Bob won the Nobel Prize for literature because of his poetry. He has always been relevant. Now doing his Endless Tour. I think Bob intends to pass away on the road; doing what he loved best. He is also a very talented metal sculpture and painter. I'm so glad I have lived my life along side him.💖💖💖
Bob Dylan is a legendary songwriter poet starting in the 60's. So many great songs such as "Blowin' In The Wind", "Don't Think Twice It's Alright", "The Times They Are A-Changin'", "Mr. Tambourine Man", "Shelter From The Storm", "Lay Lady Lay" etc. In 1988 Bob Dylan joined the supergroup the "Travelling Wilburys" which included George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison & Tom Petty.
Bruce Springsteen said this song came on the radio when he was driving in the car with his mum when he was a kid and he made her stop at the next record store and he rushed in and bought it. He said this song kicked open the doors to his mind.
The entire album is regarded as one of the most significant ever, paving the way forward to deeper songs by the Beatles, Rolling Stones and a whole host of singer-songwriters. One in particular from this album that should be experienced is "Desolation Row'', another poetic gem.
Terrific reaction video, I love to see people reacting to Bob Dylan for the first time and your response was wonderful. I would love to hear you react to "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)," either live 1965 or official audio. My next choices would be the video for "Subterranean Homesick Blues," the live "Tangled Up In Blue" from 1975 or official audio. Live 1975 "Hurricane," based on a true story, is fantastic as well as is the official audio of it.. And everyone should listen to his older, Civil Rights Movement-era anthems like "Blowing in the Wind" and "The Times They Are A-Changing." Those songs and ones like them were why he was broadly considered to be "The Voice of His Generation" in the 1960s No matter where you go next with Dylan though, you're in for a heck of a journey. I'll be looking forward to being along for the ride.
What a great reaction, sweet Blessing. ❤ Dylan is one of those magical musical maestros who could come at you from any of a number of different directions. This was a great selection for your first listen. By the time I heard it, I already knew him from several other big hits. I think "Revisited" was the original name of that album, though I don't know what all was on it. Where to go next? For an entirely different experience, I might suggest "Lay, Lady, Lay." I'm so glad you finally got around to a taste of his wizardry. 😁✌️🎸
I went my entire life not paying attention to Dylan. I'm 48. I started listening to him maybe a year ago and I'm obsessed with his material. This song is at the top of the list, but your Dylan journey has only just begun.
"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. Before the songs were mostly about soda pop shops, cars and girls and guys. After the songs were about anything and everything, whatever came to the mind of the songwriter, and artists began to sing their own songs rather than songs written for them by others. Highway 61 Revisited, the album this song is from, is a really great album full of classic songs. Check out Bob Dylan "Desolation Row" for another epic from that album.
I remember when I first heard this song in '65 and how different it was from what came before it. I think you nailed the impact of this song and how it influenced what came after and liberated song writers to expand their vision as what they could write about.
Yeah I was a kid when this came out, just starting to notice music, when the new post-fifties rock music was just starting to explode in popularity, and folk music was gradually fading into near oblivion... and yet Dylan's music was sharing radio time with the Rolling Stones and the Animals and the Kinks and of course the Beatles, who were just graduating from their early phase of churning out irresistible pop music hits mostly designed for screaming teenage girls... And among all the British invasion and other contemporary rock taking over the radio (which was pretty much the only place to hear new music), this song would play, this guy with a ragged voice playing folksy music on guitar with little swatches of harmonica and an organ painting the background... And for some reason it could still grab you by the ears... not just the lyrics, but the loose, easy, relaxed mixture of instruments behind the raw simple vocals... there was a certain magic to it, especially in contrast to everything else on the radio at the time... and you could just let it carry you away and get lost in it somehow...
I absolutely loved hearing this song on your channel. Bob Dylan is one of my favorite musicians, and Like A Rolling Stone is one of my favorite Bob Dylan songs.The lyrics are amazing, and the way he sings them make the listener feel them emotionally. He is such a great story teller. I think you asked about how this song was received when it came out. I remember it being very well received, and it went pretty high on the music charts. Bob Dylan wrote a lot of protest songs which were an integral part of the 1960's culture. Journalists and magazine writers called Bob Dylan the voice (thoughts and feelings) of his generation. I saw an interview with him, and he was asked about that. He sarcastically answered that he thinks of himself as a song and dance man (he doesn't dance.) He never let others define who he is, and that's one of the things I like about him. I would love to hear more Bob Dylan on your channel. Some of my favorites are A Hard Rain is Gonna Fall, Times are a Changing, Blowing In The Wind, Mr Tambourine Man, and Forever Young. By the way he had one of the longest parts on the We Are The World song you recently reacted to. I enjoyed your hearing your insights into this song.
