Things Have Changed - Hip Hop Fan Reacts To Bob Dylan
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He sings "...the next 60 seconds could be like an eternity" 60 seconds before the song ends. That's genius songwriting.
This song is a perfect example of Dylan's unique phrasing... and it's this phrasing... the odd places in which he pauses and the words that he seems to stretch for an eternity... that make him... and this song... one of a kind...
Bob himself definitely had real affection for this song. He used it to open hundreds of shows throughout the ‘00s and ‘10s
Well, he did always want to win an Oscar. And this was that!
From Dylan's Oscar Speech: And I want to thank the members of the Academy who were bold enough to give me this award for this song which obviously [is] a song that doesn't pussyfoot around nor turn a blind eye to human nature.
I remember watching that, he was surprised to win and much deserved
I'd never listened to this song before. Dylan's huge output is astounding. Thks for putting this one up.
This is not only my fave Dylan song but one of my fave 10 songs! ♥
So many great lines. Such an amazing song! ♥
Dylan has so many great songs. This may be in my top 40 of Dylan songs. But maybe not. It's a tough, tough field.
Reminds me of the pandemic that whole "People are crazy and times are strange, I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range, I used to care but things have changed". Song has a lot of great lines and the music is great. I sort of do a resort on my Dylan playlist, I guess my playlist of Dylan songs are me favorites.. to many to mention.
Fantastic album and in 2024 he's still touring at 83 this May!
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Dylan is an impressionist. His songs aren't about narrative, they're intended to convey and create feelings. He does that with lyrics and vocal phrasing.
Yes! I'm always telling people this when they say I never know what hsi songs are "about". He's like an impressionist painter but with songs. He creates imagery and let's the listener's imagination do the rest.
Love this song & love practicing it on guitar.
as a hip hop fan who also absorbs varieties of great artists, you're a smart man for exploring masterminds like Dylan. RESPECT.
I kind of see this as the third song in a trilogy -- The Times They are a Changin', High Water, Things Have Changed. I consider this as one of his best.
I think this song grows on you. The instrumentals are great, the lyrics are also great, nothing lags behind and Bob creates incredible characters with a unique story to tell. You can't go wrong with this tune. It may become one of his all time classics.
Do "Shelter From The Storm" by Dylan, you'll love it lyrically.
Love this song. Witty, insightful, cutting lyrics, a great take on moving on, and unlike most Dylan songs, you can even dance to it!! 👍🏽👍🏻🎸✍🏻
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is the other notable film he scored. Billy 4 and Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door are both classics.
My favorite recentish Dylan song. I can identify.
Everything Dylan does has the attention and judgement of millions. He's been under intense scrutiny, personally and musically, for over 60 years. He's telling us he's human and has been hurt by negative judgements in the past and has finally learned to be less vulnerable.
According to Wiki, the song won an Oscar and a Golden Globe. I had no idea. Nominated for a Grammy also.
I'm sure if you give this song another listen or two, you'll notice new things and you'll fall in love with it. Somewhere down the road it will match the mood you are in, and at the right moment...part of Bob Dylans very unique gift. How on earth does he capture an image with just a word or two? I've heard this song many times and just hearing it this time I discover new things. Thanks Bob!
From Wikipedia:
' "Forty Miles of Bad Road" was a 1959 instrumental hit for [guitarist] Duane Eddy. According to Gray, Eddy's producer Lee Hazlewood heard one Texan say to another, "Your girl has a face like forty miles of bad road", and immediately recognised the remark's potential as a song title.'
Also, in the line about 'looking up at a sapphire-tinted sky', the phrase 'sapphire-tinted sky' is apparently from a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
I also think "Gonna take dancing lessons do the Jitterbug Rag" is a nod to Blind Boy Fuller and playing the Blues.. "ain't no shortcuts" meaning you gotta live the blues to sing the Blues
One of my favorite "recent" Dylan songs. Love the video too.
Sounds like an older Dylan - things have changed, he can't relate, he doesn't care. I think being so human is what made him so appealing as a reluctant icon/hero of his generation.
Love this song ... fabulous. 💕💕💙💙
Senior, The beauty of Dylans songs is that one gets to create the lyrics within one and only frame of mind. dream away.
This song, I think, is perfect for the Wonder Boys movie. He watched the movie and was asked to write the song. He resisted but followed through. This song exposes the edges Michael Douglas's character was on.
Great movie and great song for part of the soundtrack.
Dylan wrote the song for the movie. It relates to the movie, and aging. It makes reference to that in several places. I think he only wrote the theme, not the soundtrack. He won an Academy Award for this song.
pre emptive like. Fantastic film
I used to care but...things have changed.
