License to POLL: Which is the best track on Bob Dylan's 'Infidels'?

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It was news to me that Lou Reed also wrote a Kiss song (or more than one?).

change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link

I'd also rank "Jokerman" among my faves, fwiw

Xennial’s School for Jaded Oldsters (morrisp), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 17:58 (one year ago) link

‘Why the fuck would he want to write with me?’

Classic Gene

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 18:00 (one year ago) link

Kinda reminds me: "Do you play jazz?" He asks his interviewer that in the monster Songwriters on Songwriting, and then describes how he sometimes uses patterns from jazz in writing--by which he may mean adaptation, since he said somewhere else, "First of all, I'm not a melodist." He says a lot of stuff, probably works different ways over the many years etc. Pretty good talk, anyway.
As for collabs, here are brief descriptions of five:
https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/bob-dylans-greatest-collaborations-100538/ Over on Rolling Bootlegs, I think, birdistheword prefers another version of "Brownsville Girl," with a different town in the title, doesn't like the punched-in guitar break, for inst., but I don't mind it, esp. in a patchwork song, from a conversation about trying to remember something in a Gregory Peck Western, also about swap meets etc.
Speaking of his work w Jacques Levy referenced in there, Claudia Levy launched a suit re royalities, but after D. sold his catalog, which. hmmm, don't know how that's turned out---anyway, good coverage here https://www.billboard.com/pro/bob-dylan-lawsuit-co-writer-song-catalog-sale/ (and good comments about that on bob dylan: desire, the poll)
More interesting to me: her friendship with Dylan, incl. before either had met Jacques--she introduced them---and some stuff about working conditions---she should write a book, however things go or have concluded litigation-wise---pretty good interview with her here:https://dylanlive.substack.com/p/jacques-levys-wife-explains-the-late

dow, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 19:11 (one year ago) link

Oh, re "Jammin' Me," collab w Petty mentioned in that Stone shortie: it was okay, in a predictable way, think it might have been on a 12" single I had w "Band of the Hand," which he may have written all of, though mainly effective as shuffle for group vocals which a movie reviewer compared to a screech own--it was for and recurred in a Michael Mann flick, of the same title as song, I think, pretty much just "Ban-nd of the Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand," with slide etc., but that was enough.

dow, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 19:23 (one year ago) link

screech owl, I meant.

dow, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 19:23 (one year ago) link

"Jammin' Me" was Petty and Campbel mostly; Dylan added a few pop culture lines.

the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 19:34 (one year ago) link

I don't know if it's ilx, but Jokerman's chorus sounds like the Top Gun Anthem

Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 30 March 2023 02:28 (one year ago) link

"Jammin' Me" was Petty and Campbel mostly; Dylan added a few pop culture lines.

The Wikipedia history suggests Dylan’s lyrical contribution was more than that – tho he was apparently responsible for the Eddie Murphy/Vanessa Redgrave stuff which supposedly embarrassed Petty (and is for some reason not included in the Spotify lyrics).

Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 30 March 2023 13:46 (one year ago) link

It might be why he rarely performed it (he also hates, incorrectly, Let Me Up).

the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 March 2023 14:10 (one year ago) link


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