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<p>Great album that, Darkness on the edge of town is another favourite. I've been listening to the ghost of Tom Joad a lot lately ,Galveston Bay, Sineloa Cowboys and the title track are just superb.</p>
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<p>That holiday really cemented my love for the boss, me and a car full of 20-21 year old blokes who up until then had listened to Rage, STP, Faith No More, Pearl Jam etc and dismissed Bruce as a relic from the 80s.</p> -
<p>Applauding Springsteen and rubbishing Dylan is like applauding the current AB's without acknowledging their history.<br>
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Sure Dylan's voice is no great shakes but similarly quoting Born to Run without understanding Dylan's contribution to modern music and particularly lyrical composition leaves you open to having one of dylans lines quoted at you "don't criticise what you can't understand"<br>
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Heres the Boss himself inducting Springsteen into the RnR Hall of Fame<br>
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<p>The first time that I heard Bob Dylan I was in the car with my mother, and we were listening to, I think, maybe WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody kicked open the door to your mind, from 'Like a Rolling Stone.' And my mother, who was - she was no stiff with rock and roll, she liked the music, she listened - she sat there for a minute, she looked at me, and she said, 'That guy can't sing.' But I knew she was wrong. I sat there, I didn't say nothin', but I knew that I was listening to the toughest voice that I had ever heard. It was lean, and it sounded somehow simultaneously young and adult, and I ran out and I bought the single.<br>
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And when I was a kid, Bob's voice somehow - it thrilled and scared me. It made me feel kind of irresponsibly innocent. And it still does. But it reached down and touched what little worldliness I think a 15-year-old kid, in high school, in New Jersey had in him at the time. Dylan was - he was a revolutionary, man, the way that Elvis freed your body, Bob freed your mind. And he showed us that just because the music was innately physical, it did not mean that it was anti-intellect. He had the vision and the talent to expand a pop song until it contained the whole world. He invented a new way a pop singer could sound. He broke through the limitations of what a recording artist could achieve, and he changed the face of rock and roll forever and ever. Without Bob, the Beatles wouldn't have made Sergeant Pepper, maybe the Beach Boys wouldn't have made Pet Sounds, the Sex Pistols wouldn't have made 'God Save the Queen,' U2 wouldn't have done 'Pride in the Name of Love,' Marvin Gaye wouldn't have done 'What's Goin'On,' Grandmaster Flash might not have done 'The Message,' and the Count Five could not have done 'Psychotic Reaction<br>
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So I'm just here tonight to say thanks, to say that I wouldn't be here without you, to say that there isn't a soul in this room who does not owe you their thanks. And to steal a line from one of your songs, whether you like it or not, 'you was the brother that I never had.' - See more at: <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://rockhall.com/inductees/bob-dylan/transcript/bruce-springsteen-on-dylan/#sthash.vrxjWdKt.dpuf'>https://rockhall.com/inductees/bob-dylan/transcript/bruce-springsteen-on-dylan/#sthash.vrxjWdKt.dpuf</a></p>
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​I'm not actually a great Dylan fan, it's probably years since I have bothered to play one of his songs but while I understand that everyone's tastes are different and lots of people won't like his music trash talking down his contribution / legacy is just dumb.<br>
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I love early Springsteen I bought Born to Run as an import before it was released in NZ but Dylan can conjure up amazing visions too<br>
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I listen to almost all genres but have been trawling through my back catalogue recently and this was the last thing I played</p>
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<p>How do you go from there to "We built this City"?</p>
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<p>Applauding Springsteen and rubbishing Dylan is like applauding the current AB's without acknowledging their history.<br>
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Sure Dylan's voice is no great shakes but similarly quoting Born to Run without understanding Dylan's contribution to modern music and particularly lyrical composition leaves you open to having one of dylans lines quoted at you "don't criticise what you can't understand"<br>
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Heres the Boss himself inducting Springsteen into the RnR Hall of Fame<br>
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​I'm not actually a great Dylan fan, it's probably years since I have bothered to play one of his songs but while I understand that everyone's tastes are different and lots of people won't like his music <strong>trash talking down his contribution / legacy is just dumb.</strong><br>
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I love early Springsteen I bought Born to Run as an import before it was released in NZ but Dylan can conjure up amazing visions too<br>
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I listen to almost all genres but have been trawling through my back catalogue recently and this was the last thing I played</p>
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<p>Well no, it's expressing an opinion. What music actually evolves into is often far superior than it's source.</p>
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<p>very fucking good point M4L - too much acid</p>
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<p>Cassidy and Kaukonen left and took their blues mojo to Hot Tuna</p>
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<p>Kantner and Slick married and went from psychedelic to psycho and got into the whole space ships from god buzz</p>
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<p>That song (voted Rolling Stones worst song of the 80's) featured none of the Airplane members though.</p> -
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<p>very fucking good point M4L - too much acid</p>
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<p>Cassidy and Kaukonen left and took their blues mojo to Hot Tuna</p>
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<p>Kantner and Slick married and went from psychedelic to psycho and got into the whole space ships from god buzz</p>
