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09 Jan 21 - 02:36 AM (#4087166) Subject: ADD: Wiggle Wiggle (Bob Dylan) From: The Sandman Wiggle Wiggle Bob Dylan Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a gypsy queen, Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle all dressed in green, Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle 'til the moon is blue, Wiggle 'til the moon sees you. Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle in your boots and shoes, Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, you got nothing to lose, Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, like a swarm of bees, Wiggle on your hands and knees. Wiggle to the front, wiggle to the rear, Wiggle 'til you wiggle right out of here, Wiggle 'til it opens, wiggle 'til it shuts, Wiggle 'til it bites, wiggle 'til it cuts. Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup, Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop, Is this Bob Dylans worst song Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead, Wiggle - you can raise the dead. Wiggle 'til you're high, wiggle 'til you're higher, Wiggle 'til you vomit fire, Wiggle 'til it whispers, wiggle 'til it hums, Wiggle 'til it answers, wiggle 'til it comes. Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like satin and silk, Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like pail of milk, Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, rattle and shake, Wiggle like a big fat snake. Songwriters: Bob Dylan / Dylan Bob |
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09 Jan 21 - 02:40 AM (#4087169) Subject: ADD Ballad in Plain D From: The Sandman Ballad in Plain D Bob Dylan I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn I courted her proudly but now she is gone Gone as the season she's taken In a young summer's youth, I stole her away From her mother and sister, though close did they stay Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day With strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us Of the two sisters, I loved the young With sensitive instincts, she was the creative one The constant scrapegoat, she was easily undone By the jealousy of others around her For her parasite sister, I had no respect Bound by her boredom, her pride to protect Countless visions of the other she'd reflect As a crutch for her scenes and her society Myself, for what I did, I cannot be excused The changes I was going through can't even be used For the lies that I told her in hopes not to lose The could-be dream-lover of my lifetime With unseen consciousness, I possessed in my grip A magnificent mantelpiece, though its heart being chipped Noticing not that I'd already slipped To the sin of love's false security From silhouetted anger to manufactured peace Answers of emptiness, voice vacancies 'Till the tombstones of damage read me no questions but, "Please What's wrong and what's exactly the matter?" And so it did happen like it could have been foreseen The timeless explosion of fantasy's dream At the peak of the night, the king and the queen Tumbled all down into pieces "The tragic figure!" her sister did shout "Leave her alone, god damn you, get out!" And I in my armor, turning about And nailing her in the ruins of her pettiness Beneath a bare light bulb the plaster did pound Her sister and I in a screaming battleground And she in between, the victim of sound Soon shattered as a child to the shadows All is gone, all is gone, admit it, take flight I gagged in contradiction, tears blinding my sight My mind it was mangled, I ran into the night Leaving all of love's ashes behind me The wind knocks my window, the room it is wet The words to say I'm sorry, I haven't found yet I think of her often and hope whoever she's met Will be fully aware of how precious she is Ah, my friends from the prison, they ask unto me "How good, how good does it feel to be free?" And I answer them most mysteriously "Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?" Source: LyricFind Songwriters: Bob Dylan Ballad in Plain D These must be two of the poorest songs that Dylan has written, Ithink Wiggle might be the poorest, but anyone know any other Dylan songs that are poorly wriiten |
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09 Jan 21 - 03:58 AM (#4087179) Subject: RE: WIGGLE WIGGLE (Dylan) From: David C. Carter Here we go again. |
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09 Jan 21 - 08:16 AM (#4087206) Subject: RE: WIGGLE WIGGLE (Dylan) From: The Sandman anything wrong with talking about his worst songs, we have discussed some of his best. it puts in to perspective his songwriting someopne who can write masters of war, but can write drivel like wiggle wiggle, maybe he wrote it as a joke |
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09 Jan 21 - 12:10 PM (#4087248) Subject: RE: WIGGLE WIGGLE (Dylan) From: Jeri Are you OK, Dick? Just need some attention? That's usually why trolls troll. I hope someone acknowledges your awesome songwriting skills, so you don't have to expend so much effort dissing other people. |
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09 Jan 21 - 01:17 PM (#4087259) Subject: RE: WIGGLE WIGGLE (Dylan) From: GUEST,Jerry My least favourite is All the Tired Horses, from Self Portrait, the entire lyrics are: All the tired horses in the sun, How am I supposed to get any riding done? Bear in mind though that he did mention in the sleeve notes to an earlier album, that some of his recordings are not songs but simply exercises in tonal breath control. |
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09 Jan 21 - 01:33 PM (#4087261) Subject: RE: WIGGLE WIGGLE (Dylan) From: GUEST,Modette 'Lay Lady Lay' is sexist garbage. |
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09 Jan 21 - 02:38 PM (#4087270) Subject: RE: WIGGLE WIGGLE (Dylan) From: The Sandman I am fine,Jeri, how are you? I find it intriguing that Dylan can write songs like Masters of war, aand also wiggle wiggle. Jeri, since when have critics, including music critics had to be able to write songs, play music or sing. I do not think I am dissing Dylan when i acknowledge that masters of war is a very good song. Jeri, when i write quote "anything wrong with talking about his worst songs, we have discussed some of his best. it puts in to perspective his songwriting someopne who can write masters of war, but can write drivel like wiggle wiggle, maybe he wrote it as a joke." it is clear that i think Masters of War is good , it is clear that i am talking about inconsistency in standard BETWEEN THE TWO SONGS. This is a music forum, Discussion of standard of consistency of Dylans songwriting is valid. |
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09 Jan 21 - 02:59 PM (#4087274) Subject: RE: WIGGLE WIGGLE (Dylan) From: The Sandman Lay Lady Lay Bob Dylan Lay, lady, lay Lay across my big brass bed Lay, lady, lay Lay across my big brass bed Whatever colors you have In your mind I'll show them to you And you'll see them shine Lay, lady, lay Lay across my big brass bed Stay, lady, stay Stay with your man awhile Until the break of day Let me see you make him smile His clothes are dirty, but his- His hands are clean And you're the best thing that he's Ever seen Stay, lady, stay Stay with your man awhile Why wait any longer for the world to begin? You can have your cake and eat it too Why wait any longer for the one you love? When he's standing, in front of you Lay, lady, lay Lay across my big brass bed Stay, lady, stay Stay while the night is still ahead I long to see you in the morning light I long to reach for you in the night Stay, lady, stay Stay while the night is still ahead Yes, it is not a song i find appealing. compare it to one of the songs that other critics rate as one of his best songs. The Times They Are A Changing B Come gather 'round, people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone If your time to you is worth savin' And you better start swimmin' Or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin' Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin' For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin' Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled The battle outside ragin' Will soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin' Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is rapidly agin' Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand For the times they are a-changin' The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The order is rapidly fadin' And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin' When criticising songwriting , it is reasonable to consider how well something is written, as well as subject matter and the message of the song. |
