Thursday, August 05, 2010

An Early (And Possibly Confused) Clue to the New Direction

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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19 comments:

  1. Wendy8/05/2010 3:29 PM

    Songs about body shape?

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  2. steve simels8/05/2010 3:56 PM

    I can't believe I never thought of that one before. Brilliant.


    But no, not this week.
    :-)

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  3. dave™©8/05/2010 4:45 PM

    Damn, I was just gonna say that!

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  4. dave™©8/05/2010 4:47 PM

    OK - howzabout songs that are about thinly-disguised gay bars and/or shooting galleries?

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  5. Michael8/05/2010 4:55 PM

    Can't be songs titled "The Ballad of John and Yoko", etc...
    Na, too easy

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  6. steve simels8/05/2010 5:00 PM

    Indeed it is. Too easy.
    :-)

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  7. Anonymous8/05/2010 5:17 PM

    Songs about sex changes.

    ROTP(lumber)

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  8. steve simels8/05/2010 5:19 PM

    A fairly small list, I would think.
    :-)

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  9. Edward8/05/2010 5:37 PM

    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.

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  10. Noam Sane8/05/2010 7:15 PM

    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.

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  11. Sal Nunziato8/05/2010 8:07 PM

    Songs whose titles are nowhere in the lyric.

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  12. Sal Nunziato8/05/2010 8:08 PM

    Ooh..oohh

    Songs that reference a "Mr. Jones."

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  13. MBowen8/05/2010 8:18 PM

    Put-down songs?

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  14. steve simels8/05/2010 9:18 PM

    Best hint I can add:

    It's about the obvious larger theme of the
    song.
    As in the famous refrain.

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  15. MJConroy8/05/2010 9:29 PM

    I don't know what this week's theme is, do I, Mr. Simels?

    Songs with weird sounds in them?

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  16. dSmith8/05/2010 9:59 PM

    Songs about non-comprehension.

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  17. Anonymous8/05/2010 10:00 PM

    something is happin here and don't what it is MR JONES

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  18. geor3ge8/05/2010 10:42 PM

    Songs about getting off my lawn.

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  19. steve simels8/05/2010 11:46 PM

    That's actually the closest so far.
    :-)

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