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Daniel and Kelly are listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode tackles the fine lines of comedic timing and just what happened at Bear Mountain in Dylan’s “Talkin’ Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues.”

initial reactions + guitar (5:00) | context, the actual bear mountain picnic, and writing disasters (9:00) | versions (22:00) | song itself + comedic timing (27:30) | does this song work today? (36:00) | we’re a real podcast with a playlist (44:15) | recommendations (1:00:30) | endings (1:20:00)

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Next episode: Hoofbeats like castanets on stone

Daniel and Kelly are listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode features warehouse eyes, Arabian drums and a new game that’s sweeping the nation — it’s “Sad Eyed Lady from the Lowlands,” off 1966’s Blonde on Blonde.

initial reactions (5:00) | context and episode setup (6:00) | versions (9:45) | song itself — is this a good love song? a new game from sign on the window! (31:00): chorus (36:30), verse 1 (39:45), verse 2 (46:50), verse 3 (51:50), verse 4 (56:30), verse 5 (1:01:50) | does this song work today? (1:04:30) | we’re a real podcast & playlist (1:09:30) | recommendations (1:16:00) | endings (1:28:00)

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Next episode: Maybe we just better call off the picnic

Daniel and Kelly are – blessedly – back! Well, we recorded this in early July and life is just now catching up to it. In case you forgot, we're listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode features 1967’s “Drifter’s Escape.”

context and episode setup (5:00) | initial thoughts & versions — john wesley harding, take 1 on bootleg series, vol. 15, live from 2000 + covers from jimi hendriz, joan baez, and patti smith (8:00) | song itself (23:00) | does this song work today? (45:00) | we’re a real podcast with a real playlist (50:00) | recommendations (1:00:30) | endings (1:08:00)

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Next episode: My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drum

Daniel and Kelly are listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode features overloaded harmonica of “On A Night Like This.”

initial reactions (5:00) | song itself — please send info on accordions, talkin’ timelines, 1970-75 as its own piece; part i: narrative flow; part ii: horniest dylan record?; part iii: nature as temple, plus a long attempt to fit burn, burn, burn into the dylan canon (8:45) | does this work today? (41:00) | playlist (47:00) | recommendations (56:00) | endings (1:16:00)

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Next episode: The trial was bad enough / But this is ten times worse

Context (5:00)

Song Itself (8:45) — send us info on accordions & talkin’ timelines & let’s see 1970-75 as its own piece

Part I: Narrative Flow

Part II: Horniest Dylan Record?

Part III: Nature as Template (at 37:00 including a crazy roman candle analogy)

Does this work today? (41:00)

Real Podcast and Playlist (47:00)

Recommendations (56:00)

Endings (1:16:00)

Pin

Jury

Timetable

Cell

Rent

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Daniel and Kelly listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode features Bob and Suze (and Carla) (and Mary). We’re talking “Ballad in Plain D.”

initial reactions (4:00) | context and episode setup (8:00) — punctuated by hooligans in their racecars | bob and suze (14:30) | let’s talk about this mistake (21:30) | part i: once loved a girl (26:00) | part ii: family matters (31:15) | part iii: bob dylan, philanderer (39:00) | part iv: tumbling dice (46:30) | part v: bird on a wire (50:00) | part vi: one dimensional (1:02:30) | does this song work today? (1:07:45) | we’re a real podcast & playlist (1:18:00) | recommendations (1:27:30) | endings (1:41:00)

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Next episode: burn, burn. burn

Initial Thoughts (4:00)

Context (8:00) — punctuated with hooligans in racecars

Bob and Suze (14:30)

Let’s talk about this mistake (21:30)

Part I: Once Loved A Girl (26:00)

Part II: Family Matters (31:15)

Part III: Bob Dylan, Philanderer (39:00)

Part IV: Tumbling Dice (46:30)

Part V: A Bird on a Wire (50:00)

Part VI: One Dimensional (1:02:30)

Does This Song Work Today? (1:07:45)

Real Podcast and Playlist (1:18:00)

Recommendations (1:27:30)

Endings (1:41:00)

Cooperation

Indulge

Rate

Finger

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Daniel and Kelly are listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode features stabbing pains and twists of fate.

initial reactions (3:30) | context (6:45) | versions (12:30) | music (25:00) | song itself (33:00) | does this song work today? (1:03:30) | playlist (1:08:30) | recommendations (1:16:40) | endings (1:28:30)

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Next episode: He could look at you and pick out a weakness and suddenly grab it and use it on you. Which is what he did with everybody. He’d find their vulnerable spots and just demolish them… It was just devastating, the way he could twist somebody’s words back on themselves and make them feel he was right and they were wrong.

