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Post by quaco on Dec 3, 2019 6:11:01 GMT
Yeah, it seems remiss not to similarly shout out to "Positively..." while we're here. It manages to be roughly 99% as amazing as "Stone" without accumulating nearly as much baggage (or moss, if you will). They are nearly twins, ... "Positively 4th Street" is sharper, but it's more one dimensional. It feels very much an attack on one person or type of person. "Like a Rolling Stone" could really be about everybody. As Dylan said "That one ['Ballad of a Thin Man'] was about Mr. Jones. This one ['Like a Rolling Stone'] is for him." Or something like that. So it is for the grey-flannel everyman as well as any number of Edie Sedgewick creatures, or really anyone who once seemed to have everything but now it's not so clear. And it's less of an attack than an ode. I dunno, I like having both for what they are. But I'd give the edge to "LaRS".
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Dec 3, 2019 10:46:49 GMT
There's that "wild mercury" sound as well. His records never soundedso good again.
I'm not sure which one I prefer. 4th Street is one of those songs that just hits something so firmly on the fucking head it's hard not to swoon as its perfection. One of those relationship songs that just captures this particular moment and then blows it up and makes something very human and magnificent from it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2019 17:21:02 GMT
I have a strange relationship with this song and Rainy Day Women #12 & 35. When I was young, I remember them making it to the local AM pop radio station and they were complete outliers in my mind compared to what else was being played at the time. I was completely hooked by both songs and I remember my dad turning the station when I'd start singing, "Everybody must get stoned."
He hated hippies, but I had no idea what the words meant.
I have great affection for both those songs.
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Post by oleandermedian on Dec 5, 2019 19:46:23 GMT
I heard the Hendrix version of LaRS before the original – from the Monterey LP with Otis on one side and Hendrix on the other – and still think it’s nearly as fantastic. The way he shouts “Look at you!”
“No direction home” is the second most fucked-up line in pop. How must that feel, indeed. And seeing as I seem to feel equally at home and not at home everywhere, it's always haunted me a bit.
I can’t find anything bad to say about P4S. I love it. There are lots of bittersweet songs but rarely has the bitter (words) been so separately chanelled from the sweet (music). I would throw Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window in there too (also done by Hendrix of course).
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Post by quaco on Dec 6, 2019 2:56:06 GMT
“No direction home” is the second most fucked-up line in pop. How must that feel, indeed. And seeing as I seem to feel equally at home and not at home everywhere, it's always haunted me a bit. What's the first??
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Post by oleandermedian on Dec 6, 2019 10:01:48 GMT
“No direction home” is the second most fucked-up line in pop. How must that feel, indeed. And seeing as I seem to feel equally at home and not at home everywhere, it's always haunted me a bit. What's the first?? "How does it feel?"
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