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Syzygy 
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 Topic: Neil Young or Bob Dylan
Posted: June 16 2006 at 17:03 |
Very tough call, but I went for Neil Young.
Dylan at his best is pretty much unbeatable, but between 'Desire' and 'Love and Theft' there were 2 decades of pretty much bugger all.
Neil Young is also pretty erratic, but he's been knocking out good and occasionally excellent albums since the late 60s and there's clearly plenty of life in him yet.
Ditto live performance - Neil Young is almost always electrifying on stage, especially with Crazy Horse, while Dylan is patchy at best. having said that, I recall a London gig where, after over an hour of scratching abstractedly at his guitar and casually massacring his back catalogue, he played an amazing Simple Twist of Fate and made strong men weep, and the remainder of his set was almost as good. I was glad I didn't leave after the first hour.
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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Peter
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Posted: June 16 2006 at 16:48 |
 Squeaky ol' Neil over croaky ol' Bob any day! (I have tons of NY cds, but no Dylan.)
I like Mr. Zimmerman best when someone else is covering his song.
(Dylan is more important in rock history though, beyond a doubt!) 
Edited by Peter Rideout - June 16 2006 at 16:49
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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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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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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"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain
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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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Raff
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cygnus X-2
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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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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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