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This didn't age well

Post by Phillip Phlopp » Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:33 pm

Bob who? Pop pundit poleaxed

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Re: This didn't age well

Post by Gaspode » Sun Jan 03, 2021 3:31 pm

Like A Rolling Stone was released as a single in the UK and made the top ten, possibly top five so no accounting for the taste of the record buying even in the 60's
Odd thing, ain't it... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it snarls.
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Re: This didn't age well

Post by RockitRon » Sun Jan 03, 2021 6:54 pm

It entered the UK chart three weeks after that article, and climbed to No 4. It was his biggest selling single, on both sides of the Atlantic.

Bob Darbarn and the Melody Maker he edited had their roots in jazz, and had their work cut out keeping up with the British pop scene. Electric folk/rock would have been totally alien.
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Re: This didn't age well

Post by Psmith » Sun Jan 03, 2021 7:14 pm

When I first heard it I thought it was fantastic and still do.Bob Dylan changed things some people don't like that.
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Re: This didn't age well

Post by Gaspode » Mon Jan 04, 2021 12:02 am

Never a fan of Dylan. Just a little young and my big bro was a fan, the latter more important than the former, we were always out of sync. He nearly passed out when I bought The Man Who Sold The World and as for The New York Dolls...
Having said that I do have the Blood On The Tracks album somewhere and Street Legal for some reason....
Odd thing, ain't it... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it snarls.
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Re: This didn't age well

Post by Gaspode » Mon Jan 04, 2021 1:01 am

Psmith wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 03, 2021 7:14 pm
Bob Dylan changed things some people don't like that.
He wasn't the first and he won't be last, some people don't like that.
Odd thing, ain't it... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it snarls.
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Re: This didn't age well

Post by Phillip Phlopp » Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:04 am

Great wordsmith, great musician but couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.
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Re: This didn't age well

Post by Julian Mince » Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:23 am

Phillip Phlopp wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:04 am
 Great wordsmith, great musician but couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.
I had a pony, her name was Lucifer
I had a pony, her name was Lucifer
She broke her leg and needed shooting
I swear it hurt me more than it could ever have hurted her
I know a man who taught his dog to play the trumpet on the London Underground.
He went from Barking to Tooting in an hour.
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Re: This didn't age well

Post by Phillip Phlopp » Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:26 am

Almost Wordsworthian.
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Re: This didn't age well

Post by Gaspode » Mon Jan 04, 2021 11:56 am

More Rick the People's Poet
Odd thing, ain't it... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it snarls.
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Re: This didn't age well

Post by Gaspode » Mon Jan 04, 2021 12:16 pm

Pollution
All around
Sometimes up
And sometimes down
But always around.
Pollution, are you coming to my town?
Or am I coming to yours?
We're on different buses, pollution
But we're both using petrol bombs



Almost Dylanesque...
Odd thing, ain't it... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it snarls.
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Re: This didn't age well

Post by Claude Balls » Mon Jan 04, 2021 12:36 pm

RockitRon wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 03, 2021 6:54 pm
 Bob Darbarn and the Melody Maker he edited had their roots in jazz, and had their work cut out keeping up with the British pop scene. Electric folk/rock would have been totally alien.
Must've been hard when he discovered that he really wasn't where it was at
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Re: This didn't age well

Post by Gaspode » Mon Jan 04, 2021 12:52 pm

Claude Balls wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 04, 2021 12:36 pm
RockitRon wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 03, 2021 6:54 pm
 Bob Darbarn and the Melody Maker he edited had their roots in jazz, and had their work cut out keeping up with the British pop scene. Electric folk/rock would have been totally alien.
Must've been hard when he discovered that he really wasn't where it was at
Surely he wasn't THAT excited.

<Sid James laugh>
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Re: This didn't age well

Post by Claude Balls » Mon Jan 04, 2021 2:00 pm

You filthy swine!
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Re: This didn't age well

Post by Redpig59 » Mon Jan 04, 2021 2:31 pm

Claude Balls wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 04, 2021 12:36 pm
RockitRon wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 03, 2021 6:54 pm
 Bob Darbarn and the Melody Maker he edited had their roots in jazz, and had their work cut out keeping up with the British pop scene. Electric folk/rock would have been totally alien.
Must've been hard when he discovered that he really wasn't where it was at
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A wanker AND a pansy apparently.
Oh, and a wimp, and 'not a real man'.
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