I’m Not There Soundtrack Winners!
Wow, you guys really know your Dylan! This was a very very tough contest for us to choose the winners but in the end we had to pick just 4 of you who entered the contest to win the double CD of the “I’m Not There” soundtrack.
Enjoy the four winning comments while our winners prepare to enjoy their bounty……
Bianca -
Real tough question. I would say “Masters of war” because this song’s the perfect anti-militarist protest. Dylan can see through the masks of moral superiority, and shows them up(the ones who “build the big bombs”) for the cowardly, power-mongering, money-grabbing hypocrites they are. It’s so strong and powerful that I cant help feeling angry when I hear it.
Andy -
In all seriousness, “Cold Irons Bound” has been on my mental playlist ever since its release in 1997. I still have the ticket stub for my spot in line for the midnight release of Time Out Of Mind, and I don’t think my relationship with my college roommate will ever be the same for all the late nights I stomped along with that rhythm. The way that song builds and crescendos musically rips at you like upside down gravity. Your feet are in those irons, and all of a sudden your knees are all you’ve got. And then the lyrics start.“Reality has always had too many heads.” There’s no way to parse this song. It’s no ballad or existential talking blues. It’s a proud rage at how distant he feels from life and love.
Aaron -
Favorite Dylan song? That’s seemingly impossible to answer. I can’t think of any other artist who has such a wealth of material. From the political to the personal and from the surreal to heartfelt. I have to reach back to my favorite Dylan album ‘Blood on the Tracks’ and its beautiful opening track “Tangled Up in Blue”. Recorded after a long recuperation from a near fatal motorcycle crash and while in the process of a divorce from his first wife, ‘Blood’ is the most personal statement from one of the most enigmatic singer/songwriters of all time. It was with this album that the elusive Dylan really wore his heart on his sleeve.“Tangled Up in Blue” is a song that is at times enigmatic and open to interpretation and yet is at once the most personal and the closest Dylan ever got to autobiography. The free form lyrics relay the thoughts of a man dipping back into his life while on the road during the ’60s. With a torrent of lyrics, Dylan manages to recount a life on the road-a brief affair with a woman he met-their marriage-and their subsequent parting of the ways.
It’s a beautiful song that is at once nostalgic with a hint of bitterness. And yet there’s a sense of resignation and hopefulness at the end.
It’s a brilliant first track to an equally brilliant record that sums up everything great about Dylan.
Curt -
My favorite Dylan tune is one of his strangest: “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere.” The tune began life during Dylan’s “basement” sessions with The Band and was eventually given to The Byrds to kick off their “Sweetheart of the Rodeo” album (feat. Gram Parsons).On The Byrds version of the track, Roger McGuinn reversed the verbs in a couplet, singing “pick up your tent,” rather than “pack up your tent.”
When an official Dylan rendition of the song finally saw the light of day, many of the lyrics and images were switched and altered, with Dylan sarcastically singing: “PICK up your money, PACK up your tent, McGuinn,” directly referencing the famous mistake.
The song is goofy, rambling and brilliant. With references to “Genghis Kahn and his brother Don,” and “a fish that walks and a dog that talks,” it’s perhaps Dylan at his most playful. From what I understand, the stars of ONCE, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, cover the song for this OST.
