Guys I'm almost certain there was an Apple ad featuring the demo version of Forever Young but I can't find it anywhere! Is this my own personal Mandela Effect? There was a boomlet of acoustic demo releases in the 80s &90s and FY, on Biograph, was one of the best of them. #BD969
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If there's one obscure Dylan song I'd urge any more casual Dylan fan to check out, it's Dirge. It's a classic ball of Bob: Vicious and vulnerable, swinging from self-regard to self-pity, a perfect cataloging of post-breakup emotion. And again, the music is a coiled spring.
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Addendum: the actual line as sung is "I've paid the price of solitude, but at least I'm out of debt." Which is much better. Man, I comforted myself a lot with that line as a younger person.
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Planet Waves' other lyrical masterwork is Wedding Song, which I hope nobody ever plays at an actual wedding. I'm a sucker for anything that sounds like a love song but is really a catalog of desperate obsession. It's a cookie full of arsenic.
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I realize that makes Wedding Song sound like Every Breath You Take, but it's much more subtle than that. Because it does evoke emotions of genuine love. "When I was deep in poverty, you taught me how to give" is a profound (and deeply Christian) sentiment. But then you get:pic.twitter.com/Kx4h8dbdfx
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And the overwhelming effect of the song, especially with the monotonous rhythm, is a smothering intensity. I mean, at first glance this seems amazing, but what is someone supposed to say in response? "Uh, I love you too, Bob?"
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I'm sorry, I just reread "I love you more than money and more than the stars above." What a perfect, high wire lyric.
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#BD969 outtake time! Earlier I said I wish I'm Not There had been properly recorded. Nothing 'Cept You is perfect bc of its flaws. The band stumbles around b4 locking into a groove on verse 2 then Bob's voice rises to the challenge. The process is the joy.https://vimeo.com/2351392892 replies 1 retweet 3 likesShow this thread -
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These Dylan tweets are reminding me that I read somewhere that your dad was in the Wisconsin folk scene in the 1960s -- am I remembering this right?
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You might have even read it on my TLhttps://twitter.com/danielradosh/status/1104776819792855041 …
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Ah, I knew I read this somewhere.
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