Sign on the Window

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we go back to what felt like seven years to our pre-quarantine past to bring "Love Minus Zero / No Limit" for our COVID present.

This episode, brought to you by our newest Patron, Stan, looks at :

• Kelly's musical relationship with the song (4:00)


• Context (8:30)


• Cutting Edge, Live '66, Rolling Thunder, Budokan (12:30)


• Song Itself (28:30) – Verse 1 (31:00), Verse 2 (34:00), Verse 3 (40:20), Verse 4 (49:30)


• Does the song work? (56:00)


• Recommendations – featuring Portico Quartet, Iggy Pop, Ratboys (1:10:00)


• Endings (1:17:15)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or just listen to this episode's playlist and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

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Next episode: our annual debaucherous St. Patrick's Day episode

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Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we're back in 1978 with "Baby Stop Crying," off Street Legal. 

• Kelly has been broken (3:00)


• "Baby Stop Frying" original song (7:00)


• Context (12:30)


• Song itself: storyline, lyrics, "Dog Bumped," choruses (16:45)


• A roleplay between Jonathan Cott and Bob Dylan (29:30)


• Playlist (40:30)


• Recommendations (47:00)


• Endings (57:00)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or just listen to this episode's playlist and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: Fractions!

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Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week, we listen to the lost classic, "She's Your Lover Now."

This week, we look at:

• context (2:30)


• the various versions – mostly Cutting Edge – of the song (8:45)


• Verse 1 (32:00)


• Verse 2 (43:00)


• Verse 3 (49:30)


• Verse 4 (55:15)


• Does it work today? (1:07:00)


• Recommendations (1:10:00)


• Next week (1:22:45)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or just listen to this episode's playlist and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: Some a*****e hurt you, I'll avenge you and love you, But please be quiet.

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Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, by lucky accident tbh, 1970's infamous Self Portrait. 

We talk context (3:00), baggage or lack thereof with this record (8:00), what makes a bad album segueing directly into the record (17:00). For song beats, see below. We recommend Terminator, Teebs and Ken Burns' Country Music (1:09:00) and pick our next episode (1:16:00).

• All the Tired Horses (25:00)


• Alberta #1 and #2 (29:30)


• I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know (30:30)


• Days of '49 (33:00)


• Early Mornin' Rain (34:00)


• Little Sadie/In Search of Little Sadie (34:20)


• Let It Be Me (35:35)


• Woogie Boogie (36:00)


• Belle Isle (37:15)


• Living the Blues (39:15)


• Isle of Wight cuts: Rolling Stone, Quinn, Minstrel Boy, She Belongs to Me (40:00)


• Copper Kettle (43:00)


• Gotta Travel On (45:30)


• Blue Moon (46:30)


• The Boxer (49:30)


• Take Me As I Am & Take a Message to Mary (54:10)


• It Hurts Me Too (57:40)


• Wigwam (59:00)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – (we didn't do a playlist this week because we have a whole album to listen to, duh) – and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: Can't you reach?

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Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we start our 4th (!) season with the appropriate "New Morning."

We talk context (3:00), the song itself and its horn overdubs, earnestness and chord structure (5:00). We talk our fantastic playlist (29:00) and recommendations for you (35:30)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or just listen to this episode's playlist and join the conversation on Twitter, message us on Facebook, and like on Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next time: "What is this s**t?"

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Merry Christmas from Sign on the Window. 

We've combined our annual year-end specials into one celebration! In this episode, you'll find our recounting Dylan's Christmas in the Heart (again, though not in the detail we did the previous two years), ranking the 25 Dylan songs we listened to in 2019, and delivering our Top 20 list. 

It's a long episode, so time-stamps are below:

• Part 1 — Christmas in the Heart, tracks 1-8 (2:30)
  
  


• Part 2 — Best of 2019: #20-11 (12:00)
  
  


• Part 3 — Ranking Dylan  (35:30)
  
  


• Part 4 —  Christmas in the Heart, tracks 9-15 (1:03:00)
  
  


• Part 5 — Best of 2019: #10-1 (1:13:00)
  
  


• Part 6 —  Ending, choosing first song of 2020 (2:00:00)
  
  

As always, full show notes at our website. Our 2019 Christmas playlist is available, as is our combined three-year Christmas celebration. We are still on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: So happy just to be alive / Underneath the sky of blue

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Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. We have FINALLY MADE IT TO EPISODE 100: "Dirge" from 1974's Planet Waves!

Kelly and Daniel visit Planet Waves for the first time since Episode 5 (and include a snippet because those early episodes are basically unlistenable!). We talk dirges, marches and music theory; crypticness as an assett; the differing camps one can view this song through and if it works in 2019, our final song of the year!

• Context (5:00)


• Initial takes — Kelly recorded "Dirge" Dirges, marches, 4-4 time (7:00)


• Song Itself and crypticness as an asset(13:30)


• Camp Sara (20:00)


• Camp Burnout of 1960s (29:00)


• Camp "Love" and Society (34:30)


• Camp Drugs (40:00)


• Does it work? (42:00)


• Playlist (46:30)


• Recommendations (53:00)


• Endings (1:00:00)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or just listen to this episode's playlist and join the conversation on Twitter, message us on Facebook, and like on Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: We'll choose Episode 101 during our Year End specials in December!

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Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we revisit 1969's Nashville Skyline and "One More Night."

In this penultimate episode of Season 3, Kelly and Daniel talk about the dorkiness of the song, "nature" Bob versus "nurture" Bob, generic pop songs and children's TV shows (or, shows from our childhood, like Mr. Face and Stick Stickly, Blues Clues and Scruff McGruff).

• Conext (2:45)


• Song Itself (4:30)


• We're a Real Podcast + Playlist (25:30)


• Recommendations (31:32)


• Endings (37:00)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or just listen to this episode's playlist and join the conversation on Twitter, message us on Facebook, and like on Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: EPISODE 100!!!! Oh... I hate myself for loving you.

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Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we inch toward 100 episodes by going back to 1967's "Nothing Was Delivered."

This episode, Kelly and Daniel talk context (3:45), the differing takes and The Byrds cover (8:30), and song's message on politics, religion, drugs and deliverance (14:00).

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or just listen to this episode's playlist and join the conversation on Twitter, message us on Facebook, and like on Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: For tonight no light will shine on me

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Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we close out Robert Johnson Month with Dylan's cover of "32-20 Blues."

This week, Kelly and Daniel talk context (3:00), where Johnson got the song (8:00), an overview of the song's arsenal (11:00), and why Dylan chose this one (18:00). Does it work? (24:00) and our final thoughts on memory, history and all the things we didn't get to discuss (29:00). We talk playlist (41:00), recommend our respective roadtrips (45:30) and choose our next song, three away from 100 episodes!

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or just listen to this episode's playlist and join the conversation on Twitter, message us on Facebook, and like on Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: Get plenty of rest

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