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** Within the album itself, Creator/MarlonBrando's portrayal of [[Film/TheGodfather Vito Corleone]] is referenced in "My Own Version of You", then "Murder Most Foul" mentions another Brando character, [[Film/OnTheWaterfront Terry Malloy]]. The 1965 Billy Joe Royal hit "Down in the Boondocks" is mentioned in the album's final two songs.
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* ShoutOut: This may well be Dylan's most ReferenceOverdosed album. Practically every song includes a list of Shout Out!s. Some of the more interesting ones:
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* {{Bookends}}: The opening song "I Contain Multitudes" mentions "them British bad boys, Music/TheRollingStones." The closer, "Murder Most Foul", mentions [[Film/GimmeShelter1970 Altamont]].
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* {{Bookends}}: The opening song "I Contain Multitudes" mentions "them British bad boys, Music/TheRollingStones.Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}." The closer, "Murder Most Foul", mentions [[Film/GimmeShelter1970 Altamont]].
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** "I Contain Multitudes": The Irish poem "The Lass From Bally-na-Lee", Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, [[Music/MottTheHoople "all the young dudes"]], [[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl Anne Frank]], Franchise/IndianaJones, Music/TheRollingStones, Creator/WilliamBlake.
** "My Own Version of You": "[[Film/Scarface1983 Scarface]] [[Creator/AlPacino Pacino]] and [[Film/TheGodfather Godfather]] [[Creator/MarlonBrando Brando]]", Music/LeonRussell, Music/{{Liberace}}, [[Music/BoDiddley "bring it to Jerome"]], [[Music/HankWilliams "move it on over"]], "[[UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud Mr. Freud]] with his dreams and [[Creator/KarlMarx Mr. Marx]] with his axe."
** "My Own Version of You": "[[Film/Scarface1983 Scarface]] [[Creator/AlPacino Pacino]] and [[Film/TheGodfather Godfather]] [[Creator/MarlonBrando Brando]]", Music/LeonRussell, Music/{{Liberace}}, [[Music/BoDiddley "bring it to Jerome"]], [[Music/HankWilliams "move it on over"]], "[[UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud Mr. Freud]] with his dreams and [[Creator/KarlMarx Mr. Marx]] with his axe."
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** "I Contain Multitudes": The Irish poem "The Lass From Bally-na-Lee", Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, [[Music/MottTheHoople "all the young dudes"]], [[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl Anne Frank]], Franchise/IndianaJones, Music/TheRollingStones, Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}, Creator/WilliamBlake.
** "My Own Version of You":"[[Film/Scarface1983 Scarface]] "Film/{{Scarface|1983}} [[Creator/AlPacino Pacino]] and [[Film/TheGodfather Godfather]] [[Creator/MarlonBrando Brando]]", Music/LeonRussell, Music/{{Liberace}}, [[Music/BoDiddley "bring it to Jerome"]], [[Music/HankWilliams "move it on over"]], "[[UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud Mr. Freud]] with his dreams and [[Creator/KarlMarx Mr. Marx]] with his axe."
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** "Key West (Philosopher Pirate)": The title evokes Music/JimmyBuffett, and the song "A Pirate Looks at Forty", which Dylan has performed live. Also nods to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Luxembourg Radio Luxembourg]], writers of Creator/TheBeatGeneration like Creator/JackKerouac, Creator/AllenGinsberg and Gregory Corso, a cryptic reference to "Louie, Jimmy and Buddy" (maybe Music/LouisArmstrong, Music/JimiHendrix and Music/BuddyHolly), the Franchise/LandOfOz, UsefulNotes/HarryTruman.
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** "Key West (Philosopher Pirate)": The title evokes Music/JimmyBuffett, and the song "A Pirate Looks at Forty", which Dylan has performed live. Also nods to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Luxembourg Radio Luxembourg]], writers of Creator/TheBeatGeneration like Creator/JackKerouac, Creator/AllenGinsberg and Gregory Corso, a cryptic reference to "Louie, Jimmy and Buddy" (maybe Music/LouisArmstrong, Music/JimiHendrix and Music/BuddyHolly), the Franchise/LandOfOz, UsefulNotes/HarryTruman.UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman.
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** Within the album itself, Creator/MarlonBrando's portrayal of [[Film/TheGodfather Vito Corleone]] is referenced in "My Own Version of You", then "Murder Most Foul" mentions another Brando character, [[Film/OnTheWaterfront Terry Malloy]].
