Dylan song 'changed the world'

yahoo news/Reuters ^ | Aug. 5, 2005

[T'wit]

I was a big fan of MacArthur too, but I don't mistake him for the song -- which is regularly on the "Worst Songs Ever Written" lists :-)

Duty, honor, country.

[elbucko]

if you count Stevie Wonder...

I agree. Stevie Wonder absolves a lot of Gordy sins.

[firebrand]

That's funny. I was just thinking the other day how pitch-perfect he was, underneath all that style.

[T'wit]

>> I think Star Wars changed the culture

I think Star Trek was the church of the 1960s rads and was far more influential than Star Wars in terms of shaping a world view. Star Trek was about the only theology the '60s Left was ever taught.

[GSWarrior]

Everybody Wang Chung Tonight was not on the list? I can't believe it!

[SE Mom]

How about Don Mclean's "American Pie?"

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Excellent choice- and if I were going to pick a Dylan song that had an impact...it would be "Blowin In Wind"....

[NRA1995]

Bought the DVD the day it was released!

[truth_seeker]

"You correct, but if that is all you "hear" you don't understand Dylan."

People like Dylan, Van Morrison, Clapton, Stones were influenced by American Blues, or earlier decades.

John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson, etc.

[CaptainK]

He should have given all his material to real singers and save those of us with a sense of melody and pitch years of agony.

[CaptainK]

save=saved

[Not A Snowbird]

Amen!

[Borges]

Star Trek wasn't even all that popular in the 60s was it? It was only on for 3 years. It graudally developed a cult throuought the 70s.

[don-o]

I never started appreciating Dylan

Never too late. He is still touring and making new music for an elite and very sophisticated audience.

[don-o]

save=saved

I was blinded by the devil,
Born already ruined,
Stone-cold dead
As I stepped out of the womb.
By His grace I have been touched,
By His word I have been healed,
By His hand I've been delivered,
By His spirit I've been sealed.

I've been saved
By the blood of the lamb,
Saved
By the blood of the lamb,
Saved,
Saved,
And I'm so glad.
Yes, I'm so glad,
I'm so glad,
So glad,
I want to thank You, Lord,
I just want to thank You, Lord,
Thank You, Lord.

By His truth I can be upright,
By His strength I do endure,
By His power I've been lifted,
In His love I am secure.
He bought me with a price,
Freed me from the pit,
Full of emptiness and wrath
And the fire that burns in it.

I've been saved
By the blood of the lamb,
Saved
By the blood of the lamb,
Saved,
Saved,
And I'm so glad.
Yes, I'm so glad,
I'm so glad,
So glad,
I want to thank You, Lord,
I just want to thank You, Lord,
Thank You, Lord.

Nobody to rescue me,
Nobody would dare,
I was going down for the last time,
But by His mercy I've been spared.
Not by works,
But by faith in Him who called,
For so long I've been hindered
For so long I've been stalled.

Chorus. Copyright © 1980 Special Rider Music

[MEGoody]

Bob Dylan's song "Like a Rolling Stone" topped a poll on Friday to find the 100 songs, movies, TV shows and books that "changed the world" in the opinion of musicians, actors and industry experts.

Exactly how did this song 'change the world'?

[Slip18]

"The Prisoner" was the top-ranking TV series at number 10."

"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own."

Well, they got The Prisoner right.

[KC_for_Freedom]

These songs were appreciated by the Baby Boom Generation (more or less) and that and peer pressure drove us to whatever we did. I liked the music, and songs with a message like "American Pie" and "The Times They Are a Changing". At the time I (and my friends) did not realize that every generation believes they will change the world. Generations that followed ours had declining values and declining levels of education competency. In this way, perhaps the impact of the BB generation was felt for a longer time.

In the sense, having a large demographic move in and through the society simply had to have an effect and "change the world". But it was our collective development and changing technology that changed the world and led our artists to produce the songs and films, not the other way around. (*Trying to imagine the show, "Connections" here.*)

[Borges]

It changed pop muisic. Songs could be much longer and express emotions and ideas that were previously out of their range. And of course that led part and parcel into the 60s youth movement.

[Hand em their arse]

whatever I can do to help out a fellow freeper... : )

[CDHart]

Thanks for the info. I don't think I want to see it again, though. :^)

Carolyn