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Dylan Reworks Scraps Into Love Song
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Executive Summary
Dylan's Time Out of Mind outtakes show cut-up lyrics and reused lines evolving into Til I Fell in Love With You
- The song grew from Marchin To The City outtakes recorded during 1997 Time Out of Mind sessions
- Many lines were cut, reordered, or reused across Til I Fell in Love With You, Not Dark Yet, and Mississippi
- The final song keeps the chorus line I was all right til I fell in love with you from the outtake
- The fourth verse uses cramped, panicked imagery compared with Kafkas The Metamorphosis
- The lyrics are assembled from scraps, with the outtake supplying a large share of the final text
- One reading casts the song as a possible murder ballad or aftermath of a violent break
- The piece also links Dylan's method to cut-up practices associated with Burroughs, Eno, and Byrne
Quick Facts
- What: Reworked outtakes into Til I Fell in Love With You
- Where: Recording sessions and later song analyses
- Why: To trace how scraps became a finished song
- Who: Bob Dylan and commentators on Time Out of Mind
- When: During 1997 sessions and later bootleg releases
Coverage Timeline: 164 Days
Featured Article
In 1997, Bob Dylan recorded the Marchin' To The City outtake during studio sessions that foreshadowed Til I Fell In Love With You.
Additional Articles
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Bob Dylan's song 'Til I Fell In Love With You' is analyzed on bob-dylan.org.uk, comparing its imagery to Kafka and links to Dylan outtakes and 'Mississippi'.
On bob-dylan.org.uk the article examines Neon Park's Little Feat artwork and analyzes Bob Dylan's 'Til I Fell in Love With You,' linking a conflicted verse to a Bootleg Series outtake.
An article published on bob-dylan.org.uk links Brian Eno, David Byrne and Bob Dylan through a shared cut-up lyrical technique, citing Burroughs and archival outtakes.
In an Untold Dylan piece published online, Jochen analyzes Bob Dylans 1997 song Til I Fell In Love With You alongside ABBAs The Day Before You Came.
In 2008, Bob Dylan's outtake 'Dreamin' Of You' was released as a free download to promote The Bootleg Series Vol. 8, and this article analyzes its Lanois-esque sound and cinematic lyrics on bob-dylan.org.uk.
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The post discusses The Price of Love, a Dylan song recorded in 1980 as a Shot of Love outtake, later released on Bootleg Series Vol. 16.