CosmicPrimitive

I always figured "Red Sky" he heard the sounds and felt the feel the producer Was getting, knew the record wasn't going to turn out how he wanted, and just got himself through it

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Necromancer

I just never was a big fan of Dylan, I guess its fact that his band was out at a critical stage/& time in the developement of rock history, or something to that affect, but I never cared about his songwriting ability also, the only song I ever liked he wrote was, When the night comes falling, performed by The Jeff Healy Band. I liked his son, Jacob Dylan with the WallFlowers, I felt Jacob Dylan had alot better voice & control than his dad did.

Gavin B.

Kristian Mattson, a young folk singer from Sweden has caused quite a stir in Europe and the inevitable comparisons to Dylan have been made. I recently did a story on him in my Aural Fixation blog in the member diary section. Kristian performs under the name of the Tallest Man on Earth and he's just released his second album.

I'm posting his song The King of Spain and wondering what other Dylan fans think of his music.

To me, he sounds eeirely like Bob especially during the Freewheelin'/Another Side of Bob Dylan albums. Kristian's lyrics are fantastic but he seems a bit limited to playing a certain kind of music. But that's what everyone said about Dylan before 1965.

lukew

Gavin B - thanks so much for that!!!

that one tune has singlehandedly put my faith back in modern country/folk music. kristian mattson is now my new favourite artist haha

although a bit hard pushed to see that much dylan in him

you heard/like josh ritter? he's another one who really caught my eye who you could also compare to dylan

yoguess

"Then take me disappearin’ through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I’ll come followin’ you."

Dylan and old times.

-overtone-

Good lyrics, but honestly...

I've never gotten the hype. I think there are much better songwriters than him.

million dollar basher

Say whaaaaaa? Maybe I'm just an elitist prick, but this seems border-line blasphemous.

Percy Thrillington

The word legend is used far too much these days, but Dylan is a legend. One of if the the best lyricist ever and certainly one of the best songwriters of all time.

It makes me laugh when people say negative things about Dylans work, usually its metalheads who dont have the taste or class to understand him anyway. Definately one of the most important artists to ever exist.

Enjoyed this thread, interesting read.

mandelstam13

Dylan is pretty much the best as far as lyrics are concerned. Course, he had his duff moments, but you can't argue with something like "The Gates of Eden."

zachsd

Ah man, I'm really conflicted about Tallest Man on Earth. Listening to him I know his music is good and that I should be digging it, it's just through every song there's a little voice in the back of my head saying "he's trying to imitate Bob Dylan and no one can imitate Bob Dylan". His voice also seems like a Swede's interpretation of an American accent, and it just comes off as being cheap to me. I guess I view my problem with TME as a personal conflict, so no one take my criticism too personally haha

Also, I don't really like his lyrics either. I guess it's just because I'm always sizing him up with Dylan. That's another problem I have with this new indie-folk trend thats become popular. It's folk music with a lot of good musicians, but the lyrics just don't mean anything to me. It's folk music with pop lyrics, and folk and pop just don't really go together well.

Oh and nice work with the Dylan reviews. I'm always torn between deciding whether Blonde on Blonde or Blood on the Tracks is my favorite Dylan album. What does it for me on Blood on the Tracks is the storytelling. I mean, "Lily, Rosemary and The Jack of Hearts" tells a story that someone could write an entire novel about, same goes for "Tangled up in Blue". What does it for me on Blonde on Blonde is the poetry, e.g. "Visions of Johanna".