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To: Michael.SF.

OK, let me put it to you this way.

Cash and Stewart could/can carry a tune AND you can understand them when they sing.

I have yet to find a Dylan song where what he’s saying is 100% clear. Most of it sounds like “bleh bleah blah BLAH!”


67 posted on 04/08/2008 9:39:01 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

In his 60s and 70s prime you can understand everything.


72 posted on 04/08/2008 9:43:01 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Spktyr
Gotcha.

Actually, many of my favorite 'Dylan' songs are those performed by others.

Johnny Cash with 'Wanted Man', Hendrix with 'Watchtower', the Byrds with several.

Dylan's greatness is certainly not his vocal skills (or lack there of)

73 posted on 04/08/2008 9:44:33 AM PDT by Michael.SF. ("democrat" -- 'one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses " - Joseph J. Ellis)
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To: Spktyr
Cash and Stewart could/can carry a tune AND you can understand them when they sing.

Check out Cash's rendition (w/Bob Dylan, of all people) of Girl from the North Country (on Nashville Skyline) if you're so confident he can carry a tune.

And Rod Stewart? Gay.

You can understand American Idol singers plainly, and guess what? They all suck.

80 posted on 04/08/2008 9:47:21 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Spktyr

I have yet to find a Dylan song where what he’s saying is 100% clear. Most of it sounds like “bleh bleah blah BLAH!”
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I think you’ve finally outed yourself as someone who really hasn’t listened to much Dylan. Your continued harping on ‘he can’t sing’ just sounds like so much of the boilerplate criticism we hear about him routinely. Nasal voice? You betcha. Imcomprehensible? That’s just silly.

Go download a few tunes from Blood on the Tracks, or even Blond on Blond. If you can’t make out what he’s saying on ‘To Johanna’, or ‘Shelter from the Storm’ or even ‘Lilly Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts’, you aren’t trying.


89 posted on 04/08/2008 9:53:07 AM PDT by dmz
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