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* ChekhovsGun: Chekhov's Drill, in "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts".

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* ChekhovsGun: Chekhov's Drill, in "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts".Hearts"--the "drilling in the wall" briefly mentioned in the opening lines turns out to be a group of robbers trying to bust into a bank safe.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: The women in "Tangled Up in Blue" and "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" both have red hair.
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''Blood On The Tracks'' is the fifteenth studio album by Music/BobDylan, released in 1975.

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''Blood On The on the Tracks'' is the fifteenth studio album by Music/BobDylan, released in 1975.



The album is best remembered for the hit single "Tangled up in Blue" and the fan favorites "Shelter from the Storm" and "Simple Twist of Fate". A [[CutSong song left off the album]], "Up to Me", was released on the ''Biograph'' box set in 1985, along with the New York version of "You're a Big Girl Now". Several other alternate takes and the previously-unreleased "Call Letter Blues" were included on ''The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3'' in 1991. In 2018, a Bootleg Series installment devoted to the entire album sessions, called ''More Blood, More Tracks'', was issued to great acclaim (including from Music/KanyeWest, who [[Website/{{Twitter}} tweeted]] some of the lyrics from "Up to Me" and invited Dylan to "get together" with him).

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The album is best remembered for the hit single "Tangled up Up in Blue" and the fan favorites "Shelter from the Storm" and "Simple Twist of Fate". A [[CutSong song left off the album]], "Up to Me", was released on the ''Biograph'' box set in 1985, along with the New York version of "You're a Big Girl Now". Several other alternate takes and the previously-unreleased "Call Letter Blues" were included on ''The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3'' in 1991. In 2018, a Bootleg Series installment devoted to the entire album sessions, called ''More Blood, More Tracks'', was issued to great acclaim (including from Music/KanyeWest, who [[Website/{{Twitter}} tweeted]] some of the lyrics from "Up to Me" and invited Dylan to "get together" with him).



# "Tangled Up In Blue" (5:40)
# "Simple Twist Of Fate" (4:18)
# "You're A Big Girl Now" (4:36)

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# "Tangled Up In in Blue" (5:40)
# "Simple Twist Of of Fate" (4:18)
# "You're A a Big Girl Now" (4:36)



# "Meet Me In The Morning" (4:19)
# "Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts" (8:50)

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# "Meet Me In The in the Morning" (4:19)
# "Lily, Rosemary And The and the Jack Of of Hearts" (8:50)



# "Shelter From The Storm" (4:59)
# "Buckets Of Rain" (3:29)

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# "Shelter From The from the Storm" (4:59)
# "Buckets Of of Rain" (3:29)



** "Idiot Wind" and "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack Of Hearts" both exceed the 7:00 mark. Amazingly, they were both about a minute longer in their New York iterations (and "Lily" had an extra verse that he cut for the Minnesota version).

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** "Idiot Wind" and "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack Of of Hearts" both exceed the 7:00 mark. Amazingly, they were both about a minute longer in their New York iterations (and "Lily" had an extra verse that he cut for the Minnesota version).



* FourMoreMeasures: "Tangled Up in Blue", "You're a Big Girl Now" and "Lily, Rosemary and The Jack of Hearts" all have intros that go on longer than you'd expect. On "Lily" it's really obvious where Bob's supposed to start singing, but he waits two more bars before he actually does.

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* FourMoreMeasures: "Tangled Up in Blue", "You're a Big Girl Now" and "Lily, Rosemary and The the Jack of Hearts" all have intros that go on longer than you'd expect. On "Lily" it's really obvious where Bob's supposed to start singing, but he waits two more bars before he actually does.



* InterruptedSuicide: "Simple Twist Of Fate":

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* InterruptedSuicide: "Simple Twist Of of Fate":



* LovableRogue: The Jack of Hearts in "Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts", who's a charming, charismatic criminal.

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* LovableRogue: The Jack of Hearts in "Lily, Rosemary And The and the Jack Of of Hearts", who's a charming, charismatic criminal.



* NotStayingForBreakfast: "Simple Twist Of Fate"

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* NotStayingForBreakfast: "Simple Twist Of of Fate"



* PepTalkSong: "Shelter From The Storm"

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* PepTalkSong: "Shelter From The from the Storm"



* RearrangeTheSong: Most of the songs have become concert mainstays, and almost all of them have gone through several rewrites over the years. As illustrated [[http://dylanchords.info/16_bott/tangled_up_in_blue.htm here]], "Tangled Up In Blue" is probably his most tinkered-with song lyrically.

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* RearrangeTheSong: Most of the songs have become concert mainstays, and almost all of them have gone through several rewrites over the years. As illustrated [[http://dylanchords.info/16_bott/tangled_up_in_blue.htm here]], "Tangled Up In in Blue" is probably his most tinkered-with song lyrically.



** "Shelter From The Storm", where the woman gives the male protagonist shelter from what could possibly be a metaphorical storm.

