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Great songs, I have the record but never the less great songs. "Black crow blues" is a great one, no guitar or harmonica, just piano. "I dont believe you", "Spanish Harlem Incident" and "To Ramona" are all great songs too. "Motorpsyco Nightmare" is hilarious.
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For me "My Back Pages" is the best song on this record, because it so captures the way I felt when I was growing up. I knew so much more than my mother, really I did. But you know how it goes, as you get older, you realize just how much you didn't know and I didn't know a lot and Bob Dylan really nails this. "It Ain't Me, Babe" is probably the most famous song on this album, but there are others just as good, like "To Ramona" and "Ballad in Plain D" for instance. And, of course, I have to mention the ultimate protest song, the ultimate political song, "Chimes of Freedom." If that song doesn't make you want to rages against the establishment and try to make a difference, nothing ever will.
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For me "My Back Pages" is the best song on this record, because it so captures the way I felt when I was growing up. I knew so much more than my mother, really I did. But you know how it goes, as you get older, you realize just how much you didn't know and I didn't know a lot and Bob Dylan really nails this. "It Ain't Me, Babe" is probably the most famous song on this album, but there are others just as good, like "To Ramona" and "Ballad in Plain D" for instance. And, of course, I have to mention the ultimate protest song, the ultimate political song, "Chimes of Freedom." If that song doesn't make you want to rages against the establishment and try to make a difference, nothing ever will.
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For me this record is all about "The Chimes of Freedom." Yes there are several other good songs on this record that marks a change for Bob Dylan from his so called "Protest Period" to a darker, deeper, more poetic kind of music. Poetry, Dylan had become a poet and to all of those who think there are hidden meaning in his words I have to say, "No, I don't think so." I think Dylan put it all out there, said what he meant and meant what he said. No hidden meanings, no secrets implied, but who needs 'em. "Chimes of Freedom" says enough, says if for a generation, for generations.
"Tolling for the Rebel, tolling for the rake, tolling for the luckless, the abandoned and the forsaked." What words, what power from this twenty-three-year-old singer who was already tired of leading a movement. Still, try as he might, he was the one the youth of his time looked up to, listened to, wanted to follow, but Dylan wasn't leading. Just imagine what this world might be like today if he had been. Maybe some of those misdemeanor outlaws who wound up in the White House might have been sidelined where they belonged. Ah, well, we'll never know.
Still, this is one fine record. "To Ramona" is one of the best songs ever written, the poetry so divine in this dark song. "It grieves my heart love, to see ya trying to be a part of a world that just don't exist." It's like he's singing about me, way before I was born, because I sure want to be a part of that world that doesn't exist. Ah, I was so much older than, older yesterday even. It's so sad sometimes, because like Dylan says, they "hype you and type you in making you feel that you gotta be just like them." I know I'm not making much sense, but get this record. Don't be like them, just do what you think you should do.
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For me this record is all about "The Chimes of Freedom." Yes there are several other good songs on this record that marks a change for Bob Dylan from his so called "Protest Period" to a darker, deeper, more poetic kind of music. Poetry, Dylan had become a poet and to all of those who think there are hidden meaning in his words I have to say, "No, I don't think so." I think Dylan put it all out there, said what he meant and meant what he said. No hidden meanings, no secrets implied, but who needs 'em. "Chimes of Freedom" says enough, says if for a generation, for generations.
"Tolling for the Rebel, tolling for the rake, tolling for the luckless, the abandoned and the forsaked." What words, what power from this twenty-three-year-old singer who was already tired of leading a movement. Still, try as he might, he was the one the youth of his time looked up to, listened to, wanted to follow, but Dylan wasn't leading. Just imagine what this world might be like today if he had been. Maybe some of those misdemeanor outlaws who wound up in the White House might have been sidelined where they belonged. Ah, well, we'll never know.
Still, this is one fine record. "To Ramona" is one of the best songs ever written, the poetry so divine in this dark song. "It grieves my heart love, to see ya trying to be a part of a world that just don't exist." It's like he's singing about me, way before I was born, because I sure want to be a part of that world that doesn't exist. Ah, I was so much older than, older yesterday even. It's so sad sometimes, because like Dylan says, they "hype you and type you in making you feel that you gotta be just like them." I know I'm not making much sense, but get this record. Don't be like them, just do what you think you should do.
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