How Bob Dylan Mocked the Press

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00:00 Intro
02:18 Title Card
02:25 Who is Mr. Jones?
03:54 The Press
04:16 Setting the Scene
05:23 Confusion
06:07 Others and Fakery
07:40 Homoeroticism
08:31 Metaphor for Art
09:37 Conclusion

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  • @colinr4860
    @colinr48604 жыл бұрын

  • @rivelman23

    @rivelman23

    4 жыл бұрын

    colin r how times have changed

  • @mahatmaniggandhi2898

    @mahatmaniggandhi2898

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@rivelman23 😂😂😂 its still a good answer rn you just make reporters run for their life

  • @st.beatles7283

    @st.beatles7283

    3 жыл бұрын

    This aged like a fine wine

  • @johnconway9882

    @johnconway9882

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@st.beatles7283 Repackaged of course

  • @metallicka1262
    @metallicka12623 жыл бұрын

    The clip of Bob Dylan getting off his plane with a camera and taking photos of the paparazzi that are taking pictures of him always cracks me up

  • @blindboygrunt7711

    @blindboygrunt7711

    Жыл бұрын

    Is that on KZread?

  • @CarlosEduardo-nb4we

    @CarlosEduardo-nb4we

    Жыл бұрын

    sourcee

  • @angryhobo212
    @angryhobo2124 жыл бұрын

    Last time I was this early to a video, Dylan hadn't gone electric yet

  • @lagunacinematics

    @lagunacinematics

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@terrimy3402 same

  • @tylercooper1551

    @tylercooper1551

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lame attention grabbing post... annoying

  • @angryhobo212

    @angryhobo212

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@tylercooper1551 Who cares? I happened to see this video a minute after it was posted, I made a silly joke about it. No reason to get worked up about it mate, you're the one who wasted your time responding to it :)

  • @jabba820

    @jabba820

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@tylercooper1551 dude u suck

  • @fidelpetroupoli

    @fidelpetroupoli

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@tylercooper1551 You are an idiot and with an undeserved pomposity

  • @MrFrogOfficial
    @MrFrogOfficial4 жыл бұрын

    I've always seen the sword-swallower as Dylan himself. Kneeling down to the media at first so he could use their voice (or throat). He then took it and used it to speak and get his ideas out into the world. Then when he was all done with it, he asks them how it feels, making them think about something real. After that he dropped the media and went on to use his own throat; "here is your throat back, thanks for the loan."

  • @filthyphillyboy

    @filthyphillyboy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Makes sense.

  • @ArtScienceWonder

    @ArtScienceWonder

    Жыл бұрын

    I think you're right.

  • @danmillward3480

    @danmillward3480

    8 ай бұрын

    Mr Jones was probably gay...I think that's all it means...he probably remembers some uptight fake pressing dylan with questions that showed he wasn't really interested in dylan as an artist just was on a job to wrote about him..looking for a a scoop butting having to pick out the bones as dylan says...he was probably a bit camp and dylan wanted to make sure the person knew who the song was about without giving to much away to anybody else...

  • @Unseen_warfare.

    @Unseen_warfare.

    7 ай бұрын

    He was a male prostitute on drugs before he became a folk singer.

  • @chadzagunis331
    @chadzagunis3314 жыл бұрын

    Should have shown the clip when Dylan was asked if he thought of himself as a singer or a poet. Dylan’s response - “I consider myself more of a song and dance man”

  • @fionakeziah9992

    @fionakeziah9992

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thought about the same, the very moment the famous interview had been shown:)

  • @aaronquist8125

    @aaronquist8125

    3 жыл бұрын

    That always kills me lol.

  • @yardarm5

    @yardarm5

    3 жыл бұрын

    Victoria contract finalized

  • @orangesurfboard2238

    @orangesurfboard2238

    5 ай бұрын

    He was being serious too, but everyone laughed.

  • @torstein100288
    @torstein1002884 жыл бұрын

    The more dylan content you have the more respect you get👍👍👍

  • @JerryGarciaPOBox

    @JerryGarciaPOBox

    3 жыл бұрын

    I second that. More 72-74 Grateful Dead

  • @greenvelvet

    @greenvelvet

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's just basic science

  • @hippiecheezburger5457
    @hippiecheezburger54574 жыл бұрын

    Bob Dylan aside from being a songwriter and performer is such an interesting figure of the 20th Century, I love the Beatles but he is something totally different on his own, it’s really quite something. The way that he can paint a picture of a fictionalized version of himself in songs like this is so ahead of its time for me

  • @isidora2205
    @isidora22054 жыл бұрын

    Love him. He's just genius.

