Rising Star Bob Dylan Gets His First Billboard No. 1 With ‘Murder Most Foul’

[Vagabond]

Rising Star Bob Dylan Gets His First Billboard No. 1 With ‘Murder Most Foul’

A very talented, promising young musician just earned his first No. 1 on the Billboard charts, and he goes by the name of [checks notes] Bob Dylan?

Rumors that other recent Nobel Laureates in Literature such as Patrick Modiano, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Olga Tokarczuk have also been signed to recording contracts could not be confirmed at this time.

 

[mjb52]

Love to see an emerging talent get their big break

 

[Vagabond]

Audio and lyrics, all seventeen minutes of it!

For a moment, it sounded like a collaboration between Tom Waits and Don McLean, with vocals by Waits, but that merely reflects how influential Dylan has been. The piece is unmistakably Dylan's. I would not be surprised if it becomes a standard to be listened to every year on November 22.

 

[aftershocks]

So many iconic references that evoke fifty decades of grief, loss, confusion and searching for a way forward for what's left of our humanity after that despicable, unforgivable, planned murderous act. A 'murder most foul,' in more ways than one. So much poetry and resonance, but this passage jumped out for me:

"They mutilated his body and they took out his brain
What more could they do? They piled on the pain
But his soul was not there where it was supposed to be at
For the last fifty years they've been searching for that"


ETA:
Comments on the video recording:

"Bob Dylan's gift to a plagued world."

"Every line is a story on its own. He's gonna make us lonesome when he goes."

"That's why he won the Nobel prize."

"Sounds like a prayer."

"So much for the Warren Report."

"... I was just a kid, and that day part of my childhood was killed."

"This is the embodiment of us 'boomers,' basically our history in 17 minutes."

"If you are of a certain age, there really is nothing further to say."

Another review:

Bob Dylan: Murder Most Foul review – a dark, dense ballad for the end times

Dylan’s first new song in eight years is a fascinating portrait of his obsession with JFK’s assassination, rich with pop cultural detail and apocalyptic dread

www.theguardian.com