘diss’ song…
Andy wasn't orange, but there's a pending lesson here ...
Warhol is also the “mystery tramp” with the vacuum eyes.
To be accurate: "some people say...". I don't think any Dylan song can be pinned down like that.
Bob Dylan- Don't think twice, its alright. Probably my all time favorite song. So much meaning!
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan introduced the world to this incredible songwriter, poet, musician. Masters of War, is another great one off that album.
Bob Dylan was a real poet! It's hard to choose a favorite song, but I think I'll go with Positively 4th Street. So blessed to grow up when I did. We boomers had the best music ever. ❤
The story of the organ player is one of the greatest in rock history. As a teen, Al Kooper had written a big hit, This Diamond Ring. His manager was Dylan's also. He begged him to let him sit in on a Dylan recording session. The manager said he could only watch. Kooper brought his guitar anyway. Upon seeing Mike Bloomfield warm up he knew he was out of his league. The manager left the room telling Al to stay put. When the band went in to start recording this song, he followed in and sat at the organ. He had played piano but not organ. So he played chords a little after the beat so he didnt come in early. Dylan told the engineer to turn up the organ. Kooper than became an in-demand organ player. The Stones used him. He did the horn arrangement for You Cant always Get what you want. He then started Blood Sweat and Tears, and later "discovered" Lynrd Skynrd and produced their early records.
Thanks for writing all that down so I didn't have to!
I love this story. You'd think Dylan would throw Kooper out for being off the beat, but instead he loved the syncopation it brought to the song.
Yes! And Al was literally a kid, like twenty-two, and he was just lucky that the organ player had left the organ on, because he didn't even know how to turn a B-3 on.
I don't think I knew or remembered that he had written "This Diamond Ring".
The song is rumored to be about trust fund heiress/model Edie Sedgwick, who he dated briefly. She then took up with Andy Warhol , who bled her dry financially to fund his projects, then dumped her.
AS for his sound, he started in folk music. When he went 'electric', a lot of his 'folk purist' fans abandoned him, feeling he sold out. Truth is, it just made him bigger.
Mike Bloomfield was COOKING on his Telecaster for this one!
Watch Factory Girl if you want to get to know Edie. She’s a fascinating yet tragic character. I dressed as her for Halloween after the movie came out in 2006.
Listen to his song called the "Hurricane" a true story about an upcoming boxer who was wrongfully convicted of a crime and got a life sentence in prison.
I remember the night he was arrested - We were screwing around the tracks in Paterson and went to see what all the cop cars were doing by the local bar.
I remember covering this case in my high school law class. I’m not so sure he was wrongfully convicted.
There was a movie made about that. Denzel Washington played the main character.
@@jakehayes9945 I agree. I read a lot about the Hurricane. I'm pretty sure he was guilty as hell, but people like Dylan had to change things to fit their activist image.
Dylan is a musical genius. Another one that came out when I was in college (61-65). He became friends with Johnny Cash and Johnny recorded several Bob Dylan songs and they became big hits. This is a classic about a woman's fall from grace as only Bob Dylan could write it.
He's a brutal ass......
Bob Dylan songs were eye openers - and really fit with the times
Dylan was a poet, not just an outstanding musician. He had a great spirit about him.
A poet who understood no one listened to or read poetry anymore, but everyone listened to music, all the time, everywhere. So his poetry became lyrics.
He’s still alive, you know?
@@dangabbert3944 yeah he is. Most geniuses produce their most important work pretty young though. Now in his eighties, I know he still performs and is very worth seeing if you get a chance, but most of what he has to say to us he's said over the last sixty years.
@ , I have seen him many times, including last year. He’s hit and miss these days on his concerts, but still worth it
One of the best songwriters ever and an inspiration of a generation.
Proud to be part of the BEST generation EVER!!! Thanks for being blown away by Bob. We sure were too! 😍😍😍
I’m not “proud“ of anything I couldn’t control, but I am proud to appreciate Bob Dylan.
I’m *glad* to have been born in 1968 - and *proud* to have chosen to listen to the music of the Beatles, Dylan, the Doors, & the greats while all of my age mates were listening to Def Leppard or AC/DC.
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Bob Dylan is iconic In American Pie He's the Jester Who Stole the Kings Thorny Crown (Elvis)😅
Bob Dylan is an original and no one can match him. BLOOD ON THE TRACKS album is one that stayed playing in my house.