I'm in the middle but I love when you pick things apart musically. Makes me feel right at home. This is the music of my very early childhood, and in fact we sing his song, Blowin in the wind. In church, both in Sunday school and in the regular service later. My mom couldn't stand his voice and it tortured her because she loved his lyrics, laugh. Me and my sister were just little kids and we would go out in the garage and put on these old roller skates and strap them on and just skate around in circles around this pole in the middle while we blasted this as much as we could on our little record player. Check out another hit of his from back then, Subterranean Homesick blues, it was just so Innovative for the time but it also feels like a precursor to rap to me.
Your comment about your Mom reminded me of my Dad's similar reaction to Bob Dylan. He first heard him when he came home and I was listening to a Dylan album. He said that's horrible, is that man trying to sing? He sounds like he's dying. Fast forward a few weeks later and I was learning some Dylan songs on guitar, so I bought a large Dylan songbook containing most of the songs he had written up to 1965. I came home after school on day to find my father intently reading the songs at the dining room table. He said "This is quite a writer". I said "Dad that's the guy who's singing you told me you couldn't stand hearing." He looked up and said "I don’t care what he sounds like, this kid is seriously one helluva a poet!". Like your Mom he hated his voice, but loved his writing 😊
I think you should react to Bob Dylan’s positively 4th street, This is a song that inspired a lot of future singers and songwriters there’s a quote from Bruce Springsteen it’s something along the lines of he heard this song on the radio and it was like lightbulb turned on for him that this was what he wanted to do, it’s a 6 minute rock n roll/pop song virtually unheard of at the time in 1965 and it’s a poetic yet vicious take down of a high society girl Dylan also takes shots at artist Andy Warhol he’s the diplomat character in the song.
Dylan is the most important artist on the planet he's a lyricist, author, poet, Dj, painter, welder sculptor, actor, Nobel prize winner for literature, and is ctill touring and writing albums at the age of 82 this man has many hands
@ScrotusZangenpepper I normally start with that and the Performer and all his awards, but we all know about them, and end the greatest creator of songs ever,, I won't that mistake again, sorry.
Dylan became a star on the folk scene with his distinctive style and lyrical genius. This song is after he went electric and caused an uproar among his fans. They couldn't understand why he went 'electric'... it was selling out! Dylan just went from strength to strength, pouring out gem after gem. My fave was John Wesley Harding LP. I love his folksy, informal, heart of America sound. Superb storytelleing and poetry in song... his nasal voice captured all the emotions and flavours of his stories. He had a great sense of rhythm in his delivery - loose and conversational at times, crisp and biting... you can hear the derision and contempt in his delivery on 'Like a Rolling Stone'.... telling it like it is, girl.
Thanks for your reaction here, MrsPenPal. It's great to see your generation discovering this phenomenal poet-musician's work. I suggest your listen to "Idiot Wind" next. Cheers.
Glad you had so much fun listening Bob Dylan. Been listening to Dylan since 1962. Several favorites but there is one i tend to listen to more: Precious Angel on the Slow Train album. Enjoy!!!! With listening to Dylan, it's not so much the destination but more so the journey🎶
So great to see people still connecting with Bob Dylan, it was always common to say Dylan had a terrible voice but it's so communicative. Would love to see your take on Positively 4th Street, the ultimate song about fake friends.
I have listened to Dylan since 1970, I had that album! Highway 61 Revisited. Some other songs you might like are Girl from the North Country, from the Freewheeling album, and another version of it with Johnny Cash on the album Nashville Skyline. Another great tune is Love Minus Zero/No Limit from the album Bringing it All Back Home.
Bob is a guy who, if he forgets a line or two, he doesn't stop and start all over again. It the mood and the sound that he likes, and if he misses a line, he just keeps going.
As many here have already commented, I've also been a Dylan addict fort 50= years and he has almost always been socially relevant. I highly recommend "Masters of War". If that's not especially relevant today nothing will ever be. I wish every reaction RUclipsr would get their crown singing this song.
Great reaction!! The Dylan rabbit hole is the deepest of them all....please react to The Times They Are a Changin, With God on Our Side, Hurricane, Girl From the North Country, I could go on and on. There are hundreds. Greatest Songwriter, certainly lyricist, of them all......
Happy to be aboard. I left out another of my favorites and one of his most well known, Mr. Tambourine. Anxious to see you react to these. You are very lovely... @@MrsPenPal
This was Dylan's first mainstream hit, but he had MANY other great songs, both before&after, Blessing. Check out MastersOfWar or BlowingInTheWind for particularly topical tunes that have aged well. Also, JimiHendrix took Dylan's AllAlongTheWatchtower and made it his own!!!
Get used to the great lyrics with this man. Arguably the most important artist in music history. The dive into the Bob Dylan catalogue is the deepest and most rewarding musical journey you can take. Enjoy.
Favourite song is Hurricane, heard it first time at about 16. 43 now and still listen to it often - still as good as the first time. But there are so many good songs! Hurricane is deep and also a part of my youth, so it's my #1. (The movie is amazing too) A hard rain's gonna fall is my 2nd favourite song :)
I really do like your reactions. I think I mentioned Subterranean Homesick Blues and another comment but man he's got a hard-hitting folk song from before he made the switch to Electric which was highly controversial at the time, switching to Electric that is, but prior to that he had several hits to one is called masters of War which is just mind-blowing. And there's another one that's based on an old old desperate folk song called The Ballad of Hollis brown. It's storytelling and it's in D Minor with a drop d tuning and it's so simple and Relentless and then it weaves this emotionally powerful story.