  • @keithw453

    @keithw453

    4 жыл бұрын

    Bob Dylan or the creator of this video (I believe his name is Greg Polyphonic)

  • @fivecitydirttracker4776

    @fivecitydirttracker4776

    4 жыл бұрын

    Seen him answer/say " I'm Bob Dylan when I have to be. I'm myself the rest of the time".

  • @meow7791

    @meow7791

    4 жыл бұрын

    True, he’s an absolute archetype for the generation that came after him. And Dylan’s ok.

  • @tommyroseguitar4557

    @tommyroseguitar4557

    4 жыл бұрын

    And always ahead of everyone, lol....

  • @IJustHitTheFan
    @IJustHitTheFan4 жыл бұрын

    Lou reed also played with the press a lot. Some of his early interviews are epic.

  • @dvt1393

    @dvt1393

    4 жыл бұрын

    As did The Beatles. They did it in a more playful and mischievous way, but they were still all incredibly quick-witted and made the stuffy old journalist look really dumb and lame.

  • @cantwait2997

    @cantwait2997

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lou Reed didn’t just play with them he tortured them

  • @mattgilbert7347

    @mattgilbert7347

    4 жыл бұрын

    Warhol-style.

  • @jordanhedington2421

    @jordanhedington2421

    3 жыл бұрын

    They never forgave us for what we did to Nagasaki

  • @elstonngunn4193

    @elstonngunn4193

    3 жыл бұрын

    They don’t beat Dylan

  • @sasquatchwizard
    @sasquatchwizard4 жыл бұрын

    Really love the aesthetic on this video dude

  • @peterc0358
    @peterc03584 жыл бұрын

    Polyphonic making a video about bob dylan? Liked already

  • @jessepinkeye2339

    @jessepinkeye2339

    4 жыл бұрын

    He made a lot of Dylan videos lmao, I think Dylan is his favorite subject.

  • @jessepinkeye2339

    @jessepinkeye2339

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Baron Butt tangled up in blue is the other vid he did, I mistook him for another youtuber who also made a Dylan video, I thought he made 3 lmao my bad.

  • @quadeca5617

    @quadeca5617

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jessepinkeye2339 what's the name of the other KZread channel?

  • @jessepinkeye2339

    @jessepinkeye2339

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@quadeca5617 Nerdwriter1. great channel. they're focusing mostly on movies and other forms of media and rarely on music. He deconstructs the philosophy of the subjects.

  • @quadeca5617

    @quadeca5617

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jessepinkeye2339 nerdwriter1 only make 1 video of bob

  • @jonnuanez2843
    @jonnuanez28434 жыл бұрын

    " Mr Jones" is a generality. Dylan was always talking about society. Mr Jones is a common name, someone on one "side" of society...a square, not hip. Dylan was the New Voice. Not necessarily just a blanket "other side", but more as a reporter of the burgeoning Youth Movement. The press was naive at this time, old school. It could have been Mr. Smith. But phonetically, Jones just sounds better to use.

  • @cosmicostrich3657
    @cosmicostrich36574 жыл бұрын

    I always feel like Polyphonic looks at my recently listened to and then makes a video. Ballad of a Thin Man has been on heavy rotation recently and I love this song. Good video as always

  • @edmundramsey2453
    @edmundramsey24534 жыл бұрын

    back when artists, musicians and actors did not tow the line of the media

  • @anonymous4142

    @anonymous4142

    4 жыл бұрын

    Bob towed the line . It’s just in different ways.

  • @terrybono5995
    @terrybono59954 жыл бұрын

    the eagle picks my eyes, worms they lick my bones feel so suicidal just like Dylans Mr. Jones

  • @aliviamason533

    @aliviamason533

    3 жыл бұрын

    i dont know if this is another song or something you wrote but either way, i really like it

  • @terrybono5995

    @terrybono5995

    3 жыл бұрын

    Alivia Mason John Lennon wrote it During his heroin phase

  • @aliviamason533

    @aliviamason533

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@terrybono5995 Thank you!

  • @terrybono5995

    @terrybono5995

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@aliviamason533 you're welcome the song title is YER BLUES kzread.info/dash/bejne/enmFs49qoseacZM.html and a special rendition with his friends eric clapton keith richards and mitch mitchell kzread.info/dash/bejne/fJl62cOQdretibg.html

  • @leonch305
    @leonch3054 жыл бұрын

    When I listened to this song the first time it hit me like a brick. Some of the greatest rock and roll writing out there

  • @TomSzold
    @TomSzold4 жыл бұрын

    Could you make a video about Rory Ghallagher? I think that’d be awesome!

