Concert #16:2011.10.27, Arena Leipzig, Leipzig, DE, # SPOILER AHEAD #

[MarkB]

There was also the coincidence of the Love & Theft album being released (in the US, it was released a day earlier in the UK because albums come out here on Mondays as opposed to Tuesdays in the US) on Sep 11 2001. Lots of people pointed out that the lyrics to some of the songs seemed eerily prophetic eg several of the lines in Mississippi such as "Sky full of fire pain pouring down".

[vgonis]

There was also the coincidence of the Love & Theft album being released (in the US, it was released a day earlier in the UK because albums come out here on Mondays as opposed to Tuesdays in the US) on Sep 11 2001. Lots of people pointed out that the lyrics to some of the songs seemed eerily prophetic eg several of the lines in Mississippi such as "Sky full of fire pain pouring down".

How about making a song about the stock market and Greece flourishing? We really could use one right now. The whole world is looking down on us, just to make a fast buck.

[Pyroaction]

How about making a song about the stock market and Greece flourishing? We really could use one right now. The whole world is looking down on us, just to make a fast buck.

It could be Postcards From Paraguay!

[MarkB]

How about making a song about the stock market and Greece flourishing? We really could use one right now. The whole world is looking down on us, just to make a fast buck.

It could be Postcards From Paraguay!

Just to point out that I do not believe Dylan somehow 'knew' the Sep 11 attacks were coming, it was pure coincidence that the album came out on that terrible day.

[vgonis]

It is not the story I have heard. Dylan had in his program a trip up to the 70th floor of WTC, visiting his financial advisors, in order to ask where to invest the prospect gains from the new album, and of course drinking coffee and enjoying the view.  Something happened the previous night  and instead he went down to New Jersey to meet his great famous fan Bruce Springsteen.   

[twm]

P J Harvey has recently become the first person to win the Mercury Music Prize twice. The first time she won was on 9/11, so that the pleasure at winning was overwhelmed by the horroe of that terrible day. I was speaking a week or two ago to someome who knows her and the person to whom I was speaking felt that at least P J could enjoy her win properly on this occasion.