Posted on 10/13/2016 4:37:05 AM PDT by Sir_Humphrey
Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," the Swedish Academy said on Thursday in awarding the 8 million Swedish crown ($927,740) prize.
Literature was the last of this year's Nobel prizes to be awarded. The prize is named after dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel and has been awarded since 1901 for achievements in science, literature and peace in accordance with his will.
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“Johnny’s in the basement mixing up the medicine, I’m on the pavement talking ‘bout the government....”
Agreed,
Subterranean WOoo’s!
Dylan’s statement on winning the Nobel prize: “Myun nun inyy wood. Meenan stoon ina you. Babe.”
Uncle Bob deserved this... Damned Straight!
Knocking on Heaven’s Door?
Yes, yet, I think Leonard Cohen is better.
The Nobel Prize is a piece of poop.. But I have the highest respect for Bob Dylan’s songwriting and his performances. Glad to see a good guy win a Nobel for a change, even though previous “winners” render the whole Nobel prize thing rather meaningless.
Maybe Bob finds a suitable place to display it at home.
Look out kid, it’s something you did...
The first “rap” song.
They’re selling postcards of the hanging
They’re painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They’ve got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tightrope walker
The other is in his pants
And the riot squad they’re restless
They need someplace to go
As lady and I look out tonight
From Desolation Row
Very true and one of the first true videos.
My collection of Bob Dylan covers is even more extensive than Dylan originals. I’m hard pressed to find a cover version of a Dylan song that I don’t like.
Same with Leonard Cohen. Both great American songwriters. But I think Cohen is more of a New York thing.
Excellent.
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun
Crying like a fire in the sun
Look out, the saints are coming through
And it’s all over now, baby blue
Dylan did deserve this. However, if music lyricists are now evaluated as poets for the literature prize, Shane McGowan should also be in the running...perhaps the greatest Irish wordsmith since Yeats.
But even the the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked
Take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time
Far past the frozen leaves
The haunted frightened trees
Out to the windy bench
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky
With one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea
Circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate
Driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow
I’m offended! The reason Obama didn’t get it was because of all the bigots and racists! (Is a sarcasm notation necessary?)
Is a Nobel prize still a thing?
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