Bob Dylan's massively over-rated imo.

[Ash]

There, I said it. :vsign:

Feckin horrible voice.

[Sir C]

There, I said it. :vsign:

Feckin horrible voice.

:hehe: There's brave, while v isn't around to clout you firmly in the ear'ole.

I tend to agree, mind. So extremely nasal.

I've seen him live a couple of times, and as you know he's famously contrary and no showman, but you can't get away from what keeps running through your head, which is, "Fúck me, that's Bob fúcking Dylan." So it's a sort of worthwhile experience.

[Burney]

There, I said it. :vsign:

Feckin horrible voice.

He’s got a great voice for what he sings. :shrug:
Tangled Up In Blue sung by anyone but His Bobness simply doesn’t work. This is the joy of Bob.

All hail, Bob!

[Burney]

:hehe: There's brave, while v isn't around to clout you firmly in the ear'ole.

I tend to agree, mind. So extremely nasal.

I've seen him live a couple of times, and as you know he's famously contrary and no showman, but you can't get away from what keeps running through your head, which is, "Fúck me, that's Bob fúcking Dylan." So it's a sort of worthwhile experience.

I have to say, the fact that he clearly has total contempt for the audiences at live music events endears him to me even more. :love:

[Sir C]

I have to say, the fact that he clearly has total contempt for the audiences at live music events endears him to me even more. :love:

Actually he isn't nearly as bad as he's made out. He's about 300 times more personable than Van Morrison, for example.

[IUFG]

There, I said it. :vsign:

Feckin horrible voice.

great video for Subterranean Homesick Blues.

everything else, a leetel beet sheeet

[Chief Arrowhead]

There, I said it. :vsign:

Feckin horrible voice.


I've come to terms with him. He is a marker and rite of passage for the
older sector of the Baby Boomer generation and as such it was pretty much a requirement for those folks, now ages 68-74, that he be revered. I have never understood it except in this context. He is more substantive than other 'must revere' Boomer types, Joan Baez for example.

Having said that he was/is an excellent songwriter. Interesting that his political leaning was considered radical left and nowadays you have to place him more right of center/libertarian.

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

great video for Subterranean Homesick Blues.

everything else, a leetel beet sheeet

He's the only American poet or writer I consider world class. Some of his poetry {as in lyrics} is divine.

Though obviously, he did opiates for 3 years and went downhill. Coleridge wrote Kubla Khan.

[Burney]

He's the only American poet or writer I consider world class. Some of his poetry {as in lyrics} is divine.

Though obviously, he did opiates for 3 years and went downhill. Coleridge wrote Kubla Khan.

Walt Whitman? Emily Dickinson? Robert Frost?

Fùck me. :shakehead:

[Sir C]

Walt Whitman? Emily Dickinson? Robert Frost?

Fùck me. :shakehead:

I didn't know she wrote poetry but she was mint in that Police Woman show.

[Burney]

I didn't know she wrote poetry but she was mint in that Police Woman show.

Frost wrote:

’Only where love and need are one,
And the game is played for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever truly done,
For heaven’s and the future’s sakes’

Now I love old Bob, but you could stick him in a room with a pencil and paper for eternity and he’d never come up with anything that good.

[Sir C]

Frost wrote:

’Only where love and need are one,
And the game is played for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever truly done,
For heaven’s and the future’s sakes’

Now I love old Bob, but you could stick him in a room with a pencil and paper for eternity and he’d never come up with anything that good.

Fúck off, that could be from a Depeche Mode single circa 1981.

[Burney]

Fúck off, that could be from a Depeche Mode single circa 1981.

No. The best they came up with was the chorus of ‘Blasphemous Rumours’ - which I thought was pretty profound when I was 11.

[Sir C]

No. The best they came up with was the chorus of ‘Blasphemous Rumours’ - which I thought was pretty profound when I was 11.

Some mentalist in the Guardian has ranked Springsteen's studio albums and, whilst quite rightly putting Darkness at no. 1, has Tunnel of Love at 2 and Born in the USA at 3.

Fúcking socialists make me puke.