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** "Key West (Philosopher Pirate)": The title evokes Music/JimmyBuffett, and the song "A Pirate Looks at Forty", which Dylan has performed live. Also a nod nods to to the Billy Joe Royal hit "Down in the Boondocks", plus [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Luxembourg Radio Luxembourg]], writers of Creator/TheBeatGeneration like Creator/JackKerouac, Creator/AllenGinsberg and Gregory Corso, a cryptic reference to "Louie, Jimmy and Buddy" (maybe Music/LouisArmstrong, Music/JimiHendrix and Music/BuddyHolly), the Franchise/LandOfOz, UsefulNotes/HarryTruman.
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His first album of all-original songs since 2013's ''Tempest'', and his first such album as a [[UsefulNotes/NobelPrizeInLiterature Nobel laureate]], it was recorded shortly before the start of the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic. The song "Murder Most Foul" was given a Website/YouTube release at the end of March, just as the pandemic started flaring up in the United States. A kaleidoscopic, surreal 17-minute account of the assassination of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy liberally sprinkled with other cultural references, past and present, it attracted much curiosity and reached #1 on ''Billboard'''s Rock Digital Song Sales chart, making it Dylan's first #1 hit on any ''Billboard'' chart. The album itself continues the basic style he established on ''Music/TimeOutOfMind'': brooding, lyrically dense songs sung in a quiet, raspy voice, but notably has a diverse mix of musical styles, with clear influences of FolkMusic, {{Blues}} and {{Jazz}}.
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His first album of all-original songs since 2013's 2012's ''Tempest'', and his first such album as a [[UsefulNotes/NobelPrizeInLiterature Nobel laureate]], it was recorded shortly before the start of the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic. The song "Murder Most Foul" was given a Website/YouTube release at the end of March, just as the pandemic started flaring up in the United States. A kaleidoscopic, surreal 17-minute account of the assassination of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy liberally sprinkled with other cultural references, past and present, it attracted much curiosity and reached #1 on ''Billboard'''s Rock Digital Song Sales chart, making it Dylan's first #1 hit on any ''Billboard'' chart. The album itself continues the basic style he established on ''Music/TimeOutOfMind'': brooding, lyrically dense songs sung in a quiet, raspy voice, but notably has a diverse mix of musical styles, with clear influences of FolkMusic, {{Blues}} and {{Jazz}}.
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His first album of all-original songs since 2013's ''Tempest'', and his first such album as a [[UsefulNotes/NobelPrizeInLiterature Nobel laureate]], it was recorded shortly before the start of the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic. The song "Murder Most Foul" was given a Website/YouTube release at the end of March, just as the pandemic started flaring up in the United States. A kaleidoscopic, surreal 17-minute account of the assassination of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy liberally sprinkled with other cultural references, past and present, it attracted much curiosity and reached #1 on ''Billboard'''s Rock Digital Song Sales chart, making it Dylan's first #1 hit on any ''Billboard'' chart. The album itself continues the basic style he established on ''Music/TimeOutOfMind'': brooding, lyrically dense songs sung in a quiet, raspy voice, but notably has a diverse mix of musical styles, with clear influences of FolkMusic, {{Blues}} and {{Jazz}}.
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** "I Contain Multitudes": The Irish poem ""The Lass From Bally-na-Lee", Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, [[Music/MottTheHoople "all the young dudes"]], [[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl Anne Frank]], Franchise/IndianaJones, Music/TheRollingStones, Creator/WilliamBlake.
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His first album of all-original songs since 2013's ''Tempest'', it was recorded shortly before the start of the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic. The song "Murder Most Foul" was given a Website/YouTube release at the end of March, just as the pandemic started flaring up in the United States. A kaleidoscopic, surreal 17-minute account of the assassination of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy liberally sprinkled with other cultural references, past and present, it attracted much curiosity and reached #1 on ''Billboard'''s Rock Digital Song Sales chart, making it Dylan's first #1 hit on any ''Billboard'' chart. The album itself continues the basic style he established on ''Music/TimeOutOfMind'': brooding, lyrically dense songs sung in a quiet, raspy voice, but notably has a diverse mix of musical styles, with clear influences of FolkMusic, {{Blues}} and {{Jazz}}.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''All the pretty maids and all the old queens, all the old queens from all my past lives'']]
''Rough and Rowdy Ways'' is an album by Music/BobDylan. His thirty-ninth studio album, it's a double album that was released on June 19, 2020.
