I have never seen anyone interpret Dylan on the fly like you did here. That was amazing and you gave me a lot to think about with this song. Of course, Dylan is just a genius. He is in a different world of songwriters. Great reaction my friend
Incredible writing and there is so much to unpack. It's definitely music i will be revisiting at different times in my life and see if i can catch more or if personal experience changes some interpretations. Thanks so much for watching.
@@SaeedReacts. Many of the lines brought images from the news to my mind when I heard this song - for example: "I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin’" - I saw the video of Billy Holiday singing "Strange Fruit" "I met a young woman whose body was burning" - the famous famous ‘Napalm Girl’ from defining Vietnam War photo "Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world" - photos of the tsunami in Japan
You can search your whole life but you'll never figure out Bob Dylan. As soon as you think you have it, he's done a 180 and gone in a totally different direction.
I am watching you from my bedroom in Bangkok, at almost 77 yrs old, been listening to Dylan since 1963 ALL THE TIME. and as a result owned 3 record stores so that I could feed my appetite for new music and make enough money to pay for my University fees.....and always, there was Dylan sending me his tunes......they were blowin in the wind.
My dad taught me my love of music. He saw Bob Dylan in a small cafe in New York, before he was well known. It makes me emotional to hear the music we shared.
This song comes from my favorite Bob Dylan album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. It's his 2nd album released in 1963. (but the first with mostly Dylan penned songs) Freewheelin is loaded with classics including this song and Blowin in the Wind, Masters of War, and Don't Think Twice. Freewheelin announced to the world that a serious, exquisite songwriter had taken the stage.
Dylan said in a 60 Minutes interview that he doesn't understand how he wrote these songs. He quoted lines from "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), which you should react to. He is literally stunned at what he wrote in the early 60s. He challenges the interviewer - You sit down one day and try to write this. He was stunned by his own writing. In those years, The Beatles were writing "She loves you yeah, yeah yeah." Dylan was on a completely other level of vibration.
@@ramonarellano4988 Dylan likes to needle people, he often says tongue in cheek stuff, like when he said he was a song and dance man - Dylan can't dance !!!!! Lol. Love him for it too
@dyl-annfan6 , I remember an interview with Rolling Stone magazine where he implied to the journalist that he was death already, he even showed him the old newspaper article where it says that Robert Zimmerman died on a motorcycle accident in 1966, I was like "oh come on Bob" !!.
@@ramonarellano4988 Tongue in cheek stuff, he wasn't keen on the press asking silly questions etc. so he'd reply with silly answers. "Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press" famous lyric. He has said many ambiguous stuff, just to keep the "mystic" going, throw them off the scent, press fell for it.
Bob just keeps on coming, right in your face, swamping your mind with sharp edged images. He's puzzled now where it all came from, just as we were then.
THERE SEEMS SOMETHING ABOUT BEING A YOUNG PERSON, like Dylan's young man writing these rich ascerbic words ... That young rage, that clear eyed horror, the pain of that young disenchantment, isolation ... Thoroughly enjoyed your musings on this and lennon's 'Mother'
I had always thought that Dylan was covering a traditional song with this, but he wrote it himself in 1962, when he was 21. It wasn't a classic then, but it is now.
This song is based on a poem called Lord Randal. "Oh where ha'e ye been, Lord Randall my son? O where ha'e ye been, my handsome young man?" "I ha'e been to the wild wood: mother, make my bed soon, For I’m weary wi' hunting, and fain wald lie down."
I love his voice too..to me it gas a lot of character..I appreciate these Dylan songs your doing..I love your thoughts on them and sharing some your life...love and respect to you..
When you get into Dylan you go deep you will end up insane, He's the greatest creator of songs ever. His phrasing and delivery and Imagery is like a film coming out of your speakers,
If I remember correctly, when the first Gulf War was in early 1990, and the Grammy Awards was on American TV, Bob Dylan appeared and played this song, not his current music, which would have been up for awards. Dylan had his message to tell. On 9/11/2001, during the planes attacks, I was in Chicago, in Art graduate school, and we could bring in CD's to play in the Art rooms while we worked. I had Dylan's 3rd album from 1963, and it was in rotation with other music - wanted to distract my mind. His song "With God on our Side" came on,....and it freaked me out, on that day. Dylan recounts some of American history, and that each side believes God is on their side,....and on 9/11/01 we didn't initially know who/why the the attacks were happening - yet, I knew Dylan's song was correct, that both America, and our "enemy" would claim God was on their side in this conflict -and it would not be an easy conflict. Music can share, make one think, and emotions.
