Taking The Next Few Hours Off
September 26th, 2005 by GoldFalcon
before I head into the studio for the evening, and you should too. If you’re on the East Coast stop what you’re doing, turn to PBS right now and watch this. If you miss it tonight catch the rest tommorrow. If you’re on the west coast it starts at 2100. There is sure to be a left leanign 60’s radical bent to it, but ignore that if you can. This man is the premier songwriter and lyricist of our time. I case you think you don’t like Bob Dylan, here are some songs of his you might not know you knew were his.
Quinn the Eskimo [The Mighty Quinn] - (The Hollies)
Mr. Tamborine Man (The Byrds)
Make You Feel My Love (Garth Brooks - from “Hope Floats”)
All Along The Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix)
Man in the Long Black Coat (Joan Osborne)
Knockin On Heaven’s Door (Eric Clapton & Guns N Roses)
Forever Young (Rod Stewart)
Simple Twist of Fate (Concrete Blonde)
The Weight (The Band)
No offense, but Dylan does nothing for me. I consider him one of the most overrated singer/songwriters of all time. His lyrics are a hodgepodge of drug induced ramblings, and his singing is a nasal mumbling mess. He has, like so many others, become an icon for the hippy generation, but I never really saw what all the fuss was about. I know a lot, and I mean A LOT of folks consider him a genius, or at the very least an extremely gifted artist that brought a whole new sound to the 60’s. Personally, though, I think a lot of folks confuse new and unusual with talented and deep. Just my two cents. On the other hand, I like Social Distortion and Ray Wylie Hubbard, and you couldn’t find two more different styles if you tried, so what the hell do I know.
None taken. You are certainly not the only one who holds that view. That said, I believe that Dylan made it possible for songwriters and lyricists to go deep. I don’t believe any of his stuff from 60-66 was inspired by anything other than literature, poetry, or folk music, since he hadn’t taken drugs at that point.
I am a huge folk music fan.
To me his lyrics make sense. I do not get the drug induced hodgepodge feeling from most of his stuff. Some people are turned seriously off by his vocal style (which -in truth- is not that bad on a lot of his earlier stuff) and his complete rejection of virtuoso posturing.
I happen to like his vocal style since it strips away everything but the lyrics which are –to me– akin to T.S. Eliot, late Robert Frost, or W.B. Yeats. I love the poetry in him. But, I love poetry.
I think he has been co-opted by the left. I don’t think he was ever anything but a folk storyteller. He wasn’t political at all and didn’t want to be. I can sympathize there because my politics are totally separate from my music. I have plenty of songs that could be interprated as liberal, despite the fact that I am to the right of Rush Limbaugh.
My storytelling, my art, my music has zilch to do with politics. “My Pretty Ones” isn’t a political song, it’s just a story. I’ve got one called “Any Wind That Blows” about hurricane Katrina that has nothing to do with the politics but speaks from the point of view of one of the refugees sitting on the I-10 overpass.
I’ve already made it clear that I think that New Orleans was a self made problem stemming from the entitlemnt mentality of the lower classes down there. That won’t stop me from climbing in their head to write a song from a point of view I don’t subscribe to, because it will be an interesting story. I think Dylan was the same way. He wasn’t after political angles, he was after the story, the release, the process.
He wrote poetry, and made it OK for me to write poetry.
For that I owe him.
I’m with Jack but for me it’s more from a Minnesota induced overload. They’ve raised him to the status of (gag) Paul Wellstone. If you are from MN you’re supposed to adulate Dylan. I could never understand a word he sang and if you can’t understand the words what’s the point?
This guy has written a gazillion songs… And granted… If you throw enough crap at the wall, some will eventually stick. But my real point is that he has some great songs. But like many… I hate when he sings them…. Dogs howl when that man sings… but at least he has the guts to get up there and do what he wants…
I watched much of that documentory and if you listen… just about every time he was on stage a bunch of hecklers where yelling at him to get off the stage… but you gotta give the man credit for balls…
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When I said a Gazillion… I may have exaggerated a bit… but… is a lot of songs anyway…
So I don’t make this post too long… check out:
http://bobdylan.com/songs/
Pretty big list…
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