EXTRACTS (full version here) More Love Songs From Desire The basic joke behind the song is that the singer claims that, rather than admiring her physical attributes, he is interested only in her mind. This is of course a reversal of the usual approach of highly sexualised post-Elvis rockabilly material. He tells her that…You got...
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Four 5) Time is an Ocean: Love Songs from ‘Desire’ (Part One) (Part One)
The first part of an examination of Bob Dylan's love songs from 'DESIRE'. Chris examines ONE MORE CUP OF COFFEE and GOLDEN LOOM
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BOB DYLAN’S SONGS OF SOCIAL PROTEST Part Two: NOW’S THE TIME FOR YOUR TEARS…
SONGS OF SOCIAL PROTEST Part Two (Part one is HERE) A number of songs on Dylan’s early albums engage with Civil Rights issues. Oxford Town is a short, slightly offhand piece written in a colloquial style. Its five short verses are performed over a sprightly accompaniment which Dylan himself described as a banjo tune...
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PODCAST: BOB DYLAN A Headful of Ideas Extract from ‘DETERMINED TO STAND’: Tempest
Chris Gregory dives into a sinking ship, as he looks in detail at Bob Dylan's rather bizarre song TEMPEST from the album of the same name.
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BOB DYLAN’S SONGS OF SOCIAL PROTEST Part One: TURN, TURN TO THE WIND AND THE RAIN
Chris examines a number of early Dylan protest songs
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season 4: 3) The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest: Nothing is Revealed
Chris Gregory riffs on Bob Dyl;an's BALLAD OF FRANKIE LEE AND JUDAS PRIEST, a marvellous comic burlesque from 1968#s JOHN WESLEY HARDING
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BOB DYLAN’S NO TIME TO THINK: THE EMPRESS ATTRACTS YOU…
Chris looks at Bob Dylan's dark and rumimnative NO TIME TO THINK from 1978's STREET LEGAL
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Four 2) Gates of Eden: A Crashing But Meaningless Blow
A look at Bob Dylan's highly symbolic 1965 song GATES OF EDEN
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BOB DYLAN’S I AND I: NO MAN SEES MY FACE AND LIVES…
Chris looks at Dylan's mystical I and I from 1983's Infidels
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Four 1) Jokerman: Dance to the Nightingale’s Tune…
Chris looks at 1983's wondrous JOKERMAN from INFIDELS