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Wed Sep-17-03 12:01 AM
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Poll question: Bob Dylan or The Beatles? poll |
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A tough choice to make indeed but if you could only listen to one of these two who would it be?
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Wed Sep-17-03 12:07 AM
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Wed Sep-17-03 12:09 AM
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2. Certainly is, and how presented. |
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Wed Sep-17-03 12:12 AM
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3. great and tough choice--both wrote so many great songs |
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For me the key was the word "listen" and I find Dylan's style to be very "unversatile." Frankly, he gets boring after a pretty short time. The Beatles play rock, country, pop, folk, you name it.
The Beatles are my "only listen to one" choice.
But I am S-O-O-O glad I don't have to make that choice in the real world!
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Wed Sep-17-03 12:21 AM
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5. In fairness, Dylan went through many genres too |
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and was experimental but The Beatles stayed experimental after they had been influenced by Dylan.
Truly a tough choice and glad to have the choices of genius of both in our real world. I voted for Dylan. My wife would have voted for The Beatles. She's a bassist though, heh,heh,heh...
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Wed Sep-17-03 01:13 AM
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8. well at least one of you is a musician |
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;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
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Wed Sep-17-03 01:17 AM
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Edited on Wed Sep-17-03 01:31 AM by leftofthedial
I'm a songwriter, so I can't fault any of the classic early Dylan.
And the stuff with the Band and then Blood on the Tracks, I can listen to repeatedly indefinitely.
:toast:
love your handle. You know the dada song, I assume.
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Wed Sep-17-03 11:22 AM
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Surely, you don't mean this?
(sorry if your name is not Shirley)
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Wed Sep-17-03 11:40 AM
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17. it's his vocal style that grates after awhile |
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Many many of the songs are endlessly wonderful. and its only "boring" by comparison with the musical smorgasbord that is the Beatles catalog.
Also see my above post regarding the recordings he did with the Band and others.
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Wed Sep-17-03 12:12 AM
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4. Beatles - it's the sound, man |
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If I just cared about words, I'd read them as poems. :D
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Wed Sep-17-03 12:23 AM
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I'm very heavily into lyrics and I still prefer the Beatles :-). Though I do like Dylan songs when done by other people.
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Wed Sep-17-03 11:17 AM
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12. Ah...we arrive at the same place from different directions |
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:D
That's very Taoist.
Arrive without traveling.... :loveya:
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Wed Sep-17-03 12:28 AM
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7. Jimi Hendrix didn't do too many cover songs |
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yet he covered both Bob Dylan and The Beatles as well as The Troggs.
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Wed Sep-17-03 07:27 AM
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Hands down..
I think he speaks more to the temper of our times than the Beatles did, - much as I liked them.
I will always pick up a guitar and play Dylan tunes as they pop up in my head, but I think as musical and innovative as the Beatles are, I am left in search of more depth and resonnance.
Dylan is it.
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Wed Sep-17-03 07:36 AM
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How can one choose between God and his Sons! Blasphemer!! :P
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Wed Sep-17-03 11:24 AM
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Wed Sep-17-03 11:37 AM
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I appreciate his last several albums more with each listen and to me the music is wonderful. That he has consistently produced such great work and that he is one man with that body of work makes him my choice.
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Wed Sep-17-03 11:37 AM
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16. The Beatles could sing |
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As much as I respect Dylan for his songwriting, his singing leaves (and always has left) much to be desired. Geddy Lee is a better singer, and that's pretty sad.
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Wed Sep-17-03 11:43 AM
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18. I honestly do not understand this argument |
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Dylan is a great singer!
It befuddles me why some don't see/hear it.
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Wed Sep-17-03 11:47 AM
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19. Because his voice sounds like a rusted circular saw, maybe? |
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Edited on Wed Sep-17-03 11:47 AM by Enraged_Ape
That's just my guess.
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Wed Sep-17-03 11:49 AM
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20. yeah, but damn, what a fine rustred circular saw |
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Wed Sep-17-03 11:57 AM
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21. Dylan sings that way on purpose |
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Edited on Wed Sep-17-03 12:03 PM by supernova
to emphasis the poetry of his lyrics. His singing is more like spoken word performance art than straight singing.
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Wed Sep-17-03 11:58 AM
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of the Nashville Skyline record
Lay, Lady, Lay
Johnny Cash is on that album as well.
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