| One side note to this album, it was origianly titled "Blood on the Tapes", had different versions of some of the songs, and even included two other songs, including "Up To Me", later found on biography. |
| This page is devoted to quite simply the greatest album ever recorded, NO DOUBT AT ALL, Bob Dylan's masterpiece "Blood on the Tracks". Written right after his seperation with his wife, Sara, Dylan wrote this album with so much emotion that anyone who's ever had a broken heart due to a lost relationship can relate so well with every track on this album. Combined with his heart-filled harmonica, brilliant fingerpicking on some songs, along with lyrical geniusness, everyone should own this album. |
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| THE LINEAR NOTES: I have never cried while reading linear notes like I did with the album Written by Pete Hamill, New York, 1974 .... Land where the poets died[ America]. Except for Dylan. He has remained, in front of us, or writing from the north country, and remained true. He was not the only one, of course, and is not the only one now. But of all our poets, Dylan is the one who has most clearly taken the roiled sea and put in in a glass. Early on, he warned us about how hard the rain was that was going to fall, and how it would carry the plague. In the teargas of 1968 in Chicago, they hurled Dylan as the walls of the great hotels where the infected drew their blinds, and their butlers ordered up the bayonets. Most of them are gone now, Dylan remain. So forget the clenched young scholars who anaylze his rhymes to dust. Remember that he gave us voice. When our innocence died forever, Bob Dylan turned that moment into art. The wonder is that he survives. .....*he proceeds to discuss the greatness of some of the songs*... There are some who attack Dylan because he will no re-write "Like a Rolling Stone" or "Gates of eden." They are fools, because they are cheating themselves at a shot of wonder........." Just a few quotes from the linears, if you get a chance to read the whole in full, do it, its wonderful. The title, Blood on the Tracks: originally titled Blood on the Tapes, which would have been great, he poured out his soul to produce this "tape" but I like Tracks better. Tracks can mean something we left behind, and when Dylan looks back at his tracks he sees his own blood pouring out of his broken heart unto his past wife, whom he loves so dear. Often times albums will have meaningless titles, not so with Dylan, that is what makes this album awesome. Song 1: Tangled Up In Blue: A great masterpiece, check out more in Book of Bob. Some great quotes: "Words rang true and glowed like burning coals, pouring off of every page like it was written in my sould from me to you" and " She thought they were successful, he thought they were blessed, with objects and material things but I never was impressed" Song 2: Simple Twist a Fate: What a brilliant title. " He pushed the window open wide, felt that emptyness inside, told himself he didnt care" He blames their failed relationship on a "twist of fate", not on her interesting. Song 3: You're A Big Girl Now: Simply telling sara she is old enough to make her own decisions, he gave her everything and it wasnt enough. " See me singing through these tears." Song 4: Idiot Wind: Never before in literary history has such a powerfull piece of writing been composed, NEVER. |