Posted on 05/25/2016 4:51:11 AM PDT by Sir_Humphrey
Bob Dylan ain't talkin', just walkin' down this thing called life and today is one of his milestones. We aren't sure how he is celebrating, but the internet is showing him a bunch of love Tuesday in honor of his 75th birthday.
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I remember first really listening to Bob in ‘66 on the juke box in the Jayhawk Cafe, a nice tavern about a block off campus.
Yep.
Tomorrow Is A Long Time is actually my all-time favorite, and Judy Collins does make it even more heartfelt.
I just listened to it on You Tube. Some nice person put it up there. So moving. One of our greatest interpreters of music.
This song was used to great effect in the English play ‘Jerusalem’ about a gypsy who shelters an abused young woman.
I have many Dylan favorites, with Hendrix’ cover of “All Along The Watchtower” being the greatest rock ‘n roll song ever recorded.
Here’s another cover, dedicated to the GOPe and the #NeverTrumpers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOP6R3JvNHg
I don’t get all the fuss and certainly not the adoration. To me, Dylan is like Bruce Springteen - WTF? To each his own I guess.
Tangled Up In Bluuuuue
One More Night — I just could not be what she wanted me to be - what a poet - thank you Bob
Like a rolling stone...
A complete unknown...
Think I’m going home...
Hey, is that a drone?
How do I work this phone?
Is this song too long?
Got my Depends on...
He is truly a treasure.
Favorite song? "Lay Lady, Lay" (Nashville Skyline)
Dylan is painfully overrated.
Don’t bother flaming me, you know I’m right. ; )
America has too few famous poets to put Ol’ Bob down.
What a nice tribute to the great Dylan! A pen name he really deserved to use.
Afraid you’re wrong there. Some of the most beautiful and complex lyrics on the planet and the music is melodious.
Anybody know “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”? The late great Christopher Hitchens wrote a nice essay about this greatest of protest songs. Judy’s live concert covers it magnificently. She ended her first set at Carnegie Hall with it in the mid 60s. The song packed a wallop.
One of my favorites too...
“Favorite song? “Lay Lady, Lay” (Nashville Skyline)”
Ditto. I love the lyrics, I love the melody. My favorite for sure.
I am not going to flame you. All music is a matter of opinion. To you overrated, to me ( and most others on this thread) genius. Who is to say? But I will say this, it doesn’t sound like you are familiar with all of Dylan’s music aside from the half dozen or so songs they may play on any generic “classic rock” station. I think on that score you know I am right.
Dylan is painfully overrated.
Don’t bother flaming me, you know I’m right. ; )
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No flames from me, to each his or her own.
But if Dylan is overrated, who do you think should occupy the space he occupies?
It’s easy to put him down (they’re just words after all), harder to come out and say who’s better.
I don’t go for the ‘best’, because it’s entirely subjective. Rarely does a day go by withoutb my hearing any Dylan, Richard Thompson and Lucinda Williams.
I can think of several but the top of my list is Bob Seger, Tom Petty and Glen Fry & Don Henley. AND they can sing!
What to these damn hippies have against dying! Drop Dead already you always sucked!
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