“Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” and “All Along the Watchtower” by Neil Young w/Steve Cropper, Booker T, and Duck Dunn
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According to my iTunes, Dylan’s “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” is 5:28, but I’m opting for posting this impassioned live version of it by Neil Young at the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert (or, as Young calls it, Bobfest). And a bonus bonus is that the video includes “All Along the Watchtower” as well! Viva la Bob!
Jimi Hendrix Experience, “Like A Rolling Stone,” Bob Dylan cover. Live at Monterey, June 18, 1967.
Hendrix had a special way of interpreting Dylan songs. Either that or Dylan had a special way of writing songs that could be re-interpreted.
Or both.
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Bob Dylan - Simple Twist Of Fate
He hears the ticking of the clocks
And walks along with a parrot that talks
Hunts her down by the waterfront docks where the sailors all come in
Maybe she’ll pick him out again, how long must he wait
Once more for a simple twist of fateBob turns 71 today.
It is almost too much to consider when one stops to ponder what Bob Dylan has done in the field of the musical arts. He is without peer in song writing ability. He has influenced more artists than you or I can count. His songs have been listened to and interpreted and studied like the works of art they truly are. His is a career and life that others would only dream about.
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“Tryin’ To Get To Heaven” by Bob Dylan
(Words/Music: Bob Dylan, Album: Time Out of Mind, Columbia 1997)
I wasn’t sure about this album when it came out because it didn’t sound like “classic” Dylan like Blonde on Blonde, but it grew on my. To this I attribute the fact that a good song is a good song regardless of instrumentation and mixing, but also because of minimalist and ethereal production of Daniel Lanois who brought us the sound of U2’s The Joshua Tree and Robbie Robertson’s eponymous albums. Once I realized that connection, the entire album seemed to make more sense.
Masters Of War - Eddie Vedder & Mike McCready
Here is my 5:06 for 5/06. I know I’m a bit late, but whatever.
This is from the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert which took place on October 16/1992 (but the album was released in 1993). Pearl Jam was still a relativity new band. I love the intensity of this version. It was the definite highlight of that evening.
Another one of my favorite Pearl Jam moments.
I just don’t know what to do
I was alright ‘til I fell in love with you
“Til I Fell In Love With You” by Bob Dylan
I’m thinking about that girl who won’t be back no more
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“Shelter From the Storm” by Bob Dylan
(Words/Music: Bob Dylan, Album: Blood on the Tracks, Columbia 1975)
datetimetunes Bonus Track - the reason should be obvious
I saw this and thought it was a typo. I guess I can try to make up for it by posting it. Sorry, Bob.
Suddenly I turned around and she was standing there
With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair
She walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns
“Come in” she said
“I’ll give you shelter from the storm”.
(Source: Spotify)
1. No idea. Although “Flirted With You All My Life” by the Cowboy Junkies would have to be on the list.
2. I don’t use iTunes. Fuck Apple for making everyone use songs that can’t be shared.
3. Nothing. I’m actually watching hockey.
4. Whale Music by the Rheostatics
5. Sloan, in Buffalo over the summer.
6. It varies, but is often the theme to Rocky or “Bleed a Little While Tonight” by Lowest of the Low
7. None - I’m not 12 anymore
8. I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll by Joan Jett was the first album I ever owned, but The Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden was the first one I ever bought myself.
9. I don’t really download singles. I buy albums because I am much more interested in everything an artist has done in a certain period of time than any one-off song which doesn’t really say anything about the artist.
10. Probably The Tragically Hip, but with honorable lifetime mentions for Iron Maiden and U2.
11. Bob Dylan - forever and always
12. Rock - or any music that features people actually writing their own songs and playing their own instruments.
13. I don’t have that list, nor will I ever make it. I don’t believe in ranking songs. However, if I ever create a list of my 25 favorite songs, it would be an unranked list because, seriously, how can you compare The Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” with Dylan’s “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” with Iron Maiden’s “Hallowed Be Thy Name” with John Coltrane’s “Central Park West”?
14. “We sit here stranded, though we’re all doing our best to deny it” - “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” by Bob Dylan
15. Yes.
Bob Dylan - My Back Pages
Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now.
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