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Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Ev'rybody knows
That Baby's got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls
She takes just like a woman, yes she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.
Queen Mary, she's my friend
Yes, I believe I'll go see her again
Nobody has to guess
That Baby can't be blessed
Till she finally sees that she's like all the rest
With her fog, her amphetamine and her pearls
She takes just like a woman, yes she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.
It's was raining from the first
And I was dying there of thirst
So I came in here
And your long-time curse hurts
But what's worse
Is this pain in here
I can't stay in here
Ain't it clear that.
I just can't fit
Yes, I believe it's time for us to quit
When we meet again
Introduced as friends
Please don't let on that you knew me when
I was hungry and it was your world
Ah, you fake just like a woman, yes you do
You make love just like a woman, yes you do
Then you ache just like a woman
But you break just like a little girl.
Has anyone done a cover of this?
Who cares?
the softer side of Bob
hes just a romantic at heart
I truly respect the impact Bob's had on the industry and other artists, I do.
This one sounds just a little too much like a comedian's parody of Bob for me though.
I think of it as Bob exploring the limits of that particular Dylan style, on this and a few other tunes around that time, and deciding to pull it back a bit thereafter. I've often said you don't truly know where the limits lie until you've exceeded them.
But that's me and hey, if you like it, it ain't none'a my business.
Peace.
P.S. I would add, in that cover photo, he seems a little unfocused. ; P
You're right. This song was voted by someone, somewhere, as the Dylan song that sounds most like a parody of a Dylan song. I'm sure of it.
I will pay more than what I already pay if Bob Dylan is eliminated from the playlist.
:)
RIP fool.
Stop playing this song. Its awful. Bob is so over rated.
Stop listening. Clearly you are not worthy.
i wish i had something good to say about this song 😂
Then please do.
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After hearing this AMAZING variety of music at work every day for a month, I decided I HAD to start a monthly stipend. SO worth it. I can't work with out it!
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His harmonica solos kill me. It's all in there.
go hear him live in 2023
his piano playing is quite good
hes got a Monk vibe going
honest
One of the best songs ever written by one of the best songwriters that ever was.
It really is quite a masterpiece. I knew the song for years but one day I was learning how to play it and really dove into all of the lyrics and the music behind it is quite intentional. Interesting perspective here: https://www.dylanchords.com/no...
Has anyone done a cover of this?
Manfred Mann. They also did Mighty Quinn.
One of his worst songs. Much of Dylan's work is very overrated.
ROTFLMAO — A Nobel Prize and a Pulitzer Prize disagrees with you.
I will pay more than what I already pay if Bob Dylan is eliminated from the playlist.
:)
You sound like someone with Nobel Prize in Literature.
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I will pay more than what I already pay if Bob Dylan is eliminated from the playlist.
:)
Who would have thought.... Bob Dylan is actually an anagram of Play Something Different.
One of his worst songs. Much of Dylan's work is very overrated.
Thanks for the clarification. You have no idea how wrong I was to appreciate his music all these years. You make such a strong case.
Mostly I think your analysis of sexism or not in this Dylan song is pretty on target, but I think there are at least a couple of blatant examples and maybe some undertones, e.g. faking and taking can be derogatory. To me what's more to the point is that this is from 1966, around the time of the 2nd wave of feminism. NOW was just starting and getting feet. I don't think that the ideas of sexism and feminism, etc were well developed in our culture yet. So, it's hard to expect Dylan not to exhibit some sexism. It pervades the country and it's still here. Musicians often treat female groupies like cattle, and the groupies have some responsibility too. Drugs, sex, and rock and roll....
I mean, just look how young he is in that album cover!
Has anyone done a cover of this?
Rod Stewart does a nice job with this one.
I am not a Dylan fan, but I like this one.
This one sounds just a little too much like a comedian's parody of Bob for me though.
I think of it as Bob exploring the limits of that particular Dylan style, on this and a few other tunes around that time, and deciding to pull it back a bit thereafter. I've often said you don't truly know where the limits lie until you've exceeded them.
But that's me and hey, if you like it, it ain't none'a my business.
Peace.
P.S. I would add, in that cover photo, he seems a little unfocused. ; P
Put in the context of 1966. 'Good music was just starting to move in a lot of different directions. This was one of them. He was actually an important part of a significant movement culturally, musically, and political. Very dynamic time in American history. Bob was a catalyst in some important events. Thank you Mr. Dylan. You are a living American legend.
Solid 10
11 if I could.
Right? I don't break, but I sure ache....
