Top singles from the past
1 May 2025
This day 25 years ago, on May 1st 2000, BOB DYLAN‘s
song THINGS HAVE CHANGED was released as a single.
He wrote it for comedy-drama movie
Wonder Boys, featuring Michael Douglas.
It won both the Academy Award for Best Original Song
and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.
22 April 2025
Can’t agree more.
Significant longplayers from the past
17 April 2025
Imperishable legend BOB DYLAN (now aged 83) topped the UK Charts with his
2nd LP THE FREEWHEELIN’ BOB DYLAN today 60 years ago, on 17 April 1965.
Except for 2 songs Dylan‘s debut album featured performances of traditional folk tunes. Here on his 2nd one 11 out of the 13 songs were penned by himself. Some of them, such as ‘Girl from the North Country’, ‘Masters of War’, ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ and ‘Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right’, became timeless classics.
In the US the LP peaked at #22, but went platinum over the years.
The cover features a photograph of Dylan with his then Italian girlfriend
Suze Rotolo. It was taken in the West Village, New York City, close to the flat
where the couple lived at the time.
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22 March 2025
Today 60 years ago, on 22 March 1965, singer-songwriter icon BOB DYLAN released
his fifth LP, titled BRING IT ALL BACK HOME. A sound-changing album as it was his first longplayer with electric music on, and recorded with a rock ‘n’ roll band. Narrow-minded, die hard folk fans experienced this move as a betrayal of his folk and protest song roots.
Dylan didn’t care about that. He always did what he wanted to do and still does.
This record is unquestionably one of his multiple grand accomplishments in my
Robert Zimmerman book, musically and lyrically. A bona fide masterpiece.
Despite the controversy, it was Dylan‘s first top 10 album in the US, peaking at #9
and his first No. 1 in the UK. Its monumental single Subterranean Homesick Blues became an influential classic.
Rolling Stone wrote: “By fusing the Chuck Berry beat of the Rolling Stones
and the Beatles with the leftist, folk tradition of the folk revival, Dylan really
had brought it back home, creating a new kind of rock & roll that made every
type of artistic tradition available to rock.”
David Crosby said: “The thing about ‘Bringing It All Back Home’ was his words.
That’s what Bob stunned the world with. Up until then we had ‘oooh, baby’ and
‘I love you, baby.’ Bob changed the map. He gave us really, really good words.”
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9 January 2024
50 years on – 26 June 1975 – from the release of the Basement Tapes LP by Bob Dylan and The Band, Uncut invites compatriots, aficionados and heads, including Jason Isbell, Richard Thompson, Lucinda Williams, Elvis Costello, Van Morrison and more to celebrate
the 30 greatest songs of The Band.
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Also features with Sharon Van Etten, Aswad, Blue Öyster Cult, The Moody
Blues, Macca, Keith Richards, etc, and reviews of a heap of new albums.
You can buy a copy and let it be sent to your home address. Info HERE.
This month’s free CD, named Take A Load Off contains 15 tracks of new
music by The Weather Station, The Delines, Richard Dawson, Sunny War
and more.
23 December 2024
Artist: BOB DYLAN
Album: Blood On The Tracks
His fifteenth and one of his most
memorable LPs.
All Music: “This is hardly nostalgia, this is the sound of an artist returning to his strengths, what feels most familiar, as he accepts a traumatic situation, namely the breakdown of his marriage. This is an album alternately bitter, sorrowful, regretful, and peaceful, easily the closest he ever came to wearing his emotions on his sleeve.”
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Band: FLEETWOOD MAC
Album: Fleetwood Mac
Their 10th.
Pitchfork said: “Though far from their debut, the band’s 1975 self-titled album felt like a debut: a pop-rock statement and the unexpected intersection of two parallel spheres that offered something genuinely new.”
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Artist: NEIL YOUNG
Album: Tonight’s The Night
His sixth LP.
The record was dedicated to Danny Whitten, guitarist of Crazy Horse,
who wrote the song ‘I Don’t Want To Talk About It’ made famous by Rod
Stewart.
Rolling Stone wrote: “Tonight’s the Night finds Neil Young on his knees at the top of the heap, struggling to get back to his feet… Crying over the death of his real and imagined friends, Neil Young seems at once heroic and mock heroic, brave and absurd. Like the best of both, he leaves us as he found us, ravaged but rocking.”
