Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize

Your Just Jelly cos He met the pope !
http://youtu.be/nJ0U7WjSDeU

 

Indeed....His music went to crap in the 70s!!

 

I've never bothered much with his lyrics, I like his early music though it had real spunk.

Generally I hate poetry and everything to do with hippies, artisans and bohemians getting up at a party and reciting poetry, especially if there's a bit of play acting involve.

Oh shut up you annoying bastard.

Anyway, that's not to say I don't appreciate the art of literature, which is not as some are protesting can't be considered a part of music. Dylan's music was based pretty much around lyrics, in between the mouth organ solos anyway. He wrote from the heart, and he was good at. I don't know exactly how good though because I haven't really bothered to get into it all that deeply owing to my slight averasion of poetry and tendency more towards just music for the sake of music, doesn't matter what the words are kind of thing.

I'd estimate he deserved this, and it was timely because he's just about to play a resident set of gigs in San Fran soon.... so and but he should have rejected it as a protest again Obama's nobel peace prize, if anything else.

It's like talking but with expression, for example poetry? I remember seeing a Tibetan monk once talking at a festival in India, and every now and then he would start singing, it was weird but at the same time cool as absolute fuck. No idea what he was saying, maybe neither did anyone else or even he.

I like surreal literature, and what about Frank Black aka Mr Charles Thompson Kitteridge the 3rd or 4th or something, the lead of the Pixies. I can tell you from experience, I know many people who spend a lot of time trying to decipher the meaning behind his lyrics. I just like listening to him sing them, I don't care that much about what it all means.

 

Good to see a Pioneer of the 60's get recognition - although for 'Literature'(?) must mean more for Poetry methinks

 

Dylan has some pretty awesome lyrics, I can understand how people valuing traditional literature might be somewhat upset, but I definitely think many of Dylan's works can be considered poetic.

The only book I've read by the authors mentioned in the OP is Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway, granted I was a teenager and in school when I read it, but I found that one extremely boring. I'd be willing to put up many of Dylan's songs, err... I mean "Audio poems" as being much more powerful.

 

Old Man and the Sea was by Hemingway.

 

Oh yah, he was mentioned as well though so wrong author but same sentiments.


I guess I've read Of Mice and Men from Steinbeck, I enjoyed that one more.

 

Give us one example then


Kipling, Shaw and Hemmingway all won the Nobel prize for Literature. Give us ONE example from Dylan that compares to their works

ONE song penned in 5 mins, verse verse chorus that compares to the months it took for The Jungle Book or For whom the Bell tools.

Go on, I dare you

"The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'
"

Really?

 

Here's a whole thread of great ones

http://www.hipforums.com/forum/topic/478315-post-your-favorite-dylan-lyrics/

 

And if any muso should have gotten it first, it should have been Freddie Mercury

I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?



But still, I mean really, come on

 

You have no Idea what your talking about !
its becoming more obvious the more you go on

 

It makes this oldie thinking that Lennon/McCartney would also fall into this category

 

And he was Brit-ash, you should be barracking for the likes of him

 

I am not really sure if I even know a bob Dylan song.

 

"Education. Education, Education" =

 

Sad days for literature

 

Good (Bad/Indifferent) Literature will always be - who needs an award when one can read, absorb, question and seek both education and inspiration from any written word?

 

Surely they will have to give Nick Cave one now, or he'll never stop complaining.

Nick Cave actually does tours occassionally where he just recites his poetry. Very profound.

 

Poetry Eh !

http://youtu.be/Q0OdNY8Aybw