That's "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" --and they are-- from the film "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" --and they do.
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Monday, 27 April 2009 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
77. Singing "Froggie Went a Courtin'", but singing it like Gonzo the Great not Kermit
― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 13:25 (fifteen years ago) link
78." I got shoved down 'n' pushed around,All I could hear there was a screamin' sound,Don't remember one thing more,Just remember walkin' up on a little shore,Head busted, stomach cracked,Feet splintered, I was bald, naked. . .Quite lucky to be alive though."
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
79. "Well, the comic book and me, just us, we caught the bus.The poor little chauffeur, though, she was back in bedOn the very next day, with a nose full of pus.Yea! Heavy and a bottle of breadYea! Heavy and a bottle of breadYea! Heavy and a bottle of bread"
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
80. all of "tombstone blues," obv., but the first two stanzas used to go through my head a lot when i was covering city council meetings and the like:
The sweet pretty things are in bed now of courseThe city fathers they're trying to endorseThe reincarnation of Paul Revere's horseBut the town has no need to be nervous
The ghost of Belle Starr she hands down her witsTo Jezebel the nun she violently knitsA bald wig for Jack the Ripper who sitsAt the head of the chamber of commerce
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
81. "You may be workin' in a barbershop, you may know how to cut hair,You may be somebody's mistress, may be somebody's heir"
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
The Basement Tapes sure are fertile ground for this sort of thing.
― Dave Depper (Davey D), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link
82. Last night, 'cross the alley, there was a pounding on the wallIt must have been Don Pasquale making a 2 a.m. booty call
― The Pompatus Of Love (Boxing Kangaroo), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
83. What's the lightbulb for?
― The Pompatus Of Love (Boxing Kangaroo), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, I usually carry a lightbulb.
84. And you know there was somethin about you baby that I liked that was always too good for this world ... Just like you always said there was something about me you liked that I left behind in the french quarter.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 22:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Brownsville Girl is full of these. Underrated record as well.
85. Well, they were looking for somebody with a pompadour.I was crossin' the street when shots rang out.I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.
― dan., Wednesday, 29 April 2009 00:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Aw man I'd clicked to post lyrics to "115th Dream," but I'd been beat to it.
Instead this one from "Tombstone Blues":
Screaming she moans, "I've just been made"Then sends out for the doctor who pulls down the shadeSays, "My advice is to not let the boys in"
Ouch. Ok, thanks, Doc! Asshole.
― tits akimbo (kenan), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 01:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe it's not so "ha ha" funny. But it's funny.
― tits akimbo (kenan), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 01:23 (fifteen years ago) link
86.Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a gypsy queen,Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle all dressed in green,Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle 'til the moon is blue,Wiggle 'til the moon sees you.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle in your boots and shoes,Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, you got nothing to lose,Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, like a swarm of bees,Wiggle on your hands and knees.
Wiggle to the front, wiggle to the rear,Wiggle 'til you wiggle right out of here,Wiggle 'til it opens, wiggle 'til it shuts,Wiggle 'til it bites, wiggle 'til it cuts.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup,Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop,Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead,Wiggle - you can raise the dead.
Wiggle 'til you're high, wiggle 'til you're higher,Wiggle 'til you vomit fire,Wiggle 'til it whispers, wiggle 'til it hums,Wiggle 'til it answers, wiggle 'til it comes.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like satin and silk,Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a pail of milk,Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, rattle and shake,Wiggle like a big fat snake.
― cwkiii, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 04:50 (fifteen years ago) link
87. They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy,She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me.I can't help it if I'm lucky.
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 06:23 (fifteen years ago) link
one thing about a lot of these lines i think is they're the unreliable-narrator side of dylan. which imo has always been the better dylan. when he's head-on, either in early protest mode or later christian mode or still-later moody-moony mode, he's often either too much or too little (or both at the same time). he's at his best coming at things from the side, where it's not always clear where the ricochet is going until it's gone. he's a great bank-shot lyricist.
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 06:29 (fifteen years ago) link
88. "There didn’t seem to be any general consensus among my listeners. Some people preferred my first period songs. Some, the second. Some, the Christian period. Some, the post Colombian. Some, the Pre-Raphaelite. Some people prefer my songs from the nineties. I see that my audience now doesn’t particular care what period the songs are from. They feel style and substance in a more visceral way and let it go at that. Images don’t hang anybody up. Like if there’s an astrologer with a criminal record in one of my songs it’s not going to make anybody wonder if the human race is doomed."