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10 Jan 21 - 01:49 PM (#4087404) Subject: RE: WIGGLE WIGGLE (Dylan) From: The Sandman the mighty quinn, Dylan quote, i dont know what its about ,some kind of nursery ryhme |
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10 Jan 21 - 03:31 PM (#4087413) Subject: RE: WIGGLE WIGGLE (Dylan) From: Jeri Dick, I'm not going to get into a back-and-forth with you, because, Dick, I don't think you can understand. I think there's a certain sub-text that's just a bit too obscure for you. What if, Dick, Dylan had INTENDED to be silly? What if there was an element of whimsey and humor that you're just not capable of understanding, Dick? I think you're disgruntled because something is happening here but you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Miles? Dylan doesn't give a shit whether you get it, or don't, and it's not worth me being involved in whatever this is. I'm pretty sure the audience here either doesn't care, or is tired of your issues. Good luck. |
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10 Jan 21 - 05:12 PM (#4087419) Subject: RE: WIGGLE WIGGLE (Dylan) From: The Sandman Jeri , this is a music forum, we are entitled to discuss his good and his bad songs-, Jeri, i know well written and poorly written songs when i see them, if you do not like it, you are free to ignore the thread. |
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10 Jan 21 - 05:51 PM (#4087428) Subject: RE: Wiggle, Wiggle / Ballad in Plain D (Dylan) From: GerryM I look forward to future discussions of The Worst Songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein, Really Bad Lyrics of Steven Sondheim, Horrible Stuff from Joni Mitchell, What Was Gordon Lightfoot Thinking? and so on. Could be a really great feature of this website. |
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10 Jan 21 - 06:00 PM (#4087430) Subject: RE: Wiggle, Wiggle / Ballad in Plain D (Dylan) From: Bonzo3legs The Ashley Hutchings All Stars did great versions of Ballad in Plain D and Angelina in 1988!!! |
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11 Jan 21 - 02:18 AM (#4087453) Subject: RE: Wiggle, Wiggle / Ballad in Plain D (Dylan) From: The Sandman Jeri, I am not concerned what either you or Dylan think.Dylan says the Mighty Quinn is a nusery rhyme , well believe it or not Nursery rhymes have meanings and often relate to historical events,The Mighty Quinn is just a meaningless example of one of Dylans POORER EFFORTS |
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11 Jan 21 - 03:35 AM (#4087463) Subject: RE: Wiggle, Wiggle / Ballad in Plain D (Dylan) From: The Sandman In my experience music crtics state their opinion regardless of whether the artist gives a shit. Judging songwriting and songs is not a purely subjective opinion, some basic pointers Tell a unique story in your song Steer clear of cliché and overused metaphors Avoid common rhymes Make your point with as few lyrics as possible. So even the points made above are debatable, but songs can be judged on how well written they are and their melodies, and what they say or do not say. Let us take a better song by Bob Dylan How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, and how many times must the cannonballs fly Before they're forever banned? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind Yes, and how many years must a mountain exist Before it is washed to the sea? And how many years can some people exist Before they're allowed to be free? Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head And pretend that he just doesn't see? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind Yes, and how many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? And how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind 1.rhe song has a good memorable melody 2 Is its message clear? mostly, yes let us compare it to a song written partly by Pete Seeger Lyrics Where have all the flowers gone? Long time passing. Where have all the flowers gone? Long time ago. Where have all the flowers gone? The girls have picked them every one. Oh, When will you ever learn? Oh, When will you ever learn? Young girls They've taken husbands every one. Young men They're all in uniform. Soldiers They've gone to graveyards every one. Graveyards They're covered with flowers every one. Flowers Young girls have picked them every one. Source: LyricFind Songwriters: Peter Seeger Where Have All the Flowers Gone lyrics © Concord Music Publishing LLC |
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11 Jan 21 - 12:20 PM (#4087516) Subject: RE: Wiggle, Wiggle / Ballad in Plain D (Dylan) From: The Sandman But I have to thank Dylan,during the nineteen sixties, he moved american folk music in to the sixties, which meant as a teenager you were not considered a weirdo , by your school friends if you sang woody guthrie songs , as Dylan introduced teenagers in the uk indirectly to Guthries songs |
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13 Jan 21 - 04:32 AM (#4087706) Subject: RE: Wiggle, Wiggle / Ballad in Plain D (Dylan) From: The Sandman The analysis of songs whether they be poorly written or well written and their message is an important part of being able to write well crafted songs |
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13 Jan 21 - 06:40 AM (#4087718) Subject: RE: Wiggle, Wiggle / Ballad in Plain D (Dylan) From: Jim McLean The Sandman, the trouble I have with Masters of War is that it puts all the blame on weapons manufacturers and lets off individual responsibility. It’s like blaming breweries for drunkenness. One can say “No” to enlisting and being a lush, but this song allows one to blame some else rather than one’s self. |
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13 Jan 21 - 10:22 AM (#4087758) Subject: RE: Wiggle, Wiggle / Ballad in Plain D (Dylan) From: The Sandman well that is a good point, how do you think the song compares to the universal soldier, written by buffy saint marie. |
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13 Jan 21 - 10:31 AM (#4087759) Subject: RE: Wiggle, Wiggle / Ballad in Plain D (Dylan) From: The Sandman the same point could be aimed at the universal soldier, it is more complicted it is not just the soldier who is to blame but the masters of war He's five feet two and he's six feet four He fights with missiles and with spears He's all of 31 and he's only 17 He's been a soldier for a thousand years He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an athiest, a Jain, a Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew and he knows he shouldn't kill and he knows he always will kill you for me my friend and me for you And he's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France, he's fighting for the USA, and he's fighting for the Russians and he's fighting for Japan, and he thinks we'll put an end to war this way And he's fighting for Democracy and fighting for the Reds He says it's for the peace of all He's the one who must decide who's to live and who's to die and he never sees the writing on the walls But without him how would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau Without him Caesar would have stood alone He's the one who gives his body as a weapon to a war and without him all this killing can't go on He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame His orders come from far away no more They come from him, and you, and me and brothers can't you see this is not the way we put an end to war Universal Soldier is in the DT here, and posted a few hundred times. |
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13 Jan 21 - 01:48 PM (#4087776) Subject: RE: Wiggle, Wiggle / Ballad in Plain D (Dylan) From: Jim McLean I posted as a conscientious objector who served jail time for it. It angers me to listen to this kind of song, Masters of War, where we as individuals can make a stand, it’s our fault we have wars, we can say ‘No’ to the recruiting sergeants. |
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13 Jan 21 - 02:37 PM (#4087782) Subject: RE: Wiggle, Wiggle / Ballad in Plain D (Dylan) From: GUEST,Guest Dick Miles Fair enough, Jim. may I applaud your decision to be a conscientous objector |
