Week 22, 2009
 

[img=RIGHT]http://www.creedence-online.net/forum/images/record_of_the_week/B001EE8QLG.jpg[/img][B]Title : [/B][amazonasin=B001EE8QLG]Like A Rolling Stone[/amazonasin][br]5[/br][B]Performed by :[/B] [amazonasin=B000QJI6RY]The Rolling Stones[/amazonasin][br]5[/br][B]Album :[/B] [amazonasin=B001EE2RWU]Stripped[/amazonasin]


[lyrics]Once upon a time you dressed so fine
Threw the bums a dime in your prime,
Didn't you?
Yeah, people'd call, say "Beware doll, you're
bound to fall"
You thought they were just kiddin' you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out
And now you don't walk so proud
Now you don't talk so loud
About having to be scrounging
Your next meal

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
A complete unknown
Just like a rolling stone?

You went to the finest schools all right,
Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get -
Juiced in it
Nobody taught you how to
Live out on the street
But now you are gonna have to get -
Used to it
You said you'd never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
That he's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And say: "Do you want to make a deal?"

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Just like a rolling stone?

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
A complete unknown
Just like a rolling stone?

Yeah, the princess on the steeple
All the pretty people
Drinkin', thinkin' that they
Got it made
Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts
But you'd better take that diamond ring,
You'd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Now go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
A complete unknown
Just like a rolling stone?

(spoken)Thank you, Bob![/lyrics]

[spoiler="Wikipedia brief info"]"Like a Rolling Stone" is a song by American songwriter Bob Dylan. One of his best-known and most influential works, the song had its origin as a short story Dylan had written before developing it as a song and recording it in 1965.

Dylan stated in an interview with CBC radio in Montreal that he found himself writing "this long piece of vomit, 20 pages long, and out of it I took 'Like a Rolling Stone' and made it as a single. And I never written anything like that before and it suddenly came to me that was... that was what I should do. After writing that, I wasn't interested in writing a novel or a play or anything, like I knew like I had too much, I wanted to write songs."

The track was released as a single in July 1965, and also appeared on Dylan's album Highway 61 Revisited. At over six minutes in length, it was only tentatively played in its entirety on the radio, yet it managed to reach #2 on the charts. It received criticism by some of Dylan's fans for its harder rock sound, a noticeable difference from the artist's earlier folk music.

The song dramatically affected the music world and popular culture, as well as Dylan's image and iconic status. It has been covered by a number of artists, including a notable version by Jimi Hendrix. [B]Rolling Stone magazine ranked it the greatest song of all time.[/B] In his 1988 speech inducting Dylan into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Bruce Springsteen recalled, "The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody had kicked open the door to your mind."

View Wikipedia full article: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like_a_Rolling_Stone"]here[/URL][/spoiler]

Although originally this song was performed by [amazonasin=B00137MGWE]Bob Dylan[/amazonasin], I mostly like The Rolling Stones cover version. :cool: Another nice cover which I certainly recommend to pay attention to is [amazonasin=B000WXVM7U]Jimi Hendrix's one[/amazonasin].