things in dylan lyrics

[version]

Anyone read his book, Tarantula? Also I remember reading his lyrics became more cryptic and fragmented after he met Burroughs.

 

[luka]

No. I'd assume it's awful.

 

[luka]

I listened to loads of Dylan last night I was really into it. Then at a certain point I just wanted that fat bloke to shout SHANGRI LA LA at me 5000 times.

 

[version]

Lumberjacks.
The Sword Swallower.
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
A One-Eyed Midget.
A Camel.

 

[version]

Tom Waits has the same sort of characters, but he's nowhere near as good as Dylan.

 

[pattycakes_]

Tom Waits is sailors and sideshows. Dylan is more edgy urban boho. Closer to the bone

 

[Benny Bunter]

Anyone read his book, Tarantula? Also I remember reading his lyrics became more cryptic and fragmented after he met Burroughs.

Not read tarantula but Chronicles Volume 1 is absolutely brilliant

 

[version]

Tom Waits is sailors and sideshows. Dylan is more edgy urban boho. Closer to the bone

Sword swallowers and one-eyed midgets are very Tom Waits, neatly fit into the sideshow category. As do jesters, jugglers and clowns.

 

[sus]

I always liked the lyrical shift to Africa in Desire.

 

[sus]

You know Dylan is giving a rare self-disclosure when he handwaves a lyric away as "purely associative" or "dreamlike," doesn't remember writing it, doesn't mean anything etc. The reveal comes in the chorus:

He was an outlaw, that's for sure,
More of an outlaw than you [read: Dylan] ever were.

 

[sus]

Any other cuts in his discography that sound like this? Rolling and gorgeous in that urban late night, Blue Nile way

 

[pattycakes_]

Sword swallowers and one-eyed midgets are very Tom Waits, neatly fit into the sideshow category. As do jesters, jugglers and clowns.

For sure but over their careers Waits spent much more time in the company of those type of characters

 

[sus]

Spent some time post-college getting into all the post-1967 albums that casual fans tend to ignore (sans, maybe, Blood on the Tracks & New Morning)

Desire, Shot of Love, Infidels, Empire Burlesque all slapped. Love his foray into white reggae with "Jokerman," does it better than Scritti

 

[version]

"Prophets traditionally don't last long—they are either killed outright, or given an accident serious enough to make them stop and think, and most often they do pull back."

50 years later, Bob Dylan’s motorcycle crash remains mysterious

It's the most analyzed motorcycle crash in pop-culture history, but details have been as hard to pin down as the meaning of a Bob Dylan lyric. Biographers, reporters and Dylanologists digging into the '60s period when the singer-songwriter lived in...

www.seattletimes.com

Richard Fariña - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[version]

Spent some time post-college getting into all the post-1967 albums that casual fans tend to ignore (sans, maybe, Blood on the Tracks & New Morning)

Desire, Shot of Love, Infidels, Empire Burlesque all slapped. Love his foray into white reggae with "Jokerman," does it better than Scritti

This is my mum's fav. Dylan tune.

 

[sus]

My younger brother refuses to listen to "Hurricane" because it has the n-word, says Dylan isn't allowed to say it

 

[sus]

"Prophets traditionally don't last long—they are either killed outright, or given an accident serious enough to make them stop and think, and most often they do pull back."

50 years later, Bob Dylan’s motorcycle crash remains mysterious

It's the most analyzed motorcycle crash in pop-culture history, but details have been as hard to pin down as the meaning of a Bob Dylan lyric. Biographers, reporters and Dylanologists digging into the '60s period when the singer-songwriter lived in...

www.seattletimes.com

Richard Fariña - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

That's the GR guy, right?? There's a theory that Pynch thought the CIA had targeted Dillon + Fariña?

 

[version]

That's the GR guy, right?? There's a theory that Pynch thought the CIA had targeted Dillon + Fariña?

Yeah, Farina was Pynchon's best mate, married to Joan Baez's sister and friends with Dylan. He died in a motorcycle accident then Dylan also got into a motorcycle accident, but survived. GR's dedicated to Farina.

 

[version]

The theory's Farina was killed because he was causing trouble, leading protests etc and they tried to do Dylan the same way. There's also been speculation Joan Baez's father was involved in MKUltra or something similar.

 

[version]

That quote's from the Byron the Bulb section of GR,

Byron, as he burns on, sees more and more of this pattern. He learns how to make contact with other kinds of electric appliances, in homes, in factories and out in the streets. Each has something to tell him. The pattern gathers in his soul (Seek, as the core of the earlier carbon filament was known in Germany), and the grander and clearer it grows, the more desperate Byron gets. Someday he will know everything, and still be as impotent as before. His youthful dreams of organizing all the bulbs in the world seem impossible now—the Grid is wide open, all messages can be overheard, and there are more than enough traitors out on the line. Prophets traditionally don't last long—they are either killed outright, or given an accident serious enough to make them stop and think, and most often they do pull back. But on Byron has been visited an even better fate. He is condemned to go on forever, knowing the truth and powerless to change anything. No longer will he seek to get off the wheel. His anger and frustration will grow without limit, and he will find himself, poor perverse bulb, enjoying it. ...