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<p><strong>That song (voted Rolling Stones worst song of the 80's) featured none of the Airplane members though.</strong></p>
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<p>Nope. Grace Slick sung co-lead vocals.</p>
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<p>I didn't realise she was out of rehab</p>
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<p>Makes sense I guess.</p>
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<p>I really had the hots for her back when I thought dying of an OD on the corner of Haight/Ashbury would be the coolest thing ever :idiot2:​</p>
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<p>dylan wrote the hell out of some songs - and if you don't like his voice, which i can understand - well luckily for you they have been covered a shitload because they're shit-hot - to the extent that unless you're a classical fanatic then you'll almost certainly be able to find an artist you already like singing a dylan song.</p>
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<p>His Americana/Springsteen parody, <em>Tweeter and the Monkeyman</em>, was brilliant. He pretty much made it up on the spot - see the Travelling Wilburys documentary.</p>
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<p>Great song, loaded with Springsteen references and the wtf about Tweeters sexual identity. There was quite abit about the Wilburys on the Jeff Lynne doco.</p> -
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<p>dylan wrote the hell out of some songs - and if you don't like his voice, which i can understand - well luckily for you they have been covered a shitload because they're shit-hot - to the extent that <strong>unless you're a classical fanatic then you'll almost certainly be able to find an artist you already like singing a dylan song.</strong></p>
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<p>Applauding Springsteen and rubbishing Dylan is like applauding the current AB's without acknowledging their history.<br>
<br>
Sure Dylan's voice is no great shakes but similarly quoting Born to Run without understanding Dylan's contribution to modern music and particularly lyrical composition leaves you open to having one of dylans lines quoted at you "don't criticise what you can't understand"<br>
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Heres the Boss himself inducting Springsteen into the RnR Hall of Fame<br>
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​I'm not actually a great Dylan fan, it's probably years since I have bothered to play one of his songs but while I understand that everyone's tastes are different and lots of people won't like his music trash talking down his contribution / legacy is just dumb.<br>
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I love early Springsteen I bought Born to Run as an import before it was released in NZ but Dylan can conjure up amazing visions too<br>
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I listen to almost all genres but have been trawling through my back catalogue recently and this was the last thing I played</p>
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<p>This is 100% why I don't get Dylan.</p> -
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<p>I'm pretty sure that this track needs to be posted at least once per year.<br><br>
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<p>Bit of a ho hum cheesy 80s song but it's made awesome by arguably THE greatest guitar lead I've ever heard on a studio version of a song. the Godfather of shred at his best......</p>
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<p>I'm not and I haven't</p>
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<p>well from my extensive knowledge of your musical tastes, let's see... i know you said you liked one artist... yeah that's it: you said you liked the boss, and whaddaya know - the boss has covered dylan.</p>
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<p>well from my extensive knowledge of your musical tastes, let's see... i know you said you liked one artist... yeah that's it: you said you liked the boss, and whaddaya know - the boss has covered dylan.</p>
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<p>oh yeah and you also said you listened to RATM, FNM, STP and Pearl Jam. Rage and Pearl Jam (or maybe just Eddie?) have also definitely covered Dylan.</p>
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<p>Second post on why I 100% don't get Dylan.</p>
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<p>It makes me feel like somebody who voted for Brexit because I generally didn't like the European Union. There's a whole lot of "experts" telling me what I actually think, and seem to be incapable of accepting that I don't like Dylan.</p>
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<p>Second post on why I 100% don't get Dylan.</p>
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<p>It makes me feel like somebody who voted for Brexit because I generally didn't like the European Union. There's a whole lot of "experts" telling me what I actually think, and seem to be incapable of accepting that I don't like Dylan.</p>
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<p>It's just madness. And why, I just don't get Dylan.</p>
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<p>music is personal taste - if you don't like something you don't like it and that's sweet as. i'm just saying that i think his songs are good, some of them great, and pointing out that if you are turned off by his voice (which many people are, including me initially), there are a heap of covers by people with completely different voices which are worth a crack. </p> -
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<p>music is personal taste - if you don't like something you don't like it and that's sweet as. i'm just saying that i think his songs are good, some of them great, and pointing out that if you are turned off by his voice (which many people are, including me initially), there are a heap of covers by people with completely different voices which are worth a crack. </p>
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<p>I agree 100%. And yet, both you and dogmeat have felt inclined to write posts suggesting that we are wrong.</p>
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Colour me slow but I don't understand. What is it that was 100% why you don't get Dylan. <br><br>
Personally I don't have any issues with ppl not liking any artist. It was the most over-rated and other arbitrary comments I thought OTT. <br><br>
I don't like a lot of country and find it too easy to lampoon the whole the dog ran off with my best friend and the wife died thing but I can understand the musical influence the genres had.
