The Never Ending Pool

Some interesting stuff here. A buddy of mine always lets me know--in no uncertain terms--that the words "Street" and "Legal" are to have a hyphen (not a space) between them. The little thing is right there on the cover, and the esteemed Mr. Marcus rightly puts it in his review. So please remember...Bob named it "Street-Legal", not Street Legal.

And I have to say that if I was going through what Bob was going through in 1977 and 1978, I might be feeling a bit down on women, too.

'Street Legal' must easily be Bob's most underrated and possibly misinterpreted albums (who knows?). I must say it has always been been one of my very favourite records by Bob or anyone. Definitely in my top 5 Dylan albums and the remastering only helped enhance the stupendous complexity of it all. Lyrically I think Dylan is on top of his game here and the 'over-production' doesn't hurt the album one bit, for me. Overall, it's clear that Bob has hit a spiritual crisis, possibly following on from all his personal difficulties around this time and he's reaching out for answers. It's amazing how 'Street Legal' points the way to 'Slow Train Coming' with Bob already hearing the 'Long distance train, blowing through the rain' by the album's closing track. Live and in the studio 1978-81 was an incredible period.

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Some interesting stuff here. A buddy of mine always lets me know--in no uncertain terms--that the words "Street" and "Legal" are to have a hyphen (not a space) between them. The little thing is right there on the cover, and the esteemed Mr. Marcus rightly puts it in his review. So please remember...Bob named it "Street-Legal", not Street Legal.

And I have to say that if I was going through what Bob was going through in 1977 and 1978, I might be feeling a bit down on women, too.

street - fucking - legal?

True Love Tends To Forget is tragically underrated.

I have never been "down on" women, and at the risk of overstatement, I believe that no gentleman would ever imagine such a thing. I have been down on men a time or two, from an excess of feeling that I admit as a flaw in my character. But we have always been able to look one another in the eye afterwards. And it does not concern me that many men may have been down on me, in private. Such is life in the public eye.

I have searched my entire life for a woman who could cook and sew and make flowers go - but my search has been in Vain Cooking and flower growing, I've found - but you try to find a girl these days who can sew

I can sew, but I'm not a girl so I guess I can't help you. I'm not too good with flowers either.

This album has really grown on me. I used to think it was just slow and kind of boring and he sounded really depressed. My take on it now is that he's having this dialog with the singers, he's saying like "I'm bored, I don't want to be Bob Dylan any longer, I just want to go back to bed." And they're saying like "Get up Bob, you're not even forty yet, we're going to go on tour!" And they sort of go back and forth like that, and in some songs he gets himself revved up to go and in others he's ready to give up again, and at the end he's saying "Hey hey hey, let's go" and they're saying "Hey hey! We knew you could do it Bob!"

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Hey fellow Bobzombies I just reread this entire thread.

To include that lenthy G.Marcus writting...which as soon as I was done couldn't remember a word he said.

Anyhow Street Legal is a fine album...trust me on this one !

Bought the tape in Venice during a car trip through Italy in 1978.Drove back to Spain with it playing all the way.A geminis woman broke my heart that same year.Maybe now i can understand better the true love tend to forget song.Back then i could only listen to it, as wel as to whole album hyhpnotized. The last tune was always a favourite to me.Have made a rymed translation of it into spanish, of which i am very proud.

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Have made a rymed translation of it into spanish, of which i am very proud.

can you put it up please plot.