When a TV ad for some bod's new album has a quote from someone saying "A Dylan for the 21st century", and you listen to the lyrics and it's all "Oh I love you as i walk down a beach at sunset" and yo

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Or is it "Dylan off the OC" or whatever it is...

This was on last night during the break for Celebrity Love Island, so you won't have seen it.

I mean, pleasant enough, but ...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 June 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

I'm not a Dylan fan, so these adverts help me to avoid stuff I won't like. (Except Conor O, weirdly.)

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Friday, 17 June 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

Well, that's just it. If you like Dylan, you'll hear it and go "Pah!"

If you don't, you'll just go "Pah!" anyway.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 June 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

True. Maybe it appeals to people who kind of like the idea of Dylan but aren't real fans.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Friday, 17 June 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

Was that that god-awful looking Jack Johnson album, Mark? I've seen those adverts, and they make my blood boil!

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Friday, 17 June 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

Because he has a guitar and people like him.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 17 June 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

http://www.nrk.no/img/299225.jpeg

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 17 June 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

As a Dylan fan, I tend to steer clear of people who are marketed as "the next Dylan" or of stuff that is marketed as "sounds like Dylan", as I'd rather have the real thing and not some ersatz version.

On a wider level, it raises the question of whether the world is made up of people who want everything to be the same versus people who want everything to be different. Thus those who want the same may well have record collections full of bands / artists who sound similar (and thus this sort of advert appeals to them), whereas those who like different will activiely search out bands / artists who are different (and so this advert will warn them off).

That may, of course, all be pure bullshit ( can bullshit be pure ? ), but it's Friday afternoon and I'm going home soon (chaos and confusion ... my work here is done).

― andyjack (andyjack), Friday, 17 June 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

It might have been Jack, it probably was.

The whole "like" thing is a case in point. We all want to be different, but we end up being different in the same way.

Also "How did anyone get Bob Dylan from listening to Jack Johnson"?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 June 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

"Oh I love you as i walk down a beach at sunset"

singer/songwriters' number = gotten

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 17 June 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

Dear zebedee,
The new Jack Johnson record is a restrained but most melodious feast of tasteful guitar and mellow vocals, highly remindiscent of the Steve Millers Band. For angered individuals - and, honestfrankly, who can blame them for having minds damaged by the 20-year barrages of hip-op and r&b rot? - I would recommend some Prozaks to help cool their brain and focus on serenity.

-- Comstock Carabinieri (copp...), June 13th, 2005.

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 17 June 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

He is Wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy...yy closer than "bob dylan"

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 June 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

I've never heard anyone who sounds like Dylan, so such claims no longer warrant my attention.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Friday, 17 June 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

I think we've already got one perfectly adequate Dylan for the 21st Century; do we really need a spare?

http://www.nrk.no/img/307897.jpeg

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 17 June 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Even if we did need a spare, I don't think it would be Jack Johnson...

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Friday, 17 June 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

Actually we used to have a spare.... what ever happened to him?

http://www.contactmusic.com/new/home.nsf/Lookup/round6x20x12x04xfc/$file/round6x20x12x04xfc.jpg

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 17 June 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

*whistles idly*

why's everyone looking at ME?

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 17 June 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

Time for bed.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 17 June 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

"This summer, enjoy the refreshing taste of Uncle Kracker..." all these adverts are bollocks. Then again I get put off by even the smallest bits of commercial hype. For instance stickers that say things like "This is the most important band of all time since The Coral - NME 8/10" get scraped off immediately.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 17 June 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

I have every sympathy for people that have to write press releases. But, you know.....

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 June 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

I think stickers that proclaim things like "This is the most important band of all time since The Coral - NME 8/10" tell us far more about the limited horizons and terms of reference of the NME (and it's readership?) then they do about any CD that such a sticker may unfortunately have been attached to.

Indeed it makes advertisers who reference Dylan seem positively enlightened by comparison.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 17 June 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

everyone knows who the dylan for the 21st century is. EMINEM!!!!

― Charlie Lesoine, Friday, 17 June 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Well, that's possibly closer than most. But he doesn't play acoustic and/or play harmonica, so no.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 June 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

When a TV ad for Hot Bod has a quote from someone saying "Hot Bod" over and over during a poorly staged concert, and you listen to the it and realize it's your favorite ad ever, and you think "why didn't Teen Sprit or Axe do an ad like this?"

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 17 June 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

"salutes fellow brave"

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 June 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

http://www.coastaltown.nildram.co.uk/jim/ipandertoilmers.jpg

― DAEREST V1CE MAGAZINE!!!!! (ex machina), Friday, 17 June 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

I do believe that after Dylan, all straight white guys should've stopped writing songs. Except for Elliott Smith. He's cool.

― knocknock, Saturday, 18 June 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

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