My Top 1000 Songs #578: Too Much Of Nothing
[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.] "Too Much Of Nothing"--not to be confused with the previously-referenced Who obscurity " Too Much Of Anything "--is the latest on our list of Dylan songs where I greatly prefer the better-known cover to the Dylan original. ( See also the Byrds and Manfred Mann and the Grateful Dead and Rainy Day ...) One of the handful of 8-track tapes my dad had when I was a kid was Peter, Paul and Mary's Greatest Hits . And like most of his music, I came to resent it quite a bit when I finally discovered rock & roll radio at the age of nine, and was dismayed to learn I'd been growing up on "Puff, The Magic Dragon" when I could've been listening to the Beatles & the Who . (Or, if I'm being fair to my 9-year-old self, Sweet and Queen .) Yet one song from that tape which has forever haunted me is