“Guy Debord Vindicated Again” is not a sentence you ever want to be typing and yet I feel like I’m doing it maybe two dozen times a week at this point
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“Guy Debord Vindicated Again” is not a sentence you ever want to be typing and yet I feel like I’m doing it maybe two dozen times a week at this point
Well, heck! Thank you!
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the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.
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someday everything is gonna be different
This is so beautiful
his singing on it seems especially metallic and brilliant
this is great!
I love a lot of em but sorry, Desolation Row, basic bitch ovah heavy
Specifically bc of how the last stanza drops all the elegiac Calypso mermaids hocus pocus in favor of "I hate you for writing a letter to me describing the things you're up to; how dare you ask about my well being"
easy choice but maybe ballad of a thin man. the more i listen to it the more its sneering hippie effacement seems to turn into sincere epistemological terror. spent a lot of the last few years in a state of “there is something happening but you don’t know what it is”
I love this loop you make here from Dylan back to Woody Guthrie
Truly underrated song, Scarlet Rivera's violin is so beautiful on it. I've finally given in and accepted that Desire is one of my top Dylan albums
this is super interesting ... sneering hippie effacement --> sincere epistemological terror describes so much of Dylan's trajectory, or a back-and-forth in his work
When I was growing up my album had a scratch on Simple Twist of Fate so I have weird relationship to that song!
Ha, I never thought of it as dropping the hocus pocus but you're right, the flat-footedness of the last stanza really does make the whole song
You're a delight
Elite pick
This is a deeply eccentric and yet very solid choice
Incredible song, one of two absolute all-timers on that album
any song with rainbow trout in it is a good one!
Here is a place to say your favorite Bob Dylan song.
very underrated year
Been waiting for this! So excited to read
I’m so sorry. Grateful for the fantastic work of you and your colleagues.
This Is Just A Modern Rock Song by Belle & Sebastian: “We’re four boys in our corduroys, we’re not terrific, but we’re competent”
youtu.be/HT0grH_H-_M?...
Thank you so much for reading and for your kind post!
ha, you can have as many as you want!
embarrassed to say I have not! Is there good and/or bad flashbackery in there?
Dear writers
You probably need to cut that flashback