Line #122 Music/BlondeOnBlonde


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"An' I said, 'Oh, I didn't know that / But then again, there's only one I've met / An' he just smoked my eyelids / An' punched my cigarette'..."'']]
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4	''Blonde on Blonde'' is the seventh studio album by Music/BobDylan, released in 1966 through Creator/ColumbiaRecords. It was the first double album in rock history, coming out just one week before Music/FrankZappa and the Mothers of Invention's ''Music/FreakOutAlbum''. The record is seen as one of Dylan's best and contains the hits "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" ({{Trope Namer\|s}} for EverybodyMustGetStoned), "I Want You", "Just Like a Woman" and "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands".
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7	!! Tracklist:
8	!!!LP One
9	[[AC:Side One]]
10	# "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" (4:36)
11	# "Pledging My Time" (3:50)
12	# "Visions of Johanna" (7:33)
13	# "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)" (4:54)
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15	[[AC:Side Two]]
16	[numlist:5]
17	# "I Want You" (3:07)
18	# "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" (7:05)
19	# "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" (3:58)
20	# "Just Like a Woman" (4:52)
21	[/numlist]
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23	!!!LP Two
24	[[AC:Side Three]]
25	[numlist:9]
26	# "Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine" (3:30)
27	# "Temporary Like Achilles" (5:02)
28	# "Absolutely Sweet Marie" (4:57)
29	# "4th Time Around" (4:35)
30	# "Obviously 5 Believers" (3:35)
31	[/numlist]
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33	[[AC:Side Four]]
34	[numlist:14]
35	# "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" (11:23)
36	[/numlist]
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38	[-Most CD reissues are on a single disc.-]
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41	!! Rainy Day Tropes #12 & 35:
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43	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "Sad Eyed '''L'''ady of the '''L'''ow'''L'''ands: "With your '''m'''ercury '''m'''outh in the '''m'''issionary times".
44	* AlliterativeTitle: "'''B'''londe on '''B'''londe".
45	* AnswerSong: "4th Time Around" is a reaction to "Norwegian Wood" by Music/TheBeatles from ''Music/RubberSoul'' (1965). Music/JohnLennon even felt it was a PretenderDiss.
46	--> ''I never asked for your crutch\
47	Now don't ask for mine!''
48	* BeneathTheMask: "Just Like a Woman"
49	--> ''Ah, you fake just like a woman, yes you do''
50	--> ''You make love just like a woman, yes you do''
51	--> ''Then you ache just like a woman''
52	--> ''But you break just like a little girl.''
53	* BreakupSong:
54	** "Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine"
55	---> ''You say you're sorry''
56	---> ''For tellin' stories''
57	---> ''That you know I believe are true''
58	---> ''You say ya got some''
59	---> ''Other kinda lover''
60	---> ''And yes, I believe you do''
61	---> ''You say my kisses are not like his''
62	---> ''But this time I'm not gonna tell you why that is''
63	---> ''I'm just gonna let you pass''.
64	** "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)"
65	---> ''But sooner or later one of us must know''
66	---> ''But you just did what you're supposed to do''
67	---> ''Sooner or later one of us must know''
68	---> ''That I really did try to get close to you''
69	** "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat"
70	---> ''Well, I see you got a new boyfriend''
71	---> ''You know, I never seen him before''
72	---> ''Well, I saw him, makin' love to you''
73	---> ''You forgot to close the garage door''
74	---> ''You might think he loves you for your money''
75	---> ''But I know what he really loves you for''
76	---> ''It's your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat''
77	* ButNowIMustGo: "Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine", where the protagonist and his former partner both go their own ways.
78	* CallBack: Years later the song "Sara" from ''Music/{{Desire}}'' would have this line: "Stayin' up for days in the Chelsea Hotel/Writing 'Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands' for you".
79	* TheCameo: A photography example, as the collage of photos in the inner part of the album artwork includes pictures of Creator/ClaudiaCardinale and of the album's photographer Jerry Schatzberg. The Cardinale pic had been taken by Schatzberg and was part of the portfolio he'd shown Dylan, and Dylan for some reason asked for that pic of her to be included.
80	* CradleOfLoneliness:
81	** "Absolutely Sweet Marie"
82	---> ''Wond'ring where you are tonight, sweet Marie?''
83	** "Obviously Five Believers''
84	---> ''Yes, I guess, I could make it without you''
85	---> ''If I just didn't feel so all alone''
86	* EpicRocking: "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands", which took up an entire album side and clocked in at 11:23. Additionally, "Visions of Johanna" ran for 7:33 and "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" ran for 7:05.
