jamesat43
(Cary, North Carolina) | | Posted: May 18, 2013 - 14:48 | |
sirdroseph wrote:One of my all time favorite song lines; "The suns not yellow, it's just chicken!" I had it on the back of my old car. Only ever had one person tell me they recognized it, so I decided to marry her. Feel free to try that at home: CafePress Dylan Sticker
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davekave
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vaos
(maastricht / liège) | | Posted: Apr 17, 2013 - 07:05 | |
No disrespect to Dylan lovers, but I'm a proud member of the Bob Dylan Sounds Like A Chainsaw Society.
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motobecane
| | Posted: Mar 16, 2013 - 20:24 | |
MJdub wrote:I would argue that talent is truly determined by one's ability in comparison to other individuals that have demonstrated great proficiency with their instrument/voice etc. I do believe that Dylan has great songwriting talent, as I've seen what others have done with songs he's written. I just think that in the performance department his talent is lacking. There are millions of people that think what's on the radio is true talent....and the size of the deluded masses doesn't make it true. Comparing Dylan to other accomplished vocalists, I have to conclude personally that he lacks vocal talent. Anyway, I'm glad you're able to enjoy it and agree 100% with the second half of your post. I don't like it but I wouldn't take this song off of RP if I could  Cheers. Talent. I don't think that word means what you think it does. This IS talent. 100 if the scale went that high. |
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Lazarus
(Bethany) | | Posted: Mar 16, 2013 - 20:21 | |
On_The_Beach wrote:
Looks good. Thanks for posting.
Thank you! Hope you are having a marvelous weekend...everybody in my church be dancing... love this song... |
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Highlowsel
(New York City) | | Posted: Feb 13, 2013 - 11:30 | |
The_Enemy wrote:
Maybe it's an age thing? "Yellow" meant "Coward" in the 60s. One doesn't hear the word used like that lately.
And so Dylan ages, along with the rest of his generation. Some of his stuff will survive and morph into something pertinent to those who listen with fresh ears at some later point in time. Some of it will lose its relevance and pass into the past unremembered. Same as it is for all artists. The jury is still out on how, and if, he'll be remember some 100years from now, but I suspect his memory will grow fainter as the generation he's rooted within fades away. Much the same as all past troubadours, though he did shine bright for a time didn't he? So it goes. Highlow American Net'Zen |
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Axelito
(France) | | Posted: Feb 13, 2013 - 11:24 | |
It is endless?
How many PSD am i gonna have to throw?!!
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gemtag
(Texas) | | Posted: Sep 10, 2012 - 10:31 | |
joelbb wrote:
Bite me, Gemtag. You've never written a sentence that clever, much less put it into a blues number.
Such blind aggression. You should have that looked at. |
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On_The_Beach
(The Blue Planet) | | Posted: Sep 09, 2012 - 11:37 | |
romeotuma wrote:Dylan has a brand new album out called Tempest that has received a five star rating from RollingStone— you can see more data about the new album here... Looks good. Thanks for posting. |
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rustie
(Temecula, CA) | | Posted: Sep 09, 2012 - 11:33 | |
If you could only give one song an eleven this might be it. Let's see, it's1965 and you hear this: "the geometry of innocent flesh on the bone, causes Galileo's math book to get thrown" -guess you had to be there.
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(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas) | | Posted: Sep 09, 2012 - 11:24 | |
joelbb wrote:
And they should, Romeo. THIS is the Dylan that made him famous. His lyrics were just spectacular. And this album sounds like a greatest hits collection: every cut is historic.
Dylan has a brand new album out called Tempest that has received a five star rating from RollingStone— you can see more data about the new album here... |
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joelbb
| | Posted: Sep 09, 2012 - 11:21 | |
gemtag wrote:The sun is not yellow, it's chicken?
Give me a break. Bite me, Gemtag. You've never written a sentence that clever, much less put it into a blues number. |
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gemtag
(Texas) | | Posted: Sep 09, 2012 - 11:19 | |
The sun is not yellow, it's chicken?
Give me a break.
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joelbb
| | Posted: Sep 09, 2012 - 11:19 | |
romeotuma wrote:
Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...
