Music Head Wrote:#413 - Bob Dylan - Visions Of Johanna - 1966

running recap for me - 3's=45, 2's=33, 1's=10
this one - ***
from the album: Blonde On Blonde
Written by Bob Dylan
Produced by Bob Johnston
Chart action: non-single

the players:
Bob Dylan - vocal
Al Kooper - organ
Robbie Robertson - guitar
Joe South - bass
Charlie McCoy - guitar
Wayne Moss - guitar
Kenneth Buttrey - drums


The man in his prime from possibly his greatest album. Was afraid there would be no clip for
this but I was saved. Below is what lyrics should look like. Original title was Freeze Out.
Written while living in the Chelsea Hotel with pregnant wife Sara. At an early performance Joan
Baez thought the song was written for her. Funny reading all the interpretations of this song
out there. I would think after all this time the truth would be out there somewhere but I don't
know what it is. It's just a great song for me.

[video=youtube;louyKYQUR6k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=louyKYQUR6k[/video]

Lyrics

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet ?
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handfull of rain, tempting you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there's nothing really nothing to turn of
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind.

In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain
And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the D-train
We can hear the night watcman click his flashlight
Ask himself if it's him or them that's really insane
Louise she's all right she's just near
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
That Johanna's not here
The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place.

Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
And when bringing her name up
He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all
Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall
Oh, how can I explain ?
It's so hard to get on
And these visions of Johanna they kept me up past the dawn.

Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smiles
See the primitive wallflower freeze
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeeze
I can't find my knees"
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel.

The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
Saying, "Name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him"
But like Louise always says
"Ya can't look at much, can ya man "

As she, herself prepares for him
And Madonna, she still has not showed
We see this empty cage now corrode
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed
On the back of the fish truck that loads
While my conscience explodes
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain.

CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:i like Rhianna's "loud" album and what Jay-Z did with Linkin Park but i dont like this one...."*" from me

Music Head Wrote:#411 - Eddie Cochran - C'mon Everybody - 1958

running recap for me - 3's=45, 2's=35, 1's=10
this one - **
from the album: various compilations
Written by Eddie Cochran, Jerry Capehart
Produced by Jerry Capehart
Chart action: #35 US, #6 UK, #39 Canada

the players:
Eddie Cochran: vocal, guitar, guitar and drum overdub
Connie 'Guybo' Smith: electric bass
Earl Palmer: drums
Ray Johnson: piano

This one slipped by me. I was nine and it wasn't a very big hit here, so that's my excuse. Only
thing I know by Mr. Cochran is Summertime Blues which this sounds like along with Buddy Holly
material. Considering the birth of the genre was still taking place similarities were to be
expected. This was the follow up single to Summertime Blues. Seems Eddie was a bigger hit in
the UK, where he was touring when he died in a car accident in 1960 at the ripe old age of 21.

[video=youtube;7-71rZxFiRQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-71rZxFiRQ[/video]

Lyrics

Ah well, c'mon everybody and let's get together tonight
I got some money in my jeans and I'm really gonna spend it right
Well I've been a-doin' my homework all week long
And now the house is empty and the folks are gone
Ooo C'mon everybody

Ah well my baby's number one but I'm gonna dance with three or four
And the house'll be a-shakin' from my bare feet slappin' on the floor
Well, when you hear that music you can't sit still
If your brother won't rock then your sister will
Ooo C'mon everybody

Well we'll really have a party but we gotta put a guard outside
If my folks come a-home I'm afraid they're gonna have my hide
They'll be no more movies for a week or two
No more runnin' round with the usual crew
Who cares C'mon everybody

C'mon everybody
C'mon everybody