Talk:Blonde on Blonde

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Article requirements:
YesY All the start class criteria
YesY A completed infobox, including cover art and most technical details
YesY At least one section of prose (excluding the lead section)
YesY A track listing containing track lengths and authors for all songs
YesY A full list of personnel, including technical personnel and guest musicians
YesY Categorisation at least by artist and year
YesY A casual reader should learn something about the album. Andrzejbanas (talk) 05:10, 11 May 2008 (UTC)


Cache/connection problems caused recent edits to appear as anon. Monicasdude 01:56, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Does anyone know the significance of the actual title of the album?

Nobody but Bob Dylan, and he's not talking. Monicasdude 16:23, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
I have read in Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan that the title could refer to his highschool girlfriend Echo Helstrom, whose light blonde hair and pale skin could have been the "Blonde on Blonde" in the title. Is that worth mentioning? Also, I changed the genre from folk rock to rock, because Dylan hated the term folk rock. Ruckyou 03:10, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

There are several possibilities about the album title, but Dylan changes his story from year to year. He once said the title came to him during a playback session in Nashville. He later said in 1969 that someone else picked the title. It is likely that Dylan heard the phrase many times in reference to Edie Sedgewick and he just picked it up for use later in a song or as a title. He is notorious for picking phrases out of sentences or statements that make no sense, or have a different meaning when taken out of context. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.251.228.8 (talk) 06:59, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Class B - should be at least GA but that's for others to do, Top importance goes without saying Megamanic 07:03, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] Track Order

Does anyone know how the track order of this album was decided? Does the album tell a story, the musical feel suggests so, doesn't it?

Sorry, but Dylan never read into his music as much as his fans often do. I'm almost positive the song order doesn't tell a story. -Notahippie76

Dylan likely had little input into the track order. He often left those details to the record company as he often lost interest in an album once the recording sessions were completed. In fact, he sometimes lost interest during the sessions themselves. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.251.228.8 (talk) 06:53, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] LP Sides

Could somebody detail how the tracks were divided across the original 4 vinyl LP sides? I often wonder... 202.168.12.254 23:09, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Song Articles

There, now all the songs have their own articles. If anyone knows more than is down for the songs I've added, by all means expand them. -Notahippie76

I'd like to improve the pages, so they're more like the Beatles' ones with infoboxes. It looks more organised this way. I did it for the Jeff Buckley's "Grace", and I think it looks better. G.AC 11:37, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cover

Does anyone know why this album's photo was made so blurry? --Soakologist 10:40, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

The cover shot was selected from several photos from the January 1966 photo shoot. They intended to use a similar shot that was not blurred, but the accidental shot with the blurring was seen as portraying motion, as did similar blurry cover photos in the 1960s.

It is not known who selected the cover photo. Dylan usually selected a photo, as well as Columbia's marketing office, and the best suggestion was agreed upon by both parties. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.251.228.8 (talk) 06:49, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Norwegian Wood and 4th Time Around

Hello there fellow wikipedians. Am I the only one who thinks 4th Time Around is remarkably similar to Norwegian Wood? If not, maybe it should be mentioned.Dushkin (talk) 19:52, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it is widely acknowledged that 4th Time Around is a tongue-in-cheek response to the Beatles, Norwegian Wood. Craig Walker (talk) 19:15, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Personnel

I recall reading in Barney Hoskyns book about The Band that although the first few recording sessions for Blonde on Blonde featured all members of The Band, nothing from those sessions made it onto the album (although some material ended up on Biograph and on The Bootleg Series 1-3. In the end, Robbie Robertson was the only one who played on the album, as released (he alone was brought down to join the Nashville musicians) and as I recall, on the inside of my vinyl copy, of The Band members Robertson (as Jaime Robertson) is credited. You can verify what I am saying by looking very carefully at the Dylan Recording Sessions data at http://www.bjorner.com/still.htm#y86 Unless someone has more exact knowledge, this should be corrected, and I will do so now, although naturally, someone with better information is free to reverse the change. Craig Walker (talk)