Bob Dylan - "Murder Most Foul"


Midnight 3/27/2020 release. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NbQkyvbw18


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Thanks tostadosunidos, I will check that out. I'm glad that I didn't get flamed for an opposing opinion. Again, I'm far from black and white on the subject, I just don't hold him in blinded awe, and wonder what his every utterance might mean.

When you give a man a fish, you feed him for one meal, when you teach a man how to fish, you feed him for life; JFK aspired to teach men how to fish.


With the aid of other experts, he set up schools, called "Government Programs" all over the country. I talked to people who were involved; students and teachers, I was the same age as some of the students (early twenties). For young ladies on welfare, it was compulsory; consequently, they didn't like it at first, but when they realized this was a real school, where they could learn how to become qualified secretaries and achieve a higher standard of living, they viewed things in a different light.

Young unemployed men were being taught various skills that would keep them out of the unemployment line.

JFK put dedicated experts in charge of these "Programs", people like himself who had a vision of a better country; one without high unemployment.


I've been told more than once that this forum is exclusively for audio, and that my posts deviate from that subject; consequently, anyone who wants to has my permission to delete this post.

Surprised no one has commented about the recording itself. IMO for the Qobuz version, the recording is reference quality; the texture of the voice, snares, deep bass and sense of space. Hats off to the recording engineer.

The first half of the song sounded a lot more focused to me than the second half.

My thought is that he had an idea for a song but didn't really know where he wanted to go with it so he decided to play with it during a studio rehearsal. The second half of the song sounds like he is just riffing, throwing ideas against the wall and seeing if anything sticks. My guess nothing or at least not enough did so the song was abandoned at that time and not released.

Why it is being released now is a very good question and we can all speculate until the cows come home and have calves. Maybe he wanted to see if any of the comments he gets spark an idea on how to finish it