Daniel and Kelly (and Kindra) are listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode features copious booze and drunken renditions of Dylan’s “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere.”

st. patrick’s greeting & warning (1:00) | initial thoughts (3:00) | context (11:40) | versions (16:40) | discourse on basement tapes for kindra, totally not for kelly (37:00) | drinks and the song itself (54:50) | does this song work today? (1:14:30) | playlist (1:19:00) | recommendations (1:24:00) | endings (1:36:00)

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Next episode: it’s not fate that brought you here!

Daniel and Kelly are listening to Dylan one random song (and now show) at a time. This episode features Dylan's latest West Coast leg of the Rough and Rowdy Ways world tour – May 31, 2022 at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Oregon.

Part 1 (1:00) — Initial Thoughts (on Portland, Yondr, money laundering, demographics and Dylan’s voice (1:00)

Part 2 (12:00) — Watching the River Flow — Band Intros — Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) — I Contain Multitudes — False Prophet — When I Paint My Masterpiece — Black Rider — I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight — Interpreter Shoutout — Bob’s Manic Claps — When was the last time Bob was in Portland? 2014 — My Own Version of You — Crossing the Rubicon — To Be Alone With You — Key West — Gotta Serve Somebody — Discourse on Tony’s hat and losing most of a $22 vodka soda — I Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You — Melancholy Mood (featuring Stray Cat Strut) — Mother of Muses (but should’ve been Must Be Santa) — Goodbye Jimmy Reed — Band Intros hard to hear — Every Grain of Sand (Not Salt)

Part 3 (47:45) — Final Thoughts (summaries, thinking of time and seeing bands we love into old age and a post-show riff on Waffle/Huddle House

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Next show: Sooner rather than later...

Daniel and Kelly listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode features our return, like Bob, to the music industry — “Talkin’ New York” from 1962’s Bob Dylan.

bob dylan news and updates (5:00) | been to nyc? (11:30) | initial thoughts (14:20) | context (18:30) | music (23:30) | song itself: prologue (26:00), part 1: new york town (28:30), part 2: folk scene (37:30), part 3: movin’ on (43:30) | does this work today? (51:30) | playlist (54:00) | recommendations (1:05:30) | ending (1:23:30)

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Next episode: a debaucherous time where you're not allowed to leave...

Daniel and Kelly are totally listening to Bow Wow Wow one random song at a time. This episode features a familiar tune, “I Want Candy.”

initial reactions (2:20) | context and episode setup (3:50) | strangeloves (5:20) | song itself (12:00) | bow wow wow (18:10) | music video (29:10) | a fine point on what it’ll take going forward (35:00) | does it work today? (37:50) | playlist (42:00) | recommendations (46:30) | endings (51:10)

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Next episode: Captain Love speaking, some turbulence on board

Daniel and Kelly listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode features Silly Nelly, Jones, the dumb blonde, Daniel, Turtle, Kelly and some future mashed potatoes.

initial reactions (3:50) | context and episode setup (4:30) | versions (8:30) | the song itself (20:00) | does it work? (32:45) | playlist (35:40) | recommendations (48:00) | endings (1:03:00)

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Next episode: New York Times said it was the coldest winter in seventeen years / I didn't feel so cold then

Daniel and Kelly listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode features Angelina, and our farewells.

context (4:46) | song itself verse-by-verse (19:15) | parable or leaving song (31:20) | anti-war message? (42:10) | seven curses eu (48:50) | does it work? (50:00) | real podcast and playlist (54:10) | recommendations (1:01:30) | endings (1:16:30)

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Next episode: Come now, sweet cream / Don't forget to flash

Daniel and Kelly listening to Dylan one random song at a time. Has it really been 5 years since we began?!

This episode features 1983’s Infidels + some extra songs to round out the experience.

initial reactions (5:00) | context and episode setup (10:00) | “union sundown” (24:00) | “license to kill” (28:34) | “jokerman” (36:44) | “sweetheart like you” (44:00) | “neighborhood bully” (47:30) | “man of peace” (51:54) | “i & i” (57:42) | “don’t fall apart on me tonight” (1:02:40) | The plethora of Infidels we may never hear (1:07:10) | “tell me” (1:11:45) | “lord, protect my child” (1:14:20) | “someone’s gotta hold of my heart” (1:16:32) | “foot of pride” (1:19:25) “blind willie mctell”(1:25:30) | track listings & does this work? (1:31:40) | recommendations (1:41:40)  | endings (1:53:00)

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Next episode: call me any name you like, i will never deny it.

