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"Man Gave Names to All the Animals" is a song written by Bob Dylan that appeared on his 1979 album Slow Train Coming and was also released as a single in some European countries, becoming a chart hit in France and Belgium. It was also released as a promo single in the US. [4] [2] However, some have labelled it the worst song Dylan ever wrote. [2]
The song's title is derived from the catchphrase of Scoop the Digger, a character in the show, and the chorus of the song features this phrase prominently, as well as the response, "Yes we can!" Vocals on the song are provided by Neil Morrissey, who voiced Bob at the time of the track's recording. It was released as a single on 4 December 2000 ...
"Jokerman" is a song by Bob Dylan that appeared as the opening track of his 1983 album Infidels. [3] [4] Recorded on April 14, 1983, [5] it was released as a single on June 1, 1984, featuring a live version of "Isis" from the film Renaldo and Clara as its B-side.
The version of the song on Highway 61 Revisited is an acoustic/electric blues song, one of three blues songs on the album (the others being "From a Buick 6" and "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"). [2] [3] It is made up of lines taken from older blues songs combined with Dylan's own lyrics. [2]
Music journalist Simon Vozick-Levinson, writing in a 2020 Rolling Stone article where the song ranked 10th on a list of "The 25 Best Bob Dylan Songs of the 21st Century", commented on the playful ambiguity of the lyrics, noting that the central image of a train whistle could either sound like "the last trumpet of the apocalypse" or function as a "symbol of music's redemptive power".
"My Moon My Man" is the first single off Canadian singer-songwriter Feist's album The Reminder (2007). The song was co-written by Feist and songwriter Chilly Gonzalez. "My Moon My Man" was used in a Verizon Wireless LG Chocolate commercial, [1] and featured in the Season 4 Grey's Anatomy episode "Let The Truth Sting." A Boys Noize remix of the ...
"Bob" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic from the 2003 album, Poodle Hat. The song is a parody sung in the style of Bob Dylan , and all of the lyrics are palindromes as is the title. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] For example, the song's first line is "I, man, am regal—a German am I", which reads the same when reversed.
"Slow Train" has an earlier genesis than most of the songs on Slow Train Coming.It began life as an instrumental Dylan used to warm up with on tour in late 1978. [3] A recording of the song with some lyrics exists from a soundcheck of a December 2, 1978 show in Nashville, Tennessee, although only the chorus and a few lines from that version were retained on the ultimate recording. [4]