I thought this show used to focus on music from the year that the crime took place- for example if it was a cold case from 1998 you would hear songs from that year? Did they change their format?

“The ‘O.C.’ for Baby Boomers”? I can’t tell you proud I am that I have no idea what that means.

Dylan is the greatest artist and songwriter of all time..hands down

Looking forward to the show.

george lewis – I agree 100%.

go bob

yay for Bob!

I think “CSI” must have done the same thing with the Who’s music. I wasn’t really that exited about the show until i heard “Who Are You” as the theme.
I think actually might watch “Cold Case” just to hear Bob’s music.

I used to have a thumbnail like that. Great guitar pick- but not too reliable (ouch).

But, yes- I’ve never seen this show before, but sounds worth checking out- at least this once.

To answer Oddjob’s question, most episodes of the show still focus on music from the year of the crime, but occasionally they have an episode that focuses on a single artist throughout, regardless of the time period of the tracks, although I think that with the Springsteen episode, the songs were at least somewhat related to time period, if I remember correctly.

That’s really neat! I’m definitely going to watch that.

Further to Oddjob & Big Roy of the Twigs comments, I watched the Springsteen episode and became slightly annoyed that some of the material featured (one which was played on the car radio I think)wasn’t released until a few years afterwards.
Good Show but it just kind of rang false.

I’m 20 and I hate the OC….I watch sometimes tho, only b/c I have nothing else to do Thurs. night. I hate it when people generalize! I love Bob Dylan and I wasn’t even alive for most of his career!!!!!!!!

Sounds like it might be worth a watch, but historicly ideas beyond those of Mr. Dylan’s have fallen flat. what we interpert is most never close to what he was thinking. This could prove to be silly. But us Dylan nuts are always curious…I hope I make it through the the first 15 minutes

dylan’s a much better business man that he is singer or songwriter these days.

Brilliant! Looking forward to it. Bob is everywhere these days and won 2 Grammy Awards- Hey 65 is the new 35!

Rolling Stone – you have the writers name wrong on your review of the upcoming Cold Case episode on February. The writer’s correct name is Gavin Harris (not Davis) Please print a correction.

Dylan was “locked into being a protest artist” by the ’70s and ’80s? Huh?

Great idea!

..is a legend! i agree i can relate to alot of his music about my life, the weird thing is i aint 45 etc am still young! His music has and always will cross generations!

Dylan tunes can’t
heat up ‘Cold Case’

Revolutionary findings: Kathryn Morris stars in ‘Cold Case.’

It would be almost impossible to create a bad TV drama when your soundtrack is eight Bob Dylan songs like “Positively Fourth Street” and “Simple Twist of Fate.”
It is, however, possible to make one that feels lame and false, a feeling that sadly arises too often during the new “Cold Case” titled “Blood on the Tracks.”

“Cold Case” has built shows around the music of important artists before. But whereas the Bruce Springsteen show had some clever turns, the Dylan show devolves from a potentially interesting look at the corrosive effect of guilt into a series of superficial clichés about Vietnam war activists.

The cold case in question goes back to 1981, when a young suburban couple died in an apparent gas-line explosion at their home.

Years later, workers find evidence they were really blown up by a bomb, which leads Lilly (Kathryn Morris) to poke into their serene lives.

She starts with a circle of early-’70s college friends who at first seem to have walked right in from “The Big Chill.”

But they have a secret. Their antiwar activism included setting off bombs, one of which blew up one of their fellow plotters in 1971. Somehow no one ever connected his death to other group members, though many of them showed up in police surveillance of the radical group to which they were connected.

So the others went on with their lives. But by 1981, one group member found this death weighing so heavily on his conscience that he told the others he was going to confess – which, of course, could send them to jail.

Twenty-four hours later, boom, he also was dead.

As Lilly and her team sort this out, they find an arrogant, evasive and rather unpleasant group that long ago traded idealism for comfortable success.

Setting all this to Dylan music might sound natural, since these folks certainly would have played it. But by the early ’70s, Dylan wasn’t anywhere near this world. So the plot linkage, like the title of the show, seems forced.

When one character gets drunk and rides his bike naked in the street wearing a Ronald Reagan mask, then quotes “Ballad of a Thin Man” (”Something is happening here and you don’t know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?”), it feels like a cartoon. Naming the character Zimmerman, Dylan’s birth name, doesn’t add to the synergy.

Nor does naming other characters after figures from Dylan’s songs and life, like Johanna and Sara.

To be fair, building a linear script on Dylan’s multilayered songs is a near-impossible task. Nor is the theme of sin and repentance without its intriguing, Dylaneseque moments.

But in the end, the characters aren’t as interesting as the songs to which they listen.

I have never seen a episode of “Cold Case”…actually…I have never heard of the show. I am going to watch these episode! Guess what? I am not over 40 years of age. I never got into Bob until I graduated HS in 87. It was worth the wait!

Sounds cool, I have never watched the show and will be tuning in. Maybe all CBS shows should just roll a Dylan Soundtrack in the background. Dylan is timeless….the greatest.

Oi!! Bom.. espero que entendam o português. eu sei inglês, mas a minha língua é bem melhor.. então.. Eu gosto muito da trilha sonora do cold case, são músicas bem selecionadas, que combinam com os episódios e não enjoam! bjos a todos!!