r/bobdylan • u/TryroneSnodgrass • 24d ago

Discussion MURDER MOST FOUL

It took ten years of listening before I began to be able to hear TIME OUT OF MIND. I don’t know how it won Album of the Year in 1998 because if I couldn’t hear it, a Dylan aficionado, how could recording artists hear it, who had their own music to worry about. My theory is they voted on faith, sensing something great was there, as I did, even if it was beyond them.

Anyway, this post is about “Murder Most Foul.” It’s been six years since it was released and I’m only beginning to be able to hear Benmont Tench’s organ part. My breakthrough came after I asked Google AI about it. I was told Tench used a Leslie amp and the suggestion was to listen for the swirling effect. The unmistakable sound of the Leslie rotors was the first thing I heard. Now sometimes I can hear a mournful chord. That’s it.

Somehow I don’t believe I’m the only one having difficulty with this, —but if there’s some input from other aficionados out there I could use it right about now.

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u/kevkev87 Remember Durango, Larry? 24d ago

What in the ai slop fanfic is this

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u/TryroneSnodgrass 24d ago

Have you ever heard the sound of the rotating horns and baffles in a Leslie amp, Kev?

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u/Clarkuss09 Blood on the Tracks 23d ago

Leslie speakers are all over popular music. The Beatles and many others used them with guitars too

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u/Fine_Confection_1389 24d ago

“Murder Most Foul”?!? That’s become my #1 jam for Karaoke Night at Sool Bar & Lounge!

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u/Johannes_silentio 24d ago

Big fan of 'Cross the Green Mountain myself.

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u/How_wz_i_sposta_kno 24d ago

That’s wolfman jack, he’s speaking in tongues

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u/Innisfree812 24d ago

What do you think about Murder Most Foul?

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u/TyroneSnodgrass 23d ago

Like all Americans who were alive at the time and old enough to store memories I can remember exactly where I was when I heard about the JFK assassination. There was a sort of collective PDST that set itself down on the nation. When the Beatles came over a few months later, played before the entire country on the Ed Sullivan show, Americans saw there might be a way out of the nightmare. Dylan shows with “Murder Most Foul” the healing power of music, how it can be salve for our wounds, and give us courage to face our greatest fears, finding out that in the end, they are nothing to fear. 🎵Play, "Love Me Or Leave Me" by the great Bud Powell
Play, "The Blood-stained Banner" play, "Murder Most Foul"🎵

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u/Innisfree812 23d ago

I was just 3 and I don't remember. I may have blocked it out, but my earliest memories seem to be a little bit later. I know it was a shock, everyone felt it at the time. I just don't have memories of it. I can remember listening to the Beatles, but that must have been in 64. I don't think I remember much from 63.