

Girls’ faces formed the forward path from phony jealousy The Byrds My Back Pages Play track Love this track More actions Listeners 138.9K Scrobbles 467.3K Join others and track this song Scrobble, find and rediscover music with a Last.fm account Sign Up to Last.fm Length 2:41 Lyrics Add lyrics on Musixmatch Electric cover from 1967 of Bob Dylan 's My Back Pages (1964). Romantic facts of musketeers foundationed deep, somehow Lies that life is black and white spoke from my skull, I dreamed

Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth, “rip down all hate, ” I screamed “We’ll meet on edges, soon, ” said I, proud ‘neath heated browĪh, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now Pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps Dylan’s voice can be an acquired taste, but his songs are universally beloved.Ĭrimson flames tied through my ears, rollin’ high and mighty traps David Crosby from CSNY and Roger McGuinn from The Band were first in The Byrds and give them that distinct sound: the harmonies and the rich electric guitars. We’ve seen Dylan take his shots at others, but never had he taken such ruthless aim at himself.
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He calls his former self prejudice, sentimentally romantic, full of himself, simple-minded, dogmatic.

Dylan takes a clear-eyed look at his former self and skewers him unmercifully. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Enter. My Back Pages is a shockingly honest song. The Byrds made Dylan more accessible for many people. Music video by The Byrds performing My Back Pages (Audio). For most of Dylan’s songs, his own versions are the best. We will see other covers of Dylan songs that are so good that the cover is the only one worth listening to. Even without the Byrds version it would still be a top 500 song. In this case I think the Byrds version is slightly better than Dylan’s version, but they are both great. Bob DylanĮvery Dylan song has been covered, and some of the covers are better than Dylan’s original. This is one of Dylan’s deeper song meanings. The certainty of my beliefs that I felt as a young man might conflict with experience and that leaves me feeling like I know less than I knew before. For some of us it is because we are indoctrinated with school and religion when we are young and then when we begin to experience life…it comes at you fast and in unexpected ways, and it is humbling. In “My Back Pages” Dylan writes that the more he experiences the less he understands. That has to be one of the better lyrics in Rock n Roll history. ' Lady Friend ' is a song by the American rock band the Byrds, written by band member David Crosby and released as a single on July 13, 1967.
