Two very different pieces of music. First, from Blonde on Blonde, "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands":
An early piece by Bernard van Dieren: Elegy for Cello and Orchestra (1908). Unusually, he was influenced equally by Delius and Schoenberg:
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2 comments:
How can you listen to Dylan?
Is this an exercise in masochism?
Or maybe you were exposed to his music in early childhood, and the trauma stayed with you? Stockholm Syndrome of sort…
If this is the latter, i am sorry; one should never make fun of child abuse.
Hey, I've got Blonde and Blonde and consider it a pretty solid album. I don't follow him too much past Blood on the Tracks but even some of the stuff during his Christian period has some really good songs and Oh Mercy had some good songs on it.
That he has a rough voices doesn't detract from the songwriting craft. Is the line about Pound and Eliot fighting in the captain's tower of the Titanic possibly needlessly obscure? Sure, but it was Dylan's obvious and abundant familiarity with avant garde poetry from the early 20th century trans-Atlantic modernists that made his approach to writing pop songs memorable.
I find him easier to listen to than music by Richard Wagner, anyway. :)
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