now that I come to think about it: I guess you're right Hadror13 !!!! Excuse me for getting the message/lines wrong: my English is not as good as yours🙏🙏. Thanks!!
I don't think young people today can even begin to imagine what it was like hearing Dylan for the first time as a teenger in the ealry 60s. It was like someone pulled back the curtain and, for the first time in your life, you saw the world as it really was. It was at the same time both exhilarating and terrifying.
I first heard Dylan with the Freewheelin album. I was about 13 and I was stunned at how much better he was than anyone else. I then rejected top 40 radio almost completely. I tried to introduce this music to my friends...they thought I was crazy.
This was the first Dylan song I really loved. "I got her out of a jam, I guess I used a little too much force" made me laugh out loud. I was fully engaged in the song after that, and now love it to death.
Definitely a great album. There’s an engaging book entirely about the making of this album called “Simple Twist of Fate” by Andy Gill. Intimate, surprising. Recommended.
Shelter from the Storm, - Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right, - The Time They Are a Changin, - Like a Rolling Stone, - Positively 4th Street, - Simple Twist of Fate, - Mr. Tambourine Man, - and 100 more Bob Dylan songs.
If there is a Dylan song worthy of a movie, with sufficient imagery to be derived from the lyrics, its Lilly Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts A masterpiece of story telling with the most colourful characters who all come to the fore of the listeners mind and with whom you literally form relationships !
I remember back in the day when Vinyl ruled the world, when a new Album from one of the popular artists or Bands would be released, a few friends would gather, roll up a doobie and listen away. It would be great to go back in time, do it again and take Harri with me. After the "A" side was done we could discuss what we listened to . Great times.
"a few friends would gather, roll up a doobie and listen away" Indeed, did this with countless albums. The last time I remember doing this was when U2 released The Joshua Tree. We would talk about which song was our favorite, did they pick the perfect song for the first one on side 1? And did the album finish strong? etc... great times indeed.
This song came out when I was in high school. I have had a long time to study it. Imagine that Blue is the girl's name and then listen to it again. Even the time jump back to the 1600's makes more sense when you do that.
John Hammond said that the Blood on the Tracks album was completed in five days without overdubs. Unbelievable! Dylan is a national treasure of course. I highly recommend reading his book Chronicles Vol. 1 if you haven't already.
@hw343434 The article was in Classic rock magazine, It goes tangled up in blue and shelter from the storm heralding a new more mature Dylan, as john lennon put it several years ahead of us all again, Article written by david dolton, Dylan Is the most important Artist on the planet at the moment Lyricist, Poet, Author, D j, Painter, Welder / Sculptor, Actor, And at the age of eighty two is still touring the world and Releasing albums albums, This man has many hands, The greatest creator of songs ever,
Simply one of the greatest stories ever told in a song!!! That's the same lady. "We'll meet again some day" "I've got to get back to her some how!" Thanks Harri. I try to pick only the greatest songs for you to react to.
One of my favorite lyrical constructions…he gets you every time somehow, you know the rhyme is coming but it still creeps up on you. And being tangled up in blue means all kinds of things, turns out!
It always hits me that he says “later on when the crowd thinned out, I was just about to do the same” -thin out? It makes no literal sense but it makes perfect narrative sense. That’s a gift.
This is the song to initiate a newbie to Dylan. Every word can be heard clearly, his voice is strong and the story is layered. I have this album on CD, and every time this song ends, I hit the button to start it over... never get tired of it.
From Bob's 15th album, Blood on the Tracks, 1975, it was rumored to be about Bob's marriage falling apart. Though some say it was about Joni Mitchell❤ and "Blue" album from 1971. Bob's writings at the time were influenced by an Art teacher who gave him a non-linear perspective in his songs. Bob said his marriage took 10 years to live and 2 years to write. A great tune by Bob with his great harmonica offerings. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Oddball 1958. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
My late father's all-time favorite artist. He owned everything Dylan ever released, and some live bootlegs as well. I once asked my father, "if you had to choose just one single artist to listen to, for the rest of your life, who would it be?" Without hesitation, he answered, "Bob Dylan, no question about it." Rest in Peace, dad... and thanks for all the great music you introduced to me.
Hi there. I've always tough that these characters on this story could be the same couple from "A simple twist of faith "😊 they keep founding and loosing themselves from one another. He's still waiting that she will notice his presence. I remember the feeling from my student past years 😊
In 1971, Dylan was suffering from writers block and was under a lot of pressure for various reasons. Joni Mitchell released the album ‘Blue’ which was like throwing a hand grenade into the world of singer/songwriters. Dylan rarely paid homage to anyone still alive but I think this song was partly his tribute to Joni for helping release his blockage and approach songwriting in a different way.
