Dylan Ping
Posted on 05/21/2010 10:32:14 PM PDT by pissant
Bob Dylan's cult hit Like A Rolling Stone beat off competition from none other than the rock and roll band 'The Rolling Stones' to be crowned the Greatest Song Of All Times.
The folk legend's 1965 hit took the title while the British band's number Satisfaction came second in the list compiled by Rolling Stones magazine.
The magazine's editors and contributors spent months piecing together the ultimate top 500 list and Dylan's track from the album Highway 61 revisited won by a huge majority.
John Lennon's Imagine came in at three, while What's Going On by Marvin Gaye and Aretha Franklin's 1967 anthem Respect rounded out the top five.
Also making the top 10 are Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys, Chuck Berry's Johnny B Goode', The Beatles' Hey Jude and Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana.
One of the most artistically as well as morally pathetic rock videos I've ever seen is Sheena Easton singing "Sugar Walls." That poor woman.
How Great Thou Art and the Hallelujah Chorus can’t be far behind. All tears-of-gratitude inducing, although Amazing Grace may have the edge on my list.
LOL...Knopfler would’ve been pissed to miss out then...
Jimi Hendrix was a big fan of Bob Dylan. I remember his wife telling the story about she thought they were going to get kicked out of their apartment because Jimi brought home a Bob Dylan album and played it all day on the stero as loud as it would go. She asked why he was listening to it and he said “It’s Bob Dylan!!!”
Stolen from Wikipedia (can I do this?) re: “Watchtower”:
Dylan has described his reaction to hearing Hendrix’s version: “It overwhelmed me, really. He had such talent, he could find things inside a song and vigorously develop them. He found things that other people wouldn’t think of finding in there. He probably improved upon it by the spaces he was using. I took license with the song from his version, actually, and continue to do it to this day.”[25] In the booklet accompanying his Biograph album, Dylan said: “I liked Jimi Hendrix’s record of this and ever since he died I’ve been doing it that way... Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it’s a tribute to him in some kind of way.”
damn right pissant!!!! ......PLUS ‘Surf City’...’Drag City’ and the soundtrack from the greatest surf movie EVER....’Ride The Wild Surf’, (circa ‘64 or so). Jan and Dean plus the BB’s were that eras icons without an argument!!! still love to listen to those old car/surfin’ songs. my, what a time........
It is the communist manifesto sung as a lullaby.
Imagine there's no possessions.....
Every time they would sing that as a peace song I would cringe. But it helps to know Lenin's definition of peace. Peace is the absence of opposition to communism.
It's easy if you try....go back to sleep, hush, lullaby America, Lullaby.
Is this an example of the Prolfeed they used to keep the masses in check under the old USSR? Or is it more recent?
BTW, that cheesy background looks like 1950's TV.
1976-Eduard Khil
Oh how I hate that frickin' song.
You are so, so right. That mushy, maudlin, boring fiasco is simultaneously naive and cynical. An anthem for sentimental existentialists with no taste in music.
Yes I have, but “Imagine” is a John Lennon song. It has been rumored that he sold his soul to Satan to get Fame!
The song ‘Imagine” has nothing to do with Dylan IMHO.
You song evaluation, however, is Spot On!
It makes me sick to see all the tourists at Yoko’s usurpation of park land for her “Imagine” tribute. And then they troop over to the Dakota and stand reverentially at the gateway where he was killed. It would be nice to stand at the little memorial with a sign saying “Lennon repudiated the message of ‘Imagine.’”
Prove that. (Hint: You can't)
That is an amazing song. It’s one of those that’ll make you sit in the driveway till it’s over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x5yb98aGQE&feature=related
“Also making the top 10 are Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys, Chuck Berry’s Johnny B Goode’, The Beatles’ Hey Jude and Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana.”
Oy. I * don’t * think * so
Could this “best song ever” list have been turned upside-down by accident? There has to be some sort of screw-up here.
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