Comments on: THE BYRDS - “Mr. Tambourine Man”

By: Alan Connor

Alan Connor — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:50:00 +0000

Resurrection Watch: This Kilroy tribute. Plus Shatner, Melanie et al, of course.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:49:00 +0000

Sorry for the double post about LIKING IT.
I’ve had a real problem getting my box to post stuff - may be that’s why so little response - to this song.
Dissention included.

Brian C

By: Alan Connor

Alan Connor — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:29:00 +0000

I feel I may be missing out on something. I love Neil Young, and mistook the intro to one of his 45,654 versions of “Mr Soul” for “Eight Miles High” this evening, and thought: “hey, maybe I do like the Byrds!”. And I love some bits of CSN, and some bits of Hollies, and some bits of West Coast harmony stuff, and some garage, and have never much of a bad word to say about Dylan, and love Love, but…

…I suppose I’m saying “ta” for noting the dissent.

By: Mark Gamon

Mark Gamon — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 11:41:00 +0000

Good point. Your dissent duly noted!

By: Alan Connor

Alan Connor — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:47:00 +0000

If we all like it how come it only got an 8?

I don't like it.

I don't dislike it either, but it's never said anything to me. I understand that they were the talk of the town when they appearted on the live scene, but I wasn't there, and nothing about their look, sound or project has ever done the slightest thing for me.

(That's not entirely true: I go for "Chestnut Mare" and "Feel A Whole Lot Better".)

Apologies for posting such a personal blank meh post, but the greater the assumption of unanimity, the more important that the odd blank face says meh.

By: Mark Gamon

Mark Gamon — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:16:00 +0000

If it’s worth saying once, it’s worth saying twice…

If we all like it how come it only got an 8?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:28:00 +0000

Funny, I thought everone had gone to the moon but I guess M.Tam Man is too smooth for it’s own good.

And we all LIKE it !

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:27:00 +0000

Funny, I thought everone had gone to the moon but I guess M.Tam Man is too smooth for it’s own good.

And we all LIKE it !

By: Mark Gamon

Mark Gamon — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:19:00 +0000

Mystifying. King of the Road gets 40+ comments, Tambourine Man gets 3…

By: Mark Gamon

Mark Gamon — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:58:00 +0000

Marcello - now THAT’S what I call observant. Have recently been listening to Crosby and Nash’s most recent work. Patchy but in places fabulous. Whatever else you think about the sixties, it seems to me like a golden age of harmony singing.

By: Marcello

Marcello — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 08:18:00 +0000

In contrast, the reason for the decline of the Searchers is that they never had a Dylan to smooth out.

No need to comment on the attendant irony of David Crosby knocking Graham Nash off the top of the charts.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:46:00 +0000

We talked a bit earlier about Lennon and word play and how it worked into Ticket To Ride and all the puns, double entendre and “in” remarks in many of the Beatles stuff. Small potatoes compared to Dylan. And , as time has proven, much more than a riddle game

With the intro of M. Tam Man into the charts it’s an acceptance of poetic, lyric driven songs. I remember the general wisdom as ” Dylan can’t sing” but he could write. It took a band as tightly wrought and highly sung to make a silk pouch out of Dylan’s sow’s ear. We owe the Byrd’s a lot in being able to bring such an unusual song into the public limelight. That ol’ Rickenbacker’s jingle jangle does the trick.

Here’s a song that we can listen to again and again and draw more and differing meanings from it. Just like all good poetry, it allows us to give it our personal meaning. And thank God that it was Dylan they chose to be ” Rickenbackered into a blissful smoothness. “. Had they not Zimmerman may not have ever strapped on a Stratocaster at Newport.

Brian C

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 21:24:00 +0000

See, with this and the last entry we’re starting to get to the really good stuff about how pop works (the general how, not the particular why). I’ve been enjoying Popular since the beginning, but I hope it continues like this.

Or, to be less obtuse, this is great.