From 2007 and the generally engrossing soundtrack album for writer/director Todd Haynes' I'm Not There (the IMHO brilliant meditation on all things Bob Dylan) please enjoy Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus and a really cool cover of Dylan's counter-cultural classic "Ballad of a Thin Man."
If memory serves, that's Tom Verlaine on one of the guitars, BTW.
In any case, as always, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded to the first reader who gleans the clip's relationship to the theme of tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.
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Songs about body shape?
I can't believe I never thought of that one before. Brilliant.
But no, not this week.
:-)
Damn, I was just gonna say that!
OK - howzabout songs that are about thinly-disguised gay bars and/or shooting galleries?
Can't be songs titled "The Ballad of John and Yoko", etc...
Na, too easy
Indeed it is. Too easy.
:-)
Songs about sex changes.
ROTP(lumber)
A fairly small list, I would think.
:-)
Songs later referenced in other songs?
Songs in which the subject in the title is not mentioned in the song (which would cover a pretty big swath of the Dylan catalog).
Songs about a bad night on the town.
I really should pick up that CD. The only thing I've heard it Cat Power's "Stuck Inside" which was virtually a note-for-note recreation, and kinda pointless I thought, though it didn't make me apoplectic the way She and Him's cover of "Riding In My Car" did. If you're gonna cover a song, change something, you know? A drum fill, whatever. Anyway, I, apparently digress.
Great songs that were released posthumously.
Songs whose titles are nowhere in the lyric.
Ooh..oohh
Songs that reference a "Mr. Jones."
Put-down songs?
Best hint I can add:
It's about the obvious larger theme of the
song.
As in the famous refrain.
I don't know what this week's theme is, do I, Mr. Simels?
Songs with weird sounds in them?
Songs about non-comprehension.
something is happin here and don't what it is MR JONES
Songs about getting off my lawn.
That's actually the closest so far.
:-)
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