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7 Incredible Rock Songs You've Probably Never Heard
I don't know about you, but aside from the music I've played over and over for years, I'm always looking for a couple of new songs that'll really add to my playlist and move me, emotionally and physically.
By Victoria (@fodmapfeasts)5 years ago in Beat
"The earth is strung with lovers' pearls..."
The song "Dark Eyes" by Bob Dylan will be the focus of this article. I think that initially, it is important to look at where this is possibly set. The setting seems to be in some time of war, because we have ‘gentlemen’ and we have ‘soldiers’. The ‘gentlemen’ obviously are not the ones going to war, so they can drink and have a great time, whilst the images of the soldiers are rather solitary and isolated, normally very melancholy and quiet in comparison to their counterparts. The narrator states that they have to leave the gentlemen to go somewhere else, as if trying to observe both sides of the coin of society in these troubled times:
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Beat
Eclectic Collective EC001
Hi! I'm a music addict and part-time producer hailing from the sunny UK. I felt it was time to share some of the gems I'm lucky enough to unearth every week with the world, and hopefully connect some people with music that's a little off-piste but that they can still enjoy. I'll be touching on a variety of aspects, from sounds through to connections, and of course the best mood (in my opinion) for listening. Here goes...
By Alex Smith5 years ago in Beat
Queen Jane...Almost
Is "Queen Jane Approximately" the most ignored song on "Highway 61 Revisited" and why? There’s a number of questions which are pointed out about the song “Queen Jane Approximately” and most of them pertain to the fact that Bob Dylan called Queen Jane referring to ‘a man’ in the year the album was released. I’m not going to lie, I really do not care who Queen Jane is and I want to actually look at why this song is constantly ignored over the other songs on the same album.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Beat
The Case for 'Joey'
For those of you who don’t know, “Joey” is a song by Bob Dylan from his Mexican-Themed album “Desire” on which lies the great song “Romance in Durango”, the Cinco de Mayo song “Isis” and obviously, the revolutionary “Hurricane” of which the subject is the boxer, Rubin ‘The Hurricane’ Carter. Apart from these songs plus one of my personal favourites, “One More Cup of Coffee”, the great “Black Diamond Bay”, the start of the ‘divorce era’ song “Sara” and the confusing “Mozambique” - the song “Joey” seems to be universally hated for some odd reason.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Beat
Ode to Fugue Symphony
"Art is never finished, only abandoned." - Leonardo Da Vinci Da Vinci is one of my idols. His Art has always inspired me to be better and perfectionate my creative projects in my journey as an Artist. As his quote suggests, the process of creating Art, in any medium, is an alchemical reflection of its creator.
By Facundo Raganato5 years ago in Beat
Another Jeff Tweedy Story: A soundtrack to joy and grief
I will admit, I am an unabashed Jeff Tweedy fan. His two 2018 releases, WARM and WARMER touched on themes ubiquitous within us all. With songs about American regret and the search for meaning in an increasingly chaotic world, they caught the feeling of the times. Tweedy continues to elucidate our journey into the unknown with his latest release, Love Is King.
By Peter Carriveau5 years ago in Beat
Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released"
The song “I Shall Be Released” by Bob Dylan has been covered by many, many artists over the years with my personal favourite being by Nina Simone. The song itself is a great testament to life and death in which Bob Dylan explores the point of imprisonment and the way in which someone’s own reflection can be seen in a place which is without any mirrors. Now, what we talk about in the posts of “Dylan in a day” is not the critical analysis behind the songs but instead what we think the songs might be about. I have read way too many books on Bob Dylan’s songs to start giving a citation for everyone I use, so instead I want to talk to you about what I take from the song myself. “I Shall Be Released” has to be one of my favourite songs by Bob Dylan and it actually appears in two different main forms: one being on “The Greatest Hits” album along with “Watching the River Flow” and the other on the “Raw” or “Complete” version of “The Basement Tapes”. By general consensus, the latter seems to be the one that is more liked of the two.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Beat
