I met Bob Dylan's music my freshman year of college. I have been a fan ever since. His lyrics are poetry and never disappoint. The combination of his voice, the lyrics and the harmonica are magic.
Blood on the Tracks is amazing from the first note to the last. I remember buying my copy back when it first came out - played it almost continuously for weeks. Dylan at his finest, along with Desire. Nashville Skyline and John Wesley Harding. Can't go wrong!
I particularly liked John Wesley Harding at the time. Just a day or two ago while I was rehashing the different grammatical usages of *lay* and *lie* , it occurred to me that Dylan's *Lay Lady Lay* is grammatically incorrect and it should be *Lie* Lady *Lie* (*lie* across my big brass bed).
Yeah I can relate. I wore this album out as a 15 year old. Remember friends didn't understand me. Well, they do now.. Dylan 50 years later is still writing songs that blow your mind. Listen to his.last album. Another masterpiece!
Thank You for another heartfelt reaction. The think that l appreciate about Dylan’s music is him playing the harmonica as often as he does in his songs. You just don’t hear that in Rock music. But then again we are talking about Bob Dylan!!!!
From Dylan's 15th album, Blood on the Tracks, this is about a romantic relationship that is unfortunately doomed from the start. It begins in the 3rd person before shifting to the first person. The lyrics are a splendid story of magnificent portions as only Bobs' great vocals can render. Topped off by his harmonica displace, a super song. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Stephen. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
I have heard the entire BOTT album hundreds of times. Sheer tears, pain and beauty. Truly stuff for the ages. The singing is awesome, grabs you by the throat, and lands you a soft as possible.
I love this song!!! The chord progression, the lyrics, the high, loud part he does with his voice near the end of each passage. The verse after the harmonica solo about waking up to a bare room is a hard hitter!!
Great reaction video. The next one you should do from this album is “You’re a big girl now.” The melody, lyrics, and Dylan’s vocal delivery are all outstanding. The man is definitely one of one.
You are the Man when it comes to appreciating good music and first-time listening pleasure. We are DE-LIGHTED to see how much you value what and who you share with us!!!
Blood on the Tracks is superb, and this is one of the best tracks of many great ones. For me, earlier Dylan is still the best though, and the very pinnacle may be "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding). Dylan himself has said it's one of his best, and that he can no longer write like that and doesn't really understand how he ever did. It's like it's coming from a possessed prophet. Blood on the Tracks is Dylan older, wiser, more weary and a little sadder, but still a brilliant, thoughtful and razor sharp observer of human relations. It's much more introspective, about the personal and specific. He didn't necessarily create the blueprint for the introspective, confessional singer/songwriter, but he demonstrated with this album his absolute mastery of this kind of perspective as a writer.
I was obsessed with Dylan when I was in high school, 1975 was my senior year, I knew he had an album coming out, rumor was it was special, I checked into Jason's record store every day for weeks until one day, there it was! I took it home and played it.....I still have not stopped . There are few things in life that exceed expectations, this album was epitome of that!
I think this is Dylans most elegant album of his emotional sentimental song craft. Blood on the Tracks is best listened in its totality to appreciate its beauty.
An amazing dylan masterpiece....for live versions, there are at least four different sets of lyrics to this song, sometimes subtly changing verses, sometimes changing entire verses & the whole aspect of the angle from which that part of the story is told, but it always conveys that same regret, longing & sadness.....; bob’s well is deep.
Blood on the tracks is dylans finest album, you listen to it and you never skip a track, it's an absolute masterpiece. But visions of johanna from blonde on blonde is the finest example of his song writing. There is a live version where he does this accoation off the 1966 bootleg and when I first heard that I was blown away. I just sat there thi k jesus christ how the hell did he come up with that. And then he's does desolation row acoustic too and once again I'm lost for words. Nobody writes like Dylan, there will never be another.
Listen to Joan Baez’s cover of this song. She mimics Bob in one verse: remarkable and so so wonderful! Although it’s never been confirmed, most fans and Dylangraphers believe he wrote it about Joan.
