What do you think of Bob Dylan
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SaskiaJayne
Rural Guerrilla
I'm sorry to be in this category but for those of us of a certain age Dylan literally was God. His early stuff brings back nice 70s memories of sitting up all night smoking dope, talking bollocks & listening to his stuff.
Athos
Well-Known Member
SaskiaJayne
Rural Guerrilla
No clue in the link as to why you lent him £200 though. If I had met him back in the day & he had hustled me for money I would have been outraged. A the time I totally bought into the the 'all property is theft & all music should be free' etc etc thing.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
This explains why that album of jazz standards he did recently is so bloody awful.
bimble
floofy
Nobel Prize for Literature!
Surprising but also yes, man's a poet whatever you think of his delivery.
Bob Dylan wins Nobel prize in literature 2016 – live
Surprising but also yes, man's a poet whatever you think of his delivery.
Bob Dylan wins Nobel prize in literature 2016 – live
Idris2002
Christmas Eve, you know?
The Zim has now won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Really:
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 - Press Release
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
One of my fave verses
For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something they invest in
While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him
While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society’s pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he’s in
For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something they invest in
While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him
While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society’s pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he’s in
andysays
Love and solidarity
What's surprising to me is that he's won it now, four or even five decades after his best/most significant* work. Aren't such prizes normally awarded to people currently doing great work, in whatever field, rather than as some kind of belated "life time achievement" award?
*Clearly, that's an opinion, but one which I think most people would share
He's still gigging 4 nights a week, so fit as a fiddle.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
meh
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Pam Ayres misses out again.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Loved Universal Soldier by him
Bonfirelight
Crocodile
Lots of people make that mistake, but that wasn't actually by Bob Dylan, it was in fact a Dolph Lundgren movie.
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