{"id":280,"date":"2025-03-01T16:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T16:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-quantifiers\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T16:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T16:56:17","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-quantifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-quantifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Quantifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quantifiers are words that indicate logical quantity. 'All,' 'Some,' and 'No' are examples. Here are some songs featuring them from my memory with no reliance on A. I.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chuck Berry, No Particular Place to Go<\/a>.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan, Only a Hobo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Rod Stewart, Only a Hobo<\/a>. But is 'only' functioning as a quantifier in this title? <\/span><\/p>\n

Jackson Browne, Somebody's Baby<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jefferson Airplane, Somebody to Love<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

B. B. King, Nobody Knows You When You are Down and Out<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Louis Armstrong, I Ain't Got Nobody<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Byrds, All I Really Want to Do<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jimi Hendrix, All Along the Watchtower<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Beatles, Something<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Beatles, Any Time At All<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Roy Orbison, Only the Lonely<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan, Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (and I'll Go Mine)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Here are some comments of mine on the video which accompanies this touched-up Blonde on Blonde<\/em> track.  The video is very cleverly constructed, providing a synopsis of milestones in Dylan's career.  The first girl the guy with the acoustic guitar case is walking with is a stand-in for Suze Rotolo<\/a>, the girl 'immortalized' on the Freewheelin' Bob Dylan<\/em> album cover.  But now we see the pair from the back instead of from the front.  She is replaced by a second girl representing Joan Baez.  (Dylan's affair with Baez helped destroy his relationship with Rotolo.) Then the guy gets into a car and emerges on the other side with an electric guitar case.  This signifies Dylan's going electric in '65 at the Newport Folk Festival, a change  which enraged the die-hard folkies and doctrinaire leftists who thought they owned Dylan as a mouthpiece for their views.    <\/span><\/p>\n

A quick shot of a newspaper in a trash can with the headline "Dylan Goes Electric" appears just in case you missed the subtlety of the auto entry-exit sequence.  After that we see a downed motorcycle representing Dylan's motorcycle accident, an event that brings to a close  the existentialist-absurdist-surrealist phase of the mid-60s trilogy, Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde.<\/em>  After the accident Dylan is further from the mind and closer to the earth.  Dylan the psychedelically deracinated returns to his roots in the Bible and Americana with John Wesley Harding<\/em>. The girl in the brass bed is an allusion to "Lay Lady Lay<\/a>" ("lay across my big brass bed") from the Nashville Skyline<\/em> album.  Dylan then colaesces with the man in black (Johnny Cash), and steps over and through the detritus of what remains of the hippy-trippy 60's and into the disco era, his Christian period, marked by the 1979 Slow Train Coming<\/a> and a couple of subsequent albums, his marriage to a black back-up singer, and on into the later phases of the life of this protean bard on never-ending tour.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is what Auster has to say about the song:<\/span><\/p>\n

By the way, that\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve seen \u201cjudge\u201d rhymed with \u201cgrudge\u201d since Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cMost Likely You Go Your Way (And I\u2019ll Go Mine),\u201d from Blonde on Blonde<\/em>. Here\u2019s the recording<\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dylan\u2019s lyric (not for the first time) is pretty appropriate to our situation:<\/span><\/p>\n

Well the judge<\/span>
He holds a grudge<\/span>
He\u2019s gonna call on you.<\/span>
But he\u2019s badly built<\/span>
And he walks on stilts<\/span>
Watch out he don\u2019t fall on you.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is now on the U.S. Supreme Court an intellectually sub-par Puerto Rican woman whose entire career has been essentially founded on a grudge against whites, a judge who makes her pro-Hispanic, anti-white agenda an explicit element in her judging. \u201cThe judge, she holds a grudge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Sotomayor is not the first of that kind, however. Another Supreme Court sub-competent, Thurgood Marshall, openly stated to one of his colleagues that the philosophy behind his judging was that \u201cIt\u2019s our [blacks\u2019] turn now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, I can't call it a night without the schmaltzy<\/span><\/p>\n

Dean Martin, Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quantifiers are words that indicate logical quantity. 'All,' 'Some,' and 'No' are examples. Here are some songs featuring them from my memory with no reliance on A. I. Chuck Berry, No Particular Place to Go.   Bob Dylan, Only a Hobo Rod Stewart, Only a Hobo. But is 'only' functioning as a quantifier in this title?  … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Quantifiers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}