The overall story I understand about bob is that he always knew who he was to be. He said The hardest thing about knowing this is not telling anyone ' cause when you tell people your dreams ,they'll kill it' so much truth.
Remember, many of these songs were written when he was 21 - 25 yrs. old. That's called raw talent. Baez does this song, and many others also, but Baez does it better than the "many others". RAW TALENT. It was a Gift he shared with us all; and we are better for it, and we thank him for it. (Try One Too Many Mornings or One More Night.) He wrote many topical songs, ballads, and some of the very best unrequited love songs. Thank you for listening to him.
Take a note - Dylan was 21 when he wrote this. Btw, the album cover is Greenwich Village, the famous artsy neighborhood back in the 1960s (and today, to a degree - nowadays up and coming artists don't have enough money to rent in the Village though).
SO ALLLLLL THE WHILE THE BEATLES ARE GETTING OFF THE PLANE TO THE U.S IN ( 64 ) BOB'S BUSY WRITINGGGG ALL THESE INSANE INCREDIBLE BARS SAEED, IT'S CRAZYYYY!💯😊
I thought you might like this one, thanks!! Hard to believe Bob was only 21 when he wrote this! I find it a very emotional song. Def one of my favourites and written over 60 years ago!
Patti Smith played this song in the Nobel Prize cerenomy for Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan's songs helped me through my toughest times in my life. You can't feel lonesome while listening to those songs. And I played them a lot when I was a young student as a street musician in South Europe. You're an inspiration for understanding Dylan's songs when you're first listening ❤🎉......and I know my song well before I start sinking......Greetings from Germany ❤
I came across an interesting documentary recently, where Bob Dylan was discussing the meanings of his songs from the 60's & 70's. Surprisingly, he said he looks back now and feels that at that time he was sort of 'possessed' to write the way he did, and he could not replicate it now.
"I've seen guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children". These words are too powerful for me. I weep every time I hear this track and I'm thankful that I do. I can't imagine listening to this and feeling nothing. I hope I die before I become that numb. Fuck it. I think it is the best song in the world.
Such an intense poetic song. I love the last verse: After all of the troubling, searing imagery of the earlier verses, Dylan brings it back to the necessary human response to suffering and danger, which is: COURAGE. The courage to see, to speak, to act. Totally relevant today.
😮 I picked this song and sang it at my nephews funeral. (Way before Cash passed) I thought later maybe it’s wasn’t fitting. I didn’t know this about Cash. Wow.
Agree listen to "Chimes of Freedom" - "Jokerman" "Ballad of Hollis Brown" so so much to listen to from Bob Dylan, no one comes close to his canon of work from all genres etc
It's such a pleasure to see you appreciate Dylan's genius. His songs took me through so many changes in my life, since I was a kid. Please listen to 'Bob Dylan's Dream' and the hauntingly beautiful 'Girl From North Country' which was the only other songwriters song Crosby Stills and Nash performed at their shows. They said it's the song they should have written ❤
Really great, thoughtful reaction. Many things I never thought of, some things I interpret quite differently - and THAT is the beauty and magic of Dylan's music (and all true art, in my opinion), that it can inspire profound and personal thoughts and emotions that don't have to adhere to only one interpretation. Dylan's music really is "something else" - well said. One small detail about this recording that speaks to Dylan's authenticity and confidence and style; on the "who did you meet" line, the first time he says "what did you meet" by mistake and laughs at himself, and KEPT IT IN. That speaks volumes about the artist, the man, and what was important to him. I'm a part time musician/performer, and I always think of the last line, "I'll know my song well before I start singing." But it's so profound for anyone in any context. Basically, get your shit together before you act upon the world!
Thanks! Exactly, that is the amazing thing about such great writing. And thanks for sharing that story about this line. Very interesting and telling indeed!
@@SaeedReacts. The live version of Chimes Of Freedom from Bruce Springsteen in 1988 before 100,000 people in East Berlin, a full year before the wall came down has to be seen.
That last verse gets me every time. "'And I'll know my song well before I start singin.'" Genius. Written at a time when the Cold War (the Cuban Missle Crisis) made nuclear war a very real possibility. You know, like it still is. Sigh.
Think it was written pre Cuban missile crisis but regardless Dylan has said the song is not about nuclear war in that sense but just about the general state of the world and foreboding.
Thanks for your spontaneous and heartfelt reaction to this powerful powerful song. Listening to you experience it for the first time made it new for me too, like the first time all over again. That song is just mesmerizing. And I like how you said, how does someone write something like that at such a young age?
