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[Anonymous No.11125082]

Is he the greatest songWRITER ever?

[Anonymous No.11125101]

>>11125082
uhhhhhhhh yes

[Anonymous No.11125120]

>>11125082
Dylan deserved the Oscar just for Jimmy Hendricks’s guitar solo on “There Must Be Some Kind of Way Out of Here Said the Joker to the King” alone.

[Anonymous No.11125125]

>>11125082
I absolutely hate his music and saw one of his atrocious live performances so I've been reluctant to get into his lyrics.

Why is he considered an above average lyricist? Why him and not someone else?

[Anonymous No.11125210]

>>11125125
The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face

[Anonymous No.11125248]

>>11125082

It's close if you're allowed to count the strange four-legged, two-headed Lennonandmccartney beast. But if not, I don't see much competition.

[Anonymous No.11125265]

>>11125125

His live performances have certainly been atrocious for many years, but you shouldn't be attending them expecting good ones. The only reason to go to a live Dylan concert in the past ten years is because of who he WAS, not who he IS.

I find his self-righteous tone very annoying but when it comes to sheer lyrical ability, I don't think there's anyone even close. (inb4 Leonard Cohen fans, I'm not going to fight you, so go shadow-box in the corner).

[Anonymous No.11125272]

>>11125265
captain beefheart wrote better lyrics than dylan

[Anonymous No.11125295]

>>11125082
I think Cohen and Joni Mitchell are better pure lyricists but he's certainly the most important and impactful songwriter ever. It's almost foolish to compare others to him because he so singlehandedly established contemporary songwriting as a means for personal and artistic expression. I think a lot of people don't get that. Dylan is just Dylan and we'll never have another songwriter quite like him.

[Anonymous No.11125319]

>>11125272

Mr Van Vliet had some talent and some originality but his body of work doesn't compare.

[Anonymous No.11125335]

Trying Too Hard: The Post

[Anonymous No.11125337]

>>11125272
t. scaruffi

[Anonymous No.11125342]

>>11125295

Nailed it.

[Anonymous No.11125350]

>>11125082
he writes songs, yes.

[Anonymous No.11125398]

>>11125265
>His live performances have certainly been atrocious for many years
I can see how you would not like his singing (although I like it, personally), but his band is absolutely top tier and has been for decades.

[Anonymous No.11125403]

>>11125295

I agree with this guy. Songwriter, yes. Lyricist, no.

[Anonymous No.11125456]

>>11125403

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I ask you to consider the following:

EXHIBIT A:
Visions of Johanna

EXHIBIT B:
Simple Twist Of Fate

EXHIBIT C:
Times Have Changed

EXHIBIT D:
It's All Over Now Baby Blue

The defence rests.

[Anonymous No.11125460]

>>11125082
His memoirs are pretty great, too.

[Anonymous No.11125466]

>>11125456

"Aren't you going to include Like A Rolling Stone, and You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go, and - "

"Naa. No need, and we'd be here all night."

[Anonymous No.11125518]

>>11125272
What a meme.

[Anonymous No.11125531]

>>11125265
>going to a concert to look at a statue
The absolute state of the West.

[Anonymous No.11125539]

>>11125082
*blocks your path*

[Anonymous No.11125547]

>>11125210
So fucking pretentious.
And then you hear him reddit out all the upvote words...

[Anonymous No.11125562]

>>11125082
Honestly Usher has written better songs

[Anonymous No.11125604]

He irritates me as a person and his lyrics never stood out to me. I thought the whole point was that they were down to Earth and folksy. All he did was strike while the iron was hot in the right place, at the right time and his (((fraternity))) connections did the rest.

[Anonymous No.11125614]

>>11125082
Harry Chapin was better.