I was born in '76 and couldn't care less about the guy.
Enjoy the nostalgia but please don't think this guy is important to anyone not in, or soon to be in, AARP today.
I was born in '77, and you're wrong.
It is 5 AM, and you are listening to Los Angeles.
Dylan's importance will become apparent to your children and theirs. I doubt you'll be able to say that about too many people on your iPod.
He may not have the same historical significance as Mozart or Bach, but you can bet he'll have more than Aerosmith or Snoop Dogg.
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shareWhy would you think age has anything to do with musical taste?
If yo go to a Dylan show, the majority of his fans seem to be well under 50.
(A GREAT deal are just teenagers)
Truth is young people these days grew up with such a lame excuse for music in the eighties and nineties that they had to look elsewhere and recognized the brilliance of these older guys... You can see it clearly with what's happening in music right now. A lot of it is getting better and better again, due to Dylan's (and others) influence on these young people. Jeff Buckley and Eddie Vedder were some of the first in that turn around... Thom yorke, Jack White, Jim James, Kings of Leon,etc... all fine songwriters who are heavily influenced by Dylan. Coincidence? I think not. It's a cycle and a big percentage of this generation happens to have a great love and respect for genuine music.
I think Dylan is probably the least Nostalgic artist of the sixties or any other era for that matter. People go and see Joan Beaz out of nostalgia... not Bob. If you don't like him that's fine, but don't go around saying he is of no relevance to anyone but sixties hippies because that just shows you don't know anything about the man. He continues to put out great material...
You'd be right... if you only listed to the radio. NYC radio is some of the worst around. However go to any number of NYC bars and you'll see some very good and sometimes innovative music.
Don't get me wrong there's nothing wrong with Dylan there's just a number of people who elevate his music because that's the music they enjoyed when they were young. You see the same thing with people who grew up on 80's music and now with people who grew up with 90's music.
I was born in '91 and I love his music. Not just in a "heard Like A Rolling Stone on some radio station and thought it was totally catchy" way - I mean I actually love almost every single album he's ever recorded. His music is pretty much immortal. There will always be people in the world who can and will love it, no matter what their age.
I don't believe you. You're a liar!
I was born in 1991 as well and I've been a huge fan for a few years now.
I don't mean to impose, but I am the Ocean.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MumScDIZMJc
Hearing him on the radio doesn't change the influence he's had on the world. The above video is a bit of a joke but it isn't far from the truth. Count the number of artists who cite him as an influence, then count the number who don't realise he has influenced them...
I've always told people that they are a Dylan fan whether they know it or not; it's possible that they haven't listened to enough Bob yet.
AARP? Oh dude, the notion that music history is just nostalgia is really embarrassing. I know this won't mean much coming from a cranky and cotchety 38-year-old but do you have any idea how many artists have covered Dylan's songs, right up to 2008? Some are (yes!) even younger than you. And just because you sound like a child doesn't mean that 32 is still young.
shareYou are a d i c k head!!
shareI'm younger than you OP and I didn't "grow up" on Dylan, and I don't play Dylan out of nostalgia, and if you think he's not relevant to younger cats, you're completely missing the point. MHO is that Dylan will never be forgotten, even if only a couple of popular musical artists of the XXth century are remembered, he will be one of them. As far as I'm concerned he's one of the greatest artists of the century, like Picasso. Seriously, some of his best songs read like Rimbaud, no less.
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Apparently gleerboubs doesn't enjoy music.
shareMost of the people I know who "think this guy is important" were born after you. Maybe you're just too old to get it.
shareHere's to wishing your parents used protection.
shareHaving survived the 60's medicinally induced rainbow haze and listened to -- and seen LIVE -- the music of so many of those who are now considered to be the giants of music history, I can honestly say that, at the time, I wasn't that thrilled with the "deep cuts" of Bob Dylan's music. It took me until the late 70's and 80's -- when the music world was nearly barren of much of anything original or exciting -- to appreciate Dylan or for me to think of him as someone who was something other than a "folkie" who was trying to be Woodie Guthrie. So that would have placed ME in my late 20's to mid 30's before I appreciated Dylan for the original that he was and is.
Maybe there is hope for you yet. AARP ROCKS!
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In the 60s, he WAS trying to be Woodie Guthrie!
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