So cool revisiting all these Dylan songs as you discover him. Great reactions, Saeed. Luv when you said in wonderment; 'sheesh, and this is only one song!' 😂 🤙
Thanks for sharing your insightful analysis as always. I think Dylan is an enigma; one of those rare geniuses who happen every 400 years or so like Shakespeare. We can only marvel at his writing and not comprehend how his mind clearly sees the world and truths and captures it perfectly in his poetry in ways that bring us awe.
I think this is my favourite Dylan song, if it is actually possible to choose only one. I believe I once read that each line he wrote were the beginnings of songs he didn’t have time to write. Something like that in any case. The hard rain is nuclear war. So happy you got to this one, excellent reaction. My other favourite from this album is Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright. Very different, the lyrics are not vague, but still profound in its own way. Another dis track but different from the others you’ve reacted to.
Hi. When i was young i worked at roy rogers a fastfood resturant. Every night at closing time, we would count the burgers & the beef sandwiches any food left over and we were ordered to trash the food. Throw it right in the trash..homeless people starving two blocks away and we are throwing 12 beef 10 chicken & 13 burgers in the trash. I was told at another resturant that they would donate their leftovers but one time a homeless person said they found a safetypin in their food and they sued..which ended the donations forever.😢 i don't understand our world ..enough food for everyone leftover fastfood alone could cover it.😢
I was born in 1959 when Orlando International Airport was still McCoy Air Force Base. When I was maybe 3. I heard and saw a very loud jet fly close over our house, only a few miles away from the jetport. It's the only time that ever happened because the jets and their sonic booms could damage things in a residential neighborhood. It's always the practice of the military to only pass Mach 1 off the coast of very rural areas. I recounted the memory to my brother who was 6 at the time and asked if that could have been during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He told me it definitely was and it happened a couple of times. Which is how I dated the memory to October 1962. Bob Dillon was the voice of the first generations to know that the world as we knew it could be destroyed on a whim or worse, an accident. It's a hard rain always felt as if the protagonist were telling about an alternative reality buried under this one.
I think the "hard rain" is the consequences of where the world was headed in the early '60's, and we sure haven't learned a damn thing since. Similar in thought to his other song, "The Times They Are A'Changin".... "You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone...."
I appreciate your Dylan trip now and I probably would say we the commenters love your insight and knowledge because of your profession..your empathy and compassion for a time you weren’t born in,it’s fascinating… When you comfortably get a free moment try Leon Russell’s cover to this song
It's greats to see how easily you understand the depth of these songs. Especially on your first listen. Congrats. Keep up the good work. I believe you have the most insightful dylan reactions I have watched. And I've watched many. ...
Highly recommend you watch this on youtube - very unusual and unique thing to do: Swedish TV personality Fredrik Wikingsson has a truly one-of-a-kind experience when he sees Bob Dylan perform in Philadelphia. A long-time fan of Dylan's, Wikingsson attends the concert completely by himself. No one else is in the audience. The reason is to gauge how a human experiences a significant moment differently with or without someone to share that moment with. The results are deeply insightful.
If you react to American Pie (named 5th greatest song of the 20th century) one of the verses refers to Dylan as "the Jester in a coat he borrowed from James Dean"...this is the coat in the picture. You can Google Images on James Dean.
Yeah, this is a good one. How do I always seem to forget the depth of his mastery between listens? His lyrics, his poetry, his voice, his phrasing, his playing … simply the master ❤ ps Slow train coming!
BLOWIN IN THE WIND, DON'T THINK TWICE, IT'S ALRIGHT, I SHALL BE FREE 👍SO THERE'S A FEW GREATS FROM THIS ALBUM ( THE FREEWHEELIN BOB DYLAN ) SAEED 😊 CYA!
Documentary/commentary on Bob trajectory from N.Y. to early 90's by two handfulls of Brits including Clinton Heylin, a prolific writer whose life has spent on Dylan and Shakespeare. "The Bob Dylan Phenomenon | Music Documentary | Peter Doggett | Malcolm Dome | Mick Gold"
In my opinion, having read a dozen or more books about and by Dylan, it is impossible to explain his genius. He went to the University of Minnesota but attended only a few classes before dropping out and heading for New York City, where he arrived in the bitter cold and where he knew no one.
It’s poetry. Those words mean exactly what each person who hears them thinks they mean. No different than a painting. He wrote this when thousands of Americans younger than you were being killed in Vietnam every month. Why would that not even cross your mind?
