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"Yes we can can!" said Little Nicola.


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> I'm surprised. I thought you would select "Victoria" by the Kinks.

 

Well, I'm impressed and mildly surprised that you're familiar with that particular song. Yes, it seems the obvious choice, and it's a great little rocker. I did think of it, but I'd just posted a Kinks song about a week ago, and I didn't want to overdo it. Don't want people getting all Kinked out.

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Never mind the Queen ...I just found out that yesterday it was Dylan's birthday. Who cares about a crabby old matriarch who pretended gay people didn't exist when you've got one of the greatest songwriters ever born on the same date?

Problem is, it's very difficult to find original Dylan recordings on youtube. Thousands of covers, most of them pretty lame. I wanted to post one of his good but less well-known tracks from one of his earlier albums. At first I had a few particular ones in mind, but as I realized that precious few of these wonderful songs are available on youtube, I gave up and just was happy to find an original Bob Dylan number. So apologies for posting such a chestnut. Subterranean Homesick Blues is a great song, but hardly an undiscovered gem. Has everyone seen *Don't Look Back* ? Anyway, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ujAXxNxU0&feature=related

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I guess my favorite is "Don't Think Twice, It's Allright." I can't think of ANY song I like better than that. If there's one tune he'll be remembered for, many, many years from now, it's "Blowin' In the Wind." Probably the most important musical contribution of the 1960's. The anthem of a generation.

 

I also like "Mr. Tambourine Man," "She Belongs to me," and a less known beauty, "Tomorrow Is a Long Time."

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I once bought a Sheryl Crowe CD, but it was solely for that hit she had in the 90s, something about having some fun before you die. I still think it's a great song, and one day I might post it here. It could be argued that Sheryl's persona in the song was being slightly floozie-like, as she was hanging out in a bar in the middle of the night. Only by old movie standards, though.

 

Bo Diddley maintains that we should not go by appearances, as he proclaims in "You Can't Judge a Book by its Cover". Lots of twirling swirling chicks dancing in the background, some of them possibly floozies.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGHYC_7SMDE

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In general I'd say she's famous for being a talented and successful pop musician.

The fact that she was the girlfriend of some pompous gasbag is just a footnote.

He probably has a lot on his mind these days too.

 

I don't know why people are always complaining about buying a CD and only

finding one or two good songs on it. The ones I buy usually have plenty of good

songs on them, with maybe one or two average ones.

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I didn't complain that I bought a Sheryl Crow CD and discovered that it just had one good song on it. I said it was because of that song that I bought it. That doesn't mean that the rest of the tunes on it were rubbish...there were several good ones. (Although the Santa Monica Boulevard one was the best.)

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This week is the anniversary of a certain rock figure. Yes, today is A.J. Weberman's

birthday. Dylanologist/garbaglogist/Blimpie wrapperologist, etc. There's a slight

obsession there, something akin to Bob Dylan's song She Belongs to Me.

 

 

 

 

 

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It's a Bobfest !

 

However, I'm sorry to say that when I clicked the link, I got one of those discouraging messages,

"This video has been blocked in your country blah blah blah"

I'll never understand how that stuff works.

 

(Still, I have the CD that lovely song is on, so maybe I'll just play that.)

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Hmmm. I guess for whatever arcane legal reason, it's not available in

Canada. I've seen songs on YT where, though the songs are from the

same album, one is blocked and another is not. Whatever.

 

I didn't mean you personally, Miss W. I was just thinking of people in

general who buy a CD and then complain there're only one or two good

songs on a 12 or 14 song CD. I've never come across that problem myself.

(Well there was that Pat Boone heavy metal album).

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