bob dylan sang the song everybody must get stoned.
bob dylan sang the song everybody must get stoned.
who sings the song everybody must get stoned?
bob dylan
singer and songwriter bob dylan, in his somewhat controversial song "rainy day women #12 & 35", repeats the line "everybody must get stoned". in context, the phrase refers to the punishment of execution by stoning, but on another level it means to 'get stoned', a common slang term for being high on cannabis. in their song "big balls" on the album "dirty deeds done dirt cheap", ac/dc the chorus "we've got big balls" can be read as referring to either formal dances or testicles. during the 1940s, benny bell recorded several "party records" that contained double entendre including "everybody wants my fanny".
double entendre
according to author andy gill, by starting his new album with what sounded like "a demented marching-band ... staffed by crazy people out of their mind on loco-weed", dylan delivered his biggest shock yet for his former folkie fans. the elaborate puns on getting stoned combine a sense of paranoiac persecution with "nudge-nudge wink-wink bohemian hedonism". heylin points out that the old testament connotations of getting stoned made the salvation army-style musical backing seem like a good joke. the enigmatic title came about, heylin suggests, because dylan knew a song entitled "everybody must get stoned" would be kept off the airwaves. heylin links the title to the book of proverbs, chapter 27, verse 15: "a continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike." released as a single on march 22, 1966, "rainy day women" reached number two on the "billboard" singles chart, and number seven in the uk.
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