I like it too! "She was married when we rirst met to a men four times her age, he left her peniless in a state of regret, it was time to burst out of a cage"
You should listen to the 1992 RU-vid clip of The Jerry Garcia Band doing this song. A beautiful version with great backup singers and soaring guitar solos. Jerry was a dear friend of Bobs for many years.
It might be silly to try to choose the "best" Dylan album, but for me Blood on the Tracks is it, and this song is it's centerpiece. Harri, you might also enjoy the Jerry Garcia Band's interpretation of this song, which I think is one of the greatest covers ever.
The album is one of the best albums ever and there's not a bad song on it. I' have it in vinyl and have played in hundreds of time. Oddball 1958, good choice I'm from 1958 as well.
This album has a few great songs Simple, Twist of fate You're A Big Girl Now, Idiot Wind, Lily,Rosemary and The Jack of hearts Shelter From the Storm, beside this song
Thanks for posting such a nice reaction to this classic song, so many generations of us out here have carried it with us in our hearts, from broken lovers through different wives, it's great seeing someone hear it for the first time. If you think that would make a good movie (and I agree it would!) then wait'll you hear his song, from the same 1975 timeless classic album Blood on the Tracks, called "Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts." I'd love to see your reaction to that one, because primarily, at nearly 9 min long, it actually plays out like not just any movie, but you can totally picture it being directed by Martin Scorsese, no joke. If you've already reacted to it, I'll find it in your video archives; in any case, I'm subscribing to your channel and keeping my fingers crossed you'll listen to it soon enough. Peace out! ~;^\~
My friend, your reaction videos are a joy. Because you *feel* the music and express those feelings so beautifully. Please do Brownsville Girl - it will blow your mind. Co-written with a brilliant playwrite.
The story is about how the woman he met and loved was married, he murders her husband "helped her out of jam but used a little too much force"...they drive to get away, "abandoned the care out west" and decided to split up. He drifted around, never could forget her....he ends up meeting her again in New Orleans..."working in a topless joint, bent down to tie the laces of his shoes" ....all the same woman.
This whole album, "Blood on the Tracks" is about his struggle with his then-wife, Sara Lowndes, whom he divorced a few years later (1978?). Their relationship was rocking then in 1974-75.
@@victorbortolussi2964 Yeah I was thinking it was more like 7 or 8 of the greatest albums ever in the streak he had going. My vote is Highway 61 Revisited.
@@victorbortolussi2964 I love Desire, but I'm not a huge fan of Blood on the Tracks. The best song is Idiot Wind, and the live version on Hard Rain is better than the one on the studio album.
@@carlos_herrera I'm still trying to digest everything he did from the 60's through the 80's. My brain won't let me try to learn his newer albums because I still haven't figured out all his old albums. My first Dylan album was Self Portrait in cassette when it came out. I just saw it had it Like A Rolling Stone on it and didn't realize the track was a live version and sounded weird lol. I still love that album. I think Dylan even said he didn't like that album but I do.
I wonder the same thing man. Same woman , different women, still remind him of the same woman from long ago? I just like the rythm cuz this song seems all over the place. Good reaction sir.
I've always felt Dylan has written many songs about many different women, but they are all the same woman too. "Shelter from the Storm" and "Simple Twist of Fate" (from this same album) also captures this sort of goddess type being ("she should have caught me in my prime ... she was born in Spring, I was born too late"). He was going through a particularly awful time with his soon to be ex-wife when he wrote and recorded this album. This song is sort a reflection of all kinds of things, I think. He performs it differently from concert to concert, even among different years/decades, and has often changed around the pronouns, lyrics and tenses of things. There are quotes where he has said he wanted it to be sort like a shifting perspectives and narrators. I think it's meant to be the same people, but somehow not, all at the same time (like the same souls but reincarnated into different experiences/encounters). Underneath all the masks and shifting points of view, its the same experience of being tangled up in the blue which binds them together.... just one of many interpretations out there.
Show me shelter from the storm is the best song on the album and I had it when it first came out and I love them all but shelter from the storm is my favorite
This is a stellar example of why Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He's only the second songwriter to do so, the first being Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, who won in 1913.
He (Bob Dylan) once told Allen Ginsburgh that every verse is about a completely different woman! Think of that while listening and it all seems to come togerter.
This entire album is a masterpiece... P.S. you told me to remind you of reacting to George Harrison's "Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let it Roll)" .. my second reminder, not that I'm counting. :)
Epic classic narrative like Joey off Desire …Hey Hari i dearly request you do Te’ll ol Bill of Tell Tale Signs .. very moody and cool track …trust me its very different