This one sounds just a little too much like a comedian's parody of Bob for me though.
I think of it as Bob exploring the limits of that particular Dylan style, on this and a few other tunes around that time, and deciding to pull it back a bit thereafter. I've often said you don't truly know where the limits lie until you've exceeded them.
But that's me and hey, if you like it, it ain't none'a my business.
Peace.
P.S. I would add, in that cover photo, he seems a little unfocused. ; P
No, I think that's lazy. The song's really about adult vs childlike. So he frames the majority of it as "she's a grownup, tough, defined..." but when things go emotionally wrong "she's like a little child."
That's not sexism.
Well stated, and concise! Thanks for that, I'll use it next time someone says this tune is sexist....Long Live RP and a recently turned 78 Bob Dylan!!
Mr. Dylan had 4 children between 1967 and 1971 and took parenthood seriously and was apparently a good father.
That explains it all.
No, I think that's lazy. The song's really about adult vs childlike. So he frames the majority of it as "she's a grownup, tough, defined..." but when things go emotionally wrong "she's like a little child."
That's not sexism.
I do not.
P.S. Terrific set.
Oh c'mon. I doubt you have "honestly tried to understand" at all. This particular song may be dated(sexist), but even if one doesn't 'LOVE' Dylan, it's not hard to understand the draw of his writing, unless one is just playing the antagonist.
I don't get it either. I thought it might be a 'generational thing' but Joni Mitchell is on now and I love this song so it's not that. I just fail to understand the reverence for Dylan.
Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of elevators loves this classic song... we be dancing like happy hippies... love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll... hope life is grand for you these days, Peter_Bradshaw...
Oh c'mon. I doubt you have "honestly tried to understand" at all. This particular song may be dated(sexist), but even if one doesn't 'LOVE' Dylan, it's not hard to understand the draw of his writing, unless one is just playing the antagonist.
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i don't doubt that at all, as I absolutely concur that this song is shite, even if one could look past the overt sexism. The god-awful nasal whining that passes for singing induces a visceral hatred in me. But even if the song was handed to an actual singer, it would still be a dry, sandpapery 💩 of a song. The pain lingers long after the event has passed.
Just cringe-inducing agony from the first wobbly note to the can't-come-fast-enough ending. #diediedie
Oh c'mon. I doubt you have "honestly tried to understand" at all. This particular song may be dated(sexist), but even if one doesn't 'LOVE' Dylan, it's not hard to understand the draw of his writing, unless one is just playing the antagonist.
Ah, you're English. Here in the States, we are getting schooled in the ways of men who are toe curlingly sexist. Maybe even elect one to Prez.
I can't get enough from Dylan. Just like a genius!
Love it too......and to offer hope ...my young adult kids love him too
Aren't you the guy who rated Subterranean Homesick Alien by Radiohead a 10? Seems some of the people you like, got it.
Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen?
I simply don't understand why someone would listen to a station when they dislike virtually all the music they play.
There are countless other stations available.
"When we meet again
Introduced as friends
PLEASE don't let on that you knew me when I was hungry, and it was your world."
That's a good reason to like him.
A quick look at your ratings shows 300+ Sucko Barfos and about 30 Godlikes.
You apparently hate everything . . . except whining.
Why do we insult people that we disagree with?
A quick look at your ratings shows 300+ Sucko Barfos and about 30 Godlikes.
You apparently hate everything . . . except whining.
I missed him first time around, Can.
Ten, maybe twenty years on, you'll start to understand that 'this guy' created all the bands you're listening to today. And when that time comes, you'll break, just like a little girl.
And then I hear this song, and realize there are things no man can endure…
bc wrote:
He liked Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and Towne. . I hope that where he is now, he listen to Radio paradise.
Many, many great covers of his songs out there though, by diverse artists.
The Nina Simone cover of Just Like A Woman is superb - a tender rendition that reveals the emotions contained within the song in a way Bob Dylan, I'm afraid, just can't.
Er, sorry Bob!
Generational I guess.
I don't hear the singer/writer speaking to me or about me.
I hear a lovely lady, once upon a time, she was becoming a woman and I a man.
The dance was lovely... the whirl around the city and countryside...
Then the music stopped.
What do I cherish, carry forward, remember...
And the music, smells, the feeling of magical times....
I'm glad I have her to occupy my thoughts rather than him and his voice...
He was just my conductor, tour guide, curator... of my journey.
Everybody's travels will be different.
The journey is not his fault. The memories are yours.
Maybe it's time to make some better ones.
