"Somewhere on the [European] tour, Dylan began penning a long, free-form piece of writing he compared to "vomit."

He wasn't wrong.

It all meant so much then, and now it matters very little. To borrow a phrase from some other salesmen, "teach your children well"

Absolutely. Worst. Song. EVER!

Thank you Christopher Taylor.

Through every single stage of my life up to and including this point I have never understood the appeal of Dylan.

Is that last paragraph satire?

Dylan, you either like him or you don't.

Well, I get him and I love him. I have so much respect for that guy. God bless him!

Wow, Gerard, it looks like Auntie Doodles and I are about the only Dylan fans in your commentariat today.

I don't revere him greatly like others. I think Dylan worship is silly. Just like all celebrity worship. I just enjoy his well crafted pop tunes.

I was trying to find out how to stop this cr*p, then I hit the comment button, everything is ok now.

Excellent. Brilliant song, fantastic take on it.

I think Dylan has a lot of talent as a poet, none as a singer, and a head full of nonsense when he was at the peak of his popularity.

I loved Dylan when I was playing a monaural LP of "Highway 61 Revisited" on a portable Sears phonograph. I still love Dylan, still love this album, but not this song. It is angry, mean spirited, and it reeks of class envy. The class envy theme turned me off even in the 60's, when I young, and really liked the song. I never cared for the 'hate the rich girl' theme in rock songs, anyway. I just can't take pleasure in seeing someone brought down.

JWM

I fell asleep sitting next to Dylan once. While he was singing. It's still my reaction.

But how could you give us all those words on that stupid song, and no explanation at all of the brilliant video? Who did it? For what? Who paid for it? That had to cost a pile of money. All those actors, all that impressive timecode editing.

Weasel's got it. Even here, everyone's talking about Dylan, and not that astoundingly brilliant video. I've never seen anything like that.

Who cares if you like the song. Play it as advertised, and flip from channel to channel, or you'll miss something quite memorable. I can't wait to show this around.

Wow.

Never liked dylan for the simple reason I enjoy great melodies, and outside of Blood on the Tracks dylan sucks at melody. George Harrison and the Byrds and others had to invent melodies for his songs in order to make them hits. LARS is one of the most irritating and tuneless melodies in the bunch, and it always sounded to me like the guitar was out of tune (due to the dylan's affectation for chaotic sessions, instead of just planning out, rehearsing and arranging the goddam song it's no wonder. I think there's a cult that worships dylan for his obscure lyrics, but it's long past time to say "the emperor has no clothes. The Beatles were great songwriters, great lyricists (when they weren't aping dylan) and vastly more enjoyable and listenable. Aging boomers don't like to admit it, but dylan doesn't age well, and very few young people could name a dylan song for you, while they can probably name several, if not a dozen, Beatles songs, or if played them recognize them. Dylan has zero, unless they've heard blowin' in the wind in church. As further evidence that dylan was a product and an artifact of the '60s, he never did another notable thing when they were thru. He hasn't had a hit since then unless someone took him in hand (Jeff Lynne) and wrote it for him. Enough about dylan already. He enjoyed a brief period where people worshipped him like some sort of prophet: today he's less influential and his music is less played than old disco records. No one bothers to cover his tunes, at least not expecting to have a hit with them (G&R managed it, mostly because when they did it they were so hot they could have covered anyone and had a hit). Just like hendrix' unwarranted reputation as some sort of rock god, dylan doesn't warrant any special note other than he was great when he was doing it, but he has no lasting power or influence. deal with it, folkies.

Dylan hung around with Woody Guthrie and other commies when he was starting out.
I reckon his lefty leanings didn't go away.

I love it Gerard. Love that you thought of it. I was a kid when it came out and it was a hit right away. Thanks.

Dylan also once said he'd realized he wrote that song to himself, about himself. That song was written just as he was leaving folk behind and entering a totally uncharted musical world. A lot of people hated him for his success, for his "betrayal" of folk, and for his apparent selI-absorption as he made his journey.

So I took that to mean it was a wail by a dislocated soul. And I think that's why it resonated with 60's youth. They'd been raised in affluence and comfort and in an America sure of herself, but suddenly they were in a world where nothing made sense, where all the things and values that had once been sure and certain no longer made sense. They were, psychologically, "without a home, like a rolling stone."

Was it somewhat silly, pathetic self-pity by a coddled generation? Yes, but good, emotional songs aren't usually about feeling good. They're usually about loss.

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