  • @Bubby-vc5fv
    @Bubby-vc5fv4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this. Ballad of a Thin Man is my all time favorite Dylan song

  • @johnmcclellan9020
    @johnmcclellan90203 жыл бұрын

    The complete works of Bob Dylan is staggering. No one wrote songs as good or original as Dylan. He is in a category of his own no one else comes close not even Cohen or Mitchell.

  • @mattmiller4917

    @mattmiller4917

    Жыл бұрын

    Maybe, but Mitchell's run of albums in the 70s is a better five album run than Dylan ever had.

  • @Chapps1941

    @Chapps1941

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@Matt Miller Dylan 7 in a row. Plus Mitchell went Jazz so that precludes some albums. Jazz is a despicable form of music.

  • @saanjalyvaishnav695
    @saanjalyvaishnav6954 жыл бұрын

    I'm a simple woman. I saw Bob Dylan and I clicked

  • @ainh2219

    @ainh2219

    4 жыл бұрын

    same

  • @rickyspanish3053

    @rickyspanish3053

    4 жыл бұрын

    Boomer moment

  • @tomthumb24054

    @tomthumb24054

    4 жыл бұрын

    Just like a woman.

  • @kowalskimadagascar5613

    @kowalskimadagascar5613

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ricky Spanish Sa

  • @AA-sn9lz

    @AA-sn9lz

    4 жыл бұрын

    Does a simple woman look for a simple man?

  • @charleselmore4707
    @charleselmore47074 жыл бұрын

    Wow, the look and style of your videos have really gotten sophisticated

  • @InDeepSmit
    @InDeepSmit4 жыл бұрын

    Awesome! This song always felt, to me, like Dylan had just finished Naked Lunch and was using that “twisted-circus” setting to make the Mr. Jones character feel dizzy and lost. It feels so hot and hazy, I can smell the smoke in the room.

  • @jesseterpstra5472
    @jesseterpstra54724 жыл бұрын

    Being that Dylan is still living, I can't help but wonder what he thinks of your analysis...

  • @latrellsprewell653

    @latrellsprewell653

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jesse Terpstra he would completely disagree with all of it. LOL that’s why I love Dylan

  • @myhatmygandhi6217

    @myhatmygandhi6217

    2 жыл бұрын

    He told me to tell you that he kind of likes it because it keeps people confused, his words not mine.

  • @paulcurran4786

    @paulcurran4786

    8 ай бұрын

    He'd say something like "oh look, Mr Jones is trying to figure out who Mr Jones is" 🪞

  • @kebab_boi
    @kebab_boi4 жыл бұрын

    Wait how are you still on 500K subs only? You deserve more than a million. I love your content

  • @CapybaraEnjoyer95
    @CapybaraEnjoyer954 жыл бұрын

    "His movement" Dylan was insistant that he didn't belong to any movement.

  • @parkermaciejewski4671
    @parkermaciejewski46714 жыл бұрын

    I really like your channel. I can tell you are very passionate about music (as am I) and you do a great job of explaining music and its backstories. Keep up the good work!

  • @louiebellas
    @louiebellas4 жыл бұрын

    The sword-swallower line is so clever. Mr Jones had loaned his throat (perhaps a metaphor for something else) without realising. The Sword-swallower, having slashing up the insides of it with swords, (again, metaphor) gives it back, and only then Mr Jones realises he's been out done by the younger, smarter, freaky generation of the 1960s. That's how I've always imagined it.

  • @leo-1671

    @leo-1671

    4 жыл бұрын

    Always heard it as “are you still speechless? You can speak if you like. Have you nothing left to say now?”

  • @orangesurfboard2238

    @orangesurfboard2238

    5 ай бұрын

    The pen is mightier than the sword? The sword swallower might be the artist who is using the media as a mouthpiece to spread the word? Maybe?

  • @jacobmuller8586
    @jacobmuller85864 жыл бұрын

    Went to a concert in Kilkenny, Ireland, with Young and Dylan and he opened with this song. The ground shook and people roared it was incredible

  • @henryhoudini

    @henryhoudini

    4 жыл бұрын

    I was there too. Dylan and his band gave us an absolute masterclass in American music. Fantastic show. I couldn't believe how good he was at 78 years old.

  • @CipherSerpico
    @CipherSerpico4 жыл бұрын

    I feel like all you need in life is The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Sam Cooke, Neil Young ... and someone to listen to them with.

  • @leo-1671

    @leo-1671

    4 жыл бұрын

    And pink Floyd.

