SINGER REACTS! BOB DYLAN - LIKE A ROLLING STONE 

Bob Dylan won a Nobel Prize in 2016 for literature for having created new poetic expressions within music. Living legend

The first line sets up the story - "Once upon a time you lived so fine, threw the bums a dime in your prime... didn't you?" - a riches to rags story.

"Are there any other Bob Dylan songs that i should listen to?" Uh, yes, about 40 album's worth and every last one of them. He was writing to someone who had been particularly smarmy and full of herself, and having watched her crash to the ground, he was rubbing it in; how do you like it? 'Your turn to be down and out like the people you used to laugh at.

I've been a Bob Dylan for some 50 years. From what I understand he wrote this song during his early days in NY City about a young woman he knew (Eide Sedgwick) who came from a privileged life and apparently looked down on people ("threw the bums a dime") but then she got used by people and she fell. Hard. So, "Now you don't talk so loud. Now you don't seem so proud". And "How does it feel?". And, "When you get nothin', you got nothin' to lose". You seem to have liked the song. I'm glad. Good reaction. Happy year ahead from upstate New York.

In my opinion the greatest rock song ever written.I remember what it came out and you could hear it from the four corners of the earth.

This is an angry but uplifting song about a fallen high society girl. The diplomat with the Siamese cat is Andy Warhol. The girl is edie Sedgwick.

Tangled up in Blue by Dylan, you would love the lyrics

I am very impressed Dani on how you analyzed and interpreted this song upon first listen. I additionally liked your comment about the harmonica being “such an emotional instrument” and likened it’s sound to “an emotional cry.” Great all around reaction video and commentary - thank you.

That hard rap on the snare drum and the organ riff signal the start of folk-rock and the Bob Dylan phenomenon. He built the framework for the music of the 60s. We love the music that grew from this beginning.

Thanks for reacting to Dylan's original version. His best work is only on his original released recordings. I'm 70 and started listening to Dylan when I was 13. He was (is) very talented and changed his style throughout his many albums. There are many gems among his work!

Bob Dylan's music is NOT about the music, but the message in the music. And the tone of the music for those lyrics. How does it feel......to listen to him deal......a message that's so real? Does it make you wake up and wanna hear more? How does it feel???

Just the backing instrumentation was years ahead of the curve. It includes mike Bloomfield and al kooper.

Been listening to this for almost 60 years. Still great

I met Bob Dylan when I was a 12 yo. schoolboy in the midsixties. Now I'm 70 yo. and I'm still listening to him. I know all his discography by heart and memory. More than 40 albums till now... and the ones to come. 🎉

Not without reason that he won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2016. Says everything / a lot about his texts.😀 Greetings from Norway.

The idea of some singers still haven't listened to Bob Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone is just plain ridiculous

Bob only writes well written songs. Check out the studio vetsion of " A Hard Rains Gonna Fall " for amazing dense lyrics.

A classic from a BRILLIANT influential songwriting genius. Love it. ♥️♥️🎼🎶🎵🇨🇦

I love the look on Bob's face of this album. This was a look of our generation in the 60's.

This is a great reason to have lyrics ready, not to read in advance but to refer to, as needed, while the song progresses. This song is _not_ merely about a person who is "changing," but one who feels entitled to wealth then becomes broke and homeless. It's quite simple but wonderfully written, played, and sung. It is a perfect theme for folk music, ancient and modern. While Dylan might have had some former lover(s) in mind, real or simply desired, thare is no reference here to any of them. He spoke of it as a way to needle people, to awaken their conscience. The song does it perfectly.

Hi Dani, this is my first time watching you react to an artist, well done. You provided a very astute analysis of this song from Bob Dylan. This man’s level of talent is on par with people such as Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci or Shakespeare. My dear, you’ve discovered treasure.

Probably the Best Song ever written!

“Positively 4th Street” “North Country Fair” “Idiot Wind” all the best and many more. “Knock Knock Knocking on Heavens Door” is wonderful. Good luck with your channel.

Cool young guys listening to Dylan's music I think it would set them up for life

Thanks for bringing us this gem from the core creative zone of rock!

Bob is a game changer. It was unbelievable how much he was booed when he went electric. He played his acoustic and harmonica until he amped up and a lot of people didn't like it. Pete Seeger was very upset and at one Folk Festival he tried to cut the power cord. Dylan didn't retreat and I think he was right. I love his acoustic stuff and the electric. Great reaction! Try "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carol". It's my favorite.

I remember when I first heard this song so long ago. I never thought about the lyrics much - I just really loved the groove of it all.