Sigh...I sat and thought about your last two words. What changed?
At 64 how the heck can I answer..or think that one through ... without sounding like the churlish old grump ... that I probably am to most.
My mind replies with a torrent of things that changed in our..in my ..Universe.
- It contracted. How can you love this guy's music and words - like I do - if you have three dozen electronic sensory stimuli going at once? If your brain cannot give you the time to listen past the dissonance?
- It expanded. The quietness between the sips of coffee and the cigarettes?.that silence that S&G sang about? the one you could listen to? .it got filled up with an electronic cacophony of tweets and blogs and commentary and opinions that we may not need, that cry down anything that's not today's shoe size.
Aw..what the heck... I'm just warming to voicing that twinge-y pain in my chest that the question unearthed and RP is alreday three songs on.
I guess that's it.
It changed.
The entire Bob Dylan set is great!
Nice post. I particularly appreciated the bit above.
I so don't envy the "social media" generation.
Sigh...I sat and thought about your last two words. What changed?
At 64 how the heck can I answer..or think that one through ... without sounding like the churlish old grump ... that I probably am to most.
My mind replies with a torrent of things that changed in our..in my ..Universe.
- It contracted. How can you love this guy's music and words - like I do - if you have three dozen electronic sensory stimuli going at once? If your brain cannot give you the time to listen past the dissonance?
- It expanded. The quietness between the sips of coffee and the cigarettes?.that silence that S&G sang about? the one you could listen to? .it got filled up with an electronic cacophony of tweets and blogs and commentary and opinions that we may not need, that cry down anything that's not today's shoe size.
Aw..what the heck... I'm just warming to voicing that twinge-y pain in my chest that the question unearthed and RP is alreday three songs on.
I guess that's it.
It changed.
And he had learned to write a bridge. He has never had a great voice but he sang quite well,imo, for streak of albums...Blood on the Tracks, Desire, and especially on Street Legal.
Funny.
Not sure that qualifies as singing.
Someone suggested listening for the 'implied melody'.
I think that's a PC way of saying he can't stay in key.
I'd probably sing like this if 80% of my brain was removed via lobotomy or I did about 2lbs of cocaine and meth a day. Or maybe if I was an alien from another planet and had only actual read about singing but never heard what singing was. Then maybe I'd sing like this, albeit with a lot of drool, but still not exactly this bad. PSD.
Funny.
Not sure that qualifies as singing.
Someone suggested listening for the 'implied melody'.
I think that's a PC way of saying he can't stay in key.
"Green Eggs and Ham" as sung by "Bob Dylan"
Most Execellent
Was not feeling The Bob tonight, so when "Lay Lady Lay" came on I hit the PSD button...only to be transported to here.
Oh PSD, oh Cruel Mistress.
Am willing to bet that even Bob can only listen to so much of himself before he gags himself and flees into a soundproof chamber. And I say this as a Dylan fan.
6/27/14: Years ago I posted here about a site called "Dylan Hears a Who" where a Bob impersonator sang Dr. Seuss.
It
Was
Brilliant.
Sadly, lawyers waded in and forced the site to shut down. However--here's a song that survived. Even if you hate the real Bob, I think you'll like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUIhVPdwcRA
"Green Eggs and Ham" as sung by "Bob Dylan"
I feel so sad for your ignorance.
Bob Dylan & Francoise Hardy, Paris 1966 by bp fallon
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Hardy is mentioned in a poem by Bob Dylan, "Some other kinds of songs", which he wrote on the cover of his album Another Side of Bob Dylan, released in 1964.
Try listening to One More Cup of Coffee or the whole Nashville Skyline album. It is easy to fall in love with those songs even if you hate Dylan now; it may open up the greatest songwriter in my and many people's opinion.
Everybody in my church loves this marvelous song...
My church also loves this one and they ask me to give it a big FAT 10
Totally agree. He didn't get his chops by being a "wannabe-DJ." He didn't wait for his ship to come in - he swam out after it!
Day-am, I LOVE RadioParadise! May it conquer that ClearChannel monster that's killed off everything it's ever touched. Bring back FM radio, with the caliber of music played here at RP. Yeah. I could get behind that...
miss you so much, Cynaera...
love this marvelous song...
Sinead Lohan - To Ramona
Bob Dylan - Just Like a Woman
A dynamic and beautiful Dylan ensemble. My 4-month-old daughter fell asleep in my arms while we listened. Made my day, thank you
Sitting here at work digging the same set. Nice little piece of Dylan's mid-sixties output.