Patti Smith - Changing of the Guards

[WillCarson00]

I thought I was alone in loving Street Legal and this song. I believe this is Bob Dylan's greatest song. Great cover.

[Pijawek]

Nobody sings Dylan like Dylan. And thank God for that;)

[marcelopepinho]

No way... impossible to be better than Dylan

[teknofil007]

This is maby the best sang in the world!!

I Love this song.I have se Dylan Live for 5 times,and have all his album.

But this versjon of Street Legal with patti is Buti...

I Love it.Thank You:)

[siro0neun]

Patti Smith "twelve" > laut.de/bilder/lautstark/artik­el/cdreview/15035/cover.jpg

[teknofil007]

@siro0neun Yeh I bought this cd Twelwe now for 2 minute ago.Good:)

[FritzIdler1]

I always thought I was alone, thinking "Changing Of The Guards" was one of Dylan's greats. Glad to see I'm not. Patti's cover is amazing. Especially after her unhappy "Smells Like Teen Spirit." You ought to check out Paul Anka's cover of "Teen Spirit." It's a hoot. He swings it like it was born to be swung, the melody as bouncy as a tumbler. Her version here, broods, and weaves, as sonorously as "Dancing Barefoot."

[aquamoon22]

This song is epic, biblical. Better Listen Up!!!

[Jojoseahorse]

I love Bob's and Patti's versions about equally, and yes I like both "Street Legal" and "Twelve", although most fans of these artists I have spoken to do not care for either! Oh well each to his or her own. That's Patti's daughter Jesse doing backing vocals :) And I love this photo of her in the white dress - beautiful angel :)

[kellycalk]

Hey I know a woman up the road who was born on midsummers eve near the tower , Fountain of Knowlage ? Yep we got one

Mountain Laural and rolling rocks , Check , Eden Burning ,On order. Peace and tranquility , Only available in the tablet form.

[truetolife100]

i feel the same way love street legal album just love bobby

this is great by patti thanks

[hespheiden]

Woweee! Everybody always thought I was crazy for loving Street Legal--even most Bob geeks think it's kind of crappy, like Vegas Bob. It was always one of my 2 or 3 favorites though, and this song being the best. She does a fantastic job at this, rivaling Bob, but with a totally different feel. First time I've heard it. Now, of course I have to listen to Bob's.

[todorela]

Not like, I love it! :)

[petkopn]

masterpiece !

[MTCatman]

Really like this one! Thanks!

[alicitapalomita]

I loveeeeee it Patti just changed my life. Maybe because I am a girl I needed this version that is so feminine yet so masculine also. Thank you Dylan for writing and Patti for the interpretation and youtube user for uploading and sharing. :)

[geekaypee]

Love it. But that female chorus behind Dylan's original makes it. Patti is super, but it misses that bit.

[misterjones47]

very very beautiful. this shares love 

[alicitapalomita]

@misterjones47 I agree. :) <3 Yes yes very very beautiful this shares love, what you said. :)

[gankaku01]

She fucked up this song with her crying voice and wrong tempo.

[skinsislovely]

@gankaku01 not at all, actually. bob dylan sang this fucking incredibly of course, but so does she, in her own way.

[xxxdannyxxx]

@skinsislovely

meh,  its okay this version. but dylan's makes it count at the right times with the lyrics to give more spunk.

point blank, his version is better. this one is just a little to bland.

[tigereye04]

this is a stunning cover. @tsomer07 has it correct. patti breathes this in an elegiac manner, completely different from dylan, yet both just punch you in the sternum.

[annidimini]

Wow! Don't you just love it! The best.

[annidimini]

Wow! Don't you just love it!

[annidimini]

Wow!

[JasonHi]

Chris Whitley performed a haunting cover of this song. This doesn't have quite the power of his interpretation.

[shyly2]

excellent ! mais je la préfère chantée par Bob Dylan ! Malgré tout elle a réussi à se l'approprier trés bien !

[ISEGARD67]

a masterpiece from mr Dylan

[xavtron]

I love how patti smith makes songs her own this and smells like teen spirit are two of my favorite covers of all time topped only by hendrix's all along the watchtower

[hannahbergstrom]

I love this song!

