bob dylan wins nobel
 

Bob Dylan wins 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature for his songwriting

wow
but he should have got it 50 years ago

At least it was not for his clear singing voice.

He is a good writer, he can't sing.

He richly deserves it.

I liked Dylan, I looked up the award because I couldn't think of anything recent, it's sort of a lifetime award. The most recent song I saw was from 1985. I think the first time I saw him was some hootenanny thing on TV in 63 or 64. I only saw him one time in person, second row at a concert.

Bob should be America's Poet Laureate. The voice of "our" generation. I was a young man in the sixties, and Bob's music was the first that really spoke to me.

Try and catch "The Basement Tapes Continued", now playing on Showtime.

♪♪ I think he deserves it ♪♪

So agree. He's enriched my life and I'm sure millions of others. He's a great man.

Read his autobiography if you're a fan. It's fantastic. A great Minnesotan. :)

In the 70's I had a high school teacher who would play (forced us to listen to) Dylan once a week in class. I didn't appreciate his singing voice then and I still don't today. Not to take away from his obvious talents combining words and music. Agree he very much deserves the award.

Seeing him tomorrow night!......and some other people :-)

Good for you! I have a childhood friend visiting right now who is heading out to the big show. Should be great. :)

Isn't the best in songwriting just literature set to music?

Well, the Literature prize now has far more credibility than the Peace prize. Congrats Mr. Zimmerman. Well deserved.

To add some Porsche content I'll need to take a quick ride down to road to The Big Pink and have my SC pose in front of it. He was a local fixture around town for quite a while. Never cared for his performances but the lyrics and music deserve this recognition.

Terry

Being from Sweden I am thrilled this prize is finally awarded an individual that I have actually heard of. Outside the small inner circle of Culture elite the yearly announcement was Always a good laugh. Not least since there for several years turned up a dude at the announcement, standing behind all the other press and media. As soon as the name of the person awarded was announced - very formal and stiff upper lip, he used to shout - "Finally!!" As if the author was someone well known and appreciated among the masses when in reality it was yet another complete stranger to most people.
Eventually he was banned from the announcement cermony. :D

While there seem to be a few folks on the NYT editorial staff that seem to be having a difficult time with this ("he's already received many awards, and has now taken this one away from truly deserving, talented, otherwise obscure writers," etc.), I think that the consensus wins...that yes - B.D. deserves this!

He's always been cool. Well deserved IMO.

The lyrics in the video are different from the original. Dylan evidently changed the lyrics depending. Still, the lyrics always grabbed me:

We always did feel the same,
We just saw it from a different point of view,
Tangled up in blue.

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Interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangled_Up_in_Blue

I think well deserved, also! Talk about a body of work! It's an insane legacy! It's amazing how many of his original songs have been covered, and the reaction one gets (especially from a "millennial") when you mention, "oh hey, that's a Dylan song..."

As for Tangled Up In Blue, it has always been one of my favorites. I know it is one of his more popular songs, but great nonetheless. The way the song is constructed in how it flows as the story unfolds, never ceases to amaze me...MASTER CLASS!

For a different take, I slide this in the cd player once in a while:

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1. The Times They Are A-Changin' - Apple Gabriel
2. Maggie's Farm - Toots Hibbert
3. Just Like A Woman - Beres Hammond
4. Lay, Lady, Lay - The Mighty Diamonds
5. Gotta Serve Somebody - Nasio
6. Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Luciano
7. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carrol - Michael Rose
8. Subterranean Homesick Blues - Sizzla
9. Mr. Tambourine Man - Gregory Isaacs
10. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - JC Lodge
11. One Too Many Mornings - Abijah
12. Blowin' In The Wind - Don Carlos
13. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Billy Mystic
14. I And I (Reggae Remix) - Bob Dylan

If Bob Dylan's "115th Dream" doesn't qualify as great literature, I don't know what does... ;)

Seriously, "Bringing It all Back Home" still blows me away whenever I listen to it. Even the number and symbolism of the many items included in the cover art is outstanding.

This is hysterical. Bob Dylan has completely ignored the Nobel and has not responded to the committees several calls and emails. There was a mention of his Nobel prize on his website which has been removed. Looks like a big FU to the Nobel committee.

Too funny. I like Mr Zimmerman even more now!

Seems odd that he accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom and other awards/recognitions yet has no interest in the Nobel prize. Senility or has simply had enough of that stuff?

I bet he cashes the check, though.

Back in his prime some University had a class where they played his songs and "analyzed" them.