Have you heard the new Bob Dylan song about the Kennedy Assassination? Epic.

[ElementaryPenguin]

[PufPuf23]

1. I posted it last night in The Lounge and it has mostly been ignored.

I must have Body Odor or CV19.

IMO a very fine piece of music about a subject that has never ebbed and impacts us to the present.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181337600

[ElementaryPenguin]

2. Left me teary eyed and gave me goosebumps.

Bob nailed it.

[PufPuf23]

3. Agree. Bob nailed it.

Hope DU pays more attention.

[Blues Heron]

4. I'm sure it's great

It just happens to be the very last thing I want to think about right now. Why would bob release this now? Tin ear doesn't even begin to cover it

[JenniferJuniper]

5. Can't touch his frenimy

Phil Ochs's JFK inspired masterpiece.

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[ElementaryPenguin]

6. Yeah, that's great. Thanks. Ochs was a friend and peer of Dylan's.

[brush]

9. Yes, not the time.

[ElementaryPenguin]

11. People have time to listen.

I think it is the time.

He saying things/making observations that need to be said.

He's indirectly addressing these times.

After you've heard it you may feel differently.

[brush]

13. I'd rather hear something directly about the idiot now polluting the WH.

[ElementaryPenguin]

10. I think he put it out now because people have time to listen.

It's 17 minutes long - and it needs to be heard!

It captures the emotion of the killing and it's impact on us all.

[Blues Heron]

15. Thanks I'll try again, couldn't deal yesterday

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Meanwhile I will see you a Murder Most Foul and raise you a Duquesne Whistle!

[ElementaryPenguin]

17. Very cool! Almost sounds like old Satchmo singing on that one! Thanks for sharing!

[kentuck]

7. Bob is the prophet of our generation...

He really reaches deep...

[ElementaryPenguin]

8. You said it well.

[Keth]

12. I responded to a post in music about the song

I downloaded the track on iTunes and spent the afternoon riding my bike and listening to it. Brilliant. Powerful. Heartbreaking. Dylan = genius. I'm trying to figure out what songs are number 9 and number 6 - as a Stevie Nicks fan. Assuming they are album tracks.

Play Number 9, play Number 6
Play it for Lindsey and Stevie Nicks
Play Nat King Cole, play 'Nature Boy'
Play 'Down In The Boondocks' for Terry Malloy
Play 'It Happened One Night' and 'One Night of Sin'
There's 12 Million souls that are listening in..

[Donkees]

14. It was #9 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and #6 on the UK singles chart in 1979

[blitzen]

21. That's cool! n/t

[blitzen]

20. Number 9 is probably "Revolution #9" (Beatles). I take the number 6 to be...

part of a pun, along with number 9--"playing" the numbers, as in gambling, lotto, etc. The cool thing is that the song titles work in multiple ways.

There are times when he is talking about movies, movie stars (the Marilyn Monroe thing), gangsters. So he goes from Buster Keaton to Harold Lloyd, then Bugsy Segal and Pretty Boy Floyd. "Pretty Boy Floyd" is a Woody Guthrie song! Is he talking about the gangster or the song? Both.

[G_j]

16. Love it!

[denem]

18. Stopped listening after two minutes. This is the wrong time,

to reach back into that grief, when there is death, sickness and suffering all around, threatening to take our loved ones away in the here and now.

[blitzen]

19. By releasing it now, he is suggesting that we are now experiencing a pivotal time in our history...

akin to Nov. 22, 1963. A point after which things are not the same. There is also some critique of the 50+ years since then, expressed as the loss of JFK's soul, as we have not been able to escape a descending trajectory.

The song veers off and away from JFK, with probably 8 minutes of stream of consciousness stuff filled with song titles, puns, etc, returning to various JFK related things (Ruby, Oswald, etc.). Anyway, it's quite a song.

[ElementaryPenguin]

23. Extremely astute observation, blitzen!

And it's quite a song, indeed.

[blitzen]

24. Hey, that's what I do for a living--interpret stuff (lit prof). I'm not a Dylanologist, but...

this song and several others I've been listening to lately have made me think about dabbling in that trade.

[Generic Other]

22. A Dirge

Ghosts of our past come to haunt us.