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  • guess ifs a 11 mins i'll crank it and feel it from a wandering eh

  • i found this song because of MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE and i loved it and now I LOVE BOTH

  • exactly where is this Desolation row, think I'd like to go there for a while but just for a visit

  • Has anybody else noticed that Gram Parsons' In My Hour Of Darkness is very reminiscent of this timeless masterpiece?

  • @Bob Dylans Dream....You are Correct........I also defy anyone to call him a democrat......said that cause of America today.......were in trouble

  • for you & all that, but just you dont go pushing me, y'hear?" i understand that theyre not gonna invite me back cause they didnt like the way i came on to the master of ceremony's old lady, all in all, i'm making it tho. got a new song against cigarette lighters. this matchbook company offered me free matches for the rest of my life, plus my picture on all the matchbooks, but you know me, it'd take a helluva lot more'n that before i'd sell out-see you around nomination time your fellow rebel k.t

  • hi y'all. not much new happening. sang at the vegetarian convention my new song against meat. everybody dug it except for the plumbers neath the stage. this one little girl, fresh out of college & i believe president of the Dont Stomp Out the Cows division of the society. she tried to push me into one of the plumbers. starts a little chaos going, but you know me, i didnt go for that not one little bit. i say "look baby, i'll sing

  • there is a little hope from this desolation, and it started just a while back on Wall Street.

    Now its on seven continents.. want to visit your local demonstration.. and be part of 99% of us who need less crap in our lives? I can hardly believe that 400 people are rich enough to own the USA.. and we just need to say NO.. and show up to be counted here and there.. it is not that hard, and I can hardly walk

  • We sat around for hours trying to figure out all the references. But then, we sat around and just enjoyed Paul Simon's tales of life. Dylan was a visionary, Simon a minstrel. But, I guess, you'll stomp on me as a romantic.

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  • their are lots of dylan originals up now.The record companys must of stop being demons for a moment.

  • when i heard the my chemical romance version and came to listen to this, i did not expect to like this version better. but i do :)

  • One of Dylan' greatest songs. I have listened to it hundreds of times and never tire of it. Where did his talent come from ? Genius is an overused word, but Bob really is a genius

  • that guitar fill at 1:17 is my favorite

  • "Dylan, blows a breath of life in this story telling song"-indigenousman

  • I thought that was Mike Bloomfield on the other guitar (as I recall)

  • @rickolsonmusic /thought I read that- don't know for sure...

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  • こんな素晴らしい詩を書く、ミュージシャンはいない。

    来年こそノーベル文学賞取ってくれ、たいしたことない奴にやるな­、

    

  • ディランはフリーメイソンじゃない。

  • incredible

  • how can my chemical romance attempt to cover this, they have completely killed an amazing song

  • My favorite Dylan song of all time...I heard he wrote it in the back of a cab in NYC? I love the part about Ezra Pound and TS Elliott fighting in the tower..

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  • genius

    

  • no he is not if you got this great tallent

  • this is not just a song it is an odyssey

  • MANY GREAT NOVELIST LIKE STEINBECK HAVE OPENLY BEEN AMAZED / ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE A SONGWRITER LIKE WOODY COULD WRITE IN A 8MIN'S WHAT IT TOOK HIM TO WRITE IN 800PGS.

    WELL TS AND EZRA (WHO WERE FIGHTING IN THE CAPTAIN'S TOWER) ARE SO JEALOUS OF HIM THAT HE COULD DO IN A LITTLE OVER TEN MINUTES WHAT IT TOOK THEM A LIFE TIME TO DO.

    AND HE COULD / CAN ALSO PLAY THE HARMONICA BETTER THEN THEM.

    I TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH DR GARKLE, HE'S GREATER THAN ANY LANGUAGE HAS EVER KNOWN.

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  • I think I like the original by bob Dylan more than my chemical romance's version both are pretty good though

  • @123toby7 *facepalm*

  • @ShineOnCrazyDiamond1 have you heard mcr's version

  • @123toby7 It's shite, sorry i thought you said you prefered mcr's version lol.

  • He's God!

    

  • such a great thought put into words and music...will there ever b another?

