tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post8997246123526190234..comments2024-03-21T00:34:35.359-07:00Comments on Every Bob Dylan Song: Bob Dylan Song #21: Bob Dylan's DreamTonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12613923038816299394noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-54346155073389787742019-04-15T21:24:33.323-07:002019-04-15T21:24:33.323-07:00Hello there, Thank you for posting this analysis o...Hello there, Thank you for posting this analysis of a song from Bob Dylan's Music Box: http://thebobdylanproject.com/Song/id/85/Bob-Dylans-Dream Come and join us inside and listen to every song composed, recorded or performed by Bob Dylan, plus all the great covers streaming on YouTube, Spotify, Deezer and SoundCloud plus so much more... including this link.<br />Music of Bob Dylanhttp://thebobdylanproject.com/Song/id/85/Bob-Dylans-Dreamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-75260221936361399512008-08-19T18:21:00.000-07:002008-08-19T18:21:00.000-07:00shastadaisy, that was very well said, and I apprec...shastadaisy, that was very well said, and I appreciate you commenting here. I'm glad to have older people reading my blog - the last show I was at, I had a very pleasant conversation with a lady who'd seen Dylan play in Boston in 1964 while she was in college and had seen him many times since. It's very cool to converse with somebody who has a much different experience with Bob than me.<BR/><BR/>As far as nitpicking goes...if I cut that out of my blog, there goes about 85% of my content!Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12613923038816299394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-8269097185417671442008-08-19T15:50:00.000-07:002008-08-19T15:50:00.000-07:00Not a one in my age group (Dylan's age group) is n...Not a one in my age group (Dylan's age group) is not touched by these lyrics. Not sentimentality imo, but realism--in its awareness of youth, time and simplicity passing. It's healthy that the organism sees the past through rose-colored glasses anyhow. And who cares about knit-picking. Dylan wouldn't like it! :) Gut-tapping by Dylan is what I'm sure of.shastadaisyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04030268926580246308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-57206509791231293852008-08-14T09:21:00.000-07:002008-08-14T09:21:00.000-07:00andrew, I think it's just a human trait to be able...andrew, I think it's just a human trait to be able to see the past with 20/20 vision and the present somewhat myopically. It's similar to why we all assume that Kurt Cobain and Jeff Buckley would've done great things - we've seen their great past works, and they're not around to prove us wrong. The past never changes; the present changes as every second passes.<BR/><BR/>Justin, you magnificent bastard, your post made me LOL.<BR/><BR/>As far as the '91 tour, it's probably the tour I've listened the least to (either that or '89); all I know is that the Madison show is worthy of praise. Anything else, I'm admittedly lost.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12613923038816299394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-13621957997300630512008-08-14T00:12:00.000-07:002008-08-14T00:12:00.000-07:00I thought Golden Vanity was the only redeeming qua...I thought Golden Vanity was the only redeeming quality from 1991, but I'm in the same boat (and the name of the ship was ... I forget) in that it's one of the few things I've listened to from 1991 altogether.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Complete Annotated List of Bob Dylan's Dreams<BR/><BR/>Bob Dylan's 1st Dream - concerns self and first few friends he had<BR/><BR/>Bob Dylan's 2nd Dream - walking in World War III<BR/><BR/>Bob Dylan's 3rd Dream - romantic facts of musketeers foundationed deep<BR/><BR/>Bob Dylan's 4th Dream - saw St. Augustine and was amongst the ones that put him out to death<BR/><BR/>Bob Dylan's 5th Dream - bells in the village steeple/bloody face of Ramon<BR/><BR/>Bob Dylan's 6th Dream - about you, baby<BR/><BR/>Bob Dylan's 7th Dream - surface was frozen<BR/><BR/>Bob Dylan's 8th Dream - witnessed a crime<BR/><BR/>Bob Dylan's 9th Dream - running<BR/><BR/>Bob Dylan's 10th Dream - climbed<BR/><BR/>Bob Dylan's 11th Dream - windows were shaking<BR/><BR/>Bob Dylan's 12th Dream - sleeping in Rosey's bed<BR/><BR/>Bob Dylan's 13-112th Dreams - of you (it's all he do)<BR/><BR/>Bob Dylan's 113th Dream - something came up out of the sea and swept through the land of the rich and the free<BR/><BR/>Bob Dylan's 114th Dream - re: his future wife<BR/><BR/>Bob Dylan's 115th Dream - while riding on Mayflower, thought he spied some landAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-66660447324269426782008-08-13T16:16:00.000-07:002008-08-13T16:16:00.000-07:00I don't know what it is that causes our brains...I don't know what it is that causes our brains to mostly look upon the past with good memories while never appreciating the present with the good things it brings. I hate to say it, but the older I get, the less I appreciate this song. I usually look back at college when I hear this song, drinking honey brown beer, listening to the velvet underground & playing euchre on our tiny porch. As much as I loved it, I'd never want to go back to that time & I realize it probably wasn't all I remember it to be. I hate to say it but the song drips a bit with sentimentality, a sin Dylan is rarely guilty of. <BR/><BR/>I haven't heard enough from 1991 to claim that Bob Dylan's Dream is the only redeeming quality of that year of touring for Dylan, but it's one of the few decent performances I've heard from him in that year.andrew!https://www.blogger.com/profile/05821924786524802006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-64029333519939659742008-08-13T14:35:00.000-07:002008-08-13T14:35:00.000-07:00Anton, I have the same feeling when I hear the son...Anton, I have the same feeling when I hear the song. It isn't always a good one.<BR/><BR/>brakeman, when reading up on this song (read: visiting the Wikipedia page), I did see that Dylan took the melody and some lyrics from "Lord Franklin", although I didn't know just how strongly the first and last verses resembled that song. One of the major talking points of this blog over the first two albums has been Dylan "borrowing" older traditional songs and reshaping them to fit his needs. I chose not to touch on that in this blog post, mainly because there's only so many ways to approach that thorny issue and I didn't want to come off as a broken record. There are plenty of things to discuss in most any Dylan song; at a certain point, some things are going to be discarded. I'm glad you pointed it out, though - I don't want anybody to think I'd avoided the issue.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12613923038816299394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-50102979853171934512008-08-13T13:19:00.000-07:002008-08-13T13:19:00.000-07:00With respect you cannot plumb the depths of BD's f...With respect you cannot plumb the depths of BD's folk awareness without having first heard the 19th century English ballad, 'Lord Franklin', which concerns his disappearance and that of his crew during an attempt to discover the North West Passage. Some of his sailors' bodies were dug up in the past decade in northern Canada, perfectly preserved by the Arctic chill.<BR/><BR/>To wit:<BR/>We were homeward bound one night on the deep<BR/>Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep<BR/>I dreamed a dream and I thought it true<BR/>Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew.'<BR/><BR/>And it ends:<BR/><BR/>'And now my burden, it brings me pain;<BR/><BR/>For my long, lost Franklin I would cross the main;<BR/><BR/>Ten thousand guineas I would freely give<BR/><BR/>To say on Earth that my Franklin does live.'<BR/><BR/>Prosecution rests!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-63012003031653515942008-08-13T13:09:00.000-07:002008-08-13T13:09:00.000-07:00Hearing this song now, it reminds me of the friend...Hearing this song now, it reminds me of the friends that I grew up, before we all went our seperate ways.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com