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15 Jan 21 - 02:30 AM (#4088034) Subject: RE: Wiggle, Wiggle / Ballad in Plain D (Dylan) From: GUEST,guest The Sandman Jim McLean pointed out the weakness of message of Masters of War Masters of War is one of Dylans better songs, at least it has a message, unlike wiggle wiggle or ballad in plain d or the mighty quinn Farewell Angelina has a pleasant tune[ is it an original tune?] |
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15 Jan 21 - 03:29 AM (#4088038) Subject: RE: Wiggle, Wiggle / Ballad in Plain D (Dylan) From: Jim McLean Farewell Angeline: tune Farewell tae Tarwathie ...... Dylan not only used the tune but played with the title. |
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15 Jan 21 - 09:35 AM (#4088094) Subject: RE: Wiggle, Wiggle / Ballad in Plain D (Dylan) From: GUEST,guest The Sandman Farewell tae Tarwathie, well it has more meaning than farewell angelina.WTF is that all about |
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15 Jan 21 - 04:25 PM (#4088175) Subject: RE: Wiggle, Wiggle / Ballad in Plain D (Dylan) From: Jim McLean The Sandman, I don’t understand your post you asked if Farewell Angelina was an original tune and I showed it wasn’t. |
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15 Jan 21 - 05:25 PM (#4088183) Subject: RE: Wiggle, Wiggle / Ballad in Plain D (Dylan) From: Jeri I think it might be a good idea to change the thread title, since it's not about either of the two songs in there. Perhaps "Sandman's Opinions on Dylan Songs"? Or maybe "Dylan Songs Sandman Doesn't Like. So far, we have Wiggle, Wiggle; Ballad in Plain D; The Mighty Quinn; Masters of War; Farewell Angelina. I don't see any other purpose for the thread. |
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15 Jan 21 - 07:41 PM (#4088205) Subject: RE: Wiggle, Wiggle / Ballad in Plain D (Dylan) From: Jim McLean I agree Jeri. |
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15 Jan 21 - 08:56 PM (#4088214) Subject: RE: Wiggle, Wiggle / Ballad in Plain D (Dylan) From: meself Jim, I believe The Sandman's disdain was directed at Dylan, not you. |
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15 Jan 21 - 10:19 PM (#4088220) Subject: RE: Wiggle, Wiggle / Ballad in Plain D (Dylan) From: Jeri That's what Jim was agreeing to. I'll change the title, and if Dick or anyone has a better idea, let me know. |
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16 Jan 21 - 03:08 AM (#4088226) Subject: RE: Sandman and Problems With Dylan Songs From: Dave the Gnome Everyone has their bad days. Even you do silly things sometimes, Dick. Why are you posting as a guest BTW? |
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16 Jan 21 - 03:59 AM (#4088228) Subject: RE: Sandman and Problems With Dylan Songs From: GUEST,guest The Sandman Jeri, you are wrong, there are some songs that he wrote that i like Masters of war[ jim mcleans crticism, however is valid], Blowing in the wind, Times they are changing, and if you read more carefully you would have noticed that i had mentioned at least two of those favourably. Jeri, you clearly are a Dylan fan,accept that other people have more mixed assesment of his wor, so far i have not been alone. Jim McLean and Modette have reservations Dave theGnome , i have chosen to be a guest mind your own business. Jeri . I have a better idea. put the original title back Jim McLean i was trying to say what is Farewell Angelina about? it is quite clear what farewell to Tarwathie is about |
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16 Jan 21 - 04:37 AM (#4088230) Subject: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Joe Offer Dick has been having login problems, so he has been posting as a guest. Jeri's suggestion of a more-encompassing title was a good one, but I'm changing it to a title that is less provocative. Dick has a point. There are many songs that Dylan wrote, where all I can respond is, What WAS he thinking? And for that matter, how could be be awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature for THAT??? There are times when I think that Dylan wrote highly literate and interesting songs until he reached the age of about 30, and then he quit and collected royalties for the rest of his life. I remember back in the 1990s when I went to a Dylan concert in Sacramento with a date I didn't like, and listened to a crap concert and was fully disgusted. And then I had to take the date out to dinner and pretend to be interested while she babbled. It's the first concert I ever attended where I had to be body-searched before I could get in the gate. Another band opened - I think they were "The Clash," and I hated them. Then Dylan came on and sang for 45 minutes without ever saying a word in between songs, and then he left. He was backed up by that awful band, and they sang a set of songs that bordered on punk. I wrote a review in the Sacramento Bee, and later found that the concert I attended was one of Dylan's legendarily awful concerts, maybe the worst of them all. And my date was legendarily boring and self-involved and really wanted me to marry her, and I'm very glad I didn't. She's dead now, so I can say this. But as I've ripened into Old Age, I've taken a more generous view of Dylan and most everybody else, including the Extremely Boring and Emotionally Needy Date who wanted to marry me in the worst way because I was such a Nice Guy. People condemn Dylan for recording traditional songs with his own twist and making megabucks from them. But if you listen to them with an open mind, you can see that he really got into these songs and did a very thoughtful job of interpreting them - and the fact that he recorded them, gives these songs another hundred years in the public eye. So, yeah, I feel like I was totally ripped off at that awful Sacramento concert, but I also have to admit that Dylan has exposed me to a lot of traditional songs I might not otherwise have encountered. And although I may hate his interpretations at times, he has driven me to explore these songs more deeply and really get to know them. So, I guess I'd say I have a love/hate relationship with Bob Dylan, and I think Sandman would say he has the same. Dick and I have learned a lot from Dylan, even though we profess to hate him. Am I right, Dick? -Joe- P.S. And may my Boring Date rest in peace. She pursued me for a couple of years and bought us concert tickets and took me to fancy restaurants I couldn't afford. She tried really hard to buy my affection, but I kept feeling smothered whenever she was around. I felt obliged to be nice, but I never led her on in any way. I would give her a flaccid hug when forced to, but never kissed her. She would talk on and on when she called on the telephone, and she would call back multiple times when I hung up on her. Good thing I married a more tolerable woman.... But hey, she DID take me to a terrific Bonnie Raitt concert. |
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16 Jan 21 - 04:55 AM (#4088233) Subject: RE: Sandman and Problems With Dylan Songs From: GUEST,guest The Sandman Yes, Joe and as i said earlier, Subject: RE: Wiggle, Wiggle / Ballad in Plain D (Dylan) From: The Sandman Date: 11 Jan 21 - 12:20 PM But I have to thank Dylan,during the nineteen sixties, he moved american folk music in to the sixties, which meant as a teenager you were not considered a weirdo , by your school friends if you sang woody guthrie songs , as Dylan introduced teenagers in the uk indirectly to Guthries songs" quote Jim McLean had a very valid criticism of masters of war, a similiar criticism can be aimed at universal soldier, both are a tad simplistic. sung together they have the answer, imo |
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16 Jan 21 - 05:17 AM (#4088238) Subject: RE: Sandman and Problems With Dylan Songs From: Steve Shaw Life On Mars? by Bowie is my very favourite pop song. I even love that multicolour video. Means a lot to me, it does. The words are probably bollix and I've always resisted anyone's attempts to interpret them for me. Come on, Dick, gimme a fight! ;-) (The "?" Is correct, by the way. It's part of the title). |
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16 Jan 21 - 05:35 AM (#4088242) Subject: RE: Sandman and Problems With Dylan Songs From: Backwoodsman Bowie’s lyrics have a tendency towards bollix-ness because of his practice of taking random words and phrases from newspaper articles and organising them into a semi-random order which suited his lyrical purposes. But he was such a Dude. <3 |
