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 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 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 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...
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 18) Motorpsycho Nitemare: A Clean Cut Kid
PLEASE CLICK ON ‘WATCH ON YOU TUBE’ PLEASE LIKER AND SUBSCRIBE!COMMENTS WELCOME ON YOU TUBE OR FURTHER DOWN THIS PAGE EXTRACTS (full version here) Motorpsycho Nitemare Motorpsycho Nitemare is a comic ‘shaggy dog’ story that appears on what is generally regarded as Dylan’s first ‘post protest’ album, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964). Motorpsycho Nitemare...
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VIDEO PODCAST 2: Bob Dylan’s Mr. Tambourine Man
EXTRACTS MR. TAMBOURINE MAN Mr. Tambourine Man is certainly one of Bob Dylan’s most famous creations; so much so that it has become a kind of ‘signature song’. If any one of the characters in Dylan’s lyrics can be said to represent the singer himself, it is this mysterious and enigmatic figure who inspires the...
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season 3 15) Sara: Forgive Me My Unworthiness
Hi folks! Please click on ‘Watch on You Tube’. Please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE when you get there! BOB AND SARA EXTRACTS Sara is clearly an autobiographical song. It is a highly moving and desperate plea, which focuses on the happy earlier days of their relationship when their children were very small. There is no...
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PODCAST: BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Three 13) Desolation Row: Between the Windows of the Sea
Hi folks…. welcome to DESOLATION ROW…. Please click on ‘Watch on You Tube’ (bottom left) PLEASE like and subscribe. Any comments at the bottom of this page or on you tube would be highly appreciated…. EXTRACTS (Full text here) Desolation…. The key to the success of the recording on Highway 61 Revisited was the addition...
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season 3 10) Black Rider: Extract from ‘Determined to Stand’
EXTRACTS Black Rider Black Rider, from Rough and Rowdy Ways, consists of a direct address to an ominous figure which Dylan performs against the sparse but highly atmospheric backing of a single, flamenco-flavoured acoustic guitar. The track is reminiscent of some of the more intimate cuts on his ‘Sinatra’ albums such as Melancholy Mood or...
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PODCAST: BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Three 9) Isis: You Mystical Child
Please click on ‘Watch on You Tube’ Please like and subscribe!!!! COMMENTS BOX AT BOTTOM OF THE PAGE…. EXTRACTS FROM ISIS: YOU MYSTICAL CHILD FULL TEXT HERE Perhaps the most dramatic moment of all in this extreme expression of poetic angst occurs near the end of the performance as Dylan acts out a conversation between...
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Bob Dylan’s GATES OF EDEN: A CRASHING BUT MEANINGLESS BLOW
…Mutual forgiveness of each vice, Such are the gates of paradise… William Blake, The Gates of Paradise Once, if I remember rightly, my life was a feast where all hearts opened, and all wines flowed. One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled...