My parents named me after this song in 1974. I wish I could thank you. I love my name and it makes me very proud to be named after such a beautiful song.

@JB174Glebe

3 жыл бұрын

Cool

@Lebeauski

3 жыл бұрын

Now thats awesome. My older brothers middle name is Dylan. My fav song from him, and saying that, twas not an easy choice. 😊

@foresight87

3 жыл бұрын

@Shane Molloy Only Bob knows for sure, and he's not saying.

@QuakerPop

3 жыл бұрын

Too funny. For my daughter I gave my wife two options...my first choice was Johanna, and then my second choice was after an Elvis Costello song. She chose the latter. I love Costello, but no one-except perhaps Dylan- has ever written a better song than this one

@foresight87

3 жыл бұрын

@@QuakerPop Let me guess, Allison?

I am Johanna and I was born in 1967 And I was named Johanna because of this song Thank you dad

@Carlossantanamusicinc

Жыл бұрын

Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here

@user-sd2ln7ge9e

4 ай бұрын

1957

@pietkonijn5522

3 ай бұрын

A good year for music !! Astral Weeks (Van Morrison)

@socaldan100

Ай бұрын

You had a cool dad 😊

@JimBEATTIE-os1jk

16 күн бұрын

I have been listening to Bob Dylan for about 50 years I guess I still listen to him because he really is the greatest songwriter musician artist and he was really to the spokesman of Our Generation how do you capture the complex feeling of being in the 60s and coming of age at that time in many ways he expressed what we were feeling for us I cover a few of his songs here on KZread myself

Don't settle for being someone's Louise. You are a Johanna.

Bob Dylan is my idol since the mid-sixties and "Visions Of Johanna" my all-time favorite and for many years my ringtone. About every day I listen to my Bob Dylan's albums, CD's, Bootlegs or on You Tube or via "Expecting rain". I never wrote any comment, why ?? Because everybody knows Bob Dylan is an Icon, the Master, The Greatest songwriter of all time, so I'd have to copy all those beautiful comments I've been enjoying reading the past years. I' m getting old, it's time to thank Bob Dylan for all the greatness, all the pleasure he brought me the past 60 years and tomorrow it's his birthday, the right time to do so. Love Danyel

“The country music station plays soft, but there’s nothing really nothing to turn off” always gets me

This is Bob's high..He gave us 3 of the greatest albums of all time in 18 months.. Blood on the tracks is great but Bringing it all back home..Highway 61 and Blonde on Blonde are absolute masterpieces and he knows it

@manticore2580

5 жыл бұрын

I'd add JOHN WESLEY HARDING as the fourth to that list. Dylan drew on the parables of the Bible for the songs on the album.

@brucedelaplain7138

5 жыл бұрын

Yep. Those three are the best. Probably Highway 61 on top. I didn't know they were done in 18 months. Wow! Ps. I saw him live twice -- once in Seattle with The Band, then once in Tucson when in his born again phase.

@sonicyouth29

5 жыл бұрын

14 months

@roalziroalzi

5 жыл бұрын

ANOTHER GOLD TRILOGY.... PLANET WAVES , BLOOD ON THE TRACKS AND DESIRE 1974 - 1976 THREE LP,S No 1 IN USA

@chambeet

5 жыл бұрын

His electric trilogy was almost certainly his peak by common consent, and really only the Beatles had a similar peak, and that is debatable.

His voice is so unique, he invented a new way of singing.

@Waaawat

2 ай бұрын

Absolutely, it's a truth. Perhaps it was destined to unfold this way.

@Jus5410

3 күн бұрын

No one comes close to Dylan every song feels like it was written just for you he just knows. He's a poet,singer,musician and a true inspiration in my life.

@DavidVargas-hg7cs

Күн бұрын

@@Jus5410 I can absolutely relate to that same exact feeling.

It’s just amazing how Bob fits an entire novel’s worth of story into song. Time after time

@mklives2

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you haven’t read a novel recently.

@privatecocky8971

3 жыл бұрын

@@mklives2 sounds like you haven't heard a good tune lately

@TheBirdBrigade

3 жыл бұрын

@@mklives2 why comment if you don’t get it?

@skeptical4446

3 жыл бұрын

@@mklives2 read the OP and look up. Maybe then you can see what went over your head.

@janrimmer8395

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheBirdBrigade some people never get it

"The ghost of 'lectricity' howls in the bones of her face". Wow, I don't think I'd ever heard such imaginative vivid imagery in the lyrics of a song..

@Johnconno

2 ай бұрын

Arthur Rimbaud Baby!

@cgregory123-eq3mx

Ай бұрын

So agree. That one line alone gets a Nobel prize.

Been listening to this stuff since I was 17. Now I'm 71 and it just refuses to age, the effect never fades. I could listen to Mr. Bob Dylan till my dying breath, or for the rest of eternity, whichever comes first.

@judyfarrer5326

4 жыл бұрын

Ken Jeannotte I think it gets better as I get older. I am 68. I always go back to Dylan

@flamingooneleg77

Жыл бұрын

Oh it’s good to know you gave your life to Jesus

@eguirald

Жыл бұрын

How true! It just refuses to age… and so do I.

@2468pebble

Жыл бұрын

Made 71 too. The music stands on its own merits and remains as fresh as ever.

@davidkoplitz1969

Жыл бұрын

67 here….my favorite ❤

Key chain rhyming with D Train is truly amazing.

Blonde on Blonde is one of the greatest albums ever made. Just a fact known by many

@jaybartlett3849

19 күн бұрын

It is a perfect desert island record. If it were the only thing you could listen to, you'd still play it over and over, daily.

Mona Lisa must’ve had the highway blues, you can tell by the way she smiles!

@bendrescher7185

4 жыл бұрын

Love that line.

@mrmojo-eo7sh

3 жыл бұрын

My favorite lyrics line

@dodeoledeo3113

3 жыл бұрын

Light flickering from the opposite loft/ in this room the heat pipe just cough... Is great!

@moondancer9066

3 жыл бұрын

The Mona Lisa is Leonardo Davinci as a woman. He was very stuck on himself you know and he was a homosexual. He also made the Shroud of Jesus. That's Leonardo DiVinci not Jesus!

@robinrobyn1714

3 жыл бұрын

Dig it, man!!!!!!!! That's my favorite line in the song!!

One of my favourites. I'm 72 years old and been a Dylan fan since I was 17. My parents chucked out my Dylan LPs - especially they didn't like The Times They are A-Changing !! I wish they'd lived to see him win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

@danielkokal8819

4 жыл бұрын

when I was in college (76-80) the English Dept taught a poetry class based on nothing but Dylan lyrics

@davidframe8362

3 жыл бұрын

You should have tried harder to get them to see and hear how brilliant he was/is.

@sarareardon8088

3 жыл бұрын

Me too, anyone who chucks out Dylan material is threatened by some truth or just plain ignorant!

@bird42069

3 жыл бұрын

Daniel Kokal thats so cool, especially to hear as a 17 year old

@bobdylan4727

3 жыл бұрын

You have such a profound impact on my carrier that even the biggest thank you text would fall shout to express my gratitude. Thanks for your support ❤️❤️❤️

The entire universe is encapsulated in this song.

@vandannadale2689

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed Jim! I’ve thought in the past: How did anyone dare write a song after this Masterpiece?! And HE’S still doin’ it 55 years later. Rock on, Bob.✌🏼

@There_is_No_Spoon_

3 жыл бұрын

i do not know what you talking about but you just BOUT RIGHT

@clydeswift2700

3 жыл бұрын

@@There_is_No_Spoon_ f

@conradmaclean4073

3 жыл бұрын

yeah you'd think so. It's long enough.

@losallets

3 жыл бұрын

literally in the first line

Blonde on Blonde is such an insane album. It is so far ahead that it goes backwards.

Is this the best song ever written? This is the best song ever written

@zacheryloreen1023

Жыл бұрын

It’s literally perfection from start to finish. Perhaps Dylan’s magnum opus in my opinion .

@lucianomezzetta4332

Жыл бұрын

No. It is certainly not.

@petermatthew123

6 ай бұрын

Yes it is! ❤

@torquemadaop8970

6 ай бұрын

Yes it is; but so are at least another 25 Dylan masterpieces. I just can't pick one!

@underated17

2 ай бұрын

@@lucianomezzetta4332 One of at least

How is this music so nailed-down & still so, you know, wild & mercurial?

@dimwitted-fool

Жыл бұрын

Because Bob Dylan is not a human being hahaha I love this guy so much

My favorite Dylan song and that's like picking my favorite child! 😁

@Broatch6

3 ай бұрын

Ain’t that the truth !

This song is completely insane. No one ever wrote in parallel with Dylan. A gift to us all poetically.

@kelvinkloud

4 жыл бұрын

No one?... not so sure. But no doubt the guys eye was singular and quite the diamond.... I would put hank Williams sr, bob Marley and Jim Morrison on Dylan’s lyrical level, albeit they used different vantage points and styles. Though all overlapped at one point or another.

@kelvinkloud

4 жыл бұрын

What separates Dylan from most is the true poetic structure along with the multilayered meaning and perspectives going on within a song. Plus he could structure songs in various styles. Like hank Williams sr he could write sparse seemingly more simple lyrics which were packed however with very dense symbolic meaning. Frost like. Or he could pen abstract works like this song with varying character interplay like TS Elliot. Or he could take the beat style of stream of consciousness, rolling narrative and lay out structures like subterranean homesick blues. A style that set the roots for rap..... speaking of guys like enmien, Tupac deserve mention. They don’t add the multilayered density of Dylan but they do create impressive flow and visceral power at their best in the genre. The truth is Dylan’s imagery in many of his songs wouldn’t sell in hip hop. But a young Dylan could’ve laid down hip hop with the best of them. He probably appreciates the quality of the genre.... honorable mention should be given to guys like Lennon, reed, jagger, waters, stills who were influenced heavily by Dylan and penned some great lyrical songs.... the only ones who went singular out of that wellspring from Dylan’s 60s bloom were Marley and young who painted more intimate stories wh/ though less abstract and prolific, were more visceral and approachable then Dylan. Also Bowie at his best carved out new material within surrealism and symbolism. Finally, Jim Morrison is greatly misunderstood imo. He threw crap on the wall at times, was a sex idol, and was very destructive so he gets ridiculed. But he was as original as Dylan and as brave. If you understand William Blake symbolism then you will get Morrison at his best. Most don’t even get the structure and miss it’s power. When on his A game, no one, including Bowie or waters wrote as good big pic epic structure as Morrison in rock. And like Bowie he could enhance it stage craft wise.

@tripover8656

4 жыл бұрын

the hyptonotik melody and the poetry of words and a new sound that came from a outer space, another planet ...

@charlesking617

4 жыл бұрын

Like he said.

@stacyblue1980

4 жыл бұрын

He changes lives.

My favorite song. It's more of a friend than a song for me.

@juanpablopigliacampo5317

5 жыл бұрын

You've just made the perfect quote to explain the feeling I get when I hear this song. Thank you; really, thank you.

@jessiehaislet3625

5 жыл бұрын

Yes. You nailed it!

@steelyman08

5 жыл бұрын

Ditto!

@edwarddalton9710

4 жыл бұрын

Dude, I hear ya!

@Jonejon250

4 жыл бұрын

I kinda feel like that about all Dylan songs.

If Dylan were born as he was in 1941, immediately went into a coma, woke up in 1966 and uttered: "The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face," and then died....he would STILL deserve the Nobel Prize.

@ondox

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely Sir! This is some fantastic imagery

@Goatchild90

4 жыл бұрын

Facts

@joemarshall4226

4 жыл бұрын

LOL

@sneezesaw2611

4 жыл бұрын

Glad he didn't. 500 years since the last comparable body of work, and that one wasn't put to music.

@zarafutztra

4 жыл бұрын

*muttered

Probably the greatest work of art of the latter part of the 20th century. Honestly.

Blonde on Blonde is a Pure Masterpiece. PERIOD.

@dennisdevine3382

4 жыл бұрын

That is a fact! Love this tune, it is so mind blowing & the drums are cool also.

@dennisdevine3382

4 жыл бұрын

That is a fact! This is a song that always blows my mind, plus the drums are cool.

@michaelstockman8521

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks 😊😊😘❤️ n I love you too... But Blood on the Tracks IS His BEST Work... EVER... ! !

@09nob

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelstockman8521 It's up there I'd say Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde are up there with it.

@dennisg.582

4 жыл бұрын

A-FREAKIN-MEN, Hippydippy

That gold mercury sound. This is the perfect example of that description! The drum, the electric guitar, the organ. And Dylan's singing and then the god damn lyrics!

59 years loving BOB DYLAN

Dylan is magical with his harmonica.

@jamesorr5206

Жыл бұрын

what a goddamn great song. Thank You Bob

when I was a kid--75 now--Dylan's first songs hit us like a bomb. I mean, compare these lyrics with the kind of stuff we were used to, such as " I just wanna hold your hand" etc.

@mayhemonwax8486

Жыл бұрын

The Beatles song is from 1963 and Bob's song from 1967 and you can't compare both songs.

@jesuisravi

Жыл бұрын

@@mayhemonwax8486 Friend, the first time I heard a Dylan song on the radio ( the song was" Ramona") was 1963. There had been nothing like that before on the radio--I know because, like most kids my age back then, I was an avid listener of the local rock-playing stations.

@newtonpo1

11 ай бұрын

@@jesuisravi Don't think he gets it but that's okay, there are plateaus in most everything including music. I sensed the same at different points in the Sixties. Purple Haze was another "shining moment in time" that blew the doors of everything that came before, went to the core like mainlined electricity

@williamcaspers7087

5 ай бұрын

BRAVO!!..SO TRUE... I'M 75 A FAN SINCE DAY ONE EARLY 1960'S..

@jaw444

Ай бұрын

@@mayhemonwax8486 Bob put out the John Wesley Harding album in December 1967, his 7th album. it was the first time we'd heard from him since Blonde on Blonde in mid 1966, a year and a half. Back then, that was a long time to not hear from him. In 65, two albums, in 64 two albums. He had taken off from work to settle down with his new family up near woodstock, John Wesley Harding was a really different sound and feel, and finally once again, all new Dylan songs, new kinds of lyrics, completely different. and they all fit into the times, which had changed, just like always.

Line after line of sparkling poetry. You could go on quoting your favorite Dylan lyrics for all eternity. No one else has ever done anything like it, and no one ever will.

@iamjesuschristintheflesh5866

3 жыл бұрын

Leonard Cohen and randy Newman

@Driecnk

2 жыл бұрын

@@iamjesuschristintheflesh5866 Hey buddy why the lower case r

@Driecnk

2 жыл бұрын

@@iamjesuschristintheflesh5866 You out to lunch

@jonathanstephens7015

2 жыл бұрын

Which kind of infinity are you talking about The king of time Who can never find the right rhyme

@chrisramsey6725

2 жыл бұрын

I would challenge that. One other lyricist is up there right with him: the late great Robert Hunter.

"Happy 81rst. BIRTHDAY "! BOB ,from Eli Minnesota! Thank U for your Heart in music!💥🎉😚👊🌬💖😎

@Carlossantanamusicinc

Жыл бұрын

Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here

@PR-bd1ky

Ай бұрын

Ely, MN

Bob Dylan is considered a Bard in Ireland. The highest praise possible. I'm from Minnesota but I learned to appreciate him there. I was lucky enough to see him in his hometown of Duluth MN. People came from all over the world to see him. There were people sleeping on the roofs of parking lots.

@emilysansone1861

2 жыл бұрын

I saw him open for the Grateful Dead. Truly awesome.

@CooManTunes

2 жыл бұрын

Minnesota is a traitor state.

@thomasobrien447

Жыл бұрын

@@emilysansone1861 me too

@frankgerlach5059

5 ай бұрын

@@emilysansone1861 when I saw him in Eugene, Oregun, The Grateful Dead opened for him.

This song, and his others, send me back to my awakening years - in coastal California. I met a love then and Dylan’s songs were the soundtrack of our days and nights. A child was conceived and we were happy. Thanks for sharing his music.

Full Lyrics: Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet? We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it Lights flicker from the opposite loft In this room the heat pipes just cough The country music station plays soft But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off Just Louise and her lover so entwined And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the "D" train We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight Ask himself if it's him or them that's insane Louise, she's all right, she's just near She's delicate and seems like the mirror But she just makes it all too concise and too clear That Johanna's not here The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously And when bringing her name up He speaks of a farewell kiss to me He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall How can I explain? It's so hard to get on And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues You can tell by the way she smiles See the primitive wallflower freeze When the jelly-faced women all sneeze Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeez, I can't find my knees" Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him Sayin', "Name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him" But like Louise always says "Ya can't look at much, can ya man?" As she, herself, prepares for him And Madonna, she still has not showed We see this empty cage now corrode Where her cape of the stage once had flowed The fiddler, he now steps to the road He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed On the back of the fish truck that loads While my conscience explodes The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain

@anthonysutherland4108

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks James from Australia.

@abigailcaraballo2623

Жыл бұрын

Thank you - I am now discovering Mr. Dylan, so I appreciate your efforts !

@nelson2F

Жыл бұрын

What a treat to have the lyrics added -- thanks for doin' that.

@davidkoplitz1969

Жыл бұрын

Thank You from Minnesota ❤

@tenisalot

9 ай бұрын

Wow....almost better as pure poetry!!!

First heard this in rural Ireland in my teens in the 60's, blew my mind then, still does !

Came here to relax and listen to some good music and left with a Phd in literature. Visions of Johanna. Dylan plain and simple a masterpiece.

@hamidmusik7691

Жыл бұрын

❤

I'll never forget hearing this song for the first tine when I was fourteen, it was like a thunderclap in my brain

Another example of why Dylan is the greatest poet of his generation.

@karolk7711

4 ай бұрын

He isn't a poet he s a singer

@Broatch6

3 ай бұрын

Ain’t that the truth !

@GarySmith12-oe8cx

17 күн бұрын

Of all time

@GarySmith12-oe8cx

17 күн бұрын

​@karolk771hes known to be a fantastic poet of all time music

How can I explain? It's so hard to get on Whenever I listen to this song, these two lines resonate in my ears and I keep on repeating them all day long

"We sit here stranded, but we're all doing our best to deny it" So true.

Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo, "this is what salvation must be like after a while". But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues, you can tell by the way she smiled.

Besides enjoying listening to this wonderful song, I really love reading the comments that express so well many of my same feelings about the song and about Bob Dylan.

the most beautiful and elaborate song about obsession ever

@tomp189

4 ай бұрын

‘Every Breath You Take’ sinister but musically beautiful, that’s up there with this

"The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face." Whew! Nobel Prize right there, right there. And no need to try to figure it out; just let the imagery float through your mind . . .

@triplesevensix291

4 жыл бұрын

Is right!

@RobinMarkowitzcoolmedia

4 жыл бұрын

@@triplesevensix291 Thank you.

@Benjaminthemighty

3 жыл бұрын

What does that line mean

@RobinMarkowitzcoolmedia

3 жыл бұрын

@@Benjaminthemighty Impressionistic songwriting. You wouldn't have asked Van Gogh was a painting meant, would you?

@imperatorcaesardivifiliusa2158

3 жыл бұрын

@@RobinMarkowitzcoolmedia I probably would have because, even though paintings don't have a single "meaning," doesn't mean that there's no use in getting anybody else's interpretations

"We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it"

There is no doubt in my mind that Bob Dylan is a genius, perhaps the only one in my lifetime.

@Broatch6

3 ай бұрын

Ain’t that the truth ! But what about Bruce Springsteen

@martinnewtonholmes

3 ай бұрын

@@Broatch6 What about Paul McCartney ? (Ok ! Only joking)

@lightronv

13 күн бұрын

Jim Henson and Shigeru Miyamoto are there.

One of my all-time favourite Dylan songs. One of his absolute best.

Possibly the best song ever written.

@childofthe60s100

4 жыл бұрын

YES!!!!!! (and not even "possibly"!)

@ianjohnson3840

3 жыл бұрын

Bro not even the best dylan song. This record is great but very overrated

@samgilbert2928

2 жыл бұрын

You hedged with that first word.

@craig7437

2 жыл бұрын

This took my face off the first 15 20 times I listened to it can’t remember a other song doing that thank you Bob

@zivanajadresic8604

2 жыл бұрын

Ekul99 one of his many best.How can one pick which is the best when everytime you listen its the best

One of the most mystical songs ever recorded and the one that really kicks off the album and makes you go, woah that’s something different

“The ghost of ‘lectricity howls in the bones of her face” Definitely one of Bobs best lines. Tons of other lines to pick as his best, though. That’s what makes him special.

@Benjaminthemighty

3 жыл бұрын

What does it mean

@bendrescher7185

3 жыл бұрын

@@Benjaminthemighty it’s describing the beauty of the woman he’s talking about, you know what I’m trying to say? It’s like her face is so electrifying and beautiful.

@davetepl

Жыл бұрын

To me Dylan's use of the word "ghost" was essential to my interpretation of that line. By the way, that was the first line to jump out at me the very first time I heard the song. I was doing the exercise I imagine some of us do while purposely listening to a song, the exercise of tuning out the world and picking a spot to stare at, or even closing our eyes, until a line comes through and hits you, or nothing. If it does, you grab a hold on tight and go for a ride. Much like a tourist visiting San Francisco narrows their eyes as the cable car approaches and they look for that one pole that will most swiftly help them swish up onto the moving vehicle, and away they go. Digression notwithstanding though, jeepers. So, think of how 'lectricity, more specifically the electro-chemical event can shape a face in the moment. I'm often deeply mesmerized by the way Light reflects off the curves of the face of my love. Emotions explode, thoughts too, such as "so beautiful", "sexy!", "so damn adorable and cute", "lucky to witness this again and again, grateful down to my bones every single time." And that's just her smile. Every expression on her face created by the different combinations of 'lectricity sends me in a unique way. Now these things occur in the moment. A smile, a frown, a grimace, a glare, a silly face. But after many many occurrences, after a couple decades, the face begins to look like it's been doing a long- term audit of sorts, like skin cells on your cheeks that have been keeping tabs on UV rays. Which expression have we performed more than the others, way more? Lines. Lines and folds. They begin to tell a powerful story. The changes in her face is what I think Dylan is referring to here when he says the "ghost of 'lectricity". Or perhaps the current facial expression together with the "backstory". That was my first thought anyway. Take it for what it's worth, throw it out, do what thou wilt.

How do none of these newly posted songs have a million views yet? These are some of the most perfectly written songs of all time.

@Ptinski

5 жыл бұрын

#Mario I'm wondering about those 3 people who disliked this. Tells me that the right people aren't checking him out - many didn't know he was even loaded on KZread. For me, after over 50 years of Bob, I'm addicted.

@kc2094

5 жыл бұрын

They'll get views as time goes on, at least. Give it a few months and a few of them will have at least a million hopefully.

@laceyjackson6887

5 жыл бұрын

Most people can’t get em

@nitropost

5 жыл бұрын

@@kc2094 Give it a bit of time , a lot of fans do not know that mister D. is on line on YT, THIS WILL SPREAD LIKE WILD FIRE .

@imannonymous7707

5 жыл бұрын

Sigh, haters gonna hate

The opening line is just sublime...

This never gets old. I find something new every time I listen to this. A true masterpiece.

@herbertrichard614

2 жыл бұрын

The ghost of selfish howl in the bones America's face.

@thewilkyway

Жыл бұрын

@@herbertrichard614I’m 13 and this is deep.

Nobel prize? This song deserves it on its own.

@katherinekirkwood9632

4 жыл бұрын

yes the Nobel prize, for sure

@harrietbradley6496

3 жыл бұрын

So true . Sheer genius

@Lebeauski

3 жыл бұрын

Funny he didnt show up for the "prize".. Classic rebel.

“The ghost of electricity howl in the bones of her face.” Probably the most disturbingly beautiful thing ever conceived.

@lonecrapshooter67

5 жыл бұрын

Sheer brilliance . Best songwriting ever. Such genius.

@lonecrapshooter67

5 жыл бұрын

The inspiration for Stones Get Your YaYas Out cover

@billyraybar

4 жыл бұрын

Best me to it

@rafaelwillems3244

4 жыл бұрын

Most of all when you don't forget the s. It's something you wouldn't say to your worst enemy.

@binghamguevara6814

4 жыл бұрын

Why? Can you explain your interpretation of this line? I’m a Dylan fan but find this line boring.

How have I never heard this song before? My life is now changed.

@eisy1709

4 жыл бұрын

It's your song...Johanna.....

@innis52carra

4 жыл бұрын

You are obviously not a Dylan fan ..

@paulcohen665

4 жыл бұрын

this song should be so much better known.... one of my favorites... for decades! Fun to see people introduced to it in 2020, don't let it die!

@katherinekirkwood9632

4 жыл бұрын

Omg u are born again this is one of his GREATEST

@paulcohen665

4 жыл бұрын

now try this one, another unheralded GREAT Dylan song (the studio version is more polished but this bootleg live version is so intense and raw): kzread.info/dash/bejne/o4KZvLh8YtbUZKQ.html

This whole song blows my mind.

@tylerjames6842

4 жыл бұрын

blows your mind? what are you, 12?

@katherinekirkwood9632

4 жыл бұрын

I agree omg it's too much jewls & binnoculas hang from the neck of a mule LOL

@AA-sn9lz

3 жыл бұрын

Didn't you write it?

So pleased to see so many people still listening to this complete classic, the entire Album is pure genius and this track is the Diamond of them all

@triplesevensix291

4 жыл бұрын

My Ma had it on vinyl & I wore that fucking thing out. Loved the whole album but used to love playing obviously 5 believers while blasting my guitar playing along with those blistering stinging guitar lines! One of my fave L.P.s ever.

@mancmal

4 жыл бұрын

@@triplesevensix291 hope you still have such good taste 🎸🎼

@triplesevensix291

4 жыл бұрын

@@mancmal I do lad yeah. Is your logo a reference to Boddingtons by any chance? Going by your name see. Throwing out the olive branch...all the best from downtown Liverpool. Lol. Cheers our kid. ;) Have a sound weekend.

Greatest artist of the 20th century hands down.

in this song, each verse could be an entire film

@Broatch6

3 ай бұрын

Ain’t that the truth !

Exquisite contemporary poetry from a truly gifted writer.

What a stud he is: Thanks, Robert. "Show me a Man who's not a parasite, and I'll go out, and say a prayer for him. " There, we have it.

Weird to think my mom was still a baby when this album came out! Just shows how timeless Bob Dylan and his music is. It feels like whatever mood I'm in there's a Dylan song that fits it. Bravo Bob

@jesseblamey6494

4 жыл бұрын

jakjoi amen

@puri6546

3 жыл бұрын

I was a newborn baby, I had days... when this wonder came to light.

@trinidadapodaca7027

2 жыл бұрын

thats true

@carolynzaremba5469

Жыл бұрын

I was a freshman in college.

@opinion3742

Жыл бұрын

This song was already 12 years old when I first heard it - 3/4 of my life ago at the time.

I didn't own my first Dylan album (cd) until I was well into my mid to late 30's sometime in the 90's. As a Gen X teen I grew up knowing who Dylan was without ever hearing him apart from "Like A Rolling Stone" or "Knocking On Heaven's Door" occasionally being played on local radio. None of my friends owned any Dylan and this is way before internet, KZread or streaming so it was always word of mouth, magazine or by chance someone let you borrow it back in the day. That's how we found out about music that wasn't played on the radio, new or old. So I went on never listening to anything by him except what I may have heard on the radio...just another classic artist I took for granted. Little did I know I was missing only the most important figure ever in modern music. It took one listen to "Blonde On Blonde" and I knew I was listening to such greatness that I had never heard before.

@mumbles215

2 жыл бұрын

Same boat man. Born in the middle of the Xers, liked some of the radio Dylan, tangled up in blue was always a top song for me by any artist, but I too was late 20s when I “got” Dylan, I’ve nevwr looked back. A master I. The realm of the grass like Bach and Motzart. We are Blessed to love in his time.

The cymbal part is grossly underrated .

@willmurphy368

3 жыл бұрын

and the snare?

Perhaps the greatest song ever written among many other from Bob. What a masterpiece.

@imannonymous7707

5 жыл бұрын

How can you pick one with a cannon that could blow the H.M.S Britannia eight miles high

@replaybb

5 жыл бұрын

@@imannonymous7707 Agree. Long time ago, I stopped trying to rank Dylan's greatest songs. Simple exercise, write down what you think are his greatest 20 songs, look at it, then think of all the great songs not on the list.

@kerrybindon940

5 жыл бұрын

Its the peak of the peak sooooooooo entwined

@sup393

5 жыл бұрын

@@replaybb good exercise

@InAnotherLife90

5 жыл бұрын

@@replaybb Wiggle Wiggle

Every line is a masterpiece . Bob sure didn't waste any words.

