A hard Rain Bob Dylan parody by Joan Baez - Records Pictures video free download

Michael Fleming

Only Joan Baez would get away with this. Surely, Dylan had a laugh at this.

Samantha Moshen

I agree, she does a Dylan impression on her cover of "Simple Twist of Fate" on her Diamonds and Rust album and it's hysterical!

Marvin Fleer

darn, she messed up the song at 3.50

MoonwalkerWorshiper

I guess you're right with the syncopation part but fact of the matter is Dylan is not a technical singer. You can clearly HEAR that, and come to realize it. I don't need to be convinced by somebody of what I'm hearing, my ears convince me. There will always be bad music out there and there will always be weird random tossers who praise bad music without due. There might be worse acts than Dylan but that doesn't even matter.

notvalidcharacters

And I guess you need some amount of vocabulary, because what you're descibing is "syncopation". The bottom line is, human expression doesn't mean declaring one single hard fast unmalleable rule for what defines either "singing" or " timing". It's far broader than that and big part of what any artist does is to bend and break those stereotypes. We can either go in and seek to understand them, or we can lock ourselves in little preconceived boxes. I recommend the former.

MoonwalkerWorshiper

Yes there's a difference between coarse and out of tune, but Dylan doesn't sing. He's like Johnny Cash trying to sing better but fails. If you ever listened to Dylan you know what I'm talking about. He doesn't sing his songs, he talks them, and his pitch is always out of sync with his song. But I guess you need some amount of delusion to be able to appreciate artists like this.

notvalidcharacters

Well no. What I decided was to set aside my preconceptions of what 'mellifluous' means and give the content a chance to see if there was something there, and there was, in spades. It isn't out of tune; it's coarse. There's a difference. I never cared for his harmonica playing but that's not the point anyway. Not sure what you mean by "bending down your pitch" there. But none of this has anything to do with "talent".

MoonwalkerWorshiper

You decided to force yourself to like music you didn't like. My ears bleed when I hear Dylan "sing", I won't magically go tone-deaf because I continue listen.

notvalidcharacters

It is a misleading title, but if you've ever heard Joan in concert go into her Dylan impression, it is HILARIOUS.

notvalidcharacters

Long long time ago I thought of Dylan that way too. Then I decided to shut up and listen. Guess what - everything changed.

vernonadebisi

ha , i kinda agree with this altho im personally a huge fan of dylans voice(all its versions) kinda becasue it sounds like a someone pulled a drunk cat out of an alley.

rickey011

lol she cute. Good cover

MoonwalkerWorshiper

As long as you sing out of tune loudly and bend down your pitch everytime you open your mouth you're gonna do fine. But to sound as untalented as Dylan takes alot of practice.

MoonwalkerWorshiper

I don't know if I would call it a parody, more like a proper imitation of Bob Dylan's "singing", if not better. Dylan's unability to decide if he's gonna sing out of tune or talk his songs like Johnny Cash makes me nauseous. How is this man famous?

ozricstormbringer

in no way can you even compare bob dylan's singing ability if you can call it that to Joan Baez. bob sounds like someone pulled a drunk cat out of an ali and joan is one of the worlds best singers. bob is an amazing writer but ya man let someone ells sing that.

Sandra shark

her voice, this song... A perfect mixed

Christina Kekka

She sounds exactly like him right?! so funny

Honey Headshots

you got it! it's genius stuff!

Frank DeMasi

Not sure if anyone has posted to this effect, but this song was inspired ny the Cuban missile crisis (1962), when the US and USSR had a stare-down about the missiles the USSR had shipped to Cuba and hidden. Dylan indicated that every line could have been the start of a song: there were so many songs to write, he said, and he wondered if he would live long enough to write them. Something bad---really bad---was likely to come of

Mayna00

She doesn't really like Dylan, you know. He was awful to her. She respects him as an artist, but as a person? No. But maybe this was an homage, a nod to the great artist who hekped sculpt Joan's career and much of her earlier outlook ..

Joan Baez

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