Ho ho ho. Welcome to our yearly Christmas special. This goes better with our Christmas playlist, which we use to compare and contrast Dylan’s song selections from Christmas in the Heart. We’ll also break down our top recommendations and our year with Dylan. See you all for new episodes in 2022!

In this full episode, through the din of sleigh bells, we talk:

• Christmas catchup (2:00)


• Side 1 of Christmas in the Heart (6:30)


• Top 20: #20-11 (28:44)


• Inside Baseball, Season 5 (54:00)


• Side 2 of Christmas in the Heart (1:14:15)


• Top 20: #10-1 (1:43:40)

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Next episode: “a confused man trying to rekindle old fires”

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we dive into an episode that should’ve been released months ago, “Guess I’m Doin’ Fine,” which is apropos, I suppose.

In this episode, returning after a bit of a break, we discuss

• Context (3:00)


• Music Video (6:30)


• Song Itself (14:00)


• Does this work today? (26:30)


• Our Playlist (30:00) — with meditations on Hank Williams and Shaq


• Recommendations (44:00)


• Endings (1:10:00)

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Next episode: HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we travel to London to walk with Bob in "Blood In My Eyes".

In this episode, we explore:

• Wedding , Discrimination, Rock World and Sabotage (1:00)


• Context (7:00)


• Versions (10:00)


• Music Video (20:30)


• Song Itself (35:00)


• Does this work in 2021? (46:30)


• Real Podcast and Playlist  (49:30)


• Recommendations (56:15)


• Endings (1:16:00)

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Next episode: I been kicked and whipped and trampled on / I been shot at just like you.

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we reluctantly return to the scene of a previous crime with "Emotionally Yours."

In this episode we try to make sense of:

• Weather Talk (1:00)


• Context (6:30)


• Song Itself (7:45)


• Music Video (19:30)


• Does this work in 2021? (40:00)


• Real Podcast and Playlist (47:00)


• Recommendations (54:15)


• Endings (1:09:00)

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Next episode: I don't care what in the world you do

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we return to our music video b******t for 1990's "Unbelievable".

In this episode we hit upon:

• Home Improvement Portion of the Evening (1:00)


• Context (4:30)


• Rockist/Rockism (8:00)


• Song Itself (14:30)


• 1990 video and director talk (21:30)


• "Unbelievable" Video (30:00)


• Does this work? (53:00)


• Real Podcast and Playlist (56:00)


• Recommendations (1:06:00)


• Endings (1:22:00)

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Next episode: Come baby, rock me, come baby

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week is quite special as we review Dylan's Shadow Kingdom.

In this episode, we talk about each song and each vignette

• Initial Thoughts (1:00)


• Credits (10:00)


• When I Paint My Masterpiece (22:00)


• Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) (26:30)


• Queen Jane Approximately (33:00)


• I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (38:00)


• Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (43:45) — and a shoutout to the actors


• Tombstone Blues (50:15)


• To Be Alone With You (54:00)


• What Was It You Wanted (56:30)


• Forever Young (1:00:30)


• Pledging My Time (1:06:00)


• Wicked Messenger (1:08:30)


• Watching the River Flow (1:13:00)


• It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (1:16:00)


• Does this work in 2021? (1:20:30)

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Next episode: Music Video Month V

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week...

In this episode...

• Context (3:00)


• Initial Thoughts (4:00)


• Versions (7:30) — TOOM and NYC in 1999


• Song Itself — Kelly playing (15:30) — Is this "Outlaw Blues"?


• Narrative? (20:00)


• Part 1: Highlands as Ideal (25:00) — Burns, Death


• Garden Update (31:00)


• Part 2: Highlands in Opposite Repose (34:00) — "good enough," conscience


• Part 3: Boston Restaurant (44:30)


• Part 4: Highlands For Thee, Not Me (1:00:00)


• Part 5: How to make it into the Highlands (1:03:00)


• Does this work? (1:07:00)


• Real Podcast and Playlist (1:13:30)


• Recommendations (1:23:30) — Sleater-Kinney, MARRIAGE, Porno, Rise Against


• Endings (1:40:00)

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Next episode: It's unbelievable it would go down this way.