[MusicWriter1965]

I'm more of a Bob fan than a Patti fan, but I like this much better than Bob's original. Like almost everything else on Street Legal, I found it to be too slick and overproduced, especially the chick singers echoing every single line he sang, which was so repetitive it was distracting. And then there was the sax solo, which also seemed to be incongruous with the content of the song. Here, I think Patti gives the song the more fitting, more organic, folk-rock feel that it deserves

[tigereye04]

@MusicWriter1965 patti's is so much sparer, gives the lyrics their due.

[spacedoginnebraska]

@MusicWriter1965 I couldn't agree more.

[scumgod13]

@MusicWriter1965  Bob was over at my place about a month ago. I gave him an Unreleased copy of my next CD.

[deejfun]

I LOVE THIS!!!!

[danny4481]

This song,both versions,chills my skin and tears my eyes. One of Bobby's best.

[smokeddoll]

TOO MUCH BEAUTIFUL

[MrYigal]

Where is Bob's original tho? I like both versions but when people ask for it I can't provide them with a link to the original song on youtune.

[ccChebb]

The lyrics have been changed... well suppose it's creative liberty, but I prefer BY FAR Bob's..

[PumpkinKittencake]

Seriously amazing - found myself doing the backing vocals as on Bobs original lol!

[MrStarbuck123]

How come i can't find the original song anywhere?

[keeperblue]

@MrStarbuck123 No Dylan songs on facebook anymore fs, some dispute he got in with Sony

[RDBeatnik]

No saxaphone. Epic fail.

[beatlemaniac1978]

A legend making a cover of another legend. Simply perfect

[VendettaMadame]

Nothing beats the original...but fortunately Patti Smith has the most perfect and beautiful voice to sing this song. Good version, though.

[paultudorp]

very very good I love it...

[unacaterina]

Molto bella. Grande canzone, grande interpretazione.

[limeginger]

nice - I'd never heard Patti do this - I wanted to find Dylan's original version on youtube and it's not here, but this is gorgeous and almost as good as finding Bob.

[45greyowl]

Cities are the graveyards of men.

[JoeyBrenner]

There is none but Dylan

[dchm2008]

Patti at her best !!

[KevinTheKennedy]

"smelling sweet as the meadows she's borne" well done ms smith

[moti4love]

thats verry nice

but i must to say : bob dylan is the best !

[ohmercy]

very, very beautiful

[Slimcase85]

Absolutely wonderful. Stunned.

[robmacillechiar]

In response to isomer07,

I hadn't thought of that, but you have said it all.

[yogini1992]

p.s. dylan fans freaking out...bob is a huge fan of patti and the two are good friends. do your homework and just relax lol. :)

[Sparta2740]

@yogini1992 pretty clear you havent done your homework pal, bob never said he liked patte but he did said that he think shes very commersial, so do your homework before you say others should do their homework

[Forgedinflam]

@Sparta2740 WHO CARES, GET A JOB this version is amazing is all that matters 

[yogini1992]

My breath has been taken, im breathless, speechless. <3 so much love <3 wow.

[dave777blaster]

Patty is on the money here

[divejoy]

I think its a wonderful version. Robert Maplethorpe photographed Patti. Wow!!

This song reminds me of Kabbalah and the quest of the Shekinah (pardon my spelling) to get back to her mate, that is Torah and God. It is out of some Hekhalut literature originally.

[Forgedinflam]

easy on the hebrew, goldberg

[LemoTetson]

Smith does Dylan well.

[johanstone]

its nice but more boring that the original, she never changes the tune, and the lyrics being so long... it works for dylan, this version live is t hte berst

[TheRedemtion]

Hail to the queen !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[92balthazar]

one of my favourite Dylan songs...and this version is sublime!

[lahela1000]

John( brother of mine) or Ian L. what do you think of Patti Smith's version of Dylan's version of changing of the guards? L

[MusicWriter1965]

I am old enough to remember when the original was released. I saw Bob in '78 when he toured behind Street Legal. This was the best song on that album, but that record was too slickly-produced, like with the chick singers echoing every line he sang.