  • @CipherSerpico

    @CipherSerpico

    4 жыл бұрын

    Leo - I think I’m gonna listen to Dark Side of the Moon since you said that.

  • @themightygalactus8865

    @themightygalactus8865

    4 жыл бұрын

    Santana

  • @Chapps1941

    @Chapps1941

    Жыл бұрын

    There's a few others too but those are definite "ins" for me.

  • @robertortiz-wilson1588

    @robertortiz-wilson1588

    7 ай бұрын

    Lol no.

  • @the_original_Bilb_Ono
    @the_original_Bilb_Ono4 жыл бұрын

    I love music. I'm 25 and every year of my life i have appreciated music more and more, and now i make my own music. Life without music isnt worth living in my opinion. Music has literally saved my life in more than one way. I see my friends and family talk about or listen to music in such an unaffected and stoic manner compared to me. It's like some people just don't hear good music the way others do. I think to some music is an addictive drug, whereas to some it's just catchy noises.

  • @arutzuki2491

    @arutzuki2491

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's how interests work

  • @elliotlofi

    @elliotlofi

    4 жыл бұрын

    i feel like music is a drug too, and sometimes my only coping mechanism. i think what brings me towards dylan is i can relate to the melancholy in his soul

  • @edwardlagrossa1246

    @edwardlagrossa1246

    4 жыл бұрын

    Without music, life would be a mistake - Friedrich Nietzsche

  • @asarogers5786

    @asarogers5786

    4 жыл бұрын

    my goodness you are condescending

  • @the_original_Bilb_Ono

    @the_original_Bilb_Ono

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@asarogers5786 me? All im saying is that many people are seemingly less affected by music than others. Do you not agree? I was pointing out how strange it is that the music is being heard the same, but it is perceived different. My siblings for example admit that they may go all week without playing music and they don't know but a hand full of artist and thats only because they are trending in the top 10 right now. Its a good thing we all have different interest and taste. I was simply thinking out loud because this video inspired me to think about variations in musical taste. I'm not implying that music people are objectively superior humans. I didnt intend to come off condescending.

  • @thegood9
    @thegood94 жыл бұрын

    You just keep getting better and better. Love your videos!

  • @silversam
    @silversam3 жыл бұрын

    Mr Jones is an institution asking questions that lead nowhere while actively (if unconsciously) working to fetishize the freaks, and Mr Jones is a freak who refuses to face himself and come out of denial. I dig it, and this probably explains why I like the song so much more now than I used to.

  • @DanFernandesBenficaSaint

    @DanFernandesBenficaSaint

    2 жыл бұрын

    So not the devil then? 😂 wow you have much to learn.

  • @silversam

    @silversam

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@DanFernandesBenficaSaint lol K PS you don't know me at all

  • @jacobdesmond1522
    @jacobdesmond15224 жыл бұрын

    One day someone will do a video on Polyphonic because these videos are great. I’m trying to learn about music and interesting stories and moments and you’ve summed them up cleanly and beautifully. Please. Don’t stop.

  • @jacksongallati3060
    @jacksongallati30602 жыл бұрын

    To this day, this remains one of your strongest pieces...I come back to it every so often and get more out of each time!! I think Dylan brings out the best in you; although I love all your Led Zeppelin pieces as well. Can sense your passion and you clearly have thought long and hard about it---keep up the good work!!(and Dylan content;)!!!

  • @mma1st105
    @mma1st1054 жыл бұрын

    You're content is always top notch! Thanks dude.

  • @safespacebear
    @safespacebear4 жыл бұрын

    Been a Dylan fan for 25 years and know most of his songs by heart but the number of them where I'm sure what I know what he's talking about is probably in the single digits. It's stream of consciousness poetry that's beautiful and I don't try to dissect it. Some lines I hear for years and they just pass thru my brain w/o making contact and then something in my life will happen, a new experience and then the next time I hear that "nonsense lyric" I burst out laughing coz I finally have something to associate it with. I still don't think it means "I've understood what he was talking about" only that I finally related to something he said in a song.

  • @ffm595
    @ffm5954 жыл бұрын

    You've just got yourself a new subscriber, love your work!

  • @KamasiFitzgerald
    @KamasiFitzgerald4 жыл бұрын

    you are killing it upload after upload dude, well done

  • @ethanrummel7638
    @ethanrummel76384 жыл бұрын

    I didn't know the history to this song, but it has long been my favorite songs of Dylan's. Thanks for shedding some light!!!

