Posted on 05/30/2011 2:34:14 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Dylan should have retired about 30 years ago.
I loved the Hendrix version.
Old military acronym for those unhappy with the orderly room’s memos: “Give A Big Rat’s Ass.”
If I’m not mistaken Robert Zimmerman once said he uses words like a mathmetician uses numbers.
I like a lot of his stuff, from the old blues covers to the late 60s political songs, and into the 70s. He screwed the pooch with his “Hurricane” about Ruben Carter, though.
Hard to pick a favorite, “Subterranean Homesick Blues” maybe, or “Like a Rolling Stone.” Maybe “Tangled up in blue.” The stuff he did with Emmylou Harris is very good.
I have a friend from New Jersey. I will see if she knows the story, too.
Oh come on - lots of kids in the 70’s had no clue who ‘old blue eyes’ was... Frank Sinatra was from a different generation. How many of us who ‘didn’t trust anyone over thirty’ thought our singers would still be selling records while they were collecting Social Security?
Don’t trust anyone over 70!
I think that Bob really doesn’t care.
Although I’m not comparing the two in talent, the same could be said about one America’s greatest composers, George Gershwin. If you asked the average under-thirty (maybe under-forty) who Gershwin was, you’d probably get a huh or a puzzled look. Too many Americans think music began in 1955 or later.
He’ll never get the nomination with numbers like these.
Is this a satirical post? You have that exactly opposite. Early in his career Dylan admitted he didn't give d...about melody, lyrics were everything. He didn't care much about arrangements either. Many fellow musicians were stunned by his refusal to do more than one take on any of his songs. Don't get me wrong, I have a number of early Dylan albums. In fact, it's strange, "Desolation Row" has been going through my head all day.
That was Matt Dillon — but you knew that and just wanted to give us all a chuckle.
Well played
You're mixing Bob up with Willie.
I strongly disagree. I’ll bet a much higher percentage of teens or young adults in the sixties and seventies knew who Sinatra was than today’s kids knew who Dylan was. Sinatra was in the news and in movies a lot. He still had hit records in the sixties. You heard Sinatra, Dean Martin, and other mainstream pop musicians mixed in with the rock and rollers on the radio. Not the same today. The music today is so spread out and marginalized, many young people know little or nothing about many older, famous musicians.
What was Your point for posting this article on FR?
-just curious-
“Dylan writes his songs in a stream-of-consciousness manner and they contain a lot of nonsense lyrics.”
Wonder why that is? Hmmmmm?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqvvOD4bdRs
There are plenty of music fans on FR and we have had related discussions in the past.
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