Daniel and Kelly are listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode features our discussion of 1993’s “Jack-A-Roe” from World Gone Wrong.

context and episode setup (2:00) | versions (10:00) | song itself (24:00) | does this song work today? (43:00) | we’re a real podcast with a playlist (50:30) | recommendations (1:02:00) | endings (1:13:00)

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Next episode: She say "You probably want hard boiled eggs"

Context (2:00)

This song was recorded by Dylan in May 1993 for World Gone Wrong. The song itself is quite old and storied – it’s indexed in Roud 268 and Laws N7. Roud notes the variety of versions this song comes in. One can focus on the man “Jack” or the war or the merchant; one can change his name while no one is looking; if you wanted to obscure the songs twist, you can; or you can just be open about the song itself by deemphasizing “Jack” for “Jackie” or “Lily.” Or you can call it "The East Wind Blowing From the Southward" and call it a day!

This song during Dylan's 80th birthday (5:00)

We share our initial thoughts on the song as we’re in the midst of celebrating Dylan’s 80th. This is a weird one to have for such a momentous birthday, but here we are.

Versions (10:00)

We listened to the World Gone Wrong version as well as his two performances at The Supper Club in 1993. Kelly enjoys the recorded version while Daniel digs the banjo and how the Supper Club renditions move.

Kelly plays “Jack-A-Roe” that morphs into “House of the Risin' Sun”

Song Itself (24:00)

We split the episode into parts. To open, we quote Laws N7 on some basic facts of this song.

DESCRIPTION: A rich girl loves a soldier/sailor; her father does not, and has the boy pressed to Germany. She disguises herself and enlists under the name (Jackie Monroe). When her lover is wounded, she nurses him. She reveals her identity; they are married

EARLIEST DATE: 1818 (Garret, Merrie Book of Garlands)

KEYWORDS: love cross-dressing disguise injury medicine marriage

Of course, Dylan notes, in his liner notes to the album, that this is “another Tom Paley ballad.” We quote A.L. Lloyd (who recorded this in 1956):

The figure of the Maiden Warrior, the girl who dresses herself in soldier's or sailor's clothes, and follows her lover to the wars, was a constant favourite with street balladeers. Scholars have traced the line of such heroines from the days of Hercules and Hippolyte to Mary Ambree and beyond. Jackie Munro, one of the completest treatments of the theme, has become a rarity in England and Scotland, though versions of the ballad are not uncommon in America. In spite of its Scottish title name and one or two north country expressions, this version is regarded as being unmistakenly English in text and tune.

We also play Paley’s version from 1953’s Folk Songs From The Southern Appalachians.

We talk about the song’s set up, then its conflict. Comparing this to other versions, with different setups and conflicts depending on when and where this song is performed, it’s clear that Dylan, as with “Stack-A-Lee,” will choose the inferior of all versions he could’ve possibly done. We riff on Mulan, of course, and relish in the song’s twist and lament lost possibilities. We joke on Dylan rhyming “town” and “wounds” and the weak ending.

Does this work today? (43:00)

Kelly felt stronger than Daniel did. Historically, sure. It’s another link in the chain and who’s gonna be mad about that. The live performance at Supper Club is unique to the Dylan catalog. However, knowing the possibilities for what this song could be make this a squandered opportunity all around.

We're a Real Podcast and Playlist (50:30)

Recommendations (1:02:00)

Kelly watched Army of the Dead (Netflix). She listened to The Beths, Fresh and There Their They're; Japandroids; K Flay "TGIF"; Tor Oasis Sky, and God is an Astronaut All is Violent, All is Bright: Live.

Daniel listened to Mannquin Pussy Perfect and the Marvin Gaye deluxe What's Going On. He’s been playing Red Dead Redemption 2 again and started reading Clinton Heylin's The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966, which was just released.

Endings (1:13:00)

363 songs left. Kelly chose 5 words at random to lyrically select our next song. The words this episode were: head (93), resident (6), certain (6), call (65), cut (55). Next time we’re listening to “Highlands” (!!!).

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Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we dive into one of Dylan's most mysterious and enduring songs, 1967's "I'm Not There."

In this episode...

• Context (5:00)


• Versions (11:45) — including talk of Sonic Youth, Pearl Jam, and if Dylan wrote or ad-libbed the song


• Kelly plays "I'm Not There" (18:00)


• Lyrics, in brief (21:00)


• The Feel of the Song (25:00) — including the importance of "1956" in the title, the difficulty getting into the song (especially without context), and the ache of the song


• The Artistry of the Song (35:00) — including talk of our relationship with Dylan's creative process (post-Cutting Edge) and Dylan's ability to not be precious about things (Kelly: "it's frustrating and cool that he doesn't care a lot of the time")


• Does this work in 2021? (41:00)


• We're A Real Podcast and Playlist (46:00)


• Recommendations (51:30)


• Endings (1:05:00)

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Next episode: But it would not make me tremble to see ten thousand fall.