― Douglas, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 07:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Dylan otm.
― tits akimbo (kenan), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 07:25 (fifteen years ago) link
89. "We got an e-mail here from Johnny Depp from Paris, France, who wants to know: 'Who was the father of modern communism?' Well, Johnny, Karl Marx was the father of modern communism. He also fathered seven children, four of whom survived to adulthood. His only son, Frederick Demuth, was illegitimate. I wonder if he calls his daddy on Father's Day."
― Douglas, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 07:25 (fifteen years ago) link
omg
― tits akimbo (kenan), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 07:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Source plz
― tits akimbo (kenan), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 07:27 (fifteen years ago) link
(That one was from an episode of Theme Time Radio Hour.)
90. "He saw an animal as smooth as glassSlithering his way through the grassSaw him disappear by a tree near a lake..." [End of song.]
― Douglas, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 07:28 (fifteen years ago) link
(Also I love the theory that the snake is the one who subsequently shows up at the end of "Wiggle Wiggle," ten years later.)
― Douglas, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 07:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I seriously don't know how much he's kidding about "pre-Raphaelite" Dylan.
― tits akimbo (kenan), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 07:31 (fifteen years ago) link
91.He went to get the hangin' judge but the hangin' judge was drunkAs the leading actor hurried by the costume of a monk
91.I went to the wedding of Mary-Lou She said "I don't want nobody see me talkin' to you" Said she could get killed if she told me what she knew About dignity ...[some unfunny verses]...
Met Prince Phillip at the home of the blues Said he'd give me information if his name wasn't used He wanted money up front, said he was abused By dignity
― Eazy, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 07:45 (fifteen years ago) link
(er, 91. and 92.)
― Eazy, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 07:46 (fifteen years ago) link
(Too late to be typing."As the leading actor hurried by in the costume of a monk")
Met Prince Phillip at the home of the blues HOUSE OF BLUES
Then had burgers at the Hard Rock Cafe nearby.
― tits akimbo (kenan), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 07:53 (fifteen years ago) link
So House of blues does bad burgers?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 08:47 (fifteen years ago) link
93. the "World's Greatest Grandpa" bumper sticker he purchases in Chronicles Volume One
― Matos W.K., Wednesday, 29 April 2009 10:00 (fifteen years ago) link
(less ha-ha funny than endearing-funny, if that makes sense)
― Matos W.K., Wednesday, 29 April 2009 10:01 (fifteen years ago) link
94. Handy dandy, if every bone in his body was broken he would never admit itHe got an all girl orchestra and when he says strike up the band, they hit it
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 14:45 (fifteen years ago) link
96. PLAYBOY: Mistake or not, what made you decide to go the rock-'n'-roll route?
DYLAN: Carelessness. I lost my one true love. I started drinking. The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game. I wake up in a pool hall. Then this big Mexican lady drags me off the table, takes me to Philadelphia. She leaves me alone in her house, and it burns down. I wind up in Phoenix. I get a job as a Chinaman. I start working in a dime store, and move in with a 13-year-old girl. Then this big Mexican lady from Philadelphia comes in and burns the house down. I go down to Dallas. I get a job as a "before" in a Charles Atlas "before and after" ad. I move in with a delivery boy who can cook fantastic chili and hot dogs. Then this 13-year-old girl from Phoenix comes and burns the house down. The delivery boy - he ain't so mild: He gives her the knife, and the next thing I know I'm in Omaha. It's so cold there, by this time I'm robbing my own bicycles and frying my own fish. I stumble onto some luck and get a job as a carburetor out at the hot-rod races every Thursday night. I move in with a high school teacher who also does a little plumbing on the side, who ain't much to look at, but who's built a special kind of refrigerator that can turn newspaper into lettuce. Everything's going good until that delivery boy shows up and tries to knife me. Needless to say, he burned the house down, and I hit the road. The first guy that picked me up asked me if I wanted to be a star. What could I say?
PLAYBOY: And that's how you became a rock-'n'-roll singer?
DYLAN: No, that's how I got tuberculosis.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Good one, though #96 = #6.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 19:35 (fifteen years ago) link
haha, my bad ... here's another good one from the same interview
DYLAN: The thing that most people don't realize is that it's warmer to have long hair. Everybody wants to be warm. People with short hair freeze easily. Then they try to hide their coldness, and they get jealous of everybody that's warm. Then they become either barbers or Congressmen. A lot of prison wardens have short hair. Have you ever noticed that Abraham Lincoln's hair was much longer than John Wilkes Booth's?