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** "Shelter From The from the Storm", where the woman gives the male protagonist shelter from what could possibly be a metaphorical storm.
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A [[CutSong song left off the album]], "Up to Me", was released on the ''Biograph'' box set in 1985, along with the New York version of "You're a Big Girl Now". Several other alternate takes and the previously-unreleased "Call Letter Blues" were included on ''The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3'' in 1991. In 2018, a Bootleg Series installment devoted to the entire album sessions, called ''More Blood, More Tracks'', was issued to great acclaim (including from Music/KanyeWest, who [[Website/{{Twitter}} tweeted]] some of the lyrics from "Up to Me" and invited Dylan to "get together" with him).

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The album is best remembered for the hit single "Tangled up in Blue" and the fan favorites "Shelter from the Storm" and "Simple Twist of Fate". A [[CutSong song left off the album]], "Up to Me", was released on the ''Biograph'' box set in 1985, along with the New York version of "You're a Big Girl Now". Several other alternate takes and the previously-unreleased "Call Letter Blues" were included on ''The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3'' in 1991. In 2018, a Bootleg Series installment devoted to the entire album sessions, called ''More Blood, More Tracks'', was issued to great acclaim (including from Music/KanyeWest, who [[Website/{{Twitter}} tweeted]] some of the lyrics from "Up to Me" and invited Dylan to "get together" with him).
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* OverlyLongTitle: "Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts" and "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go".

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-> ''This is my favourite album ever. I spent the end of my teenage years and my early twenties listening to old music – {{Rockabilly}} music, stuff like that. Then I discovered FolkMusic when I was 25, and that led me to Dylan. He totally blew me away with this. It’s like the great album from the second period, y’know? He did that first run of albums in the Sixties, then he started doing his less troublesome albums – and out of that comes "Blood On The Tracks". It’s his masterpiece. "Tangled Up In Blue" (...), it’s my all-time favourite song. It’s one of those songs where the lyrics are ambiguous you can actually write the song yourself. That’s a lot of fun – it’s like Dylan fooling around with the listener, playing on the way he or she interprets the lyrics. "It’s very hard to take individual songs off Blood On the Tracks, because it works so well as an entire album. I used to think "If You See Her, Say Hello" was a more powerful song than "Tangled Up In Blue" but, over the years I've kinda realized "Tangled..." has the edge, just for the fun you can have with it.’''
-->-- '''Creator/QuentinTarantino''', who, in a 1994 interview with Melody Maker about his personal Top 10 favourite albums, put "Blood On The Tracks" first place and "Tangled Up In Blue" second place, despite the fact it's just a song and from the same album.

->''This is hard making records like this! You gotta keep three or four things going at the same time…just like life.''
-->-- '''Bob Dylan''', after messing up a take of "Buckets of Rain", as heard on ''The Bootleg Series Vol. 14: More Blood, More Tracks''


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-> ''This is my favourite album ever. I spent the end of my teenage years and my early twenties listening to old music – {{Rockabilly}} music, stuff like that. Then I discovered FolkMusic when I was 25, and that led me to Dylan. He totally blew me away with this. It’s It's like the great album from the second period, y’know? y'know? He did that first run of albums in the Sixties, TheSixties, then he started doing his less troublesome albums – and out of that comes "Blood ''Blood On The Tracks". It’s Tracks''. It's his masterpiece. "Tangled Up In Blue" (...), it’s my all-time favourite song. It’s one of those songs where the lyrics are ambiguous you can actually write the song yourself. That’s a lot of fun – it’s like Dylan fooling around with the listener, playing on the way he or she interprets the lyrics. "It’s very hard to take individual songs off Blood On the Tracks, because it works so well as an entire album. I used to think "If You See Her, Say Hello" was a more powerful song than "Tangled Up In Blue" but, over the years I've kinda realized "Tangled..." has the edge, just for the fun you can have with it.’''
-->-- '''Creator/QuentinTarantino''', who, in a 1994 interview with Melody Maker about his personal Top 10 favourite albums, put "Blood On The Tracks" first place and "Tangled Up In Blue" second place, despite the fact it's just a song and from the same album.

->''This is hard making records like this! You gotta keep three or four things going at the same time…just like life.
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-->-- '''Bob Dylan''', after messing up '''Creator/QuentinTarantino'''[[note]]who, in a take of "Buckets of Rain", as heard on ''The Bootleg Series Vol. 14: More Blood, More Tracks''

1994 interview with ''Melody Maker'' about his personal Top 10 favourite albums, put ''Blood On The Tracks'' first place and "Tangled Up In Blue" second place, despite the fact it's just a song and from the same album.[[/note]]

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* LovableRogue: The Jack of Hearts in "Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts", a member of a gang of bank robbers who uses his charm and charisma to distract the people in the town where they're doing their latest job.

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* LovableRogue: The Jack of Hearts in "Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts", who's a member of a gang of bank robbers who uses his charm and charisma to distract the people in the town where they're doing their latest job.charming, charismatic criminal.
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* LovableRogue: The Jack of Hearts in "Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts", who fascinates everybody despite being a scoundrel.

