Dylan and Cohen are among my favorite Poets and performers.
There were so many really great artists from those years that it’s easy to leave out so many more when trying to recall those times and their messages.
I’m a big fan of Jim Morrison and the Doors. There’s a deep sense of Brutal Sarcasm if you actually listen to the words. There’s no way Morrison DIDN’T do this intentionally. Listen to “An American Prayer”, the whole thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDNQYrfsjtQ&list=PLCc1CdM5OcYwybs3Yrdj7-1kFNTsuNzxq&index=2
It seems that at some point in our history people no longer listened to the WORDS.
No one listened to words any longer....
Some lines like “stayin’ alive...” and ones such as “Get on up, on the floor
‘Cause we’re gonna boogie oogie oogie
‘Till you just can’t boogie no more
Ah boogie, boogie no more” ( A Taste of Honey)
Not as memorable as...
No reason to get excited
The thief, he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we’ve been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now
The hour’s getting late. (All Along the Watchtower, Bob Dylan)