On March 14, 1966, John Lennon told a London newspaper that the
\nBeatles were “bigger than Jesus.” After his joint persecution at
\nhands of the press and conservative groups, public awareness was
\nheightened of popular music’s content, specifically lyrics. So
\nwhere does Bob Dylan fit in?<\/p>\n
“Well, they’ll stone ya when you’re trying to be so
\ngood, They’ll stone ya just a-like they said they would. They’ll
\nstone ya when you’re tryin’ to go home. Then they’ll stone ya when
\nyou’re there all alone. But I would not feel so all alone,
\nEverybody must get stoned…”<\/p>\n
In April 1966, Dylan intentionally dropped “Rainy Day Women #12
\n& 35” on the unsuspecting public’s lap when he released this
\nclassic as the introductory single to
\nBlonde On Blonde<\/i>. The track’s environment was jolly; it
\nopened with muffled and bleeding horns, a marching-style drum track
\nand sounds of a cackling mob responding to Dylan’s giggled lyrics.
\nShockingly, relatively no public backlash occurred. “Rainy Day
\nWomen #12 & 35” loaded and launched the perfect offensive. In
\nfact, this single was so commercially accepted that it reached #2
\non Billboard’s Singles Chart.<\/p>\n
Other songs including the breezy harmonica-laden “I Want You”
\nand the evil “Just Like A Woman” were also released on AM radio to
\nmodest success. However, the power of
\nBlonde On Blonde<\/i> isn’t that it carries a collection of
\nsingles, but that it perfectly sequences moods and tracks to
\npromote inspired and repeated listens.<\/p>\n
If you happen to be a fan of simple-minded, cliched lyrics with
\na blatant radio-friendly production, then you will dislike and\/or
\nfail to understand this album. As the songs roll on, eclecticism
\nreigns. Teetering between rock, blues, folk, witty comedy and the
\nprovocatively wistful, each song carries you a purposeful
\njourney.<\/p>\n
Placed firmly as a fixture in the collections of many critics,
\nBlonde On Blonde<\/i> consistently reaches the upper regions of
\nall-time album charts. Recently, it was prominently positioned at
\n#9 on VH1’s
\nAll-Time 100 Greatest Albums of Rock-N-Roll<\/i> (2001). Don’t be
\nafraid; place this in your stereo system. Sure it’s been around
\nlonger than most readers have likely existed, but trust me…it’s
\nhip.
\nBlonde On Blonde<\/i>‘s timelessness, seamless sequence, tone and
\nsurreal aural candy remain as fresh-frozen today as it did 37 years
\nago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":26452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5866],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-37686","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-bob-dylan","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37686"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37686"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}