I love you guy’s interpretation of this song . I think you have it figured out out 👏🏽

Bob is a genius poet

Like, like, like, like. These guys are saying nothing. Go back to class, Dylan kicks the door open, and these clowns are just giggling. Feh.

you are just showing off your red nail polish....duh. Ok !

Bob does not say "like" in every sentence. No need for him to.

No artist has managed to be as convincing as Dylan, he convinces with one note more than others with theirs entire production.

Dylan once said in an interview to a comment about his voice; “I can hold a note longer than Mario Lanza”

Thank you! ‘Two Poets’

Please hear ‘Visions of Johana’ on the Blond on Blond album. Among my top five favorites.

So glad young people are seeing his gift to the world!

Bob Dylan…. The greatest of ALL time … A True Nobel Laureate …with me through my life … great times and the worst …. Long live Bob Dylan!

I relate so much with this ! I guess starting to talk with people about the art you did it's still vulnerable because of that.

One of the only bands that sounds "real"

World has not changed

,,,and what's crazy - he's got a bunch of songs that are just as good as this one. I honeslty think only Jason Isbell can match John Moreland's level these days!

Cool that you liked Dylan. A little advice if you want to hear it. You both said “like” like 50 times each. It makes your points almost unlistenable. It sounds childish. Good luck!

Thanks for your analysis. I think this song is a great example of where once an expert masters the “rules” of a particular field, he or she can break those rules to a memorable affect.

Your commentary ended well by citing the last stanza. The song represented his thought-dreams with Mad Libs words to escape the guillotine.

Great video, thanks. Always love listening to people’s thoughts on Dylan. But I think you miss the point a bit about his ‘singing’, when you say he needs his mic turning off. At that time everything in pop was decided by the labels. How the artist looked, what songs were on the album, who was writing the songs for the artist, everything. Not only did acts not have anything to ‘say’, they didn’t even really have a voice. A label would never put someone as a front man that wasn’t the best singer in the group. So here is Dylan creating the agency of the artist themselves. Showing that being a front man is about having something to say, not about how accomplished a singer you are. It wasn’t that Dylan couldn’t sing, it is that he was making a statement about the role of the ‘singer’ in a band. IMO this is his biggest contribution to music. Making pop music about the artist and their art, rather than radio friendly unit shifters.

2 self-acclaimed poets...

The first couple of verses in this are the best lines he ever wrote in my opinion. "Darkness at the break of noon / shadows even the silver spoon / the hand made blade, the child's balloon / eclipses both the sun and moon / To understand, you know too soon / there is no point in trying The fool's gold mouthpiece , the hollow horn / plays wasted words, proves to warn / that he not busy being born / is busy dying"

Try listening to "The Times are a Changin' ". It's at least as relevant today as the day it was written and will be for so long as humans exist.

Also there is another performance of this same poem called immortal by Rudy Francisco it’s slower you’d love it

I love him if you do more poetry may I recommend Alysia Harris Joshua Bennett really the whole Striver Row collective

You write the songs, you remember the lyrics....when you feel them. A wonderfully caustic dissection of the 'American dream'.

As far as memorizing & performing the lyrics without a glitch goes, even more impressive is the fact that it was in addition to the other hour or two’s worth of other complicated lyric laden songs he sung that evening as well‼️

You're exactly right. I saw a documentary with folk singers Bob sang with in Greenwich Village. They'd ask each other.."have you seen so-and-so and what did he have to say"? They always wrote songs with a message... 😅

Loved your analysis. I became a huge Dylan fan several years ago and I'll try not to ramble... He didn't want to write Tarantula.. His greedy manager at the time, Alan Grossman, promised a book from him that he didn't really want to write. I think he doesn't sing "well" purposely I'm not exactly sure why because he's capable. If you have a chance, listen to the albums *"Self-Portrait & Another Self-Portrait'* not really for the lyrics but to hear a different, more conventional vocal style.. Two of his best concert performances are '*Hard Rain Ft Collins Co, 1976"* and *"Hard to Handle 1986"* Dylan has influenced so many musicians and they're not even aware of it.. I could write walls of text but I'll stop here. Wishing the best for both of you.. God bless 🕊️ Oh.. new subscriber :)