I don't know if I love her version best, but I definitely love it. In fact, I listened to her version a lot, which motivated me to go back and pay closer attention to Dylan's version.
You are so open, generous and attentive in your listening. It's so good to watch. I was a kid in the Dylan heyday years, say 63 through 75. I grew up with that music, it changed who I am as a person, and it changed the trajectory of my life. It is amazing to have your perspective on this music I love so much.! Thank you.
may I suggest the live version of "Shelter from the Storm" featuring the Rolling Thunder Revue ...... BTW the Blood on the Tracks album is my favorite of my 5 favorite Dylan albums
Stephen - For me, "Simple Twist of Fate" from Blood on the Track", is pure Dylan performing one of his eternal greats! Harri, you have become a solid Dylan fan and great review.
This album came out after his divorce. He goes through all the emotions. The album is beautiful and painful. This song especially I’ve heard hundreds of times but it still gets me every time. For whatever reason, it tears me up. Sooner or later you need to hear this whole album, and I won’t be the only one to tell you so. Thank you for this.
Here's a simple twist of fate: A young man is playing guitar in a hotel lobby in Minnesota. No one's paying much attention. Then the front door opened and Gorgeous George (one of the early stars of professional wrestling) walked into the hotel with his posse. He looked over at the young man and nodded to him, acknowledging his presence. Dylan later said it was the first time anyone publicly acknowledged him, and it kept him going for a long time. Blame it on a simple twist of fate.
Yeah great lp try before the flood lp track ballad of a thin man, live lp one great lp, also hard rain lp another live Dylan lp lots guitars on stage, but it works track shelter from the storm a belter ✌️💯
It's wonderful to watch someone discovering and enjoying one of your own favourite tracks - I love this for so many reasons - the storytelling, the wistful mood he creates and the way he wraps the phrasing and rhyming around the music. Now I'm waiting for you to check out two of my other Dylan favourites - Not Dark Yet and Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts......please.
Give a listen to a Dylan contemporary who we lost far too young so long ago. Phil Ochs. Pleasures of the Harbor will take you down a similar road as this song.
They recently released a much extended version of this album with numerous demos and takes of the songs that ended up on the album. It's so interesting to hear how a song evolves. Great song! Great album!
This album was recorded a couple blocks from where I live in Minneapolis. He couldn't get the sound he was looking for from the slick session players on either coast, so he came home to MN to get an earthier feel. Interestingly, since you reviewed them back to back, Dylan reportedly played songs from this album for Neil Young (as well as Crosby and Still, I believe), to get his/their reactions and feedback.
My wife of 23 years and I decided to divorce-with this song on the turntable. That was 20 years ago and I still get choked up hearing this. (I saw him live 2 years after this album came out. Long before I knew what this song was gonna do to me. )
Dylan hit it on this album. "Desire" is cool (with violin from Scarlet O'Hara.) And the remastered "Street Legal" has some of his best poetry, and a cool band. Dig. Pece on earth.
Best version of this song he ever performed... ruclips.net/video/BP_pZ841Nqs/видео.htmlsi=2gQqoBs31fYhrXTr ... I get so emotional every time I hear this version. Even though Ive hear it several thousand times LOL...
''Blood On The Tracks'' IS peak Dylan. Easily one of the best records ever made, and this is one of the best tunes on that record.
I couldn’t agree more.
I met Bob Dylan's music my freshman year of college. I have been a fan ever since. His lyrics are poetry and never disappoint. The combination of his voice, the lyrics and the harmonica are magic.
Thank you , thank you! "She was born in Spring, but I was born too Late." Owwwwww !!!
This is the best song on the album, period.
"As a light bust through a beat-up shade where he was wakin' up...She dropp'd a coin into the cup." My God, what a line!
"Don't put him with the others, just leave him by himself" - perfect take on a perfect song.
As always, it's not only the great melody and unique lyrics; it's the WAY he sings that makes it special.
Blood On The Tracks is one of the best albums ever recorded, in my humble opinion.