  • @allanpty777
    @allanpty7774 жыл бұрын

    Really enjoy watching your videos man! Lots of insight. I know it might be an ambitious task but In My Time of Dying by Led is downright my favorite song by them & filled with imagery you could play with! Love it man, thanks!!

  • @t-annerragweed2291
    @t-annerragweed22914 жыл бұрын

    I've been waiting so long for this episode!!

  • @FilmflickerCinema
    @FilmflickerCinema4 жыл бұрын

    Damn, you're a great essayist. Another masterpiece. I would LOVE to see you do a video on Tom Waits or Ween.

  • @FilmSwitch
    @FilmSwitch4 жыл бұрын

    Reminds me of sick-of-the-press NBA players

  • @fromthebackseat4865
    @fromthebackseat48654 жыл бұрын

    You should do a vid on Phil Ochs. Really interesting guy.

  • @Simon-lh5pc
    @Simon-lh5pc4 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting video, but could you do a video about Woody Guthrie?

  • @LK_Ireland

    @LK_Ireland

    4 жыл бұрын

    Simon Schoeters Yes, do a video on Woody, my grandfather knew him in the late 20s maybe early 30s in Okema Oklahoma where Woody grew up.. I have a rich memory of my mother making me listen to a phone call recorded from the John Birch society talking about Woodys communist affiliations, she was angry with them, although Woody certainly was a Communist in the 1930s.. My grandmother was also close to Woodys sister. A true American icon his music and ideology that was inspired during the depression is a true contribution to our culture.

  • @dwc1964

    @dwc1964

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@LK_Ireland "I ain't a Communist, necessarily, but I've been in the red all my life." - this quote was first presented to me as him denying being a Communist, but the qualifier, " _necessarily_ ", sounds to me like a winking confirmation.

  • @bradwestwood746

    @bradwestwood746

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@dwc1964 to add apparently this was said a sentence or two before "Left wing, right wing, chicken wing - it's the same thing to me,"

  • @ThatOneGuy7550

    @ThatOneGuy7550

    4 жыл бұрын

    omg yessss

  • @musamusashi
    @musamusashi2 жыл бұрын

    One of my two favorite Dylan's songs, was also very much loved by Huey Newton and the Black Panthers' commanders who, allegedly, wrote their programme to its soundtrack.

  • @mikeymorrison272
    @mikeymorrison2724 жыл бұрын

    Loved the video. Bob Dylan is a favorite of mine. Also a video request I have is on Kendrick's To Pimp A Butterfly album. Favorite rapper right now.

  • @briank8809
    @briank88094 жыл бұрын

    I love your videos, but I also like to imagine that sometimes the artist actually didn't carefully craft their song to have a complicated poetical meaning and that they just thought it sounded good. I once went to a modern art museum and took a tour where the artist was present. after talking about one of his pieces and explaining all of the emotional baggage behind it, the tour guide asked the artist if he was correct. The artist answered with "No, it just looked good, so I kept it." I like to think that sometimes music is the same way, and artists just use peoples interpretations as a meaning so people stop asking about it. Led Zepplin's "Stairway to Heaven" for example, I always kind of thought that they might have put a message in that song, but it was mostly just a song that sounded good. That's why I always find it almost funny when I see people analyzing any form of art. That said, I really do love your videos, you clearly are well-read and know what you're talking about.

  • @NaFran49

    @NaFran49

    Жыл бұрын

    Well, it's true what you said but if there's ever a song in Dylan's work that does not fit the "just sounds good" it's Mr Jones.....lol Besides I think the "oh there's no meaning at all" take is as much an interpretation of the artist's intentions as any other even though it's normally thought to be "neuter" or "truer".

  • @TeamPill
    @TeamPill4 жыл бұрын

    If I'm understanding this correctly, these reporters were trying to understand Dylan almost as anthropologists, but were taking an ethnocentric approach (or etic vs emic approach if you know the vocabulary). Interesting application here; nice video.

  • @markearnestfromreno613
    @markearnestfromreno6134 жыл бұрын

    Another great one, sir! Of course, he became prescient as well, when in the live version he changed the last line to make Mr. Jones at all times wear a telephone!

  • @orkut37
    @orkut374 жыл бұрын

    Was eagerly waiting for another Dylan video. Do make more

  • @cryaesthetic3603
    @cryaesthetic36034 жыл бұрын

    These vids are beautifully mad dude! Keep it up

  • @colinwilliams553
    @colinwilliams5533 жыл бұрын

    The piano part from "I believe to my soul" by Ray Charles so that's where Dylan came up with the piano dirge part that he plays on "Ballard of a thin man" and I also love the analyg of the song I have highway 61 revisited on CD where that song is from.love the references and the phrasing of the lyrics.DYLAN IS THE MAN!!! Thanks for the info about the song.