Bob Dylan is such a great 3:19 lyricist. Love how you catch the meaning, many don’t listen to the words just the melody. I love Tangled Up in Blue. Once again love your reaction
Love this, thank you,...! I grew up with Dylan - you might consider "Blowin' In The Wind" next, but to be honest, anything Dylan is fine..! Best wishes from an American now living in Japan.
Great reaction to a great song, when you talk about being able to picture other people listening to that song, there's another song from him that gives the same feeling. It's called "Rainy Day Women #12 & #35", one of the most played songs ever on album oriented rock stations back in the day.
Yea, Dylan is an icon. One of the all time great song writers and story tellers. This song never gets old, maybe more meaningful. For a fun listen try Jimi Hendrix cover this song at the Monterey Pop Festival. Another great version. 😊🎉❤
Reception? Yes, this was huge! Coming as it did at the mid point of Dylan’s mid sixties trilogy when he was at the height of his powers. Bringing it all Back Home, Highway 61 and Blonde on Blonde. Insightfully I think the sound you identified in your headphones might have been the organ sound which is integral to this track? Fun fact. Organ was played by non organ player Al Cooper who simply volunteered in the studio to fulfill that role. A bit of serendipity that really paid off I think?
Bob Dylan is such a legend. This is the Album Highway 61 Revisited - refers to highway 61 that runs from Memphis Tennesee thru Mississippi and down to the Gulf - where so many famous blues musicians came from. Bob wrote so many great songs and is known for really delving into lyrics and would do lyrics first and then the musical compositions which is difficult. I always learn something listening and reading his lyrics - they just give such wisdom about life. So many good ones - Just like A Woman and Tangled Up in Blue. Then he wrote music for the Byrds with so many great songs such as My Backpages, Mr Tamoborine Man. The Beatles loved Bob Dylan and George Harrison did many collaborations and played on several of Bob's Albums. He also did the famous Album Nasville Skyline with collaborations with Johnny Cash.
The live 1966 version in " No Direction Home" is considered to be the moment rock music was born. Try the new album's My Own Version of You or Foot of Pride. Love your open authenticity. Hope you dive deep into Bob, you will never get bored only become further amazed the deeper ya go.
Good morning! Hope all is well in your world. Something to share: From a lower middle class family in Minnesota, arrived in NY in 1961 with an old scratched up Gibson guitar and the clothes on his back. Played the streets, then small folk venues for food and lodging. 63 later, over 145 million records sold. Over 600 songs written. 40 Studio Albums. 16 live albums. 98 Singles. 54 music videos. 17 Bootleg Series records. 31 compilation albums. 25 Box sets. 7 sound tracks. Presidential Medal of Freedom. Ten Grammy awards. A Golden Globe Award. An Academy Award. A Pulitzer prize, AND the Nobel prize. Considered the quintessential song writer of the 20th Century. Catalog just sold for over $300 million.
Thank you for playing. If you want to know him, listen to his first 4-5 albums. You may feel the earthquake his music was starting in ‘63. Up to that time we were listing to things like ‘Hey Hey Paula’ or ‘love letters in the Sand’ or The Beach Boys On this track the organ made it, and it was all an accident. Al Kooper could play the piano a little and he wasn’t supposed to but just sat down to the organ and started playing and Dylan loved it and they kept it Yes the music impacted us just as much as it did you. BUT BUT. His impact on other bands was unmeasurable. Listen to the Beatles or other groups before and after listing to Dylan Their lyrics were enriched a thousand fold Read the back of Nashville Skyline for Johnny Cash’s words about Dylan. Oh you MUST react to ‘Masters of War’ being sung by Eddie Vedder at the tribute concert for Bob Dylan. Amazing isn’t the word
Great reaction. The song is even more heart breaking when you know there is a true story behind. It's about the toxic relationship between the artist Andy Warhol and the girl Edie Sedgwick. At the time, Bob Dylan was observing the scene in the artists' commune in New York.
One of my favourite Dylan tunes wasn''t made popular by Bob Dylan. It's called Blowin' In the Wind, by Peter, Paul and Mary. Check that one out. Also perhaps Lay Lady Lay.
My personal favourite Bob Dylan song is the other bookend to the same album that "Like A Rolling Stone" comes from. The album is called HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED and the song is "Desolation Row". More Bob? Try these ones Blessing: "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright", "Masters Of War", "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding", "Visions Of Johanna", "I Want You", "All Along The Watchtower", "The Man In Me", "Tangled Up In Blue", "If You See Her, Say Hello", "Not Dark Yet", "Cold Irons Bound", "Mississippi"... and that's just for starters.