@Carlossantanamusicinc

Жыл бұрын

Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here

After all these years This the original version is just incredible

Callander, Scotland, mid-80s.......we all have our times and places and this is mine with this song - an absolute masterpiece x

Best song to listen to drunk at 3 am.

@thesongtowoody

5 жыл бұрын

thank you for that!

@viviandarkbloom100

5 жыл бұрын

All of Blonde on Blonde works for that.

@ReshiramR52

5 жыл бұрын

Pledging my Time

@sparkyk5736

5 жыл бұрын

That would be THE END by The Doors!

@bergenman1000

5 жыл бұрын

@joseph stallings Their sending postcards of the hanging.

My favorite song of all time! The lyrics and his voice are sooooo perfect on this song

@ReshiramR52

5 жыл бұрын

Totally

@hoboscientist5651

5 жыл бұрын

the Belfast one is my favorite tho

@kerrybindon940

5 жыл бұрын

you are soooooo right

@yomama9567

5 жыл бұрын

Timeless perfection...

@AnaS-zc6ql

5 жыл бұрын

Mine too. This song is pure perfection ❤

The lyric "Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule" inspired the cover of the Stones best live album "Get Your Ya Ya's Out"

@derrydylanger8994

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/dp97o7uzpsrHg8o.html Thanks..I never knew that! Enjoy my cover!

@jlouis4407

Ай бұрын

Interesting!

@jaw444

Ай бұрын

i didn't know that. i always thought it was a great line, it symbolizes the gravity-free nature of the whole song. visions of johanna make it all seem so cruel

Absolutely fantastic 👏 👌 😀

His rasp voice on this one... so much his identity

@hippiecheezburger5457

4 жыл бұрын

It’s funny how people don’t like his voice lol that’s one of the reasons he’s so great, he has the voice of you and me, nothing fancy or special but what he says and how poetic his words are is the magic

@katherinekirkwood9632

4 жыл бұрын

I call it whining I adore it when he whines.

I concur, with those who ,by similar experiences, and sensibilities, consider this song to be a true song master's masterpiece

@littlehorhey5285

2 жыл бұрын

This was, without a doubt, the most stupendously, uncecessarily pretentious choice of phrase for a sentiment which can be enunciated far more saliently and concisely than you, dear sir, chose to do.

@herbertrichard614

2 жыл бұрын

The ghost of consumption howl in America;s face.

This song is my best friend when I'm really sad.

@dixonpinfold2582

4 жыл бұрын

Well, a _good_ friend. And of long standing.

@johncallsen8484

2 ай бұрын

Me too my friend

These visions of Johanna are now all that remain... Gets me every time.

There will never be another Dylan...I have seen him in concert back in the day, he is mesmerizing almost God like.

But Mona Lisa must have had those highway blues you can tell by the way she smiles

@natesmith6924

5 жыл бұрын

yes, Nat King Cole had a hit about how many were trying to explain the smile, and that snotty kid cones along and sings "But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues You can tell by the way she smiles tell by the way she smiles" and in one fell swoop he killed them philosophers all.

@ronnieguitar99

4 жыл бұрын

Mona Lisa and the Highway Blues Band

@Contractnik

4 жыл бұрын

Sends chills every time. And Jerry Garcia used to hit that line beautifully on the live Dead cover.

@Reymundodonsayo

4 жыл бұрын

Hear the mustached one say geez I can’t find my knees

@katherinekirkwood9632

4 жыл бұрын

LMAO

For years I used to wake up and first thing put this song on. Glad to discover I’m not alone

One of the best song's ever written. Bob the genius.yours sincerely Gary Smith

@harrietbradley6496

3 жыл бұрын

Genius. The only one f our generation. Sheer brilliance

I'll tell the next generation proud that I have breathed the same air that bob dylan breathed.

@Ptinski

5 жыл бұрын

#Kundan aren't we exceptionally blessed? Ah yes.

@Poetically_Incorrect

5 жыл бұрын

@@Ptinski very indeed.

@jamesobrien7338

5 жыл бұрын

I saw Bob Dylan for my 17th Birthday in May 2017 and managed to get to front row in the encore, and feel lucky to have been in the same room let alone that close, not that I’m validating my experience by how close I was but seeing in person who I’ve listened to for so long does make it all a bit more real, but yeah agreed very lucky and proud indeed man

@Ptinski

5 жыл бұрын

@@jamesobrien7338 You really have a great memory there, James. Seeing him perform that close up, hearing those incredible lyrics, must've been amazing. Nice to hear from a Millenial who appreciates this troubadour genius poet. ✌♪

@kc2094

5 жыл бұрын

It's weird seeing him live. That's like "you know your ancestors saw Shakespeare a lot." except there's pictures and all

In my University we have to read him in our Lyric syllabus

dropping phrase after phrase..... one after another, concise yet deep insights into the plight of man & the times. dylan during this period was tapped into quite the river of creativity & insight. the guy was like a very sharp & wide prizm thru wh/ the culture passed thru & reflected back like a mirror into sharp spotlights of Truth about the condition known as life. one of americans greatest artist of thought in that era no doubt.

"Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet".... ok, sir, you've got my attention.

Little boy..lost, takes himself so seriuosly... Love Bob Dylan sooo!!

@Carlossantanamusicinc

Жыл бұрын

Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here

A classic, my first Dylan album when I turned 16 and still my favorite 35 years later.

@dixonpinfold2582

4 жыл бұрын

The very same tale here, but 38 in my case. An album staying that far aloft in one's mind and heart that long, that's legs. The real legs.

@larrylinn8589

4 жыл бұрын

@@dixonpinfold2582 I first started listening to Dylan in the early 1960’s, and today I still consider his entire career as a single piece of art with numerous facets.

@dixonpinfold2582

4 жыл бұрын

@@larrylinn8589 Good way of looking at it. I somehow bet he's the same person more than is typical (despite a major accident probably complete with concussion, as well as major drug use), as I think that's how it goes for strong personalities. In his Nobel acceptance shpiel I thought there were hints of boyishness. Cheers.

I love this song. You have to give tremendous credit to Al Cooper on the Hammond B3 organ, It really made the song with it's haunting sound.

Impeccable

Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues. You can tell by the way she smiles.

This song has probably more verses than all the pop songs went out in the 2020... that's the poverty of nowadays

@tonycox5625

3 жыл бұрын

And every verse is meaningful and not just trite shite!

@decaffeinatedafrican5997

3 жыл бұрын

Ok boomer

@niks7348

3 жыл бұрын

@@decaffeinatedafrican5997 Gen X... please...

@decaffeinatedafrican5997

3 жыл бұрын

@@niks7348 Ok

@matapichones

3 жыл бұрын

problem you're having is trying to find richness in pop.

"We sit here stranded; though we all are doing our best to deny it". Well, wasn't that 2020 in a nutshell...

I remember the first time I heard this.....I knew I’d stumbled onto a gem

Bob is so good that even if you don't care for folk music, his music is amazing. thank you Bob. First heard this song around 1982 when i was a teenager. Love it.

The man has book for a brain I could listen for a lifetime ✌🏻

He's real Genius, my fav album of all time. LOUISE!!!

Another masterpiece on Dylan’s masterpiece of an album. His best lp, in my uneducated opinion.

This is what salvation must be like after a while.

@imannonymous7707

5 жыл бұрын

Amen

@jjrwass

5 жыл бұрын

i'm waiting

@paranoidplane9799

5 жыл бұрын

I guess it would become boring after awhile

@bikingfencer

4 жыл бұрын

infinity goes up on trial

My favorite song ever. It brings me back to my childhood in the late 60's at our apartment in Washington Heights, NYC, where the heat pipes did cough, and all-night girls whispered of escapades out on the D train.

@646oleg

2 жыл бұрын

late 70s graffiti covered D train 4 am in the morning at the Canal street, after crazy parties at the Madd club and CBGB

"Visions of Johanna" captures the eyes-wide-shut, scarcely breathing atmosphere of 3 a.m. stasis perfectly. the poetics, the allusions and surreal imagery ---lights flicker heat pipes cough, music plays soft, nothing (no, really) to turn off -- the multiple narrative voices and POV's -- it's sublime: it's Dylan at his poetic peak, that "thin, wild mercury sound" curled around the characters, as well as my favorite lyric line in all of his music: "The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face."

@kelvinkloud

4 жыл бұрын

the band helped a lot too.

@richardfodor3498

4 жыл бұрын

@@kelvinkloud ..sounds like shoveling snow

@Benjaminthemighty

3 жыл бұрын

What does that line mean

@ferociousgumby

3 жыл бұрын

@@Benjaminthemighty Think "Bride of Frankenstein" - SHE'S ALIVE!!!!!

@ferociousgumby

3 жыл бұрын

Followed by Frankenstein, i. e. My Own Version of You.

At 15 years old I bought my first LP record Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits ... hours listening with my first boyfriend my first love...we married we both loved Bob and listens to many of his albums...when my marriage ended I was heartbroken.Could not listen to Bob for many years. But now 50 years later I can listen again. X

@steelyman08

4 жыл бұрын

I know that feeling. Same happened to me, but with a different band. Literally took years! But losing Dylan's a big deal! Glad you got him back (-;

@jesuisravi

4 жыл бұрын

I can relate.

@kikenobel8724

4 жыл бұрын

Gracias por compartir tu experiencia. No eres la única. Si DYLAN estuvo en todos nuestros momentos (buenos y malos) entonces si existe la fidelidad. Saludos

@rolandoaponte214

4 жыл бұрын

I also bought my first Dylan album at 15 years old, when the Columbia House Catalogue offered 12 albums for 1 cent (if I recall well)... it blew my mind! (the Columbia offer not the album...LOL!!!!!!)

@thesongtowoody

4 жыл бұрын

yeah!!!!