His first album of all-original songs since 2013's ''Tempest'', it was recorded shortly before the start of the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic. The song "Murder Most Foul" was given a Website/YouTube release at the end of March, just as the pandemic started flaring up in the United States. A kaleidoscopic, surreal 17-minute account of the assassination of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy liberally sprinkled with other cultural references, past and present, it attracted much curiosity and reached #1 on ''Billboard'''s Rock Digital Song Sales chart, making it Dylan's first #1 hit on any ''Billboard'' chart. The album itself continues the basic style he established on ''Music/TimeOutOfMind'': brooding, lyrically dense songs sung in a quiet, raspy voice, but notably has diverse mix of musical styles, with clear influences of FolkMusic, {{Blues}} and {{Jazz}}.
The album received almost unanimous rave reviews and brisk sales, reaching #2 on the ''Billboard'' album chart, making 79-year-old Dylan the first artist to have an album reach the top 40 of the ''Billboard'' chart in seven consecutive decades.
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!!Tracklist:
# "I Contain Multitudes" (4:36)
# "False Prophet" (6:00)
# "My Own Version of You" (6:41)
# "I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You" (6:32)
# "Black Rider" (4:12)
# "Goodbye Jimmy Reed" (4:13)
# "Mother of Muses" (4:29)
# "Crossing the Rubicon" (7:22)
# "Key West (Philosopher Pirate)" (9:34)
# "Murder Most Foul" (16:54)
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!! Rough and Rowdy Tropes:
* BigPrickBigProblems: "Black Rider"
-->Black Rider, Black Rider, hold it right there\\
The size of your cock will get you nowhere
* {{Blackface}}: "Murder Most Foul"
-->Blackface singer, whiteface clown
* {{Bookends}}: The opening song "I Contain Multitudes" mentions "them British bad boys, Music/TheRollingStones." The closer, "Murder Most Foul", mentions [[Film/GimmeShelter Altamont]].
* BoringButPractical: "Goodbye Jimmy Reed" has Dylan acknowledging his lack of flash in his performing style.
-->"You won’t amount to much," the people all said\\
‘Cause I didn’t play guitar behind my head\\
Never pandered, never acted proud\\
Never took off my shoes and threw them into the crowd
* BreakingTheFourthWall: "Murder Most Foul" mentions a whole bunch of sing titles, real and fictional, and ends this way:
-->Play "The Blood-Stained Banner", play "Murder Most Foul"
* BuccaneerBroadcaster: "Key West (Philosopher Pirate)"
-->I’m searchin’ for love and inspiration\\
On that pirate radio station
* CallBack:
** Just like on ''Music/BlondeOnBlonde'', the fourth side of the vinyl release contains just one song (in this case, "Murder Most Foul").
** The reference to "the boulevard of crime" in "I Contain Multitudes" is his second explicit reference to ''Film/ChildrenOfParadise'', after [[Music/BloodOnTheTracks "You're a Big Girl Now"]] ("Love is so simple, to quote a phrase").
** Armageddon Street mentioned in "My Own Version of You" is reminiscent of [[Music/Highway61Revisited Desolation Row]].
** "I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You"--"My eye is like a [[Music/OhMercy shooting star]]".
** Within the album itself, Creator/MarlonBrando's portrayal of [[Film/TheGodfather Vito Corleone]] is referenced in "My Own Version of You", then "Murder Most Foul" mentions another Brando character, [[Film/OnTheWaterfront Terry Malloy]].
* DistinctDoubleAlbum: For the CD version, the whole album could fit on one disc, but it was divided so that "Murder Most Foul" sits alone on disc two.
* EpicRocking: Six of the ten songs exceed six minutes in length, with "Murder Most Foul", at 16:54, being the longest song Dylan's ever released.
* EvilWearsBlack: The title character in "Black Rider".
* FalseProphet: Used as a title, but the song is about how "I ain't no false prophet."
* FanFlattering: A popular interpetation of "I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You" is that the "you" is Dylan referencing his fans and thanking them for their support.
-->I’m giving myself to you, I am\\
From [[UsefulNotes/{{Utah}} Salt Lake City]] to Birmingham\\
From [[UsefulNotes/LosAngeles East L.A.]] to [[UsefulNotes/OtherCitiesInTexas San Antone]]\\
I don’t think I could bear to live my life alone
* GraveRobbing: "My Own Version of You"
-->All through the summers and into January\\
I’ve been visiting morgues and monasteries\\
Looking for the necessary body parts\\
Limbs and livers and brains and hearts
* IAmSong: "I Contain Multitudes" has Dylan exploring his contradictory nature.