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16 Jan 21 - 06:51 AM (#4088254) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,Jim Knowledge I `ad Bob`s agent in my cab the other day. Incidentally with all this virus and whatnot `e was only one of three fares I `ad that day. I said, "Morning Mr.Tenpercent. I see that Mudcat is giving your Bob Dylan the treatment again." `e said. "Yeah Jim. I saw it and told Bob. `aving flogged all the copyrights to `is songs `e`s starting a new portfolio. `e said the Mudcat lark `as inspired `im with a new number. `e`s gonna call it "There`s No Such Thing as Bad Publicity"" I said, "You`re right there. Nice little earner!!" Whaddam Im Like?? |
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16 Jan 21 - 09:30 AM (#4088274) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Jeri Joe, thanks. I was just trying to encompass the songs being talked about, and not be inflammatory. So "problem" was a problem. Dick's problem logging in, as far as I know from a PM, is choosing not to post while logged in, which is his right. |
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16 Jan 21 - 08:02 PM (#4088362) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch This is a music forum, Discussion of standard of consistency of Dylans songwriting is valid. ...i know well written and poorly written songs when i see them, if you do not like it... That's not a standard. That is a consumer preference. Validity & consistency are irrelevant. Most people do not 'like' most songs. It's the nature of consumerism. One lives or dies on less than 1% market share, 0.33% is boffo. The only writers who produce more hits than clinkers are "one hit wonders." |
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17 Jan 21 - 06:01 AM (#4088398) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Dave the Gnome How is that different to any other forum? |
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17 Jan 21 - 06:12 AM (#4088399) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Steve Shaw Permit me to argue from gleeful pig ignorance. I've only ever liked two or three Dylan songs and have probably sat through about six others, sung by him, end to end. There are a few that others sang that I knew were written by him and very likely some more that I didn't know were by him. That has all made me decide that I thoroughly don't like him much (and I know Joe doesn't agree, but I think that what he did with that Nic Jones arrangement that he failed to acknowledge was just diabolical). The trouble is that down the decades I've failed to "judge" his songs mainly because I can't stand the bugger's voice in any of its manifestations (and, speaking as a harmonica player myself, don't get me started on that ghastly aspect of his stuff). That has all demotivated me from seeking out his songs for closer perusal. Thing is, inane or deliberately obscurantist lyrics, his apparent modus operandi, do not necessarily a bad song make. To sum up, if you love him you love him and if you hate him you hate him. The in-between state is one of "I can't be arsed with that whiny songster, and I'll give you a good squabble if you try to tell me that he's some sort of visionary poet*, but all power to your elbow if you disagree". That's where I am. I think. *Even Bob doesn't think that. I'm just off to listen to my Woody collection. Now that bloke really DID know how to make up a song... |
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17 Jan 21 - 06:28 AM (#4088400) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,Nick Dow When I first heard Blowin' in the wind sung by Dylan, I was completely blown away. I played it over and over again. I still say there is nobody who can do that song justice other than the man himself. The simple trick of using the subdominant chord in the penultimate line (Sorry! take another listen if you have time) makes the song for me. I had a long chat with Martin Carthy about Dylan in the early days. Martin described him as a blotting pad for tunes songs and ideas. So what went wrong then? Nothing at all? Some people might say money, and the mainstream music business, demanding commercially viable songs? If I know Dick this is the subtext of this thread. How do we evaluate success? Money and sales, artistic achievement? Good lyrics strong tunes? Dylan recorded 'Canadee-I-o'. I think it was awful. Had Nic Jones recorded that song unaccompanied, would anybody have taken any notice? Some might say it's a piece of guitar playing with a song attached. So in the case of Dylan how many people buy his 'sound' rather than the songs and lyrics? I don't mean to hijack the thread or any disrespect to Dick (Far from it) but I think it is worth some thought. |
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17 Jan 21 - 06:58 AM (#4088401) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,jim bainbridge Heard sung by a pub pianist in Islington about 40 years ago.... (tune- Tiddly winky woo) 'Wiggly wiggly wiggly wiggly wiggly wiggly woo I love you Wiggly wiggly wiggly wiggly wiggly wiggly woo Love me too I love you in thwe morning and I love you in the night I love you when you're sober and I love you when you're tight Wiggly wiggly wiggly wiggly wiggly wiggly woo I love you' now there's a wiggly wiggly song for you.....the 'folk' in the pub loved it..... |
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17 Jan 21 - 07:05 AM (#4088403) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Backwoodsman I think His Bobness has written a few very good songs, a larger number of good songs, and an even larger number of songs that, at best, fall into the ‘Meh’ category. As a singer, he’s made a few very good recordings, a larger number of good recordings, and an even larger number of recordings that, at best, fall into the ‘Meh’ category. I couldn’t listen to an entire evening of Dylan performing his own songs, yet I’ve been to a number of evenings of other people performing Dylan’s songs and thoroughly enjoyed them. And, like Nick, BITW blew me away when I first heard it back around ‘62 or ‘63 - I still think it’s one of his best, although ‘Positively 4th Street’ takes a lot of beating, and I do love ‘Murder Most Foul’ from his most recent album. The usual disclaimers apply......IMHO, YMMV etc. |
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17 Jan 21 - 07:36 AM (#4088406) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,Modette There's a worm at the bottom of my garden, And his name is Wiggly Woo. There's a worm at the bottom of my garden And all that he can do Is wiggle all day and wiggle all night-- The neighbors say what a terrible fright! There's a worm at the bottom of my garden, And his name is Wiggly, Wig-Wig-Wiggly, Wig-Wig-Wiggly Woo! |
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17 Jan 21 - 01:18 PM (#4088448) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,# Every Grain of Sand (B Dylan, w+m) In the time of my confession, in the hour of my deepest need When the pool of tears beneath my feet flood every newborn seed There's a dyin' voice within me reaching out somewhere, Toiling in the danger and in the morals of despair. Don't have the inclination to look back on any mistake, Like Cain, I now behold this chain of events that I must break. In the fury of the moment I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand. Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear, Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer. The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay. I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name. Then onward in my journey I come to understand That every hair is numbered like every grain of sand. I have gone from rags to riches in the sorrow of the night In the violence of a summer's dream, in the chill of a wintry light, In the bitter dance of loneliness fading into space, In the broken mirror of innocence on each forgotten face. I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea Sometimes I turn, there's someone there, other times it's only me. I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand. Here is a version as done by Lizz Wright: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFN4cRQT58s&list=PLuuPFCrcsWlETr03bggXvNhuAW-QH2tg0 |
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17 Jan 21 - 01:47 PM (#4088451) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Jeri It's one of my favorites, #. |
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17 Jan 21 - 01:57 PM (#4088453) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,guest The Sandman Don't have the inclination to look back on any mistake, Like Cain, I now behold this chain of events that I must break. quote reminiscent of w McGonagall |
