First Time Hearing "Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone" | REACTION/REVIEW 

In this song Bob Dylan ain't trying to make no friends. He's laying it down. I used to think Bob Dylan was overrated but then I took the time and effort to listen to a bunch of his albums. He's not overrated.

Bob was MLK’s opening act in 1963 at the “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

One of the greatest songs ever written. A song about coming of age.

You need to listen to Bob Dylan’s “Positively 4th Street”, a true story about fake friends.

I don’t know if you have heard “It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding “ by Bob Dylan. It’s absolutely amazing 😎👍

I'd suggest Tangled Up in Blue, a great story from a great songwriter.

You absolutely can’t go wrong with Bob Dylan! All his songs are amazing poetry! 👵🏼💜☮️

Dylan's lyrics are incredible. Listen to what he's saying. About leaving mommy and daddy's house, and having to fend for yourself, and find your meals etc. Most of us had to do that at 18 years old or even younger. "How does it feel, to be on your own..." Such a classic 60s song, that really reflected the times.

Bob has had such an amazing career. Even won a Nobel prize in 2016 for literature. He has been around and seen it all. Amazing song writer.

Song is about Edie Sedgewick. Check out her bio

Bob Dylan - It's Alright Ma, (I'm Only Bleedin)

One of the greatest lines in modern music, and something I have taken to heart in the 5 1/2 years I have been fighting an incurable cancer: When you ain’t got nothin’, you got nothin’ to lose.

The absolute GOAT of songwriting, changing the world and poet.

If I had to pick a favorite song of all-time, this would be it. For your next Dylan song, I recommend "Subterranean Homesick Blues", which might be as close as Dylan ever came to making a rap record. It's also his first single after he went electric, so important historically. It also has a music video that wasn't just him performing the song, which was unusual at the time. It's a short, fast, exciting record.

Subterranean Homesick Blues and Positively 4th Street are two of my favorite Dylan songs.

Quite possibly the most important and impactful song ever written

Written about the beautiful, enigmatic but ultimately tragic model/actress Edie Sedgewick.

Brilliant lyricist. One of the greatest.❤

I think this was about a specific person, a NY socialite who slummed for kicks just a bit too long and ended up burning her bridges behind her.

"Like a Rolling Stone" dropped in the summer of 1965 with an impact that split the music of the sixties into a before and after. Highway 61 Revisited is a great album. Check out "Desolation Row" for another epic.

In my opinion, this is the most important song in the history of rock n roll. This came out in July 1966, the summer between my freshman and sophomore years in high school. It changed radio. Most songs were 2-3 minutes long. This was over 6 minutes long. And most songs were cheery love songs. This was a song of bitterness and revenge.

Dylan redifined what a rock and roll song could be with this classic .

You felt that.

one of the best songs of all time

Bob Dylan always been a poet. His lyrics always have for the most part some in depth message about where we are in society. What's happening at the moment and also reflections about things in his own life. He's a genius. I'm 75 years old and he has always been number one in my book. I was probably one of the best writers and singers since my time no one to match him.

Legend of the highest order!🔥🎶✌️

Bob Dylan's rabbit hole is as wide and as deep as there is, cant go wrong with any of it.....tangled up in blue is a personal favorite

Bob Dylan with The Band / Last Waltz / Forever Young it is amazing, really (Bob Dylan is the one who actually came up with the name for The Band! They were his band when he went electric)

I’m 3 min into this and thought I would hear you say BARS! by now. 😂 Great choice, Biz. I’ll make suggestions in another post. Thank you.

Great reaction. You nailed it.

Please react to his song A Hard Rain’s A-gonna Fall.

absolutely masterful song! I suggest these Dylan songs: Things Have Changed, Tangled Up In Blue, Shelter From The Storm & Visions Of Johanna

My favorite Dylan song ❤️🔥🔥

Would love to hear your thoughts on Bob’s “Visions Of Johana” from his Blonde On Blonde album. It has lined in it like ‘Inside the museum, infinity goes up on trial’; and ‘electricity howls in the bones of her face’. An inscrutable piece when looked at literally, but is very clear emotionally. One of my all-time favs - from any artist. Pure drug-saddled 60s.

Those last couple of lines of the last verse are lyrical gold.