This old song still feels relevant today. The explosion of homeless street encampments over the last decade reflects a state of destitution and the loss of a way home for so many. When you've lost everything you have nothing to lose.

In my opinion one of the great vocals in music history. Dylan screams these vocals.

So glad you appreciate Bob Dylan . Have been a fan of his since The 60's. He is a poet that sets it to music with his usual style. Try Tamborine Man, Positively 4th St. really everything he creates. By the way, that's him on the harmonica and he also plays guitar and piano !!!!!! ENJOY !

Happy new year! Bob Dylan is one of the greats. A few songs you might want to listen to from him Tangled Up In Blue, Memphis Blues again and sweet Marie. There are so many good songs to choose from. I enjoy your show keep up the great work

Hi, Dani! Please react to "It's All Right, Ma, I'm Only Bleeding" (studio version). It's so incredible w/ just his voice, guitar, and a bit of harmonica. Powerful and haunting. 💕

Along similar lines and from the same period, listen to "Positively 4th Street."

Dylan = one of the greats.

I was there at the Cleveland music hall on November 12, 1965 when he sang this song. I went on to see him 35 times and met him on July 17, 1991. He was very nice to me.

Hi Dani he was awesome poet/song writer, he was awesome 🤩 person I met him once so down to earth

Tangled up in blue for another amazing story song...

Listen to every Dylan album that you can get your hands on.

As a singer, u might appreciate It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue. Try the 1966 live version (incredible harmonica solo)

Dylan's music is SECONDARY -- focus on the LYRICS.

The song is about a girl who was raised as a little princess and given all kinds of attention and gifts growing up and under the protection of her parents home and then under the protective umbrella of college. But then she's on her own with no direction home like a complete unknown Like a Rolling Stone. When the lyrics says, "standing in the vacuum of his eyes and the a man asks her 'Do You Want To Make a Deal"? What do you think he's talking about? What could she possibly exchange for money? So the songs really about all princesses who parachute down-to-earth and deals with the harsh reality of the cold and hard sidewalks of life.

Dani, your next Dylan tune should be "Tangled Up in Blue," which may be the greatest story-song of all time. (Other iconic story-songs are Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe," Paul Simon's "Duncan," Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and The Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby.")

This song is too poetic, good, and complex to understand in one listen. This song is legendary. His daring and writing influenced the Beatles and so many others. It's like a masterpiece of literature. Too much to chew on one take.

"Like a rolling stone" was voted as the best song of al time

Dylan is a living legend...One of the last...such great songs.... give Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather, a listen... Just Beautiful....

When you got nothing you got nothing to lose

The hurricane. Tangled up in blues,. Mr. tambourine Man,. Blowing in the wind,. Simple twist of fate,. And 100 more

Hah, I liked your reaction to my favorite line "you`re invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal"

Would love to hear you react to "One More Cup of Coffee," or "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands." There are SO many good Dylan songs. 💛

Gday Miss Dani, yes mate, the festive season is over for another year.Its kinda sad but before we all know it, we’ll be dragging out our ladders and putting the tinsel and Christmas trees back up, thinking Damn, I feel like I just packed all this stuff up yesterday.Anyway, Bob Dylan eh? Well this dude I am so down with mate.WOW, what a legend he is.A true performer of his time. He just managed to sell his entire music catalog for $400 million bucks I heard. Dig that. Money in the bank for the party who scored his music rights. The best lyricist too.Love the electric organ riff in the chorus.Great choice mate. Words of wisdom again Miss Dani. Wonderful reaction.👍🤩🤪😄😁🇦🇺❤️☮️

The Diplomat is Warhol

Hello my friend!!! I hope that you are having an excellent time. So I just watched your reaction to Bob Dylan And it was very enjoyable, I really liked the way of trying to breakdown his lyrics. Then I decided to make a list of my favorite songs by him. And hopefully you see my comment. Great job, good luck with your channel!!! and greetings from New York. So here we go: Tambourine Man. Blowin’ in The Wind. The Times They Are A-Chagin’. Subterranean Homesick Blues. Tombstone Blues. Ballad Of A Thin Man. Highway 61 Revisited. Desolation Row. Just Like A Woman. Visions Of Johanna. 4Th Time Around. Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands. Rainy Day Woman #12 & 35. Stuck Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again. Tangled Up In Blue. Idiot Wind. Meet Me In The Morning. Hurricane. Love Sick. Dirt road Blues. Standing In The Doorway. Tryin’ To Get To Heaven. Not Dark Yet. Make You Feel My Love. Spirit On The Water.

A genius poet...

