http://www.metafilter.com/tags/allalongthewatchtower Posts tagged with 'allalongthewatchtower' at MetaFilter. Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:16:57 -0800 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:16:57 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/67778/No%2DReason%2DTo%2DGet%2DExcited <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/watchtower.html">Written in 1967</a> by Bob Dylan, it was originally <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bob_Dylan_-_All_Along_The_Watchtower.ogg">quiet, lowkey... and vaguely menacing</a>. But when Jimi Hendrix <strike>re</strike><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aUDVpHxw9c">defined it the following year</a>, even <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6595893/all_along_the_watchtower">Dylan knew</a> that the song had changed forever. <br><br> Since then, it's been <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_tJnj2j5kI">covered</a> (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wfub-LbOmk">over</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkcsm9Ask_A">and</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wAQGKZsnbU">over</a> <a href="http://www.secondhandsongs.com/song/401.html">again</a>), <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/500songs">praised</a> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/allalongthewatchtower.shtml">almost</a> <a href="http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/37889-the-200-greatest-songs-of-the-1960s">as</a> <a href="http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_coversongs.html">often</a>, <a href="http://www.reasontorock.com/tracks/watchtower.html">analyzed</a>, <a href="http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?wquest=5097">referenced</a>, and, of course, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLvZX-0rry4" title="Battlestar Galactica Spoilers">found to be encoded in the minds of Cylons.</a> <br><br> Originally released 40 years ago, erm, yesterday: All Along the Watchtower.</http> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.67778 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:16:57 -0800 allalongthewatchtower battlestargalactica bears beets bobdylan covers jimihendrix music song John Kenneth Fisher