What exactly is so important about Bob Dylan...

What exactly is so important about Bob Dylan? I always hear that he's one of the greatest songwriters of all time and that he's such an important musician, but I don't hear it. What am I missing?

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Very important for political music. Pretty much invented punk depending how you backtrack through the genre

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Have you listened to the lyrics? Pretty obvious why he’s so acclaimed. I understand not liking his voice or music but nobody writes songs the way he does.

>What exactly is so important about Bob Dylan?
Nothing. Bob Dylan fucking sucks. He can't sing and he can barely play. It's subversive "bad music is actually good" jew nonsense, same as The Velvet Underground.

DUDE
EVERYBODY MUST GET STONED

I have no idea I gave him a shot and it just sounded like boring blues rock. I'll stick with music that is actually interesting like prog thank you very much.

While Dylan's earliest achievements were basically in revolutionizing contemporary folk, single handedly transforming folk from something hippies and lowlifes listened too to something that was acceptable to play on the radio, his primary innovations were in rock music. You gotta understand that Like a Rolling Stone came out in fucking 1965. People had literally been listening to 90% doo wop and shitty early rock on the radio for a decades, with little to no musical progression. There was some interesting stuff coming from the British Invasion by that point but The Beatles hadn't even released Rubber Soul yet. The music industry was still very much run by the old guard and the standards and habits had not strayed too far from the rigid way they had been for the past several decades. Then all of a sudden you have this standoffish jew with a garbage disposal of a voice reciting pretentious beat poetry over for the time a pretty dissonant blues backing band for like 6 straight minutes and against all odds it becomes a huge hit. It completely destroyed the way people had come to understand pop music and basically singlehandedly forced it into the modern era.

EVERYONE who is considered an innovator from that era, from the Beatles to the Velvet Underground, cite Bob Dylan as a major influence. Idk how much more influential for rock music you can get. I genuinely believe that if you don't understand Bob Dylan, you don't understand rock music, or modern popular music in general for that matter.

>joke song represents the complete work of an artist

If it wasn't for him plebeian urbanites would have never touched folk music

>Like A Rolling Stone came out in fucking 1965
Same year as Drive My Car, Norwegian Wood, and Paint It Black. Yesterday and I've Just Seen A Face came out the year before. They're all better songs.

Its almost like jews control the music and news media industries, so they can literally take jews like bob dylan and bruce springstein and rather than simply being competent musicians can have enormous investment in them from the industry and through shilling in the media they control to make them absolute superstars. Its almost like this particular tribe can take a couple of their own and shill them with enormous visibility while goy trying to make it dont see the light of day and never heard from

And that's a good thing. Folk music is hippie trash.

The Beatles suck you idiot.

Greatest band of all time. Seethe harder.

his work when he was younger is amazing.

he literally turned into a living meme in his older age tho.

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looks like Post Malone

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Drive My Car is very indebted to the rock and roll that had been around for nearly a decade at that point and Norweigan Wood, Yesterday, and I've Just Seen a Face literally would have never happened if Dylan didn't singlehandedly transform how the public perceived folk music. All three hugely Dylan inspired tracks, essentially just following in his footsteps. The Beatles themselves would not deny this.

Paint It Black was certainly revolutionary but that was 1966. As I said the British Invasion had released very little of its most important material when Like a Rolling Stone came out.

Whether you like it or not Bob Dylan basically started in motion almost everything you love in popular music and if you don't properly acknowledge that you're a musical illiterate and you might as well just rip your ears off because you don't seem to understand jack squat about what you listen too.

Only women and softbois think this.

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He merged folk sensibilities with rock sensibilities. He is singlehandedly the person who prevented folk from becoming a bunch of stale Woody Guthrie imitators with incredibly rigid definitions of what “folk” is, and he prevented rock from becoming a bunch of boy bands and Elvis imitators crooning out bland love song after bland love song. Every single band or artist that heard Bob Dylan decided they had to raise the bar.

The song is a biblical reference you wouldn’t understand.

god we have completely opposite taste
i hate prog and i quite like bob dylan
i tend to like music that follows the philosophy of ‘less is more’
bob dylan is good because it’s just a guy singing with a guitar and a harmonica, with very good lyrics

Nothing you say is true.
I got to your comment about Do Wop, realised you are an idiot, and read no more. Rock ‘n’ Roll killed off Do Wop.
Well done for advertising your lack of
Knowledge?

Blimey.
So that’s what autism looks like. And now I know what to avoid - autistic teenagers and the things they like being criticised, and the lecturing that follows (as well as screeching and wetting the pants). In short, don’t have a different opinion.
Well, that’s me told.

These are pretty based but I still can't into his music :(

feels bad

This is one of the worst opinions Ive ever seen on here.