can’t stress enough that the title track to Search for the New Land by Lee Morgan deserves a mention in the convo for best song of ‘66. Wayne Shorter. Herbie Hancock. Masters at work

relevant tidbit;

this dylan demo from '62 was floating around for a while

youtube.com/watch?v=dteSFNWuuDc

elvis (who hit absolute rock bottom in '65, knee deep in soundtrack albums) heard it in '66 when he was starting to record his '67 gospel album (which is when he started to find his spirit again and segued into his '68 comeback) but didnt include on the album so Dylan considered this the proudest moment of his professional career

dang this almost has that third stream Sketches sound on the intro

where's the f***s all that jazz @Very_Based

You mention Coltrane last year?

i posted Psalm

one day ill listen to all those soundtrack albums

You gonna give Paul Simon any spots this year?

i have dont bother

they had like literally a hundred bucks and 24 hours to make them and the colonel had scared away every single decent songwriter by demanding that elvis get a half a songwriting credit for singing their song

yep 3 exquisite and delicate masterpieces

was waiting for you to pull up with god mode ruffin guess i will

a perfect trilogy of singles for the year and those moves

Crazy that Ascension came out in 66

I thought you knew MoTown inside and out

I do for the 60s

Yet another deep cut that could've been a hit Gordy baby what was you doin

F***in goes

Can vividly remember watching this when I was getting into the stones as a teenager and being amazed by the song but by the weird little monkey man on the sitar reminded me of the monkey henchman from Eddie Murphy's Golden Child.

Paint it black hit me way before Bob. When I saw Full Metal Jacket I guess, I saw that when I was super young.

I got into Dylan when I was in the thick of my NEED RIFFS TO DESTROY MY BRAIN AT ALL TIMES mode. First dude that I really cared about lyrics with. I also really appreciate his "words as images" approach. I can't always explain s*** in words a lot of the time but I get the feeling of it, and Dylan captures that perfectly.

yung david jones was listening

thh Bowie's version slightly ahead of it but both are blassik. the piano on Nina's version

Agreed the acoustic guitar progression alone on Bowie's version breaks me down into at least 4 types of shambles not to mention his most refined vocal

His story in this song is remarkable

Before I did chrono method Highway 61 was my first Dylan album and for a long time Ballad of a Thin Man was the only jam I dug just cause the angsty teenager could relate to the gargantuan f***-off energy I quickly went back to the acoustic stuff and I guess growing up with Neil Young prepared me for it cause there wasn't a single thing I didn't love about them could be so affectionate or funny or scathing or abstract and it didn't matter how sloppy he was singing or playing. What a guy.

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I feel like I know what this is but you're going to have to remind me