  • When a great comet appears people, in their foolish arrogance believe two things: first, that they are the audience and second, that they understand. They are wrong. Comets are just rare and lovely. They fill the night sky with glowing dust, they follow their unique path, they shine because they are carried near the sun and they fade because are carried away again. Comets are marvels and each of us who witnessed one is affected, gifted, ennobled and awestruck.

  • @DoctorGarkle AND SO VERY FORTUNATE. BUT HE'S MORE THAN A COMET. HE'S WHAT COMETS CAME FROM

  • To think this Dylan masterpiece came from a twenty something young idealist. It's mind boggling!

  • The jury is still out on who the other guitar player is. Al Kooper has been suggested and he has never denied it ! It sure doesn't sound like anything McCoy ever did before on a Dylan track. (BTW, beware the Musical Trivia question "Who played drums on Dylan's 'Desolation Row' ").

  • @4730Peter The liner notes might help

  • i think it's awesome, but it turns boring...

  • What is this song about? this is an honest question, I can tell it is some kind protest song but I was not around when it was written, so i'm not sure what it is referring to.

  • My favourite Dylan song

  • You can use every line as a quotation

  • @lippalassi Don't you just love that about Dylan?? Gosh, his lyrics are just-- I can't even... amazing.

  • one of the 50 masterpieces of rock music no doubt along with sad eyed lady of the lowlands, far better than the overrated "like a rolling stone" (only a good song). dylan is a supreme genius of rock music.

  • I've always thought that the guitar work of Charlie McCoy is some of the best ever layed down, especially since this was recorded in one take.

  • dylan and hawking talkin' first and last 'bout what was now and what is then the professor speaking answers he inquires quite discreetly "am i hearing things or was that a big bang " "the candle burns at both ends but no light can escape cuz the jailer got the gravity on the inner loop of his ring of keys or so says the bard in song
  • Dylan for me is a great poet more than a great songwriter

  • love you bob dylan x

    <3 dylan 4eva <3

  • yo BobDylansDream3...check out leonard cohens...Closing Time...i am a major dylan fan but...

    Ed Bradley from 60 minutes asked bob about this song,to which dylan relpied...no on eindividual could have written this song with help from some one somewhere...but i agree...it IS unreal and the harmonica palying near the end

  • Thank you Thank you Thank you -

    Oh wait did I forget to say thank you? - THANK YOU!!!!!

  • i would like to see anyone else on this earth write something like this, i'd honestly bet 10,000 dollars nobody could even come close to this. I get blown away every time I hear this.

  • @BobDylansDream3 How could one not and still be human, right?

  • @iBundangbear i know it makes me just wanna quit music haha just knowing ill never be that good

  • @BobDylansDream3

    You will bet the 10,000 dollars that you can win at Jack In The Box LOL!

  • @BobDylansDream3  don't think to much about desolation row.

  • Dylan is a hundred layers of theater: the baby folk singer, the dark rocker, country singer, born again Christian, father, son, husband, painter, writer, farmer and poet. He is also the greatest singer-songwriter that the English language has ever known and a voice and vision more original than any artist since William Blake.

  • @DoctorGarkle So I'm guessing your kind of a Dylan fan, correct? Well, so am I. He's the rare instance of an artist---in his case a musical artist---who transcended art and became in his own lifetime a part of history. There's another contemporary song writer you may not have heard of. His name is John Prine. If you don't know his work, check him out. A major talent with a cult following that includes Dylan himself, who has been known to occasionally play back-up for John at concerts.

  • @JackKangaroo1 Yeah, I am in awe of Dylan's work. I actually know nothing of Prine except that I have heard the name but now, given your recommendation, I'll certainly give him my attention. Thanks man!

  • @DoctorGarkle Cross out born again Christian. He rejected that years ago when he began hanging around with the Lebavitchers. He sings about his rejection of Christianity in Man of Peace.

  • @MFPhoto1 The whole "conversion" was very strange indeed. A Jewish physician friend of mine converted to Christianity a few years ago after a "white light" experience in Church with a hot date. I think Dylan's conversion involved a woman as well (I am not sure). At any rate, it's all very strange to me, this Jesus-stuff. But then even geniuses--particularly geniuses-- often live chaotically.