It's a monster PUT-DOWN song. It's ANGRY -- and at the end TRIUMPHANT.

He deliberately sounded a bit like the voice of Woody Guthrie to have that twang on most of his songs as a tribute to his idol.Here are some of his greatest songs that you must react to or listen to on your own; Blowin’ In The Wind, Tangled Up In Blue, Shelter From The Storm Hurricane, Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, and It Ain’t Me Babe!

tumbling down like a rolling stone rolling down hill. He's rubbing her nose in it.

Bob Dylan is one of the most prolific songwriters of the past 100 years...if not more.

I like watching the reactions of 'first timers' to Dylan, first impressions are amazing yet they are also disconcerting especially when attempting to extract meaning from the maestros lyrics, I should know, Dylan has been my guiding light since the mid-60s, back then the meaning of so many of his songs ie My Back Pages is so different to my take on it now in my 60s.

Wrote his songs on a manual typewriter. One of my favorite songs of his is "Shelter from the Storm."

Btw...saw him 3 times, all amazing, the last in 88 with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and he played this one with 40,000 people stomping their feet...transcendent.

I'm usually interested to hear what somebody has to say about possibly my favorite song (if such a thing can actually exist.) It's important to be able to see / hear a song in it's actual place in time. I'm old enough that I was listening when this song was released. The abrupt beginning of it is almost like a lightning bolt change from the music he'd been doing up to that point- The electric guitar had only appeared in his music as a kind of a supporting role to the kind of music he'd always done before. in the 2 albums before this one you could tell something was changing but "Like a Rolling Stone " was like an explosion. I don't think anything artistic can be fully accounted for, think about the difference between a poem about an event vs. a documentary account of the same event. The song seems to be about someone who thought of herself as kind of high and mighty but somehow she's now more down just like everybody else around her, and Dylan's use of the language is very good at combining sometimes esoteric references with ordinary day-to-day talk. Listen to the title song from "Highway 61 Revisited." Dylan's first album has a song "highway 51," not written by Dylan. Highway 51 in Mississippi has a tragic history of the shooting of a black man during the civil rights movement and later( the same highway route I believe) was used when thousands of civil rights supporters marched for civil rights. Dylan's early music is heavy with support for civil rights. I've heard critiques of 'Highway 61 Revisited" (song) but none that reference highway 51. "Maggie's Farm " from "61 Revisited" deserves a listen too. It strikes me as him saying "I gotta get out of this crazy place" but I don't what place he might mean, this town, this country, this world? What should we presume to be literal and what should we see as metaphore in any song especially considering how some artists combine and maybe even blur that distinction in the name of artistic license? Lyrical verse is art, what doe's Jackson Pollock's painting "Number 31" 1949 mean? IDK. ( link to image of the painting) www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-19-at-12.15.47-PM-e1650385059685.png?w=1200 ♥🎵

This song is brilliantly sardonic and searingly cutting, It’s basically about a big shot who thought that he was above everyone, and who scoffed at recognizing the humanity in the people that he thought were beneath him, getting knocked down and becoming one of the very people that he scoffed at, and having to depend on the very people that he looked down upon for survival. It’s basically about someone like that suddenly being humbled by life’s circumstances and events in a major way. Dylan could write with incredible wisdom and insight (when I can discern what he’s talking about, which I can’t in a lot of his songs, lol).

Actually it has been studied the room temperature water can more easily be absorbed in your body than cold water!

Without Dylan, no Kurt, no Axl Rose.

Great reaction. Dylan’s music and poetry opens up a world of discovery where every topic and human emotion is explored in almost as many styles. Please continue this journey. Try a simple love song of his like “Boots of Spanish Leather” or “Sooner or Later( One of Us Must Know).

Definitely want to check out, it’s so hard to do with all down to just a few suggestions , his collection is so wide ranging and many albums deep of records each could be argued as his best ever. I would say… -“The times they are a changing” “ Don’t think twice it’s, all right” “ All along the watchtower” “Tangled up in blue” For a live performance I don’t think few things can compare to the energy and quality of his 1972 rolling thunder review tour recording of... “Tonight I’ll be staying here with you” Or his recording at the Newport folk festival of “Mr. Tambourin Man” Obviously I’m a bit of a Dylan obsessive, but anyone looking to become more familiar with him could also watch the recent Martin Scorsese Netflix documentary about his “rolling thunder review tour” in 1972, The documentary “no direction home” Which I think Scorsese also dude, which is a biotic documentary. Definitely, would love to see you do some more songs from him BTW for what probably is the best distract of all time, definitely listen to… “Positively 4th street”

Best rock song ever or to be written

the original lyrics to this song was SIXTEEN PAGES LONG! He had to cut it down to this haha Also you should always read along with the lyrics with a Dylan song haha

This song was considered entirely too long for radio in 1965. I wonder how it broke through that?