This version is stronger. It's more organic, more rustic, more in keeping with the sense of mysticism and vivid allegorical nature of the lyrics. One of Bob's greatest, most powerful songs, though

[neonmadwoman]

And what is not entirely prophetic about

But Eden is burning

Either get ready for elimination

Or else your hearts must have the courage

Of the Changing of the Guards ?

[ethelburga]

'I stumbled to my feet, I rode past destruction in the ditches

With the stitches,still mending beneath a heart-shaped tattoo"

Incredible how she provides a feminine mirror to the incredibly personal lyrics of what has always looked like a valedictory anthem from BD by an artist who is up there in Dylan's league.

[DeeBlount20]

Amazing. Amazing :)

[wildhias]

love the piano sound remembering me on the absence of the back vocals - the woman who sang the first half of lines

[x8Queen8x]

Love the song. Love Patti Smith. This song really makes me believe this music so much like my religion. Mpravo re Patti..

[locheelad2]

I heard it in 76, Dylan's lyrics are Prophesy, one verse for one person, one for another...., Anyway, he just finished Bible School, had these lyrics, and wanted to go record them on an acoustic. A producer talked him into making "Street Legal", with the 3 female back-up singers, and the Tex-Mex horns. IMO it's heads above any other Dylan album.

[moonberry1]

luminous version of a great song

[blujufirst]

Gentlemen he says

" I DON'T NEED YOUR ORGANISATION"

[locheelad2]

@blujufirst "shined your shoes, moved your mountains" brilliant verse.

[jokra79]

tsomer07: your analysis is wonderful. thanks for articulating what i felt!

[TimWhistles]

One of the rare occasions a Dylan cover is as good as the original.. almost.

[Mllemojorisin]

Maybe. And don't forget the Hendrix ' amazing "all along the watchtower", that Dylan himself recognized better than his..

[TheLukasini]

Great !!!

[tsomer07]

I heard the original on a juke box this week, and it was as fresh as when I first heard it. Once again, I'm obsessed with it.

Dylan treats it as if its prophesy, Patti Smith treats it as dream. Dylan shouts, Smith breathes it. I suppose Dylan's rendition is authoritative--his song afterall, but Smith's version is illuminating. I can't imagine one without the other.

[zen3131]

@tsomer07 The only time after reading a million YT comments that I got chills. "Dylan tretas it as prophesy and smith treats it as dream" Wow. If I had to(was forced at gunpoint) to say what I believe is Dylans top masterpiece I would say this song or "Grooms still waiting at the altar" but then I would be killed cuz i couldnt decide...

[locheelad2]

@zen3131 It is prophesy, it prophesied an unbelievably important happening in my life, 30 years after, why would I lie? This song is frightening to me, relistening to Street Legal has been wtf. More true prophesy, for me in "No Time To Think". Well we agree, this is his best song, and as a baby-boomer, I grew up on him.

[GivenTheOdds]

@tsomer07 That's an interesting assessment tsomer07. Providing you're comparing this to bob's original single in 78.. Right on.

[flescum]

@tsomer07 Oh, the insight ;-D

[ZZZwolverineZZZ]

@tsomer07

So well spoken. Thank you for that meaningful comment.

[ohmercy]

@tsomer07 so beautifully said/envisioned/interpreted.

Thanks so much.

[aquamoon22]

A absolute masterpiece full of amazing imagery & splendor!!!

Pure genius!!!

[Dylane78]

Vraiment magnifique. L'original de Bob Dylan m'avait déjà impressionnée. Celle-ci est une reprise fantastique, Patti Smith a compris la chanson.

Deux des plus grands artistes à mes yeux. Patti Smith, Bob Dylan

[dorak8]

AMAZING... O_O

[goldsharkglittering]

Compared to the original version by Bob Dylan, amazing how the masculine tone of the song was turned into the feminine one. So beautiful. Both tones.

[flescum]

Good observation, I love this woman

[fernandosm8]

i had never seen it that way... but you're right... and i agree with you, both versions are great and with that power that only few songs had...

[locheelad2]

@goldsharkglittering My congratulations to Patti for covering this brilliant song. However, if you grew up with the Street Legal take, this feels a bit too slow.

[ohmercy]

@goldsharkglittering wonderful insight.

thanks.