  • @DoctorGarkle “What’s Dylan’s Religion” has always been a popular game. It was a former girlfriend who converted Dylan to Christianity. It was the wife of a Chabad Lubavitcher rabbi, a Dylan fan, who sought him out and brought him back to the Jewish fold, although he never became observant. He did perform a few times on the annual Chabad telethon, with his son-in-law Peter Himmelman, raising money for Lubavitch charities.

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  • @DoctorGarkle Part 2

    Dylan still shows up at a Chabad House once a year on Yom Kippur, depending on where he's at. I don't know about this past year, but last year it was in Atlanta. Even after rejecting his conversion, Dylan continued to use Christian imagry in his lyrics, confusing many. I think it is just him trying to appeal to a larger audience.

  • @DoctorGarkle Part 3

    Some time ago I met this girl from Minnesota. She went home to visit family and a friend invited her to a Lubavitch briss. She went expecting a good party with food, drink and dancing. What she did not expect was to meet Bob Dylan.

  • @DoctorGarkle And he's also a Jewish kid from Hibbing, MN that's going to win the Nobel Prize in Lit~!

  • I love My Chemical Roamances version, but this one still blows my mind :)

  • Fuck the foul language - this is BRILLIANT!

  • One of the biggest masterpieces of all times!

  • Great song!

  • steve jobs' fave musician

  • @NevilleBing Surely the favourite musician of anyone with half a brain? Both my girls in their early 20s idolise him ( so I must have done something right!)

  • Dylan's best ever

  • "Musical genius" might be going to far, but certainly poetic genius.

  • @BarerMender - try and imagine the words without the music - You won't be able to! I used to think like you, and your are certainly tight that he is a poetic genius - but he is also a musical genius.

  • @sionnyn As a poet myself, I don't have any problem separating the words from the music. And granted, it doesn't completely stand on its own as a poem. Few song lyrics do; the constraints of the genre (line-bound rhyming couplets, e.g.) prevent it. But Dylan said himself that most of his melodies were borrowed from old folksongs. I have to maintain Dylan is more about the words than the music.

  • @BarerMender

    More than language itself. Specific constructs or poetic meter, Dylan eclipses most cognitive frameworks.

    In this ditty he insinuates a state of being that transcends mere relative momentary experience with iconic

    visual framing of character, personality, force and political reference all wrapped in hypnotic melody and

    musical virtuosity that confounds.Once you get it, the net result are intonations, and emotional imprinting that

    will last your entire life. So, share it with all.

  • @gramatanbog Eclipses most cognitive frameworks? Surely you exaggerate. Come to think of it, what do you even mean by "cognitive framework?" As for "hypnotic melody and musical virtuosity," I call B.S. The last time I listened to this, I lost my focus on the words, and I found the droning music putting me to sleep.

  • @BarerMender

    I'm going to guess you are under 35 years old. You do not write,

    (professionally) and you may or may not know much about Bob Dylan.

    His time, nor the transformational history of those days. But, spend a

    bit more time thinking and listening, with your inner mind.

    Not your brain. Or, in the words of Mr. Dylan,

    I wouldn't pay it any mind, it's just a shadow you're

    Seein' that he's chasing.

    You will start getting it. Or not. It does not matter.

  • @elliegret You're a bad guesser. I'm sixty-two, a poet, a professional editor and writer, at least some of the time (I've revised two books for readability, both of which made the Business Week Business Best Seller List), .I lived through Bob Dylans time, and I know as much history as you do. As for the rest of your self-superior, patronizing bullshit, you can shove it.

  • @elliegret Hey Mr. Tambourine Man!

  • @BarerMender

    Then sleep on. Might be the best thing for you.

  • I like how the origional is all calm and slow and shizzle (and awesome) and MCR's version is violent, fast and very loud (and equally as awesome). Such contrast, but so much amazing music.

  • I love this version. MCR did a really good cover. :D Their both awesome. <3

  • Two dislikes? Must be MCR... >.>

  • @EvilMonsterThingy Who's that? some troll with 2 accounts? LOL

  • @iBundangbear MCR = My Chemical Romance. They've covered this song.

