TMZ Music: Bob Dylan the Prophet

16. He is absolutely correct!!! Hell, my 2 kids, ages 24 & 20 grew up listening to all the real music not only he provided, but the likes of Tom Petty, CSN&Y, Eric Clapton etc.......and thats all they still listen to. Too bad for those of you that just don't get it.....what a shame.

Posted at 1:37PM on Aug 23rd 2006 by Karen Cloninger

17. "don't know anybody who's made a record that sounds decent in the last 20 years" definately sounds closed minded to me. yep i'm convinced, let me just lay back and play the greatful dead for the rest of my life. old people always think the old way is the best. move over and make room for the future. to quote a famous musician "the times they are a-changin'"

Posted at 2:03PM on Aug 23rd 2006 by leona

18. #17, Leona, you got it 100% right.

Posted at 2:13PM on Aug 23rd 2006 by kathryn

19. Ok, ok, calm down now, Mr. Dylan. I know that you,re an American icon and a very gifted musician. But that doesn't give you the right to say that all the music that's been released in the past 20 years is sh*t. Perhaps you've been listening to commercial radio too much, Bob. Of course, technology has made music lose a bit of its soul, that I can agree with. But I think that your statement is a bit exaggerated. Personnally, I don't listen to the radio much and I still manage to find a lot of very interesting albums. Stop living in the past, Mr. Dylan, there's more to music now than just guitars. Your music is great, but you're not the only great artist out there, so please, don't put others down. Sheesh, what an ego.

Posted at 4:06PM on Aug 23rd 2006 by Laury

20. hey.what's new? not bob dyan's music

Posted at 4:41PM on Aug 23rd 2006 by leona

21. I haven't read the full article in Rolling Stone and have just read the 3 or 4 lines quoted on many websites. I think Bob has done the right thing in bringing this topic up. I don't believe Bob really thinks that no good music has been invented in the last 20 years, firstly I think he's saying that the production techniques used aren't as good artistically as they perhaps should be, natural mistakes and variations in instrument and voice sounds make for better music artistically, rather that looped synths and perfected overdubs etc. The music industry itself has dug a deep grave for real artistic music, created by true musical genius' by creating such a large market for this 'easy' music. There are many, many musical genius' alive and at work today (same as always) but maybe they can't relise their full potential due to the limits set by this plastic market, a market personified by the digital CD age by Dylan in his interview. So I think he is speaking from an artistic view point for one. I think secondly he is infering a kind of 'only a pawn in their game' type of view about the people who enjoy'n fund this kind of music produced by the plastic market, he's not criticising them personally for the music they listen too, as they have been spoon fed it with a shovel since they were born, they're bound to like it, it's 'cool' man. A never ending source of easilly and cheaply produced sound (no talent necessary) fronted by ego being fed to normal hardworking people who have been molded and nudged into liking that sound and image (yeah women look great), it's quite a money spinner for those in charge. It's like a kind of entertainment tax for us to line their pockets, new people are bound to buy it.
Thing is Dylan ain't a new person, his life is founded on the old, and he is very known for that and he's also know for having always chosen his own direction away from this, not a direction dictated by others. He's bound to appear a old git to the young who know little of his world of musical and lyrical artistry and know only the plastic.
With this in mind I believe he is just the man to bring this topic into the public eye with such a profound series of statements, he needed them to cut to the quick and make people stop and get fired up in order to get this important message heard. He couldn't just have said 'I prefered it when music was recorded as it happened and not tampered with, I think it was better then', we would have all said 'yeah, I know you think that'.
Those who dismiss his view are too far gone to realise where their dosh is going and what they are missing by dropping it into the ever eager plastic hands, and of course there are those who don't really care, and those who don't pay, just nick it on mpfree. Dylan has no problem with that, that'll bring them all down.

Having said all that, I agree it doesn't apply to all music produced today, just the majority of popular music, especially here in the UK.

Posted at 5:01PM on Aug 23rd 2006 by Steve

22. FINALLY A TALENTED PERSON (ONE WHO IS NOT ACTING LIKE AN OLD DYKE re: ELTON FAT F*CKIN BALD WIG WEARING JOHN) IS SPEAKING OUT ON ALL THIS MEDIOCRE MUSIC THAT IS BEING PLAYED OUT THERE. NEW TO THE DISGUST OF PEOPLE TRYING TO SING OR WRITE SONGS IS MR BRITNEY SPEARS AND THAT LOW CLASS WHORE PARIS HILTON....ENHANCED AND THEY CANT PERFORM THEIR MUSIC IN PUBLIC UNLESS THE HAVE AROUND 500,000 DOALLARS OF ENHANCEMENT EQUIPMENT. ALL THESE LOSERS LIKE PARIS ,MR. SPEARS, LINDSAY ARE TRYING THEIR HAND AT CATAWAILING LIKE THE STUCK PIGS AND WHORES THEY REALLY ARE. AS IT WAS SAID BEFORE MR SPEARS IS A JOKE AND THE BIGGEST DICK OUT THERE. WHOEVER THINKS THIS GUY IS TALENTED, I SUGGEST ALL GET THERE EARS CHECKED!!

Posted at 5:22PM on Aug 23rd 2006 by RICK

23. old bob's out of the loop, i guess he doesn't know how to find good underground music. the music that makes it to the radio has had all the life scrubbed out of it

Posted at 6:49PM on Aug 23rd 2006 by MOLLY

24. - "It could be that I'm young, but Bob sucks."

You're stupid, too.

Dylan didn't mention any names but himself (frustrated with the sound of his own album). It's obvious he's referring to the recording process- analog vs. digital, vinyl vs. cd's. He's not slamming iPods or even Paris Hilton. Like many, he prefers the sound of tape. I feel there are a lot of high-quality digital recordings being made- my problem is what many are misunderstanding what Dylan actually is saying- that is- most of today's artists and music Does suck! They'd suck on vinyl too!

Posted at 7:35PM on Aug 23rd 2006 by auramac

25. I like poetry and I like good music...but come on Bob you sound like your taking a dump when you sing. I like all music but your songs really grate on my last nerve. Give me Jim Morrison any day, just do not make me have to listen to you taking a dump while you sing you big genius.

Posted at 5:57PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Dawn

26. I first started to listen to bob dylan when I was 17. Since then he's gone through many metamorphoses, but his lyrics are still just as powerful and meaningful, and the old voice just keeps getting gravellier and gravellier (?). I know what he's trying to say, but I don't entirely agree. There has been much new talent over the past few decades, and a lot of it isn't the product of synthesisers. Plenty of new ideas and genres have emerged since bob first started in the '60s, and music as we know it now is very different to what it was back then - not worse, just different. I can't agree that it's all dross - just some of it is.

Posted at 6:53PM on Sep 24th 2006 by marie therese

27. Bob's brilliant, has been for 40 odd years but there have been plenty of really good musicians in that time too. I think he's over-generalising

Posted at 6:55PM on Sep 24th 2006 by marie therese