Ron Bulman Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/john-prine-who-chronicled-the-human-condition-in-song-dies-at-73/ar-BB12ibT0?li=BBnbfcL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kishan Dandiker Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Would love to see Oliver Stone collaborate with Dylan to make a music video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Blank Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 or maybe greenbaum's follow-up "Canned Ham," which i believe was an instrumental Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Bauer Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 2 hours ago, Kishan Dandiker said: Would love to see Oliver Stone collaborate with Dylan to make a music video. Great idea K.D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Prutsok Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Dylan's first-ever number one song on Billboard: https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9354213/bob-dylan-murder-most-foul-first-number-one-song-chart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Andrews Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 (edited) 21 minutes ago, Andrew Prutsok said: Dylan's first-ever number one song on Billboard: https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9354213/bob-dylan-murder-most-foul-first-number-one-song-chart I shouldn't say this, but that's interesting considering the "commercialization" angle brought up by Posner. I had assumed -- silly me -- that people would download the YouTube release, a large-size .mp4 file (46.3 MB) that includes the video (a static shot of JFK with the song title below). However, Sony Music is not giving the smaller .mp3 audio file (38.9 MB) away for free...and that's the one people will want for their device playlists. So, once released as an .mp3 for purchase, this opens the door* for the song to be included in further Dylan "Hits" repackagings, including CD anthologies and other home playback media, ad infinitum. So Posner, or his handlers, isn't as silly as he, or they, appeared. *"If indeed there ever was a door," as one of Dylan's lyrics goes. A song this momentous was probably slotted for "commercialization" long before the YouTube release. Edited April 8, 2020 by David Andrews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Brown Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 3 hours ago, David Andrews said: I shouldn't say this, but that's interesting considering the "commercialization" angle brought up by Posner. I had assumed -- silly me -- that people would download the YouTube release, a large-size .mp4 file (46.3 MB) that includes the video (a static shot of JFK with the song title below). However, Sony Music is not giving the smaller .mp3 audio file (38.9 MB) away for free...and that's the one people will want for their device playlists. So, once released as an .mp3 for purchase, this opens the door* for the song to be included in further Dylan "Hits" repackagings, including CD anthologies and other home playback media, ad infinitum. So Posner, or his handlers, isn't as silly as he, or they, appeared. *"If indeed there ever was a door," as one of Dylan's lyrics goes. A song this momentous was probably slotted for "commercialization" long before the YouTube release. Aha. I am somewhat disappointed but not really surprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Brown Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 5 hours ago, Joe Bauer said: Great idea K.D. Surely you jest. Oliver Stone has fallen into Judyth Baker's web. He has lost all credibility in my eyes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Andrews Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 5 minutes ago, Pamela Brown said: Aha. I am somewhat disappointed but not really surprised. "Everyone was shocked, but no one was surprised." -- Joan Didion on the Sharon Tate house killings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bulman Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 4 hours ago, Andrew Prutsok said: Dylan's first-ever number one song on Billboard: https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9354213/bob-dylan-murder-most-foul-first-number-one-song-chart Commercialization or not I think this is great news. Many more people are now paying attention to, possibly questioning the ancient history of the JFK assassination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 5 hours ago, Andrew Prutsok said: Dylan's first-ever number one song on Billboard: https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9354213/bob-dylan-murder-most-foul-first-number-one-song-chart I've never paid much attention to pop music "rankings" during the past 60 years-- at least since the days when "Fun, Fun, Fun" was competing with "She Loves You-- Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" on our local KIMN transistor radio station in Denver--but as a long-time Dylan impersonator I'm, frankly, astonished that this would be his first #1 on Billboard (whatever that is.) Geez... think of all the utterly ingenious, ground-breaking songs the guy has written through the years-- everything from Blowing in the Wind, Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, and Like a Rolling Stone to Knockin' on Heaven's Door and the Blood on the Tracks album-- Tangled Up in Blue, etc. I wonder if the Byrds or Peter, Paul, and Mary recorded some pop #1 Dylan covers along the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 (edited) David: Anyone can listen to it or capture it off of You Tube and its been that way since the day it was released. And well over two million people have listened to it for free. If Dylan's company makes it an MP3, that was their decision, obviously he did not mean it that way. And I doubt if it would have gone to number one without the free pre release and all the publicity it got. Which was really something. Incidentally, that critical essay I wrote--which Lifton says I wasn't smart enough to do--is far and away the highest rated article at K and K. In fact it is the highest rated article we have ever posted, going way beyond the previous record holder, my obituary for James McCord. Bob Dylan has proven that, no matter how hard the MSM tries, the Kennedy case will simply not go away. Edited April 9, 2020 by James DiEugenio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bulman Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 Dylan doesn't need the money or adulation at soon 79. He's already an Icon. He was making a statement. One that has reached somewhat beyond the MSM bubble for the moment. Hopefully, maybe, it will stir some interest in the subject in a slightly younger generation if not the youth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bulman Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 Regarding the plague, defender of short people everywhere has replied. https://omny.fm/shows/airtalk/randy-newman-writes-a-song-for-quarantine-stay-awa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Andrews Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 (edited) 14 hours ago, James DiEugenio said: David: If Dylan's company makes it an MP3, that was their decision, obviously he did not mean it that way. And I doubt if it would have gone to number one without the free pre release and all the publicity it got. Michael Corleone: My father is no different than any other powerful man, any man who's responsible for other people, like a senator or a president. Kay Adams: Do you know how naive you sound? Senators and presidents don’t have men killed. Michael Corleone: Who’s being naive, Kay? -- The Godfather Sony Music owns this previously unreleased recording. It paid for Dylan's studio time and musicians to record it, most likely during the 2012 sessions for the album Tempest. Sony Music assiduously keeps Dylan's recordings off YouTube, except those it releases for promotional purposes. Bob tours continually ("The Never-Ending Tour") to promote his music, but he can't now thanks to Covid 19. This is probably the only completed song he had available for release - he's probably avoiding studio work under sheltering - and it's fortuitous the he released it at a time of maximum distrust in the government (again). It's a great, great song, and a piece of history now. But it is not the Second Coming of Artistic Freedom. (From the YouTube page:) Listen to Bob Dylan’s “Murder Most Foul” now: https://bobdylan.lnk.to/MurderMostFoulAY Amazon Music: https://bobdylan.lnk.to/MurderMostFou... Apple Music: https://bobdylan.lnk.to/MurderMostFou... iTunes: https://bobdylan.lnk.to/MurderMostFou... Soundcloud: https://bobdylan.lnk.to/MurderMostFou... Spotify: https://bobdylan.lnk.to/MurderMostFou... YouTube Music: https://bobdylan.lnk.to/MurderMostFou... Edited April 9, 2020 by David Andrews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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