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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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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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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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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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
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 23) Two Bitter Love Songs from ‘Blood on the Tracks’
Two Bitter Love Songs from Blood on the Tracks EXTRACTS (Full text here) In the only live version on the Rolling Thunder Tour, recorded at Lakeland Florida on April 18th 1976, the lyrics are completely rewritten, now in an AABB rhyming scheme. The woman is now in ‘North Saigon’. Despite the fact that the American...
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PODCAST: BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Three 22) Twisted Love Songs from ‘Street Legal’
Please click ‘Watch on you tube’ LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE, thanks !!! EXTRACTS Read the full text HERE Street Legal was a rather ‘schizophrenic’ album. Four of its nine songs- Changing of the Guards, No Time To Think, Senor and Where Are You Tonight revive the kind of arcane symbolism that Dylan had been so...
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas SeasonThree 21) Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
LILY, ROSEMARY AND THE JACK OF HEARTS EXTRACTS FULL TEXT HERE This is one of Dylan’s most appealing and enigmatic songs, full of witty rhyming, various poetic devices and characteristically colloquial turns of phrase. Like The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest (its most obvious antecedent) it is a comic narrative which can...
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PODCAST: BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Three 20) It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue: Take What You Have Gathered…
Please click ‘Watch on You Tube’ and Like and subscribe COMMENTS WELCOME EXTRACTS … READ FULL TEXT HERE It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue is one of Bob Dylan’s most well known songs. It has a beautiful melody, a winning chorus and lyrics that can express many different moods. Dylan has performed it...