To watch a video that portrays the message of this song, please see The Rolling Stones version of it. And for another poignant song by Bob Dylan, Positively 4th Street
Considered one of the greatest rock songs ever from the moment it was released til the present time by the one and only master and Nobel Prize for Literature winner Bob Dylan.....try another" It's All Right Ma, Im Only Bleeding".....another masterpiece of which there are many!
If you would like to hear a very interesting/crazy side story of the recording of this song, search for "The Story of How ''Like a Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan was Recorded - Al Kooper". Al Kooper was the organ player in this song, but he was not supposed to be in the recording session, he was not an organ player, he had no music, and he couldn't hear what he was playing.
This song was just unearthly when it came out in 1965. Nothing like it had ever been heard before. The first time I heard it, I played it over 3 times in a row before I listened to the rest of the album. He changed the whole scene and he had a huge effect on both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, who were big fans of his music (as he was also of theirs). He was commenting in the song not on just one person (probably Edie Sedgewick), but on a whole pretty corrupt and very pretentious scene that was happening at that time with the "beautiful people" who hung out with Andy Warhol in New York City. Warhol is most likely the "diplomat who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat". It's an incredible song. The song's about someone living in a state of prideful delusion and arrogance...and then they're brought down to face hard reality. U.S. Route 61 or U.S. Highway 61 (U.S. 61) is a major United States highway that extends 1,400 miles (2,300 km) between New Orleans, Louisiana and the city of Wyoming, Minnesota. The highway generally follows the course of the Mississippi River and is designated the Great River Road for much of its route. As of 2004, the highway's northern terminus in Wyoming, Minnesota, is at an intersection with Interstate 35 (I-35). Until 1991, the highway extended north on what is now Minnesota State Highway 61 (MN 61) through Duluth to the Canada-U.S. border near Grand Portage. Bob Dylan grew up near Duluth, Minnesota, and that highway was important to him in his life. He'd traveled it quite a bit, all the way down to New Orleans, so that's why he would have put it in the title of the album...and as for "Revisited", well, he was revisiting a lot of things in his mind while writing his songs.
React to tangled up in blue live By Bob Dylan, his songs have been covered Uber 6000 times by other artists. One of the greatest poets. And music writers of all time Also react to blowing in the wind
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Been listening to Dylan for over 50 years - Over 600 songs - A ton a Gems- A nobel Prize - A true poet and artist
Me Two. You might be a bigger fan then I am. And I though that was impossible.
same, 60 yrs here. Class of 69 drop out.
This was written and recorded darn near 60 years ago. It's crazy that people are still hearing and enjoying it for the first time.
"Like A Rolling Stone" is listed as #1 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list.
Bob won the Nobel Prize for literature because of his poetry. He has always been relevant. Now doing his Endless Tour. I think Bob intends to pass away on the road; doing what he loved best. He is also a very talented metal sculpture and painter.
I'm so glad I have lived my life along side him.💖💖💖
Bob Dylan is a legendary songwriter poet starting in the 60's. So many great songs such as "Blowin' In The Wind", "Don't Think Twice It's Alright", "The Times They Are A-Changin'", "Mr. Tambourine Man", "Shelter From The Storm", "Lay Lady Lay" etc. In 1988 Bob Dylan joined the supergroup the "Travelling Wilburys" which included George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison & Tom Petty.
Bruce Springsteen said this song came on the radio when he was driving in the car with his mum when he was a kid and he made her stop at the next record store and he rushed in and bought it. He said this song kicked open the doors to his mind.
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I would have thought an expert safecracker and a truckload of TNT would be necessary to accomplish that task.
Everybody has a story about their first encounter with this.
The opening snare drum wack , to be less than precise! It was, by all accounts, a memorable session too!
@@tomcat4841now now !!!!
You need to take a deep dive down the Bob Dylan rabbit hole, trust me on this one.😊
My favorite Dylan song is “positively fourth Street”.
The entire album is regarded as one of the most significant ever, paving the way forward to deeper songs by the Beatles, Rolling Stones and a whole host of singer-songwriters. One in particular from this album that should be experienced is "Desolation Row'', another poetic gem.
Deeper songs for those bands but still not as deep as Bob's - his albums are dynamite and. not preparation for anyone else
Terrific reaction video, I love to see people reacting to Bob Dylan for the first time and your response was wonderful. I would love to hear you react to "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)," either live 1965 or official audio. My next choices would be the video for "Subterranean Homesick Blues," the live "Tangled Up In Blue" from 1975 or official audio. Live 1975 "Hurricane," based on a true story, is fantastic as well as is the official audio of it.. And everyone should listen to his older, Civil Rights Movement-era anthems like "Blowing in the Wind" and "The Times They Are A-Changing." Those songs and ones like them were why he was broadly considered to be "The Voice of His Generation" in the 1960s No matter where you go next with Dylan though, you're in for a heck of a journey. I'll be looking forward to being along for the ride.
What a great reaction, sweet Blessing. ❤
Dylan is one of those magical musical maestros who could come at you from any of a number of different directions.
