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So at this point I own well over half of the entire Bob Dylan catalog and there aren't a whole lot of albums of his that I feel I really need to own. In fact there is only one album I can honestly say that I do not own that I really should, but I've taken steps to make that happen. There is however one relatively famous song of his that I do not own, and that to my knowledge I cannot get on an album, so I will have to resort itunes to acquire it. (It appears on several greatest hits like albums, but I am not going to buy an entire greatest hits just for one song since I already own the rest of them).
Song is called Positively 4th Street and it has an interesting history. Back in 1965 Dylan recorded and released one of the most influential albums of all time, Highway 61 Revisited. He ended up recording the album in two parts because that was how the man operated back then. When the muse struck he'd get in a studio with a band and just lay down tracks, and when the muse left he'd go back on tour for a while. In the first session for Highway 61 he assembled a few musicians and brought three songs with him that he wanted to record.
Of that first session, only one song made highway 61 (Like a Rolling Stone). However he also recorded Positively 4th Street during that session, but it did not make the final album. It did however surface later on a single and charted reasonably well in the U.K.
The song is absolutely a companion piece to Like a Rolling Stone which may explain why it did not make the album it shares. The music sounds very similar and the lyrics are just as angry and directed so it is safe to say it is Like a Rolling Stone part 2 (not that anybody is complaining, that is probably the best rock song ever written!). And while this comparison is fair, I also hear bits of another famous Dylan song in there which is strange since that song was not recorded until 1970 (you may remember it from The Big Lebowski). That song is called The Man in Me and it appears on the 1970 release New Morning.
Anyhoo, here is Positively 4th Street, I hope you enjoy it!
Song is called Positively 4th Street and it has an interesting history. Back in 1965 Dylan recorded and released one of the most influential albums of all time, Highway 61 Revisited. He ended up recording the album in two parts because that was how the man operated back then. When the muse struck he'd get in a studio with a band and just lay down tracks, and when the muse left he'd go back on tour for a while. In the first session for Highway 61 he assembled a few musicians and brought three songs with him that he wanted to record.
Of that first session, only one song made highway 61 (Like a Rolling Stone). However he also recorded Positively 4th Street during that session, but it did not make the final album. It did however surface later on a single and charted reasonably well in the U.K.
The song is absolutely a companion piece to Like a Rolling Stone which may explain why it did not make the album it shares. The music sounds very similar and the lyrics are just as angry and directed so it is safe to say it is Like a Rolling Stone part 2 (not that anybody is complaining, that is probably the best rock song ever written!). And while this comparison is fair, I also hear bits of another famous Dylan song in there which is strange since that song was not recorded until 1970 (you may remember it from The Big Lebowski). That song is called The Man in Me and it appears on the 1970 release New Morning.
Anyhoo, here is Positively 4th Street, I hope you enjoy it!
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