87	* EverybodyMustGetStoned: {{Trope Namer\|s}} in "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35".
88	* EveryoneLovesBlondes: According to the title.
89	* FaceOnTheCover: Just Bob Dylan's face. The photo ended up being blurry because it was a cold day, and the photographer was shivering. Despite clearer pictures available, Dylan chose the cover photo we know today, and it has become iconic.
90	* GreenEyedMonster: "Temporary Like Achilles".
91	--> ''Achilles is in your alleyway''
92	--> ''He don't want me here''
93	--> ''He does brag''
94	--> ''He's pointing to the sky''
95	--> ''And he's hungry, like a man in drag''
96	--> ''How come you get someone like him to be your guard ?''
97	--> ''You know I want your lovin' ''
98	--> ''Honey, but you're so hard. ''
99	* InsomniaEpisode: Intentionally invoked with the sound of the entire album.
100	--> ''These visions of Johanna kept me up past the dawn...''
101	* IntercourseWithYou: "I Want You"
102	--> ''Open up the gate for you''
103	--> ''I want you, I want you''
104	--> ''Yes, I want you so bad''
105	--> ''Honey, I want you.''
106	* LineOfSightName: In his autobiography, [[Music/TheBand Robbie Robertson]] claims that after throwing together a blues jam in the studio, the musicians were asked what the title of the song was. Seizing on one of the lines Dylan ad-libbed, Robertson remarked, "obviously, '5 Believers' ". Dylan just went ahead and used the whole phrase as the title.
107	* LoveConfession: "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands". No mention of the word love, no sappiness, and a prayer-like devotion[[note]] to Sara Lownds, who had married him three months earlier[[/note]] that just keeps rolling in constant crescendos and decrescendos.
108	* LyricalDissonance: The rather bitter BreakUpSong lyrics of "Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine" are wrapped inside one of his most upbeat, happy-sounding musical compositions.
109	* MessyHair: Dylan on the album cover.
110	* MonaLisaSmile: "Visions of Johanna"
111	--> ''But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues''
112	--> ''You can tell by the way she smiles''
113	* MushroomSamba: According to some accounts, Dylan allegedly fired up a round of joints before recording "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" because he felt it was impossible to record that song with "sober people". That explains the hysterical laughter from the band, and the rather odd pacing of the music. "EverybodyMustGetStoned"? Indeed. That said, [[RashomonStyle other accounts of the song's recording]] dispute this.
114	* NonIndicativeTitle: "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" was named that way because Dylan knew nobody would give a song with the title "Everybody Must Get Stoned" any airplay. Coincidentally, 12 times 35 equals [[FourTwentyBlazeIt 420]]—but [[UrExample the 420 trope didn't exist yet]].
115	* OdeToIntoxication: "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35", though it uses a DoubleEntendre of getting "physically stoned" in the biblical sense. And Dylan himself has always denied that he wrote a drug song.
116	--> ''But I would not feel so all alone''
117	--> ''Everybody must get stoned''
118	* TheOneThatGotAway: "Visions of Johanna", where the protagonist still thinks of Johanna after all those time.
119	* OneWomanSong: "Just Like a Woman", "Absolutely Sweet Marie" and "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands". "Visions of Johanna" is a bit of a subversion - the narrator is with one woman, thinking about another.
120	* ProductionForeshadowing: CountryMusic gets approvingly mentioned in "Visions of Johanna", three years before Dylan recorded ''Music/NashvilleSkyline'' (with many of the same musicians).
121	* ShapedLikeItself: "The phony false alarm" in "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands".
122	* ShoutOut: "Temporary Like Achilles" namedrops the Greek mythological hero Achilles.
123	* [[ShoutOut/ToShakespeare Shout-Out: To Shakespeare]]: "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again"
124	--> ''Well, Shakespeare he's in the alley''
125	--> ''With his pointed shoes and his bells''
126	--> ''Speaking to some French girl who says she knows me well''
127	* SnowMeansLove: Averted with "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)", which depicts a break-up during a snowstorm.
128	* TextlessAlbumCover: Most versions of the album cover have no text, although Dylan’s name and the album title were added to some CD reissues.
129	* TyopOnTheCover: The first pressing of the album sleeve in the US in 1966 listed the song's title as "Stuck Inside of Mobile with The"--cutting off the rest of it. For the first UK pressing, whoever typeset the cover correctly guessed that this was a mistake, but they didn't bother to check what the full title was, so it was listed as "Stuck Inside of Mobile with [[FloweryElizabethanEnglish Thee]]".
130	* WomenAreDelicate: "Just Like a Woman"
131	--> ''She aches just like a woman/ but she breaks just like a little girl''
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