This was a great selection for your first listen. By the time I heard it, I already knew him from several other big hits.
I think "Revisited" was the original name of that album, though I don't know what all was on it.
Where to go next? For an entirely different experience, I might suggest "Lay, Lady, Lay."
I'm so glad you finally got around to a taste of his wizardry. 😁✌️🎸
I went my entire life not paying attention to Dylan. I'm 48. I started listening to him maybe a year ago and I'm obsessed with his material. This song is at the top of the list, but your Dylan journey has only just begun.
"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. Before the songs were mostly about soda pop shops, cars and girls and guys. After the songs were about anything and everything, whatever came to the mind of the songwriter, and artists began to sing their own songs rather than songs written for them by others. Highway 61 Revisited, the album this song is from, is a really great album full of classic songs. Check out Bob Dylan "Desolation Row" for another epic from that album.
I remember when I first heard this song in '65 and how different it was from what came before it. I think you nailed the impact of this song and how it influenced what came after and liberated song writers to expand their vision as what they could write about.
That cracked me up "This is a hit song" This song changed a generation and has been voted BEST of all time by Rolling Stone Magazine .
Yeah I was a kid when this came out, just starting to notice music, when the new post-fifties rock music was just starting to explode in popularity, and folk music was gradually fading into near oblivion... and yet Dylan's music was sharing radio time with the Rolling Stones and the Animals and the Kinks and of course the Beatles, who were just graduating from their early phase of churning out irresistible pop music hits mostly designed for screaming teenage girls...
And among all the British invasion and other contemporary rock taking over the radio (which was pretty much the only place to hear new music), this song would play, this guy with a ragged voice playing folksy music on guitar with little swatches of harmonica and an organ painting the background...
And for some reason it could still grab you by the ears... not just the lyrics, but the loose, easy, relaxed mixture of instruments behind the raw simple vocals... there was a certain magic to it, especially in contrast to everything else on the radio at the time... and you could just let it carry you away and get lost in it somehow...
“Knock Knock Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” is beautiful
Love to see younger people appreciating older music great reaction.
Its a song that changed everything, just read the wiki on it. Widely regarded as the greatest song of all time, its definitely up there.
As someone who was 18 when this song came out, I find your annalysis spot on.
I absolutely loved hearing this song on your channel. Bob Dylan is one of my favorite musicians, and Like A Rolling Stone is one of my favorite Bob Dylan songs.The lyrics are amazing, and the way he sings them make the listener feel them emotionally. He is such a great story teller. I think you asked about how this song was received when it came out. I remember it being very well received, and it went pretty high on the music charts. Bob Dylan wrote a lot of protest songs which were an integral part of the 1960's culture. Journalists and magazine writers called Bob Dylan the voice (thoughts and feelings) of his generation. I saw an interview with him, and he was asked about that. He sarcastically answered that he thinks of himself as a song and dance man (he doesn't dance.) He never let others define who he is, and that's one of the things I like about him. I would love to hear more Bob Dylan on your channel. Some of my favorites are A Hard Rain is Gonna Fall, Times are a Changing, Blowing In The Wind, Mr Tambourine Man, and Forever Young. By the way he had one of the longest parts on the We Are The World song you recently reacted to. I enjoyed your hearing your insights into this song.
he is a true superstar
I'm in the middle but I love when you pick things apart musically. Makes me feel right at home. This is the music of my very early childhood, and in fact we sing his song, Blowin in the wind. In church, both in Sunday school and in the regular service later.
My mom couldn't stand his voice and it tortured her because she loved his lyrics, laugh. Me and my sister were just little kids and we would go out in the garage and put on these old roller skates and strap them on and just skate around in circles around this pole in the middle while we blasted this as much as we could on our little record player.
Check out another hit of his from back then, Subterranean Homesick blues, it was just so Innovative for the time but it also feels like a precursor to rap to me.
Your mom 😅. I enjoyed reading this thanks for sharing
Your comment about your Mom reminded me of my Dad's similar reaction to Bob Dylan. He first heard him when he came home and I was listening to a Dylan album. He said that's horrible, is that man trying to sing? He sounds like he's dying.
Fast forward a few weeks later and I was learning some Dylan songs on guitar, so I bought a large Dylan songbook containing most of the songs he had written up to 1965. I came home after school on day to find my father intently reading the songs at the dining room table. He said "This is quite a writer". I said "Dad that's the guy who's singing you told me you couldn't stand hearing." He looked up and said "I don’t care what he sounds like, this kid is seriously one helluva a poet!". Like your Mom he hated his voice, but loved his writing 😊
@@ptournasAw, what a great memory.
awesome reaction, everything you had to say was so on point! subscribed.
I think you should react to Bob Dylan’s positively 4th street, This is a song that inspired a lot of future singers and songwriters there’s a quote from Bruce Springsteen it’s something along the lines of he heard this song on the radio and it was like lightbulb turned on for him that this was what he wanted to do, it’s a 6 minute rock n roll/pop song virtually unheard of at the time in 1965 and it’s a poetic yet vicious take down of a high society girl Dylan also takes shots at artist Andy Warhol he’s the diplomat character in the song.
