Artist: Male solo artist
Career: recording since 1962
Language: English
Genre: Rock / Singer-songwriter
Ole Whiskers’s at it again.
I better warn you I’m one of those fans who feel Bob’s late career fling with popular acclaim (roughly ‘Time out of mind’/’Love & theft’/’Modern times’/’Tell-tale signs’) was also amazingly good. Basically, a pissed-off old guy with nothing to lose putting a verbal hatchet into everything that doesn’t strike his fancy (a bit like the first half of this topic thread). Do you remember Steve Buscemi in ‘Ghost world’, sitting in his car, waiting for the pedestrians to cross: ‘Why don’t you have some more kids?!’ Good times.
After he eviscerated the two big ones –love and death- on ‘Time out of mind’, and mounted the remains on his living room wall, I was waiting where he was going to go next. I needn’t have worried. With this one song, donated to the soundtrack of ‘Wonder boys’, he’s here to tell us all that he just doesn’t care anymore. Reviewers trying to tie this chorus together with ‘The times they are-a changin’’ – he doesn’t care. Critics trying to read it as a critique of Hollywood – he doesn’t care. Music lovers wondering if he’ll ever record anything other than blues songs anymore – he doesn’t care. Instead his next artistic project was to cultivate a pencil moustache.
‘Lot of water under the bridge / Lotta other stuff too’, I love that line.
(I know, it’s only one song. They tried to fill it to “maxi-single” length by adding a superfluous live version of ‘To make you feel my love’, the ‘Desire’-version of ‘Hurricane’ and another live track, ‘Song to Woody’, the only point of which seems to be that someone waits for the Leadbelly mention to shout ‘Leadbelly! Wooh!’ really loudly. Anyway, it’s the radio-edit of ‘Things have change’ on the single. For the real version you need the ‘Wonder Boys’ OST. It’s just one song and not a record, so it doesn’t really fit here – I don’t care.)
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