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we return to Modern Times with the great "Ain't Talkin'."

In this episode we feature the usual setup:

• Context (3:00)


• Music Talk (8:00)


• Song Itself — where we craft separate narratives from both the Modern Times and Tell Tale Signs versions (15:00)


• Does this song work today? (46:30)


• We'll clarify if we're a real podcast and talk our playlist (51:00)


• Recommendations (57:30)


• Endings (1:19:00)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or listen to our dedicated playlist for this episode – and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: She's a long hearted mystic and she can't carry on

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week is our annual St. Patrick's episode with Kindra. We spend the hour talking (and playing... and drinking to) "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue."

This episode breaks down as:

• Intros (1:00)


• Drinks for Sally Grossman (7:00)


• Initial Thoughts (9:15)


• Context (11:30)


• Versions (17:00)


• Music (29:00)


• Verse 1 (34:00)


• Verse 2 (47:00)


• Verse 3 (55:00)


• Verse 4 (1:02:00)


• Does this song work in 2021? (1:06:00)

We close with our playlist (1:08:00), recommendations (1:20:00) and endings (1:28:00).

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or listen to our dedicated playlist for this episode – and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: I'll just slaughter them where they lie

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week, it's 1978 in Oregon and Virginia and we talk "Changing of the Guards" in our first out-of-order podcast!

In this mega-sized episode (brought to you by Bob R. and dropped phone calls)

• Context (7:00)


• Kelly's Music Room (10:30)


• Versions & Personnel (16:00)


• Song Itself — featuring vibes, "I" and "she/her," medieval s**t, tarot cards, religion and Battlestar (21:00)


• Does this song still work? (58:00)


• We're a Real Podcast and Playlist (1:01:00)


• Recommendations — featuring Kelly's early album updates, DMX, Cats, singing of "Keasbey Nights," and introducing The Room to the family (1:08:00)


• Endings (1:31:00)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or listen to our dedicated playlist for this episode – and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: The carpet too is moving under you

Shifty Owns the World isn't the Crazy Town podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a CRAZY song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week, our first episode of this very real podcast, we listen to the masterpiece "Butterfly."

In this episode, hosted by the ageless K Nasty, we talk:

• Context (2:00)


• Billboard breakdown (7:00)


• Song Itself (16:00)


• Music Video (26:30)


• Does this work in 2021? (30:30)


• Real Podcast and Playlist (35:00)


• Recommendations (37:00)

As always, full show notes at our website (ignore everything else there). We also made a playlist you can listen to! Maybe this will become a regular feature?

And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. Again, this is a real podcast so ignore all the Bob Dylan material.

Next episode: Definitely that other Crazy Town song we all know

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we return to Self Portrait and Dylan's cover of the Everly Brothers' "Take a Message to Mary."

In this episode, Kelly and Daniel explore:

• Context (5:00)


• The Everly Brothers (10:00)


• Song Itself — including its relation to the Everly Brothers, the effect of the generation gap within Self Portrait's time frame, and Dylan's voice (21:00)


• Does this song work today (40:45)


• Our weekly playlist (43:00)


• Recommendations (52:30)


• Endings (1:08:00)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or listen to our dedicated playlist for this episode – and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: He was torn between Jupiter and Apollo

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we listened to 1967's "Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)."

In this episode, Kelly and Daniel hit on:

• Context (4:00)


• Versions & Covers (8:00)


• Music Time with Kelly (19:00)


• Song Itself — Theories (22:30)


• Does it work in 2021? (47:50)


• Our Playlist (50:30)


• Recommendations (57:30)


• Endings (1:09:30)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or listen to our dedicated playlist for this episode – and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: I hope Mary gets this, not Marie...

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week is unfortunate, no other way around that. We were wishing for it but "Death is Not the End."

In this episode, which is mostly dunking on this song, we hit:

• Opening shots and Context (4:30)


• "Song" Itself (9:00)


• Does this song work? (27:00)


• Real Podcast and Playlist (30:00)


• Recommendations (40:00)


• Endings — Cow, Detective, Level, Firefighter, Sausage (52:30)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or listen to our dedicated playlist for this episode – and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: Tell me where it hurts, I'll tell you who to call

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we return to John Wesley Harding and "As I Went Out One Morning."

In this episode...

