Stick a fork in Dylan, he's done.


Well maybe not as quite as Burton Cummings(LOL), but you have to admit his voice is gone along with subject matter. I'm sure he does. However I think he has produced a couple of top notch compositions of late. I'm a serious fan but his latest leaves something to be desired imo. I'm interested to know which couple of albums you think were his best of all. Mine are "Oh Mercy" and "Under The Red Sky". I'm impressed that imo, he peaked out that late in his career.
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.....''Oh Mercy '' is one of my favorites. Real good stuff there....I still enjoy ; Time Out Of Mind ....a little dark for me but the message of him dealing with his own mortality is very clear. I for a long time in my life used to see him maybe two, three times a year and I'm going back to the 70's. I saw him at his best and saw him in his drunken worst....saw the Grateful Dead back him up as well as Tom Petty. ( only wished that I could have seen him be backed up by ; The Band ) I stopped seeing him about 7 years ago ....I couldn't take it any longer, it was painful. There were times that I couldn't even recognize the song that he was playing and when I figured it out.....I realized that he was ruining his own songs and the way that I grown to enjoy them and actually for them to be part of the fabric of my life..... '' Modern Times'' was the last one that I bought and I thought that it was okay to even ; '' this sucks ''. Make no mistake - there is NOBODY and I mean NOBODY after him
Hello Ben - I do not think that anyone here is doubting the musical, political, social etc. significance of Bob Dylan.....I persoannly just think that the last few albums have sucked. Voice, no voice - they are just not good and to see him live is painful.
'' Under the Red Sky '' - was different but Dylan is / was never consistent. Not one of my favorites but an album that has an all star cast of musicians that had an obvious influence along with Don Was on the outcome. " Born in Time '' and the album's title are the take aways. Like anything else - some like it some don't ....yuo can say that about a few of Dylan's but the last few have been terible .....