Sign on the Window Bob Dylan, one song at a time

Daniel and Kelly are listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode tackles the fine lines of comedic timing and just what happened at Bear Mountain in Dylan’s “Talkin’ Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues.”
initial reactions + guitar (5:00) | context, the actual bear mountain picnic, and writing disasters (9:00) | versions (22:00) | song itself + comedic timing (27:30) | does this song work today? (36:00) | we’re a real podcast with a playlist (44:15) | recommendations (1:00:30) | endings (1:20:00)
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Next episode: Hoofbeats like castanets on stone


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Daniel and Kelly are listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode features warehouse eyes, Arabian drums and a new game that’s sweeping the nation — it’s “Sad Eyed Lady from the Lowlands,” off 1966’s Blonde on Blonde.
initial reactions (5:00) | context and episode setup (6:00) | versions (9:45) | song itself — is this a good love song? a new game from sign on the window! (31:00): chorus (36:30), verse 1 (39:45), verse 2 (46:50), verse 3 (51:50), verse 4 (56:30), verse 5 (1:01:50) | does this song work today? (1:04:30) | we’re a real podcast & playlist (1:09:30) | recommendations (1:16:00) | endings (1:28:00)
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Next episode: Maybe we just better call off the picnic


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Daniel and Kelly are – blessedly – back! Well, we recorded this in early July and life is just now catching up to it. In case you forgot, we're listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode features 1967’s “Drifter’s Escape.”
context and episode setup (5:00) | initial thoughts & versions — john wesley harding, take 1 on bootleg series, vol. 15, live from 2000 + covers from jimi hendriz, joan baez, and patti smith (8:00) | song itself (23:00) | does this song work today? (45:00) | we’re a real podcast with a real playlist (50:00) | recommendations (1:00:30) | endings (1:08:00)
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Next episode: My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drum


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Daniel and Kelly are listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode features overloaded harmonica of “On A Night Like This.”
initial reactions (5:00) | song itself — please send info on accordions, talkin’ timelines, 1970-75 as its own piece; part i: narrative flow; part ii: horniest dylan record?; part iii: nature as temple, plus a long attempt to fit burn, burn, burn into the dylan canon (8:45) | does this work today? (41:00) | playlist (47:00) | recommendations (56:00) | endings (1:16:00)
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Next episode: The trial was bad enough / But this is ten times worse
Context (5:00)
Song Itself (8:45) — send us info on accordions & talkin’ timelines & let’s see 1970-75 as its own piece
Part I: Narrative Flow
Part II: Horniest Dylan Record?
Part III: Nature as Template (at 37:00 including a crazy roman candle analogy)
Does this work today? (41:00)
Real Podcast and Playlist (47:00)
Recommendations (56:00)
Endings (1:16:00)
Pin
Jury
Timetable
Cell
Rent
References
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Daniel and Kelly listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode features Bob and Suze (and Carla) (and Mary). We’re talking “Ballad in Plain D.”
initial reactions (4:00) | context and episode setup (8:00) — punctuated by hooligans in their racecars | bob and suze (14:30) | let’s talk about this mistake (21:30) | part i: once loved a girl (26:00) | part ii: family matters (31:15) | part iii: bob dylan, philanderer (39:00) | part iv: tumbling dice (46:30) | part v: bird on a wire (50:00) | part vi: one dimensional (1:02:30) | does this song work today? (1:07:45) | we’re a real podcast & playlist (1:18:00) | recommendations (1:27:30) | endings (1:41:00)
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Next episode: burn, burn. burn

Initial Thoughts (4:00)
Context (8:00) — punctuated with hooligans in racecars
Bob and Suze (14:30)
Let’s talk about this mistake (21:30)
Part I: Once Loved A Girl (26:00)
Part II: Family Matters (31:15)
Part III: Bob Dylan, Philanderer (39:00)
Part IV: Tumbling Dice (46:30)
Part V: A Bird on a Wire (50:00)
Part VI: One Dimensional (1:02:30)
Does This Song Work Today? (1:07:45)
Real Podcast and Playlist (1:18:00)
Recommendations (1:27:30)
Endings (1:41:00)
Cooperation
Indulge
Rate
Finger
Reference
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Daniel and Kelly are listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode features stabbing pains and twists of fate.

initial reactions (3:30) | context (6:45) | versions (12:30) | music (25:00) | song itself (33:00) | does this song work today? (1:03:30) | playlist (1:08:30) | recommendations (1:16:40) | endings (1:28:30)

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Next episode: He could look at you and pick out a weakness and suddenly grab it and use it on you. Which is what he did with everybody. He’d find their vulnerable spots and just demolish them… It was just devastating, the way he could twist somebody’s words back on themselves and make them feel he was right and they were wrong.


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