"Love Sick" is a song by Bob Dylan, released on his 30th studio album Time Out of Mind in 1997 and released as the second single from the album on June 1, 1998. The song has often been covered, of late perhaps most notably by The White Stripes. During a performance of the song at the 1998 Grammy Awards, a man with the words "Soy Bomb" painted on his chest appeared unannounced and started dancing amid the band, to the chagrin of everyone there. He...
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"Love Sick" is a song by Bob Dylan, released on his 30th studio album Time Out of Mind in 1997 and released as the second single from the album on June 1, 1998. The song has often been covered, of late perhaps most notably by The White Stripes. During a performance of the song at the 1998 Grammy Awards, a man with the words "Soy Bomb" painted on his chest appeared unannounced and started dancing amid the band, to the chagrin of everyone there. He was quickly removed. In 2005, the band Eels released a song entitled "Whatever Happened to Soy Bomb" on their album Blinking Lights and Other Revelations.
As with virtually all Bob Dylan songs while there is a large amount of comment in print and the internet on the performances of the song, the musicians who recorded it, and the like there is little on the composition of the music or the meaning and construction of the lyrics.
One commentary, in the Untold Dylan series, points to this song as being Visions of Johanna for an old man - while...
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