  • @EvilMonsterThingy no, they covered part of the song.

  • @dunkinking I can't listen to their cover. I can't even make it through the 1st verse :P

  • @CoffeeBeatsTea ha yeah neither can i... i just see that the BD one is over 10 minuets and the MCR is like 2 and a half... i know its faster but not that fast... i read somewhere that dylan actually liked it because he never heard one of his songs played like that, and he said he's glad that kids today still like his music.

  • Where's the Mac 1984 sledge hammer? If it's up there Steve please toss it down. We need it again.

    PS - I have an orange vinyl bootleg of Highway 61 a friend bought in Japan circa 1967. If anyone is willing to pay enough for it I promise to pay off the world debt.

  • great song!

  • Evert stanza lile an abstract painting - Thanks for posting.

  • It takes one to know one she smiles, puts her hands in her back pocket, betty davis style. that line right there alone is amazing haha

  • @BobDylansDream3 Why yes it is, much like the rest of them~!

  • @iBundangbear best ever.

  • OCCUPY WALL STREET, for we the people will have justice.

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  • love this song but, mcr's version is better in my eyes :) sorry bob fans x

  • how can a normal human being make up words like this!beuatiful!

  • @coolanddark Bob Dylan is no normal human being.

  • @thetazzdelaney Far from that, must be alien.

  • Saw Bobby sing this with the Grateful Dead a couple of times and was always amazed that anyone with that big of a live catalog could remember these lyrics. Goes to show you how profound these songs were to his peers. And Tom Petty recently quoted as sayng George Harrison quoted Dylan like hardcore Christians quote the gospel :)

  • @borgetc U know how he remembered them? like he said, "And every one of them words rang true And glowed like burning coal. Pouring off of every page Like it was written in my soul." Those words were written in his soul. and now they are written in the soul of me and anyone else who values dylan as much as i do.

  • Dylan on youtube whatever next?

  • This song i hope has a profound effect on my life. Ever time i listen to it i hope i think of this day.

  • This song i hope has a profound effect on my life. Ever time i listen to it i hope i think of this day.

  • 2 people don't like!? What, they have shit in his head o what?

  • AMAZING SONG. That's all there is to it, yet it's 11 minutes of pure gold.

  • Dylan himself has been negative about YT...

  • thank you I love this so much, and Dylan.

  • @rfranklinw1 - I couldn't have said it better myself, I think you speak for us all. Me, Dylan fan since '65, I have the original Blonde on Blonde double LP from 1966 and incidentally I have that recording in three media. And still can't get enough of that brilliant masterpiece.

  • @rfranklinw1 - I couldn't have said it better myself, I think you speak for us all. Me, Dylan fan since '65, I have the original Blonde on Blonde double LP from 1966 and incidentally I have that recording in three media. And still can't get enough of that brilliant masterpiece.

  • DYLAN IS BACK!

  • no offense to mr. dylan but i like the mcr version better

  • IMPRESIONATE!

  • If your big toe doesnt jump up in your boot from 9:18 - 9:24 you need to go get your big toe checked out.. for its fucked up

  • @wistoncap love that part :D

  • @wistoncap It actually did. Just there.

  • Thumbs up if reading Watchmen led you here.

  • Brilliant!

  • I agree with you 'franklinw' 1', but there is need for the foul language.

  • @151edwin Ha. He said "fucking." Get over yourself.

  • @151edwin sometimes, "fuck" is the word I want to use. It's the one that fits.

  • Genius. Pure genius.

  • Sony has a big promotion on with Dylan's earlier CDs, which are in the stores now at a fantastic discount. They must have eased up to try to stir interest -- enjoy it while it lasts, I don't trust them. Because it's true, only even a few days ago almost nothing was available and now, it's all here.

  • @carshagify Well they've got Amy and Toyah to promote now!

  • Been a Dylan fan for 50 years, since I was 10 years old. An acknowledge poet and lame guitar player myself lol. Dylan should be the American Poet Laureate of all fucking time. I laugh at people who still try to dissect and interpret his lyrics. It is a waste of time. Just listen and let them educate you and help you in your life. Let them mean what they mean to you and just fucking enjoy.

