Posted on 06/12/2020 12:38:54 PM PDT by ifinnegan
Why didn't more people pay attention to Little Richard’s gospel music?
Probably because gospel music is the music of good news and in these days there just isn’t any. Good news in today’s world is like a fugitive, treated like a hoodlum and put on the run. Castigated. All we see is good-for-nothing news. And we have to thank the media industry for that. It stirs people up. Gossip and dirty laundry. Dark news that depresses and horrifies you.
On the other hand, gospel news is exemplary. It can give you courage. You can pace your life accordingly, or try to, anyway. And you can do it with honor and principles. There are theories of truth in gospel but to most people it’s unimportant. Their lives are lived out too fast. Too many bad influences. Sex and politics and murder is the way to go if you want to get people’s attention. It excites us, that’s our problem.
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Somehow you managed to make a thread about Bob Dylan all about you.
Congratulations.
If you don’t care about it, maybe next time don’t click?
| Here's an interesting version of Dylan singing a Leonard Cohen song... "Hallelujah" - Bob Dylan Here's Leonard Cohen doing that song (with lyrics)... "Hallelujah" - Leonard Cohen |
If you can’t stand other opinions on an open forum, then maybe YOU should stay the hell off it.
He is probably the only “giant” of the sixties I have ever seen in concert. It was around 1981 or so after he had released his Christian albums. His first tour after that he only did his Christian stuff and his old time fans booed him. I caught him on his next tour where he did a blend of his classics and the new Christian stuff. It was a great show.
I grew up just a few miles from Dylan’s home town in Northern Minnesota. I attended the U of M just a couple of years after he did, and lived there on Fifth St., a block north of “Positively Fourth St.” fame. That all said, I consider him to be the worst ‘singer’ I ever heard on the radio. He was so bad that I never listened even long enough to even hear the lyrics. It’s been said that he is a ‘great poet’. If so, he’s such a bad singer that the noises he makes while reading his poetry drown out any message he possibly could be attempting to express with his poetry.
...and hatred.
That's the reason for that permanent scowl on Michelle Obama's ugly mug. She's been full of hate for a VERY long time.
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