Comments on: Video: “Obama Pastorale 2″

By: smellthecoffee

smellthecoffee — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:59:21 +0000

ugh, shut it down at 50 seconds. can’t bear it longer than that.

Midas on April 28, 2008 at 10:25 AM

There’s a reason why Top-40 songs are (or maybe I should say used to be) 2 minutes long. If you haven’t said it by then, pack it up, and take it home.

Sorry–it’s just the Al Gore in me–but is somebody going to pick up all those placards?

By: USBB

USBB — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:13:33 +0000

only made it to 2:16

Alla was kinder than he should have been when he wrote about this piece.

By: emmaline1138

emmaline1138 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:24:07 +0000

Eh, was all right. The lyrics were pretty great, but the length needed to be cut in half, and it definitely needed a dude who could impersonate Dylan better. Like Weird Al or something, amirite?

By: Spc Steve

Spc Steve — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:33:08 +0000

Slow internet in Afghanistan means no watching this, but riffing on Dylan is almost counterproductive, since most Dylan fans are already voting for hope and change, and the rest just see this as a thinly veiled pile of garbage hoping to get people to embrace the feeling of change that Dylan did through the substance of his music. I’m a Dylan fan, so I’m kind of biased.

Exit thought: The answer if blowin’ in the wind….because it sure as all Hell ain’t Obama.

By: Buy Danish

Buy Danish — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:00:02 +0000

Awful, and I say that as a Dylan fan. Couldn’t even make it through long enough to see grandma under the bus.

By: jimmer

jimmer — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:26:50 +0000

yes, a good idea that is too long.

By: RightOFLeft

RightOFLeft — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:10:11 +0000

The “oooh…bama” bit would be funny (I’m assuming that was the joke, I couldn’t make it past the first 10 seconds). You can’t do Dylan with a drum machine, that’s just wrong.

By: spacekicker

spacekicker — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:25:56 +0000

p40tiger …Is that Stan Lee

hahahah…you bet true believer!!!

By: custer

custer — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:13:25 +0000

i cant watch anymore. sorry. singing is killing me

By: calbear

calbear — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:50:57 +0000

The chords aren’t even right.

It’s play on a different song: “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again.” “Subterranean Homesick Blues” is 2:21, while “Stuck” is 7:07. I bet lots of people watching this wished they’d stuck with the shorter song.

By: TooTall

TooTall — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:47:10 +0000

I’m not a Dylan fan either but I kinda liked it. But, what do I know?

By: Travis1

Travis1 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:36:59 +0000

“God Bless America!” –Kate Smith. Thank you, Kate!

By: fluffy

fluffy — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:31:02 +0000

Am I the only one who watched it all? Then again, I have listened to some of Dylan’s epic ballads.

Pretty good as a Dylan ripoff, better as a poke at Obama.

–fluffy, stuck inside of Massachusetts with the New Hampshire blues again

By: Midas

Midas — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:25:48 +0000

ugh, shut it down at 50 seconds. can’t bear it longer than that.

By: spmat

spmat — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:25:04 +0000

The chords aren’t even right.

By: rivlax

rivlax — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:23:46 +0000

I’m an original Dylan fan from the early ’60s and, no, this didn’t do anything for me. I cut away before the second sign was tossed.

By: profitsbeard

profitsbeard — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:18:56 +0000

A play on “you don’t need a Weatherman to know which…” candidate realy blows.

But Obama probably likes Phil Ochs better.

(Who published Mao Tse Tung’s pseudo-Li Po-ish “poetry” on one the back of this album covers and added: “The enemy?”

As if a psychopathic despot couldn’t also write some lousy, derivative, “Cranes voices mingle in the red-dawn; the sky opens like a banner of golden silk; the muddy shoots are rising” type of crypto-commie tripe.

Ochs killed himself.

By: jdog

jdog — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:17:39 +0000

Made it to 4:06 before I had to turn it off. I was never a Dylan fan either. Can I have my 4:06 back?

By: p40tiger

p40tiger — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:16:39 +0000

Is that Stan Lee holding the cards?