<p>Well, someone else posted a least favorite song, but I have to say my beef is with Yesterday and its upteen million covers. Macca in rocker mode – groovy. Macca is soggy ballad mode? yawn.</p>
<p>I really like his recent album Memory Almost Full, including the pun in the title. The Beatles still leading me along through the phases of my life.</p>
<p>And in honor of the upcoming I’m Not There Dylan Movie how about favorite Dylan song and favorite Dylan album.</p>
<p>Well for me even harder than the Beatles, though I’ll try.</p>
<p>Album: Blonde on Blonde
Song: “My Back Pages” (not even on Blonde on Blonde. Fav. songs there: 'Oh Mamma, can this really be the end? To be stuck inside a mobile with the Memphis blues again" and “And the visions of Johanna, they kept me up past dawn.”</p>
<p>Tried to post names of the songs, but the songs began playing in my head, so here they are.</p>
<p>Dylan - that’s easy. I’m a bit of an iconclast there. I like Nashville Skyline best and “Girl from the North Country” duet with Johnny Cash tied with “Lay Lady Lay” as best song.</p>
<p>Highway 61 by the smallest possible margin over BoB and Blood On The Tracks.</p>
<p>Favorite song: I guess I would have to say “You Ain’t Going Nowhere,” because my wife loves it so much and we had to sing it constantly during the years when we sang in the car. Others, though: “Like A Rolling Stone”, “Visions of Johanna”, “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands”, “I Want You”, “I Shall Be Released”, “Mr. Tambourine Man”, “Just Like Tom Thumb Blues”, “Tangled Up In Blue”, “It Ain’t Me Babe”, “When The Ship Comes In”. And damn but it’s hard to beat “Blowin’ In The Wind” or “The Times They Are A-Changin’”.</p>
<p>Note: The local “adult alternative” radio station has been playing the heck out of the I’m Not There soundtrack. Almost everything I’ve heard from it has been great, in some cases (Stephen Malkmus doing “Maggie’s Farm”, The Hold Steady doing “Won’t You Please Crawl Out Your Window”) really great. And I don’t usually go for gimmicks like that. Lots of the songs have the same supergroup back-up band, including Tom Verlaine(!), Nels Cline, John Medeski, and half of Sonic Youth, which sounds great, and a number of others have Calexico as the back-up band, which also sounds great.</p>
<p>Just wanted to say that this thread really perked me up on an otherwise dreary day. I’ve been humming “I Will” (and, luckily, NOT humming “I Am the Walrus”).</p>
<p>Okay y’all - I’ll share my theory (just remember you heard it here first!). Actually it’s not technically a “theory”, but anyway…</p>
<p>I think, in the song, “Oh Darlin’” on the Abbey Road album, that Paul actually sings, “Oh Johnny” in one of the lines. (If I had ever gotten a chance to ask Paul a question, that was going to be my question - “Is it true?”). </p>
<p>Listen to it sometime, and let me know what you think. Call me crazy, but I believe it was Paul’s way of telling John how he really felt - listen to all the words, and you’ll see - it’s really applicable to their relationship (especially since they were going thru the break-up at the time).</p>
<p>I can’t believe no one ever mentioned it before - seems so obvious to me!</p>
<p>I can’t see Across the Universe. I heard the sound track in Borders and it actually made me ill. I asked if they could change it, but they couldn’t. H and I left.</p>
<p>I guess it’s perfect “Beatles” pitch. I “know” how the song is supposed to sound, and I can’t stand the covers.</p>
<p>Also, I lived those years, and it was NOT the way the coming attractions made it look.</p>
<p>Well, maybe I should reserve judgment about the movie. But not the soundtrack.</p>
<p>However, the Beatles cover of Smokey Robinson’s “You Really Got a Hold on Me”: sweet.</p>
<p>Hunted down Smokey and it’s good, but I love the Beatles’ version.</p>
<p>BTW: We also went to Kennedy airport with signs – Beatles, welcome to the US, in 1964.</p>
<p>The Museum of Radio and TV has the Ed Sullivan Show when they were officially introduced to US audiences.</p>
<p>I published an essay about first hearing about the Beatles in 1963 from a friend who had a really cool older sister. I actually heard some imported tracks and that spelled the great divide between being a miserable faux-beatnik adolescent (a very reluctant, rebellious teacher’s pet type) and a sixties person, happy, in with my own crowd. </p>
<p>It ended something like this: “Was it you John Lennon who entered that room, took me by the hand, and single-handedly led me from conformity to freedom? No one can tell me that it wasn’t.”</p>
<p>I understand. I HATE covers! Always, always, always!</p>
<p>So, I thought I would hate the movie! </p>
<p>The only reason I went to see it was that my son (who loved the Beatles when he was 8-10, totally into ALL their albums) told me it was ‘exhilarating’ and that I HAD to see it!</p>
<p>So, I did…and, surprisingly, I LOVED it! In fact, I cried at the end because I realized how we essentially FAILED (to bring love & peace on the planet) but now the new generation has a chance to carry on, take the torch from us and succeed where we did not.</p>
<p>Sentimental? You bet. Idealistic? Yup.</p>
<p>The world could use some of that right now.</p>
<p>The songs will never sound as good as the originals, but…somehow, they managed to capture the essence of what the 60s was all about. The Beatles’ music exemplified this era.</p>
<p>It’s not a serious movie, it has very little character depth, there are places in which it loses continuity, but…all is forgiven because at the end, you really do feel inspired. At least I did.</p>
<p>Go see it. Rekindling youthful idealism is always a good thing.</p>
<p>lealdragon: I think you’ve convinced me, but we have so many movies on our plate for such a few days!</p>
<p>I am teaching a course that has four units: Darwin, Marx, Freud and Einstein, and I’ve decided to show one movie for each unit. Instead of devoting so much class time to movie viewing, I have scheduled screenings during “club hour” that happens to be just before class. (At kids’ schools they do this on their own, but my CC kids just don’t. I’ve tried.) I have insisted (to myself) that each be uplifting and open toward the future, so I do understand what you mean.</p>
<p>lspf72 - did you post that previously? If so, I think it was your post that got me thinking about the songs I DON"T like!</p>
<p>RR is kinda like OBD OBD - same sort of genre. Paul getting “showtune-y” again! Give me one of John’s good ol’ poems set to music any day! I like songs that really create an atmosphere & evoke an emotional response - not just a “tunesmith” sort of thing.</p>
<p>bz - I don’t think I posted that before–
In fact, it may well be the first time in my life that I ever even wrote (or typed!) the words “Rocky Raccoon.” Whenever it ever comes on the radio, which fortunately is rare, I really can’t listen to it. I also hate songs with talking in them…</p>