{"id":5818,"date":"2011-02-12T17:54:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T21:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=5818"},"modified":"2011-02-12T17:56:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T21:56:01","slug":"the-melodic-dylan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-melodic-dylan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Melodic Dylan"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GduDG8EDojY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>In a recent thread <strong>Townsman dickbonanza<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/shrink-me\/#comment-51180\" target=\"_blank\">asked<\/a>, &#8220;Why do I like Dylan\u2019s melodies more than his lyrics?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Has anyone else ever felt this way? As much as I love some of Dylan&#8217;s more direct, personal lyrics, I&#8217;m sometimes so mystified by his more impressionistic ones that I&#8217;m happy to sit back and enjoy the melodies. For instance, I love the song &#8220;Visions of Johanna,&#8221; but I&#8217;m not able to begin to contemplate the lyrics. I have a friend who&#8217;s spent so much time analyzing and appreciating the lyrics to that song that he wants to wrte an essay on the topic. He&#8217;s a lot smarter than me.<\/p>\n<p>Think of all the relative &#8220;lightweights&#8221; with conventionally great voices who&#8217;ve sung their hearts out on Bob&#8217;s music. Some of them must be as confused as I sometimes am by the words. In fact, perhaps as much as 40% of Dylan&#8217;s lyrics hold little interest for me; those songs are carried by the melodies. How about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent thread Townsman dickbonanza asked, &#8220;Why do I like Dylan\u2019s melodies more than his lyrics?&#8221; Has anyone else ever felt this way? As much as I love some of Dylan&#8217;s more direct, personal lyrics, I&#8217;m sometimes so mystified by his more impressionistic ones that I&#8217;m happy to sit back and enjoy the melodies. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-melodic-dylan\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[54,204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}