"The country I come from is called the Midwest," sings devout Wisconsinite Justin Vernon on his stately cover of Dylan's great anti-war lesson, performed live at a Portland gig. Vernon leaves Auto-Tune aside, setting the mood with Bill Frisell-style electric guitar and a mournful military trumpet. As timely as ever, regrettably.

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“Karma Chameleon”

Boy George has said this song was about standing by what you believe in. However, at the time, he was involved in a secret affair with Culture Club drummer Jon Moss. "Now people can understand the songs better," he said. "They were written about my relationship with Jon, and they were also written about being a gay man in a homophobic world." The lines "If I listen to your lies, would you say/I'm a man without conviction/I'm a man who doesn't know how to sell a contradiction," described his life at the time, he said. "I was selling this big lie."