Couplets, sonnets, brilliance...
I think this artist has a bright future ahead of him
Dylan the great 🎸🎶🕶️👍🏴
Yes - he is all his own - think it was Clapton that said: BD is head and shoulders above everyboddy.
Blood on the Tracks is amazing from the first note to the last. I remember buying my copy back when it first came out - played it almost continuously for weeks. Dylan at his finest, along with Desire. Nashville Skyline and John Wesley Harding. Can't go wrong!
I particularly liked John Wesley Harding at the time. Just a day or two ago while I was rehashing the different grammatical usages of *lay* and *lie* , it occurred to me that Dylan's *Lay Lady Lay* is grammatically incorrect and it should be *Lie* Lady *Lie* (*lie* across my big brass bed).
Yeah I can relate. I wore this album out as a 15 year old. Remember friends didn't understand me. Well, they do now.. Dylan 50 years later is still writing songs that blow your mind. Listen to his.last album. Another masterpiece!
Thank You for another heartfelt reaction. The think that l appreciate about Dylan’s music is him playing the harmonica as often as he does in his songs. You just don’t hear that in Rock music. But then again we are talking about Bob Dylan!!!!
"TANGLED UP IN BLUE" is the one....!!!
I MUST HAVE SEEN DYLAN 75X, AND IT NEVER GET'S OLD, IT'S LIKE THE FIRST TIME, LOVE HIM
I've played this album/cd hundreds of times. It is his best in my opinion.
Blood on the tracks and desire Peak Bob Dylan
From Dylan's 15th album, Blood on the Tracks, this is about a romantic relationship that is unfortunately doomed from the start.
It begins in the 3rd person before shifting to the first person. The lyrics are a splendid story of magnificent portions as only Bobs' great vocals can render. Topped off by his harmonica displace, a super song. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Stephen. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
You do some great work here.. reactions to poetic mastery.. keep going, man
I have heard the entire BOTT album hundreds of times. Sheer tears, pain and beauty. Truly stuff for the ages. The singing is awesome, grabs you by the throat, and lands you a soft as possible.
The whole album is fantastic. Thanks for doing these videos.
Absolute classic Dylan
Thanks Harri. Blood on the Tracka made me a life long Dylan fan. His genius shone through on every track
I love this song!!! The chord progression, the lyrics, the high, loud part he does with his voice near the end of each passage. The verse after the harmonica solo about waking up to a bare room is a hard hitter!!
Great reaction video. The next one you should do from this album is “You’re a big girl now.” The melody, lyrics, and Dylan’s vocal delivery are all outstanding. The man is definitely one of one.
I was just going to recommend that one.
'Tangled up in Blue' does it for me, followed by 'Visions of Johanna'.
A gift from Minnesota to the world.
When people told that Bob they loved the album "Blood on the Tracks" he replied "i cannot imagine people enjoying that degree of pain!"
You are the Man when it comes to appreciating good music and first-time listening pleasure. We are DE-LIGHTED to see how much you value what and who you share with us!!!
Thank youuuuuu 🙏🏿🙏🏿🥰
You must listen to "Boots of Spanish Leather" Dylan singing as a "duet" ... "To Ramona" "Abandoned Love" all melodic
Probably my favorite Dylan song. It's simply perfect.
Nothing better
Too Late please Harri.. you will LOVE it!
Life long Dylan fan here. This is my favorite! The best song, from the best album.
I love this album and, "Desire."
Great review of one of my all time favourite Dylan tracks.
Blood on the Tracks is superb, and this is one of the best tracks of many great ones. For me, earlier Dylan is still the best though, and the very pinnacle may be "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding). Dylan himself has said it's one of his best, and that he can no longer write like that and doesn't really understand how he ever did. It's like it's coming from a possessed prophet. Blood on the Tracks is Dylan older, wiser, more weary and a little sadder, but still a brilliant, thoughtful and razor sharp observer of human relations. It's much more introspective, about the personal and specific. He didn't necessarily create the blueprint for the introspective, confessional singer/songwriter, but he demonstrated with this album his absolute mastery of this kind of perspective as a writer.
