Love sick
Love Sick is a blues rock song by Bob Dylan , which was recorded in January 1997 under producer Daniel Lanois for Columbia Records and released on Dylan's 30th studio album Time Out of Mind . On June 1, 1998, the piece was released as a single .
Emergence
The title came about during the sessions for the album Time Out of Mind, the opening song of which it was to become. Dylan had last released his own songs on Under the Red Sky in 1990 and, after the bad feedback on this work, recorded two acoustic albums with only guitar and harmonica ( Good As I Been to You and World Gone Wrong ) .
While working on Time Out of Mind , Dylan found his way back to the Americana style , which he first played on the 1989 album Oh Mercy, also under producer Lanois. Time Out of Mind got a lot darker with organ, echo and distortion.
The text
The lyrics of the song work with strong metaphors, some of which are expressionistic in nature. The song begins very oppressively:
- I'm walking through streets that are dead
- Walking, walking with you in my head
- My feet are so tired, my brain is so wired
- And the clouds are wheeping
Later verses also underline the gloomy mood:
- I spoke like a child; you destroyed me with a smile
- While I was sleeping
Love Sick is about a lovesick person who tries to rummage through the urban chaos, but is completely battered by this kind of love and can no longer cope with everyday life:
- Sometimes the silence can be like thunder
- Sometimes I wanna take to the road and plunder
The desire to plunder expresses the desire to get the love that you long for. In its embarrassment and pain, the lyric self ultimately wishes to never have met the person to whom it addresses its love. He doesn't know what to do next, but in the end he would give anything just to be with her. There is no moving forward.
Aftermath
Dylan played Love Sick at the 1998 Grammy Awards, where Time Out of Mind received three awards, including the grand prize for Album of the Year . Some artists such as The White Stripes have covered the song and the song was also used in a Victoria's Secret commercial in which Dylan himself appeared. The magazine Mojo sat Lovesick in September 2005 in its list of the largest Dylan songs of all time ranked 12th
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ MOJO 1000 - The Ultimate CD Buyers Guide: Section The 100 Greatest Bob Dylan Songs. rocklistmusic.co.uk, September 2005