Yes |
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12.9% (4) |
No |
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87.1% (27) |
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Paperboy  Posts: 29 Joined: 12 Oct 2008     | It's the other way around for me. I like listening to him, but his writing sucks. Just my opinion though |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 98 Joined: 13 Oct 2008   | I've never been big on his voice at all, nor his writing in a lot of cases. However, I absolutely love 'Nashville Skyline' , and I've worn out my 'John Wesley Harding' cassette. Country Pie cracks me up every time. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2108 Joined: 13 Dec 2007     | Not the best ever, but I voted yes because I couldn't think of anyone better. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1710 Joined: 2 Jan 2008     | I'm going to sound like a troll here, but Bob Dylan has to be the most overrated douchebag in the history of music. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 176 Joined: 16 Jun 2008    | I don't know. I like his voice, I like his work, but I tend to like Van the Man better. That said, my true musical passion is a different genre altogether. So 'no', I guess. Doesn't mean I don't like the man's music. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3587 Joined: 6 Aug 2008   | ...Who? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1155 Joined: 23 Jul 2008  | Not my bag. he's very, very good. but i prefer something different to him. and not R&B |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2663 Joined: 20 Jul 2008     | No he is not, if he was the greatest, wouldn't everybody know about him and refer to him as the greatest? |
BANNED  Posts: 3780 Joined: 9 Sep 2008   | Bob Dylan is kinda boring. He did write the best song in the world but it had to be played by Jimi Hendrix to be much more than just good. User was banned for: We are all related? a odd little theory. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2664 Joined: 4 Nov 2007  |
Forgetting that popular opinion=/=truth, the nearest you can get to "everybody" in real life actually do know who he is, or at least would hear bells ringing when they hear his name. In the realm of popular opinion he's high enough that the air is getting mighty thin, and there aren't too many other contenders. |
On the Record  Posts: 5168 Joined: 3 Mar 2008     | However, you never said 'musician,' you only said 'artist'. So I would have to say this: Picasso > Dylan |
On the Record  Posts: 6994 Joined: 22 Aug 2008   | Probably not considering the whole subjective thing that is our lives. The whole "liking different things" pretty much guarantees that there will never be a Greatest Artist Ever in anything but a misplaced title by some crappy awards show. Sure, people might like Bob Dylan and think he's the greatest now, but in 50 years everyone might think his music is a pile of wank, in which case he's not really the best ever now, is he? |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 931 Joined: 17 Sep 2008  |
I think putting a != where that > is would be more appropriate. He does some really great songs like a lot of people but he also does a lot of boring songs, even you said he can't sing well. Fact: The greatest never has and never will exist. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1075 Joined: 4 Sep 2008 | Yeah but Amnestic, everyone thought he was the shit fifty years ago, too. But yeah, it is totally subjective, of course. He would still probably get my vote, though, if there was a vote. And Dylan > Picasso http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srgi2DkDbPU |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 599 Joined: 17 Apr 2008   | ...Radiohead... |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 931 Joined: 17 Sep 2008 |
GO HOME!!! Oops, caps was stuck. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2113 Joined: 15 Jun 2008  |
I concur. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1065 Joined: 27 Aug 2008   | I can see why some folk like him, more so than the Beatles (imo), but I wouldn't say greatest ever. Maybe your favourite artist ever, but not everyone's. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2538 Joined: 29 Mar 2008   | .....yeah, no |
Muckraker  Posts: 324 Joined: 21 Apr 2008     | Not into that kind of music. I also think it's very narrow minded to call him the greatest artist "evarr!", since he's singing in english and playing a particular style of music. You need to modify your statement. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1933 Joined: 31 Jan 2008 | He is pretty cool but im not that into political music So no |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 507 Joined: 2 Jul 2008  | I put "Yes". He may not be the greatest ever, but his songs are amazing. The lyrics are very poetical and I care for lyrics ALLOT. Plus I use the "tunes" of his songs to make comedy songs for school assignments. |
On the Record Posts: 6994 Joined: 22 Aug 2008 |
Translation: I voted yes but my post says no. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2355 Joined: 14 Sep 2007  | I see your Bob Dylan, and I raise you a Martin Walkyier and all of Iron Maiden. Checkmate. Bingo! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2166 Joined: 23 Dec 2007  | <--------- The man almost founded postmodernism by himself. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 988 Joined: 22 Sep 2008  | He blows. Hard. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1065 Joined: 27 Aug 2008 | **shudder** - Did someone mention Iron Maiden? Someone must have because my eczema has begun to kick up a fuss now. Only joking, I don't really have eczema, just like Maiden don't really have more than 4 riffs :P Copter400: Tried to find an online copy of the photo I have with little Martin Walkyier - but no success, sorry. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 983 Joined: 21 Feb 2008  | That honor belongs to Pete Townshend and only Pete Townshend. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2585 Joined: 27 Sep 2008   | Dylan is a little dull for my tastes. As far as I'm concerned the greatest artist(assuming you mean singer/songwriter by that) of recent times is David Bowie. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2163 Joined: 15 Jun 2008   | His lyrics aren't great. At least Noel Gallagher admits he uses a rhyming dictionary. |
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My opinion on this matter is yes. Bob Dylan is an amazing song writer, he is a really good guitarist, he can't sing worth a damn but anybody whos heard a Dylan song would agree that if anybody else sang it it wouldn't be as good. So there's my opinion what's yours.