I think it was at this recording session Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield met for the first time. Al Kooper, who were a guitarist at that time, had to stand back in favor of Mike Blommfield instead started to improvise at the organ. The producer tried to hold the organ back, but Bob Dylan liked the sound and instead asked him to raise it.

Superb reaction. Very wise words about some very ingenious words! Each verse is just more mind-blowingly brilliant than the one before it. The momentum on this masterpiece is SICK!

Dylan is a wordsmith for sure.

Mr Nobel Prize for Literature himself... a rabbit hole you will never get out of. He's Unique, a one off, irreplaceable, the likes of whom we will never see again.

I think this is about Edie Sedgwick who hung around with Andy Warhol. She may have been proud at one time, but Dylan is also saying she was being used, even then, without realising it, and she was setting herself up for a bad fall.

From the instant groove and tune it is still one of the all time great songs6 decades after first hearing it!

Blonde on Blonde and Blood on the Tracks are incredible albums. Any track off those would be great

You nailed this. Good job. Thanks for this

Beautiful reaction. A Bob Dylan song called Foot of Pride uses that same line you just used ~ be careful how you treat people on the way up …

Dude is a poet laureate. His words are such a story. Man, so good.

You should definitely listen to (if not react to) every Dylan song mentioned here!

A great one for the schlyrics, this was Bob's answer to Joan's "Diamonds and Rust". Kidding!!! But that would be weird! Great review Mr. B.

1965, and this still sounds incredibly new...

Hendrix called this “the rock and roll national anthem.” It still is. Before this tune was released rock and roll was pop music for teenagers, and that’s all it was. Dylan was part of the folk movement and 2as well aware of all the story songs, blues and ballads from the Deep South, some of which go back centuries. He decided to write story songs for the modern urban environment, and he was a revolutionary.

Hendrix version is FIRE!

Bars on bars on bars.

Pure Gold!!! ✌️❤️🤘🥁

Thank you! The poet laureate of my heart.

Edie Sedgwick. Heiress to the Waterford Crystal fortune if I remember correctly. She hung out with Andy Warhol and the Factory in 1965,66 and she and Dylan lived together briefly, but she got strung out on heroin and died young.

Masters of War

I don’t know if you’ve listened to it before, but check out “positively fourth Street”, one of my Dylan favorites.

Check out Every Grain of Sand! One of his best!

May I recommend Shelter From the Storm as the next one to hit. Truthfully there are a couple of baseball teams worth of good songs by Dylan but this one stands out to me.

I was a first grader the first time I heard this song through the crackling static of my aunts AM radio. At that young age had become a lifelong fan. I’m sixty four now and still enjoy learning about Bob Dylan.

Thank you sir.

Fun seeing you love not just the song and lyrics but its production and instrumentation: it’s all fkg brilliant and BEAUTIFUL. His best lyrics prove immediately why he was awarded a Nobel prize(!) in literature. I don’t know how many thousands of songs he’s written😉 but many of them are genuinely, objectively great. If forced to choose just one, I say “Blind Willie McTell” I can promise it’ll knock you out😮 Haunting, dreamlike, hallucinatory, moving, great world art. Enjoy.

That was such an excellent breakdown at the end. I love relating it to modern day images. I would also say because of the time and I think partly intentionally, the Fidelity on this isn't all that great, and it's a bit jumbled and informal, and it's like a front porch Jam or a little get-together out in the street. It's meant to be that way. It fits the tone of it perfectly. It's definitely a precursor to rap in a way and it's what a lot of people didn't like about him at the time if they weren't young and open kind of already understanding the seen that he was describing. They thought that he was shouting and not being perfectly in Pitch all the time because that was the world that he was reacting against. I bet you would really be fascinated by Subterranean Homesick blues, another huge hit by him from this era, and to me that's definitely a precursor to rap. And yet it's set to this rambunctious freewheeling Musical thing, and the video is iconic, it's one of the first music videos other than perhaps The Beatles to be artistic. I mean I guess the early Elvis stuff like Jailhouse Rock was that way kind of but that was so long before.

These early Dylan songs influenced most everyone from The Beatles to Jimi Hendrix.

My vote for next is "Tangled up in Blue"

Shelter From The Storm is also a really good one!

