10-14-2016, 01:53 PM | #91 |
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My all time favorite musician. I even named my son Dylan. Love his voice. His civil rights protest stuff from the 60's meant a great deal to me n the dark days of apartheid.
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10-14-2016, 02:23 PM | #92 |
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10-14-2016, 07:42 PM | #93 |
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I'm with you, Issybird. My favorite Dylan album, and it contains one of my all-time favorite songs, "Tangled Up in Blue."
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10-14-2016, 08:20 PM | #94 |
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I stand (sit) corrected. For some reason (age?) I thought that I had read that Haruki Murakami had died. All the more reason why he should have received the prize. Thomas Pynchon would not have been inappropriate either.
After I sent my previous reply I though of Patti smith as well. I have her "Patti Smith Complete" on my shelf. But, and I think this was also relevant to the choice of Dylan, Dylan has moved more product than those three together. Dylan's counter-culture creds made his name and reputation. It isn't that I think that Dylan's song writing isn't good, he's written some great songs. It's just that I think that the others have written better songs. For the record, two of my favourite Dylan songs (they vary according to the time of day, phase of the mood etc.) are "Masters of War" and "You've Got to Serve Someone" |
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I'm not sure the Nobel Prize has to do with who writes the best songs or books. Here's a quote from Alfred Nobel according to Wikipedia: "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction".
There's some discussion of the meaning of "ideal direction". It seems that early on that was taken to refer to idealism but in recent decades it's become more liberal so that it can mean either idealistic or having literary merit. It's worth reading the article about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature Barry |
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"The song "Highway 61 Revisited," the title track from the album released in August 1965 — what do we know from this period in terms of his style?
Well, it's the Book of Genesis, right? It's the story of Abraham and Isaac and he's turning it into something that's very, very new. He's talking about Highway 61 ... a highway that runs right through the middle of America, all the way from Minnesota down to the Deep South. So, starting with the Bible. You know, this terrifying story of Abraham — who happens to be his father's name too, so when he's talking about "God said to Abraham, 'Kill me a son,'" yikes, it gets a little personal maybe, too. But he is telling a whole song about what's going on in America in his time through the idiom of the Bible. Rock 'n' roll, folk, it's all there." http://www.npr.org/2016/10/13/497849...rary-alchemist |
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Bill Murray, genius.
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Music is a distinct and different art form, and the words are often an integral and inseperable part of a particular whole. Even when the lyricist is a poet, there are different considerations and sensibilities involved in making a song lyrics vs making a poem, let alone prose. There is reason that Paul Simon didn't just set the words of the poem Richard Cory to music as-is when he wrote the song. |
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