Ketch's 10 Thoughts From The Weekend (I'll say it... OU is barely Texas' business)
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It helps that I have women in my life that shop at Dollar Tree to provide the inspiration.
You dead!
Bob Dylan was the greatest songwriter of a generation and I'm not sure anyone is even close. His singing is a matter of taste but his songwriting is undeniable.
I’m fully aligned with your overloaded Sark analysis. Given how you like numbers, when Bama won the NC with Sark as OC he was a traditional 100% coordinator.
Did he spend 80% of his time OC for us during that season ending stretch? That’s probably generous but does Bama win a NC with 80% or less of Sark as OC? Probably not.
Did he spend 80% of his time OC for us during that season ending stretch? That’s probably generous but does Bama win a NC with 80% or less of Sark as OC? Probably not.
I mean.. how many current men's programs are ahead of what Vic has been building?
Kansas and Kentucky aren't currently doing that.
A good list.
No. 10 - Top 10: Bob Dylan
It's been more than a decade since I first tackled doing a Bob Dylan list, but after watching A Complete Unknown last week in the leads up the Academy Awards, it feels like the perfect time to give it another go.
I can't say that I'm always in a mood for Dylan, but I have been for the last week.
So, let's get on with it.
Honorable Mention: I Shall Be Released, It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), Every Grain of Sand, It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, Subterranean Blues, Simple Twist of Fate, Positively 4th Street, Ballad of a Thin Man, Idiot Wind
Last 5 Out: Tangled Up in Blue, Pledging My Time, Just Like A Woman, Highway 61 Revisited and Desolation Row
10. Hurricane
It's just a fantastic song. Love the violin play
9. Blind Willie McTell
According to Dylan biographer Clinton Heylin, the song is regarded by many as "Dylan's one indisputable masterpiece of the early eighties."
8. Visions of Johanna
Rolling Stone said that Dylan never seemed lonelier in any other song more than he did in this song cut on a single take on Valentine's Day in 1966.
7. All Along The Watchtower
Yes, Hendrix's version is the definitive version of this song (even Dylan admits it), but the original is pretty great in its own right.
6. Mr. Tambourine Man
Both versions of this song - Dylan's and The Byrds' - ranked near the Top 100 of its 500 Greatest Songs of All-Time.
5. Rainy Day Woman #12 and 35
This song doesn't seem to make many of the Top 10 lists that I've seen this weekend, but it's probably my favorite Dylan song to just jam out to. It makes my Top 10.
4. The Times They Are A-Changin
Released a few months after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this is a song that spoke to and for an entire generation.
3. Blowin' in the Wind
It's the protest song of all protest songs.
2. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
In No Direction Home, Martin Scorsese's documentary on Dylan, the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg talked about the first time he heard Dylan's music: "When I got back from India, and got to the West Coast, there's a poet, Charlie Plymell - at a party in Bolinas — played me a record of this new young folk singer. And I heard 'Hard Rain,' I think. And wept. 'Cause it seemed that the torch had been passed to another generation. From earlier bohemian, or Beat illumination. And self-empowerment."
1. Like a Rolling Stone
Ranked in 2004 and 2010 as Rolling Stone's No. 1 song of all-time. Bono told Rolling Stone about this song: "For some, the Sixties was a revolution. But there were others who were erecting a guillotine in Greenwich Village not for their political enemies, but rather for the squares. Bob was already turning on that idea, even as he best embodied it, with the corkscrew hair Jimi Hendrix imitated. The tumble of words, images, ire and spleen on "Rolling Stone" shape-shifts easily into music forms 10 or 20 years away, like punk, grunge or hip-hop. Looking at the character in the lyric, you ask, "How quickly could she have plunged from high society to 'scrounging' for her 'next meal'?" Perhaps it is a glance into the future; perhaps it's fiction, a screenplay distilled into one song.
Everybody has favorites, though, and "Don't Think Twice, It's All right" would have been high in my top ten. In the mold of "All Along the Watchtower," Susan Tedeschi does a badass cover of the song with some great guitar playing.
And Dylan's duet with Johnny Cash on "Girl from the North Country" is just an all-time great.
