Posted on 10/19/2016 8:50:11 AM PDT by C19fan
The Nobel Prize committee has given up trying to reach Bob Dylan, five days after he became the first musician awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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He ain’t never never never goin’ back-i-o.
Not the science prizes but the literature is a bit political. Sometimes they pick the right person for the wrong reasons.
Lyrics ARE poetry that have music added. Remember our national anthem is a POEM that gets sung (to the tune of a drinking song).
The Hour That Your Ship Comes In
Tambourine Man
Blowin’ in the Wind
Subterranean Homesick Blues (especially the line that Weatherman took their name from)
Talkin’ New York Blues
Maggie’s Farm
probably more
Not a drinking song. I had this out with the Smithsonian years ago. They won. It was based on a song that a singing group sang in a tavern but it was not a drinking song.
He influenced my generation in our alientation from the values we had been taught. But “Lay Lady Lay” changed the direction he was going. The only Dylan song that I love. Not worthy of the once prestigious Nobel Peace Prize. He’s smart and probably can put it all in perspective. If he doesn’t respond, I’d like to know why not?
“Classified material was obtained through great sacrifice and sometimes lives were given to obtain.
Hillary treats it with the respect her husband afforded to the women he brutally raped.
Harsh analogy but true.” posted by HereintheHeartland this week
There are hundreds of fantastic Dylan songs. His only competition, Cole Porter, only had dozens. No one else is in the race (Rogers and Hammerstein were a duo and also had dozens).
That one was subversive in its own way. Obviously he’s seducing someone who’s not totally willing. And trying to get her drunk in order to do so. Not politically, and of course there were and still are many songs like that.
It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleedin’) -—inspired by Arthur Koestler novel, Darkness at Noon, about Stalinist purges
Neighborhood Bully-—Israel
You Gotta Serve Somebody—Josua 24:15
All Along the Watchtower-—Ezekiel 33:6
If you believe these are examples of Leftism, you do not understand them.
He explicitly rejected the idea of becoming an icon/spokesman for the Left.
Just because some lunatic SDSers liked his songs does not make him a Leftist, everyone did.
Yeah, that money could really help with his alimony payments.
You would be better off pointing to “Hurricane” and “John Wesley Harding” than those. Politics aside even those are good songs.
Dylan won the Nobel for LITERATURE.
Not the Peace Prize.
Fascinating observation, Firebrand. Makes me wonder how old you are.
Thanks, Mumblypeg. Dylan was one of the people who influenced my teens but reading the “Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged” influenced the rest of my life. Ayn Rand, the last Romantic novelist of the 19th-20th C., ought to be given that award if we’re talking literature. And even the Peace Prize. For it was her shock upon arriving in America at how far its intellectuals had gone to the dark side that made her want to wake Americans up to the loss of freedom and loss of our once peaceful lives soon upon us.
“Classified material was obtained through great sacrifice and sometimes lives were given to obtain.
Hillary treats it with the respect her husband afforded to the women he brutally raped.
Harsh analogy but true.”
posted by HereintheHeartland reposted by The Westerner
“He’s playing Texas - El Paso tonight”
Just for kicks, I looked up prices for tonight’s show since El Paso is the nearest major city to me. All that’s left are mediocre seats. They have tickets for either $87.50 or $118.50. Last time I went to see him I think I paid about $15. I guess it’s been a while, lol.
I forgot John Wesley Harding.
I love his religious songs too. Gospel Plow and Man of Constant Sorrow come to mind.
Richie Havens and Marvin Gaye did them too—two artists that I like very much. But I think It Was a Very Good Year is the worst song in that category, not exactly the same but boasting about all his women as if they were vintages of wine.
BTW, it doesn’t have to do with age. Some of the raunchiest songs are from before I was born. The blues and the rhythm and blues that I love so much had numbers that were outrageous and they got away with it because it wasn’t mainstream.
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