Thank you soooo much...very good what you see in this song...believe me it changes all your life...like so many dylan Songs changes its meaning to me in my life....please make chimes of freedom....i know you like it very much....greetings from germany...
Robert Zimmerman, a good Jewish man, from Minnesota, where they mined Iron Ore, for industry, did want to work in mines -he escaped to play his guitar, and write epic lyrics, and influence minds.
Dylan has bright blue eyes , 10000 broken tongues maybe reference to “Tower of Babel” thus the name. Bob more than often goes Biblical , it seems always on his mind. Mr Robert Zimmerman has purpose in this world May his best work be soon to come.
This was written around the time of the Cuban missile crisis when it seemed nuclear war was about to break out. Dylan here is influenced by William Blake's mystical poetry, and these images just poured out of him, almost supernaturally. There's a lot of Biblical language in this, too. The "hard rain" was most likely nuclear missiles, or else a metaphor for the final calamity.
And now you know why Bob Dylan is considered "The Prophet of our Generation!" Bob and Jackson Brown were considered the The Poets and Prophets of our Generation because of lyrics and music like this and could be collected and literally become a "Bible" And now you know why Bob Dylan got a few years ago a Nobel Peace Prize in Literature because of his poetic profound deep lyrics!!! This album was included in the Prize award.
When Beat poet Allen Ginsburg heard this song, he said he wept knowing the torch had been passed from the Beats to the next generation of poets.
@@johno1765 that’s so inspiring and deeply felt
And the daisy chain was continued.
Ginsburg is in the scene of Dylan's video Subterranean Homesick Blues.
@@petergarayt9634there are photos online of Dylan and Ginsberg together at Jack Kerouac’s grave.
I have never seen anyone interpret Dylan on the fly like you did here. That was amazing and you gave me a lot to think about with this song. Of course, Dylan is just a genius. He is in a different world of songwriters. Great reaction my friend
Incredible writing and there is so much to unpack. It's definitely music i will be revisiting at different times in my life and see if i can catch more or if personal experience changes some interpretations. Thanks so much for watching.
@@SaeedReacts. Many of the lines brought images from the news to my mind when I heard this song - for example:
"I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin’" - I saw the video of Billy Holiday singing "Strange Fruit"
"I met a young woman whose body was burning" - the famous famous ‘Napalm Girl’ from defining Vietnam War photo
"Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world" - photos of the tsunami in Japan
👏The deepest rabbit hole of all 👍
You can search your whole life but you'll never figure out Bob Dylan. As soon as you think you have it, he's done a 180 and gone in a totally different direction.
I am watching you from my bedroom in Bangkok, at almost 77 yrs old, been listening to Dylan since 1963 ALL THE TIME. and as a result owned 3 record stores so that I could feed my appetite for new music and make enough money to pay for my University fees.....and always, there was Dylan sending me his tunes......they were blowin in the wind.
That is amazing! Thanks for sharing that.
My dad taught me my love of music. He saw Bob Dylan in a small cafe in New York, before he was well known. It makes me emotional to hear the music we shared.
My all time favorite Dylan song!
This song comes from my favorite Bob Dylan album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. It's his 2nd album released in 1963. (but the first with mostly Dylan penned songs) Freewheelin is loaded with classics including this song and Blowin in the Wind, Masters of War, and Don't Think Twice.
Freewheelin announced to the world that a serious, exquisite songwriter had taken the stage.
Dylan said in a 60 Minutes interview that he doesn't understand how he wrote these songs. He quoted lines from "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), which you should react to. He is literally stunned at what he wrote in the early 60s. He challenges the interviewer - You sit down one day and try to write this. He was stunned by his own writing. In those years, The Beatles were writing "She loves you yeah, yeah yeah." Dylan was on a completely other level of vibration.
@@DanMcManus I saw that interview, and people were saying that he sold his soul to the devil 😈 😳 😂.
@@ramonarellano4988 Dylan likes to needle people, he often says tongue in cheek stuff, like when he said he was a song and dance man - Dylan can't dance !!!!! Lol. Love him for it too
@dyl-annfan6 , I remember an interview with Rolling Stone magazine where he implied to the journalist that he was death already, he even showed him the old newspaper article where it says that Robert Zimmerman died on a motorcycle accident in 1966, I was like "oh come on Bob" !!.
@@ramonarellano4988 Tongue in cheek stuff, he wasn't keen on the press asking silly questions etc. so he'd reply with silly answers. "Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press" famous lyric. He has said many ambiguous stuff, just to keep the "mystic" going, throw them off the scent, press fell for it.