Did you know Bob finish that album in New York with Al Schmidt And then he was in Minnesota for Christmas and he didn’t like half the songs the way they were recorded so he had his brother round up some local musicians, and they went to a local studio in Minnesota and they re-cut half the album some of the more popular songs to like tangled up in blue, and I think maybe shelter from the storm. Both versions are available, but the album that we know in love was cut with some local cats that his brother threw together on a whim, and they knocked it out.
@ That’s amazing and I want to say thanks for sharing.
Postively 4th Street is a diss track from the same album with the same sound. I think you'd really enjoy it
'Positively 4th Street' is on the first (and best) Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits album (1967). That's where I know the song from, since I was a kid, along with occasional radio play 👍😁
Absolutely. 'Love that song!
@@scott3744 I love Positively 4th Street, but I love "Diamonds and Rust" when Joan Baez dissed him a LOT better.
@@JeanetteFaith I love them both! 😁
@@scott3744 Me too. They have love affairs and then write about the break-ups afterward. Jackson Browne is a lot kinder when he writes about an ex-lover.
Thank you for understanding this song after your first listen. It's a brilliant song that was absolutely ground-breaking for music in 1965.
We had never heard anything like Dylan when he came on the scene and boy did we... LIKE... It!
He was a one-man band. He wore a frame set-up over his shoulders with about 3/4 instruments with his harmonica strapped to his shoulder in front of his mouth.
"Hurricane" sung by Bob Dylan about middleweight boxer Rubin Carter incorrectly in prison for murder (8 minutes plus done live for PBS, good video to see). This protest song helped spur a small sort of underground movement to get justice (meaning release) for Carter. SEE the 1999 movie starring Denzel Washington as Rubin Carter.
knockin on heavens door - an absolute must. on of the top15 songs ever recorded in my book. also 'rainy day women ' ! great song w a hilarious back story.
Yes!! “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” is one of my all-time top of the top songs. 🙌💯
@Black Pegasus could even do a compare/contrast of Dylan’s original with the GnR cover (also wonderful IMO - nobody whines like Axl Rose 😂)
@@goosebump801 Dylan was an amazing poet/lyricist and musician. Axl was a much more talented singer and performer (pretty sure Bob would agree).
Blowing in the wind!
Dylan’s song but I prefer Donovan’s version
Based on heiress Edie Sedgwick, one of Warhol’s crew. Also, Rolling Stone magazine named it #1 rock song of all time.
The lyrical, genius, Bob Dylan ! Greatest songwriter in American music history ! This song is an example of why so many rappers pay homage to Bob Dylan. I’m sure you can see the similarities.
Dylan is a super icon. To not know this song is criminal if you're a rocker. ❤ BP, welcome!!!!
love Dylan.....he is the only songwriter to receive a Nobel Prize in the Literary category.....a genius poet!!!
Bob Dylan's son Jakob Dylan formed the band The Wallflowers. Their song "One Headlight" is one of my favorites. He reminds me of his dad so much.
I suggest ' Don't Think Twice, It's All Right ' a lovely song
I agree, that is one great song.
This is why you can't judge legendary musicians by only listening to one song. Bob Dylan has decades of classic music. In my opinion he is the best songwriter I have ever heard. I recommend listening to his albums catalog like, Highway 61 Revisited, Blood on the Tracks, and my favorite Blonde on Blonde. All classics!
When I was seventeen in the mountains of Montana I would get up put this song on my record player on loud and repeat and head of on the dirt road to climb up into the forests with this music playing... "how does it feel?"...... It felt so fine.... As fine as the memory of it feels at 77.....
In 1965 Dylan changed the entire music industry with this song. At 6:34, “Like A Rolling Stone” was nearly twice as long as the average single, some top 40 stations wouldn't play or tried to cut it to keep with their format. Also, the album Highway 61 Revisited was the change in Dylan from his acoustic to rock.
End to end, this album is fire. Desolation Row is jam packed with imagery, and the lyrics sound almost as if Kerouac wrote them. I know Dylan was a big fan of the Beat movement, and that song is a monument to it (IMO).
