Bob Dylan’s “Titanic” by Tim Heidecker (music video)

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Comic genius Tim Heidecker, who is roughly 50% of Tim and Eric (also behind "Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie," and "Check it Out! with Dr. Steve Brule"), has yet again created something I find very funny.

"Recently, I read that Bob Dylan’s new album Tempest will feature a 14 minute song about the Titanic," he writes, "So I wrote this song to see if I could beat the Master to it. I can’t wait to see how close I got to the real thing!"

Above, a preview. The entire opus is fifteen minutes long, and you can purchase it here.

• [solitaire]

  Ain’t nothing compared to Jaime Brockett’s Legend of the USS Titanic:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XFYMjkFYPg 

  • [unclemike]

     THAT’s the song I keep thinking of whenever anybody mentions the Titanic. Dr. Demento used to play it lots.

• [Mitchell Glaser]

  For some reason I find the idea of parody-in-advance-of-the-original a little pukey.

  • [jandrese]

    Welcome to the world of Tim Heidecker.  Anything that’s a little pukey must be hilarious right?

• [blindingspeed]

  Tedious.

  • [Scott Byrne]

    Yes, well that’s the point.

    • [nate]

      And one that doesn’t need to be made. Again.

      • [Rezeya Montecore]

        Thank god we have people around to make these decisions for us in an objective fashion. We used to have to rely on individual tastes and preference.

• [thekinginyellow]

  with so much creative power in t&e’s little fingers i still can’t figure out how B$M ended up being the biggest pos movie in the world.

  • [ShawShaw]

    Such negativity! The only cure is the power of Shrim! Now take off your clothes…

    • [nate]

      Didn’t work. Any other suggestions?

• [Elliot]

  Hilarious! Now Dylan’s song is going to seem so much better!

• [Mitchell Glaser]

  Unless I totally misunderstood the post, Dylan’s song isn’t out yet.

• [Jason Carl]

  Every time I see this guy’s name and “music” in a headline I immediately think it’s Tim Hecker and it takes me a while to process what’s actually happening. 

• [penguinchris]

  He got the general musical sound of Dylan’s recent output pretty close (well, it’s most reminiscent of 1997′s Time Out Of Mind perhaps), combined with some 1975-style violin for flavor. The voice is pretty good, but is also 1975-era Dylan and nothing like his voice now.

  That said… as huge of a fan of Dylan as I am, I cringe at the thought of a 15-minute song about the Titanic in Dylan’s modern style & voice.

  edit: I started the video then scrolled down to read the comments while listening, then scrolled back up and saw the 1975 Dylan footage included in the video, so I guess that was actually the style he was going for and not Dylan’s modern stuff!

• [BryanB]

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lq-cqHXJnw

  my personal favourite titanic song.

• [delzey]

  y’all need to hit YouTube and look up Jaime brockett’s tale of the sinking of the titanic. a classic 70s folk tale that Dylan WISHED he’d written!

  • [unclemike]

     Scroll down the comments. It’s already been linked :-)

    • [delzey]

      d’oh!

• [Ray Perkins]

  Large vessels are usually called ships, not boats, I believe.

• [Ursula Pastures]

  I like Frank Hutchinson’s version of the story
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG67Toa7ZRk

• [Ursula Pastures]

  And Leadbelly’s
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VOLQt4LDsc&feature=related

  found the above joke somewhat too easy. Not very funny i.m.o. :)