Check Jimi Hendrix's cover (preferably live at Monterey).

Hit the nail on the head my friend and I've heard a lot of reactions. This was on Rolling Stone Magazine list as the greatest rock song ever for many years. A revolutionary song at the time it came out in the 60s. Do some research on it. I'll make a recommendation for your next Dylan adventure...It's All Right Ma (I'm only Bleeding).

I love how ttheir song grabs you from the start and never lets go. I'll leave you with a request. You have to react to October Ends' new song, it's mind-blowing!

Desolation Row was always my favourite.

I love Dylan. Reminds me of the 70’s. Would love a Dan Fogleberg song too.

The greatest thing about this song is that there is so much imagery and so many characters and so many situations that every single one of us can relate to at least 1 verse (if not more!) When I was going through a divorce and basically living out of the trunk of my car, staying with friends or relatives or whoever would have me, this was my anthem.

Good review.

A great American poet in song

Try Desolation Row next. Another great (among many) Dylan songs!

One of my favorites thank you brings back memories ❤❤❤

I remember when I first started following gamer and then reaction channels, everybody's always saying hit subscribe and I never would. It just felt like I don't want to get into a subscription where I have to pay anything and get bombarded with notifications. But it turns out it's not like that at all, it only helps out the reactor and especially if you like what you're hearing, it just makes it more likely to pop up in your feed and it helps them as well. So I don't think it gets stressed enough that there's nothing onerous about it. There's nothing special about it other than just making a connection. And I've watched enough channels that this apparently is the norm, usually about 20% or less of people that are repeatedly watching a reactor's videos and hitting Like and even commenting, don't subscribe. It's got to be frustrating.

Great reaction

Grooove-ey. Love it.

Is this the greatest song ever? I’ll argue its side.

Brilliant ❤❤❤

👍👍👍

He’s not only not overrated he is a Nobel winner and the greatest song writer of the last few generations. You can watch his 30th anniversary show from around 92 and watch a ton of great artists do his songs and get a real feel for the depth and breadth of his work.

Hey Biz... just wanted to give you a heads up that subscribers are being kicked off channels for which we still do not have answers, but announce it to have subs check their status. This song jams!! 💜

This song came out when I was 10. I heard it on the radio. I used my next allowance to buy the single. 😂❤

good job Biz

Try to find "Chimes of Freedom", it's maybe the best in his Newport Folk Festival recording. OBTW, the thing about on the way down, try Little Feat "On the Way Down". ("Same people you misuse on the way up, you're gonna meet up, on the way down.")

If ever a song needs to have the Shhlyrics it is Like a Rolling Stone! The music and pacing are similarly amazing.

"Positively Fourth Street" is a similar Dylan song with some really biting lyrics.

Tambourine man was another great Dylan song.

enjoyed it a super lot. unbelievable and super unique. so unique Was also wondering have you heard of October Ends ? He's new song is fire! You should react to it

Recommend to listen to his fire breathing and powerful version of 1974 Before-the-Flood recordings...

Great Dylan song. I loved his stuff when he first went electric even though many of his old fans hated it. I saw him live twice, once with the Band ini 1974 and then the next year with his Rolling Thunder Revue. Both were great shows. BTW Biz, Jimi Hendrix does a great cover of this song too.

I was eleven when I heard this,and instantly liked it. His voice wasn't the best, but, I loved the melody and lyrics.

Just off the top of my head, I'd like to suggest: Desolation Row, If you see her say hello, Blind Willie mctell, Every grain of sand. It's hard to choose when there's over 700 to choose from

One of the best ever. Thank you for doing this one man.

So good. Check out Desolation Row next. Great reaction.

Great song off a great album. A couple of my favorites cuts are Ballad of a Thinman and Highway 61 revisited.

Where are the Dylans of today?

honey it IS a true story, Because Dylan always just speaks truth 👍

Love this one. Incredible songwriting catalog aside, he's not what most would consider a great singer. Bob Dylan's roots were in American folk music (white folk music). A lot of the famous folk singer/songwriters don't have the most beautiful voices. They sing with the voice God gave them. One more thing -- Nobody sounds like Dylan. Watch "We Are the World" (USA for Africa) again sometime to see if you know more performers now. Dylan has a solo bit in it.