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The 20 Greatest Dylan Songs!? #19
1:50 PM GMT 30/06/2009
19. Idiot Wind
(Blood On The Tracks, 1975)
Divorce porn, marital roadkill and a mysterious cowboy...
No matter how often you hear this, it still starts as shockingly, as if already halfway through. From there it is unto the breach, into a boiling crisis, with the song's narrator lashed by turmoil ("I haven't known peace and quiet for so long I can't remember what it's like!"), hounded by press and betrayed by women, haunted by self-hatred. It's Dylan's most intense song, and his most addictive. And what a tune!
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 1:50 PM GMT 30/06/2009
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