@@DanMcManus just like Paul Simon. I'm not God fearing, but makes me wonder.
60's and 70's lyrics basically raised me and showed me a world I couldn't see on my own.
Bob just keeps on coming, right in your face, swamping your mind with sharp edged images. He's puzzled now where it all came from, just as we were then.
THERE SEEMS SOMETHING ABOUT BEING A YOUNG PERSON, like Dylan's young man writing these rich ascerbic words ... That young rage, that clear eyed horror, the pain of that young disenchantment, isolation ... Thoroughly enjoyed your musings on this and lennon's 'Mother'
Well said! The pain of young disenchantment. I feel that!
Thanks for watching.
Great observations. "It's Alright Ma, I'm only Bleeding' is another lyricall masterpiece
That is a great song! Reacted to that one as well.
I had always thought that Dylan was covering a traditional song with this, but he wrote it himself in 1962, when he was 21. It wasn't a classic then, but it is now.
This song is based on a poem called Lord Randal.
"Oh where ha'e ye been, Lord Randall my son?
O where ha'e ye been, my handsome young man?"
"I ha'e been to the wild wood: mother, make my bed soon,
For I’m weary wi' hunting, and fain wald lie down."
Interesting! Thanks for sharing that.
there is a reason he won the Noel prize for literature
man i love your interpretations. Dylan always makes you think.
He definitely does! Thanks so much for watching!
I love his voice too..to me it gas a lot of character..I appreciate these Dylan songs your doing..I love your thoughts on them and sharing some your life...love and respect to you..
When you get into Dylan you go deep you will end up insane, He's the greatest creator of songs ever. His phrasing and delivery and Imagery is like a film coming out of your speakers,
He really was way ahead of his time 👍🏻👍🏻
100%. To write this at 21 🤯
@@SaeedReacts. Definitely mind-blowing
“I don’t know, I don’t know.” Exactly!
I love listening to your comments, Saeed. You often give me insights that I hadn't considered before. You certainly do with this one.
If I remember correctly, when the first Gulf War was in early 1990, and the Grammy Awards was on American TV, Bob Dylan appeared and played this song, not his current music, which would have been up for awards. Dylan had his message to tell.
On 9/11/2001, during the planes attacks, I was in Chicago, in Art graduate school, and we could bring in CD's to play in the Art rooms while we worked. I had Dylan's 3rd album from 1963, and it was in rotation with other music - wanted to distract my mind. His song "With God on our Side" came on,....and it freaked me out, on that day. Dylan recounts some of American history, and that each side believes God is on their side,....and on 9/11/01 we didn't initially know who/why the the attacks were happening - yet, I knew Dylan's song was correct, that both America, and our "enemy" would claim God was on their side in this conflict -and it would not be an easy conflict. Music can share, make one think, and emotions.
I love watching you be amazed by Dylan. He's so important.
The overall story I understand about bob is that he always knew who he was to be. He said The hardest thing about knowing this is not telling anyone ' cause when you tell people your dreams ,they'll kill it' so much truth.
Remember, many of these songs were written when he was 21 - 25 yrs. old. That's called raw talent. Baez does this song, and many others also, but Baez does it better than the "many others". RAW TALENT. It was a Gift he shared with us all; and we are better for it, and we thank him for it. (Try One Too Many Mornings or One More Night.) He wrote many topical songs, ballads, and some of the very best unrequited love songs. Thank you for listening to him.
this song brings a tear
Dylan performed this song with George Harrison a few years later at the Concert for Bangladesh.
Take a note - Dylan was 21 when he wrote this.
Btw, the album cover is Greenwich Village, the famous artsy neighborhood back in the 1960s (and today, to a degree - nowadays up and coming artists don't have enough money to rent in the Village though).
Yeah, definitely not today - New York Town ain't what it used to be...
@@andro99991 With his then girlfriend Suze Rotolo.
Another interesting reaction!
Great reaction Sareed. You can put into words what I've had circling in my mind for the last 48 years. Keep the reactions coming. From Bob, England.
Ditto
Thank you, Bob. The writing is just so layered! Love it.
SO ALLLLLL THE WHILE THE BEATLES ARE GETTING OFF THE PLANE TO THE U.S IN ( 64 ) BOB'S BUSY WRITINGGGG ALL THESE INSANE INCREDIBLE BARS SAEED, IT'S CRAZYYYY!💯😊
We were very close to thermonuclear war when he wrote this. He put an album's worth of work into one simple song, an urgency born of fear.