  • @sirIancarter
    @sirIancarter4 жыл бұрын

    Another fantastic video. Thanks for your work!

  • @ramona.vargas7298
    @ramona.vargas72984 жыл бұрын

    This my Favorite of his Works, It's Dark Vibe, & Rag Time/Blues Piano are what I strive for on the Keys..

  • @jpetersgoyanks
    @jpetersgoyanks4 жыл бұрын

    That’s a tack piano Dylan is playing. That’s a a standard piano with tacks applied to the hammers inside to create a more metallic sound that eliminates the sustain.

  • @eduardocarvalho5824
    @eduardocarvalho58244 жыл бұрын

    your videos are freaking great!

  • @jonathangathercole8228
    @jonathangathercole82284 жыл бұрын

    Amazing video. An absolute joy to watch

  • @ryanteixeira2695
    @ryanteixeira26954 жыл бұрын

    This was great! I was just thinking that you should put out another Dylan video 2 days ago and then "Oh hey look...!"

  • @timeslikethese52
    @timeslikethese524 жыл бұрын

    some of the best videos on the internet right now thanks for another great video

  • @pistolpete6321
    @pistolpete63214 жыл бұрын

    Very informative and interesting, well done!

  • @ThatOneGuy7550
    @ThatOneGuy75504 жыл бұрын

    Love the last Dylan video, loved this one as well!

  • @elmadrista1298
    @elmadrista12984 жыл бұрын

    My TOP 5 Dylan Songs: 5. Jokerman 4. As i went out one morning 3. Changing of the guards 2. One more cup of coffee 1. Ballad of a thin man

  • @bennymalone

    @bennymalone

    4 жыл бұрын

    My 5 and 3 are the same!

  • @LordDragon1965

    @LordDragon1965

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sorry, I GOTTA have Hurricane in there

  • @Amquacktador

    @Amquacktador

    4 жыл бұрын

    What about "masters of war"? It's a gem

  • @Theimbennn

    @Theimbennn

    4 жыл бұрын

    changing of the guards is a absolute masterpiece of a song

  • @bennymalone

    @bennymalone

    4 жыл бұрын

    I Shall Be Released Mr. Tambourine Man Tangled Up In Blue - also probably the greatest song ever!

  • @chiopix2
    @chiopix24 жыл бұрын

    Bob Dylan made it quite clear what he thought about the press in "Idiot Wind".

