Chimes of Freedom

This time I’m doing Chimes of Freedom by Bob Dylan, verses Chimes of Freedom by the Byrds.

I’m totally going to keep this one short because I’m kind of tired and I don’t want to spend a long time working on it, but I still want to make a post. Also the Dylan version is like 7 minutes long, so if you’re going to sit through that, I might as not make you read a whole bunch.

Dylan’s version is on the 1964 album Another side of Bob Dylan. It’s really good. It’s my favorite non-electric Dylan album.

The Byrds covered it on their 1964 debut album Mr. Tambourine Man. The Byrds do a lot of Dylan covers. A lot. Anyway, their version is sort of different. They really Byrds it up, it’s got harmonies and it’s only half as long.

Bob Dylan:

Byrds:

 I really like both versions of this song. I totally want Dylan to win, because he’s got all the extra verses and his version is just so epically poetic. But I also want the Byrds to win, because their version is shorter and it’s got all the good Byrds harmonies. And it just has the folky rock sound the Byrds perfected. What happens if both win? That’s not a tie right? I wasn’t going to do ties…

Also here is a link to the Wikipedia page about the song. I kind of feel like I left out some neat stuff by trying to keep this brief so if you want to read more about both versions I suggest skimming over it.