And they should, Romeo. THIS is the Dylan that made him famous. His lyrics were just spectacular. And this album sounds like a greatest hits collection: every cut is historic. That's Mike Bloomfield playing guitar, in case you wondered where those outstanding licks came from back in the mid-60s. |
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GalileoCoffeeCo
| | Posted: Sep 09, 2012 - 11:19 | |
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(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas) | | Posted: Sep 09, 2012 - 11:16 | |
Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...
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Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC) | | Posted: Dec 31, 2011 - 06:16 | |
The_Enemy wrote:
Maybe it's an age thing? "Yellow" meant "Coward" in the 60s. One doesn't hear the word used like that lately.
That's funny how that term isn't used much since the 60's. If you watch movies from the 1930's and 40's, you'll hear it a lot. "What's a'matter, are ya' yella or somethin'? |
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unclehud
(300 feet above the planet) | | Posted: Nov 29, 2011 - 14:28 | |
You know, the only Dylan tunes I really like are the "spoken" ones like this and, say, 115th Dream. Perhaps it's because they accentuate his storytelling abilty without the distraction of his ... ahem ... singing ability.
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LowPhreak
(United Corporate States of Neo-Feudal Amurika, Inc.) | | Posted: Jul 26, 2011 - 11:02 | |
duffy11 wrote:
and I know of at least one person who's elevated him to near-deity status musically, ...
Just an FYI: Zimmy has been Full Deity Status for quite some time now.  |
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midreaming
| | Posted: May 24, 2011 - 08:58 | |
The_Enemy wrote:
Maybe it's an age thing? "Yellow" meant "Coward" in the 60s. One doesn't hear the word used like that lately.
Anybody who listens to Dylan takes something different from his stuff. But I'm pretty sure chicken does not equal "coward" here. To me that sounds too pedestrian for Dylan's poetic nature. Dylan confessed to a fascination with the Carnivals that blew through Minnesota when he was young, caught by something unexplainable when he saw a character dressed as "Napoleon in black face" makeup. When he got to New York he found himself surrounded by a theater of the absurd in the Basket Houses he played and hung out in. The absurd was growing all around him and everybody at that time, in art and politics. I'd say the absurd in Art questioned the absurd in politics, especially in Dylan's case. Dylan is sometimes silly and sometimes personal and introspective. It's up to listeners to decide which and when. I think they call that Art. |
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The_Enemy
(...is within) | | Posted: May 24, 2011 - 07:40 | |
impediguy wrote:My parents used to ask my cousin why he liked Bob Dylan so much when "he can't sing"? My cousin would reply "it's his lyrics"! But I wonder what he was really "thinking" when I hear lyrics like "the sun's not yellow; it's chicken"? Maybe it's an age thing? "Yellow" meant "Coward" in the 60s. One doesn't hear the word used like that lately. |
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The_Enemy
(...is within) | | Posted: May 24, 2011 - 07:38 | |
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a_genuine_find
(not me, Radio P) (3rd stone, sol, orion belt, milkyway) | | Posted: May 24, 2011 - 07:35 | |
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wrangler
(swamps of jersey) | | Posted: May 24, 2011 - 07:32 | |
happy birthday bob!  |
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davedog
(Twin Cities, MN) | | Posted: May 24, 2011 - 07:32 | |
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impediguy
| | Posted: Apr 22, 2011 - 18:38 | |
sirdroseph wrote:
That is actually one of my favorite lyrics of all time!
I guess I wasn't "old enough" to understand, or something like that.  |
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sirdroseph
(Yes) | | Posted: Apr 22, 2011 - 18:27 | |
impediguy wrote:My parents used to ask my cousin why he liked Bob Dylan so much when "he can't sing"? My cousin would reply "it's his lyrics"! But I wonder what he was really "thinking" when I hear lyrics like "the sun's not yellow; it's chicken"?
That is actually one of my favorite lyrics of all time! |
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impediguy
| | Posted: Apr 22, 2011 - 18:23 | |
My parents used to ask my cousin why he liked Bob Dylan so much when "he can't sing"? My cousin would reply "it's his lyrics"! But I wonder what he was really "thinking" when I hear lyrics like "the sun's not yellow; it's chicken"?
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Lumpy13
| | Posted: Apr 22, 2011 - 18:22 | |
Love this song, one of Dylan's best, but I have always thought the drum beat was a little off (too fast). Anyone else hear that? Maybe it was done on purpose?
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sirdroseph
(Yes) | | Posted: Mar 22, 2011 - 05:09 | |
9 -> 10. What was I thinking?? |
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