I thought you might like this one, thanks!! Hard to believe Bob was only 21 when he wrote this! I find it a very emotional song. Def one of my favourites and written over 60 years ago!
Just mindblowing!
Thanks for watching.
Patti Smith played this song in the Nobel Prize cerenomy for Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan's songs helped me through my toughest times in my life. You can't feel lonesome while listening to those songs. And I played them a lot when I was a young student as a street musician in South Europe.
You're an inspiration for understanding Dylan's songs when you're first listening ❤🎉......and I know my song well before I start sinking......Greetings from Germany ❤
Much respect for Street musicians! That is awesome!
This song as well as many of his other songs show why he deserved Nobel Prize he was awarded!!!!!
To me the hard rain falling is like a punishment is coming that will cleanse the world and we best understand that.
Love this song!
I came across an interesting documentary recently, where Bob Dylan was discussing the meanings of his songs from the 60's & 70's. Surprisingly, he said he looks back now and feels that at that time he was sort of 'possessed' to write the way he did, and he could not replicate it now.
"I've seen guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children". These words are too powerful for me. I weep every time I hear this track and I'm thankful that I do. I can't imagine listening to this and feeling nothing. I hope I die before I become that numb. Fuck it. I think it is the best song in the world.
thanks for sharing this
Thanks!
Thanks so much for the support! 🙏🏽
I would recommend It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding, for amazing lyrics. But there's many more.
He did it.
I reacted to that song. Video should be in the Bob Dylan reactions playlist.
Such an intense poetic song. I love the last verse: After all of the troubling, searing imagery of the earlier verses, Dylan brings it back to the necessary human response to suffering and danger, which is: COURAGE. The courage to see, to speak, to act. Totally relevant today.
So many great Dylan songs! Keep going!
Definitely will explore more!
Some say his magnum opus is every grain of sand which was performed at the funeral of Johnny Cash..
😮 I picked this song and sang it at my nephews funeral. (Way before Cash passed) I thought later maybe it’s wasn’t fitting. I didn’t know this about Cash. Wow.
Its a masterpiece, but i wouldn't call it his magnum opus. Unless you mean during the Christian trilogy of albums.
@@carlahelin5203 I believe it was performed at the service by Emmylou Harris and Sheryl Crow..
@@meltimmins6368 wow! I wonder if it was taped, although kind of grim to do that.
The young Bob Dylan was the Arthur Rimbaud of our generation.
Agree listen to "Chimes of Freedom" - "Jokerman" "Ballad of Hollis Brown" so so much to listen to from Bob Dylan, no one comes close to his canon of work from all genres etc
I always thought this song was a mom asking his son who had just come back from war. Dylan is genius.
It's such a pleasure to see you appreciate Dylan's genius. His songs took me through so many changes in my life, since I was a kid. Please listen to 'Bob Dylan's Dream' and the hauntingly beautiful 'Girl From North Country' which was the only other songwriters song Crosby Stills and Nash performed at their shows. They said it's the song they should have written ❤
Will add that one to my list. Thanks so much for watching!
Dont look back (doc) is an essential watch
His writing on this song is so great. So symbolic.
The hard rain refers to nuclear fallout. This song references the Cuban missile crisis
Loving your Dylan reaction, Saeed. ❤
Thanks so much, Carla!
Really great, thoughtful reaction. Many things I never thought of, some things I interpret quite differently - and THAT is the beauty and magic of Dylan's music (and all true art, in my opinion), that it can inspire profound and personal thoughts and emotions that don't have to adhere to only one interpretation. Dylan's music really is "something else" - well said. One small detail about this recording that speaks to Dylan's authenticity and confidence and style; on the "who did you meet" line, the first time he says "what did you meet" by mistake and laughs at himself, and KEPT IT IN. That speaks volumes about the artist, the man, and what was important to him. I'm a part time musician/performer, and I always think of the last line, "I'll know my song well before I start singing." But it's so profound for anyone in any context. Basically, get your shit together before you act upon the world!
Thanks! Exactly, that is the amazing thing about such great writing.
And thanks for sharing that story about this line. Very interesting and telling indeed!
You're really giving Dylan your consideration. Its cool to watch.
This has been a masterclass in songwriting. Amazing. Thanks for watching!
First time listen to this song is the cover version by Eddie Brickel, in the soundtrack Oliver Stone's 'Born In The 4th of July'. What a song...!!
You are a very insightful man💛
Thank you so much, Helen!
Pls Listen to "chimes of freedom" by him 🙏🏼 it's profound as usual
That one is on my to do list!