This. Blows my mind that he's doing everything on special teams AND tight ends. No reason why we don't have additional specialists to help unless they believe kicking is just talent and repetition and no real coaching involved.
By contrast we're shopping at Whole Foods these days with ooccasional runs into HEB.
As I said, yours is a good list. I have no time to do any listening, so here's this:
I would substitute "Don't Think Twice" at No. 5 and get rid of "Rainy Day Woman" altogether.
I would substitute "Girl from the North Country" at No. 7 and drop out "All Along the Watchtower." It's a great song when covered by Hendrix. The Dylan original never pulled me in. It's a good Dylan song, not great.
I'd substitute "Lay Lady Lay" for "Visions of Johanna." It's a better ballad, and it's a Bob Dylan song actually driven by some fine pedal steel guitar work.
"Desolation Row" for "Blind Willlie McTell." Just because "Desolation Row" has to be in the top ten.
I like "Hurricane" a lot, and it's fine at No. 10, but I would be OK swapping it out for "Positively 4th Street."
As I also said, everybody has their favorites.
I guess I took out all of your personal faves and inserted my personal faves!
With Dylan, he has such a large body of work, much of which was groundbreaking and produced many more than a few great songs. There is a select group that simply have to be seen as his greatest, and after that it's choose the great ones that resonate with you personally.
I can see why you like the ones that you do.
Kncokin' on Heaven's Door, I Want You, It Ain't Me Babe and Girl from the North Country can't get an honorable mention?
As a huge fan of The Godfather I found it fascinating. I was in middle school when The Godfather book came out and remember a ton of controversy about the movie being made but never understood the backstory. The Offer goes into that and is really well done in my opinion. I encourage you to watch it
Plus, there are. some historical songs that HAVE to be on the list. It leaves some personal touch hard to do.
No Jokerman? It inspired a great font, podcast series, and a quite frankly a universe.
I’d also add Brownsville Girl, Changing of the Guard and Not Dark Yet.
At least you got #1 right
I’d also add Brownsville Girl, Changing of the Guard and Not Dark Yet.
At least you got #1 right
It came in at No.46 on the RS list
100 Greatest Bob Dylan Songs
We rank Bob Dylan's greatest songs, from "Just Like a Woman" to "John Wesley Harding."
www.rollingstone.com
Using Needless Markup and Dollar Tree is really childish. Hopefully the Texas players don't play into that thinking. Sure you will say NIL makes the case for the comparison. Anyway this seems cheesy and easy writing. Is Texas a better program under Sark - without a doubt.
How so? It's a metaphor. Iy took 200+ replies for someone to take an issue with it.
So you say. Absolutely hope you are right! If Texas never loses again to those POS from ou, I'd love it.
I just remember article after article about Mack closing the border, ou can't compete, the ou OL lost too many players and more years than not they won the freaking conference title. It's freaking disgusting how Texas failed to compete and allowed ou to win 14 big xii titles to Texas' 4?!
I guess by your thought process, ou would be the varsity to Texas jv when Mack was getting pounded in the early 2000's.
By the way, Texas is 3-7 in the last 10 and 9-16 since 2000.
I feel like if our last season RB’s were on a scale of 1-10, we would have been maybe a 6.
With Arch, I just dont want to see him over-used in a run game and would prefer we have a strong 1-2 punch at RB and keep him healthy as possible. Ever since the Colt McCoy nattie injury trying to punch it in, just never liked him in the game with the same situations again.
To be clear... I wrote the worm has turned article at the beginning of 2009.
Following that article... Texas beat OU for the 4th time in 5 years (2005-06, 2008-09), won the Big 12, played for a national championship and signed a top 3 recruiting class.
I never said the worm was never going to turn again. What I did write accurately told the story of that moment, one that lasted about another 13 months.
I'm not saying that OU can't turn it around, but they absolutely need a major home run at head coach. Anything short of a true Top 5 level coach and I think they've got serious hurdles to clear.
Any time they've ever truly been great, their head coach was a Top 5 guy in the college game kind of coach. When it's less than that... show me when they've been elite.
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