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Artist: PATTI SMITH
Album: Horses
Her stunning debut.
Rolling Stone wrote: “Patti Smith’s debut album was a declaration of committed mutiny,
a statement of faith in the transfigurative powers of rock & roll. Horses made her the queen
of punk before it even really existed, but Smith cared more for the poetry in rock.”
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Band: PINK FLOYD
Album: Wish You Were Here
9th longplayer, dedicated to the late
flamboyant co-founder Syd Barrett.
The Village Voice wrote: “The music is not only simple and attractive, with the synthesizer used mostly for texture and the guitar breaks for comment, but it actually achieves some of
he symphonic dignity (and cross-referencing) that The Dark Side of the Moon simulated so ponderously.”
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Band: LED ZEPPELIN
Album: Physical Graffiti
Zep‘s 6th, a double one.
Billboard wrote: “The LP is a tour de force through a number of musical
styles, from straight rock to blues to folky acoustic to orchestral sounds.”
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Band: NEU!
Album: Neu!
3rd one.
AllMusic: “This is music not only for traveling, from one place to the
next, but also for disappearance into the ether at a steady pace.”
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Artist: BRIAN ENO
Album: Another Green World
His third.
Pitchfork: “Brian Eno has done everything from producing huge pop stars to creating tiny art installations to touring with rock bands to inventing ambient music. Another Green World remains his definitive album.”
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Band: QUEEN
Album: A Night At The Opera
Their majestic 4th.
MOJO wrote: “An imperial extravaganza, a cornucopia. A band of hungrily
competitive individualists on a big roll of friendship and delight.”
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Artist: DAVID BOWIE
Album: Young Americans
9th longplayer.
Rolling Stone: “The music works best when Bowie combines his renewed interest in soul
with his knowledge of English pop, rather than opting entirely for one or the other.”
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14 December 2024
New BOB DYLAN biopic, titled A COMPLETE UNKNOWN is scheduled to be
released in the United States by Searchlight Pictures on 25 December. More
info, pictures, and screen shots here.
Trailer
Based on the 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties by American musician/writer Elijah Wald the film revolves around the controversy surrounding the switch to electrically amplified instrumentation by the living legend. Timothée Chalamet (who also produces) stars as Dylan, with Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook, and Scoot McNairy in supporting roles.
Story: Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous
cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives with
his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of
American music.
He forges intimate relationships with music icons of Greenwich Village
on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbreaking and controversial
performance at the Newport festival in 1965 that reverberates worldwide.
The film’s title is derived from lyrics from Bob Dylan‘s 1965
astounding, timeless classic single Like A Rolling Stone.
“How does it feel?
How does it feel?
To be without a home?
Like a complete unknown?
Like a rolling stone?”
Searchlight Pictures: Website
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
6 November 2024
I never thought it could happen, but it did. The majority of the American
people has voted for the end of democracy. The times are a-changin’, but
not for the best. It’s all over now, baby blue. A horrible day to wake up.
22 September 2024
The earlier announced huge Bob Dylan deluxe box set BOB DYLAN AND THE BAND – 1974 LIVE RECORDINGS is out now. It celebrates the 50th anniversary of his return to touring that year, after a hiatus due to a motorcycle incident.
The special set features no less than 27 discs with 431 live tracks of which 417
are previously unreleased and 16 newly mixed recordings. More info here.
Stream 20-song sampler.
10 August 2024
This month, Mojo brings you the real story behind BOB DYLAN’s 1974 tour
with THE BAND, as revealed by the new box set The 1974 Live Recordings,
new interviews and clues from the Dylan papers.
Also in this new issue: Motown’s first annus mirabilis, Neil Young’s latest
Archive instalment de-archived, Nick Lowe by Costello, Cooder, Tweedy;
Arthur Lee and much more.
This month’s free CD named Forever Young brings you the Best of 1974.
It includes 15 killer songs by Can, King Crimson, Fela Kuti, Betty Davis, Gram
Parsons, Robert Wyatt and 2 unreleased tracks from Dylan’s new 1974 Tour
box set.
Mojo: Website