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The President is planning to visit Paterson, NJ to view the storm damage.
But according to Dylan:
In Paterson that’s just the way things go
If you’re black, you might as well not show up on the street
Lest you wanna draw the heat
Remember the title? Hurricane.
Pretty cosmic, huh?
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August 31, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Erasmus
Wikipedia informs me that Paterson is 33% African-American and 13% White, so I doubt that Obama has anything to worry about. — Good song anyway, Bob.
September 1, 2011 at 5:16 am
Anonymous
Cosmic? Are you on medication?
September 1, 2011 at 11:56 am
Anne on a Mouse
Yes, but except for the rare exception like “Hurricane” Dylan put the simplistic arch seriousness of his topical song writing behind him after he took LSD in 1964.
September 1, 2011 at 2:37 pm
Eric Kirk
Anne – “Joey” was on the same album as Hurricane, and it was topical – although in that case I think he was glorifying a thug who could wow celebs at cocktail parties with his ability to cite “Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.”
In any case, I’ve never been impressed with Masters of War. I wince listening to it actually. I think he probably did too.
September 1, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Anne on a Mouse
I’ve never been impressed with Masters of War. I wince listening to it actually. I think he probably did too.
That was my point. And maybe he winces when he hears Hurricane now too.I don’t know. I was just saying that it is a throwback of sorts to his earlier topical songs. And I’m sure there are other exceptions like, “Joey”. But he radically changed the content of his songwriting around 64 when he freed himself from the topical themes and went on to do his best work, the music which made him a true revolutionary in the field of rocknroll.
September 1, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Eric Kirk
I always thought Blowin in the Wind had some nice imagery and poetry to it. I don’t know when he wrote that one or the Times they are a Changin, but both were nicely written. Masters of War is something I’d expect of a radicalized freshman in college who just learned a few chords and can make things rhyme.
I can’t remember his name, but there was a movement guy popular in the Bay Area during the 1980s whose lyrics I couldn’t stand. He wrote these lines, probably the worst ever.
I’ve seen you kill Black Panthers and Malcolm X
And I’m going to watch you die, just like the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus Rex
Especially pathetic is that he felt the need to compromise the meter in order to make sure his audience understood that the Tyrannosaurus Rex was a dinosaur. I guess most radicals are liberal arts majors, and don’t learn that stuff.
September 1, 2011 at 5:22 pm
Anne on a Mouse
My /Back Pages, written in 1964, elucidates the change.
September 1, 2011 at 5:38 pm
pathetic actually
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