things in dylan lyrics

[version]

I was disappointed with chronicles. A bit like the mark e smith book. I hoped they'd do some proper writing. Take a risk.

All I can remember of that Mark E. Smith book is that there were sections of some sort of poetry and he used the phrase "town flesh" in one of them.

 

[Benny Bunter]

It wasn't exactly a conventional rock autobiography though was it?

Edit: chronicles I mean

 

[luka]

I can't really remember tbh.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Chronologically it jumps from era to era in a really interesting way, skips all the boring childhood stuff you usually get in these things, and I thought the writing was great. 'Evocative' (i hate that word)

Plus I seem to remember really liking the font they used, which sounds stupid and probably is, but I think it made a difference kind of gave it extra weight.

 

[mvuent]

Excruciating.

no thats good, stop hating. i watch it literally every time it appears in my recommended videos. although tbf the same is true of this.

 

[line b]

Ive had like a rolling stone on repeat for days now. For whatever reason it clicked after hearing it my whole life and not caring much for it. It feels like your in a montage segment at the county fair in a coming of age story.

 

[line b]

@kid charlemagne

 

[germaphobian]

The motorcycle black madonna two-wheeled gypsy queen - I like that.

 

[luka]

@sus do we like this? linebaigh recommended it. should we go along with it?

 

[shakahislop]

Ive had like a rolling stone on repeat for days now. For whatever reason it clicked after hearing it my whole life and not caring much for it. It feels like your in a montage segment at the county fair in a coming of age story

i listened to that one a few months ago and was struck by the cruelty of it. people talk about the misogyny that's peppered through dylan's stuff but the thing i notice more is that he's a cruel lyricist. ballad of a thin man and idiot wind are obvious examples. he punches quite hard i think, that's part of the appeal

 

[luka]

very cruel. i love that song that and idiot wind are twinned. lot of drive in them.

 

[kid charlemagne]

A gypsy with a broken flag and a flashing ring
Said, “Son, this ain’t a dream no more, it’s the real thing”

 

[luka]

very cruel. i love that song that and idiot wind are twinned. lot of drive in them.

almost about to collapse, lots of steam and rattling along,

 

[kid charlemagne]

this is like a little brother to positively 4th street and idiot wind

 

[shakahislop]

very cruel. i love that song that and idiot wind are twinned. lot of drive in them.

masters of war reminds me of a war dub. he goes in hard with the intention to wound. the relentlessness of the structure is a bit similar as well

 

[other_life]

almost about to collapse, lots of steam and rattling along,

blowin like a circle round my skull

 

[sus]

I've been reading David Hajdu's Positively Fourth Street on Dylan, Joan & Mimi Baez, and Richard Fariña.

I think it's very interesting the structural parallels he subtly points out between the men and women.

Dick & Dylan are both race-fabricators, tall-tale-tellers, glory chasers, trend chasers, constantly performing constantly reinventing themselves. Protean figures.

I don't think I ever understood Dylan's records until I understood his biography. He's a stylist first and foremost.

 

[kid charlemagne]

aren't there some weird threads crossing dylan, farina, and pynchon?

 

[luka]

aren't there some weird threads crossing dylan, farina, and pynchon?

@version is always banging on about this and the motorcycle crash

 

[kid charlemagne]

is quite curious that they both got in a motorcycle crash