That line makes me think of an older person....used to care when younger, now older and nothing seems that important.
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Curtis Hanson also directed 8 Mile.
I do like it very much ! And I like a lot your reactions too
This was very good. Lyrics, vocals and the instruments are on point.
I wonder if this being the score for a movie means it has a supporting role rather than a starring one. It will take a few more listens for me to set my own ranking…it will be pretty high.
Your reactions are acquainting me with quite a few Bob Dylan songs I had not heard. Thx-Keep them coming!
You should react to more lenard cohen and Tom waits as with Dylan they make up the holy trio of music writers
I could add Neil Young and Paul Simon, and make it a quintet! I hope Sayid dives deep into their work.
As for me... I'd say Tom Waits changed my life more than all other artists.
Definitely. And Joni Mitchell.
@@noother964 I’d say Dylan cohen and waits a sliver above young and Simon. They are just a touch under with greats like Joel Springsteen the stones Lennon and joni and must not forget biez but that’s for English speaking. Should defo check out amanico Prada too
Keep up the good work Syed!
Would love a reaction to Bob Dylans 115th Dream
I like this song
I think this is one of Dylan's best songs, actually. The lyrics portray themes common in many of his songs starting in the late 90s with Time Out of Mind: Getting older, looking back on past loves and relationships, and the reality of dreams that failed to work out. The band here is one of the best he ever had, and that's really saying something: the extraordinary versatility of Larry Campbell and Charlie Sexton on guitars, Tony Garnier on bass of course, and David Kemper on drums. While George Receli was probably better suited for the bluesy direction Bob was going, David was a pretty great rock drummer). But the most important thing here is the lyrics. Fantastic imagery and naked honesty, or as he said: "Obviously, a song doesn't pussyfoot around or turn a blind eye to human nature". Can't argue with that.
If you haven't already, I suggest you listen to Tom Waits, one good song to start with is Closing Time
Its interesting tou mention Marlin Brando. The line "dont get up gentlemen, I'm only passing through" come from the Brando film. "A Strertcar Named Desire"
"I've been walking 40 miles of bad road / if the Bible is right the world will explode". I believe Dylan chose the number 40 as veiled biblical reference to Noah's Ark and the flood lasting 40 days and nights, and Jesus was tempted by the Devil after fasting for 40 days and nights. I love Dylan's voice here, his voice has changed quite a bit over the last 20 years, the Tempest and Rough And Rowdy Ways albums he sounds like Leonard Cohen and at times Louis Armstrong he gets so gravely. Sounds good.
And also wandering through the desert for 40 days and 40 nights. I think that is the most obvious reference.
In Bible study, we discussed that when the number 40 is used, it really just means…a really long time…or a really long way.
40 years Israelites wandered in the desert seems apropos
Duane Eddy 40 miles of bad road
It’s missing you seeing the movie, Is all. Wonder Boys. Aging writer and professor Michael Douglas and a knockout young Katie Holmes. Academy Award winning song. Dylan for years, and maybe still does, displayed the Oscar on an amplifier during concerts.
There are so many great Dylan songs written for movies! I’m partial to “Huck’s Tune”. Alsothe very underrated “Band of the Hand”
This is Dylan storytelling at this best. Christ wandered in the desert wilderness for 40 days tempted by the devil, Moses stayed on Mount Sinai for 40 days and nights. 40 appears to be signify important events.
Didn't it rain 40 days and 40 nights during the great flood?
@@debjorgo yes in Genesis 7:4 it reads that God said it would rain for 40 days & 40 nights, until all life would be extinguished (except for those who took refuge in the ark. Exodus 24:18 speaks of Moses going up on the mount 40 days, he was in prayer with God, when he came down from the mount he had the Ten Commandments. The Books of Matthew, Mark & & Luke give accounts of Christ wandering in the Judean desert 40 days & 40 nights where he was tempted by satan and ministered to by Angels. All important events where man was offered redemption from death, if they were true believers. There may be other instances of 40 days& night. You caught the third one that slipped my mind. But 40 seems important in signifying important events.
ITs been years since I’ve read Revelations or Ezekiel, I bet there are references in those two books, both are so rich in prophecy.
This was not Dylan's first take at a soundtrack - he wrote the soundtrack, and was a supporting actor in, 1973's "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid," which produced the fantastic and sublime "Knocking on Heaven's Door," and an unfinished outtake was used, with new and much weaker verse lyrics, to create "Wagon Wheel." That's Dylan's music/progression, and the lyrics of the chorus are his; the Travelling Medicine Show band member(s) wrote the awkward verse lyrics. Unbelievable, almost offhanded, level of talent.