• Kelly's thoughts and playing "As I Went Out One Morning" (2:00)


• Context and versions we listened to (7:30)


• Song itself — Part 1: As I Walked Out One Evening (13:15)


• Song itself — Part 2: You Have No Choice (23:45)


• Song itself — Part 3: Up Tom Paine Did Run (30:30)


• Does this song work? (41:30)


• Real Podcast and Playlist (47:00)


• Recommendations (58:00)


• Endings (1:10:30)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or listen to our dedicated playlist for this episode – and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: Maybe it is the end?

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we begin season 5 (!!!) with 2006's "Someday Baby."

In this episode...

• Housekeeping for Season 5 (1:00)


• Context (10:00)


• 3 Prong problem with iPod commercial (12:00)


• Classic reference song and a convoluted river metaphor (18:00)


• Music (28:00)


• Lyrics (37:30)


• Does this song work? (54:45)


• Real Podcast and Playlist (59:00)


• Recommendations (1:05:00)


• Endings — Arise, Quantity, Dinner, Conductor, Swipe (1:15:00)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or listen to our dedicated playlist for this episode – and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: These are the times that try men's souls

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! It's CHRISTMAS TIME, which means it's Christmas in the Heart time! Our annual tradition is back for the fourth time around and, like everything in 2020, it's super-sized.

Use the timestamps below to navigate the various topics. And if you're looking to drink along with us, may we suggest a drink whenever you hear Kelly's reindeer ears jingle jangle!

• Christmas in the Heart 1-8 (sorry for poor audio, that ends at 11:40)


• Best of 2020: #20-11 (17:00)


• Our Yearly Dylan Rankings (45:00)


• Christmas in the Heart 9-15 (1:22:00)


• Best of 2020: #10-1 (1:38:00)


• The End and Next Year's Song (2:07:00)

Full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or listen to our dedicated playlist for this episode – or listen to every Christmas playlist combined – and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Big 2020 plans y'all. Thanks!

Next episode: I don't know what to do now, baby, you got me so hooked

Next episode: Year End Extravaganza, beginning with our Song-by-Song rankings for Season 4 in mid-December!

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we close not only Season 4 but also our time in the Blockhouse.

In this episode, we talk:

• Context (3:45)


• Initial Thoughts (10:30)


• “In the Summertime” aside (13:00)


• Best Moments? (20:00)


• Work Today? (21:45)


• Real Podcast/Playlist (28:00)


• Recommendations (37:00)


• Endings (48:00)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or listen to our dedicated playlist for this episode – and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we visit Dylan's first song from his first album, "You're No Good."

In this episode, we explore:

• Context (5:30)


• Jesse Fuller (9:40)


• Song Itself(15:40)

We talk about our playlist (28:00, recommendation lots of things — from Alone to Touché Amoré to Hunting of Bly Manor to Nina Simone and Joe South (34:00), before picking our final song of 2020 (46:00)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or listen to our dedicated playlist for this episode – and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: I feel a chilly breeze / In place of memories / My dreams are locked and barred

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we delve into the back half of New Morning and "Three Angels."

In this episode, we discuss:

• Life with the world on fire (1:00)


• Context (6:30)


• Song Itself (7:30)


• Real Podcast and Playlist (31:00)


• Recommendations (41:00)


• Endings (

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or listen to our dedicated playlist for this episode – and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: You give me the blues, I guess you're satisfied

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we go meta with 2020 by listening to Dylan's "Eternal Circle."

In this episode...

• Context (3:00)


• 1991 SongTalk interview (9:00)


• Versions (12:00)


• Song Itself (17:00)


• Does it work in 2020 (38:30)


• Real Podcast and Playlist (42:00)


• Recommendations (55:00)


• Endings (1:10:00)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or listen to our dedicated playlist for this episode – and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: "The wildest cat from Montana passes by in a flash"

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week is karma for Daniel talkin' s**t last episode, "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" from Blonde on Blonde.

In this episode, we discuss the usual:

• Initial Thoughts (6:00)


• Context (10:30)


• Versions (18:00)


• Song Itself — split in 6 ways to view this song [Rebelliousness, Protest, Religion, Random everyday events, autobiographical, its ties into Blonde on Blonde] (26:30)


• Real podcast and Playlist (52:30)


• Recommendations (1:06:00)


• Endings (1:18:00)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or listen to our dedicated playlist for this episode – and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: My eyes danced a circle / Across her clear outline

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week, we do a long hang with John and Kindra, returned from California, to talk about "Sweetheart Like You" off 1983's Infidels.

In this episode, we cover it all....