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17 Jan 21 - 02:03 PM (#4088455) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Steve Shaw It's very trite "poetry," though, Jeri, but, as I said (sort of), duff lyrics do not necessarily a bad song make... |
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17 Jan 21 - 03:12 PM (#4088465) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,# Chimes of Freedom (B Dylan, w+m) Far between sundown’s finish and midnight’s broken toll We ducked inside the doorways, thunder went crashing As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds Seemin' to be the chimes of freedom flashing Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight Flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight And for each and every underdog soldier in the night And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing Through the city’s melted furnace, unexpectedly we watched With faces hidden as the walls were tightening As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowin’ rain Dissolved into the bells of the lightning Tolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake Tolling for the luckless, they abandoned and forsaked Tolling for the outcast, burning constantly at stake And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked it's poems in naked wonder That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze Leavin' only bells of lightning and it's thunder Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind And the poet and the painter far behind his rightful time And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing And the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales For disrobed faceless forms of no position Tolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts All down in taken-for-granted situations Tolling for the deaf and blind, tolling for the mute For the mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute For the misdemeanor outlaw, chained and cheated by pursuit And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing Even though a cloud’s white curtain in a far-off corner flared And the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones Condemned to drift or else be kept from driftin' Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale And for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing Starry-eyed and laughing as I recall when we were caught Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended As we listened one last time and we watched with one last look Spellbound and swallowed ’til the tolling ended Tolling for the aching whose wounds cannot be nursed For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones and worse And for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin' I liked Dylan's take back in the 1960s, but Springsteen does a great live take in Germany, although he disappeared a few stanzas. |
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17 Jan 21 - 03:30 PM (#4088469) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Jeri Now THAT one is possibly my favorite. It's strnge how he mashed the visual and auditory together - don't say it twice when you can do it as effectively once. And if you like Dylan's songs and don't have the album "Chimes of Freedom", you gotta get it |
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17 Jan 21 - 05:29 PM (#4088488) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST For the times they are a-changin' Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled The battle outside ragin' Will soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin' mind you, that is apt and accurate. Jeri was Bobbie one of your pin up posters? |
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17 Jan 21 - 05:33 PM (#4088489) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Jeri No Dick. When I tried to buy one, they told me you got the last one. |
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18 Jan 21 - 03:45 AM (#4088542) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,The Sandman Was i short of Toilet paper? |
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18 Jan 21 - 04:22 AM (#4088546) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,Jerry Why do we expect song lyrics to stand up as poetry? They rarely do. Poems set to music are often too clumsy to sing. Many famous pop, rock, jazz, country and blues songs are repetitive phrases and appealing vowel sounds that work well for the singer, and on an emotive level strike a chord for the listener. When you examine the lyrics, they are often meaningless, shallow and far from poetry, but sometimes they just work and become memorable hits. Do we expect too much of folk songs, expecting a good narrative, a profound message, a great original melody, an emotional connection and first rate poetry as well? |
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18 Jan 21 - 05:38 AM (#4088549) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Steve Shaw I won't get into that. I did put the word "poetry" into speech marks for a reason. I'll just say that many of the allusions in the lyrics referred to didn't hit too many nails on the head for me. |
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18 Jan 21 - 07:05 AM (#4088561) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,the sandman Song lyrics of well written songs often do stand up as poetry , that is why. examples john of dreams[ the whole of the song] Bogies bonny belle[ her name was isabel the lily of the valley and the primrose of the dell] we expect songs of any genre to be well written [ that does not mean they have to be good poetry] , however.. wiggle wiggle ballad in plaind d, are neither poetry or well written. some of dylans songs have good tradtional melodies some have good original melodies, some do not, some are well written some are not, but what has it do with folk song ,other than he occasionally borrowed trad melodies Many tradtional songs or folk songs are well written, and have stood the test of time that is why they are still being sung, and have interesting tunes, but it is irrelevant to this discussion, we are discussing dylans songs not their genre which is arguable, and not relevant. because something is popular or a hit it does not mean, it deserves to be popular or is good, it can be a result of funding, money spent on promotion, it can perhaps have a good tune and crap lyrics, that does not make it a well written song. Finally we were discussing Dylan songs whether they are the badly written ones or the well written ones, it is debatable whether they are folk songs, so please desist from leading us on an intellectual wild goose chase Jerry, you in your post are calling them that, but it is not relevant . whether they are folk songs or not is a red herring. we are talking about the songs of Dylan, please do not bring in genres, it muddies the waters I know hundreds of good tradtional songs that have a good melody a profound message, a good narrative and some of those contain first rate poetry, so bloddy what, i also know some iffy ones, it has nothing to do with the songs of Dylan any more than it has to do with the songs of or rodgers and hammerstein,ray davies or lennon macCartney or nanker phelge or flanders and Swann or gilbert and sullivan |
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18 Jan 21 - 07:25 AM (#4088562) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,The Sandman jerry, your arguments have more flaws, examples of poets that generally recognised as being of above average Kipling, C Fox Smith, whose poems have been set successfully to music. |
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18 Jan 21 - 07:29 AM (#4088564) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Jos I thought this was supposed to be a friendly discussion - not an A-level exam where marks will only be given to pupils whose answers are strictly relevant to the exam question. |
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18 Jan 21 - 07:43 AM (#4088567) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,guest The Sandman Jos, the discussion is about Dylan song writing and his songs not "what is a folk song", Dylans better songs and not so good songs can be discussed without it being necessary to mention genre, let us discuss his songs in a friendly way, without going on an intellecual wild goos chase about something that is not relevant, that is "are they folk songs" |
