Similar songs to “Like a rolling stone”

[mally]

 

[effzee]

I'll have to think on this one a while...

For reasons I still can't put my finger on...

( maybe it's the poetry, Dylan's pissed off, voice, the sound of the band, that first snare drum CRACK!)

...I hold "Like A Rolling Stone" in such high regard- it's my favorite song, period. And I don't know who Bob is addressing? Could be anyone, or himself?

You ask him, and he'll just be annoyed and say " it's just a song I wrote..." or " I just put some good rhyming lines together..." or " It means whatever you want..." The guy thinks like no one else. The songcraft on this one is just mind-blowing, at least to me...

I think maybe it's just the sound of the band ( similar time of recording) or a little descending part in the chord structure, plus Dylan's vocal delivery, but his own "Positively 4th Street" could be 'Like A Rolling Stone- Lite'

I've thought it's autobiographical musing over a life after stardom; he's speaking to the image in the mirror. I'm not sure where I got that notion but I didn't think it up on my own. He wrote that at a time when he was in fact considering giving it all up.

I know it contradicts the miss lonely line, but artistic license and all that. And that could also just mean he's got a few people in mind.

 

[Peegoo]

For me, this one comes closest: I Wonder, by Sixto Rodriguez. Not a lot of folks know this one.

 

[Chiogtr4x]

I've thought it's autobiographical musing over a life after stardom; he's speaking to the image in the mirror. I'm not sure where I got that notion but I didn't think it up on my own. He wrote that at a time when he was in fact considering giving it all up.

I know it contradicts the miss lonely line, but artistic and all that. And that could also just mean he's got a few people in mind.

Plus you know, if you (hypothetically) actually got to interview Bob face-to-face, he'd probably say:

" It's just a song I wrote, a long time ago...I just put a bunch of cool rhymes together"
OR
" Why do you care so much about what I think the song is about?!"

I can't tell if he's ever given a straight or coherent answer to any question asked, or I'm just stupid.

Bob is on his own planet, but I love him!

 

[effzee]

Plus you know, if you (hypothetically) actually got to interview Bob face-to-face, he'd probably say:

" It's just a song I wrote, a long time ago...I just put a bunch of cool rhymes together"
OR
" Why do you care so much about what I think the song is about?!"

I can't tell if he's ever given a straight or coherent answer to any question asked, or I'm just stupid.

Bob is on his own planet, but I love him!

And he'd be right

 

[Chiogtr4x]

And he'd be right

Exactly!
You just leave Bob alone, and like him, or not.

( I just hope he doesn't 'RIP' for a while, please...but our R&R heroes or icons are indeed aging)

 

[lammie200]

Bob Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone was released July 20, 1965. Curtis Knight's song was released October 19, 1965. BTW, I have heard Springsteen say that he hadn't heard any of Dylan's work until a few years after Like a Rolling Stone was released.



Another couple for your pleasure.

 

[pbenn]

Two things in C:

1. the flipside of LARS has same chords, but different order: "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?":

Key is C.

2. "This Old Heart of Mine" Isley Bros Jan '66 is almost same chord change as LARS, but it is hard to def say when it was written.

Key is C.

 

[tlsmack]

My first thought when this came out:The intro- homage, tribute, or ripoff?

 

[loudboy]

Man, that's shameless.

Producer: We need something that's LIKE Like A Rolling Stone, but NOT Like A Rolling Stone.