BTW, This is where " Rolling Stone " magazine got it's title. He was the only white musician who played at MLK's Million Man March and he introduced The Beatles to Mary Jane.

More Dylan songs, The most covered artist. " Knocking On Heaven's Door " and " All Along The Watchtower " are among his most cov9.

This song changed the recording industry

What a rapper!

I don't think you can find better lyrics than those written by Dylan, and the way he modulates his voice to place emphasis where he wants and for dramatic effect places him in a class of his own. He is the most important rock singer in history, though there are so many variants of rock over 65 years that others can make that claim in some areas

Over 700 songs and over 1000000 versions

You must have played more of the album

I am really surprised that you had not heard Bob Dylan before. He was practically deified in the sixties because of his songs. He and Joan Baez had a very close relationship for a number of years. Bob had been a huge part of the folk movement along with Joan; Peter, Paul and Mary and many others. He changed to electrified instrumentation (I believe on this album as well as at the Newport Folk Festival) and many people were turned off by that. But the music is the music, the poetry is still very relevant fifty plus years later. You were right , there is a lot of frustration in this song. It is personalized but it spoke very clearly to our generation (I am of his generation) and you can substitute that generation into the role of the singer and the girl is the society at the time. We had grown up with most things given to us because of incredible growth and expansion in the U.S. after WW II. But as we grew and especially when we got involved in Viet Nam our generation started to see and understand how we and our parents were being played by those in power. It was especially painful and yet gratifying when our parents started to listen to us. When parents started to tell their sons "go to Canada to avoid the draft, we will support you". It is hard to go wrong with a Bob Dylan song and there are a lot of them to choose from . Some are , like this, full of frustration and anger, some are sad, some are very tender, some are actually funny (Rainy Day Women) but they are all unique and insightful and speak for a lot of people.

What I’ve always taken from the last verse is the person is finally free from pretentiousness and materialism “when you ain’t got nothing, you ain’t got nothing to lose “ much like another Dylan song “ freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose”

This is about a young woman who used to feel above everyone and everything. She had a change of fortune ( and drinking problem) and now must realize she in the dregs. Dylan often writes (Nobel Prize winner) about people who he feels once mistreated them and he’s pretty glad they got their comeuppance. Try Ballad of a Thin Man, Positively 4th Street and Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright. He can be biting. The top poet of the last 60 years or so.

Pure Musical Americana..

I can't shake the suspicion that this song is about Marianne Faithful

don't think twice it's alright next

_Desolation Row_

If it's storytelling that interests you, try 'The Ballad of Hollis Brown', 'North Country Blues' and 'Boots of Spanish Leather', all from his third album, 'The Times They Are A-Changing'. Just him , his guitar and harmonica - and his amazing lyrics! And that's just the start . . .

Extra vapid reaction, two thumbs up!

One of his best.

It would be great if you could react to Bob Dylan's song 'Murder Most Foul' which was released in 2020

Tangled up in blue

Oh you got unlocked. Well for fighting it .

Requests: 1. DON'T THINK TWICE, IT'S ALRIGHT 2. BOB DYLAN'S DREAM 3. IT'S NOT DARK YET

It's about a fall from grace.

ill recommend "its alright ma" but as you couldnt even understand this one , surely you will have trouble with it. id go into this one but others have done so, its really quite clear

About a woman that thought she could play everyone and got played...based on a real person.

Blowin' in The Wind It Ain't Me Babe Forever Young The Times They Are a Changing Mr. Tambourine Man Tangled Up in Blue Positively Fourth Street

Anything off of Highway 61 Revisited. Subterranean Homesick Blues video.

Some interesting theories about the song, that may be correct. I didn't know about Edie, I thought it was about a spoiled, rich kid who dropped out, got addicted to drugs, and in the end lost everything that she had valued - money, self respect, her way 'home', everything. 😢

#YAY 😃✌️☺️👍

The song is about a rich socialite girl who falls on hard times and Dylan here is effectively saying 'how does it feel to have no money'? Its about a specific person but in reality is an assault on the richest in society and pointing out one day they may have nothing and 'how does it feel'?

His voice changes through the years. Go back and listen to songs from the LP "Freewheelin'".

It's TRUE story about his ex girlfriend. Edie Sedgwick. They made a movie about her . Rich family but she ended up homeless heroin addict died of a drug overdose. The movie was called factory girl