the worst writing about bob dylan

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there have to be some real howlers. post 'em.

Westing (By Musket Anne Sexton) (get bent), Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:47 (ten years ago)

One of my favorite profs from university has a blog in which he's trying to listen to his entire discography in a year, the writing's flat as hell but I don't know if I should post it here

Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:49 (ten years ago)

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/14/10_musicians_influenced_by_bob_dylan_who_are_better_than_bob_dylan/

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:57 (ten years ago)

I should post up the liner notes to the 5 CD-R anthology a guy I know made. In his opinion, Dylan's work (at that time, it's a number of years old) falls into 5 distinct eras.

Deliciously hard yet very accessible (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 6 November 2014 21:00 (ten years ago)

That Sly Stone blurb is horrifying.

Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Thursday, 6 November 2014 21:11 (ten years ago)

have at it

http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Artist/bob-dylan

sleeve, Thursday, 6 November 2014 21:42 (ten years ago)

The Beatles were famously influenced by Dylan during the “Rubber Soul” sessions, but you can also hear him hanging over the nonsense lyrics and highbrow snottiness of Lennon’s “Happiness Is a Warm Gun” from the “White Album.” The nod to Bob, though, also emphasizes the really-not-Bob bits — the psychedelic proto-metal heaviness, the actual willingness to do some songwriting, rather than just having one idea and wandering on with it till the track ran out. And of course, the fact that the person singing can actually sing.

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 6 November 2014 21:46 (ten years ago)

the worst writing about bob dylan is like 98% of writing about bob dylan

I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 6 November 2014 21:59 (ten years ago)

Is "Don't think twice" "misogynistic" as the sly stone blurb claims, or is it just a song about callousness during the dissolution of a relationship that may have meant more to one party than the other?

Treeship, Thursday, 6 November 2014 22:18 (ten years ago)

I feel like a song like that, which is so particular and well observed, should be differentiated from like honkey tonk women or something

Treeship, Thursday, 6 November 2014 22:19 (ten years ago)

Anyway, doesn't matter i guess because the authoritative incurious tone of that salon piece is poison.

Treeship, Thursday, 6 November 2014 22:21 (ten years ago)

the worst writing about bob dylan is like 98% of writing about bob dylan

otm

da croupier, Thursday, 6 November 2014 22:32 (ten years ago)

Yeah, I wrote a Dylan piece today and my starting point was "How do I make this NOT sound like overwrought hackwork?"

Westing (By Musket Anne Sexton) (get bent), Friday, 7 November 2014 04:07 (ten years ago)

How many thinkpieces must a man write

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 November 2014 04:14 (ten years ago)

These strengths, though, were accompanied by real weaknesses.

*leans in*

my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 November 2014 04:19 (ten years ago)

bob dylan, notoriously unwilling to engage in songwriting

j., Friday, 7 November 2014 04:33 (ten years ago)


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