Thread by @DylanRevisited

Catching up with an episode of Iggy Pop’s 6Music radio show from a couple of weeks back and discovered that he goes deep on Bob Dylan by playing It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue “in triplicate”. 🧵

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The Stooge says that Baby Blue is a song he’s “always admired” as “it had such feeling” and “was full of beautiful imagery”.

First, he plays the twinkling version from the recent Shadow Kingdom performance.

He follows this with Them’s brilliant cover of Baby Blue from 1966, with its enticing intro.

Pop quotes Van Morrison on song: “this guy is not singing about moon and June and he’s getting away with it…this opens up the whole thing”

Iggy Pop then concludes his Baby Blue trilogy with the original version that closes Dylan’s 1965 album, Bringing It All Back Home.

But that’s not all. Earlier in the show Pop mentions Dylan’s book The Philosophy of Modern Song.

He suggests it's a book “anybody could write” as all Dylan does is names a song and “writes whatever the hell he thinks about it”. (He means this positively.)

That mention is before he plays a song that Dylan writes about in The Philosophy of Modern Song, Webb Pierce’s There Stands the Glass.

That song also appears in the Martin Scorsese's Dylan documentary, No Direction Home.

It’s a great episode of an always interesting show.

Iggy Confidential: come for the Dylan – stay for the black metal and Congolese funk.