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This is a great mashup.
As another topical Dylan song, Masters of War speaks as eloquently about the Iraq War as it did about Vietnam
Broken Elbows 'R Us
by D Wreck on Wed May 14, 2008 at 09:37:19 PM PDT
this spring during our war unit--and brought it in relative to the Iraq War.
It is never too late to be what you might have been [especially now] George Eliot
by begone on Wed May 14, 2008 at 09:43:22 PM PDT
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I love Dylan, but Eddie's version sends chills down my spine.
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by TrueBlueMajority on Wed May 14, 2008 at 10:01:01 PM PDT
i actually heard eddie's first, on the michael moore fahrenheit 911 soundtrack.
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by wu ming on Wed May 14, 2008 at 10:16:10 PM PDT
I was singing along angrily with Dylan's version during the Vietnam War. But I'll be hitting iTunes for Eddie's.
by begone on Wed May 14, 2008 at 10:37:31 PM PDT
and was raised by [albeit rather liberal] republicans on the other side of that great boomer chasm. i didn't really discover dylan until the late 90s, and didn't hear him until a long road trip up I-5 with my wife in 2004, when the moment was ripe.
what's sad is that in a generation or even two, we haven't really learned to hear dylan, as a society if not as individuals. i'm wrecked looking at the pictures coming out of sichuan lately, and when it dawned on me that that disaster and human suffering is but a fraction of your average war, it set me to weeping again.
by wu ming on Wed May 14, 2008 at 11:28:44 PM PDT
keeps being yanked from YouTube. Wanted to post it in your honor.
by begone on Wed May 14, 2008 at 11:59:57 PM PDT
to get it playing in my head.
by wu ming on Thu May 15, 2008 at 01:03:51 AM PDT
happening on my laptop tonight. It's Lay Lady Lay at the moment because that song distracted me.
by begone on Thu May 15, 2008 at 01:27:47 AM PDT
back in the day. When John Wesley Harding came out they played it for at least 12 hours, inviting phone-in listener comment on what the lyrics meant.
by Creosote on Thu May 15, 2008 at 03:26:27 AM PDT
at the Wiltern in L.A.
Goosebumps.
As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. - Justice William O. Douglas
by occams hatchet on Wed May 14, 2008 at 10:59:27 PM PDT
so perfect for that song.
by wu ming on Wed May 14, 2008 at 11:29:20 PM PDT
that gut wrenching emotion that is his signature tone is perfect for the righteous anger of great protest music.
"even Jesus would never forgive what you do" is a great line off Dylan's pen and a great line out of anyone's mouth but Eddie made it sound like a prophet's authoritative pronouncement.
by TrueBlueMajority on Thu May 15, 2008 at 04:50:09 AM PDT
... in washington dc in 2006, 20,000 voices strong singing the last verse.
later in the show eddie played a "special request" for dick cheney - neil young's "fuckin' up"
they closed the show with yellow ledbetter with an outro guitar solo of the national anthem
art as social criticism
very moving
by D Wreck on Thu May 15, 2008 at 05:30:36 AM PDT
Dylan's Visions of Sin (HarperCollins, 2005).
Ricks is "a professor of humanities at Boston University," per the Publisher's Weekly info, who "confirms Dylan's poetic genius and elevates the poet of the north country to canonical status alongside Tennyson, Shakespeare and Milton."
by Creosote on Thu May 15, 2008 at 03:24:14 AM PDT
by Creosote on Thu May 15, 2008 at 03:27:15 AM PDT
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