A Deep Dive into Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan's best album? (Part 1/3)

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• A Deep Dive into Blond...
Part 3
• A Deep Dive into Blond...
Hope you enjoy it! Yeah - I know - my voice sucks. I hate it too!
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When was the album released link:
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A deep dive into Blonde on Blonde
And why I think it’s Bob Dylan’s best album
This album kind of cheats… But, cheaters always prosper and Dylan doesn’t care about the critical response, so he does this. He makes it a double album, more quantity, yet, there’s barely a drop in quality, if any.
He puts out 14 songs, with over 70 minutes of music. Mostly bound by vinyl, albums in that era rarely go past 45 minutes.
The pure significance of this fact, is something to explore.
Documented officially as the 15th double album of all time, although those above him were mostly live albums and compilations - Dylan effectively changed the game (again) forever, as so many others quickly followed, such names like Donovan, Jimmy Hendrix, Cream and The Beatles. Most experts can agree this was the first double album for rock music.
This album is so massive and had so many musicians on it. It’s unreal the talent that was on this, it’s really only comparable to something today such as an all star team in sports. There’s even major speculation on who played what and when and where. The Band had a strong influence on the album and Robbie Robertson contributed his talents on the electric guitar on multiple tracks. Then you have Kenny Buttrey who was as quoted as "one of the most influential session musicians in Nashville history". Charlie McCoy, who I shouldn’t have to explain to you how good he is as we’ve heard him on Desolation Row…Along with multiple other Grammy award winning musicians made this into a masterpiece. This was a gathering in the heart of music for America in Nashville, Tennessee. Combined with one of the best song writers of all time in the peak of his career… This album did not disappoint and remains one of the best of all time. We will backtrack later on the Nashville talk, as the record was never intended to be recorded there.
I don’t need to convince many in saying how great of an album it is; I don’t think anyone has or can rate this below an 8 out of 10, or 4 out of 5.
I will try to convince you that it is Dylan’s best album. And I know, Highway 61 Revisited and Blood on The Tracks are very much up there as well, but, when you’re competing with 14 songs (5 of them singles), I think I can make the case for it.
Now, this is still a deep dive at heart so we will talk about the history.
SOURCES:
“Revolution in the air - The songs of Bob Dylan 1957 - 1973” by Clinton Heylin
“Bob Dylan All the songs - The story behind every track” by Philippe Margotin & Jean-Michel Guesdon
www.bobdylancommentaries.com/b...
allpoetry.com/Sweet-Marie
www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=h...
rateyourmusic.com/list/Joci/e...
faroutmagazine.co.uk/bob-dyla...
popspotsnyc.com/blonde_on_blo...
www.nashvillescene.com/news/l...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonde_...
theband.hiof.no/articles/myst...
guitar.com/review/album/the-g...
www.bobdylan.com/albums/blond...
gloriousnoise.com/2016/when-w...

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@romanclay1913 8 ай бұрын

"But to live outside the law you must be honest." --------ABSOLUTELY SWEET MARIE

@MrPernell27 5 ай бұрын

Greatest album ever made! Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands is my favorite Dylan song! I listen to this album in its entirety at least once a week

@oppothumbs1 Ай бұрын

Yeah my fav too.

@ronniebishop2496 17 сағат бұрын

Dylan one of my heroes.

@DanEvans-yb6wk 2 ай бұрын

It's his best. Nothing even comes close. I bought it two years after it came out. I must have been 16. It's on a par with anything William Shakespeare wrote, and I love Shakespeare too. Blood on the Tracks would be second. If I mentioned any of the songs, I guess I'd be here all day writing about all of the songs. Either you get it or you don't. If you don't, that's fine, because like shaking a kaleidoscope, you can walk away with a different impression, a different perspective, a different inspiration, and on and on every time you hear it. I fell back into the album so many times daily when dealing with the realities of growing up, facing things like algebra, friends leaving home, the war, moms telling daughters "you can do better than him", keeping a straight face in the principal's office, later showing kindness and generosity and emotional shelter to the students in my English class. Like my "essay" here, the album covers the random. But like Poe, Dylan is hypnotic..."Once upon a midnight dreary..." (Poe's The Raven)----"With your mercury mouth in the missionary times..." I feel blessed to have lived in a time where the language I speak is so magically and artistically manipulated into such beauty by Bob Dylan, or "Mr. Dylan" as he is referred to by "The Coast", KOZT out of Mendocino. I have a gig this afternoon and the first song will be The Ballad of Pat Garret and Billy the Kid. Random, all encompassing sheer beauty.

@fiaschampion3379 Жыл бұрын

One of my favorite albums of all time and by far my favorite Dylan one.

@Henderika777 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Jon, really like this, all things I didn't know, great upload!!!

@learnasongwithjon Жыл бұрын

I'm so happy you enjoyed it! Thank you for stopping by! I'm excited to release part 2 and 3!

@Henderika777 Жыл бұрын

@@learnasongwithjon Thank you for all your work :)!!!

@jimmaculate3802 9 күн бұрын

B on B release date 6/20/66. Freak out with the Mothers of Invention 6/27/66

@ColdChicago Ай бұрын

this was the peak===never equaled, writing, side men, production,solos,costume, pr---

@mrclean9501 28 күн бұрын

Dylan absolutely did lsd. His art reflects it

@mountart2 11 ай бұрын

I assumed Blonde On Blonde referenced Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol, two 60's iconic platinum blondes, as well as an acronym for BOB

@monster900900 2 ай бұрын

bobs best album ?? ,, no doubt its a brillant album ,, but i allways reach for bringing it all back home and highway 61 before it ,, and my most played dylan album is blood on the tracks all day long ,, but then ,, just personal preference ,, awesome artist , love ya bob ,

@julieberkowitz2750 4 ай бұрын

Record labels and companies have the same mafioso control over the talent that pharmaceutical companies have over most of the western world.

@joepalooka2145 6 ай бұрын

I agree with you wholeheartedly that "Blonde On Blonde" is Dylan's greatest album, except for another one that is its equal and that's "John Wesley Harding". These are Bob's greatest masterpieces in my humble opinion. Bob combined two elements on both records, a method he has used ever since. He wrote fantastic songs, and then got the best session musicians, engineers and producers to make finished tracks. I can still listen to "Blonde On Blonde" and "John Wesley Harding" to this very day and marvel at how great those records are, just as much as when I was a teenager in the '60s and first bought them.

@paulgoldstein2569 Жыл бұрын

Frank Zappa's first album was double, and came out about the same time in the States.

@charlotex1 9 ай бұрын

I can't turn the volume up enough to hear this video. Am I going deaf?

@learnasongwithjon 9 ай бұрын

It's definitely not produced the greatest! I'll be better next time 👍.

@JemmyJoeAGoGo Жыл бұрын

I agree with the assembly of the song. Besides the term “stoned” being used in the refrain, which has another meaning, there’s nothing in the lyrics to suggest that the song’s topic is pot. I see the song as a twin to “Gotta Serve Somebody”, both saying that the rules of world are universal to all the players and unavoidable in their consequences. It sucks, because here I am trying to be so good, and inevitably I will have rocks thrown at me. Sheesh Louise!