I dig this in an "adult kid's song" kind of way.  It has a light air to it.  Very nice musically.

Still waiting for something good to come out of this song...

regression towards the mean

Great blues as for me. good style. Got 7
and voice is better then father's for sure :)

 Papernapkin wrote: 

don't forget the lyrics. The song could be 1/2 the length it is....

He has a better voice than his dad, however this song is pants!

Saw him in concert in Raleigh recently - really great. 

The most memorable part was when some bombastic blowhard in the audience was blabbering away at nearly the volume of the concert and Jakob stopped and pretty much asked him to shut up - as sarcasticly as possible.   The guy did, for 15 seconds maybe then back to his "blah blah blah".   I felt bad for the band, but Jakob showed a side I wouldn't have known about.

When his dad sang adolescent lyrics it was cool, but when Jakob does it it's REALLY lame.
I don't know why... 

well, I think the tune is kinda catchy.  Saw his dad play once, wish I didn't pay for the ticket. Bad, bad voice.  

This guy sounds a lot like Bruce Sprinsteen ..... yeh.

Shesdifferent wrote:
That Bob Dylan's son would sound so much like Springstein has always weirded me out.

This Something Comes Way Good

i dunno, i think its a nice little ditty

Jakob's Music: Bob minus 4
Jakob's Voice: Bob plus 4

Jakob's total rating: 1

(Yes, Jakob's just as tolerable as his dad.)

 brewmonkey wrote: 

Ditto, really.

Well, I haven't actually heard the album but on the basis of that eminently forgettable number I won't be any time soon.

Double thumbs down. 

Ya know, I really like Bob, really like the Wallflowers.............but this album just is not very good.

 Smoove_D wrote:

 
okay, now thats odd! but you are of course entitled...

I give this a 6, which is 4 more points than I'd give most of his dad's songs.

okay, i know about the taboo against naming Jakob-with-a-K and Bob in the same sentence.  but who can honestly hear the phrase "something ____ this way comes" and not think of either Macbeth or Bradbury (or both), works most of us read before we graduated high school?  how the child of the poet of our times can be apparently oblivious to this meme is beyond me. 

3 ——> 2

fredriley wrote:

There are a number of interpretations about The Magic Roundabout. One theory is that the characters represented French politicians of the time (Dougal being De Gaulle for instance, although he was named Pollux in the French version). Another is that each character was addicted to a different type of psychotropic drug, mainly because of the very laid-back rabbit, Dylan, named after Bob Dylan, but also because the whole show had a psychedelic look to it, and many of the characters chewed on flowers and sugar cubes. However, Eric Thompson's widow, Phyllida Law, denied any reference to drugs was intended.

And more on the Drug Reference theory

Despite the denial of there being any drug references in The Magic Roundabout , the characters all displayed behaviours which may have been drug-related;
Dougal
Hippyish long hair, has "dreams" after eating sugar cubes. (LSD)
Brian
Red nose, flighty attention span, aggressive personality, delusions of grandeur. Snails leave white lines behind them. (Cocaine or Amphetamines)
Ermintrude
Finds everything funny, constantly hungry - and cows eat grass. (Cannabis)
Zebedee
Flushed red, constantly twitching, hyperactive, looks like a pill. (Uppers, Poppers or Amyl nitrite)
Dylan
Dopey, unfocused; in Dougal and the Blue Cat he utters the line "Hey man, I'm just watching these crazy mushrooms grow". (Possibly Magic Mushrooms)

Ahh, the phantoms of my youth...

middleagedhipster wrote:

He looks more like Dylan the Rabbit from the Magic Roundabout :o)

Everything about this is bland: his voice, the melody, the beat.

oooh look at me i'm Bob Dylan's son and i'm brilliant.

Don't think so son.

3/10

jenakle wrote:Maybe he meant stove pipe.:)

Not impressed as of yet. I really did try but haven't heard the magic yet.

cc_rider wrote:

Agreed. First it seemed a little tentative, but then the lyrics began to kick in, and I started to hear it in my thoughts. Still too soon to rate, though.

cc_rider wrote:

TERRESTRIAL RADIO? How horrifying!

Not bad! I look forward to more from JD.