@@SaeedReacts. The live version of Chimes Of Freedom from Bruce Springsteen in 1988 before 100,000 people in East Berlin, a full year before the wall came down has to be seen.
That last verse gets me every time. "'And I'll know my song well before I start singin.'" Genius.
Written at a time when the Cold War (the Cuban Missle Crisis) made nuclear war a very real possibility. You know, like it still is. Sigh.
Incredible song.
And it seems once again very relevant today.
You need to listen to master's of war next . Still relevant today as it was in 1965. An angry Dylan.
Think it was written pre Cuban missile crisis but regardless Dylan has said the song is not about nuclear war in that sense but just about the general state of the world and foreboding.
Thank you for that reaction. For me it's the most important song I've heard, it changed me at the age of 14.
Such a powerful song. Thanks for watching.
Thanks for your spontaneous and heartfelt reaction to this powerful powerful song. Listening to you experience it for the first time made it new for me too, like the first time all over again. That song is just mesmerizing. And I like how you said, how does someone write something like that at such a young age?
Incredible writing. Genius. Thanks so much for watching.
So cool revisiting all these Dylan songs as you discover him.
Great reactions, Saeed. Luv when you said in wonderment; 'sheesh, and this is only one song!' 😂 🤙
It really is mindblowing. This is just one song of this calibre and he has so many 😅
I appreciate you as well 😊
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Thanks for sharing your insightful analysis as always. I think Dylan is an enigma; one of those rare geniuses who happen every 400 years or so like Shakespeare. We can only marvel at his writing and not comprehend how his mind clearly sees the world and truths and captures it perfectly in his poetry in ways that bring us awe.
He truly is. Well said!
Love your work, glad there's new seekers of the deep great Mystery.
Thanks so much! Love digging into these. A lot to be learned!
One of Dylan's best songs is Don't Think Twice It's Alright, do the studio version. Killer lyrics about the end of a relationship.
I think this is my favourite Dylan song, if it is actually possible to choose only one. I believe I once read that each line he wrote were the beginnings of songs he didn’t have time to write. Something like that in any case. The hard rain is nuclear war. So happy you got to this one, excellent reaction. My other favourite from this album is Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright. Very different, the lyrics are not vague, but still profound in its own way. Another dis track but different from the others you’ve reacted to.
Dylan, when asked, said it wasn’t a nuclear rain but a hard rain. I think of it like the flood in the bible, of a reckoning that is to come.
Another great track. Very interesting how he wrote this one.
Thanks for watching and the recommendation.
Hi. When i was young i worked at roy rogers a fastfood resturant. Every night at closing time, we would count the burgers & the beef sandwiches any food left over and we were ordered to trash the food. Throw it right in the trash..homeless people starving two blocks away and we are throwing 12 beef 10 chicken & 13 burgers in the trash. I was told at another resturant that they would donate their leftovers but one time a homeless person said they found a safetypin in their food and they sued..which ended the donations forever.😢 i don't understand our world ..enough food for everyone leftover fastfood alone could cover it.😢
I was born in 1959 when Orlando International Airport was still McCoy Air Force Base. When I was maybe 3. I heard and saw a very loud jet fly close over our house, only a few miles away from the jetport. It's the only time that ever happened because the jets and their sonic booms could damage things in a residential neighborhood. It's always the practice of the military to only pass Mach 1 off the coast of very rural areas. I recounted the memory to my brother who was 6 at the time and asked if that could have been during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
He told me it definitely was and it happened a couple of times. Which is how I dated the memory to October 1962.
Bob Dillon was the voice of the first generations to know that the world as we knew it could be destroyed on a whim or worse, an accident.
It's a hard rain always felt as if the protagonist were telling about an alternative reality buried under this one.
I think the "hard rain" is the consequences of where the world was headed in the early '60's, and we sure haven't learned a damn thing since. Similar in thought to his other song, "The Times They Are A'Changin".... "You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone...."
The Times They Are A Changing
I appreciate your Dylan trip now and I probably would say we the commenters love your insight and knowledge because of your profession..your empathy and compassion for a time you weren’t born in,it’s fascinating…
When you comfortably get a free moment try Leon Russell’s cover to this song
It's greats to see how easily you understand the depth of these songs. Especially on your first listen. Congrats. Keep up the good work. I believe you have the most insightful dylan reactions I have watched. And I've watched many. ...
Thank you so much for the kind words! Have a wonderful day.
My mothers clan and tribe Lakota People gave a statue on the rezervation titled NOT AFRAID TO LOOK
There is RAW and then there is Bob.........together it's brilliant !