"Blood on the Tracks" is my #1 favorite album and I've heard thousands. Listen to the entire thing, not a bad song in sight.
Love this song 👌
I was obsessed with Dylan when I was in high school, 1975 was my senior year, I knew he had an album coming out, rumor was it was special, I checked into Jason's record store every day for weeks until one day, there it was! I took it home and played it.....I still have not stopped . There are few things in life that exceed expectations, this album was epitome of that!
Harry, thank for that spot-on reaction to Dylan’s Simple Twist of Fate! You are correct in your assessment, he’s in a league all his own.
His demo version of this is absolutely amazing, very intimate.
I think this is Dylans most elegant album of his emotional sentimental song craft. Blood on the Tracks is best listened in its totality to appreciate its beauty.
An amazing dylan masterpiece....for live versions, there are at least four different sets of lyrics to this song, sometimes subtly changing verses, sometimes changing entire verses & the whole aspect of the angle from which that part of the story is told, but it always conveys that same regret, longing & sadness.....; bob’s well is deep.
Hi Harri, glad you enjoyed this song, the album is one of his best, such richness. Still, thankfully got my original.
when you look at the whole body of his work it is nearly impossible to pigeon hole him. His talent is univeral.
Every song in this LP is just great,and this one is one of my favorites!
Blood on the tracks is dylans finest album, you listen to it and you never skip a track, it's an absolute masterpiece. But visions of johanna from blonde on blonde is the finest example of his song writing. There is a live version where he does this accoation off the 1966 bootleg and when I first heard that I was blown away. I just sat there thi k jesus christ how the hell did he come up with that. And then he's does desolation row acoustic too and once again I'm lost for words. Nobody writes like Dylan, there will never be another.
Harri, I'm sure you want to pronounce his name correctly, it's pronounced "Dill-un" BTW your reactions are great Bro!! ✌💛, PJ
I'm so Happy you are converted Harri
Listen to Joan Baez’s cover of this song. She mimics Bob in one verse: remarkable and so so wonderful!
Although it’s never been confirmed, most fans and Dylangraphers believe he wrote it about Joan.
I love her cover best!
@@Beatles4Sale. yes it’s super!
I don't know if I love her version best, but I definitely love it. In fact, I listened to her version a lot, which motivated me to go back and pay closer attention to Dylan's version.
You are so open, generous and attentive in your listening. It's so good to watch.
I was a kid in the Dylan heyday years, say 63 through 75. I grew up with that music, it changed who I am as a person, and it changed the trajectory of my life.
It is amazing to have your perspective on this music I love so much.!
Thank you.
"To breathe the air around Tom Paine"
Another great reaction. Big thanks!
Love this song❤
One of Dylans most poetic masterpieces of this period along with Shelter from the Storm a must listen
may I suggest the live version of "Shelter from the Storm" featuring the Rolling Thunder Revue ...... BTW the Blood on the Tracks album is my favorite of my 5 favorite Dylan albums
Thanks!
Nobody like him. A national treasure
Gracias amigo por analizar esta canción. Saludos desde Chile.
One of a kind !! Great reaction. I played it on guitar just the other night !!
great reaction.....great song
an incredible album - # 1 on my list.
The album this is from "Blood on the tracks" is great. My personal favorite is "shelter from the storm".
I Threw It All Away is one of Dylans most musical songs.
Hi. Brought here, again, by a simple twist of fate. :-D
Jakob Dylan(Wallflowers) ~ "SIXTH AVENUE HEARTACHE", "ONE HEADLIGHT"
Harri give these two songs a go. He ain't Bob, but Jakob sure did create an atmosphere like Dad.
❤❤❤
Stephen - For me, "Simple Twist of Fate" from Blood on the Track", is pure Dylan performing one of his eternal greats! Harri, you have become a solid Dylan fan and great review.
