[joethedrummer]

Abba nabba noooba nabba AAHHHHH, Yeahhhh!!!

[Pearls Before Swine]

I think Bob Dylan’s a musical genius.

But, about 20 years ago, one of my (then) kids said, “What’s wrong with this guy? He sounds like he has asthma.” Thereafter, he referred to him as “the asthma dude.”

[rhoda_penmark]

I’ve heard his Christmas Album, so I know I don’t need to hear him singing “Some Enchanted Evening”.

The Christmas Album was for “good cause” fundraising, if I recall correctly, even thought it was a joke, and horrible.

Samples of the new album’s song are listenable on Amazon.

[KoRn]

Are the vocals at all intelligible? lol

(his music should come with closed captioning)

[9thLife]

Long live Bob Dylan!

[GSWarrior]

Dylan is awesome.

[Psalm 73]

Just put “Desire” on the turntable the other day - mmmm, sweet!

[norwaypinesavage]

I grew up in a town near Dylan's. I went to the same college, a couple of years after he did. I even lived just off fourth street, made famous by his song.

I never liked him in the least. He couldn't sing, and his politics were indefensible, making his lyrics as bad as his singing. He still can't sing. Why anyone would want to listen to him singing someone else's songs is beyond me.

[dfwgator]

In Before, Dylan Can’t Sing.

[Gay State Conservative]

In the 60’s Dylan was a genius...perhaps the most influential songwriter of the modern era.But today....sorry,does not compute.

[equaviator]

I think it was ‘78 or ‘79 when he released “Infidel”. After 9-11, I thought about buying it just to see what it was all about but I thought better of it and just downloaded it for free. The next day, I accidently deleted it but I never bothered to download it again.

[Fiji Hill]

Frank Sinatra may have recorded all of the songs, but some of the hit versions were by other acts:

• Some Enchanted Evening--Perry Como (1949)

• That Luck Old Sun--Frankie Laine (1949)

• Autumn Leaves--Jo Stafford (1950)

[Georgia Girl 2]

I love Bob Dylan singing Bob Dylan

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[dainbramaged]

The man has written some great songs over the decades. Gotta love Bob Dylan.

[kinsman redeemer]

...went to iTunes... listened to samples of every cut.
Hated it.
It’s melancholy and is not the style I’d like to hear from him.
I won’t be adding it to my collection.

But I WILL go listen to the “Slow Train Comin’” album again...and again!

[Sirius Lee]

Just think how great Dylan’s songs would be if someone would put them to music, and them someone else would sing them!

[left that other site]

I call my aged mom every morning. My B-I-L lives upstairs and comes down every morning to grind up all her pills and mix them into her applesauce.

So, she says to me:

Mom: “Donnie’s in the Kitchen mixing up my medicine.”

to which I replied:

“And I’m on the Internet, FReepin’ ‘bout the Government!”

She GOT it! hahahahaha!

mom is cool.

[driftless2]

Dylan never had a great voice, but for a while he had a decent voice. "Nashville Skyline" for example was an album where his voice actually sounded mellow on a number of tracks. But certainly starting out Dylan was unconcerned about his voice and the music to his songs. He was quoted as saying only lyrics count. So he "borrowed" a lot of melodies and sang his songs with a rough voice.

And he didn't care much for production techniques. He was known as One-take Zimmy by some of his musician friends for his refusal to do more than one take on his recorded songs.

So while Dylan put out a lot of good songs, he put out a lot of crap as well. Poorly sung, indifferently played crap. Even in concert on his best songs he breezed through many of them in a haphazard, musical way.

I don't know if many people remember in 1976 NBC put on a live Dylan primetime special called "Hard Rain." It was awful. Again Dylan just sped through his songs as if merely playing by the numbers made a good concert. Dylan simply didn't care what people (or his audience) thought about the way he did things. Probably still doesn't.

[SamAdams76]

Bob Dylan is a musical genius and I'm glad he's spending his later years interpreting other people's works.

Rumor has it that he's working on an album of covers by Robert Smith, who many here might know as song writer and lead singer for the British goth band "The Cure."

I'm looking very much forward to that.