Highly recommend you watch this on youtube - very unusual and unique thing to do: Swedish TV personality Fredrik Wikingsson has a truly one-of-a-kind experience when he sees Bob Dylan perform in Philadelphia. A long-time fan of Dylan's, Wikingsson attends the concert completely by himself. No one else is in the audience. The reason is to gauge how a human experiences a significant moment differently with or without someone to share that moment with. The results are deeply insightful.
Definitely sounds interesting. Must look that up.
Fredrik's reaction is just wonderful, tear jerking to watch (well for me it was !!)
Recommendation for another Dylan: “Masters of War.” Hard-hitting.
such a good song. so many meanings
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Definitely need to explore Guthrie's music as well.
Yes !! Keep it going !!
If you react to American Pie (named 5th greatest song of the 20th century) one of the verses refers to Dylan as "the Jester in a coat he borrowed from James Dean"...this is the coat in the picture. You can Google Images on James Dean.
Oh wow! Thanks for letting me know about that.
Excellent Saeed. Really good take. Try Frankie Lee and Judas Priest 😊. That got me hooked on Dylan many years ago. Or….Desolation Row. You choose 😊
This is the song I'm talking about to ....people who might want to understand things, but it is also very scary, a crude portrait of reality.
Yeah, this is a good one. How do I always seem to forget the depth of his mastery between listens? His lyrics, his poetry, his voice, his phrasing, his playing … simply the master ❤ ps Slow train coming!
It truly is amazing. So many layers! Thanks for watching.
Excellent breakdown once again....appreciated
Thank so much for watching!
BLOWIN IN THE WIND, DON'T THINK TWICE, IT'S ALRIGHT, I SHALL BE FREE 👍SO THERE'S A FEW GREATS FROM THIS ALBUM ( THE FREEWHEELIN BOB DYLAN ) SAEED 😊 CYA!
Documentary/commentary on Bob trajectory from N.Y. to early 90's by two handfulls of Brits including Clinton Heylin, a prolific writer whose life has spent on Dylan and Shakespeare. "The Bob Dylan Phenomenon | Music Documentary | Peter Doggett | Malcolm Dome | Mick Gold"
Great job in this reaction!
Thank you, Aaron!
Woody Guthrie inspired Dylan.
In my opinion, having read a dozen or more books about and by Dylan, it is impossible to explain his genius. He went to the University of Minnesota but attended only a few classes before dropping out and heading for New York City, where he arrived in the bitter cold and where he knew no one.
I heard you mention the Martin Scorsese documentary. I highly recommend this one, if you can find it. The title is "No Direction Home-Bob Dylan"
Will look it up!
Dylan sent Patty Smith to the Nobel prize ceremony and she sung this song
Yes, well said. This guy is something else.
Incredible! Thanks for watching.
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Such a great song❤
It’s poetry. Those words mean exactly what each person who hears them thinks they mean. No different than a painting. He wrote this when thousands of Americans younger than you were being killed in Vietnam every month. Why would that not even cross your mind?
try leon russells version .well worth a hear.
Thank you soooo much...very good what you see in this song...believe me it changes all your life...like so many dylan Songs changes its meaning to me in my life....please make chimes of freedom....i know you like it very much....greetings from germany...
What an incredible song! Chimes of freedom is on my todo list! Thanks for watching. Greetings from Belgium!
16:05 says it all.
Robert Zimmerman, a good Jewish man, from Minnesota, where they mined Iron Ore, for industry, did want to work in mines -he escaped to play his guitar, and write epic lyrics, and influence minds.
Dylan has bright blue eyes , 10000 broken tongues maybe reference to “Tower of Babel” thus the name. Bob more than often goes Biblical , it seems always on his mind. Mr Robert Zimmerman has purpose in this world May his best work be soon to come.
This was written around the time of the Cuban missile crisis when it seemed nuclear war was about to break out. Dylan here is influenced by William Blake's mystical poetry, and these images just poured out of him, almost supernaturally. There's a lot of Biblical language in this, too. The "hard rain" was most likely nuclear missiles, or else a metaphor for the final calamity.
And now you know why Bob Dylan is considered "The Prophet of our Generation!" Bob and Jackson Brown were considered the The Poets and Prophets of our Generation because of lyrics and music like this and could be collected and literally become a "Bible" And now you know why Bob Dylan got a few years ago a Nobel Peace Prize in Literature because of his poetic profound deep lyrics!!! This album was included in the Prize award.