Hard one. I'd say it's more a song and for a long time, a song-writer, that was ruined by someone I wanted to forget. That someone sang this song to me after he dumped me. I couldn't listen to the song or anything by this particular song-writer for years after that. (That and anything by the Grateful Dead, still struggle with the Grateful Dead.) Which was a tad problematic, because for one thing - the song-writer is somewhat prolific. And for another, everyone loves this particular song-writer. I was, however, able to listen to other people sing songs by this guy during that time period. And I did eventually get over it. But this song, to this day, makes me cringe, and there's only one person's cover of the song that makes it at all palatable.
So, this is the song, I hate - due to the fact that I first heard it in a negative context and somewhat humiliating one. Note - if you play this song to someone you've just dumped? You deserve to be punched repeatedly in the nose and have your guitar broken over your noggin. Just saying. It is NOT a good dumping song. Oh, I forgot to add - he played it publicly in front of a lot of people.
All of that said? I did forgive him. He was 21. And about thirteen years ago, we met again in NYC, and went contra-dancing. He's married. Has a kid. Lives in Livingston, NY. And is a mindfulness psychologist. And still plays the guitar, has released a couple of albums online, and has a band.
I'll provide a link to his music at the end of this post, if you are at all curious.
So, rather forget? Eh? I'd rather forget the song and the person he was at the time he sung it to me - at that time, he sounded just like the original song-writer. I think at the time, he may have..what's the word? Channeled that song-writer - who is still living by the way. Why? Because assholes live a long-ass time. Great songwriter and musician, but still an asshole.
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright by Bob Dylan
And here's the version by Joan Baez, who by the way - Dylan wrote the song about. He'd just broken up with Joan and wrote the song. Then later, Joan did a better cover of it than he did.
That's young Joanie, here's old Joanie singing it Joan Baez singing the song twenty years later.
I love Joan. Dylan, I want to smack. (Love his music though, saw a few years ago a retrospective of his work at JP Morgan Museum in NYC - I miss museums.)
Oh, I did promise to provide a link to the music by the college boyfriend who broke my heart with this song in the 1980s...who I went contra-dancing with sometime in 2007.
Song tracks by boyfriend I was talking about (Oh he looks like Keanu Reeves kid brother and has the same mannerisms, and vocal intonations as Reeves - I had troubled watching Keanu Reeves movies for the longest time.)
( The questions for the meme are below the cut )
So, this is the song, I hate - due to the fact that I first heard it in a negative context and somewhat humiliating one. Note - if you play this song to someone you've just dumped? You deserve to be punched repeatedly in the nose and have your guitar broken over your noggin. Just saying. It is NOT a good dumping song. Oh, I forgot to add - he played it publicly in front of a lot of people.
All of that said? I did forgive him. He was 21. And about thirteen years ago, we met again in NYC, and went contra-dancing. He's married. Has a kid. Lives in Livingston, NY. And is a mindfulness psychologist. And still plays the guitar, has released a couple of albums online, and has a band.
I'll provide a link to his music at the end of this post, if you are at all curious.
So, rather forget? Eh? I'd rather forget the song and the person he was at the time he sung it to me - at that time, he sounded just like the original song-writer. I think at the time, he may have..what's the word? Channeled that song-writer - who is still living by the way. Why? Because assholes live a long-ass time. Great songwriter and musician, but still an asshole.
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright by Bob Dylan
And here's the version by Joan Baez, who by the way - Dylan wrote the song about. He'd just broken up with Joan and wrote the song. Then later, Joan did a better cover of it than he did.
That's young Joanie, here's old Joanie singing it Joan Baez singing the song twenty years later.
I love Joan. Dylan, I want to smack. (Love his music though, saw a few years ago a retrospective of his work at JP Morgan Museum in NYC - I miss museums.)
Oh, I did promise to provide a link to the music by the college boyfriend who broke my heart with this song in the 1980s...who I went contra-dancing with sometime in 2007.
Song tracks by boyfriend I was talking about (Oh he looks like Keanu Reeves kid brother and has the same mannerisms, and vocal intonations as Reeves - I had troubled watching Keanu Reeves movies for the longest time.)
( The questions for the meme are below the cut )