Stick a fork in Dylan, he's done.


Well maybe not as quite as Burton Cummings(LOL), but you have to admit his voice is gone along with subject matter. I'm sure he does. However I think he has produced a couple of top notch compositions of late. I'm a serious fan but his latest leaves something to be desired imo. I'm interested to know which couple of albums you think were his best of all. Mine are "Oh Mercy" and "Under The Red Sky". I'm impressed that imo, he peaked out that late in his career.
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Au Contraire, I used to hang on his every word. Then I became an adult. That's when I realized throwing (verbal) rocks is easy, being responsible is hard. Besides, I think he was more anti-draft, than he was anti-war. Or put another way, more pro-self preservation.
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I think that his biggest achievement was assimilating the cadences of the beat poets and welding them to those loose, associative, lyrics. The amalgam produced was more than the sum of it's parts. If you are not old enough, have a listen to Ginsberg, for instance, reading his work and you will hear where Dylan cribbed.

It had the quality of being unique while still paying homage to the movement that was so much a part of the day. We used to actually go to the Village just to hear Ginsberg read "Howl" in that inimitable style that, in the final analysis, Dylan actually did imitate.
I went to a Rolling Thunder show and fell asleep about a third of the way through it (very boring, to be kind). Don't get the impression I'm a hater, I enjoy a lot of Dylan's music.
Maybe I’m losing track of the time intervals between new Dylan albums but here lately it seems every time I turn around Dylan’s got something new to offer. I just bought “Tempest” and IMO it’s just OK.