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b_b  ·  1560 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I have no desire to reconcile with my father but this song devastates me anyway

There's a scene in Walk Hard (an underappreciated comedy) where John C Reilly's character just decides he's going to start putting nonsense words together as lyrics. They accuse him of trying to be like Dylan, and he's retorts that maybe Dylan is trying to be like him.

I discovered Dylan as a kid, so I'll always love him in the way you can only love things you discovered as a kid, but the older I get the less I respect him in a lot of ways.





kleinbl00  ·  1560 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My parents hated Dylan for going electric at Newport. Oddly enough they were 100% okay with the Beatles.

By the time I could have discovered Dylan I was 100% disinterested in music that sounds like Dylan. Thus I've pretty much always hated him.

b_b  ·  1560 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That makes sense. I doubt I would have liked Dylan had I not started listening to him very young. My dad played a lot of Dylan and Cohen when I was a kid. I still love both, but I appreciate Cohen more and more the older I get. Can't say the same about Bob.