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* LovableRogue: The Jack of Hearts in "Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts", a member of a gang of bank robbers who fascinates everybody despite being a scoundrel.uses his charm and charisma to distract the people in the town where they're doing their latest job.
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* {{Tsundere}}: The line ''She might think that I've forgotten her, don't tell her it isn't so'' in "If You See Her, Say Hello".
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* TheFilmOfTheSong: There were two separate attempts to get a film adaptation of "Lily, Rosemary and The Jack of Hearts" greenlighted, but they never got past the scripting stage. A few years after the album came out, Dylan hired John Kaye (who later did the screenplay for ''Film/WhereTheBuffaloRoam'') to write a screenplay, but it fell into DevelopmentHell afterwards. In 1981 a writer named James Byron wrote a screenplay called ''The Jack of Hearts'', which dramatized the song and infused some elements of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' into the story, with the AlternativeCharacterInterpretation of the Jack of Hearts as Rosemary's long-lost son.

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At the very least, it's considered by most fans and critics alike to be Dylan's best album of the 1970's. It would be his last consensus "classic" until ''Music/TimeOutOfMind'' in 1997. It was listed at #16 in ''Magazine/RollingStone'''s [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]]. "Tangled Up in Blue" became a Top 40 hit, while several other songs ("Shelter from the Storm" and "Idiot Wind" in particular) were hailed as all-time classics.



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* AlbumClosure:
** "Buckets of Rain" closes with a reflective verse.
--->Life is sad, life is a bust\\
All you can do is do what you must\\
You do what you must do, and you do it well\\
I’ll do it for you\\
Honey baby, Can’t you tell?
** But, interestingly, the CutSong "Up to Me" sure feels like it was the song he'd originally conceived as the album closer, ending with these lines, which almost seem like Dylan's mission statement for his whole career:
--->If we never meet again, baby, remember me\\
How my lone guitar played sweet for you that old-time melody\\
And the harmonica around my neck, I blew it for you free\\
No one else could play that tune, you knew it was up to me
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Also in 2018, Creator/LucaGuadagnino announced that he will make [[https://thefilmstage.com/news/luca-guadagnino-to-adapt-bob-dylans-blood-on-the-tracks-into-feature-film/ a film adaptation of the album]], from a screenplay by Richard [=LaGravenese=]. Creator/ChloeMoretz has been cast as the female lead.

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Also in 2018, Creator/LucaGuadagnino announced that he will make [[https://thefilmstage.com/news/luca-guadagnino-to-adapt-bob-dylans-blood-on-the-tracks-into-feature-film/ a film adaptation of the album]], from a screenplay by Richard [=LaGravenese=]. Creator/ChloeMoretz Creator/ChloeGraceMoretz has been cast as the female lead.
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** In 1991 Magazine/{{NME}} issued a set of "[[https://imageevent.com/halpen/1991nmepopmusicplayingcards pop music playing cards]]", with the faces of various icons. Take a wild guess which singer-songwriter was the Jack of Hearts.
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At the very least, it's considered by most fans and critics alike to be Dylan's best album of the 1970's, if not his overall MagnumOpus. It would be his last consensus "classic" until ''Music/TimeOutOfMind'' in 1997. It was listed at #16 in ''Magazine/RollingStone'''s [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]]. "Tangled Up in Blue" became a Top 40 hit, while several other songs ("Shelter from the Storm" and "Idiot Wind" in particular) were hailed as all-time classics.

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\nAt the very least, it's considered by most fans and critics alike to be Dylan's best album of the 1970's, if not his overall MagnumOpus.1970's. It would be his last consensus "classic" until ''Music/TimeOutOfMind'' in 1997. It was listed at #16 in ''Magazine/RollingStone'''s [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]]. "Tangled Up in Blue" became a Top 40 hit, while several other songs ("Shelter from the Storm" and "Idiot Wind" in particular) were hailed as all-time classics.
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*** Also, the "Italian poet from the 13th century". Asked the identity of the poet in a 1978 interview, Dylan replied "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch Plutarch]]. Is that his name?" Presumably he was thinking of Creator/{{Petrarch}}, who was born three years after the end of the 13th century.

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*** Also, the "Italian poet from the 13th century". Asked the identity of the poet in a 1978 interview, Dylan replied "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch Plutarch]]. Is that his name?" Presumably he was thinking of Creator/{{Petrarch}}, who was born three years after actually lived in the end of the 13th 14th century.
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-->''I ran into the fortune-teller, who said beware of lightning that might strike''

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-->''I ran into the fortune-teller, FortuneTeller, who said beware of lightning that might strike''
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* ChekovsGun: Chekhov's Drill, in "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts".

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* ChekovsGun: ChekhovsGun: Chekhov's Drill, in "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts".
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* AddledAddict: The "Montague Street" verse in "Tangled Up in Blue" rewrote the original verse, which started out with these lines:
-->''He was always in a hurry\\
Too busy or too stoned\\
And everything that she ever planned\\
Just had to be postponed''

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