Posted on 10/13/2016 12:16:57 PM PDT by Hostage
Yep! Bob is my friend. We both used to live in Milwaukee, and played in different bands.
Seriously?
DYLAN is a left wing douchebag.... poet.... really?
maybe for the flower child draft dodger or today’s bobblehead
nobel proze lost its meaning when
gore
obozo
got one...
nobel prize is just another left wing propaganda joke... whe it comes to climate, peace and now poetry..???
What a foolish remark. I was a child when Dylan became a star and was hardly exposed to his music in the 60s. It is my knowledge of music and language that has convinced me that Dylan is and was a great lyricist and deserves his award.
Please go condescend to somebody else.
Wow, man. Intelligent post.
Very cool! I’m very happy for the great Dylan. I listen to his music in my car many days when I can’t stand the news.
Your teacher was the epitome of the Woody Allen aphorism that those who cannot do, teach and those that cannot teach, teach gym.
I like the version by the gorgeous voiced Kingston Trio! Well chosen accolade, "miss"!
Still doesn’t make him the greatest modern poet
Pleading guilty
I’ll work on it
That was Nipsey Russell.
“Not bad for somebody whose career peaked in 1968.”
I can’t help it. I gotta parse that snark.
Do you mean you personally tuned out and just stopped noticing Dylan after 1968? So you think his “career” was over because you stopped listening?
Or do you mean the suits who decide what gets played on Top 40 radio didn’t think Dylan’s later work was “hit record” enough for the masses, so it didn’t get played much on “The (officially sanctioned) Radio” and therefore his career was decreed officially over after 1968?
I suspect perhaps a little of both.
An artist’s best work is often unfamiliar to The Masses, precisely because it’s over their heads. It requires a little bit of work on their part to grasp it.
FWIW, Dylan’s lyrics / poetry contain a LOT of Biblical references—another reason very few of his songs are on commercial radio.
Funny thing is, a lot of Dylan’s best pre-1968 work has only been released in the last few years, in the Bootleg series. It wasn’t released when he first recorded it precisely because it wasn’t considered commercial enough.
And his post-68 work—likewise, I guess you’d just have to be a fan to know what I’m talking about.
I’d recommend grabbing any of the Bootleg releases and giving it a listen.
Time Out of Mind and Love and Theft are favorites of mine, too.
Thank you! I’ll have to look up their version. Judy’s version was used in the brilliant London production of “Jerusalem” - a play about a gypsy rover. He puts the Dylan song on a record table in an attempt to comfort a young girl. I got all soggy!
Many of us would like to get a "Very Interesting" instead of an "A"! I'll even forward a "Brilliant!"
re: “Still doesn’t make him the greatest modern poet.”
That’s not what he got an award for. That’s not what the award said, that’s what someone’s opinion was in the article. The award was simply the Nobel Prize in Literature.
I would agree he is not the “greatest” modern poet. I don’t know who is, but I would say Dylan’s work, over a lifetime, has demonstrated an amazing talent for crafting poetry and lyrics that speak to a variety of topics: love, anger, humor, irony, protest, etc.
You don’t have to like everything someone did to recognize they had gift and used it well.
It is impossible not to condescend to someone who thinks Dylan deserves anything more than a Grammy.
I have a few ideas.
But I don’t object to Dylan.
I don’t object to your objecting to him either, of course.
I can’t see the politics in the choice, however. He’s an old white American male, born Jewish (hardly an asset to the Eurofascists) and by all accounts a practicing Christian for many years now.
Probably it was a nostalgia choice. Bunch a geezers with a little weed and a lot of memories.
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