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18 Jan 21 - 07:50 AM (#4088570) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,guest The Sandman Farewell to Tarwathie Dylan took this trad melody and wrote farewell angelina, which song has a clearer message imo it is Farewell to Tarwathie. If anyone can, perhaps they would explain what Angelina is about, imo dylan seems to mix cliches with poetic imagery, was he having a bad trip? |
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18 Jan 21 - 08:06 AM (#4088572) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,The Sandman ‘I am still unable to see in him anything other than a youth of mediocre talent. Only a completely non-critical audience, nourished on the watery pap of pop music, could have fallen for such drivel. quote Ewan MacColl I think my assesment of Dylan and my criticisms are kinder and more positive, however I note i still get attacked by Dylan fans notably Jeri. Jeri seemed to think it necesary for me to be a songwriter to offer a critique. Most music critics who publish reviews need no such qualification., most of them are not professional musicians, singers, performers or songwriters I would not dismiss Angelina as total drivel, i am just puzzled how a songwriter can mix cliches and peotic imagery to me the song is a curates egg |
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18 Jan 21 - 08:24 AM (#4088575) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Steve Shaw I think I've got a good idea. Let's all send our posts to Dick for his prior approval before we put them up in the thread. That should keep it friendly! |
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18 Jan 21 - 08:47 AM (#4088579) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,Jerry I have to say that I certainly prefer song lyrics that are also poetic, and because there are many folk songs (trad and contemporary) that manage to be that, as examples mentioned above, I have always been more drawn to that particular genre. My point was that songs of any genre don’t have to be poetic though, and some of the most memorable ones certainly are not I’m not sure why broadening a thread out is a wild goose chase, although I know thread creep can be irritating, but haven’t there been enough inconclusive debates about Dylan? Someone above here got me thinking rather about the difference between lyrics and poetry, which I though might be a more productive diversion, but obviously not then. So, back to the well worn track. To my mind, Dylan’s vast catalogue includes a whole range of material from poetic to simple nonsense lyrics, again as demonstrated above in this thread. Is that not his prerogative though? It’s only the music media that chose to call him a poet; in his own words, he was never more than ‘just a song and dance man’. Leonard Cohen was a published poet before turning songwriter, and most of his songs do work as poetry as well, in my view, but even he recorded some non-poetic throwaway stuff as well. As for Farewell Angelina, I see it as pseudo poetry, probably written ‘under the influence’, using some rich imagery but not making a lot of sense to the listener, other than as a wistful, meandering love song. Ballad in Plain D was a rewrite of the traditional I Once Loved a Girl, but done in a hurry I imagine, because the lady in question was about to walk out of his life. Wiggle Wiggle is just a glorified nursery rhyme, and probably a hasty album filler at a guess. But then, so what? Haven’t we all written some poor stuff at some time? |
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18 Jan 21 - 10:09 AM (#4088592) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: David C. Carter I was wondering how long it would take before The Sandman's beloved Stalinist,self appointed Commissioner of "folk music",a certain person by the name of MacColl would get a mention. Nice man Stalin;How many millions was it who died in the camps? I once had the misfortune to have to listen to MacColl. Like listening to beige wallpaper. Don,t talk to me about David Bowie.Ciggy Sawdust and the Spidermen in Jars!Let's Dance;Very profound indeed. Fred Spoons,and his Knife 'n' Fork Ensemble. |
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18 Jan 21 - 10:23 AM (#4088596) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,Nick Dow A bit unnecessary. Don't take the bait. |
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18 Jan 21 - 10:33 AM (#4088600) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,# Here is a Wikipedia list of people who have covered various of Dylan's songs. (Note that Pete Seeger is on the list.) :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artists_who_have_covered_Bob_Dylan_songs |
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18 Jan 21 - 10:34 AM (#4088601) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,guest The Sandman Stalin has nothing to do with this thread, MacColl was a songwriter, whose songs have entered the folk tradition, he was certainly not beloved by me. ,I made a conscious decision to avoid his club, however i acknowledge that he was a professional and poular performer who presented his songs and music in a carefully presented polished manner, he along with others was responsible for establishing a network of clubs, for which i am grateful i think his songwriting was generally of a high standard, i think his work on the radio ballads was outstanding. MacColl gave generously of his time to others, on the first occasion i met him , i took a dislike to him, however in hindsight and with maturity[ i was a teenager when i met him]. I realise that his influence on the uk folkascene had many positives, imo, more positives than negatives. it is hilarious, that David Carter, should post and say THE SANDMANS BELOVED., When over the years here on mudcat . i have criticised him, and had many arguments with Jim Carroll about him. However, in 2021, i believe that THE UK Folk revival would have been a poorer place without him, his legacy lives on in the songs that he wrote that are regularly sung and recorded by others |
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18 Jan 21 - 12:18 PM (#4088622) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Dave Sutherland The late Derek Brimstone used to introduce “Farewell Angelina” as the greatest anti-war song that he had ever encountered; sadly he is no longer around to expand upon that statement. In “The Singing Islands” the notes to “Farewell to Tawathie” state that the tune has been used for other traditional songs while A.L.Lloyd declares that George Scroggie was the author of the song so he was doing exactly what Bob Dylan did some 120 years later. I don’t know whether Dylan regrets writing the song but in more recent years he has stated that he wishes that he hadn’t recorded “Ballad in Plain D” and anyone who knows the back story to that bitter piece would see his point. “Wiggle, Wiggle” has been universally derided as Dylan’s all time worst song the only thing that gives it a shred of credibility is that on the album, “Under the Red Sky” a seriously disappointing follow up to “Oh Mercy”, Slash plays guitar on that track. The album is apparently a collection of children’s songs but personally I don’t see that. All that is from a 70+ year old who stood for twelve hours in Hyde Park in 2019 in order to listen again to the man and who went away very satisfied. |
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18 Jan 21 - 12:26 PM (#4088624) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Allan Conn "Wiggle Wiggle is just a glorified nursery rhyme, and probably a hasty album filler at a guess. But then, so what? Haven’t we all written some poor stuff at some time?" Spot on Jerry. I think everyone knows that Dylan has low points as well as all the high points. He turned out lyrics and songs like a production line through much of the 60s but for some of his later career some of his output was not of the same high standard - and seemingly went for long periods not being able to come up with much at all. Call it writer's block or whatever. He's produced a few great albums in the last quarter of a century all the same. And yes I think he did write a lot at speed. Seemingly "Farewell Angelina" was written at speed and dismissed by him almost instantly. Baez seemingly thought "well if you're not using I am". She said that he later forgotten he'd written it when he first heard her version. Judging him on "Wiggle Wiggle" though would be like judging Bowie on "The Laughing Gnome" |