Imagine you're a 17 year old high school junior living in East LA, So. California. The year is 1964, and an older surfing buddy asks if you want to go to a concert. He says he has an extra ticket, because his date bailed on him. You ask, who is it? He says, "Bob Dylan". "Never heard of him", says You... SAYS I. So I say, "Sure". That night we meet in front of the Wilson High School Gym. The gym is coincidentally, just across the girl's athletic field, from my My MOM"s house, in Long Beach. There are many weird beatnik type people out front, all waiting in line, and I'm getting pretty intrigued. We go in and take our seats, and the lights go dark. Then the stage lights go on, and a scrawny shape shifting figure with a country/western air, and an explosion of twisted curls atop his head, walks into the spot light. He's carrying a guitar and has a rack around his neck that's holding a harmonica. He starts strumming and begins to "sing?" This song pours out, along with about two hours more, of equally radical, paradigm-shattering, mind-expanding, innocence-transforming, brain rending magic, that sears my tender soul and puts me on the fast track to adulthood. I couldn't sleep all night, from being so psychically energized. You have to understand that this was 60 years ago. It was if it he were an alien, from another planet, coming to guide us. That year the AM radio was playing, The Beach Boys singing, "I GET AROUND, and the Drifters hit that year was, "UNDER THE BOARDWALK. This Alien Genius crash landed his world view, in plain sight and unlike most UFO's, the government couldn't hide the wreckage. All the music that followed, that we now take for granted, sprang from his Close Encounter.

Bob Dylan is a great singer too. Listen to "Blind Willie McTell " ❤🎉

Bob Dylan - Spanish Is The Loving Tongue (Solo Piano Version) (Not Another Self Portrait Version) kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIfXn2eYic1oasU

Good job you two! Your wrong about him not be able to sing. I give you two examples: Bob Dylan - Blind Willie McTell (Studio Outtake - 1983 - Official Audio). Bob Dylan - Early Mornin' Rain (Official Audio) kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6q7mKxuhMacbpY - a cover of a Gordon Lightfoot song. His vocal style is intentional. For a singer to get a following there needs to be a voice that is immediately recognized. He would never have succeeded singing like Gordon or Dean Martin. Bob makes very few bad moves. A fellow podcaster said of Dylan, "He's like a man who can't cry, so it comes out in his songs". One more, a freebee that demonstrate how much great musicians rejoice in their contribution to Bob's song: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpqZqIhnZsRnjck : Bob Dylan - Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight (Version 2) (Official Video) - Mick Taylor and Mark Knopfler.

The second line was the best😌

Good to see you young'uns get it.

I’m glad we can all agree that making art is way too easy!! Lol

22:22 Fifty five years it sticks inside me - always changing. Very sad to see what became of him.

Brilliant.

Bob is truly an enigma.

Come on guys - you're supposed to be poets. The rhyme scheme is A A A A E, B B B B E, C C C C E (some verses have an extra C line), then the chorus D D E. I'm a software engineer but I saw that the 2nd time I read the lyrics.

Omg thank you so much for this. Please please please react to Dylan's vision of Johanna, and also Lily Rosemary and the jack of hearts. They are both amazing pieces of literature ❤

I’m surprised that you haven’t done Leonard Cohen yet

I'm 74 years old been a Dylan fan since he started, and this song was obviously in his cynical youth but take my word for it he has mellowed out over his 60+ year career.

Subterranean Homesick Blues

I've been listening to this mind-blowing, unparalleled song for 59 years ... and I find myself transfixed by it every time I listen to it. I wrote a book about Dylan, and I spent a lot of time and effort trying to describe the impact of the song on me. Quite simply, I don't think it's possible to 'explain what it means.' It's not a political song at all, it's Dylan's declaration of independence from all things that limit us--including and especially politics, in my opinion. The song's title is an acronym for an existential declaration: I AM. And Dylan goes through seemingly all of the ways that others define us. Hence, his warning that: "He not busy being born is busy dying." Though I understand why people disparage Dylan as a singer, I think they're dead wrong. I think he's a brilliant singer, and he's a man of a thousand voices. He's a folkie, a bluesman, a rocker, a tone poet, a country gentleman, a rapper, a gospel preacher, a jazz cat, a crooner ... a young man, an old man ... a man who, as he sang on his last studio album, "contains multitudes." All of the American Karaoke wanna-be contestants could learn a lot about singing by listening to Dylan's remarkable phrasing, impeccable timing, brilliant diction, subtle changes in pitch, and incomparable ability to capture and convey emotional depths that are all too rare in contemporary music. And though his lyrics are "poetic," Bob Dylan is a singer-songwriter. The words on the page become something altogether different when he sings them.

Well darkness at the breaking noon shadows even the silver spoon that sounds like the end of everithing just lookout all thf saints are coming throught and is all over now baby blue

I don’t think Bob was aiming for fun

Dylan was the greatest singing poet in history. His songwriting in the sixties blew everyone's mind and made him a prophet for the age!

Darkness at the break of noon Could be Jesus crucified at noon and darkness came over the world Eclipses both Sun and moon Silver spoon- rich and poor

It's a major master piece!

I've been saying the same thing about the music of today. It can't hold a candle to that of the 60s and 70s especially the songs that Bob Dylan wrote. He's incredible! I simply fell in love with him.