What Bob Dylan Song is This?

Subject: What Bob Dylan Song is This?
From: Mbo
Date: 19 Aug 00 - 06:06 PM

I was just listening to the song "Only Wanna be With You" by Hootie & The Blowfish (love those guys!), and one of the verses is:

Put on a little Dylan, sitting on a fence
I say "That line is great". You ask me what I meant by
"Said I shot a man named Gray
Took his wife to Italy
She inherits a million bucks and when she died, it came to me
I can't help it if I'm lucky."
I only wanna be with you

Ain't Bobby so cool?
Only wanna be with you
Well I'm tangled up in blue
Only wanna be with you

Any idea what Dylan song those lyrics are from?

--Matt

Subject: RE: What Bob Dylan Song is This?
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Aug 00 - 06:08 PM

Idiot wind

Subject: RE: What Bob Dylan Song is This?
From: GUEST,Noreen (in Lincs)
Date: 19 Aug 00 - 06:10 PM

Hey- Guest equalled Joe's record! Noreen

Nope, Noreen. "The Record" requires a usable answer WITH a clickable link. Jeri and Pene both made in in two minutes. Joe gave up at three.
-Joe Offer, forgotten champion-

Subject: RE: What Bob Dylan Song is This?
From: Mbo
Date: 19 Aug 00 - 06:10 PM

Thanks so much!

Subject: RE: What Bob Dylan Song is This?
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Aug 00 - 06:33 PM

Meebo.......Yeah, its "Idiot Wind" and its on the album "Blood on the Tracks" which got Dylan a Grammy. One of Bob's more passionately angry songs and pretty chauvinistic, but its one helluva' piece of work. Go HERE for full lyrics.

Spaw

Subject: RE: What Bob Dylan Song is This?
From: Mbo
Date: 19 Aug 00 - 06:39 PM

That's cool, 'cause I just got "Blood on the Tracks" today from the library, because I noticed "Tangled Up In Blue" was on it, and it's mentioned in the lyrics too. BTW did I ever mention that Oasis has several Dylan references in their songs, including Blood on The Tracks, and "Sooner or Later"? (ducking folky-heaved objects)

Subject: RE: What Bob Dylan Song is This?
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Aug 00 - 07:05 PM

For my money, there's not a bad song on the album.

Spaw

Subject: RE: What Bob Dylan Song is This?
From: Benjamin
Date: 19 Aug 00 - 07:10 PM

Blood on the Tracks is a great album. "Tangled up in Blue" has to be one of the best songs Dylan ever wrote!

I like Slow Train the best though.

Ben

BTW-
To get way off topic (been a LONG time since I've posted, sorry!) how's the classical guitar coming?

Just out of couriousity, did you ever find that David Russle CD (of celtic music arranged on the classical guitar) I recomended?

Sorry getting so off topic!

Benjamin

Subject: RE: What Bob Dylan Song is This?
From: bob jr
Date: 19 Aug 00 - 07:39 PM

it is worth the time to find the "original" new york versions of the songs that dylan recut in minnosota...he backed off from some of the more revealing aspects of the lyrics when he redid them.....if you see her say hello is available on the bootleg series and one version of your a big girl now is available on biograph (as well as the outake up to me) but a complete original version of this album is worth seaking out. the official version was also sped up during mastering . the liner notes on the back of the lp won a grammy but refer to lyrics off the original new york album before it was recalled.

Subject: RE: What Bob Dylan Song is This?
From: Mbo
Date: 19 Aug 00 - 08:05 PM

Not much doin' with the classical guitar these days, sadly, Ben. My major (graphic design) is so big and time consuming, it does allow for a minor (which I had planned to get in Classical guitar). Some majors here at ECU don't require minors. Besides, there's not much time anymore to give it the practise it deserves. Yeah I still play the old pieces and accompany myself on songs, but I haven't learned any new stuff for well over a year...

--Matt

Subject: RE: What Bob Dylan Song is This?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Aug 00 - 08:41 PM

"Idiot Wind" is probably the most viciously angry, bitter song that Bob ever wrote (with the possible exception of "Positively 4rth Street"). It's a chilling rant, probably aimed at quite a number of targets (Sara? Fame itself? The music industry? The media? Dylan's more troublesome fans and detractors? Baez? Well...at least some of those for sure...).

It was distinguished by one very notable departure...for almost the first time ever Bob castigated himself as well as the unnamed object of his wrath...

"Idiot Wind...blowin' through the buttons of our coats, blowing through the letters that we wrote, Idiot Wind...blowing through the dust upon our shelves...We're idiots, babe, it's a wonder we can even feed ourselves!"

"Blood On The Tracks" may just be the best album ever recorded, period...but that's only one man's opinion. It's certainly one of Bob's 3 or 4 finest.

Subject: RE: What Bob Dylan Song is This?
From: Mbo
Date: 19 Aug 00 - 08:49 PM

I can't wait to listen to it tonight!