  • LOVE IT, LOVE IT , LOVE IT

  • ......The Napoleon of the Blues!

  • This is sheer class. Dylan is a fuckin master god like being.

    I do love the alternate version of this too. With a bit of electric guitar in it.

    Stay Safe Dylan-o-philes.

  • I listen to this song everyday.

  • Who's doing those delicate riffs? Is that Mike Bloomfield?

  • @Rockinghorserider1 Charlie McMoy

  • @crouchedge Sorry for the error, I meant Charlie McCoy

  • @Rockinghorserider1 crouchedge is right, it's the fantastic Charlie McCoy. Al Kooper played electric guitar on the first recording, available on one of the Bootleg Series. I prefer the acoustic version but it's also worth a listen!

  • @gtomlinson1894 Excuse me, I expressed myself poorly. I meant, who's doing those delicate GUITAR riffs.

  • cnt w8 for oct 8

  • Has anyone else noticed that a lot of Dylan's music is beginning to re-appear on Youtube?

  • @SaturnTrack has anybody else noticed the first two comments on this page? ;)

  • This song is just incredible. both musically and contextually. The king of folk music basically destroys the genre with Highway 61 revisited when he not only goes electric, but plays solid rock n roll. But then... the very last song... The most beautiful acoustic song ever recorded. pure brilliance.

  • Garymichael thinking so hard he must be crosseyed

  • @luckyshoeshine Good one! When I really try to think you can actually hear rusty gears turning!

  • and today oui stroll, into our future oui sow

  • Our town our country our condition so starkly presented-our poet

  • i couldn't understand how 11.25 minutes left

  • Top 5 best songs of all time. Period.

  • @ffsf739 agreed, and chimes of freedom should be there too!

  • dylan goes with everything it moods my life everyday they should ve used this song in watchmen the movie

  • Those who say "Dylan can't sing" need to hear this masterpiece. The lyrics, the arrangement (unbelievable), and his singing is just fantastic. He's never sounded better.

  • well said, i think the same this was 1 of the first bob dylan songs ive heard and it also was when ive have an amazing change in my way of thinking and also i was very stoned also and it was something kind of like an experience, this sound you feel it, u stumble upon itO.O good post, i guess theres no ballad of a thin man stillO_O

  • finally Ican hear what i heard when I first heard it

  • wow forever is a long time maaan!Try Hezekiah Jones/Black Cross,B.Landy,1963.

  • It took me forever to find the original, but im glad i took the time

  • @BakerBro12 Wasn't here, is now. This great. Not just this all Dylan is back on YouTube.

  • I swear a few months ago it was almost impossible to find any original Bob Dylan songs on YouTube. Now there's basically everything he's ever done. Wadup with that?

  • @Jcm9991 Dunno but I like it! lol

  • @Jcm9991 I believe Sony have softened their stance towards Dylan songs being posted on Youtube. I remember uploading Hurricane last year, but it was removed because it "contained content from SME (Sony Music Entertainment." It's good to have them all finally availlable!

  • @gtomlinson1894 I was wondering too because I had to find Desolation row before on some Chinese site!

  • @Jcm9991 i know man i'm stoked!

  • @Jcm9991 I know, I couldn't find "Highway 61 Revisited" unless it was a cover. Glad to see his stuff again.

  • Lyrically Bob Dylan is a genius! This song is out of this world for imagination and lyrical quality. Another song similar by Dylan that I like is 'It's Alright Ma...' Total epic songs!

  • @TheLaughingBadger true that.. and i love "shelter from the storm and a hard rains a gonna fall"

  • @LUCKas1212 yeah, I mean you could go on for hours because he has genuinely written hundreds of songs, most of which are exceptional, but thats just Dylan. Possibly the most original, yet versatile singer/songwriter ever. You look at 'Blowing In The Wind' and then ' Hurricane' and they are such different songs and you could be excused for believing it was a different singer on them! You like 'Shelter from the Storm' and the whole 'Blood on the Tracks' album is just class!

  • Maybe they are all communist..but this is one Republican who really loves this song. Loved it ever since I first heard it back in 1965.