  • @dylandream2248

    @dylandream2248

    4 жыл бұрын

    I believe the song had a lot to do with Sara

  • @jacobmuller8586

    @jacobmuller8586

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yea... bad reading lmao

  • @alekseycalvin534

    @alekseycalvin534

    4 жыл бұрын

    What "chiopix2" is probably referring to is Idiot Wind's opening verses. Dylan storms into the song with a dryly ironic mini-rant, whereby he caricatures the scandalizing faux-exposés of tabloid press, even while slightly humoring it by framing the song's first "persona" voice as a sort of villainized celebrity outlaw: "Someone's got it in for me; They're planting stories in the press! Whoever it is, I wish they'd cut it out quick. But when they will, I can only guess! They say I shot a man named Gray And took his wife to Italy. She inherited a million bucks. And when she died, it came to me..." Of course, if we were to take some presumed literal interpretation of these lines as being directly autobiographical, then Dylan would be technically "exaggerating", himself serving up "distorted facts" ("fake news"?). Yet, since it is hardly ambiguous that the songwriter had indeed remained by the mid 1970's a frequent target of overzealous media scrutiny - sometimes consisting of wild guesses and even outright fabrications - it is difficult to call his attitude quite "paranoid" either. Arguably, this odd tension between the simultaneous air of fanciful extravagance and of real palpability within his opening rant is just one of many levels of tension Dylan seems to set up... in the first verse alone! And the way some of this tension is resolved by the verse's "punchline" of "I can't help it if I'm lucky!" is merely a further testament to Dylan's crafty prowess. And, in any case: yes, he Is indeed talking about the press here. Nevertheless, Dylan being Dylan, even when he's talking about the press, he's not Only talking about the press. Specifically, he is also using the press here as a way to frame another discourse; namely, one concerned with his marriage. At select points of the song, Dylan does seem to use his 'song persona" to speak directly To his wife. So, both commenters are correct. And Dylan here is speaking about the press And about Sara. Yet, even to say that the song is an address to Sara would be over-reductive. Sure, Jacob Dylan's famous musing that songs on "Blood on the Tracks" are his "parents talking" seems most apt in reference to "Idiot Wind". However, one of the great things about this album is that, even if this is correct to some degree and even if this serves as the central expressive "intention" of the song as a whole, it still does not work as a "skeleton key" to every line. Because it is not just Dylan talking to his wife. Rather, it is both of them talking to each other! Indeed, the song's perspective seems to shift between different speakers from verse to verse. And whenever Dylan sings "you", the pronoun refers to different people throughout the song. Sometimes it's him speaking to Sara. Sometimes it's Sara speaking to him. Sometimes it might be a character from a movie or a book. Sometimes a sort of a dream or imaginary self ("the murderous outlaw" aka "righteous defender of truth" certainly makes reappearances). During one of the rare instances when Dylan allows himself to talk somewhat openly about the specificities of his craft (was it in Chronicles?), he provides a sizable hint as to his own methodology in writing "Blood on the Tracks": he compares the album to a Chekhov play. This may seem confusing to some people. As if Dylan is merely putting us on. Isn't he know for that sort of thing? Indeed he is. Always hiding his tracks! (Though not quite because there's blood on them. More like magic. Is he maybe afraid to jinx his own creative muse?). However, despite Dylan's real slipperiness, in this instance, I do imagine that he is being earnest. Whenever I really let myself stop and think about the lyrics at length, I am struck by how various lines throughout the album seem to relate to each other, by how they "talk" not only to the listener, but also "among themselves". As such, I've come to consider "Blood on the Tracks" to be one on the more complexely and innovatively "theatrical" of Dylan's albums. Something that gives even more credence to such an interpretation of Dylan's lyrical method with "Blood on the Tracks" is even a cursory glance at where the songwriter took his art next. After all, it's a well known fact that Dylan pursued his exploration of this "song as mini play" mode even further, when he was writing his follow-up to "Blood on...": "Desire". Dylan cowrote the latter with his friend Jacques Levy, a seasoned playwright and theater director. I suppose, after having been thrust into a life where he was constantly surrounded by people who wouldn't know "how to act" around him, it may have seemed to Dylan like a wise move to turn his song world into a sort of a semi-secreted metaphorical theater stage, one where real life and artifice would fuse together and begin to echo and quote each other. And if, per one of Dylan's many heroes - Shakespeare, all the world is indeed a stage and everyone mere players, then perhaps, by trying to make a theatre of his art and life alike, Dylan hoped that people around him might, at the very least, feel more inclined to let themselves grow into better actors. Whatever his real private reasons, the 1970s was when Dylan the actor-singer-poet had suddenly become a playwright as well. Moreover, soon after that he would expand his already long list of creative roles even further, adding to it the role of a film and a theater director (see Rolling Thunder Revue and "Renaldo and Clara").

  • @jacobmuller8586

    @jacobmuller8586

    4 жыл бұрын

    You know what... that was an enlightening and downright impressive reply. My mind was changed well done sir 👍

  • @smallnuts2

    @smallnuts2

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dylandream2248 song Sara, idiot wind and sad eye lady

  • @ethanjull7694
    @ethanjull76944 жыл бұрын

    Hands down, best music video essays on the internet

  • @JNava
    @JNava4 жыл бұрын

    Then who is Mr. Jones in the Counting Crows song? Where Dylan is even mentioned in

  • @darkkiss7247

    @darkkiss7247

    4 жыл бұрын

    Great question.

  • @girlspooptoo8567

    @girlspooptoo8567

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mr. Jones was one of Adam's friends that was also in a band. If I am remembering correctly. Have a good one

  • @daishoryujin95

    @daishoryujin95

    3 жыл бұрын

    He's the bassist.

  • @orvarstenberg8438
    @orvarstenberg84384 жыл бұрын

    Incredible timing!

  • @boogiman007
    @boogiman0074 жыл бұрын

    This is probably my all time favorite Dylan song.. Thank you so much!!

  • @partin25
    @partin253 жыл бұрын

    Ballad of Hollis Brown or North Country Blues are definitely his darkest songs. This video was amazing. Thanks!! Keep em coming

  • @jackorion7157
    @jackorion71574 жыл бұрын

    Was literally just listening to Dylan! Love your videos

  • @emotionalfish1181
    @emotionalfish11814 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic breakdown of this tune man

  • @sifatshams1113
    @sifatshams11134 жыл бұрын

    Could you maybe do a video on all the strange, cryptic, abstract, and surreal lyrics of a lot of punk, indie, and alternative bands and artists. It's a surprisingly common and prevalent aspect of that particular kind of music and I almost never seem to hear anyone discuss it.

