Dylan Wins Nobel Prize

[mzpro5]

Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Finally some good news!

https//http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/arts/music/bob-dylan-nobel-prize-literature.html?_r=0

Lines like "the pump don't work "cause the vandal took the handle" will go down with other classic literature.

 

[Botch]

Years ago, in Keyboard magazine, a columnist named Andy Widders-Ellis wrote a column on songwriting, and he spent several months on BD, explaining all the different devices he used in his lyrics, with examples; I was amazed!
I'm still not a fan (only have one of his albums and listened to it maybe twice) but he was a magician with lyrics.

 

[Towen7]

That's the neat thing about art. It can be seen/heard differently by different people.

I don't get Dylan, at all, but he's had an extremely successful career, is held in high regard by a lot of influential people, and has won many prestigious awards. All while wielding a voice that sounds a lot like a goose with a sinus infection.

 

[Botch]

All while wielding a voice that sounds a lot like a goose with a sinus infection.

Sooo stolen!

 

[Deleted member 133]

Gen and I were discussing this today and the question arose: what other songwriter, of Dylan's era, might have been considered?

I immediately thought of Leonard Cohen.

Jeff

 

[Flint]

Paul Simon?

 

[mzpro5]

Years ago, in Keyboard magazine, a columnist named Andy Widders-Ellis wrote a column on songwriting, and he spent several months on BD, explaining all the different devices he used in his lyrics, with examples; I was amazed!
I'm still not a fan (only have one of his albums and listened to it maybe twice) but he was a magician with lyrics.

I am a big Dylan fan but will admit his voice is not the typical one that is associated with good music.

I had to remind a friend of mine that the Nobel was for his writing and not for his voice or performances.

 

[Flint]

I agree that Dylan deserves this as much as any other writer. My fear is that songwriters will become the norm and before long Axl Rose well get one.

 

[Deleted member 133]

Paul Simon?

Why the heck not?!

On many occasions through grade and high school my English teachers would have us analyze one of his songs. Liked doing that far more than "classic" poetry!

Jeff

 

[Flint]

HA! Bob Dylan isn't answering his phone or responding to the emails from the Nobel Prize people. They have no idea if he is coming to the ceremony.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/10/bob-dylan-wont-return-nobel-prize-panels-phone-calls/

 

[Flint]

Bob finally called the Nobel prize people and accepted the honor.

 

[Towen7]

Funny... I was just thinking about this today and planned to look it up. Thanks for saving me the trouble!