Dylan also did a great soundtrack for Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid movie in the 70s
This is one of my favorite Dylan songs 🤷
If we're talking movies. Try Dylan's "Hurricane". His songs have been featured in many movies.
In Dylan's earlier work, things happened or powerful emotions were felt, or both. It was hard sometimes to tell just what, but still. In his later work, he often seems to be wearily observing predominantly static situations. I love songs like "What Was It You Wanted?" from Oh Mercy, but they never contain lines like "I helped her out of a jam, I guess / But I used a little too much force." In "Visions of Johanna", things are fairly static, but it is packed with yearning and angst -- no weariness.
The movie Wonder Boys is AMAZING. Great cast, great acting, hilarious and dramatic. Great film.
I've grown to love it more over the years. There's a weariness to it that I identify with more now that I'm middle aged. As a young man I liked some of the phrasing. Now that I'm elderly (44) I'm starting to appreciate it more
BRB Syed. Making cuppa and rolling up last doobie. Great film btw "The Wonder Boys"
I like this one. I think it has some great lines in it. I particularly liked the "I used to care, but things have changed" line. Maybe not Dylan's deepest lyrically, but still good story telling. Dylan has made a few movie appearances over the years, including "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" in 1973. He also has a sound track album by the same name.
I like the part about putting her in a wheel barrow and pushing her down the street.
@@Hartlor_Tayley I always liked the scene where Dylan reads the list of labels off the shelf, "beans, beans, baked beans, lima beans." Never understood why he didn't win an Oscar for this, since his lines were delivered in such a Dylanesque way.😉
@@LeeKennison that’s a great clip.
@@Hartlor_Tayley I think you were referring to the lyric in this song, and I shifted to the Dylan appearance in the Pat Garrett and Billie the Kid movie. But I swear I pictured a scene with a women being pushed in a wheelbarrow in that movie. I am terrible at remembering movies and movie lines. I almost said, but I really didn't like the way they incorporated "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" while riding a bicycle, when I realized I was getting my older movies about famous American Outlaws mixed up, since that was "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."
@@LeeKennison that verse was probably about that movie I can’t remember precisely. This song sounds like one with lyric bits from his old shoebox. Hey you’re like me, a head like washing machine, everything gets jumbled up and there’s a sock missing.
If your a movie buff you might like Motorpsycho Nightmare. Also, he has written over 500 songs.
He did Pat Garett and Billy the Kid. (Knocking on heavens Door.
Waiting on the last plane
Definitely seemed significant at the time that this song was for a film that came out in 2000. It was pre-9/11 and still the End of the Millennium era strangeness. It was a song that spoke to that uncertainty of our decadent culture and Y2K paranoia. And the film, Wonderboys, is wonderful. It's about writers and creative people who are born to be great voices and about whether they get out of their own way to express something meaningful.
Not my favorite either but still got a couple of great lines. I think he won an oscar for this song.
I love this song. I feel as if it's the other end of "times they are a'changing" in that one he is young and signing about the older generation getting out of the way of the new. Here he is older and times are strange to him, it all seems crazy and he doesn't fit...but he doesn't care any more, things have changed
Yes! In other words, he is saying, I was right, times were a-changing, but so what? The changes were ultimately meaningless ones and now I’ve lost interest.
Dylan’s band was a well oiled machine at this point. When you said little pieces and vignettes, I think you are on point. It sounds to me like Dylan went back into his proverbial shoebox and gathered some lines and lyrical ideas and pasted them into the song. I’m not faulting him for this everyone does it especially with a deadline and a full touring schedule. Maybe that’s why the song isn’t as engaging as others. I don’t know
suggest you look up comments by Baez when she mentioned Dylan composing on of the songs that has created such controvery - Dylan commented that "this will f#%k them up!"
Don't forget Pat garrett and billy the kid soundtrack,
Would be great to see you react to Ed Bradley’s interview with Dylan on 90mins. It’s a good watch. Cheers
There's a movie he is in, don't remember now the name, but look up Standing In The Doorway official video. I think the performance is in the movie too
Listen to his JFK song... Murder Most Foul ...one of the most INTENSE things you will have heard
You should check out Queen Jane approximately. It's from highway 51 revisited and it's really gorgeous
More than anything else by Dylan, this song reminds me of Leonard Cohen. Nevermind, Everybody Knows, songs like that.
