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

By: lonepilgrim

lonepilgrim — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:51:35 +0000

This was also a number 1 in the USA – as noted here:

http://nohardchords.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/139-the-byrds-mr-tambourine-man/

By: Billy Smart

Billy Smart — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:28:03 +0000

TOTPWatch: The Byrds performed ‘Mr Tambourine Man’ once on Top of the Pops, but precisely WHEN they did is something of a mystery. The performance was repeated on the Christmas Day edition of 1965, but if it had been broadcast previously is not documented. My guess would be that when The Byrds visited the studio to perform ‘All I Really Want To Do’ on the 12th of August they also recorded ‘Mr Tambourine Man’ at the same time for later transmission. No copy of the performance survives.

By: Lena

Lena — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:31:12 +0000

UK fuzziness alert: http://musicsoundsbetterwithtwo.blogspot.com/2011/07/taking-off-yardbirds-heart-full-of-soul.html Thanks for reading everyone!

By: crag

crag — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:05:25 +0000

DESERT ISLAND DISCS WATCH:

James Fox, actor(1983)

Chris DeBurgh, singer(1998).

By: thefatgit

thefatgit — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:27:17 +0000

I love this track. There’s the optimism and wonder that Dylan attributes to the drug-lifestyle that serves as bookend to something like Low’s “In The Drugs”, which for me, this band above all others soundtracks Effy’s journey in to drugs hell in Skins. Which in itself seems to be one of those stories that will transfer into modern fable, in the same way Beth Jordache (sexuality) in Brookside, and Kat and Zoe (family relationships) in Eastenders have.

(Although Dylan wrote and recorded Mr.TM first, in my mind, I tend to attribute The Byrds version as the earliest example of drug-pop I can remember. I know there are others. And I know music and drugs go back a helluva long way before the 60′s and psychedelia.)

Although it may be hard to draw comparisons between 60′s pschedelia and noughties slowcore, both bands (and Dylan for that matter) flirt with that almost intangible, but everpresent soft-focus gauze-over-the-camera, half-asleep half-awake style of delivery, which in relation to drugs, always seems apropriate.

The Byrds are unlocking the door and inviting you in. Some 40-odd years later, Low are nailing it shut.

By: Семен Соколов

Семен Соколов — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:52:42 +0000

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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.