Comments on: Content of Bob Dylan’s Lyrics

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:35:55 +0000

None so blind as those who will not see…

None so deaf as those who will not hear …

Indecipherable and Indistinguishable to who ???

Like the guy said below – its an old joke and it ignores some of the greatest poetry of the 20th century …

and all of those words rang true
and burned llike glowing coal
like they were writen in my soul
from me to you
tangled up in blue…..

By: correctionist

correctionist — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:26:00 +0000

the graph says tambourine, as in “hey, mr tambourine man” which he wrote and which might belong in the ‘indecipherable metaphor’ category anyway.

By: Emerson Malone

Emerson Malone — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:22:48 +0000

Playing the harmonica isnt a lyric

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:58:37 +0000

Needs a “drug references” wedge.

By: OldMan

OldMan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:39:50 +0000

I’m from Norway and my English is not that good (bad actually). All the way I’ve had to read the lyrics to understand it. Understand is not the point, you should experience both the lyrics and the music. I’m an old man, just like Bob, and I’ve been to many live shows with Bob. He is a great poet and live artist and will live long after I’ve left the planet. The graph is funny and I’m sure Bob will agree!

By: Milkcow

Milkcow — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:24:39 +0000

I’ve seen him live and I can understand him just fine. When I first started going to his shows, I had trouble, but I have trouble understanding anyone live when I don’t know the lyrics.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:19:10 +0000

I’m a big Dylan fan and I don’t think I’d be stretching it to say that he has been a bigger musical influence than anyone else in the 20th century. However, I’ve been to two of his shows and his voice plain sucks beyond all belief. I loved this graph!

By: pd

pd — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:44:55 +0000

Bob Dylan’s words will be remembered long after any poster here dies or most other people on the planet. He has sacrificed his vocal chords to make the world a better place. A little tough for retards to grasp that, I know.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:21:15 +0000

One of the most highly quoted human beings known to exist… Yet no-one can seem to understand what he’s saying… I never understood that.

By: Roxtar

Roxtar — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:36:50 +0000

weird al’s song “Bob” is pretty funny. all the lines are palindromes.

By: Sylderon

Sylderon — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:34:24 +0000

There should also be a slice in there about the necessity of using marijuana…

By: 216

216 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:20:48 +0000

Naw…Pot smoking some pot.

By: D.R.

D.R. — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:49:44 +0000

Yeah, people are ‘ignorant’ because they’re not all into Bob Dylan… what was that about understanding during the 60s? Pot calling the kettle black?

By: D.R.

D.R. — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:48:27 +0000

Take a joke, people! When did Dylan turn into the Messiah that we are not allowed to question?

And Dylan didn’t have the cheesegrater vocal issue at only one show. He does that all the time. Unlike you, he seems to have a sense of humor about it. I’m sure he knows what people say about him and I don’t think he’d have gotten this far if he worried about silly graphs and things.

Don’t play into the stereotype of his fans as ultra-serious, cranky zealots. Relax. It’s only a website. Don’t send the Dylan Police over to anybody’s house.

By: 216

216 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:22:02 +0000

You’re right. I realized that I had gone off shortly after I pressed ENTER. It’s just a bit annoying with today’s culture of ignorance. I sometimes forget it’s OK to joke and that they aren’t always mean. This contemporary culture is too much fluff. In the words of Les Claypool “…back in the day, music folk had something to say.”
thanx RJ

By: RJ

RJ — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:05:43 +0000

Calm. Confucius changed my life but if someone makes a silly joke about him I would not be so defensive because it is a joke. Dylan is greatness. The chart doesn’t change that. (Gandhi ROCKS! Who is Ghandi? )

By: 216

216 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:59:25 +0000

You people are obviously not Dylan fans. It’s a funny graph. Misguided misguided and showing a lack of cultural accuity, but because it’s such an old joke, it’s funny. If you listen a little closer, the music could change your life. Until then you’ll be destined to be dumbasses rehashing old jokes about truly concious individuals. Hey, did you hear the one about Ghandi?

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:48:30 +0000

A guy mumbles through a Grammy performance in the 80s (was there ever a worse time to be Bob Dylan?) and suddenly nobody can understand what he was saying 20 years prior. Silly graphjam.

By: smashpro1

smashpro1 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:03:50 +0000

I have heard Bob Dylan live, and I can honestly say that this graph is true

By: whitey138

whitey138 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:15:39 +0000

a little while back there was a graph trend of british comedy (monty python, eddie izzard) and now there seems to be a misheard lyrics trend.