Bob Dylan vs David Bowie

Who's better?

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Bowie inspired better musicians than he was
All the Dylan copies don't hold a candle
I say Dylan

Both are cringe and blue-pilled.

Because they're not singing about raping corpses they're bluepilled?

David Bowie’s clearly star struck.

I vote Dylan in terms of songwriting, Bowie’s technically a better musician though.

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No, the fact that they are both ego-driven, Bowie less so. I grew to be really disillusioned with Bob, he’s like a sorcerer if language. Just a hocus pocus, very little substance.

bob dylan is a gross little jew so I'll say bowie

>very little substance
>gets nobel prize in literature
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Bowie.
Dylan is a cabal plant.

When Patti Smith sang that song I literally almost puked. Such a wank fest. I thought It’s Alright Ma was good was I was 17. It’s so annoying.

*train whistle*

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Both great, not really comparable. They just did such completely different things with their music. I think comparisons of other artists is totally fine and fun but I like to draw comparisons within a closer spectrum.

I choose Bowie writing songs about Dylan.

>Oh, hear this Robert Zimmerman
>I wrote a song for you
>About a strange young man called Dylan
>With a voice like sand and glue
>Some words had truthful vengeance
>That could pin us to the floor
>Brought a few more people on
>And put the fear in a whole lot more

Bowie.

Such a fucking wank fest.

Springsteen

Bowie, I like his voice more and also the sound in general of his songs, monnage daydream and China girl are good examples,but I do like Dylan, he has some nice songs and the lyrics are amazing

Dylan is infinitely superior. Bowie's good but looks like a fucking amateur next to Bob

Bowie was a musician and artist, whose reputation for innovation and integration of styles is second-to-none.
Dylan is just a second-rate poet with a mediocre backing track, whose reputation is upheld by a bunch of lazy hippie drug abusers to strung out to recognize good music. He isn't remembered for music, just his cultural impact.

brainlet opinion

They aren't comparable, Dylan isn't a popstar. And Bowie making pop music makes his stuff more enjoyable to listen to.

Brainlet response

Rolling Thunder Revue tour is pretty much what Dylan would sound like doing glam rock. He had Bowie's guitarist Mick Ronson in his band and does more hard rockin' versions of his songs.

Bowie. Just look at New Wave. 90% of folk artists are hacks

My mother made me see Dylan when he was in driving distance of our redneck town. His live performances have been WALKING DEAD since (at least as early as) those chickens shit in his lungs. I'd only pay for a concert because he's a Wilbury and rock dies when they do.

Then I actually did drugs and went to university. Bowie had a vision and then mostly did coke. Dylan blew shit up, did coke, and then went cowboy. The output and influence are not comparable but the girls in art school have pussy and Dylan has a giant Jew nose so the wall posters have been very skewed for about 20 years.

Moral of the story is: artists are all quacks, especially when mixed with cocaine. Life is so disappointing, kill your idols and become your own.

Ego is the only thing that seperates man from filthy fucking animals why the fuck is being ego driven a bad thing? Their egos drove them to greatness

Also: say Bowie when if you want pussy. Shitpost as you will online.

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Because some people (Leonard Cohen) transcended and weren’t a total tool

>Leonard cohen
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
wait you said AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ohh man but seriously though

>Bowie
>Innovation
He literally followed every trend and never had a single original thought, always late for everything. Dylan transformed rock music into "serious" music on his own and never gave a shit about trends.

Well, David Bowie can actually sing, so I'm going with him.

Dylan recorded Knockin' On Heaven's Door and no one cared about cowboys.

Bowie made Labyrinth which is supposed to have puppets or some shit and is supposed to be at least as good as that shit that Sting made about spices and spaceships and dudes in full body diapers with blue eyes.

6 of one; half dozen of the other.

Bowie by far. What an innovative career he had.

Fuck Bob Dylan. Hack.

Aha not funny at all. Dylan is a part of the illuminati dude. Terrible, Jewy lyrics.

Bowie snuggled too much afterward and never washed the fucking dishes. Dylan was the one that got away.

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He followed trends while creating consistently good music and keeping innovation and creativity in his music: pop music, but better.
Dylan didn't do anything any other beat-poet-turned-mediocre musician was doing at the time. And don't give me that rubbish about Dylan not following trends. He was keen to hop onto organ and electric guitar music through the late 60s. Don't pretend to be such a fan of Dylan when you've got no idea. So many of his 'folk' fans abandoned him once he went electric. This criticism you lay upon Bowie is even more relevant to Dylan. The difference between Bowie and Dylan is that Bowie was successful at staying relevant.

Ugh. Gross. See, Illuminati 33rd degree

Dylan
-great lyricist
heinous vocalist, disgusting for neutral people who listen to him for the first time (he is more famous than his music, the normal reaction to finally listening to American legend Dylan for the first time is of surprise+disgust+bafflement)
mediocre musician
decent yet very simplistic songwriter

Bowie
good (not great) vocalist
meh lyricist
decent musiciant/multi instrumentalist, probably should have dedicated himself to being mainly a producer
good (not great) songwriter, more ambitious than Dylan

Bowie's music is decent enough, but you can really tell that his best ideas had to do more with Eno being present than anything else

I kinda agree but Bowie only made 3 albums with Eno
Many people think his songwriting was at his strongest in the early 70s with Hunky Dory and Ziggy, he was pretty consistent until Scary Monsters, and imo, was consistently good again from 1993 on when he released his underrated underlooked Buddah of Suburbia album

On the other hand, Bowie always surrounded himself with people as talented as him or arguably more talented than him, from Rick Wakeman to Trent Reznor, not just Eno. Even his last album before dying owes a lot to that sax jazz musician he hired.

Bowie himself isn't really that great of a guitar player. He's pretty sloppy but does simple riffs like Rebel Rebel well. But he made up for it by getting the best musicians possible from Fripp and Belew to Stevie Ray Vaughn to play on his albums.

But Dylan had The Band who were pretty talented in their own right.