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18 Jan 21 - 12:30 PM (#4088626) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST Dave, I have not criticsed,Dylan for using traditional tunes. Farwell Angelina an anti war song,interesting, I suppose someone, some where will state categorically that LAY LADY lAY, was written to encourage egg production for chickens and to expose the cruelty of battery egg production |
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19 Jan 21 - 05:21 AM (#4088736) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GerryM Concerning how long it took Dylan to write a song, I like this story: David Remnick’s stellar profile of Leonard Cohen in the New Yorker repeats the well-worn tale of the time that Bob Dylan asked him how long it took to write “Hallelujah.” “Two years,” he told him. “I really like ‘I and I.’ How long did it take you wrote that?” Dylan told him a mere 15 minutes. As Remnick pointed out, it actually took Cohen five years to write “Hallelujah,”.... |
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19 Jan 21 - 06:01 AM (#4088741) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Dave Hanson Ewan MacColl wrote ' The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face ' over the telephone to Peggy who was in the USA [ where Ewan wasn't allowed ] and needed another song for a show, it took him 5 or 6 minutes. BTW a mega hit for Roberta Flack. Dave H |
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19 Jan 21 - 07:28 AM (#4088748) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Jim McLean I wrote Henny Munro, a Highland Clearance song, in my sleep. I woke up with the complete song still in my head. |
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19 Jan 21 - 09:32 AM (#4088777) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,RA Allan Conn - "I think he did write a lot at speed". He probably wrote a lot ON speed too! |
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19 Jan 21 - 09:58 AM (#4088780) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,# Well, whether one likes Dylan's work or not, he garnered a Nobel Prize and $300,000,000 for his songs. May you all have such good fortune. |
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19 Jan 21 - 06:18 PM (#4088856) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Joe_F Dave Van Ronk (or possibly Elijah Wald), in _The Mayor of Macdougal Street_, says of "Bobby": "He always seemed to think that it was easier to write a new song than to fix an old one." In other words, don't think twice, it's alright. (Some of the time, it seems to me, he didn't bother to think even once.) That probably explains why I lost interest in him. I was much taken by him when he first appeared (early '60s, was it?); I thought "Fancy that! A human voice coming out of a loudspeaker." I had a friend, at the time, who was one of those "I can get it for you wholesale" types, and he wanted to get me a turntable. I let him after reflecting that if I had a turntable, I could listen to Bob Dylan any time I wanted. By now I have hundreds of LPs, tape cassettes, and CDs, but only a couple are of him. |
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20 Jan 21 - 12:04 AM (#4088875) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: The Sandman "don't think twice, it's alright" a song that became part of a legal dispute, quote wiki Alleged plagiarism by Bob Dylan Bob Dylan's friendship with Clayton dated back to 1961, Dylan's first year in New York City. Dylan traveled cross-country with Clayton and two other friends in 1963, during which they visited poet Carl Sandburg in North Carolina, attended Mardi Gras in New Orleans and rendezvoused with Joan Baez in California.[30] In an interview published as part of a history of Greenwich Village folk club Gerde's Folk City, folk singer Barry Kornfeld described how Clayton's "Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons (When I'm Gone)" morphed into Dylan's "Don't Think Twice": I was with Paul one day, and Dylan wanders by and says, 'Hey, man, that's a great song. I'm going to use that song.' And he wrote a far better song, a much more interesting song – 'Don't Think Twice, It's All Right'.[31] Dylan's and Clayton's publishing companies sued each other over the alleged plagiarism. As it turned out, Clayton's song was derived from an earlier folk song entitled "Who's Gonna Buy You Chickens When I'm Gone?",[32][33] which was in the public domain. The lawsuits, which were settled out of court, had no effect on the friendship between the two songwriters |
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20 Jan 21 - 12:12 AM (#4088876) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: The Sandman With songwrting,there is no such thing as lack of influence but at what point does influence change to plagiarism?, my opinion for what it is worth is that Dylan should have just put Clayton down as co writer in the first place. |
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21 Jan 21 - 06:03 AM (#4089052) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: The Sandman North Country Blues, is one of his best songs,Arguably his best imo |
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22 Jan 21 - 05:26 AM (#4089180) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,Jerry Yes, I like the powerful yet understated lyrics, leaving the listener to paint their own pictures. The tune though was traditional surely, but I can’t quite place it. |
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23 Jan 21 - 10:54 AM (#4089492) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,LynnH 'Wiggle Wiggle' - didn't Woody Guthrie have a penchant for similar songs? Years and years ago I learned 'The Ballad of Donald White' from a book of Dylan's song texts. No tunes. So I made my own tune and,in the course of the years,I've sung it in various folk-clubs. Years later I stumbled across a certain Broadside Record with 'Blind Boy Grunt's' rendition of the song. Oh dear,'Tramps and Hawkers'! Sorry Bob but it doesn't work for me so I'll keep using my own tune! I also sing 'Eternal Circle', which I learned from the dots in 'Bob Dylan's songs for Harmonica'. Somewhere along the line I've changed a few notes but hey,that's the folk process! |
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23 Jan 21 - 11:38 AM (#4089504) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Jeri I brought this up here, or somewhere - can't remember, and can't be bothered to look for it. It's a good idea to remember songwriters can have a fun, silly side. Not everything is dead serious. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Words and Music by Woody Guthrie ------------------------------------------ One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, A, B, C, D, E, F, G. Hoodoo, voodoo, seven, twenty-one, two, Haystack, hoe-stack, hey do the hoe-ta, High boga, low joker, ninety-nine, a zero, Sidewalk, streetcar, dance a goofy dance. Choo-choo, choo-choo, chooka-chooka, choo-choo, Choo-choo, choo-choo, chooka-chooka, choo-choo, Choo-choo, choo-choo, chooka-chooka, choo-choo, Choo-choo, choo-choo, chooka-chooka, choo. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, A, B, C, D, E, F, G. Blackbird, blue jay, one, two, three, four, Trash-stack, jump back, E, F, G. Big man, little man, fat man, skinny man, Grasshopper, green snake, hold my hand. Choo-choo, choo-choo, chooka-chooka, choo-choo, Choo-choo, choo-choo, chooka-chooka, choo-choo, Choo-choo, choo-choo, chooka-chooka, choo-choo, Choo-choo, choo-choo, chooka-chooka, choo. Mama cat, tom cat, diapers on the clothesline, 2, 4, 6, 8, run and hide. Crazy man, lazy girl, pony on a tin can, I'll be yours and you'll be mine. Choo-choo, choo-choo, chooka-chooka, choo-choo, Choo-choo, choo-choo, chooka-chooka, choo-choo, Choo-choo, choo-choo, chooka-chooka, choo-choo, Choo-choo, choo-choo, chooka-chooka, choo. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, A, B, C, D, E, F, G. And one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, A, B, C, D, E, F, G. |
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23 Jan 21 - 12:38 PM (#4089524) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: The Sandman I also sing 'Eternal Circle'" quote LYNNE H well i have it in a Dylan song book and it has guitar chords. This is the same book that has bob dylans dream which uses the idea of the opening lines of lord franklin, and possibly the tune, [which was the croppy boy tun]e] cant find the book now TO CONFIRM THIS. maybe it got thrown out |
