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the_dala at 07:45pm on 01/06/2011
the_dala at 07:45pm on 01/06/2011So Rolling Stone did a tribute issue to Bob Dylan for his 70th birthday, naming his 70 greatest songs. I'm sitting here reading it, scrolling through my iPod (on #24 and I'm only missing one so far), humming and muttering to myself like a total weirdo.
I just...Dylan, man. How does Bob Dylan even exist? How are all the things that Bob Dylan is contained in one willow-thin frame? On some level I understand not being a fan of Dylan - I'm sure quite a few of you aren't, for one reason or another (is it his voice? That's all I ever hear people say. But like, no one would say Carole King is a better singer than Aretha Franklin or James Taylor, but I still love listening to Tapestry, you know? Also "All Along the Watchtower" and "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Mr. Tambourine Man" are all more famous as covers than as Dylan songs unless you're a Dylan fan. Though one of my earliest reasons to fall in love with "American Dreams" was a scene way back in S1 when Luke gives Meg the original "Blowin' in the Wind" and she listens to half of it, then makes a face and puts on some typical Bandstand girl group stuff instead. And there was that one time he sang pretty on "Lay Lady Lay"! Which was apparently the first Dylan song Lenny Kravitz ever heard and he thought that was Dylan's normal singing voice. Did you know he's been cast as Cinna in the Hunger Games movie? At first I was like "Huh?" but then I was like "...yeah, okay, cool."
...this parenthetical aside has taken a turn. Let's end it, shall we?).
Anyway. Bob Dylan. I truly feel like I would be a different person if I had never heard Dylan.
I just...Dylan, man. How does Bob Dylan even exist? How are all the things that Bob Dylan is contained in one willow-thin frame? On some level I understand not being a fan of Dylan - I'm sure quite a few of you aren't, for one reason or another (is it his voice? That's all I ever hear people say. But like, no one would say Carole King is a better singer than Aretha Franklin or James Taylor, but I still love listening to Tapestry, you know? Also "All Along the Watchtower" and "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Mr. Tambourine Man" are all more famous as covers than as Dylan songs unless you're a Dylan fan. Though one of my earliest reasons to fall in love with "American Dreams" was a scene way back in S1 when Luke gives Meg the original "Blowin' in the Wind" and she listens to half of it, then makes a face and puts on some typical Bandstand girl group stuff instead. And there was that one time he sang pretty on "Lay Lady Lay"! Which was apparently the first Dylan song Lenny Kravitz ever heard and he thought that was Dylan's normal singing voice. Did you know he's been cast as Cinna in the Hunger Games movie? At first I was like "Huh?" but then I was like "...yeah, okay, cool."
...this parenthetical aside has taken a turn. Let's end it, shall we?).
Anyway. Bob Dylan. I truly feel like I would be a different person if I had never heard Dylan.
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