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2	[[caption-width-right:350: This album will make you stay forever young.]]
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4	''Planet Waves'' is the fourteenth studio album by Music/BobDylan and the sixth studio album by Music/TheBand, released in 1974, during Dylan's short-lived tenure on Asylum Records.
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6	It's notable for being a {{Crossover}} collaboration between Dylan and The Band, with whom he'd toured in TheSixties. At the time ''Planet Waves'' received a lot of media coverage because Dylan hadn't toured regularly since 1966 and The Band had become very popular in their own right. Commercially and critically it did very well, generating at least one undisputed classic song with "Forever Young", which is featured twice on the record but in two different versions, because Dylan and the rest of his musicians couldn't decide which take was the superior one. (Dylan even considered leaving the song off the album entirely, but everyone else involved covinced him to do otherwise.) While "Forever Young" wasn't released as a single, the album's opening track, "On a Night Like This", was and became a minor chart hit.
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8	In a case of WhatCouldHaveBeen, the album was originally going to be titled ''Ceremonies of the Horsemen''--a reference to the song "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" from ''Music/BringingItAllBackHome''--but a last-minute title change eventually settled on ''Planet Waves''.
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10	Following its release, Dylan and The Band embarked on a joint North American tour, which produced the live album ''Before the Flood'' later that year.
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13	!! Tracklist:
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15	[[AC: Side One]]
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17	# "On a Night Like This" (2:57)
18	# "Going, Going, Gone" (3:27)
19	# "Tough Mama" (4:17)
20	# "Hazel" (2:50)
21	# "Something There Is About You" (4:45)
22	# "Forever Young" (4:57)
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24	[[AC: Side Two]]
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26	# "Forever Young" (2:49)
27	# "Dirge" (5:36)
28	# "You Angel You" (2:54)
29	# "Never Say Goodbye" (2:56)
30	# "Wedding Song" (4:42)
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33	!!Principal Members:
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35	* Rick Danko - bass
36	* Music/BobDylan - vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano
37	* Levon Helm - drums
38	* Garth Hudson - organ
39	* Richard Manuel - piano, drums
40	* Robbie Robertson - guitar
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43	!! Tough Tropes:
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45	* TheAgeless: "Forever Young" has Dylan wish this on his own offspring:
46	--> ''May your hands always be busy''
47	--> ''May your feet always be swift''
48	--> ''May you have a strong foundation''
49	--> ''When the winds of changes shift''
50	--> ''May your heart always be joyful''
51	--> ''And may your song always be sung''
52	--> ''May you stay forever young''
53	* AlliterativeTitle: "'''G'''oing, '''G'''oing '''G'''one", '''Y'''ou Angel '''Y'''ou".
54	* ButNowIMustGo: "Going, Going, Gone".
55	--> ''I am closing the book''
56	--> ''On the pages and the text''
57	--> ''And I don't really care of what happens next''
58	--> ''I am just going''
59	--> ''I am going, I am gone''
60	* CradleOfLoneliness: "Dirge".
61	--> ''There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them''
62	--> ''In this age of fibreglass I'm searchin for a gem''
63	--> ''The crystal ball upon the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet''
64	--> ''I've paid the price of solitude but at least I'm out of debt''
65	* DesignStudentsOrgasm: Just like his album ''Music/SelfPortrait'' the cover was drawn by Dylan himself.
66	* HumansAreMorons: "Dirge".
67	--> ''Heard your songs of freedom and man forever stripped''
68	--> ''Acting out his folly while his back is being whipped''
69	--> ''Like a slave in orbit he's beaten 'til he's tame''
70	--> ''All for a moment's glory and it's a dirty, rotten shame''
71	* IntercourseWithYou: "On a Night Like This''
72	--> ''Put your body next to mine\
73	And keep me company\
74	There is plenty of room for all\
75	So please don't elbow me''
76	* OneWomanSong: "Tough Mama", "Hazel".
77	* OneWordTitle: "Dirge".
78	* ThePowerOfLove:
79	** "Something There Is About You".
80	--> ''Something there is about you that moves with style and grace''
81	--> ''I was in a whirlwind, now I am in some better place''
82	--> ''My hand's on the sabre and you've picked up on the baton''
83	--> ''Something there is about you that I can't quite put my finger on''
84	** "You Angel You".
85	--> ''Yes, I never did feel this way before''
86	--> ''I never did get up and walk the floor''
87	--> ''If this is love then give me more''
88	--> ''And more and more and more and more.''
89	** "Never Say Goodbye".
90	--> ''You're beautiful beyond words''
91	--> ''You're beautiful to me''
92	--> ''You can make me cry''
93	--> ''Never say goodbye.''
94	** "Hazel".
95	--> ''Hazel you called and I came''
96	--> ''Now, don't make me play this waiting game''
97	--> ''You've got something I want plenty of''
98	--> ''Ooh, a little touch of your love.''
99	** "On A Night Like This".
100	--> ''Put your body next to mine''
101	--> ''And keep me company''
102	--> ''There is plenty a room for all''
103	--> ''So please don't elbow me.''
104	** "Wedding Song".
105	--> ''I love you more than ever, more than time and more than love''
106	--> ''I love you more than money and more than the stars above''
107	--> ''I love you more than madness, more than waves upon the sea''
108	--> ''I love you more than life itself, you mean that much to me.''
109	* ProductionForeshadowing: "Dirge", with its confessional, poetic lyrics and spare style, is like a preview of ''Music/BloodOnTheTracks''.
110	* ShoutOut:
111	** When UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli fought the heavyweight championship boxing in 1980 journalist Howard Cosell and a personal friend of Ali quoted from "Forever Young".
112	--> ''Even Muhammed Ali can not be forever young. His hands are no longer busy, his feet no longer swift.''
113	** ''Series/{{Parenthood}}'' uses "Forever Young" as its theme song.
114	** "Forever Young" itself is phrased like a traditional Jewish parental blessing on a child (with all the "may yous" and wishes for how the child will grow up).
115	* SillyLoveSongs: The majority of the songs on this album fall into this trope. See also ThePowerOfLove above.
116	* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: "Wedding Song".
117	--> ''It's never been my duty to remake the world at large''
118	--> ''Nor is it my intention to sound a battle charge''
119	--> '' 'Cause I love you more than all of that with a love that doesn't bend''
120	--> ''And if there is eternity I'd love you there again''
121	* SnowMeansLove: "The snow is so deep" outside the cabin in "On a Night Like This". Snow also gets mentioned in "Never Say Goodbye".
122	* TheSomethingSong: "Wedding Song".
123	* SuicideAsDrama: "Dirge".
124	--> ''You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road''
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