Yes Desolation Row is one of my all time favourite Dylan songs the imagery is mind blowing I also love the guitar picking although Dylan didn’t play this
Positively 4th Street. One of the best Dylan ‘dis’ tracks and has a similar vibe to this one.
Yes, I came here to make the same recommendation.
Idiot Wind is a non-subtle contender
He has hundreds of songs and many, if not most, are outstanding. It's easily a full work week of non-stop listening to get a grasp of what he's done and what he's capable of. And then there are all those covers of his songs by others, starting with Jimi Hendrix...
I was at the 1969 Isle of Wight Festvial watching Bob and The Band performing this. Great times. Positively 4th Street is also very good.
Highway 61 Revisited is my absolute favorite Dylan album. every song is a gem.
Great album!
Love it , but blood on the tracks is awesome as well.
Sometimes Bob Dylan can't carry a note when he sings but when listening to the words of his songs, his poetry, his voice grabs you and touches your soul. I love all of his songs and his voice, too.
A Hard Rains Gonna Fall
What she said!!!
This is Bob Dylan after (or around) the time when he went electric. It was a huge deal, dividing his loyal audience. The people who lived through it will tell it far better than I can, but the fans who didn't like it were more than a little hostile to the new direction in Dylan's music. I grew up hearing my parents playing Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits every weekend, so I love it all, the acoustic and the electric Bob Dylan 👍😁
There are a couple of bootleg videos on TH-cam of Bob working with Johnny Cash. They had such a mutual admiration going for each other and enjoyed each other's company so much! The video of their collaboration for One Too Many Mornings is a riot!
Bob loved Johnny and still performs some of Johnny's songs on his current tour. Johnny's Big River is Bob's favorite song from any artist!
This song is considered the quintessential rock song , a masterpiece of songwriting. "When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to loose" one of best lines in the song. The great Al Kooper improvised the Hammond organ riff which Dylan loved. Mike Bloomfield is on guitar. I remember when I first heard this song in '65 and how different it was from what came before it. One of the impact of this song was how it influenced what came after and how it liberated song writers to expand their vision of what they could write about. Exactly who if anyone it was written about is not known. There have been many suggestions, but none appears to have been verified by Dylan and perhaps it’s a metaphorical story of loss of innocence and downfall of someone living the Bohemian life.
My favorite by him is "Shelter From The Storm". He was also part of "We Are The World".
mine too, it's a spiritual thing with me. 😊
Absolutely one of my favorite Bob Dylan songs!! Yes, this is absolutely about a fall from grace. This particular song propelled him from being considered only a folk artist to a rock star.
Another great from Minnesota A lyrical poet
Oh yeah sure youbetcha 😂❤
Positively fourth Street ! Just like a woman ! It ain’t me, Babe !! you don’t know what you’re missing brother this guy tells a story with every song
Yup- if he thinks this is a dis song- fourth street is the definitive.
@ I believe in the interview with Ed Bradley Dylan explained it was about the people who turned against him when he lived in Greenwich village ! I don’t remember exactly what he said some thing about him, changing his style in music…. But one thing about positively fourth Street man I can think of a lot of people I can relate that with, and he really goes off in that one ! I personally refer to Bob Dylan as the lyrical genius
My favorite Dylan song. This man's music is so fire!
This song changed popular music forever.
His first hit song. 6 minutes or however long it was, something new at the time. Everyone was dancing slow to this song. So glad to hear you have the same reaction!
I have this on a 45rpm record that I bought the day it was released. Can't beat his verses and poetry. 'Positively 4th Street' is another of his very very famous songs from this same era as 'Like A Rolling Stone ' was.I would recommend it next.
Right now we are at a time when there are a lot of people with money living really good lives and flaunting them in front of other people. And many of those people have done little to create that wealth. This is a perfect time for this song because there are a lot of people about to fall and end up like rolling stones.
Positively Fourth Street.
I wouldn’t want to be on the wrong side of Bob Dylan’s pen!
Absolutely! May be my favorite.
Love the honesty.... It's not possible to like everything like some other reactors pretend to.
Agreed. Would much rather see a genuine/honest reaction than just another TH-camr doing a paid reaction performance. Makes sense why so many do that when the goal is to grow the channel.
Bob Dylan, the soundtrack of my youth! Got into his music 1965! He is the absolute best. Anything from this album is definitely worth a listen.