I love the chord changes in this song too. It's a fun one to play, he plays it the key of E using an A scale harmonica.
I grew up with “Blood on the Tracks” and “Desire” in the record cabinet. “Time Out of Mind,” I was 17 and dedicated to.
Wonderful!!!
Try his live version of "It's Alright Ma(I'm Only Bleeding)"...the one that shows the lyrics!
This album came out after his divorce. He goes through all the emotions. The album is beautiful and painful. This song especially I’ve heard hundreds of times but it still gets me every time. For whatever reason, it tears me up. Sooner or later you need to hear this whole album, and I won’t be the only one to tell you so. Thank you for this.
Love minus zero is a classic
Great song to review
Same album. "Tangled Up In Blue" and Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts". You will really dig them.
✌and ❤from Australia.
Here's a simple twist of fate: A young man is playing guitar in a hotel lobby in Minnesota. No one's paying much attention. Then the front door opened and Gorgeous George (one of the early stars of professional wrestling) walked into the hotel with his posse. He looked over at the young man and nodded to him, acknowledging his presence. Dylan later said it was the first time anyone publicly acknowledged him, and it kept him going for a long time. Blame it on a simple twist of fate.
Yeah great lp try before the flood lp track ballad of a thin man, live lp one great lp, also hard rain lp another live Dylan lp lots guitars on stage, but it works track shelter from the storm a belter ✌️💯
I have two Dylan albums: This one and his greatest hits.
you are seriously missing out
@@jameswiglesworth5004 I've three: Forgot Nashville Skyline.
I am torn between this album and the original recordings, which feel more intimate. Two unique albums of the same songs. Thanks Bob!
The Jerry Garica Band does this song,worth a listen.
It's wonderful to watch someone discovering and enjoying one of your own favourite tracks - I love this for so many reasons - the storytelling, the wistful mood he creates and the way he wraps the phrasing and rhyming around the music. Now I'm waiting for you to check out two of my other Dylan favourites - Not Dark Yet and Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts......please.
Give a listen to a Dylan contemporary who we lost far too young so long ago. Phil Ochs. Pleasures of the Harbor will take you down a similar road as this song.
Blood on the Tracks is Dylans Hamlet
You should react to his western song and album “John Westley Harding”.
They recently released a much extended version of this album with numerous demos and takes of the songs that ended up on the album. It's so interesting to hear how a song evolves. Great song! Great album!
This album was recorded a couple blocks from where I live in Minneapolis. He couldn't get the sound he was looking for from the slick session players on either coast, so he came home to MN to get an earthier feel. Interestingly, since you reviewed them back to back, Dylan reportedly played songs from this album for Neil Young (as well as Crosby and Still, I believe), to get his/their reactions and feedback.
David Crosby said "he isn't much of a musician."
@@123thof Who?
I've always found Bob Dylan's music to be weird. I think mostly the lyrics make it so for me. Another planet indeed. A highly inscrutable planet.
My favorite from this album is
" Lily, Rosemary and The Jack of Hearts "
He could have been Tangled Up In Blue...
My wife of 23 years and I decided to divorce-with this song on the turntable. That was 20 years ago and I still get choked up hearing this. (I saw him live 2 years after this album came out. Long before I knew what this song was gonna do to me. )
Dylan hit it on this album.
"Desire" is cool (with violin from Scarlet O'Hara.)
And the remastered "Street Legal" has some of his best poetry,
and a cool band.
Dig.
Pece on earth.
Scarlett Rivera
@@stevewiley8409 Yes! Long night.
Blood on the tracks was def Dylan on the mountain Top
Such a blessed song.
Sarah Jarosz and Jerry Garcia play a boss versions of this tune.
Apparently its autobiographical. So he says.
I used to know how to play this song
Jerry Garica Band does a brilliant version of this song.
Best version of this song he ever performed... ruclips.net/video/BP_pZ841Nqs/видео.htmlsi=2gQqoBs31fYhrXTr ... I get so emotional every time I hear this version. Even though Ive hear it several thousand times LOL...