* LongestSongGoesLast: "Murder Most Foul" closes the album.
* MurderBallad: "Murder Most Foul" is a very long, unorthodox example.
* OverlyLongTitle: "I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You"
* Saw "Star Wars" 27 Times: "Murder Most Foul"
-->[[UsefulNotes/ZapruderFilm Zapruder's film]], I've seen that before\\
Seen it thirty-three times, maybe more
* SeenItAll: Used word-for-word to describe the lead character in "Black Rider".
* ShapedLikeItself: "Black Rider, Black Rider, all dressed in black."
* ShoutOut: This may well be Dylan's most ReferenceOverdosed album. Practically every song includes a list of Shout Out!s. Some of the more interesting ones:
** "I Contain Multitudes": The Irish poem ""The Lass From Bally-na-Lee", Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, [[Music/MottTheHoople "all the young dudes"]], [[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl Anne Frank]], Franchise/IndianaJones, Music/TheRollingStones, Creator/WilliamBlake.
** "My Own Version of You": "[[Film/Scarface1983 Scarface]] [[Creator/AlPacino Pacino]] and [[Film/TheGodfather Godfather]] [[Creator/MarlonBrando Brando]]", Music/LeonRussell, Music/{{Liberace}}, [[Music/BoDiddley "bring it to Jerome"]], [[Music/HankWilliams "move it on over"]], "[[UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud Mr. Freud]] with his dreams and [[Creator/KarlMarx Mr. Marx]] with his axe."
** Black Rider: "[[Theatre/SouthPacific Some enchanted evening]] I’ll sing you a song."
** "Goodbye Jimmy Reed": Music/JimmyReed, of course, and the song is InTheStyleOf him as well, plus a whole bunch of religious references.
** "Mother of Muses": [[TheMuse The Muses]], and Calliope specifically, a bunch of generals, Music/ElvisPresley, UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr, "[[Music/AlGreen take me to]] [[Music/TalkingHeads the river]]."
** "Crossing The Rubicon": Obviously built around a UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar reference.
** "Key West (Philosopher Pirate)": The title evokes Music/JimmyBuffett, and the song "A Pirate Looks at Forty", which Dylan has performed live. Also a nod to to the Billy Joe Royal hit "Down in the Boondocks", plus [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Luxembourg Radio Luxembourg]], writers of Creator/TheBeatGeneration like Creator/JackKerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, a cryptic reference to "Louie, Jimmy and Buddy" (maybe Music/LouisArmstrong, Music/JimiHendrix and Music/BuddyHolly), the Franchise/LandOfOz, UsefulNotes/HarryTruman.
** "Murder Most Foul": Hoo boy...sixteen minutes of Shout Out!s, with appearances by Music/TheBeatles, UsefulNotes/{{Woodstock}}, [[Film/GimmeShelter Altamont]], ''Literature/GoneWithTheWind'', [[Music/{{Tommy}} Tommy and the Acid Queen]], Creator/WolfmanJack, Music/BillyJoel, Creator/MarilynMonroe, [[Music/{{Eagles}} Don Henley and Glenn Frey]], [[Music/TheBeachBoys Carl Wilson]], and a whole bunch of {{Jazz}} greats.
** The album title recalls the songs "My Rough and Rowdy Ways" by Music/JimmieRodgers and "My Rough and Rowdy Days" by Music/WaylonJennings.
* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Besides the reference listed below, the line "murder most foul" is also spoken by the Ghost in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''. LadyMacbeth is also mentioned in the song.
* SongOfSongTitles: "Murder Most Foul" becomes this toward the end, including ''its own song title''!
* SpecialGuest: Music/FionaApple is one of the piano players on "Murder Most Foul".
* WhoShotJFK: "Murder Most Foul" doesn't specifically pose this question, but it's titled after one of the earliest conspiracy theory books (''Murder Most Foul!: The Conspiracy That Killed Kennedy'', a self-published 1967 pamphlet by Stanley J. Marks), and references mainstays like the "magic bullet", the "three bums" and the "grassy knoll".
