Bob wasn't a talented musician, or singer. While his songwriting was considered brilliant, it seems very second rate in comparison with many other writers. I get the feeling that Dylan was a guy who rambled on about nothing, in unpleasant tones and careless language, with no noteworthy musical backing, and was universally praised for it.
2007-04-27 17:53:52 · 11 answers · asked by Kiril 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Yes, yes, yes, I know and what is so special about that. If I sat down with my guitar and beat on a few chords while grunting out the random words that popped into my head that would be pretty awesome too huh? I don't beleive a person is great just because they are the first to do something. First to be quite this lousy, but with an electric guitar ! That's Bob Dylan
2007-04-28 01:47:44 · update #1
It was not only what he sang, but how he sang it: plain, unvarnished, direct.
True, otehr groups took his songs to the tops, but he was unafraid to please only himself
2007-04-27 18:00:12 · answer #1 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dylan was a master lyricist. He was an icon to the young people in the 60's and early 70's who wanted radical social change. The back drop to all of this was the Vietnam War in which many of the young were dying or being mutilated. Maybe we need another great poem set to music these days which are not that dissimiliar. Hey Bob ! What in the hell are you doing ?
2007-04-27 18:04:57 · answer #2 · answered by John M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
dylan did many things that hadn't been done before
his 'ramblings'
were stream of conciousness experiments
stemming from beat poetry
to better understand robert zimmerman
you have to get to know his musical heros
woody gutherie, ramblin' jack elliot et.al.
he was also an artistic offshoot of the beats
(check out some of that stuff)
he was also the first folkie to go electric in '66
no big deal to us today
but groundbreaking then
i can't call myself a 'fan'
but appreciate his impact on music
2007-04-27 18:02:59 · answer #3 · answered by mrlucky 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
nicely i do not see why everyone might want to be "shoving" Dylan "down your throat," yet you're for sure entitled on your opinion. Bob Dylan is often approved with mainstreaming the human beings track Revalation of the 1960's even as being a helpful voice for social change. a lot of songs criticized authorities and social guidelines and stood hostile to authority, calling for human beings to open up their minds and embody change. Musically, Dylan is a masterful author of lyric. a real poet who has enlightened, entertained, knowledgeable, and on celebration (as is the case of Ruben Carter contained in the track "hurricane") shed gentle on injustice. He has inspired quite slightly each American singer/track-author over the perfect 50 years. even as he dies, he will truly be placed contained in the better echelon of yank Poets. he's likewise fairly prolific, having written probable close to to one thousand songs. None of this for sure skill you may want to like him, yet he particular as heck isn't going everywhere.
2016-12-05 00:08:07 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are to young to understand the meaning of his music or the message in the lyrics.It's about life and how hard it is.Not in the sence of my parents didnt do or give me enough.Try leaving your parents house at 16 years old and become responsible for your self, work to support yourself and live this way then Listen to the greats like Dillan who idolised Woody Guthry, Jelly roll Johnson, Missipi John Hurt and many more. Then ask yourself If he can sing or write poetry.
2007-04-27 18:08:58 · answer #5 · answered by WDOUI 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dylan was anti-establishment at a time when it was downright dangerous to be anti-establishment (early 1960's). If you want to know just how f-cked-up society was about those kind of things, read up on a comedian named Lenny Bruce and how the system really screwed him over.
2007-04-27 18:00:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because you my friend are a fool you are one of that brainwased ones in our society but even some of still like dylan probably not for the right reasons but still....... now i will leave with what you 'ramblings on about nothing. how many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man? and how many seas must a white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand and how many must a cannonballs fly before their forever banned the asnwer my friend is blown in the the asnwer is blown in the wind
ingorant fool.
2007-04-28 09:24:14 · answer #7 · answered by Broken Windows 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
WE ARE ALL ENTITLED TO OUR OPINIONS. I REMEMBER THE GOOD OLD DAYS AND HE WAS CONSIDERED GREAT BACK THEN. ID GLADLY TURN THE CLOCK BACK AND NOT HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE CRAP THAT PLAYS ON THE RADIO THESE DAYS WHICH IS WHY I DONT TURN THE SET ON ANY MORE
2007-04-27 17:58:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2007-04-27 20:02:44 · answer #9 · answered by greengrass44444 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"was"?
is he dead....thought he's still present tense?
alrighty then....songs w/ themes most of us could relate to
the music man's music man....
2007-04-27 18:01:00 · answer #10 · answered by AtThePub 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