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23 Jan 21 - 01:00 PM (#4089526) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,LynnH Re: 'North Country Blues'_ I suspect that there's a good dose of personal experience in this song. Hibbing, where Dylan grew up, was in the 1950s/early 60s, a fairly prosperous iron mining town where Dylan's father and uncle had an electrical goods business - fridges, washing machines, tellies etc. -most of which would have been purchased on the never-never. Then iron mining went downhill, people couldn't keep up the payments and the Zimmermann family, including Bob, had to go out on repossession trips, which probably gave him unexpected, possibly unpleasant, views behind the scenes of many families. The fathers who went to buy a paper or cigarettes and never came back, the classmate who on Friday was in class but not on Monday because the family had 'disappeared' during the weekend. Even though it's written from a woman's viewpoint I really get the impression that he knew what he was singing about. I sing this song unaccompanied! The background story applies to any rundown mining and/or heavy industry region |
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23 Jan 21 - 03:26 PM (#4089562) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Dave Sutherland I'm sure that I read somewhere that Dylan had never sung this song live; only for "The Times They Are A' changing" album. |
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23 Jan 21 - 05:55 PM (#4089596) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Steve Shaw "It's a good idea to remember songwriters can have a fun, silly side. Not everything is dead serious." Yep. Even McCartney managed that bloody frog thing... :-) |
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24 Jan 21 - 03:15 AM (#4089646) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: The Sandman Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Dave Sutherland - PM Date: 23 Jan 21 - 03:26 PM I'm sure that I read somewhere that Dylan had never sung this song live; only for "The Times They Are A' changing" album." Thank god for that, once upon a time Dylan COULD Sing , he wrote a good song but if he tried to sing it now, he would possibly sound like Lee Marvin with a fake oklahoma accent |
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28 Jan 21 - 03:11 PM (#4090382) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,LynnH If it's meant that Dylan never sang 'North Country Blues' live then how come he sang it at Newport and there's a video of this on YouTube? |
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28 Jan 21 - 06:20 PM (#4090401) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,guest The Sandman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pid0Ud4y3XY he sings much better then 1963 than now, it is a good version |
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18 Jun 21 - 01:56 PM (#4110591) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,Guest 'Wiggle Wiggle' is definitely the least Dylan-like song, and 'Nettie Moore' is the most archetypal (according to www.dylanmetrics.com) |
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18 Jun 21 - 04:40 PM (#4110601) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Bonzo3legs Did Dylan ever perform Angelina live? |
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19 Jun 21 - 12:22 AM (#4110638) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GerryM According to https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/farewell-angelina/ no, Dylan never performed Farewell Angelina in concert. |
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19 Jun 21 - 02:31 AM (#4110647) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Allan Conn According to Baez he didn't even remember writing "Farewell Angelina" until she reminded him. She said she sat beside him as he churned the lyric out on his typewriter. He went through it several times then just threw the lyric sheet away. She thought "well if you are not going to use it then I am" and she recorded it herself. He later said "that is quite a good song - where did you get it" to which she said something like "you wrote it - you idiot" |
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19 Jun 21 - 02:42 AM (#4110649) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Joe Offer But "Farewell Angelina" was a trademark song for Joan Baez, and she sang it well. A few weeks ago, I said in a singaround that EVERYBODY sings Dylan songs better than Dylan does. One person said I should never say something so insulting again, and I refused. He's now threatening to never attend another singaround where I'm present. Oh, well. -Joe- |
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19 Jun 21 - 03:40 AM (#4110653) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Allan Conn Joe it is pretty childish of folks to take the hump with you just for expressing your opinion. I get what you mean about a lot of songs especially if they are being sung by the likes of Baez. I's take her "Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands" anyday! I'd say there are exceptions though. I've never heard a version of "Desolation Row" that I like better than Dylan's recording. And I far prefer Dylan's version of "One More Cup Of Coffee" to any cover I have heard. The one Tom Jones has out just now is not that great at all. |
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19 Jun 21 - 09:27 AM (#4110671) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch Just now noticed the question RE: popular opinion from last January, assuming it was for me: DtG: How is that different to any other forum? It's absent (or more obviously irrelevant) in any forum discussing music's intrinsic values… duration, bpm, copyrights, publishing &c. otoh, this entire thread is just below-the-line BS about “likes.” Joe: ...EVERYBODY sings Dylan songs better than Dylan does. - Nope! Alan: I've never heard a version of "Desolation Row" that I like better than Dylan's recording. And I far prefer Dylan's version of "One More Cup Of Coffee" to any cover I have heard. - Yes.you.do! See the difference? |
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19 Jun 21 - 09:45 AM (#4110672) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: gillymor Off hand I can think of a lot of Dylan songs that the man himself did the definitive version of, IMO. Outlaw Blues Million Dollar Bash Tangled up in Blue It Takes a Lot to Laugh Highway 61 Stuck Inside of Mobile Girl From the North Country Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You I Threw it All the Way Down in the Flood Hurricane ...just for starters. After Blood on the Tracks I think his voice and songwriting abilities started to ebb but that's compared to his earlier brilliance. Hurricane being one exception. |
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19 Jun 21 - 09:46 AM (#4110673) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch Oh hockey stick! Sorry Allan. |
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19 Jun 21 - 04:08 PM (#4110699) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: Bonzo3legs No not Farwell Angelina, I'm referring to "Angelina" |
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19 Jun 21 - 06:56 PM (#4110716) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,# As has been said a few times, "Angelina" is a different song than "Farewell Angelina." Lyrics and where to locate Dylan's take of the former there also. https://www.ebbemunk.dk/dylan/dylan_angelina.html |
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19 Jun 21 - 07:41 PM (#4110721) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GerryM OK, I wasn't familiar with the song, "Angelina". But Dylan never sang that one in concert, either, according to https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/angelina/ |
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19 Jun 21 - 08:00 PM (#4110723) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST,# You're absolutely right, Gerry. I'm also pretty sure hasn't done either song live. If he has, it's a well-kept secret. |
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20 Jun 21 - 02:13 PM (#4110780) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: GUEST Mighty Quinn isn’t a nonsense song/nursery rhyme. It’s a drug song in code, Quinn - Eskimo - Snow - Coke.... |
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21 Jun 21 - 04:12 AM (#4110851) Subject: RE: Sandman and Discussion of Dylan Songs From: David C. Carter In the film"The Savage Innocents" 1960,Anthony Quinn played the role of an Eskimo.Dylan said he'd seen that movie. For some people,every Dylan song is about drugs;Yeah,right. |