Filed under: Music
Say what you want, I believe with every fiber of my soul that “Visions of Johanna” by Bob Dylan is the greatest song ever written.
Perhaps I say this because I’m faced with the task of teaching Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” to a group of college undergraduates in the next forty-eight hours. Regardless, what songwriter juxtaposes such images as heat pipes coughing with the museums in which infinity goes up on trial? Oh, Lord Ginsberg must roll over in his grave as the jelly-fished women all sneeze! After all, jewels and binoculars explode.
Seriously, name me a song that means more and yet remains so unknown than that of Bob Dylan’s “Visions of Johanna” .
If it is not the stuff of poetry, then I resign myself to a life of meaningless jingle-jangles.
