It ain't me babe...

Well, he did write about blowing in the wind.

We did visit the home where he grew up in Hibbings, MN, and started his music career. It's still a private resident, unmarked, and not a museum.
 
About a month ago I added his "radio station" on my Pandora account. There are a lot of things he's written over the years that either I forgot or didn't know. It really pays to listen closely to his lyrics, but it's so hard to hear them clearly that I have to follow along with a printed version. Rolling Stone magazine named "Like a Rolling Stone" as the #1 greatest song of all time.
 
While his voice is rough... really rough... I've always enjoyed his music because of the lyrics. He's an exceptional writer. Well deserved award.
 
tinerj said:
Well, he did write about blowing in the wind.

We did visit the home where he grew up in Hibbings, MN, and started his music career. It's still a private resident, unmarked, and not a museum.
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So, is the "answer" "It's blowin' in the wind", or is the answer found in the blowin' wind?
 
My wife told me that this morning, showed me the story on her phone. I asked her if the story was from the Onion.

My vote would go for Joni Mitchell, but whatevs, I'd rather listen to either of those two than read pretty much anything, save for Jack Kerouac.

Here's one of my favorite Dylan songs:
 
I like various genres and artists based on whatever I'm in the mood for at the time, ranging from classical, to classic rock, to 80's, to alternative, to dance mix, to techno, to gangsta rap, and even occasionally country.

I'm not even sure what kind mood I would have to be in to play Bob Dylan.
 
He won the Nobel Prize for Literature, not singing...

I enjoy many of his songs, like "My Back Pages" above, but I usually prefer them to be sung by someone else.
 
He was the poet of a generation. And played a mean harp. And I believe his voice was the perfect vehicle for most of his poetry. Well deserved recognition. Many who have never payed much attention to his work will now. There is a certain something about the timing.

Come senators, congressmen please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside and it's ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a' changin'!
 
I can think of better lyricists from the 60s and 70s. Interesting. Dylan is good at it, but not sure he's the best. Interesting choice.
 
coloradobluesky said:
Paul Simon's stuff will live forever as well.
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I saw Bob Dylan and Paul Simon perform together years ago... was gold. Seriously great stuff. Their voices contrasted so much, but they harmonized well and made it work.


Sac Arrow said:
I like various genres and artists based on whatever I'm in the mood for at the time, ranging from classical, to classic rock, to 80's, to alternative, to dance mix, to techno, to gangsta rap, and even occasionally country.
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That's how I am. As for what mood you need to be in to listen to Dylan... a slightly dark, somewhat poetic and almost wholly introverted one.
 
Of the top 100 songs of all time, he sang two and wrote there others.

According to Lucas Davenport, aka John Sandford.
 
I mentioned Dylan's winning the Nobel to the old hippie lady who lives down the hill this morning while we were at the Post Office. The conversation went like this:

Me: Hey, you hear about Bob Dylan?

Old Hippie Lady: Yes, isn't it exciting? It's a radical departure for the Nobel Committee to award the Prize for Literature to a musician.

Me: Well, the times, they are a'changing.​

If she got it, she showed no sign.

Rich
 
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage, for these times are a changing....

Wait, I always get Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas mixed up....
 
Dylan, Simon, Mitchell have all been mentioned here so far. Who are the "writers" of the last, say 80 years or so that had something to say in their lyrics. I'll start it out with Guthrie, father and son.
 
luvflyin said:
Dylan, Simon, Mitchell have all been mentioned here so far. Who are the "writers" of the last, say 80 years or so that had something to say in their lyrics. I'll start it out with Guthrie, father and son.
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Leonard Cohen.
 
luvflyin said:
Yeah. Him getting it wold have been appropriate. Maybe next year.

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made
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Pretty sure various "prophets" beat him to that one by a couple millennia. Or more. Idolatry isn't exactly anything new in humans. Every generation has a new voice warning against that.

Cajun_Flyer said:
Leonard Cohen.
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Ooh. Nice.

If one is looking for a prolific storyteller of life, one need look no further than Chapin. But his stuff won't be winning any awards for speaking out against geopolitics and obvious stuff like "war is bad" lyrics. Nobellians seem to like that theme best.

Nobel prizes are the weirdest things anyway, if you look at the history. Some dude figures out how to synthesize nitrates to blow more humans up than ever before, and then they hand out awards in his name for "peace" to statist warmongers annually. LOL. Most of our "peace prize" winners order the death of others via military strikes while smiling and accepting their prizes.

^^ Just calling that one like it is. Very strange.

One could argue the most powerful song lyric of the entire late 60s to early 70s generation was, "I ain't no Senator's son." Probably ****ed off more people and saved more human lives than anything Dylon wrote.

Even more "meta" and ironic, each generation's "peaceniks" (I'll make up a word because "hippie" is loaded for some people...) end up in power and vote to kill again. And again. And again. Statism and tribalism always return as soon as they have power.

Whole bunches of former 60s "peaceniks" voted to make sure this generation isn't allowed to see the bodies they create returning to Andrews -- because they know what happened to their predecessors who allowed the cameras to see that.

Killing other humans is pretty much what all statists do for a living.

"There's something happenin' here. What it is, ain't exactly clear."

Actually, it is. Same ****, different decade.

