Stick a fork in Dylan, he's done.

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.

A lot of those 'radicals' grew up, and are now Republicans.

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.

dylan's the best-ever lyricist who's earned his critical reverence, but it's time tell the emperor he has no clothes. personally, i rarely feel compelled to listen to his post "blonde on blonde" stuff, the overrated-but-still-great "blood on the tracks" excepted. i found "tempest" baffling and unlistenable--when i was listening to it in the car the kids were actually threatening to jump out into traffic.