Posted on 07/01/2005 6:18:43 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
Having never heard of her, I think she should be a bit more careful about how she treads around people a lot more successful than she.
A&R = Artist and Repertoire = talent scout
Check out her 'American flag burka" on her web page. She also has photos with code pink.
surprised?....not me
Yeah, she's a flaming lefty. Be that as it may, her music is still far more interesting than the crap that gets airplay. I like her music.
Anyone who can say this with a straight face must be pretty funny --
I think we could have made it work without the alcoholism.
Dylan admitted that he was so stoned he doesn't know what "meaning" much of what he wrote has. Only Leftist loons try to get meaning from the dribble written by uneducated and constantly stoned musicians. Sometimes they try put out a political statement, (usually from a leftist point of view).
That's about it.
OK. In the 60's he took a lot of speed and wrote a lot of nonsense. And he also wrote dozens of great songs.
In the 70's he also wrote dozens of great songs.
In the early and late 80's he also wrote dozens of great songs (though he had a bad patch in the middle 80's).
He didn't write much since then, but his last 2 albums, in 1997 and 2001, were very original and very good.
Dylan shares with Shakespeare the quality of inexhaustibility. Talent can recognize genius, and most of the pros grant Dylan the top place among contemporary songwriters. Some of them, though, are too jealous to evaluate him objectively.
How many great songs has Michelle Shocked written?
>>... I think he took a lot of speed and wrote a lot of nonsense... And because people were so confused by the times that were a-changing, they elevated his Dada into meaning...<<
Never did get Dylan, although I wasn't around at his, ahem, peak.
I couldn't help but read her statements about Dylan and think of the elevation of Kurt Cobain to the position of the "spokesperson of *his* generation". Although I do like a lot of Nirvana's music, to think of Kurt Cobain as the spokesperson of anything (except perhaps "This is Your Brain on Drugs" or maybe, more fittingly, "This is Your Brains on the Ceiling") is ridiculous.
All you Dylan fans must be deaf. Let me point out something:
He's a HORRIBLE singer. I mean HORRIBLE! He sings horribly! Can anyone say he is a good singer? Thats what dylan fans don't get. People dislike him because he is a horrible, horrible singer. I'm surprised Quincy Jones didn't shoot him when he sang his part in "We are the World".
Dylan's singing voice is a take off on traditional folk and blues singers.
OK, Nathan. You don't like or respect Dylan. No problem.
What CD's are in your car? in your home player? Who do you listen to?
He could play Dylan's Nashville Skyline and listen to Charlie Daniels on that album. The two have been friends for years...
Just caught Michelle at Antone's here in Austin last Sunday evening. It was a great show as always. Carolyn Wonderland opened for her. If you haven't had a chance to hear Carolyn go to her website www.carolynwonderland.com several free downloads are available. She Rocks!!!!!
I agree that you hear many say what you have said. More often, though, as on this thread, the dislike for Dylan comes from his lyrics, not his voice.
Good singer? I wouldn't go so far. His voice and his words work well together for me. Music need not be "pretty" for me to like it. A good number of the Texas songwriters that Michelle seems to tout in the interview (not by name) also have difficult voices. Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark spring immediately to mind.
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