[[caption-width-right:350:''All the pretty maids and all the old queens, all the old queens from all my past lives'']]
''Rough and Rowdy Ways'' is an album by Music/BobDylan. His thirty-ninth studio album, it's a double album that was released on June 19, 2020.
His first album of all-original songs since 2013's ''Tempest'', it was recorded shortly before the start of the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic. The song "Murder Most Foul" was given a Website/YouTube release at the end of March, just as the pandemic started flaring up in the United States. A kaleidoscopic, surreal 17-minute account of the assassination of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy liberally sprinkled with other cultural references, past and present, it attracted much curiosity and reached #1 on ''Billboard'''s Rock Digital Song Sales chart, making it Dylan's first #1 hit on any ''Billboard'' chart. The album itself continues the basic style he established on ''Music/TimeOutOfMind'': brooding, lyrically dense songs sung in a quiet, raspy voice, but notably has diverse mix of musical styles, with clear influences of FolkMusic, {{Blues}} and {{Jazz}}.
The album received almost unanimous rave reviews and brisk sales, reaching #2 on the ''Billboard'' album chart, making 79-year-old Dylan the first artist to have an album reach the top 40 of the ''Billboard'' chart in seven consecutive decades.
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!!Tracklist:
# "I Contain Multitudes" (4:36)
# "False Prophet" (6:00)
# "My Own Version of You" (6:41)
# "I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You" (6:32)
# "Black Rider" (4:12)
# "Goodbye Jimmy Reed" (4:13)
# "Mother of Muses" (4:29)
# "Crossing the Rubicon" (7:22)
# "Key West (Philosopher Pirate)" (9:34)
# "Murder Most Foul" (16:54)
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!! Rough and Rowdy Tropes:
* BigPrickBigProblems: "Black Rider"
-->Black Rider, Black Rider, hold it right there\\
The size of your cock will get you nowhere
* {{Blackface}}: "Murder Most Foul"
-->Blackface singer, whiteface clown
* {{Bookends}}: The opening song "I Contain Multitudes" mentions "them British bad boys, Music/TheRollingStones." The closer, "Murder Most Foul", mentions [[Film/GimmeShelter Altamont]].
* BoringButPractical: "Goodbye Jimmy Reed" has Dylan acknowledging his lack of flash in his performing style.
-->"You won’t amount to much," the people all said\\
‘Cause I didn’t play guitar behind my head\\
Never pandered, never acted proud\\
Never took off my shoes and threw them into the crowd
* BreakingTheFourthWall: "Murder Most Foul" mentions a whole bunch of sing titles, real and fictional, and ends this way:
-->Play "The Blood-Stained Banner", play "Murder Most Foul"
* BuccaneerBroadcaster: "Key West (Philosopher Pirate)"
-->I’m searchin’ for love and inspiration\\
On that pirate radio station
* CallBack:
** Just like on ''Music/BlondeOnBlonde'', the fourth side of the vinyl release contains just one song (in this case, "Murder Most Foul").
** The reference to "the boulevard of crime" in "I Contain Multitudes" is his second explicit reference to ''Film/ChildrenOfParadise'', after [[Music/BloodOnTheTracks "You're a Big Girl Now"]] ("Love is so simple, to quote a phrase").
** Armageddon Street mentioned in "My Own Version of You" is reminiscent of [[Music/Highway61Revisited Desolation Row]].
** "I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You"--"My eye is like a [[Music/OhMercy shooting star]]".
** Within the album itself, Creator/MarlonBrando's portrayal of [[Film/TheGodfather Vito Corleone]] is referenced in "My Own Version of You", then "Murder Most Foul" mentions another Brando character, [[Film/OnTheWaterfront Terry Malloy]].
* DistinctDoubleAlbum: For the CD version, the whole album could fit on one disc, but it was divided so that "Murder Most Foul" sits alone on disc two.
* EpicRocking: Six of the ten songs exceed six minutes in length, with "Murder Most Foul", at 16:54, being the longest song Dylan's ever released.
* EvilWearsBlack: The title character in "Black Rider".
* FalseProphet: Used as a title, but the song is about how "I ain't no false prophet."
* FanFlattering: A popular interpetation of "I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You" is that the "you" is Dylan referencing his fans and thanking them for their support.
