“Johnny’s in the basement mixing up the medicine, I’m on the pavement talking ‘bout the government....”
Agreed,
Subterranean WOoo’s!
Dylan’s statement on winning the Nobel prize: “Myun nun inyy wood. Meenan stoon ina you. Babe.”
Uncle Bob deserved this... Damned Straight!
Knocking on Heaven’s Door?
Yes, yet, I think Leonard Cohen is better.
The Nobel Prize is a piece of poop.. But I have the highest respect for Bob Dylan’s songwriting and his performances. Glad to see a good guy win a Nobel for a change, even though previous “winners” render the whole Nobel prize thing rather meaningless.
Maybe Bob finds a suitable place to display it at home.
They’re selling postcards of the hanging
They’re painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They’ve got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tightrope walker
The other is in his pants
And the riot squad they’re restless
They need someplace to go
As lady and I look out tonight
From Desolation Row
Excellent.
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun
Crying like a fire in the sun
Look out, the saints are coming through
And it’s all over now, baby blue
Dylan did deserve this. However, if music lyricists are now evaluated as poets for the literature prize, Shane McGowan should also be in the running...perhaps the greatest Irish wordsmith since Yeats.
I’m offended! The reason Obama didn’t get it was because of all the bigots and racists! (Is a sarcasm notation necessary?)
Next up: Timothy Leary gets the Nobel prize in physiology and medicine, and Owsley Stanley wins the Nobel in chemistry.
Dylan did some amazing stuff (particularly in his early years) but....Nobel Prize? Nope,does not compute.
But then,he deserves one more than the Community Organizer-In-Chief does.
Back when I was an English major, before the Derrida fad, before the queering, I said that, if you did not know Bob Dylan was a singer, if you did not know he was famous, if you did not know he was a culture icon – in fact, even better, if you had never heard of him – and you put Desolation Row into Norton’s Anthology and assigned it to a senior seminar, it would surpass all of the XX Century except Yeats, all of XIX except, possibly, Coleridge, and would stand with the top five poets of all time.
Nice to know the Committee agrees.
BS on so many levels. Just shows how stupid the Nobel thing has become.
Not only is it not “lit”, not good, but also ...40 years late? Not at all timely. Absurd.
For pop-song lyrics?
Not at all.
Then again, the Nobel prize is a crap anyway. Barry got the Nobel Peace prize just for being Barry.
Dylan is just another 60’s radical leftist who hid his leftism as best he could to sell more records.
“Now I’m a liberal up to a degree
I want everyone to be free
but if you think I’ll let Barry Goldwater
move in and marry my daughter
you must think I’m crazy
I wouldn’t do it for all the farms in Cuba”
“Talkin’ John Birch Paranoia Blues”
Hey, “Bobby” everything those paranoid John Birchers predicted about communism have come to pass...thanks in large part to you.
“We got this guy Obama, and he’s going to change things.”
Yes, he wrote some good songs.
But a “literature” prize?
Please. He’s just another pop star that was marketed by Madison Avenue and used to push leftism.
He can now say to his fellow musicians....Don’t got one these do you!
I see some folks don’t think he deserved the “Prize”. In my opinion, he deserved it a hell of a lot more than Obama deserved his!