Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks

[stooka]

Blood On The Tracks is the one that clicked for me and made me love Dylan!

[Fritz]

I've always loved this song too. The verse that floors me is:

 

I met somebody face to face, I had to remove my hat.

She's everything I need and love but I can't be swayed by that.

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be.

But she ain't gonna make a move,

I guess it must be up to me.

 

 

Poor tortured Bob! He met someone who is EVERYTHING he needs and loves, yet he still can't be swayed by it/her. And he's frightened by the "awful truth" of how sweet life can be! How do you come up with a line like that?!?!? He's terrified by the prospect of being happy and in love! Burtal. Brilliant, and brutal.

 

I was thinking about what my favourite verse might be when I originally posted.

 

I think it's this one...

 

Oh, the Union Central is pullin’ out and the orchids are in bloom

I’ve only got me one good shirt left and it smells of stale perfume

In fourteen months I’ve only smiled once and I didn’t do it consciously

Somebody’s got to find your trail, I guess it must be up to me

[Oil Can Boyd]

Blood on the Tracks being turned into a movie?

 

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118052289

 

'Blood on the Tracks' gets film adaptation

 

RT Features acquires rights to make Bob Dylan classic into a movie

 

By Dave McNary

 

 

Brazil-based RT Features is moving on a simple twist of film, acquiring rights to adapt Bob Dylan's 1975 album "Blood on the Tracks" into an English-language feature.

RT Features toppers Rodrigo Teixeira and Fernando Loureiro will produce and are seeking a director after buying rights from Grey Water Park Prods. that include the ability to use the music in the film.

"Blood on the Tracks," Dylan's 15th studio album, contains "Tangled Up in Blue," "Simple Twist of Fate," and "Shelter from the Storm" and is ranked by Rolling Stone as the 16th greatest album of all time.

Dylan biographers have concluded the songs stemmed from personal turmoil at the time, including his separation from his first wife. But Dylan said in his memoir "Chronicles, Vol. 1" that the songs were inspired by Anton Chekhov's short stories.

"As longtime admirers of one of the greatest albums in the history of music, we feel privileged to be making this film," Teixeira said. "Our goal is to work with a filmmaker who can create a classic drama with characters and an environment that capture the feelings that the album inspires in all fans."

As part of their plan to move into developing and producing English-language films, RT Features has partnered on developing crime novel "Strip" into a feature with Thunder Road Pictures and "The Games of 1940," a co-production with Kennedy/Marshall that will be written by David Seidler and Luca Manzi.

RT Features has produced Portuguese-language films including "Romeo and Juliet Get Married" and "Drained," selected for official competition at Sundance. The company's "Heleno" and "The Silver Cliff" played at last year's Toronto Film Festival while "O Abismo Prateado" was part of the Cannes Directors' Fortnight screening selection.

[LouieB]

this was featured in an article in the Trib yesterday with goofy speculation about other albums that could be turned into movies. A movie based on the song Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts was floated years ago and never happened.

 

LouieB

[froggie]

BOTT is my fave as well.... i read an interview where he said "i dont understand why people like that album... who enjoys all that suffering?"... or something like that

[IRememberDBoon]

between that and desire you cant much better every song is great type of albums

[The High Heat]

BOTT is my fave as well.... i read an interview where he said "i dont understand why people like that album... who enjoys all that suffering?"... or something like that

 

Because we can understand and wrap our minds around the themes of those songs. Even Dylan doesn't know what all that wonderful shit he put out in the '60's was all about!

[people are leaving]

It's a great record, but i can think of 6-7 others I like more.

[anthony]

between that and desire you cant much better every song is great type of albums

I feel that Desire is a fairly under-rated LP. "Isis" and "Romance in Durango" are a couple of his best 'story' songs ever. Full of mystery and sharp imagery.

[Shakespeare In The Alley]

desire's my second favorite dylan album. (blonde on blonde is first, for what its worth.) it's one of the only dylan albums that doesnt really sound like any other dylan record. and it's got songs like isis, sara, durango (i love that one's opening line. so vivid) and black diamond bay. then the rest isnt shabby either.

 

definitely underrated.

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

Blood on the Tracks, Desire and Street Legal are Dylan's second artistic peak. I used to buy into Greil Marcus's opinion about Street Legal, but I aged few years and my opinion strongly changed.

[Shakespeare In The Alley]

street legal's underrated too, but i dont consider it as top tier or classic material

 

new morning, on the other hand, there's a criminally underrated dylan classic.