Dylan is the most important artist on the planet he's a lyricist, author, poet, Dj, painter, welder sculptor, actor, Nobel prize winner for literature, and is ctill touring and writing albums at the age of 82 this man has many hands
You forgot to mention singer and musician
@ScrotusZangenpepper I normally start with that and the Performer and all his awards, but we all know about them, and end the greatest creator of songs ever,, I won't that mistake again, sorry.
Amazing reaction, so thoughtful. Please, more reactions by Dylan.
Dylan became a star on the folk scene with his distinctive style and lyrical genius. This song is after he went electric and caused an uproar among his fans. They couldn't understand why he went 'electric'... it was selling out! Dylan just went from strength to strength, pouring out gem after gem. My fave was John Wesley Harding LP. I love his folksy, informal, heart of America sound. Superb storytelleing and poetry in song... his nasal voice captured all the emotions and flavours of his stories. He had a great sense of rhythm in his delivery - loose and conversational at times, crisp and biting... you can hear the derision and contempt in his delivery on 'Like a Rolling Stone'.... telling it like it is, girl.
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" by Bob Dylan is a must listen it has Layers of Genius incorporated into his "simple" presentation
One of the greatest vocals you will ever hear. His voice is like an electric guitar driving the song.
In 6th grade i sang blowin in the wind @11 yrs old. Then in hs i really fell in love with him
One of musical heroes! Thank you!! One of the two artists along with John Prine who inspired me to write songs.
That’s wonderful to hear ✨
Bob dylan wrote some of the best songs. My favorite is probably "Tangled up in blue" given to listen😊
Hi Jd :)
Mine too
Thanks for your reaction here, MrsPenPal. It's great to see your generation discovering this phenomenal poet-musician's work. I suggest your listen to "Idiot Wind" next. Cheers.
Highway 61 Revisited is the name of the album, maybe his greatest. Try "Queen Jane Approximately. Desolation Row, Blowin in the Wind.......so many
Glad you had so much fun listening Bob Dylan.
Been listening to Dylan since 1962.
Several favorites but there is one i tend to listen to more: Precious Angel on the Slow Train album.
Enjoy!!!!
With listening to Dylan, it's not so much the destination but more so the journey🎶
I 've been listening to this 1965 when I was 5yrs old. I love this song. Very formative for me I think.
A classic 🎶🎸👌
You are so right - even when he was a young man he had an old man's voice and wisdom. I love it when people get Bob right away!
Bob Dylan is amazing! I suggest these Dylan songs: Tangled Up In Blue, Visions of Johanna, Things Have Changed & It's All Over Now Baby Blue
So great to see people still connecting with Bob Dylan, it was always common to say Dylan had a terrible voice but it's so communicative. Would love to see your take on Positively 4th Street, the ultimate song about fake friends.
He's got a fantastic voice and is a wonderful singer - those who say otherwise really don't know what they're talking about.
Thank you so much for playing this song. It takes me back to high school and it is just as good now.
I have listened to Dylan since 1970, I had that album! Highway 61 Revisited. Some other songs you might like are Girl from the North Country, from the Freewheeling album, and another version of it with Johnny Cash on the album Nashville Skyline. Another great tune is Love Minus Zero/No Limit from the album Bringing it All Back Home.
Thanks for reviewing classic rock songs and artists.Thanks for sharing Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead.Girl you rock. Keep it going.
The Times They Are A-Changin'
is another gem by Bob Dylan well worth listening to...
Liked your reaction. 👍🏻
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Bob is a guy who, if he forgets a line or two, he doesn't stop and start all over again. It the mood and the sound that he likes, and if he misses a line, he just keeps going.
As many here have already commented, I've also been a Dylan addict fort 50= years and he has almost always been socially relevant. I highly recommend "Masters of War". If that's not especially relevant today nothing will ever be. I wish every reaction RUclipsr would get their crown singing this song.
Now Bob is a poet of the highest magnitude, the voice ...the gods only give so much ...but it's really cool.
Great reaction!! The Dylan rabbit hole is the deepest of them all....please react to The Times They Are a Changin, With God on Our Side, Hurricane, Girl From the North Country, I could go on and on. There are hundreds. Greatest Songwriter, certainly lyricist, of them all......
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Happy to be aboard. I left out another of my favorites and one of his most well known, Mr. Tambourine. Anxious to see you react to these. You are very lovely... @@MrsPenPal
This was Dylan's first mainstream hit, but he had MANY other great songs, both before&after, Blessing.
Check out MastersOfWar or BlowingInTheWind for particularly topical tunes that have aged well.
Also, JimiHendrix took Dylan's AllAlongTheWatchtower and made it his own!!!
Get used to the great lyrics with this man. Arguably the most important artist in music history. The dive into the Bob Dylan catalogue is the deepest and most rewarding musical journey you can take. Enjoy.