PLAYBOY: Do you think Lincoln wore his hair long to keep his head warm?
DYLAN: Actually, I think it was for medical reasons, which are none of my business.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
97. "See the primitive wallflower freezeWhen the jelly-faced women all sneezeHear the one with the mustache say, "JeezeI can't find my knees""
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
come on ppl, just three more
― Matos W.K., Thursday, 30 April 2009 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
j/k
― just being playful and friendly (some dude), Thursday, 30 April 2009 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
98. Weberman interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/weberman.htmDYLAN: (breath) **Le** those two sentences, man. I don't get them at all. I don't understand them, even --
WEBERMAN: -- why, if you do, I might gain a soul --
DYLAN: Yeah, well, that's shit -- those last two sentences. I don't think I said that.
WEBERMAN: Yes, you did. That's just what you said, man. You said, You re not gonna get into my life -- I said, 'Why?' -- * then you said, 'If you do, I might gain a soul.'
DYLAN: I don't understand that, do you?
WEBERMAN: (pause) Uhh -- I don't know -- I don't know -- it could be looked at in a number of ways, man -- you could *** --
DYLAN: Yeah, why don't you -- d'why don t you take it out of your article and look at it in a number of ways -- and let s d'uh -- you know, and -- and roll it around awhile -- and then when you -- when we know what it means -- why don't you tell me, and then -- ah, let's see if it's worth putting in an article --
WEBERMAN: (pause) Uh** --
― tylerw, Thursday, 30 April 2009 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
99.
― Moreno, Thursday, 30 April 2009 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link
100. Three decades later, A.J., now fifty-five, his once-wildmane receded to silver fringe (but still talking very fast),recalls the incident, one of the more colorful in the oftendrearily hagiographic Dylanological chronicles: "I'd agreednot to hassle Dylan anymore, but I was a publicity-hungrymotherfucker. . . . I went to MacDougal Street, and Dylan'swife comes out and starts screaming about me going throughthe garbage. Dylan said if I ever fucked with his wife, he'dbeat the shit out of me. A couple of days later, I'm onElizabeth Street and someone jumps me, starts punching me.
"I turn around and it's like -- Dylan. I'm thinking, 'Canyou believe this? I'm getting the crap beat out of me by BobDylan!' I said, 'Hey, man, how you doin'?' But he keepsknocking my head against the sidewalk. He's little, but he'sstrong. He works out. I wouldn't fight back, you know,because I knew I was wrong. He gets up, rips off my 'FreeBob Dylan' button and walks away. Never says a word.
"The Bowery bums were coming over, asking, 'How much heget?' Like I got rolled. . . . I guess you got to hand it toDylan, coming over himself, not sending some fucking lawyer.That was the last time I ever saw him, except once with oneof his kids, maybe Jakob, and he said, 'A.J. is so ashamedof his Jewishness, he got a nose job,' which was true -- atleast in the fact that I got a nose job. . . ."
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 30 April 2009 21:20 (fifteen years ago) link
"The sun's not yellow/it's chicken"
― deusner, Thursday, 30 April 2009 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
101. http://consequenceofsound.net/2009/05/13/bob-dylan-makes-surprise-appearance-on-beatles-tour/
― "the whale saw her" (gabbneb), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 14:31 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^^^Apparently he also visited Neil Young's boyhood home when he was in Canada recently.
― Moreno, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Peter Grant: Mr. Dylan, my name is Peter Grant. I'm Led Zeppelin's manager.Dylan: I don't come to you with MY problems, do I?
- at a party or backstage or somewhere, mid-'70s
― I wish he hadn't adapted my critique of his "ilxor" moniker (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 16:09 (fifteen years ago) link
103. "Mona tried to tell meTo stay away from the train line.She said that all the railroad menJust drink up your blood like wine.An' I said, "Oh, I didn't know that,But then again, there's only one I've metAn' he just smoked my eyelidsAn' punched my cigarette."'
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.expectingrain.com/jokes.html
― posi riot (some dude), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 12:45 (ten years ago) link
I think about the Elston Gunnn anecdote once a week
― 龜, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 13:14 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RPkJeziNyI&feature=kp
'i sucked the milk out of a thousand cows'
(onscreen, dylan, cow)
― j., Wednesday, 16 April 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link