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Is Bob Dylan the premier post-modern artist? I've been digging into these post-millennium performances of his songs and they are so intriguing. Yeah, he can't sing, but the performance comments on the original in a way that rock music rarely achieves — very literary. Maybe the Nobel was deserved?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u97DVyEiqag

>> No.18545988

>>18545983
That is just depressing

>> No.18545995

>>18545983
>Is Bob Dylan the premier post-modern artist?
No and stopped reading there

>> No.18546639

>>18545983
>2003
the last time I saw Dylan (2013) his singing was much better

>> No.18546656

>>18545983
>Is Bob Dylan the premier post-modern artist?
Isn't any man who wears a taco hat?

>> No.18546687

Dylan is a great songwriter but he'll be forgotten after the boomers die out.

>> No.18547988

>>18546687
nah, retard

>> No.18548431

>>18546687
True, except for the first part

>> No.18549336

>>18545983
hey that's pretty good not cringe at all!

>> No.18549392

>>18548431
Lol'd

>> No.18549585

>>18545983
Love Dylan. You always find something new every time you listen to him. No artist has more bootlegs and live versions of his songs that sound completely different from the original version.

>> No.18550213

>>18545983
It sounds cool but it's not that very hard to perform your own songs slower and give it a "completely different feel." I don't think it makes you postmodern either. Lots of rock artists do this with their arrangements. The Velvet Underground reunion from 1993 is the first that comes to mind. Very different instrument fretting and vocal phrasing from the original studio recordings.

>> No.18550225

>Yeah, he can't sing
What a midwit opinion

>> No.18550228

> Is Bob Dylan the premier post-modern artist?

i hate this stupid fucking board

>> No.18550343
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18550343

dylan is probably the only one of his (or any) generation who has successfully herded his music toward something beyond dignified old age, coming closest to cracking pop music's unsolvable problem. even then it's an acquired taste; since no one wants to see gramps rocking out in a leather vest, your late-career esteem relies on singing (the 'ideal' old fart is still capitol era sinatra, blue eyes traded in for grey hairs), and dylan's shredded wolfman growl stands in stark contrast to this notion. defiant, even

and that's not to shit on a guy like, say, neil young who can play an intense show well into his seventies, but those performances are just that: wilder, hairier versions of his album cuts with longer solos. proficient feats of stamina. artistry and adventure do not play into it: no one walks out of a springsteen concert upset the way they can leave a dylan set of totally rearranged classics

an obligatory word on cohen: his transition to seniority was successful too, almost undetectable, and in a way his natural state, but that's because he was always 'old' in more than one sense. he never faced the stakes dylan has had to deal with for the last fifty years, give or take

>> No.18551018

>>18545983
>Maybe the Nobel was deserved?
it was. the committee was streets ahead of everyone else, as usual

>> No.18552302

>>18545983
You don't need a weatherman to know Bob Dylan is an overrated hack.

>> No.18552328

>>18545983
I think it's the Archie's

>> No.18552356

>>18550225
That's how you can tell the west is doomed. He can't fucking sing. And it's a fact, boomer.

>> No.18552497
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18552497

>That's how you can tell the west is doomed.

>> No.18552678

>>18545983
He's just a Jew who makes pretentious pop music.

>> No.18553659

dylan pounds

>> No.18553676

Dylan is a good singer and I’m tired of people pretending he isn’t.

>> No.18553808

>>18550343
why would you waste your multi paragraph post by posting a pic that makes my penis tingly to go along with it, ensuring that that is the part that captures my attention, and not your words

>> No.18554013

>>18553808
to test your worthiness

>> No.18554211

>>18549585
You've never heard of The Grateful Dead?

>> No.18555499

>>18553676
this