Favourite song is Hurricane, heard it first time at about 16. 43 now and still listen to it often - still as good as the first time. But there are so many good songs! Hurricane is deep and also a part of my youth, so it's my #1. (The movie is amazing too) A hard rain's gonna fall is my 2nd favourite song :)
I really do like your reactions. I think I mentioned Subterranean Homesick Blues and another comment but man he's got a hard-hitting folk song from before he made the switch to Electric which was highly controversial at the time, switching to Electric that is, but prior to that he had several hits to one is called masters of War which is just mind-blowing. And there's another one that's based on an old old desperate folk song called The Ballad of Hollis brown. It's storytelling and it's in D Minor with a drop d tuning and it's so simple and Relentless and then it weaves this emotionally powerful story.
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Bob Dylan is such a great 3:19 lyricist. Love how you catch the meaning, many don’t listen to the words just the melody. I love Tangled Up in Blue. Once again love your reaction
Love this, thank you,...! I grew up with Dylan - you might consider "Blowin' In The Wind" next, but to be honest, anything Dylan is fine..! Best wishes from an American now living in Japan.
Awwh how is Japan?
Wonderful....working worldwide for 38 years from my office here in Kobe. I enjoy your work, I come back often to watch and listen,@@MrsPenPal
Great reaction. Like how you concentrate on the lyrics and his rhyming schemes. That’s what we did in school when we studied Shakespear’s sonnets.
He won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2016
Excellent reaction. Thank you. (o my gosh, I used to have that desk)
Great reaction to a great song, when you talk about being able to picture other people listening to that song, there's another song from him that gives the same feeling. It's called "Rainy Day Women #12 & #35", one of the most played songs ever on album oriented rock stations back in the day.
Awesome! One of the greatest songwriter of all time..next one should be Blowin in the Wind
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Yea, Dylan is an icon. One of the all time great song writers and story tellers. This song never gets old, maybe more meaningful. For a fun listen try Jimi Hendrix cover this song at the Monterey Pop Festival. Another great version. 😊🎉❤
Definitely my favorite; thanks for covering it.👍👍
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Reception? Yes, this was huge! Coming as it did at the mid point of Dylan’s mid sixties trilogy when he was at the height of his powers. Bringing it all Back Home, Highway 61 and Blonde on Blonde. Insightfully I think the sound you identified in your headphones might have been the organ sound which is integral to this track? Fun fact. Organ was played by non organ player Al Cooper who simply volunteered in the studio to fulfill that role. A bit of serendipity that really paid off I think?
Bob Dylan is a musical genius. And a great lyricist. He also plays guitar and harmonica❤
Dylan is a legend, and this song is in the top 10 of all time.
You should experience the serious poetry of "It's All Right Ma, I'm Only Bleeding" and for just plain fun "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream"
Bob Dylan is such a legend. This is the Album Highway 61 Revisited - refers to highway 61 that runs from Memphis Tennesee thru Mississippi and down to the Gulf - where so many famous blues musicians came from. Bob wrote so many great songs and is known for really delving into lyrics and would do lyrics first and then the musical compositions which is difficult. I always learn something listening and reading his lyrics - they just give such wisdom about life. So many good ones - Just like A Woman and Tangled Up in Blue. Then he wrote music for the Byrds with so many great songs such as My Backpages, Mr Tamoborine Man. The Beatles loved Bob Dylan and George Harrison did many collaborations and played on several of Bob's Albums. He also did the famous Album Nasville Skyline with collaborations with Johnny Cash.
The live 1966 version in " No Direction Home" is considered to be the moment rock music was born. Try the new album's My Own Version of You or Foot of Pride. Love your open authenticity. Hope you dive deep into Bob, you will never get bored only become further amazed the deeper ya go.
perfect harmony, girl . . . to a perfect song.
This was a major hit and has been listed as No. 1 in Rolling Stone Magazine's Top 500 songs ever written.
Dont think twice its alright
Good morning! Hope all is well in your world.
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From a lower middle class family in Minnesota, arrived in NY in 1961 with an old scratched up Gibson guitar and the clothes on his back. Played the streets, then small folk venues for food and lodging.
63 later, over 145 million records sold. Over 600 songs written. 40 Studio Albums. 16 live albums. 98 Singles. 54 music videos. 17 Bootleg Series records. 31 compilation albums. 25 Box sets. 7 sound tracks. Presidential Medal of Freedom. Ten Grammy awards. A Golden Globe Award. An Academy Award. A Pulitzer prize, AND the Nobel prize. Considered the quintessential song writer of the 20th Century. Catalog just sold for over $300 million.