• Four's a crowd (1:00)


• Drinking Dylan's Heaven's Gate whiskey (4:00)


• Initial Thoughts (6:00)


• Context (12:00)


• Music Video (18:00)


• Song Itself (33:15) - Verse 1 (33:15)/ Verse 2 (43:00) / Verse 3 (48:00) / Verse 4 (1:00:00) / Verse 5 (1:06:00)


• Does this work? (1:14:00)


• Podcast/Playlist (1:23:00)


• Recommendations (1:40:00)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or listen to our dedicated playlist for this episode – and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: You say my kisses aren't like his / This time I ain't gonna tell you why that is

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week, we go back to 1970 and the Bootleg Series for "Pretty Saro."

In this episode, which exists because it has a music video, we talk:

• Context (5:00)


• Kelly plays and we talk chords (10:00)


• Song Version Squads — Acapella, Guitar, Instrumental squads (15:00)


• Song breakdown (29:00)


• Music Video and Does this work in 2020? (54:00)

We hope to answer the questions of if this is a real Podcast with our episode playlist (1:03:00) and recommendations (1:11:00)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or listen to our dedicated playlist for this episode – and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: Cute Hat Alert!!

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week, four (!) is a crowd as Kindra returns with her brother John to talk 1989's "Series of Dreams."

In this episode, you'll not only get the episode outlined below, but also our musical rendition of Dylan's "Series of Dreams" throughout. If you want the full version of the song played here, it'll be available on our Patreon (along with so much else)!

• John's relationship (3:00)


• Initial Thoughts (4:00)


• Context (9:45)


• Dylan as a chameleon (15:00)


• Music Video (18:30)


• Song Itself (32:00)


• Does this work today? (42:30)


• Dylan and Dreams (50:00)


• Real Podcast and Playlist (1:00:00)


• Recommendations (1:07:00) -- including: The Midnight Gospel, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Guided by Voices, Phoebe Bridgers, Protest the Hero, and Bad Cop Bad Cop

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or listen to our dedicated playlist for this episode – and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

If you wanna follow our guests on Instagram: John is @flavinbagel and Kindra is @kindromeda

And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: She wants a freeholder / Who owns a house and land.

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we summon thunder with the opener to 2006's Modern Times, "Thunder on the Mountain."

We start our last (maybe?) Music Video Month with:

• Context (5:00)


• Music and openers (9:00)


• The music video for "Thunder on the Mountain" (14:00)


• The song itself (30:00)


• Does this work today? (51:00)

We close with our playlist talk (56:00), recommendations and sharing next week's episode!

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or just listen to this episode's playlist and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: Dreams where the umbrella is folded

Sign on the Window presents, our first listen of Dylan's latest, Rough and Rowdy Ways.

We discuss so much in the episode between songs:

• Kelly's initial thoughts (2:30)


• Daniel's initial thoughts (5:30)


• "I Contain Multitudes" (6:00)


• "False Prophet" (11:00)


• "My Own Version of You" (14:00)


• "I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You" (19:00)


• "Black Rider" (22:20)


• "Goodbye Jimmy Reed" (26:00)


• "Mother of Muses" (28:45) — with a fun dive into KOL for no reason???


• "Cross the Rubicon" (41:30)


• "Key West" (44:45)


• "Murder Most Foul" (53:00)


• Final Thoughts (1:04:00)

As always, full show notes at our website. There's also our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

Next week: I'll say this, I don't give a damn about your dreams.

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we talk "T.V. Talkin' Song" from 1990's Under the Red Sky.

In lieu of everything happening in the world, we've been super-sizing episodes and this is no different. In this episode, we discuss:

• Rough and Rowdy Ways talk (3:30)


• Initial Thoughts (7:00)


• Context (9:00)


• Versions (10:00)


• The song itself (18:00) — including Bruce Hornsby's relentless piano, fake anecdotes, Hyde Park, lyrics and lyrical differences


• Does this work today? (40:00)


• Playlist (50:00) and Recommendations (1:00:00)


• Special outro, featuring previously recorded material, to introduce our last Music Video Month (1:12:00)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or just listen to this episode's playlist and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: When she was born in Hell's Kitchen, I was living down the line

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we dive into 1961's "Dink's Song"

In lieu of everything happening in the world, we've been super-sizing episodes and this is no different. In this episode, we discuss:

• Initial Thoughts and Kelly plays the song for us (3:00)


• Context (10:00)


• "Dink's Song" — including versions from Josh White, Dave Van Ronk, Caroline Hester, Odetta, and Gabriel Rios (20:30)


• Does this song work? (40:00)


• Playlist — including asides on STP, Ru Paul, Vitimin C, and Caroline Hester (45:00)


• Recommendations (1:10:30)


• Endings (1:23:30)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or just listen to this episode's playlist and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: Sometimes you gotta do like Elvis did and shoot the damn thing out.

