70 reasons why Bob Dylan is important
70 reasons why Bob Dylan is the most important figure in pop-culture history
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2. Because he made teenagers interested in poetry again. He offered a route
into symbolists like Rimbaud, Verlaine and Baudelaire, and City Lights beats
like Ginsberg, Corso and Ferlinghetti.
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4. Because he invented folk-rock.
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9. Because of his unique mixture of gravity and comedy. Even on albums that
included songs as serious as "Masters of War" and "A Hard
Rain's a-Gonna Fall", there would always be room for a surreal, jokey
talking blues or two.
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10. Because he wrote "It Ain't Me, Babe", the world's first
anti-love song.
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14. Because he made nasty lyrics acceptable. Until Dylan released "Like a
Rolling Stone" and "Positively 4th Street", pop singles had
generally toed the lovey-dovey romantic party-line. Suddenly, pop
songwriting was afforded new vistas of theme and nuance, most notably
reflected in John Lennon's letting of his inner cynic off the leash.
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19. Because he had the balls to take an electric blues band on stage with him
at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and crank up the volume. This became one
of the landmark events in rock history. Dylan's marriage of rock music and
folk literacy effectively laid the blueprint for the soundtrack to the whole
counter-cultural experiment.
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31. Because he made Blonde on Blonde, the greatest album ever recorded.
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49. Because his 1966 world tour with The Hawks effectively invented rock
music, as distinct from rock'n'roll: nothing that loud, and that powerful,
had been heard on stage before.
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60. Because, if you turn the cover of John Wesley Harding upside-down and look
at the bark of the tree, you'll see The Beatles (vinyl only) (drugs
optional).
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