Dylan is painfully overrated.
Don’t bother flaming me, you know I’m right. ; )
America has too few famous poets to put Ol’ Bob down.
Afraid you’re wrong there. Some of the most beautiful and complex lyrics on the planet and the music is melodious.
Anybody know “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”? The late great Christopher Hitchens wrote a nice essay about this greatest of protest songs. Judy’s live concert covers it magnificently. She ended her first set at Carnegie Hall with it in the mid 60s. The song packed a wallop.
I am not going to flame you. All music is a matter of opinion. To you overrated, to me ( and most others on this thread) genius. Who is to say? But I will say this, it doesn’t sound like you are familiar with all of Dylan’s music aside from the half dozen or so songs they may play on any generic “classic rock” station. I think on that score you know I am right.
Dylan is painfully overrated.
Don’t bother flaming me, you know I’m right. ; )
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No flames from me, to each his or her own.
But if Dylan is overrated, who do you think should occupy the space he occupies?
It’s easy to put him down (they’re just words after all), harder to come out and say who’s better.
I don’t go for the ‘best’, because it’s entirely subjective. Rarely does a day go by withoutb my hearing any Dylan, Richard Thompson and Lucinda Williams.