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I have have grown up listening to Dylan my entire life. Not all of his music, but damn near close. To me, it feels like a perfect sad hug. It may not make me feel better, but I'll feel less alone. But whenever I play his music in front of my friends they just don't get it. They look at me funny and I can tell they don't like it. I love my friends, and I think that they all have great music taste most of the time but now I'm embarrassed and wondering if I got caught up in the aesthetic of the music and he actually just doesn't translate that well decades later.
Jan 6, 2025
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A little overlooked and a little maligned as being part of that period in Bobâs career (starting after the motorcycle incident) where he ended his streak of revolutionary albums (that had his contemporaries in a constant chokehold from â63-â66), and instead began turning inwards; a little more pastoral, a little more run-down and homey. Whatever, he couldâve stopped after Visions of Johanna, anything after is a blessing. It pains me when people treat this as pedestrian or unessential music. Close to John Wesley Harding in sound and aesthetic but more honest and not as interested in folk-mythmaking. This is like his McCartney, total domestic bliss and joie de vivre. Sign On The Window is my favourite.
Hopefully gets some reappraisal after Timmy covered Three Angels on SNL.
Feb 10, 2025
I love âDesolation Row,â and Iâm always happy when Bob passes the ten minute mark. we got:
âKey West (Philosopher Pirate)â â a dreamy meditation on life and finding meaning in the margins on the world
âSad-eyed Lady of the Lowlandsââ the worldâs prettiest haunted love song
âBrownsville Girlâ â in running for funniest song ever. a guy describing a movie he canât quite remember, and a road trip with a lost love, while the stories bleed together like repeating dreams. made complete by Kanye-style blasts of gospel choir.
âHighlandsâ â a guy wanders around and flirts/argues with a diner waitress? ok idk this one is for the heads.
And of course âMurder Most Foulâ â
17 minutes of Fiona Apple piano and Bob narrating the moment of JFKâs demise, a nation betrayed and sentenced to pay, its cultural history collapsing in on itself at the start of a new age.
Oct 8, 2024
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I recommend it.
Jan 11, 2025
Completely instrumental and improvisational jazz, blues and funk fusion. Its a cornerstone of African psychedelic rock in my opinion. I highly recommend listening to Minlbelesh and avoiding Bati Bati.
Jan 7, 2025
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- podcasts (I like the broski report and the basement yard)
- being around animals: go to dog parks, cat cafes, or just pet random animals that you walk past on the street
- meditation (sit quietly, deep breaths, calming music)
- social media (here, instagram, discord) start sending stuff to your old friends online if itâs too much to hang in person
I hope you feel better. Iâve been in a situation very similar to yours and I understand completely. It is so difficult to have to distance yourself from others when you still feel that loneliness. But, since youâre feeling better now, please please please start putting yourself out there again. I promise you that your friends still love you and want to be around you. But you have to be the one to bridge that gap that you created. I hope this helped :)
Jan 8, 2025