Saturday Song - My Back Pages

Hey, it's songday. Today I pick a song that I believe warrants it and publish an assortment of the covers of that song by various persons and or groups. Pick a few that are new to you and have a listen. It is also, of course, an open thread to talk about anything you feel like.

Today's song is: My Back Pages

Bob Dylan

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The Magokoro Brothers From "Masked & Anonymous", which is interesting to watch if you've never seen it,

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The Byrds

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The Hollies

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Hugo Montenegro

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The Ramones

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America

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Roger McGuinn

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The Nice

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Keith Jarrett Trio

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Georgia Whiting

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Marshall Crenshaw

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Denny Freeman

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Joan Osborne & Jackson Browne

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30th Anniversary Concert

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janis b's picture

The Magokoro Brothers video was very interesting to watch. It's filmed from quite an interesting angle.

My favourites (not including Dylan himself) were the two Keiths. I enjoyed both their interpretations.

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enhydra lutris's picture

had managed to obscure all information as to what it was. Suddenly I found myself thinking: "Wait! I know this song." It was quite an experience. Once I found out that it was part of a movie, I went and got it. The whole film it is from is pretty strange and interesting (and mostly in english). The playlist is all Dylan tunes and is pretty amazing, including, among other things, four done by Dylan, 1 by Los Lobos, 1 dy the Grateful Dead, one by Jerry Garcia, one by the Magoro Brothers, and more.

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Here's a review from Roger Ebert.

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janis b's picture

some pretty strong and conflicting opinions .

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enhydra lutris's picture

next. I must confess to being a lifelong fan of the absurd, dada, surrealism and all of that.

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When you have some extra time and interest, check out this 6 minute Dadaist film, by Hans Richter from the open culture website.

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"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

That's a lot of pages, and none of it is ringing a bell. I can't listen now, but I will later.

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

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I enjoyed her version alot.
Thank you for all those.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

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Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.

I love finding the original version of a song and tracing its journey, but I have never been as thorough as you. If posting, I will usually post the original version, unless I have what seems to me to be a specific and good reason to post a cover or a couple of versions.

This helped me with Turn Me On. I heard the Norah Jones version and thought it was one of the sexiest songs I'd ever heard. However, I also thought it was one of the most sexist songs I'd ever heard. On researching it, I learned it was a cover of a song written by a male and first recorded by a male. Then, it no longer seemed sexist and I could enjoy it without that reservation.

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