Are we to gather from this lyric that Dylan was against us landing on the moon? Hearing it, one might glean that he saw this as the beginning of the end. I don't disagree, necessarily, that NASA is kind of a big waste of taxpayer dollars, but "inventing doom" seems a little heavy. What do you think?
Oh, and feel free to use this thread to discuss the genius of Infidels, his most underrated album by far, and maybe my most listened to after Desire. Sly and Robbie!
Oh yeah and there's a killer cover of this song by Cowboy Junkies. For realz.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 03:15 (seventeen years ago)
he's referring to the inevitable encounter between man and the ANT-PEOPLE
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 03:27 (seventeen years ago)
he was reading a lot of HG Wells when he wrote the song
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 03:36 (seventeen years ago)
I'm not going to get into my conflicted feelings about NASA, but it seems clear to me that Desire is waaaaay better than Infidels.
― ian, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 04:19 (seventeen years ago)
Objectively, sure. It is better. I say as much above.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 04:38 (seventeen years ago)
Sloppy Dylan lyric is sloppy
― bear, bear, bear, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 06:43 (seventeen years ago)
Infidels was the first record out of the Xian period. He was still seeing some trails.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 07:11 (seventeen years ago)
I will totally jam on this and Shot of Love fwiw
― bear, bear, bear, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 08:15 (seventeen years ago)
He got called on this line in an _RS_ interview after the album came out -- he backed off a little, but maintained that the space program hadn't produced much of tangible benefit for most ordinary people. 'They keep saying we're going to get things like better drugs -- I think we're just going to get more expensive drugs.'
IMHO a great song, but this is the most problematic line in the lyric.
― Jeff Wright, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 17:10 (seventeen years ago)
yeah it's a great song! weird line, sure, but weird lines are kind of what Dylan in the 80s is all about. "All he believes are his eyes And his eyes they just tell him lies"
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 17:50 (seventeen years ago)