#958. Lineage of Song: “The Long and Winding Road”

 

On a Beatles kick, here’s a song that I’ve been getting into more and more since the Let It Be…Naked version without the added production was released, and the subsequent take from Yesterday following it so faithfully. I hated how critics tried to bury the movie by suggesting younger viewers couldn’t possibly understand it when that was kind of the whole point, that you could discover this music all over again and it would be just as amazing. I was born a decade after the band split, so my whole life has been exploring it after the fact. If you believe it’s impossible it’s because you need it to be true. But it certainly doesn’t have to be.

#957. Lineage of Song: “I’ve Just Seen a Face”

Across the Universe

 

Having just posted the previous Beatles cover song responsible for helping me discover more of their work, I figured I should definitely include this one, too, from what I still consider to be a horribly underrated movie bursting with such material.

(This is yet another post breaking the fourth wall of the humorously disjointed nature of plotting blog posts in advance! Huzzah!)

#956. Lineage of Song: “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”

 

Bob Dylan

Guns ‘n’ Roses

This one’s here because at work it happened to come up, when I was playing Bon Jovi, and I was asked if it was the same band that played “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.” No, no it was not.

Back when I created this post (10/26), it seemed like it was a long time to wait to see it finally posted. I’m currently sitting at #1007 now waiting, which is a whole additional year of this project. When I started it I was just trying to find something new for an old blog to be revitalized, since my slowdown at blogging had ended up sacrificing my oldest, least structured blog, and that felt wrong. 

Anyway, since composing this particular post, I picked up a Criterion Collection edition of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, which led to hours spent watching three different cuts. I’d never seen it before, so spending so much time with it ended up being a pleasant surprise (I posted a review about a month back on my film blog).

Between this and the release of A Complete Unknown (which I decided was my favorite movie of 2024), I found myself once again in the grip of Bob Dylan. It’s been a comfortable spot for a dozen years or so. I understand I came late to the party, but I figure it’s not really when you arrive but that you found the time to enjoy it.

#955. Lineage of Song: “Johnny B. Goode”

 

Back to the Future

Michael J. Fox & Coldplay

It’s kind of hard to work on a project like this and not acknowledge one of the biggest moments in one of the most beloved movies of the past fifty years. Later, Coldplay helped Michael J. Fox recreate the magic.