It might not be his best but it did earn him an Oscar! Imagine not writing the song of your lifetime and still winning an Oscar for it. Only Dylan…
Yeah, this is Dylan Light. All artists with a decades long career go through dry phases and Dylan definitely dried up at times. He always came back though. I love for example his ‘Down in the groove’ 1988 album which many consider his worst album ever. I really dig it. Bono agrees. He said Dylan’s best song ever is on that album which I think is cool despite me disliking Bono. This song? An easy little piece. Just a little jam with so-so lyrics. The magic of Dylan was around 65-78. Here and there gems later on, but the magic was when he was 22-35 or so.
After Blonde on Blonde guess the trajectory
The name's Irish, not French. Pronounced 'grawn-ya', girls name that comes from a princess in Irish mythology. Somewhat of a Hibernophile (even though I'm English, so probably wouldn't be welcome in certain parts of Ireland hahaha), so felt obliged to politely correct ya. Love the reaction :)
how about Knockin' on Heaven's Door, man?
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Thank you🙏check the Oscar live one
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For r this. The lyrics are amazing! . And the
video is really really well done
Not sure about Miss jinx and Miss Lucy. The band carries the lyrics well
And I think on a personal level he used to care a lot about people but he's kind of giving up on him I used to care but things have changed
Hi Syed could you please react to Bob Dylan's song 'Murder Most Foul' from 2020 which went to No 1 in the charts when he was aged 79
I think you might be ready to take on Dylan's masterpiece (one of many), Desolation Row
Might this be interpreted in terms of being a coda to The Times They Are A-Changin'? 🤔
Not one of my favorite Dylan songs, though I like it more than a lot of other material from this period of his career. IIRC this hit around 2000 - 2001, which would make it contemporary with 'Love and Theft' & 'Modern Times'. I think I can comfortably say that this is probably the song I like best from that period. Now, his other bluesy stuff from a couple years later is, I think, a bit better. Together Through Life is a wonderful album, and some alternate versions from Tell Tale Signs are absolutely fantastic (which makes me wonder why they were cut from their respective albums).
Watch the film! Its great stoner film too. Hated last Tango.
It's absolutely not lost on me nor a mistake that the title is close to hopeful "The times they are changin'" except his line is pessimistic. I used to care but. Things have changed! Is he speaking of himself? Or Michael Douglas in the movie? If the latter then hes using his own song as something of a metaphor! The Michael Douglas character is of Dylan's generation. The times they are changin civil rights generation. The character is bitter. He used to think the times were ahh changin. He hoped he cared. But not anymore. Things have changed.
Its genius. Had someone else written it it would be clear that the lyrics are about an old 60s professor who used to care. The times they are changin. But no longer does.
Ginx snd Lucy are characters in the movie.
I agree that this isn't a top shelf Dylan song, though I do like listening to it and his phrasing is great.
Your wrong about Dylan doing the soundtrack for the film. This was his only original contribution to the film. The film did include some older Dylan songs and songs by other artists.
Since this was a commissioned song for a film, I'm not sure how much this relates to Dylan himself. But I do get a sense of an older man not caring about current events as he did in his youth - I used to care but things have changed.
Dylan borrowed the melody and some of the lyrics from Mary Stuart's "Observations of a Crow", though the theme is different. Stuart said Dylan asked if he could borrow from the songs and Stuart said yes saying that he's been borrowing from Dylan his whole career.
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I'm not sure how you can't like this song. Comparing Dylan to Dylan isn't fair and isn't a good way to review a song. Nonetheless, I find your song reviews interesting, intelligent and always worth watching.
I wonder if he's talking to a young Dylan in the video and telling him what he wishes he knew at that age.
Cool music and vocal delivery but not a favorite Dylan song of mine either.
Cheers !
Love your reactions. Can you do ruclips.net/video/A3PdoVkyeTs/видео.html she's a younger artist but has the eloquence of the leonard cohen, paul simon & nick drake! I think you will enjoy the atmosphere and the lyrics!
Geez you’re obsessed with Dylan😂
We like his Dylan obsession 😂
We LOVE his Dylan “obsession” since so few other reactors share it. It’s because Syed has been immersed in rap and hip-hop, and he looks at Dylan’s lyrics like “bars” in rap and finds them fantastic.
@@w.geoffreyspaulding6588 So true W.
Being a Rap/Hip Hop fan I can understand why anybody who sings would be a step up for Syed, Dylan is fantastic thou😂
Do yourself a favor. Watch the film.
Maybe you should watch Wonder Boys...
In context...
Maybe react to it...
...in context
It's a movie about a writer
This.
Syed... Dylan embarrassingly has admitted, during a television interview to have "sold his soul".... not unlike all the members of Led Zeppelin with the exception of John Paul Jones.
You ruin the song by constanly talking
Why are you watching a “reaction” vid??? You can listen to only the song in other place…