Memory - junior high school, student DJ’s played this song over the intercom many times right before homeroom each day. Fire.
Lay Lady Lay. I grew up listening to him. Great music ever.
Love all of Bob Dylan's music! I'm so glad I found your channel. Watching your reaction is priceless!
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love to hear BOB tell a story.!!!!
Dylan always makes me remember friends from grammar school .....we were so close and now it's been 30 years removed, just faded memories.
I was ten when this song came out. Every night when I went to bed, I put my vinyl 45s, as many as would go on my little record player. This was the first one that dropped. I have always loved all music. My son played Knockin on Heavens Door for my mother. She called me and admonished me for not telling her that her grandson could play guitar. After that he played the song for her every time she asked until one day, she asked him if he would play it at her funeral. Of course he did.
I was too and I bought every album of his as soon as it came out
Books have been written about this song (& deservedly so Imo)! An epic song to me! The lyrics are endlessly interesting and the music offers so many ways to listen with the interplay of guitars, organ and harmonica. One of my favorite songs of all-time!
Top 10 song all-time.
One of my favourite singers.
Try his Subteranean Homesick Blues, Rainy Day Women, The Times They are a Changing . Dylan has so many ! Thanks for all your great reactions 😊
The 20th century's greatest poet at the top of his game - it doesn't get better than this. If you liked this diss track, you should definitely check out 'Positively 4th Street', Bob pulls no punches. Great choice, great reaction as always!
Hurricane, the story of the Hurricane is a social protest song about a true story. I remember hearing it on the radio when I was about 20 years old, Bob Dylan was on all my friends playlists.
I love this song, angsty and keeps stepping up the whole song
Every Bob Dylan's song is worth reacting to especially when you pay attention to lyrics, Idiot wind, Ballad of a Thin Man, Tangled up in blue
Have always loved Bob Dylan, he seems to calm me. I love his voice and he is a great poet as well. Very big in the '60's.
Dylan was a mystical teacher. He taught on the fractal. Truth no matter what angle viewed or level of understanding. He is singing about Everyman and woman. Trust in a politician and fall.
Consider the stones in the pyramid - the stones are static in God. The woman is the Soul (psyche or Sophia). The song is personal to everyone. The man is Spirit.
You need to listen to Bob Dylan’s “The Hurricane.” The live version is the best. He is so talented. I didn’t appreciate his voice or songs when I was a kid, but I do now. ❤
Such an amazing song! dbl ♥ You gotta check out his song - *Tangled Up In Blue*
Please do the official studio version (NOT any live version)!
Girl from the North Country is def worth a visit. ❤️
great song, 1965. it's about edie sedgewick.
Love love Bob Dylan! Saw him 3 times in my life. Best lyricist/storyteller ever! My faves include Hurricane, Shelter From The Storm, It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue, Tangled Up In Blue, Just Like A Women and My Back Pages from his 30th Anniversary Concert at Madison Square Gardens with Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty and Neil Young. You won’t regret any of these.
This was Dylan’s entry into rock from folk.
Bob Dylan is a pure genius. Real name is Robert Alan Zimmerman. Other great songs you may enjoy all along the watchtower. Sad eyed lady of the lowlands. Times they are a changing. Subterranean homesick blues and so much more. Love Dylan. See the new movie a complete unknown with timothee chalamet.
BP, Bob Dylan grew up in my neck of the woods!
He's come back many times to perform in our arenas, including an outdoor concert!
EDIT: For a Sunday Bob has Christian songs he's written and recorded,
"Every Grain Of Sand";
"Slow Train Coming";
"You Got To Serve Somebody".........
Classic Dylan. Good rabbit hole.
Killer song, - "so" much. ❤ We all knew he was great & exceptional... but boy, he got his share of ppl goofing on his singing style... it was so unusual in the 60s & 70s.
Talk about a dose of reality & a slice of life, right? And pulling on the heart strings with those guitar strings! 🎸 That Harmonica is everything and all the other elements as well.
This was the first Dylan song I ever heard, "Like a Rolling Stone", and it was in 1965 along with Simon and Garfunkel's, "Sounds of Silence" the same late night on WBZ 103 in Boston! It was the Dick Summer show! I bought both albums as soon as possible and the rest was pure bliss from both! Still two of my favorite music choices!