The times they are a-changin’
Lay lady lay
Mr. Tambourine man ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Musicians wanted to play with Dylan and volunteered for this recording.
play him live..he plays guitar and harmonica
Thank you for playing. If you want to know him, listen to his first 4-5 albums. You may feel the earthquake his music was starting in ‘63. Up to that time we were listing to things like ‘Hey Hey Paula’ or ‘love letters in the Sand’ or The Beach Boys
On this track the organ made it, and it was all an accident. Al Kooper could play the piano a little and he wasn’t supposed to but just sat down to the organ and started playing and Dylan loved it and they kept it
Yes the music impacted us just as much as it did you. BUT BUT. His impact on other bands was unmeasurable. Listen to the Beatles or other groups before and after listing to Dylan
Their lyrics were enriched a thousand fold
Read the back of Nashville Skyline for Johnny Cash’s words about Dylan.
Oh you MUST react to ‘Masters of War’ being sung by Eddie Vedder at the tribute concert for Bob Dylan.
Amazing isn’t the word
Many of Dylan's songs were critized when they came out , now several are part of the great American playbook
Great reaction. The song is even more heart breaking when you know there is a true story behind. It's about the toxic relationship between the artist Andy Warhol and the girl Edie Sedgwick. At the time, Bob Dylan was observing the scene in the artists' commune in New York.
I think you would like his "Lay Lady Lay." It's a bittersweet love song.
One of my favourite Dylan tunes wasn''t made popular by Bob Dylan. It's called Blowin' In the Wind, by Peter, Paul and Mary. Check that one out. Also perhaps Lay Lady Lay.
Years after Rollin Sone was released it was many times voted the number ONE rock song of all time.
When Dyaln played this song for the first time at the Newport Folk Festival in August 1965 he was almost booed off the stage
Wow! Really? That happened
My second favorite Dylan song my fave is positively 4th Street
indeed.. a masterpiece
all along the watchtower
tangled up in blues
My personal favourite Bob Dylan song is the other bookend to the same album that "Like A Rolling Stone" comes from. The album is called HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED and the song is "Desolation Row".
More Bob? Try these ones Blessing: "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright", "Masters Of War", "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding", "Visions Of Johanna", "I Want You", "All Along The Watchtower", "The Man In Me", "Tangled Up In Blue", "If You See Her, Say Hello", "Not Dark Yet", "Cold Irons Bound", "Mississippi"... and that's just for starters.
1 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list
Forever young
One that hasn't been suggested is Gotta Serve Somebody
best song written in the 60's and loved that it was not condensed for airplay ... of course, they couldn't, the length of the song was perfect
Loved your reaction! I would suggest Lay Lady Lay as your next Dylan song to give you a sense of his range.
To watch a video that portrays the message of this song, please see The Rolling Stones version of it. And for another poignant song by Bob Dylan, Positively 4th Street
A genius song writer and musician. Wrote so many great songs. 😅
The ' Napoleon in red' wss Andy Warhol and the song is about Edie Sedgwick part of Warhol's Factory in 1960s New York.
Considered the best song of all time.
Subterranean homesick blues will knock your socks off.
Considered one of the greatest rock songs ever from the moment it was released til the present time by the one and only master and Nobel Prize for Literature winner Bob Dylan.....try another" It's All Right Ma, Im Only Bleeding".....another masterpiece of which there are many!
If you would like to hear a very interesting/crazy side story of the recording of this song, search for "The Story of How ''Like a Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan was Recorded - Al Kooper". Al Kooper was the organ player in this song, but he was not supposed to be in the recording session, he was not an organ player, he had no music, and he couldn't hear what he was playing.
This song was just unearthly when it came out in 1965. Nothing like it had ever been heard before. The first time I heard it, I played it over 3 times in a row before I listened to the rest of the album. He changed the whole scene and he had a huge effect on both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, who were big fans of his music (as he was also of theirs). He was commenting in the song not on just one person (probably Edie Sedgewick), but on a whole pretty corrupt and very pretentious scene that was happening at that time with the "beautiful people" who hung out with Andy Warhol in New York City. Warhol is most likely the "diplomat who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat". It's an incredible song. The song's about someone living in a state of prideful delusion and arrogance...and then they're brought down to face hard reality.
U.S. Route 61 or U.S. Highway 61 (U.S. 61) is a major United States highway that extends 1,400 miles (2,300 km) between New Orleans, Louisiana and the city of Wyoming, Minnesota. The highway generally follows the course of the Mississippi River and is designated the Great River Road for much of its route. As of 2004, the highway's northern terminus in Wyoming, Minnesota, is at an intersection with Interstate 35 (I-35). Until 1991, the highway extended north on what is now Minnesota State Highway 61 (MN 61) through Duluth to the Canada-U.S. border near Grand Portage.
Bob Dylan grew up near Duluth, Minnesota, and that highway was important to him in his life. He'd traveled it quite a bit, all the way down to New Orleans, so that's why he would have put it in the title of the album...and as for "Revisited", well, he was revisiting a lot of things in his mind while writing his songs.
Mrs Penpal the next bob Dylan song should be “Tangled up in Blue” his album Blood on the Tracks is rated as on of the best of all time by billboard
THIS SONG IS A CLASSIC😎
React to tangled up in blue live By Bob Dylan, his songs have been covered Uber 6000 times by other artists.
One of the greatest poets.
And music writers of all time Also react to blowing in the wind