What else needs to be said that hasn't been said in Bob Dylan's "It's alright ma (I'm only bleeding)

[downsowf]

It's alright ma (I'm only bleeding) Live - YouTube

 

[snafupants]

That is a near perfect critique of culture - commercialism, religion, education, media - and how humans eventually behave - with greed, phony respectability and games.

That song caught me by surprise, basically by how mature it was, being at the end of Bringing It All Back Home too, which was an early one. Wow.

Probably should have received more airplay than it did, but it was early and the song says things that people don't necessarily want to hear. Sort of pushing their faces in it, you know?

 

[Jedi]

Great song. There's something to be said for someone who can captivate people with only a guitar and voice. This was a somewhat transitional period in his career, having left his folk days behind him, but not yet going fully electric. One could hardly recognize him a year prior to this on Times Are A-Changin,' and within three years and two rock n roll albums later would again reinvent himself as a country crooner, leaving his rock days behind him, all well before Woodstock. And that guitar lick is hella-cool.

 

[Chronomar]

Great song. There's something to be said for someone who can captivate people with only a guitar and voice.

I agree with all that has been said...I'd only add, "and a harmonica, sometimes" to your list there.

Bob Dylan...from such unlikely origins, such musical talent. Mostly, what gets me, is his lyricism.

 

[downsowf]

Agreed with what everyone else said. This song, in particular, I found more intellectually stimulating than anything I could ever read. I love his honesty and bluntness. This goes for everything Dylan did. Dylan wrote and recorded songs because he had something to say. He was uncompromising and refused to cater to an audience.