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Bob Dylan is
one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century
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The above three albums represent arguably the best of Bob Dylan and
were released in succession to one another:
EM(Bringing
it All Back Home) in March 1965,
EM(Highway
61 Revisited)
in August 1965 and
EM(Blonde on
Blonde)
in July 1966. It is worth noting that in the time Bob
Dylan released his mid sixties albums, the subject of sex
was taboo, and lyricists could only
get their point across by talking in code-speak. Here are his top
22 lyrics order of increasing year of composition:
QQ(The ants are my friends, APOS(they)re APOS(blowin) in the
wind.) A deliberate corruption of the famous Bob Dylan lyric:
QQ(The answer my friend is APOS(blowin) in the wind) (from the
album
EM(The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963)), track: EM(Blowin’
in the Wind)).
QQ(DOTS how many years can a mountain exist before it is washed to the sea, yes and how many years can some people exist before APOS(they)re allowed to be free?) (from the album EM(The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963))), track: EM(Blowin’ in the Wind)).
QQ(DOTS how many times can a man turn his head, pretending that he just APOS(doesn)t see?) (from the album EM(The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963)), track: EM(Blowin’ in the Wind)).
QQ(Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been told The streets in heaven
are lined with gold I ask you how things could get much worse If
the Russians happen to get up there first Wowee! pretty scary!)
from the Album
EM(Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964)), track: EM(I Shall Be Free
No. 10).
QQ(DOTS the night is pitch black, come and make my pale face fit into place, oh please!) This is code-speak for oral sex (from the album EM(Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964)), track: EM(Spanish Harlem Incident)).
QQ(DOTS her mouth was all watery and wet.) This is code-speak for vagina, i.e. her vagina was all watery and wet: (from the album EM(Another side of Bob Dylan), track: EM(I Don’t Believe You)).
QQ(DOTS we’ll soon shake your windows and
rattle your walls for the times they are a changin’) (from
the album
EM(The Times They Are A-Changin’ (1964)),
track:
EM(The times they are a changin’).)
QQ(The pump APOS(won)t work because the vandals took the handles.) (from the album EM(Bringing It All Back Home (1965)), track: EM(Subterranean Homesick Blues)).
QQ(My love, she laughs like the flowers; valentines APOS(can)t buy her.) (from the album EM(Bringing It All Back Home), track: EM(Love Minus Zero / No Limit)).
QQ(He who is not being busy being born is busy dying.) (from the album EM(Bringing It All Back Home (1965)), track: EM(APOS(It)s Alright Ma, APOS(I)m Only Bleeding)).
QQ(DOTS from toy guns that spark to flesh coloured Christs that glow in the dark, APOS(it)s not easy to see without looking too far that not really much is really sacred.) (from the album EM(Bringing It All Back Home (1965)), track: EM(APOS(It)s Alright Ma, APOS(I)m Only Bleeding)).
QQ(DOTS but even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.) (from the album EM(Bringing It All Back Home (1965)), track: EM(APOS(It)s all Right Ma, APOS(I)m Only Bleeding)).
QQ(DOTS money APOS(doesn)t talk it swears.) (from the album EM(Bringing It All Back Home (1965)), track: EM(APOS(It)s Alright Ma, APOS(I)m Only Bleeding)).
QQ(She sent out for the doctor who pulls down the shade and said my advice to you is to not let the boys in.) This is code-speak for promiscuous sexual behaviour (from the album EM(Highway 61 Revisited (1965)), track: EM(Tombstone Blues)).
QQ(You walk into the room with your pencil in your hand.) This is code-speak for penis, i.e. you walk into the room with your penis in your hand, alluding to masturbation in public (from the album EM(Highway 61 Revisited (1965)), track: EM(Ballad of a Thin Man)).
QQ(DOTS but nobody has any respect anyway they already expect you to all give a check to tax-deductible charity organizations.) (from the album EM(Highway 61 Revisited (1965)), track: EM(Ballad of a Thin Man)). Wonderfully angry young man speak.
QQ(The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face.) (from the album EM(Blonde on Blonde (1966)), track: EM(Visions of Johanna)).
QQ(The country music station plays soft but APOS(there)s nothing really nothing to turn off.) (from the album EM(Blonde on Blonde (1966)), track: EM(Visions of Johanna)).
QQ(Tonight as I stand in the rain.) is sung like QQ(Tonight is lost and inside the rain.) (from the album EM(Blonde on Blonde (1966)), track: EM(Just Like a Woman)).
QQ(DOTS to live outside the law you must be honest.) (from the album EM(Blonde on Blonde (1966)), track: EM(Absolutely Sweet Marie)).
QQ(Love is all there is, it makes the world go round. Love and
only love, it can't be denied. Don't matter what you think about it,
you just won't be able to do without it. Take a tip from one who's
tried.). And here I am thinking that it is money that makes to
world go round! From the album
EM(Nashville
Skyline), track: EM(I Threw it All Away). This song
chronicles Bob Dylan’s transition from being an angry young man
to being an appreciator of the beautiful.
QQ(They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy.
She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me. I
can’t help it if I’m lucky!) From the album
EM(Blood on
the Tracks (1975)), track EM(Idiot Wind).
The Little River Band’s 1979 song EM(The Lonesome Loser) reads like
this: QQ(Have you heard about the lonesome loser?), but sounded to
my six year old brain like this: QQ(Have you heard about the lonks
’n’ loozoh?).
The Eagles’
1979 song EM(Heartache Tonight)
reads like this: QQ(There's gonna be a
heartache tonight, a heartache tonight, I know) but is sung like
this: QQ(There's gonna be a party tonight, a party tonight, I
know).
David
Bowie’s 1983 song
EM(Let’s Dance)
reads like this: QQ(Put on your red shoes
and dance the blues) but is sung like this: QQ(Put on erections
and dance the blues!)
Def
Leppard’s 1987 song
EM(Animal)
reads like this: QQ(And I want and I need and I love
animal), but is sung like QQ(And I want and I need and I love
anymore!)
Def
Leppard’s 1987 song
EM(Armageddon
It)
reads like this: QQ(Are you getting it, Armageddon it) but
is sung like this: QQ(Are you getting it? APOS(I)m a
APOS(gettin) it!)
Metallica’s
1998 song EM(Sad
But True)
reads like this: QQ(I’m yours. Sad but true.)
but is sung like this: QQ(I’m your
sepulchre
!)
Metallica’s
1998 song
EM(Don't Tread on me)
reads like this: QQ(So be it. Threaten no
more. To secure pieces to prepare for war) but is sung like
this: QQ(Soviets threaten no more to secure peace is to prepare
for war).
Shihad’s 1999 song
EM(My
Mind’s Sedate)
reads like this: QQ(My APOS(mind)s sedate,
my APOS(mind)s sedate) but is sung like this: QQ(Round
AHREF(http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/varsity,varsity), round
varsity!)
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