Anyone who pretends he sounds good or that you can understand him is just pretending. But the guy just went up a few notches in my book.
Yeah, I know. I committed the sacrilege of pointing out that the king has no clothes wrt Dylan sucking as a musician/singer. Lot sof people thought so back in the day as well, but nowadays, one can only speak in reverant tones since the baby Boomers are in charge.
Link: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/10/18/bob-dylan-remains-silent-on-nobel-prize-win.html#
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Beatles had great harmony and were cute too. Dylan had a voice and words that cut through stone.
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...to me, Dylan never progressed.
The Beatles fostered multiple genres of music, as exhibited by the explosion of bands that emulated them.
Par example...
Meet The Beatles ('64)
Rubber Soul ('65)
Revolver ('66)
Sgt. Pepper's ('67)
The White Album ('68)
Abbey Road ('69)
Let It Be ('70)
To me, Dylan is the male version of Joan Baez.
His early folk stuff bears little resemblance to his 1970s albums.
Compare the Freewheelin' BD to Blood on the Tracks or John Wesley Harding. Much different.
1966 groundbreaking Blonds on Blonde
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...of All Time".
Paul was just being humble, with that statement...
"Norwegian Wood" is generally credited as sparking off a musical craze for the sound of the Sitar, as played by Harrison. In the mid-1960s, a trend which would later branch out into the raga rock and Indian rock genres
The song is now acknowledged as one of the cornerstones of what is now usually called "world music" and it was a major landmark in the trend towards incorporating non-Western musical influences into Western popular music. Harrison's interest was fueled by fellow Indian music fans Roger McGuinn and David Crosby of the Byrds, whom Harrison befriended in August 1965.
Harrison would eventually be transfixed by all things Indian, taking sitar lessons from renowned Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar.
Not to mention...what's so wrong about love songs?
Have you read the Norman Biography, one of the best I have read.
...Hell, I'm lucky if I have the time for a NY Times Sunday crossword puzzle.
I have one that is now 8 and can't wait for more.
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As a musician? Where do you come off saying he sucks as one? By what appears to be most musicians think the opposite from you. Joni Mitchell (whom I adore as a musician) thinks he's a bit of a phony, a caricature and a not so good musician too; she calls him good at craft. But you have to recognize, he wrote some great stuff. How many covers of his songs have been done and by big name bands and individuals you listen to.
I think you're more on line with some of his writing than you think; you hate big gov't - so does Dylan - you hate politicians - so does Dylan - you hate gov't over-reach - so does Dylan and on and on.
So many reasons to celebrate his work.
That is the gateway Dylan album. It's the marijuana of Dylan. It'll ease you into the harsher stuff.
Totally unrelated musically, of course.
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Some good tunes on there. I have it in the cloud. Along with way too much other stuff.
If you had told me ten years ago that all my music would be in a cloud, I would have thought you were nuts.
I'm sure he'll be overjoyed and possibly pen a poem/hit-song for you for his next release.
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