-->I’m giving myself to you, I am\\
From [[UsefulNotes/{{Utah}} Salt Lake City]] to Birmingham\\
From [[UsefulNotes/LosAngeles East L.A.]] to [[UsefulNotes/OtherCitiesInTexas San Antone]]\\
I don’t think I could bear to live my life alone
* GraveRobbing: "My Own Version of You"
-->All through the summers and into January\\
I’ve been visiting morgues and monasteries\\
Looking for the necessary body parts\\
Limbs and livers and brains and hearts
* IAmSong: "I Contain Multitudes" has Dylan exploring his contradictory nature.
* LongestSongGoesLast: "Murder Most Foul" closes the album.
* MurderBallad: "Murder Most Foul" is a very long, unorthodox example.
* OverlyLongTitle: "I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You"
* Saw "Star Wars" 27 Times: "Murder Most Foul"
-->[[UsefulNotes/ZapruderFilm Zapruder's film]], I've seen that before\\
Seen it thirty-three times, maybe more
* SeenItAll: Used word-for-word to describe the lead character in "Black Rider".
* ShapedLikeItself: "Black Rider, Black Rider, all dressed in black."
* ShoutOut: This may well be Dylan's most ReferenceOverdosed album. Practically every song includes a list of Shout Out!s. Some of the more interesting ones:
** "I Contain Multitudes": The Irish poem ""The Lass From Bally-na-Lee", Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, [[Music/MottTheHoople "all the young dudes"]], [[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl Anne Frank]], Franchise/IndianaJones, Music/TheRollingStones, Creator/WilliamBlake.
** "My Own Version of You": "[[Film/Scarface1983 Scarface]] [[Creator/AlPacino Pacino]] and [[Film/TheGodfather Godfather]] [[Creator/MarlonBrando Brando]]", Music/LeonRussell, Music/{{Liberace}}, [[Music/BoDiddley "bring it to Jerome"]], [[Music/HankWilliams "move it on over"]], "[[UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud Mr. Freud]] with his dreams and [[Creator/KarlMarx Mr. Marx]] with his axe."
** Black Rider: "[[Theatre/SouthPacific Some enchanted evening]] I’ll sing you a song."
** "Goodbye Jimmy Reed": Music/JimmyReed, of course, and the song is InTheStyleOf him as well, plus a whole bunch of religious references.
** "Mother of Muses": [[TheMuse The Muses]], and Calliope specifically, a bunch of generals, Music/ElvisPresley, UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr, "[[Music/AlGreen take me to]] [[Music/TalkingHeads the river]]."
** "Crossing The Rubicon": Obviously built around a UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar reference.
** "Key West (Philosopher Pirate)": The title evokes Music/JimmyBuffett, and the song "A Pirate Looks at Forty", which Dylan has performed live. Also a nod to to the Billy Joe Royal hit "Down in the Boondocks", plus [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Luxembourg Radio Luxembourg]], writers of Creator/TheBeatGeneration like Creator/JackKerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, a cryptic reference to "Louie, Jimmy and Buddy" (maybe Music/LouisArmstrong, Music/JimiHendrix and Music/BuddyHolly), the Franchise/LandOfOz, UsefulNotes/HarryTruman.
** "Murder Most Foul": Hoo boy...sixteen minutes of Shout Out!s, with appearances by Music/TheBeatles, UsefulNotes/{{Woodstock}}, [[Film/GimmeShelter Altamont]], ''Literature/GoneWithTheWind'', [[Music/{{Tommy}} Tommy and the Acid Queen]], Creator/WolfmanJack, Music/BillyJoel, Creator/MarilynMonroe, [[Music/{{Eagles}} Don Henley and Glenn Frey]], [[Music/TheBeachBoys Carl Wilson]], and a whole bunch of {{Jazz}} greats.
** The album title recalls the songs "My Rough and Rowdy Ways" by Music/JimmieRodgers and "My Rough and Rowdy Days" by Music/WaylonJennings.
* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Besides the reference listed below, the line "murder most foul" is also spoken by the Ghost in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''. LadyMacbeth is also mentioned in the song.
* SongOfSongTitles: "Murder Most Foul" becomes this toward the end, including ''its own song title''!
* SpecialGuest: Music/FionaApple is one of the piano players on "Murder Most Foul".
* WhoShotJFK: "Murder Most Foul" doesn't specifically pose this question, but it's titled after one of the earliest conspiracy theory books (''Murder Most Foul!: The Conspiracy That Killed Kennedy'', a self-published 1967 pamphlet by Stanley J. Marks), and references mainstays like the "magic bullet", the "three bums" and the "grassy knoll".
