Posted on 08/13/2014 2:06:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
In before the ‘Dylan Can’t Sing’ crowd shows up with their inanity.
...well, he can’t...
I didn’t get that? Would you please stop mumbling and actually move your lips and tongue when you talk?
I saw a white ladder all covered with water.
. . . and before the “Dylan was/is a total flaming lefty” crowd shows up with their insanity.
Dylan is a guy who writes songs. He stopped caring what people think of him around 1965.
He does have a way with palindromes, though.
;^)
huge fan, up to the album with Lay Lady Lay...
I don’t give a crap if he was a lefty, I loved his singing and his melodies...and his lyrics, which for the most part could be interpreted a number of ways.
He hated hippies. Hahahahah.
He’s a genius with lyrics and feel.
It’s hard catching the lyrics but when you’re listening to what he’s sung it’s just breathtaking or soul searching.
He reminds me of Johnny Cash in a way.
I like his singing.
“All Along the Watchtower” and “Like a Rolling Stone” are pure poetry.
I don't know about superior, but Rosie O'donnell's son told her that he'd really like to have a dad.
I am a big Dylan fan, his song/poetry skills are excellent. I do enjoy his singing as well, but often times a Dylan song in the hands of another can be excellent, as well as better than Bob (sorry, Bob).
You mention "Watchtower", that is at the top of everyone's list.
This one deserve to be near the top: "I want you" - Sophie B. Hawkins (From Bob fest)
Excellent, as well as sensual.
I love that there are other versions of his songs, because to me that means that those who listen to his lyrics find their own interpretation of his work, and make it personal. I think that is the quality of all great art, not only that it speaks to us, but that as time goes on, we find new meaning to his words.
BookMark
Not bad for 73.
He and Cash were very good friends, The folkies got mad when he went rock/electric. The hippies got mad when he came to Nashville to make a country album with his friend Johnny Cash. An album where the guitar parts were played by Charlie Daniels in his “pre-famous” days. 1969. Dylan never cared who liked him.
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