{"id":968,"date":"2010-05-28T23:03:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T05:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=968"},"modified":"2010-05-30T16:48:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T22:48:22","slug":"song-of-the-day-like-a-rolling-stone-by-jimi-hendrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day – “Like a Rolling Stone” by Jimi Hendrix"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jimi’s version.<\/a><\/p>\n

Also, “Like a Rolling Stone” by The Rolling Stones<\/a><\/p>\n

And why the hell not… “Like a Rolling Stone” by Bob Dylan<\/a><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan wrote this song.\u00a0 And I’m going to pull a total dick move here and piss plenty of people off by saying what I’m about to say.\u00a0 Bob Dylan can’t fucking sing.\u00a0 I’ve never really gotten “into” his music, and that’s because of the tuneless wandering nasal whine he sneezes all over his records.\u00a0 The only time I’ve ever really listened to him is when he’s on a Traveling Wilburys album… and even then I think “Man, this dude can’t fucking sing”.<\/p>\n

So let the hate-mail commence.<\/p>\n

I will say that I would have a great deal of respect for his music and especially his lyrical skill if I had any of his stuff.\u00a0 All I really know is this song, and man, those lyrics.<\/p>\n

I suppose I could compare his lyrical skill (from what I’ve heard others say) to that of Peter Hammill.\u00a0 I’ve gone on and on about Peter Hammill on this blog before, and if you don’t know who he is, then Google him.\u00a0 Google is pretty easy to find and it works pretty good.<\/p>\n

So anyway, Bob Dylan writes good lyrics.\u00a0 And Jimi Hendrix certainly thought his music was A-OK too.\u00a0 Jimi was a Dylan fanatic.\u00a0 And his version of “Like a Rolling Stone” is my favorite of any I’ve heard.<\/p>\n

Which brings me to the version done by The Rolling Stones.\u00a0 As great as their name is, and as great a band they are for what they do, their version is bland.\u00a0 Dancey-Schmancey popitized bland.<\/p>\n

So listen to that Jimi Hendrix version to really enjoy the song.\u00a0 Listen to the Bob Dylan version to appreciate where it came from, and listen to the Rolling Stones only if you like listening to legendary 60s bands trying to cling on to what made them great.<\/p>\n

Again, let the hate-mail commence!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jimi’s version. Also, “Like a Rolling Stone” by The Rolling Stones And why the hell not… “Like a Rolling Stone” by Bob Dylan Bob Dylan wrote this song.\u00a0 And I’m going to pull a total dick move here and piss plenty of people off by saying what I’m about to say.\u00a0 Bob Dylan can’t fucking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[69,101,312,314,160,313],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-day","tag-60s","tag-70s","tag-bob-dylan","tag-jimi-hendrix","tag-peter-hammill","tag-rolling-stones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}