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totally overated cant sing either.

well there speaks the voice of the reason!

Dylan's body of work is vast, and veers from the sublime (Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde On Blonde, Blood On The Tracks), the good (Basement Tapes, New Morning, Desire, Oh Mercy), the indifferent (Slow Train Coming, Planet Waves) and the awful (quite a few!) and, whilst I am no masive fan, to sum him up in one sentence says more about Stve than old Bob

iwas on a quiz show in 1975 on capital radio late night and the dj asked me if i liked him i said no rather hear the doors or jethro tull.

Dylan isn't my cup of tea either - though I have tried. Faced, as always, with the nagging sensation that I?m missing out on something quite special, I still sat through the recent endless hours of fan worship masquerading as profile and remained utterly under-whelmed. A few pretty tunes sure, but the supposed mystique passed me by entirely.

For some of us, Dylan sits roughly between two superiors: the lovely Cohen and the lively Young, and though it seems churlish to suggest the whole Dylan thing really was just a sixties thing after all, for some of us that's where it remains.

Some of his stuff is dire, some of it wonderful, and much of it stuck in between, but you can say the same for most people---Cohen and Young included. What can't be denied is his influence, his contribution to the evolution of popular music. Yes, he sounds like a gravelly Kermit the Frog, but some of his songs couldn't be bettered by a superior vocalist.

>contribution to the evolution of popular music

I think you need to have grown up in the 60s to understand, but it was not
just the evolution of popular music that Dylan changed, but the thinking of
a whole generation.

Hard to remember now, but there was a time in the 60s when we were
scared of an atomic war, and also felt that the young COULD change things.

The 1967 "Summer of Love" really did seem like a new start.

Songs like "Blowing in the Wind" and "Times they are a changin" really had
an impact and were sung by huge crowds in the US when protesting about
the Vietnam war for example.

Now we know the young cannot change anything, and many young people
are now more interested in getting drunk or drugged, or going out and
beating up someone or robbing an OAP.

And nobody believes that music can change anything, so it is all bland, and
little music has the power that Dylan had all those years ago.

Still for a short while we tried.

not a great voice, but a great singer.