Article Response: Dylan And Me

wow, it is really very good. quite often i am put off by the writing here because it tries to adopt an academic tone but the personal reflections make this piece rather delightful.

I'm positive it's the only writing remotely related to Dylan that I've read all the way through.

one of the best articles about liking dylan i've ever read....plus mr ewing in straight-edge shocker....

Way better than every other straightforwardly bland hagiographic piece I've encountered -- I wonder what G*****a B*b would think.

Very nice.......Tom Ewing is smoother than a trunk full of mink......I can relate to the part about Everybody Must Get Stoned......whenever I used to get zitted out all the songs I owned that had any party-artie connotations whatsoever suddenly became Kryptonite to me......"damn muthafucka stop evoking in my headpiece what fun I could be having if I didn't eat all those Pringles and touch my faceplate all up last night.....I should take up turntablism to keep my hands occupied and encourage me to drink more spring water.....haha nahhhh......damn man I bet Debonair Donny is downright getting his swerve on without me".......this piece is a stellar argument for why storytelling and personal context, if done bootifully as this, should always be a part of music writing, and why all those "you must be objective!, just describe the fucking SOUND" kids are just sensitive get-along-gangers that have had their bitchass scene or bloody Get Up Kids or whatever dissed so many times they want it to never ever happen again and dismissing absolutely all halfway creative music writing wholesale will guarantee this in their world....."just write about "shredding guitars" and "burbbling synths", be nice, and it's all good!"......how bout you go to HELL my man!!!

Enjoyed the ride Tom but something bugs me. Why do critics love Love and Theft. Love and Theft is ok, its a cool covers albulm, and a bit of fun but for me anyway not all that rewarding- much less so than Time out of mind. Whats not to like about Time Out of Mind??? Yeah he may be laying it on heavy and its depressing, sarcastic and cynical but I love that shit soooo much. ok Im a self pitying bastard but I still struggle with your interpretation:

"Thats why I find beauty in Dylan can be difficult... I still have no time for the ugliness of time out of mind"

Im confused

It was a good article. I liked the start, it reminded me of the news episode of the Simpsons where Kent Brockman does the "the old western union doesn't go by here much more". But in a good way.

Very very good article. I was starting to feel a little weird for liking Bob anymore, so this lifted my spirits.

I like this piece. Definitely a more successful stab at the kind of music writing I try for. All the various threads wind up coming together nicely, and I like the way it feels a bit like a story told in person. Conversational.

In some ways it reminded me of your Morrissey article, which I think I remember you saying you didn't care for (I enjoyed that one, too.) Maybe it was the mention of your school days.

Made me want to listen to "new morning" again - the tone of your piece seemed very similar to that album, older & wiser but still affectionate toward the younger self.

Why do critics love Love and Theft. Love and Theft is ok, its a cool covers albulm, and a bit of fun but for me anyway not all that rewarding- much less so than Time out of mind.

I think you've got "Love and Theft" confused with "Good As I Been To You".

I liked this lots.

1. As said to Edna last night: the pinefox & Dylan = a "purely personal" narrative, at the end, or at least the beginning, of the day;

2. Tom E's Dylan is "purely personal" - like the pinefox's - Hooray! we understand each other;

3. Tom E's Dylan is "purely personal" - thus necessarily not like the pinefox's - Boo-Hoo, we pass like rolling stones in the night, gathering our own private moss.

Re Time Out Of Mind - I think a lot of it is the production, it sounds somehow too big and too flat at the same time. There isn't anything on it that makes me smile. To be honest the awful do-you-see chorus of "Love Sick" had put me off from song #1. "Highlands" is good though!

I'm glad people liked the piece. I like it. I think it's better than the Morrissey one. I don't think it's purely personal though Pinefox - although the themes it advances probably would seem to a Dylanologist very flimsy.