Listening to Together Through Life at the moment. Not as good as TOOM or Love And Theft but still pretty amazing. I think I even like it more than Modern Times but put it behind Tempest.
I'm eager to hear this bonus CD: (let's see if the new link works) Can't wait to crank it up and throw out my inferior crappy audience tape.
I shop at places where you don't get a receipt. They are trying to hide their income from the tax man. But they do give a bag if you ask for one.
Listening to Street Legal I know many of Bob's lyrics are deep with meaning but these two lines have me really scratching my head from Senor: Well, the last thing I remember before I stripped and kneeled Was that trainload of fools bogged down in a magnetic field 'splain it to me, Lucy!
Senor is a horror movie. I used to wonder and intellectualize about the lyrics on Street Legal. Eventually I gave it up. Let the songs conjure up imagery and feelings but don't spoil it by trying to explain them in a rational way.
Bob was referring to the then recent innovations in trains operating on magnetic fields (the Maglev trains), and the foolish waste of money on the tickets for Maglev travel, when cheaper rides on canal boats were available. He also had the vision to see a future where strip searches would be required to travel in sophisticated machines. This is why Bob has used a bus all these years.
Fascinating, what you say! And makes sense in the context of the song's subtitle (Tales of Yankee Power).
Listening to the Cutting Edge box, and I have a question: what's the difference between an additional take vs. a remake? Does labeling a track a "remake" simply mean they were returning to a song that they'd cut earlier in the sessions, rather than doing another take of a song they hadn't yet cut? [Pardon me if I am a fool getting bogged down in the magnetic tapes...]
Well, it was the two Yankee Nuclear Power Plants in New England that were supposed to power the Northeast Maglev trains. After the anti-nuclear power movement led to their closure (years after that song), Maglev train plans were also canceled. Today, travel by kayak can be faster than taking Amtrak trains. Since Bob started wearing expensive hats most of the time, he prefers not to go by kayak. They stay dry inside his bus. Most of Bob's songs are grounded in common sense, the kind that is common among people from the Iron Range (where magnetic fields are strong)
I think of it like kids playing ball. The kid with poor eyesight (or the littlest kid on the field) may be allowed four strikes before being called out (additional take), while the grumpy kid who is out on a pop-up foul ball cries "do over!" (remake)
Select tracks from Fallen Angels.... "Young At Heart", "That Old Black Magic"' and "On A Little Street In Singapore". Sublime.
Just wanted to hear an overview of Dylan's career. The Essential Bob Dylan Limited Edition Remastered
I don't know if this is the best Dylan thread to post this in, but I had my mind blown a little this morning learning about "Champaign, Illinois", the song he wrote for Carl Perkins. I had no idea this song existed, which is odd, since I spent six years of undergrad and grad school right in that very town. Here's a link with a bit more information, kinda neat. And a video with photos from Champaign (and Urbana) set to the song:
