The Sun Isn't Yellow It's Chicken
I can't say that I have ever had affinity for Bob Dylan - I mean I love that he is loved and made it while having a raspy voice, choppy guitar style and a face that could turn most Grandmother's away. But, his music - aside from having to like it growing up in the American East Coast Idiom - I never really gave it much thought. That is I never gave it much thought until I purchased Highway 61 and heard Desolation Row for the first time.
I really only like 5 of his albums and totally ignored him during the 80's up until the Love and Theft album - which had the kickass song Thing Have Changed - which was used unsparingly in the movie "Wonder Boys".
In case you are in a downloading mood - these are some really great Dylan songs that I'm sure you have heard but may have skipped over - My favorite songs in order.
1. Masters of War (Loved because in 91' he sang this at the Grammy's when he was supposed to sing something else - they tried to cut him off halfway through the song so he adlibbed a verse and smeared the words together.)
2. Corrina Corrina
3. Desolation Row
4. Tombstone Blues
5. Highway 61
- shit you can't have only 5 Dylan Tunes that you love -
Maggie's Farm, Ballad of a Thin Man, Buckets of Rain, Meet Me in the Morning, Tangled up in Blue, Stuck Inside a Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again, Visions of Johanna, Paint My Masterpiece...lol
This is how I always like to think of him -
If he could have just stayed off the cocaine - he could have been more influential as he grew into his age. Ginsberg hated the Dylan did cocaine. He found it repulsive for one of the supposed leaders of a new thinking loving movement would partake in that drug.
Bonus - Who can name what movie emulates this scene during the start or the "dream" sequence?
Bonus number two - Who knows why Dylan didn't play Woodstock? Seems like a logical choice to play a free love festival. Why would Dylan not play it?
