All the tracks hold up – it’s so damn effective.
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It has a great min theme which brings the movie right into your head. I don’t get enthusiastic about them any more, though, because now most soundtracks are just a collection of rock songs, half of which don’t even appear in the movie. “I used to have a huge collection of film soundtracks. The vocal has made me burst into tears more times than I care to remember.” This is an Alfred Noyes poem, which Ochs arranged for music. A song I love very much on this album is ‘Here’s To The State of Mississippi’ – Basically, it’s everything the movie Mississippi Burning should have been.” He’d write songs which would seem very black and white, and then, in the last verse, he’d say something which, like, completely shattered you. While Dylan was a poet Ochs was a musical journalist: He was a chronicler of his time, filled with humour and compassion. This is one of my favourite protest/folk albums.
It’s the same with movies: I have my three favourite – Taxi Driver, Blow Out and Rio Bravo – and after that it depends on my mood. “OK, from now on these aren’t in any order. Forget the Vegas period: if you really love Elvis, you’re ashamed of that man in Vegas. I don’t know what that means, but his voice… shit man, it sounded so fucking pure. When I was young, I used to think Elvis was the voice of truth. Sure, there are better individual songs – but no one collection ever touched the album. I was always a big rockability fan and a big Elvis fan, and to me this album is the purest expression of Elvis there was. “This has been a hugely important album to me. It was only on the third or fourth listen I realised the lyrics were so fucking heartbreaking.” Its kinda kitschy in a way – y’know, it’s got a really up-tempo tune – and, the first few times I heard it, I was, like, totally into the coolness of the song. This is just so cool: it’s a combination of the way it’s produced, the cool pop/R&B sound, and Freda’s voice. All the Merseybeat bands, Sixties girl groups, folk. I love fifties rock‘n’roll, Chess, Sun, Motown. I used to think ‘If You See Her, Say Hello’ was a more powerful song than ‘Tangled Up In Blue’ but, over the years I’ve kinda realized ‘Tangled…’ has the edge, just for the fun you can have with it.’
“It’s very hard to take individual songs off Blood On the Tracks, because itworks so well as an entire album. That’s a lot of fun – it’s like Dylan fooling around with the listener, playing on the way he or she interprets the lyrics. It’s one of those songs where the lyrics are ambiguous you can actually write the song yourself.
I know this is off Blood On The Tracks, but it’s my all-time favourite song. It’s like the great album from the second period, y’know? He did that first run of albums in the Sixties, then he started doing his less troublesome albums – and out of that comes Blood On The Tracks. Then I discovered folk music when I was 25, and that led me to Dylan. I spent the end of my teenage years and my early twenties listening to old music – rockabilly music, stuff like that.
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