2006-10-04 11:32:48 · 14 answers · asked by JANET F 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Dylan's words are beguiling, bewiling, entrancing, intriguing, perceiving, deceiving, horse sense and nonsense. The words, though, are at most half of the story.
In just one song, he created, with an unshakeable belief in what he could knock out of Al Kooper and a Hammond organ, one of the great soundscapes of musical history, one which inspired countless others and which remains an untouched touchstone of popular music – Like A Rolling Stone.
He wrote dozens of other melodies (let's pick one out of mid-air – I Dreamed Of St Augustine) which are up there with Jerome Kern, Claude Debussy, Hank Williams, Brian Wilson and the McCartney brothers (McCartney and McCartney, as they were better known, I believe)
I don't know Bob Dylan so if I talked about his "burden" it would be right that I would be ridiculed. But I'll risk it anyway.
His "burden", or one of them, is that journalists work in words, not music. Many of them are aware of Frank Zappa's dictum that writing about music is like dancing about architecture, but few pay heed and most gavotte around the Bilbao Guggenheim.
Who cares. Bob's the guv'nor and no mistake.
2006-10-04 14:20:03 · answer #1 · answered by RankBajin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I got his new CD yesterday and I love it. It is Bob Dylan Modern Times. It is very mellow. (you can tell he's a little older) but I still love it.
2006-10-04 18:45:36 · answer #2 · answered by Denise O 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bob is a legend and totally top banana!
2006-10-04 18:40:08 · answer #3 · answered by bumbleboi 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
not heard his latest album, but his back catalogue is immense. praise those long driving holidays that my dad used to play bob dylan tapes constantly on!
2006-10-04 18:39:11 · answer #4 · answered by ogden25uk 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are there people who still see him as 'Judas' (mouthed at him in Manchester 40 years ago - despite Londoncentric media claiming it was in their wee town), or has he won over their admiration as time went on?
2006-10-04 18:43:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the greatest song writers in history. Without question.
2006-10-04 18:40:22 · answer #6 · answered by little_jo_uk 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love bob's electric stuff, not keen on folk bob.
2006-10-04 18:40:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. Saw him in Manchester last year - amazing!
2006-10-04 18:50:49 · answer #8 · answered by Queen Jane Approximately 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great songs with clever lyrics, but I still wish he could sing better.
2006-10-04 18:50:14 · answer #9 · answered by Gone 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quality!!
2006-10-05 03:20:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