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stonebeard 
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 Topic: Neil Young or Bob Dylan
Posted: June 15 2006 at 22:35 |
My vote goes to Neil Young. The way a lot of the press praised Bob Dylan yet ignored Neil Young makes me very mad.  Neil Young all the way! 
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Posted: June 15 2006 at 22:36 |
I like Bob Dylan more, and you should have included more songwriters in this vein.
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stonebeard
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Posted: June 15 2006 at 22:37 |
Nope, no more songwriters. (Neil Young is the only one that matters, but I have to have someone for him to go against )
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Posted: June 15 2006 at 22:39 |
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I mean, Neil Young isn't bad, but I've just never really clicked with him and truly enjoyed his music. John Fogerty is a better songwriter than Neil Young, in my opinion.
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Zac M
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Posted: June 15 2006 at 22:46 |
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Between those two, I usually pefer Young, but both are very important artists and each have some very enjoyable albums.
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"Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression."
-Merleau-Ponty
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arnold stirrup
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Posted: June 15 2006 at 22:50 |
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Dylan - words
Young - music
Both are outstanding and among my favorites in any category.
Stonebeard,
I hardly think NY has been ignored by the press. On the contrary, he's quite a darling of the press, a sage, so to speak.
Perhaps you need to get a better perspective of where Dylan was coming
from. Have you seen Scorcese's biopic No Direction Home? And btw, Dylan
despised being praised by the press, realizing it for the joke that it
was.
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So much music. So little time.
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stonebeard
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Posted: June 15 2006 at 22:53 |
I think the press thinks of the two artist in this way:
Young: Old, angry, grumpy, encouragable, hippy trying to get back to a simpler way of life
Dylan: Led a revolution, most important artist of all time besided the Beatles
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Soul Dreamer
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Posted: June 15 2006 at 22:56 |
Finally a poll on one of my all-time favorite artists!
NEIL YOUNG all the way!
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arnold stirrup
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Posted: June 15 2006 at 23:04 |
 stonebeard wrote:
I think the press thinks of the two artist in this way:
Young: Old, angry, grumpy, encouragable, hippy trying to get back to a simpler way of life
Dylan: Led a revolution, most important artist of all time besided the Beatles |
I honestly have not seen this assessment of NY by the press, however I
probably haven't read any press about NY in at least 10 years.
As for your Dylan statement I'd be willing to bet you dinner that:
1. Dylan would disagree with it, or at least not care about it.
2. Young would agree with it, the revolution in question being a songwriting one.
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So much music. So little time.
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: June 15 2006 at 23:22 |
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Definitely Dylan...the man is a genius.
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Arsillus
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Posted: June 15 2006 at 23:40 |
Neil Young for me. Dylan is cool, but I guess I have a partiality for Young because "Decade" was one of the first albums I ever remember hearing (along with "A Decade Of Steely Dan").
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: June 16 2006 at 01:32 |
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I love both artists. Dylan has influenced me lyric wise, but Young can make such simple catchy tunes. They're both geniuses.
I voted for Dylan, to even things up!
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Sean Trane
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Posted: June 16 2006 at 03:32 |
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Neil Young, no contest
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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eddietrooper
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Posted: June 16 2006 at 11:48 |
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Neil Young. Dylan may be a very good lyricist, but his music is very limited. I love Young's >10 minutes "epics".
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Bern
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Posted: June 16 2006 at 11:50 |
The answer to this poll is blowing in the wind. 
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RIP in bossa nova heaven.
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Zargus
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Posted: June 16 2006 at 12:06 |
Ahhhh... comon bob Dylan by a country mile. I have nothing against Neil Young but he cant touch Dylan (no one can).
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Posted: June 16 2006 at 12:29 |
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NY all the way for me too! Sheer genius.
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man@arms
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Posted: June 16 2006 at 13:24 |
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Bob Dylan just for "Masters of War" alone. Even if he never wrote another song again. Neil is a close second - "Powderfinger" is amazing.
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Chicapah
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Posted: June 16 2006 at 14:07 |
Neil Young is a gifted artist among many.
But Dylan is a genius and a trailblazer and one of a kind.
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Kord
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Posted: June 16 2006 at 15:16 |
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BOB
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