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To: grellis
Yep, uh huh. "Everybody must get stoned!" That there is some great songwriting. Maybe we should get Bob to rewrite that tacky, tasteless "Star-Spangled Banner" for us.

'Fess up: Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 is the only Dylan song you've ever heard.

68 posted on 08/22/2006 11:34:25 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost; Michael.SF.
'Fess up: Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 is the only Dylan song you've ever heard.

Nothing doing, but it is the song which soured me on Dylan while I was still quite young. It wasn't the only one, though--there are a lot of his songs that I simply do not like--Lay Lady, Lay, Blowin' in the Wind, The Times They Are A-Changin, that "placard" song, whatever its name is...nope, I don't like any of them. One could argue that such a small sampling is not enough to write off an artist, but the way I see it, these are some of his most popular songs. As such, I believe they probably represent, quite well, his overall canon.

With regard to Forever Young, sorry Michael, but I disagree. First, and excuse me if this sounds sexist, I don't know that there is a man alive who could come close to understanding how I felt the first time I held my babies, not even my husband. This isn't a failing and it is not a swipe at fathers. Men and women are completely different animals when it comes to such primal emotions, however. I don't think a woman could adequately sum up the emotions of a first time father, for that matter. That's not why I dislike the song, though.

214 posted on 08/23/2006 10:23:17 AM PDT by grellis (I don't know, let me ask my I Ching)
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