Dick Summer’s Sunday Subway!! Never ever missed it! Played local stuff too. Orpheus was my fave! Thanks for reminding me!
@@ADogNamedBoo I miss those old late-night shows on BZ. It was only news when I moved away later. I also liked the Night Train Show on WMEX in Boston with Arnie Ginsburg. My mother worked at The Adventure Car Hop out on route one north in Saugus. From 1961 through 1964 I got those ten Top ten 45's they gave away every week. I got to meet Arnie at the Adventure a few times. I still have the records after all these years. Rip Woo Woo Gingsburger! He gave me and my younger brother tickets to see Kris Jensen sing "Torture" at the Surf Nantasket Ballroom in Scituate or Hull. He said he had a surprise for us when we got there. Long story short the surprise was Roy Orbison. I still didn't know who he was then till I heard the opening notes of "Only the Lonely" and that voice, I still didn't know his name, only that he was A-7 on the juke box in a local cafeteria in Salem. I still have all his music and his Monument 45 rpm records. Elvis would never sing Roy's songs because he thought he couldn't do them justice. The Big O had a lot of them! Sorry about the book. Thanks for being here, we both are seniors now. Missing Ma and Dad too RIP, Thanks Dad for that long ride to Scituate.
@ What a great story! I loved “Pretty Woman”, I wore that 45 out! Oh Lord, Nantasket! My only sort-of-similar story is that I’m from Framingham and we had Carousel Theater, a little theater in the round. I saw Lovin’ Spoonful several times, the Association AND Jimi Hendrix! Sometimes it feels like a dream, but I looked up Carousel Theater and it listed him as having played there. I think I was 15. Thanks for chatting!!
@@ADogNamedBoo I'm not sure you could get WMEX 1510 out in Framingham because it only had 5000 watts of power while WBZ 103 has 50.000 watts. I can get BZ in Maine now, and in Virgina on a good night years ago. I've seen B.B. King twice and other shows at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly. I love the seating there because the stage rotates, and everyone has a front row seat part of the time. He was old in 2005 and 2008. He explained that he named all his guitars Lucille because he didn't want to make a mistake and get in trouble if he forgot where he was. I like his songs "The Thrill is Gone" and "Nobody Loves Me but my Momma" and I'm not sure about her sometimes! I love the blues. I also saw Jon Anderson in Beverly at The Cabot Cinema. Jon was the singer for the progressive rock band Yes when they did "Fragile", "Close to The Edge" albums and most of their big hits in the seventy's. When I was a teen, the Cabot was called The Ware Theater on Cabot Street. It's still pretty plush in red velvet and the seating is the best. It does cost more than 15 cents for the two movies a news reel and a couple of cartoons at a Saturday matinee. I don't think they have those anymore, but they did Magic shows for a long time.
@ OMG I’m in Maine too! That’s funny! Wow, your bona fides are amazing! I love the blues too, B.B. King was aptly named, for sure. That’s great you got to see so many artists! I saw Beach Boys/Buffalo Springfield and others on one bill in Boston. Also Jefferson Airplane and Iron Butterfly at the (small) gym at Brandeis University. Absolutely could get WMEX.
This is electric Bob Dylan. He and The Band played the Newport Folk Festival and did acoustic the first set, then came out with this on their second set and started a riot. His original fans never got over it .
There’s a Bob Dylan biopic film that’s coming out called A Complete Unknown. He’s played by Timothee Chalamet.
When l was in my teens and my dad and I use to listen to this on the radio we would joke it's so long you could leave the radio on and come back after shopping and it would still be on. My dad said he must really be mad at that woman he's singing about😊. We loved the song and Bob Dylan was the voice of my generation. This black Detroit chick loves his song and l am glad my handsome curly haired boy timothée chalamet is playing my handsome curly haired man Bob Dylan. Bob's son jacobk is also very handsome and l love his songs also especially the video Sleep walker.
Everybody Must Get Stoned! best Dylan song
It’s when Dylan went “electric “ in 1965. So much more to him. The Hurricane, Tangled up in Blue…Lay lady Lay…. OMG…. You have so much to hear… I envy your ears❤
"It's Alright, Ma, I'm Only Bleeding" is another brilliant Dylan song...
Another harmonica song that is fun to play.
Great reaction. God bless y’all.