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week, we talk only hobo's with "Only a Hobo"

• Context + "Poor Miner's Farewell," "Tramp on the Street" and "Railroading on the Great Divide" (4:00)


• Our versions, including Broadside, the McKenzie Tapes, The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1-3, Vol. 9 and Vol.10 (13:00)


• Song itself (30:45)


• What is a hobo? (35:00)


• Kelly's conception of his sound (42:00)


• Does this song work in 2020? (48:20)


• Playlist (52:00)


• Recommendations (1:10:30)


• Endings (1:23:30)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or just listen to this episode's playlist and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: ""It will destroy your family, your happy home is gone / No one can protect you from it once you turned it on.''

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week, we atone for last week's nonsense by searching through 1981's Shot of Love.

After initial thoughts (4:00) and context (8:30), we break down the album. We close with our final thoughts (1:15:00), recommendations (1:20:00) and pick the next episode (1:29:00).

• Property of Jesus (20:00)


• Every Grain of Sand (29:00)


• The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar (35:00)


• Shot of Love (40:00)


• Heart of Mine (45:00)


• In the Summertime (51:00)


• Dead Man, Dead Man (57:00)


• Trouble (1:02:00)


• Watered-Down Love (1:04:30)


• "Lenny Bruce" (1:10:00)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or just listen to this episode's playlist and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: One look at his face showed the hard road he'd come

This is Hole in the Earth. We are a podcast listening to a random Deftones song, one at a time, for as long as it takes. 

Transpose or stop your life... is what I would say to you if I didn't want to you to join us for Episode 26! This week, we look at "Pink Maggit" from 2000's White Pony. 

Kelly and Daniel talk:

• initial thoughts (3:00)


• context and Kool Keith (7:00)


• music and the Deftones influence on others bands (16:00)


• dive into lyrics (28:00)


• does this song work in 2020? (49:15)


• our playlist (56:00)


• recommendations (1:05:00)


• pick next week's random Deftones song (1:18:00)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or just listen to this episode's playlist and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. And if you're loving the Deftones, or love April Fool's jokes, consider our previous entries and donate to our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be there. Thanks!

Next episode: "If you go for your diploma you could join the steno pool / Turn in your teasin' comb and go back to high school!"

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week, we welcome back Kindra as our special guest on what is now our annual St. Patrick's Day episode. We stayed COVID-safe as we chatted "Trust Yourself" from 1985's Empire Burlesque.

In this episode

• we catch up with Kindra (3:00)


• listen to our quick analysis of "Trust Yourself" from Ep. 66 over shots (6:40)


• Kelly articulates her mental breakdown (10:30)


• Song talk (18:20)


• Does this work in 2020? (30:30)


• Our world-renowned playlist (45:00)


• Recommendations featuring Birds of Prey, Frances Quinlan, and Spanish Love Songs


• Endings and original songs (1:03:00)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or just listen to this episode's playlist and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: we need to find Jesus, hearts of stone be damned

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we go back to what felt like seven years to our pre-quarantine past to bring "Love Minus Zero / No Limit" for our COVID present.

This episode, brought to you by our newest Patron, Stan, looks at :

• Kelly's musical relationship with the song (4:00)


• Context (8:30)


• Cutting Edge, Live '66, Rolling Thunder, Budokan (12:30)


• Song Itself (28:30) – Verse 1 (31:00), Verse 2 (34:00), Verse 3 (40:20), Verse 4 (49:30)


• Does the song work? (56:00)


• Recommendations – featuring Portico Quartet, Iggy Pop, Ratboys (1:10:00)


• Endings (1:17:15)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or just listen to this episode's playlist and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. You'll be like Stan and directly supporting an episode. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: our annual debaucherous St. Patrick's Day episode

Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week we're back in 1978 with "Baby Stop Crying," off Street Legal. 

• Kelly has been broken (3:00)


• "Baby Stop Frying" original song (7:00)


• Context (12:30)


• Song itself: storyline, lyrics, "Dog Bumped," choruses (16:45)


• A roleplay between Jonathan Cott and Bob Dylan (29:30)


• Playlist (40:30)


• Recommendations (47:00)


• Endings (57:00)

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – or just listen to this episode's playlist and join the conversation on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next episode: Fractions!