Rah-rah chemical explosives guy! Let's hand out some more awards! No more shipping our convicts off to scrape bat guano off of islands to make bombs until they die! Woooot! LOL. Good old Alfred. Now we can make that stuff in a lab.

* Of course people also figured out how to use Alfred's concoction to build infrastructure and do other much better things than blowing up other humans with it, but governments really appreciated his invention more for the ability to toss it at other humans and rip off body parts with it at lower costs than before. Made him a very rich man.
 
Pretty much un-listenable for me. I do think he is a great writer. Weird Al did a spoof on him. Dylan's style and complete gibberish. Hilarious.
 
Never was a huge Dylan fan, but whatever. Honestly the Nobel prize committee(s?) lost any vestige of credibility in, oh, about 2009. That which they had not already lost in 1994, that is.
 
timwinters said:
...well, okay, maybe it is you!

Congratulations Mr. Dylan. Well deserved.

:)
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I removed the "Now, if you could just learn to sing." part in my head and then liked your post, because the rest was great.

His singing is one of the most easily recognizable out of all musicians ever. This is based on 100% fact. There, you just read it on the internet, now it's true.

Seriously I was a big fan growing up, loved Blonde on Blonde and more. My friend's dad would listen to it, so we heard it, and after a camping trip, it grew on me and I was a fan.

There are different kinds of singing; Dylan doesn't sound like Rihanna, and she doesn't sound like the lead singer for Ministry (Al Jourgensen). Yet I love to listen to all three and more.
 
DaleB said:
Never was a huge Dylan fan, but whatever. Honestly the Nobel prize committee(s?) lost any vestige of credibility in, oh, about 2009. That which they had not already lost in 1994, that is.
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Yeah, Yasser Arafat and Obama were not what I would call quality choices though neither was Al Gore in 2007.
 
I don't the same committee that awards the Nobel for physics and chemistry is not the same as the one that awards the Peace prize.
 
It's amazing how certain individuals here can even take a good-hearted thread about a singer and turn it into a hate platform for certain political parties and science.
 
timwinters said:
It's amazing how certain individuals here can even take a good-hearted thread about a singer and turn it into a hate platform for certain political parties and science.
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Really? I read the whole thing and see no sign of "hate" for either science or any political party. I see some bemusement over some very questionable (OK, addle-brained) Nobel prize selections over the years, but it's a pretty big leap from that to hatred for anything or anyone.
 
timwinters said:
It's amazing how certain individuals here can even take a good-hearted thread about a singer and turn it into a hate platform for certain political parties and science.
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The Nobel folks can live in the bed they make for themselves. Giving a songwriter a literature award attempts to elevate lyrics to the level of say, Shakespeare? LOL. Yeah, we all know better.

DaleB said:
Really? I read the whole thing and see no sign of "hate" for either science or any political party. I see some bemusement over some very questionable (OK, addle-brained) Nobel prize selections over the years, but it's a pretty big leap from that to hatred for anything or anyone.
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This. Nobel tarnishes their own name with goofy awards and folks laugh. It wouldn't matter which political bent they take.
 
DaleB said:
Really? I read the whole thing and see no sign of "hate" for either science or any political party.
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That might be the case if there was any relevance whatsoever. But when people just keep inserting jabs for the sake of inserting jabs? They harbor a level animosity I'm not familiar with.

I've tried to come to a place where I try not to criticize people for actions their conscience tells them to take...IF the action is based on logic and not emotion.
 
timwinters said:
That might be the case if there was any relevance whatsoever. But when people just keep inserting jabs for the sake of inserting jabs? They harbor a level animosity I'm not familiar with.

I've tried to come to a place where I try not to criticize people for actions their conscience tells them to take...IF the action is based on logic and not emotion.
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So, it's OK to criticize people for acting on their emotions, then? Or am I misunderstanding? Just trying to clarify the rules of engagement. I figure if you take the same actions I do, then obviously they are based on logic and reason. If you do something different, then clearly you've just had a purely emotional reaction. Of course following your conscience is pretty much by definition an emotional thing.

:) Just yankin' your chain a little, pal. Live and let live... but no one said we all have to agree all the time, right? :) It's Friday afternoon and it's been a long, tiring week. I vote we all knock off an hour early, go fly and enjoy the beverage of your choice in blissful peace.
 
I like Dylan but I could really care less that he got a Nobel for his work. It doesn't really mean much to me especially in light of who else has received various Nobel prizes over the years. Besides it is awarded by a bunch of Norwegians that most people have never heard of. Not really very monumental. As far as hate for a certain political party being interpreted by the names that I listed in my other post, I can assure you that if GWB had received a Nobel I'd bash the prize even more.
 
timwinters said:
That might be the case if there was any relevance whatsoever. But when people just keep inserting jabs for the sake of inserting jabs? They harbor a level animosity I'm not familiar with.

I've tried to come to a place where I try not to criticize people for actions their conscience tells them to take...IF the action is based on logic and not emotion.
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O_o
 
nauga said:
They might have heard of them if they looked in Sweden ;)
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They didn't establish the Nobel Peace Prize in his name, he established the Peace prize in his name, and funded it. (He read his obituary after an explosion at a factory was thought to have killed him. Not a good obit.)

I totally agree that Dylan has made songwriting a form of literature.
 
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