  • @nickgallo3020
    @nickgallo30204 жыл бұрын

    Visions of Johanna video please

  • @calvin7978
    @calvin79784 жыл бұрын

    Great video once again, Polyphonic. Is there a possibility you could make a video decoding 21st Century Breakdown (by Green Day)’s story?

  • @Br4ndonnnn
    @Br4ndonnnn3 жыл бұрын

    Amazing video !!!

  • @ksi8276
    @ksi82763 жыл бұрын

    Polyphonic so the nature force. I really appreciate your work man.

  • @EricMyles
    @EricMyles4 жыл бұрын

    Your Dylan videos are my favorite

  • @spaceghost8995
    @spaceghost89952 жыл бұрын

    I heard this song as a child through my older brothers. Just watching "Peaky Blinders" tonight and they are using a really good rendition of this song in an episode. I forgot how damn old this song is!

  • @lukedevlin45
    @lukedevlin454 жыл бұрын

    Always love your videos

  • @dls3939
    @dls39394 жыл бұрын

    Damnit what is that journalists name who went at him so harshly in No Direction Home, he was in London at the time. I feel pretty confident in saying that he was definately one of the inspirations for this track.

  • @richarddougherty9725
    @richarddougherty97254 жыл бұрын

    Great content, as always.

  • @TedKHole
    @TedKHole4 жыл бұрын

    Love the videos about Dylan, I’d love something about The Velvet Underground

  • @harryortiz9407
    @harryortiz94073 жыл бұрын

    Almost forgot to say I appreciate your interpretations and thank you for posting 💟

  • @jamievlogs7103
    @jamievlogs71034 жыл бұрын

    Very well put.

  • @datraucous3351
    @datraucous3351 Жыл бұрын

    I love how he trolled the media. They are even worse today!

  • @meyvaleroso3292
    @meyvaleroso32924 жыл бұрын

    Good lord dude you never fail to deliver great content

  • @T0STIST3R
    @T0STIST3R4 жыл бұрын

    Oh hell yeah! Love dylan content and definitely from your channel!

  • @NatriisDK
    @NatriisDK4 жыл бұрын

    You should make, a podcast Where you just upload the audio from your videos. Would love to listen to them while i work.

  • @LordDragon1965

    @LordDragon1965

    4 жыл бұрын

    I agree 100% but don't know how you'd make anything from it...

  • @MarcEtMichele
    @MarcEtMichele4 жыл бұрын

    Great video on probably my second favorite Dylan song.

  • @oleggorky906
    @oleggorky9062 жыл бұрын

    That’s cool! Somehow, even from the very first listen, I had always had this vision of ‘the thin man’ as being a member of the press.

  • @joaopinheiro9539
    @joaopinheiro95394 жыл бұрын

    I genuinely believe that this channel makes the best content on KZread. Not even joking

  • @gerardoleary9606
    @gerardoleary9606 Жыл бұрын

    Regarding the line, " you see somebody naked". Perhaps the person is not actually nude, but performing? Bob once said that when performing, the artist is naked. So maybe, mister Jones walks in with a pencil to do a review of a artist? An artist who is exposing his inner thoughts and feelings. And all mister Jones can think off asking is who is he?

  • @deannilvalli6579
    @deannilvalli65794 жыл бұрын

    Great graphics! Work perfectly.

  • @yardarm5
    @yardarm53 жыл бұрын

    Graphics winner n challenging Super summary 👌

  • @snugglyface7834
    @snugglyface78344 жыл бұрын

    This is so amazing, can youvplease make a video on blind willie mc'tell?

  • @inescapableisolation8844
    @inescapableisolation88444 жыл бұрын

    I would love it if you did Positively 4th Street soon. Dylan is absolutely brutal in that song.

  • @ChrisFP2
    @ChrisFP24 жыл бұрын

    Great work

  • @lookingforarlandria
    @lookingforarlandria4 жыл бұрын

    Hey man! Would love to buy merch because I dig your videos but how come the link doesn't work?

  • @FuckYouWhosNext
    @FuckYouWhosNext4 жыл бұрын

    one of my favorite Dylan songs!

  • @geozipper
    @geozipper4 жыл бұрын

    Excellent analysis. BTW, Tony Z (folksinger from 1995) revamped this song & called it "Ballad of A Dim Man." It was specifically written about Newt Gingrich. And every line in the verses rhymed with "newt." ("Newt, you're such a tiny, tiny little man..." was one aside that didn't rhyme... "but something is happening here & you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Newt?")