rvi

5y

yeah maybe i need to adjust my listening approach because right now i can get to the 20th listen of an album and still have no idea what the lyrics are. i dont just naturally grasp them as I listen and i'm definitely not the type to just start naturally singing along. and even with all my listens to Dylan's main 3 60s albums and having read the lyrics I still don't think I have a good grasp on them or truly appreciate them

this s*** is kinda seeming like some homework for a literature class ngl

internet buddy

5y

Did you grow up listening to rap or country? I feel like that would make it easier to follow his stream-of-consciousness flow and to not take his surrealism and irony so seriously

rvi

5y

“I’ve never really gotten into him. His voice is too nasal. And it’s like literature music. Quite boring three-chord structures serve as a bed for words. I’m too much of a music lover for that to happen.”

was Bjork right about him???

Very Based

5y

lmao who is she talking about?

bob dylan?

rvi

5y

yeah maybe i need to adjust my listening approach because right now i can get to the 20th listen of an album and still have no idea what the lyrics are. i dont just naturally grasp them as I listen and i'm definitely not the type to just start naturally singing along. and even with all my listens to Dylan's main 3 60s albums and having read the lyrics I still don't think I have a good grasp on them or truly appreciate them

this s*** is kinda seeming like some homework for a literature class ngl

Elric

5y

Well I often feel like the biggest dillitente itt so if I can get it so can you

Reading about history and s*** nonstop kinda let's my brain reflexively paint whatever picture he's trying to paint Murder Most Foul and Key West off his latest are staggering when you lay back at just let the imagery wash over you helps if get the myriad references tho. Tbh I do better with these than I do with whatever complex web he was trying to weave on Desolation Row something spooky about a cultural zeitgeist schism and picking sides or something :ohno: checking rap genius for the hyperdense mid 60s stuff is always a wild ride.

rvi

5y

yeah maybe i need to adjust my listening approach because right now i can get to the 20th listen of an album and still have no idea what the lyrics are. i dont just naturally grasp them as I listen and i'm definitely not the type to just start naturally singing along. and even with all my listens to Dylan's main 3 60s albums and having read the lyrics I still don't think I have a good grasp on them or truly appreciate them

this s*** is kinda seeming like some homework for a literature class ngl

rvi

5y

yeah i feel you, just kinda hard to let the imagery wash over me when i just space out completely on the lyrics if i'm not making a conscious effort to pay attention to them

i always mishear certain lyrics too so i kinda need to read along tbh

rise zero

5y

Darkness at the break of noon

Shadows even the silver spoon

The handmade blade, the child's balloon

Eclipses both the sun and moon

To understand you know too soon

There is no sense in trying

Cmon you cant understand that

rise zero

5y

This reminds of that time @Galaxy said he couldn't tell most of our personalities apart despite posting here for years

Bourbon Ben

5y

listening to songs from the big chair. Seemed like essential listening for the 80s list

Elric

5y

id probably take dylan painting pictures with words over any musician trying to do the same thing with any instrument

exception would be Neil doing something like Cowgirl cause his words are nearly as good as Bob's and his guitar is as expressive as anyones as well

Elric

5y

amazing album

rvi

5y

The Hurting album cover is terrible

rvi

5y

The Hurting album cover is terrible

Elric

5y

i do and i dont either way it scares the s*** out of me