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Dylan song 'changed the world'
yahoo news/Reuters ^ | Aug. 5, 2005

Posted on 08/05/2005 8:50:42 AM PDT by nuconvert

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To: Borges
>> ...he appropriated the Bach Prelude.

You see? That's what made it great :-)

81 posted on 08/05/2005 10:03:52 AM PDT by T'wit (If any liberals get to Heaven, they'll lecture God on what's wrong with it and reform it all to Hell)
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To: patriot_wes

Schubert is as good as songwriting gets.


82 posted on 08/05/2005 10:04:09 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Red Badger

"What was strange?"

Having Robert Downey Jr in that list


83 posted on 08/05/2005 10:04:16 AM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: Borges
>> Schubert is as good as songwriting gets

Amen.

84 posted on 08/05/2005 10:06:14 AM PDT by T'wit (If any liberals get to Heaven, they'll lecture God on what's wrong with it and reform it all to Hell)
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To: nuconvert

He's strange no matter where he's at........


85 posted on 08/05/2005 10:08:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? GOOOOGLE your own name. Want to have fun? GOOOOGLE your neighbor's......)
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To: nuconvert
Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" emerged as the most influential film at number five, followed by "The Godfather" and "The Godfather II" films in sixth place.

These people seem to think that history began in 1965. Did they ever hear of Birth of a Nation or Gone With the Wind?

I would argue that two of the most influential films of all time are Sergei Eisenstein's Borenosets Potemkin (Armored Cruiser Potemkin) [1925], which is said to have inspired revolutions, including the one in Cuba, and Leni Riefenstahl's Truimph des Willens (Triumph of the Will) [1936], whose influence can be seen in films ranging from The Sound of Music to Star Wars.

While A Clockwork Orange is a good period piece from an era when socialism and behavior modification were in vogue, I would hardly call it influential.

86 posted on 08/05/2005 10:09:00 AM PDT by Taft in '52
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To: NRA1995

Me too! I would rather listen to Motown than any other music. I still get goosebumps listening to certain songs. (In fact, my car is named "Bernadette"!)


87 posted on 08/05/2005 10:10:21 AM PDT by recoveringlurker
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To: nuconvert

Lots if misinformation out there about Dylan. He never signed up to lead anything.


88 posted on 08/05/2005 10:11:07 AM PDT by don-o (Don't be a Freeploader. Do the right thing and become a Monthly Donor!)
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To: recoveringlurker
Me too! I would rather listen to Motown than any other music. I still get goosebumps listening to certain songs. (In fact, my car is named "Bernadette"!)

Funny.....that is what I named my Fender Jazz Bass....


89 posted on 08/05/2005 10:14:50 AM PDT by NRA1995 ("People do stupid things...." and I hear the Vonage music playing.....woo-hoo, woo-hoo-hoo....)
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To: Taft in '52

I think you are correct about the influence of those two films, much as the world may resent the political sympathies of the two directors.


90 posted on 08/05/2005 10:15:17 AM PDT by T'wit (If any liberals get to Heaven, they'll lecture God on what's wrong with it and reform it all to Hell)
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To: NRA1995

That is funny...Nice looking bass. That's one of the things I love about Motown, lots of bass!


91 posted on 08/05/2005 10:20:21 AM PDT by recoveringlurker
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To: Taft in '52

I think Star Wars changed the culture. It changed what we expected from movies, put classical music on the charts, emphasized the good vs. evil empire we were experiencing at the time.

Heck, remember Reagan's "star wars" project that is partially credited for ending the Cold War? And look at what it did for computer animation, which affects practically everything nowadays. It was a watershed film.

Star Wars is probably one of the most influential films ever made.


92 posted on 08/05/2005 10:22:13 AM PDT by I still care (America is not the problem - it is the solution..)
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To: Clemenza
Robert Zimmerman: Songwriter, gun owner, all round cool old dude...

You're right. Contrary to where popular culture would like to pigeon hole Dylan, he's a bit on the conservative side.

93 posted on 08/05/2005 10:22:59 AM PDT by elbucko
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To: recoveringlurker

Thanks!


94 posted on 08/05/2005 10:24:20 AM PDT by NRA1995 ("People do stupid things...." and I hear the Vonage music playing.....woo-hoo, woo-hoo-hoo....)
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To: NRA1995
Berry Gordy and Motown changed the world....and NO snide remarks about "yeah, he gave us Michael Jackson"....

Well, he did.

;^)

95 posted on 08/05/2005 10:27:22 AM PDT by elbucko
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To: T'wit
How about MacArthur Park?

I have always been a fan of MacArthur Park. In the spring of 1968, MacArthur was one of my heroes. His insistance that there was no substitute for victory and his willingness to sacrifice his career for his principles contrasted sharply with President Johnson's cravenness over the Pueblo incident, his "no win" policy in Vietnam, and his decision not to run for re-election and fight for his principles and policies. When MacArthur Park charted in May of that year, I was pleased to hear a song that referred not only to MacArthur but to a landmark in my native Southern California.

In the 1980's and 1990's, when the Westlake community of Los Angeles, where the park is located, was overrun with "Marielito" gangsters from Cuba, the song nostalgically evoked a time when young lovers could safely picnic in the park and old men could play checkers under the trees.

96 posted on 08/05/2005 10:29:04 AM PDT by Taft in '52
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To: recoveringlurker

Yeah, but when it comes to songs that change the world, the contest has to go between:

"Get Out The Meatballs Mama, We're Coming To A Fork In The Road" and "Drop kick me Jesus, through the goal posts of life"


97 posted on 08/05/2005 10:31:20 AM PDT by Hand em their arse
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To: Chi-townChief
What Bullshit.!Make that "What Unmitigated Bullshit.
98 posted on 08/05/2005 10:35:49 AM PDT by Pompah
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To: VadeRetro
....or maybe "Blowin' in the Wind"

I liked "Blowin in the Wind", as both a conservative and a soldier. The answer that was "blowin'" in the Wind was actually in Latin:

"For those who desire peace, they must prepare for war".

The concept was always way too profound of a paradox for intellectuals and pacifists to comprehend.

99 posted on 08/05/2005 10:36:45 AM PDT by elbucko
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To: Clemenza
Robert Zimmerman: Songwriter, gun owner, all round cool old dude...

Yep. In fact, he inquired about shooting trespassers on his property in Woodstock. The sheriff said he would be in trouble if he did that. So he took his family back to NYC; where a slimeball named AJ Weberman proceed to stalk him and dig through his garbage.

100 posted on 08/05/2005 10:37:45 AM PDT by don-o (Don't be a Freeploader. Do the right thing and become a Monthly Donor!)
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