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August and Everything After.


"I want to be Bob Dylan Noun 1. Bob Dylan - United States songwriter noted for his protest songs (born in 1941)
Dylan
!" Adam Duritz of Berkeley admits two-thirds of the way through this irresistibly desperate, demented demented - Yet another term of disgust used to describe a program. The connotation in this case is that the program works as designed, but the design is bad. Said, for example, of a program that generates large numbers of meaningless error messages, implying that it is on the brink  song about stardom star·dom  
n.
1. The status of a performer or entertainer acknowledged as a star.

2. Star performers considered as a group.
, a song that could be about almost anything else--the emotion is that loose, that confused. As for Mr. Jones, presumably pre·sum·a·ble  
adj.
That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster.
 the same one Dylan was after in "Ballad of a Thin Man," he doesn't seem like anyone to be trusted, though the singer does trust him, which means the trouble the music constantly suggests on this track ought to pay off elsewhere on the album, which it doesn't.
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Author:Marcus, Greil
Publication:Artforum International
Article Type:Sound Recording Review
Date:Jan 1, 1994
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