Wednesday, October 2, 2013

This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land



And people complained that Bob Dylan had a poor singing voice.

18 comments:

chickelit said...

A great cover of another great Woody Guthrie tune from that era: Reuben James

bagoh20 said...

No wonder Elvis was so popular a few years later.

Last night I watched on Youtube a show about the end of Elvis's life with interviews of the members of the Memphis Mafia. Man, those guys partied hard. Elvis's doctor prescribed him 10,000 doses of speed and downers in one year. That's freaking amazing. While I was watching it, I kept thinking he was just a victim of his time, when they didn't quite understand the danger of prescription drugs, and he would know better than to go that far today, but I'm not sure. People still do it now. Anyway there was lots of good stuff in it. 1 hour:

http://youtu.be/W3gUiDcDIrI

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Bob Dylan? Dylan Dylan... why does that name sound familiar?

oh yea... That must be the guy not going to his lesbian daughter's wedding.

What a swell guy.

Chip Ahoy said...

I automatically start singing this in his voice. And then having hitched my voice like that I cannot resist embellishing where he does not. And then I keep going in an effort to crack myself up embellishing more and more ridiculously while resisting cracking up. I hate myself.

Mumpsimus said...

"Poor singing voice" equaled "authentic" in that era. Back before the Great Folk Music Scare (George Carlin reference: "Remember the Great Folk Music Scare? That shit almost caught on!") only intellectuals listened to "folk music." Actual folks listened to Perry Como, or Grand Ole Opry.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I can hear trooper, in my minds ear, doing exactly that.

chickelit said...

You all are supposed to realize that this is the anti-thesis of the BS going down in DC.

edutcher said...

Some of it, of course, had to do with less-than-swell recording equipment back then.

Mumpsimus said...

"Poor singing voice" equaled "authentic" in that era. Back before the Great Folk Music Scare (George Carlin reference: "Remember the Great Folk Music Scare? That shit almost caught on!") only intellectuals listened to "folk music." Actual folks listened to Perry Como, or Grand Ole Opry.

That's why the Kingston Trio wasn't considered authentic by the purists.

You had to be Commies like Peter, Paul, and Mary to sing folk well and still be considered authentic.

KCFleming said...

This money's your money,
This money's my money,
From the thousand makers
To the million takers

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Pogo- I can tap my foot to that.
Assuming I can keep my foot.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Watching it now, Bagoh.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Dang. I'll have to turn it off and save for later. I have taxes to pay.

"that is probably the best looking man I've ever seen...."

ricpic said...

Comrade Guthrie was hot to trot to steal private property, for "you and me" of course. Then where would "this land" be? Oh, that's right, we're there.

chickelit said...

ricpic: "Comrade Woody" is the left flank of a top secret pincher movement underway called the Schliessen Plan.

Methadras said...

I'm sorry, but Bob Dylan is a douche.

chickelit said...

I'm sorry, but Bob Dylan is a douche

That's French for showering (with praise).

bagoh20 said...

"I'm sorry, but Bob Dylan is a douche."

It's not your fault. Our President is a douche too, and that is somebody's fault.

Icepick said...

And people complained that Bob Dylan had a poor singing voice.

People complained (and complain) about Bob Dylan's singing voice because Bob Dylan's singing voice sucks donkey balls, chokes on them, gags, throws up and tries to sing through the whole process. That doesn't mean he has the only bad voice in the history of bad voices, but his is probably the one that still gets the most radio time.