C'mon stop being silly now.

really

with a passion, no less

they stamped their "trademark" so deep you can hear echoes of it in today's popular rock music

and i don't like it

i'd rather music followed the template of Melvins

The Melvins were too experimental to be a template for today's popular rock music.

well, today's popular music should very well dammed be experimental

Pearl Jam are experimental quite often.

I was thinking that "subterranean homesick blues" was the first rap song. Listen to that and there's no way you can say he's not rapping

I haven't decided on this one yet. So i'll just make it easy on myself and choose Bob Dylan, for songwriting reasons alone.

that's a really contrived argument

it was based on "No Particular Place to Go" by Chuck Berry

the earliest instance of anybody rapping is "Say, Man" by Bo Diddley

and i'd think a black man started rap

I know some Chuck Berry songs that could qualify as rap. But it's the attitude, the lyrics and just the flow of Dylans singing in "subterranean homesick blues" that really remind me of rap.

I believe it's Dylan who does the guitar playing in the song "buckets of rain". Don't underestimate Dylans guitar work. I don't think Neil young was all that much better at guitar, his guitar was just a bigger part of his music, mostly his electric guitar.